Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-05
HOGG AND Chiffon.
HON. HYDE JENNINGS GIVES HIS
CHOICE FOR
Governor and United states Senator. and
Why He Thinks They should be the
Choice of the People of Texas.

a GAZETTE man strolled into Hon. Hyde
Jennings Office yesterday afternoon Just as
the judge was enjoying good cigar, and
reused him by the usual question of
WHATS the news, Judge"
''Got no news'-neyer looking up.
Il heard on the street you were an
avowed Clark man for governor. VIII you
kindly tell me-
You heard lier' blurted out the Judge.
taking his feet off the table and looking at
the reporter in amazement. Il can tell you
who I'm for, and why, if you want to
know
I'm quote you, judge-let her go-not
too fast, now"
"Oh. I'm in no hurry-give me that
rocker and you sit here on the table"
81 think Hogg ought to be renominated
and reelected. l know that he has faith
fully and conscientously carried out the
Democratic principles upon which he was
elected two years ago. While am person
ally an admirer of George Clark, think
the policy as outlined by him in his Wealth
erford speech, would be the worst possible
thing that could happen to Texas. While
Judge Clark attempts to disguise 1t, shorn
of all the fallacy, il simply means 10 turn
the state over to the railroads. He is ut
terly opposed to any form of commission or
any kind of railroad regulation. and his ev-
ident design is that If he gets into power to
have the powers of the commission so emas-
culated that it will be destroyed. While
Judge Clark has been q prominent railroad
attorney, believe he is sincere in what he
says and thinks about the commission and
its detrimental effects. 1t is but natural,
too, that he should be of his way of think
ing, for his clientage has been largely from
the railroads, and he thinks their interests
are of paramount Importance. The COM
mission is as yet in its experimental stage.
In our attempt to to turn Texas loose'
from the bondage placed upon Us by the
railroads, we turn to the commission idea
for relief. We haven't had time yet to feel
the good effects of it in its full force. In
the meantime a great financial crisis has
happened in the country, and nearly all of
US have felt the weight o. the depression.
great many men have been ruined in
their fortunes, their hopes have been dis
appointed, and the anti-commission men
have taken advantage of this state
of affairs to work up opposition
to Governor Hogg and the commits
say they have not been altogether unsuc-
cessful. If we had had one of our drouths,
or succession of cyclones. or hurricanes, or
foods, they would have with just as much
reason attributed all of these misfortunes
to Governor Hogg and the commission, as
they do the recent and present financial
troubles.'
pointments. What can you say of them?
Have they been good ones?''
Eyes, and especially do l think one of his
appointments is great credit to hIm-that
of Horace Chiffon as senator. 1 have
known Horace Chiffon since he was five
years old, as a child, boy and man. l have
seen him rise, and without any aid, from
the humblest kind of poverty, through bit
ter adversely to his present position. That
within my knowledge he is the best ex-
ample of a self-made man l ever knew.
That what he is he owes entirely to his
own exertions. That he is a man no one
can know without admiriug for his ability,
honesty, loyalty to friends and principles.
That he and Governor Hogg have pretty
much the same career. They have known
each other from childhood, worked together
at the printers case, journeyed together
over the pine hills of East Texas as journey
men printers, and it is but natural that
Governor Hogg should admire him and that
he should appoint him United States sena-
quaiuted with all these qualities possessed
by Mr.. Chiffon. He knows that Mr.. Chill
ton is the peer of any lawyer in Texas,
that he is an able debater and fine orator.
1 have no doubt that in appointing Mr..
Chiffon Governor Hogg was actuated by
the idea that he was doing service to the
great state of Texas, and I believe so, too.
4fLI SulLltu ID SOuuE IldIs dDOuG lulLIN-
six years old. If they let him remain in
the senate, instead of taking up some aged
man whose sun is about set, in few years
he will bring honor and glory to Texas.
He viii make a national reputation. Mr..
Chiffon is also sober and industrious man,
and while he will be able to hold his own
on the senate floor in debate with any adj
he will also be valuable person
on any committee, and will not be
a crank and run to seed on
any one idea. I am not one of those
to think Texas owes any man anything. l
do DO not believe that she has any debt of
gratitude to discharge to anybody, and in
alecting her senators or congressman, I
think she ought to be actuated solely by the
idea of making the selection of the man who
will best subserve her interests, and she
lot only has to look to the present, but to
The future. In a manner the senator we
eject has to be educated to his business
after he has become senator. 1t takes time
% do this, and should we take up some old
nan and put in there, by the time he is
the grave is ready to receive him.
think that Mr. Chiffon at least should be
given an opportunity. Let the legislature
n special session elect him, and then let
lin and his opponent go before the people !
N their individual merits.''
At this point client who had been wait |
ng began to get restless, and the reporter |
allied the judges attention to tine fact, and |
made his eScaDe