Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-06

ings shortly afterwards were increased %
per cent To-day not trunk road in Texas
would increase the passenger rate to 5
| cents for 100000.
Analysis-Mr. Ball will no doubt kindly
furnish the public the name of the trunk
line or lines and the officers he quoted as
his authority for this statement
Mr.. Ball-He described the commission
law as the essence Of patriotism. a meas
sure that has placed Texas where 1t ought
to be, on the road to full development
Applause. He appealed to the audience
not TO take the word of a railroad agent or
an ex-agent, but to investigate for them
selves.
Analysis.-Alr. Ball Justly bears the rep
utation of being one of the first lawyers
within the state. He certainly did not earn
this reputation by advising his opposing
counsel to confess Judgment, or by eloquent
appeals to jury without opposing counsel,
and yet he uses this argument when appeal
ing to the people of Texas as his iurymen,
while representing the administration in
cause which host of people believe to be
against the people themselves. Friendship
IS noble virtue. and when lawyer OF Mr..
Balls ability is willing TO risk a hard
earned reputation on its shrine, 1t eXcltes
admiration but will not influence the peo-
PIES verdict when the prosperity OF their
state is the issue involved.
MIR. Ball-Turning to the gubernatorial
race, the speaker alluded to James 5. Hogg
as the graudest statesman who had ever
sat in the guberuatorial chair in Austin
since the war. He boldly represented the
cause of the peoples interests when other
men were silent. Applause. He is the
champion of the commission, and as such,
l, for one bow my head to him as my supe-
rior. Applause. 1t is an unwritten law OF
Texas that the governor should have two
terms, and Hogg has done nothing to justify
making him an exception
Anaiysis-The people understand that
there is in excess of $780, 10000 invested in
railroads in Texas, represented by their
railway attorneys and tariff managers, AMI
further, that the Texas railway commission
law makes it mandatory upon the repre-
sentatives to appeal personally. or by written
communication to the commission in all
matters touching the interest they repre-
sent, and yet 1.-The grandest statesman who
had ever sat in the gubernatorial chair in
Austin since the war; refers TO this interest,
and its representatives as having made
the doorway to the commissions rooms as
slick as an otter slide in their daily visits
to the commission, not for the purpose of
aiding in the work, but to obstruct, impede
and embarrass it. They have wrangled,
protested, argued, threatened, and guh-
ished interviews denouncing and mIsrep-
reseuting it." 1 have Just repeatsd the
governors interview verbatim % pub
lished in The Dallas News and Fort Worth
GAZETTE. What a grand and statesman
like address and invitation this is from the
governor OF Texas to capital to come {
amongst US q
SUMMARY. Is
I would apologize for wearying the public
with this lengthy letter, especially so as in
more condensed form it has already been
ably handled in the Dallas News, were it
not that Governor Hogg has in his pub
lshed interview as given in The GAZETTE
and Dallas News fully justified the an
nouncement made in the Fort WorthsfSA;
ZETTE that Mr.. Balls speech SogRsfed the
keynote of Governor Hogg's clmpaiSFf.
The administrations last hope noNsfsT that
it can by misrepresentation impose upon
the good common sense of the people, and
in exposing what is announced to be itss
keynote, the whole method to be adopLs9
in the campaign is exposed. The iss1sfinSs
volved is too great to Texas prosperity -
permit prejudice to influence the Veople1n
their decision. Remember, that thAvsefong-
est card the administration now has to play
is IN convincing the people exactly the con-
trary to what experience has proven to be
the result of its work upon the states
prosperity.
I desire it understood that any reference
to the unexampled prosperity of home en-
terprises referred to in this letter is .eHly
based on conclusions drawn from MrStBall S.
own statements. That these hong epser-
prises are prospering under fpNdftions
made for them by the railroads we know to
be 4 fact and rejoice in it with them. but
this prosperity is due to their management
and enterprise more than to the railr0adSgt
and have no idea any of them have paade
such sums of money to give awaXsas Mr.
Balls argument would lead US to belieYe-SF
W. V. NEw4IS.