Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-12

was no ''Warwick,' if he remembered his
atto-ney-9e neralship, his appointment TO
the court of appeals, and his services under
Governor Ross as attorney in the Greer
county case. In his speech he failed to
answer my interrogations.
Now, my friends, did you ever hear Of a
a governor appointing his enemy to posi-
tionl never did, or of an appointee's per-
sonal friends going around canvassing the
country TO see whether he was right or not.
Now, III tell you these appointments are
the cause of all this quarrel.
Again ne (Mr. Clark objects to Hogg be-
cause he appointed an attorney to assist in
the prosecution of q murderer. l refer to
the Allee-Bowen affair, Bowen being killed
while riding on a train. Now this cry
sounds to me like man thinks the jury in
the Alice case returned a just verdict.
Well, I'm not here to say whether or not
they did. The guilty must suffer. They
dread prosecution because in their own
heart they know they are guilty. 1 have
lived in Texas since 1s46-from the time
the pop of the six-shooter was heard on the
plains and off them, when the corpse, the
victim of the deadly weapon, lay uncared
for where it droppsd-and now want to
tell you Governor Hogg's administration
has done more good for the great state of
Texas in its assertion of law and order t. N
all other previous administrations.
Governor Hogg is not q self-serving
politician-he has less self-serving dis
position than any governor within my
knowledge. From his boyhood up he has
been the same fearless, efficient man and
official-he shrinks from no duty, bows to
no person "a record that is commeudable.
The view seems to be taken that when
Governor Hogg found member of the
legislature who would not vote as he de-
sired he would collar him, take him into
the basement administer to him a dose of
spirits, then return and say: NOW vote"
III tell you, the people may whip me,
but don't want Judge Clark or any
one else 10 go over the country
and derounce Governor Hogg as being re-
sponsible for my acts, and that's the way
the members of the legislature who voted
for any measure feel about it. Judge Clark
formulated a bill Il never saw it, but he
did it, Just the same,) that never came to
light. The contents of that bill are
well known to Judge Clark's
legislature. Was governor Hogg to sit
there, arms folded, and permit Judge
Clark to get in bill, the result of which
would prove disastrous much. There's
where another rub is. Such a governor as
that is not worth having. We went there
to formulate legislation and to work, and
we did it.
1 formulated railway commission bill
I was chairman of the committee. We
agreed it was weak in one particular-it
did not protect the people from extortion.
I asked Governor Hoeg to aid me in its
formation, and he did so freely. l am not
ashamed to ask for aid when want it, and
come pretty near knowing who to go to
getit.
Now, concerning amendments, a caucus
was held, and we agreed then and there to
abide by the action taken in this caucus
we must necessarily do this, or we would
never be able to get anything through
We agreed to- let the question of whether
the commission should be an appointive or
an elective one go to vote.
In the house there were at
least twenty-five bills and in
thesenate no less than fifty-one
amendments to them, and the house ac-
cepted one-half of them, but would not ac-
cept Judge Clark's, which would have
bill-1ust what he proposes TO do ''to settle
it'' if he is elected governor. devoting
the first hour OF his administration to tina
end.
His assertions against Governor Hogg in
many particulars are-wel, not correct. Inc
facts don't bear them out. He says Cover
nor Hogg is responsible for the many evils
that have befallen US in the recent past. 1
give the man credit for sincerity, but can
he prove his allegations2 No sir, he cannot,
he has failed so far to do it.
In 1873 Texas went through as bad or
worse financial crisis than the one through
which we have Just passed Was Gov
ernor HogP the cause Of itl
The claim is made that there are no new
enterprises in progress, and especially no
railroad building in the state Let me tell
you, my friends, Judge Clark for
gets that before the commission
bill was passed Messrs. Gould,
Huntington and others, presidents OF great
railways. met in session in New York and
said, There will be no more roads built
for five years. He cannot deny it
The railroad magnates had control Of the
railroad affairs Of Texas, and could force
the business over their lines, and for that
reason there was no necessity for new
roads, that the commission was for the pur-
pose of holding the big railroad corpora
lions down, Examinations made. by ex-
perts showed that, under the commission,
the railroads of the state had made more
money than at any previous period; that in
thirty states where c commission was oper-