The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-21

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Governor HOgg has come and gone.
And being a railroad man and some
what interested l attended to hear his
speech at Market hall,
AS a stump speaker | should say he
is hard to beat. He understands how
to size up his hearers and work on
their feelings and predjudices, and is
good at repartee, He is strong in
makirg assertions, but sadly wanting
In facts. His speech was trade
against railroad and other corporations,
a subject which he regards as ever
popular with the masses of every oc.
cupation, who live year in and year
out from hand to mouth. And yet
these same people, at the dictaton of
Hogg, Terrell and the like, are ever
ready to denouuce and vote against
these very corporations, whe ther it be
railroad, street car, waterworks or
others, upon which they depend for
occupation to supply their daily bread
After carefully thinking over Mr..
Hogg's speech, l am Ct the opinion it
will be to the interest of the state and
all it's people to retire Mr. Hogg to
private life.
Governor Hogg claimed that be was
elected to the executive chair on the
strength Of his record made as sttor-
ney general | think that he is not
correct Many of his more important
suits were still pending when he went
on the stump for governor, and | be-
lieve that it was the commission wave
that landed him on the hill in Austin.
l have Mr.. Hogg's record of every
suit he carried to the supreme court Of
the state before me and it is very in
teresting. Out Of seven suits he car
ried before that tribunal he lost four
of them; in fact he got so sick on
account of the way the supreme court
sat down upon his cases that be wrote
to Ham Gossett of Kaufman, stating
that the supreme court did not know
what they were talking about. In
fact, it seemed to be his misfortune TO
pick out cases to prosecute that nearly
always turned out to be insists. Now,
my fellow workman, | want to ask you
If you were to make mis- its or spoiled
your jobs in the proportion of four
out of seven, would your foreman sus-
tain your record? Yes, he would
with a time check, and out you would
go. And venture the state ment that
there is not in the city of Houston a
man who would hire HOgg as attor-
ney in the most petty case if he knew
previously that his record was to lose
four out of seven. And | do not be-
lieve .hundredth part of the .peo-
pie of this state know anything about
his rec I'd as attorney general. Now,
let us examine his record as governor
You all know he went up into the
executive chair like a meteor, and
from all accounts he is dropping like
bursted gas bubble.
He claims to be the father of the
commission, when the truth is he was
opposed to it until he
SAW THE WAVE COMING
He never opened his mouth in its
favor until he got on the stump at
Rusk. And now he claims to be the
creator of it, when in fact he is only
the creature of it, an accident of a
great upheaval,
He claims the credit Of having
passed the fellow servants bill, when
in fact he did not recommend it, and
he stated in his market house speech
that he did not sign it, but let 1t be-
come law by the constitutional ten
DAYS in which to approve or veto, and
no man to this good day knows whether
he favored its passage or not.
1t has never done anything for any
railroad employe that | know of, and
the railroads can not protect them
selves from its provisions by requiring
each man to examine carefully for
himself all scaffoldiDg, machinery,
etc., or other ways by which he might
get hurt, or in working under cars to
protect himself by blue flags, etc.;
each man can sign an agreement to
that effect on taking employment with
the company. And they would be
right.
He claims to be the first to suggest
the Confederate home. AS a matter
of fact that honor belongs to Sui Ross
and General MoCulloch, who worked
the Inatiar m