Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-03
NOBLE AND MANLY.
Governor Hogg Tells About
ChiIton's Appointment.
ABLE, UPRIGHT AND HIS FRIEND
Now Let the Whips of Malice
and Envy Crack.
WARWICK SAYS WAIT AND SEE.
The Junta OF Texas lingo Pol
iticians in Caucus.
A POLL OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Remarkable Romancing Regarding David
B. Hill and His Reasons for Saving Now
York-CIeTeland Don't Speak-Po-
IlticaI Cauldron SINNERS.
A Manly Letter.


The following letter. written by Governor
Hogg to personal friend, explains the rea-
sons for his appointment Of Mr.. Chiffon to
be United States senator. II was solicited
by THE GAZETTE, aud there being nothing
in it of private nature, the recipient has
kindly consented to its publication:
AUSTIN, TEX. Jan. 49, 1922
Dear Senator:
In reply to your courteous favor 1 beg
unhesitatingly to authorize you to say at
any time, anywhere, to any person or as
sembly that al statements, reports or In
! situations which imply or charge me with
! giving or entertaining, as reason for the
| appointment of Senator Chiffon, that he
| was "untaintedi; or t'unem barraSsed with a
Confederate record are, in conception,
intent and utterance, absolutely false.
Never. in my life, did such sentiment find
| Judgment in my heart or have expression
| from E1y pen or lips.
So many falsehoods have been circulated
on me, with harmless results that l am pre-
/ pared to risk the peoples Judgment without
even entering demurrer 10 the charges.
However, when any one writes to ne
on the subject, as you have, denounce the
report as unfounded.
have never paraded my reasons before
the public for any appointment that l have
made: but in all instances / have exercised
| my constitutional prerogative for the best
interests of the people according to my own
| Judgment, after full, fair and Just conSid-
Grafton of the abilities and merits of the ap-
pointee.
For many years 1 have regarded Mr..
Chiffon as the intellectual equal of any
| man in this state. l have known him from
| a printers ''devil' all along the line to
| United States senator, to be honest and
faithful IN his advocacy and support Of the
material interests of the people. His close
neighbors, though humble laborers and
| mechanics, love him and feel free with him
| because in him they know they have always
had a faithful friend and advocate. He has
been true to every trust committed to his
care, and they know it.
From the age of seventeen until this time
| he has, from the stump and through the
press of the country, advocated with great
| ability, the cause of Democracy and the
4 welfare of the masses. Though he has
never held Office CT been candidate but
once in his life, yet I know that he has
| never done wrong to the people, nor been
unfaithful in the service of his party.
| It is true he is called "a young man. but
his age is no disqualification under the con-
stitution. He is now thirty-eight; is
thoroughly educated; is well posted in po-
litical economy, in general politics and in
| the history of our country; is sober,
moral, polished gentleman, and a splendid,
| experienced uebater, added to which his
lessons at hard labor among the people,
/
| qualify him TO attend to them in the United
! States senate.
In addition to his most superior qualifica-
! tons Mr. Chiffon has been my lifelong
| friend whom have loved as dearly as it is
| possible for one man to love another, and
] his is the only appointment thai l have
/ made from my home county. With my
knowledge of the public men Of Texas, re-
| specting and honoring them as sincerely
do, if had the appointment to make to-day,
I would unhesitatingly give it to Horace
! Chiffon. If this be an offense so unbear-
able that my critics will resort to an effort
to raise the bloody shirt in Texas, then
| they must make the most of it.
When I appointed him, his two
present, honorable, worthy oppon-
| ents were open, avowed candidates
for other high Offices for which
! they had my cordial support. Indeed, for
nearly twenty years had been supporting
them for Office, and they always, as they do
now, possessed my unstinted friendship.
In common with all Texans, 1 lamented
their defeat, and share in the regret so
| often expressed, that we have among US
men who are so inhun1an as to attempt to
sow discord among friends by vile disturb
ance of the sore feelings they experience
| over those miSfortunes to their state.
| While Chiffon was too young to go into
war he never had an adult male relative to
shirk it: but they were all on the Confed-
crate side. In common with most South
ern youths. shared enough grief and sad
ness from the war. My father, a brigadler-
general from Texas, and ali my adult male
relatives were brought to the grave by it.
In pauper-orpha manage at the age of fourteen,
turned my back upon wrecked fortunes
and fresh graves around me and pressed
forward with hope for the future. 1 never
| turn back to view those scenes without the
| deepest regrets.
h. tod oino
seekers and disgruntled malcontents, to
revive the memories of the war for political
pgGRF5Es will not commend itself to the
- s2sfiiinded, honest people of Texas. Per-
hapS 1 am the first offspring OF peace elected
governor of Southern state since the war.
If you will turn to my campaign speeches
YOU viii md my open advocacy OF home,
at the expense Of the state for the disabled
Confederate soldiers, As a result, we have
the first institution of the kind, supported
at public expense, in the United States
here in the city of Austin, in which are
quartered numbers of the disabled, help
less old fellows who do not join in the at
tempted crusade against me because
happened to be too young to take part in
the war. 1 am proud Of that institution as
one of the results Of the last campaign. To
present il, together with the remarks IN
advocacy OF it, is a complete REPUTATION of
every SANDER that. by inuendo or other
$3.50
unkind in expression or in sentiment to the
memory and heroism of the Confederate
soldier. do have q contempt, however,
for those fellows who made the most fuss
at the beginning of the war, and have con-
tiuued to wave the bloody shirt ever since
that fatal period, but are too cowardly 10
fight battles except at long range with
paper missiles in times of peace. The
bloody shirt might be effective in some
states, but it cannot avail the vicious ele-
ment who attempt to wave it in Texas.
About five out OF six of all the voters in this
state were too young to participate in the
war, and it is hardly Just that they should
be slandered for it or denied the privilege
of holding Office on that account. Since
the question has been sprung have looked
over the list of my appointments, and find
that out of twenty-seYen there are nineteen
ex-Confederate soldiers, and the remaining
eight are sons OF x-Confederates. Ate no
time, however. did think OF the war in
making an appointment; but have done so
in every instance out of consideration Of
the fitness Of the man for the place to
which have assigned him.
So. my dear sir, hope my friends will
pay the least possible attention to my
slanderers, but let them enjoy their harm
less sport
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