Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-19
THE TILDEN CLUB
ADDRESSED IN A FIERCE ANTI
HOGG SPEECH.
The Governor Attacked for Every Calamity
that Has BefAIlen the People-CIsrk
the Psnacea for Our Ills

to hear the Tilden club addressed by ID. S.
Ross. The speaker was introduced by j.
). DAVIS, president OF the club He began
by saying, briefly, that he proposed to dis
cuss the political issues that were OF i'm
portance TO the people, and would give
them his honest opinions on the situation,
and referred in no complimentary tones to
the recent speeches made by Capt. Ball
and Hon. Thomas Brown of Grayson county
in this city
lie said money was piled up in the great
| financial centers; it was drug on the mar
ket and was asking investment everywhere
except in Texas; that New Mexico, Iowa
| and other countries were receiving heavy
! immlgrations, and were it not for the late
! bad laws enacted under James S. Hogg the
same condition of things would exist in
| Texas to-day.
THE issue before US is: Shall this con-
! dition OF depression exist, or shall the
! bonds that now bind US be broken? Shall
we turn Texas loose2 The present bad
| state of affairs rests with Governor Hogg
and his administration
The speaker then referred to the speeches
of Ball and Brown and attempted to reply
to them; said all that he could do was to
make an honest demur against their plead
IngS, and state what he considered the
matters under discussion. He continued:
1.-The condition of the railroad commits
sion is not an issue; it is embodied in the
James 5. Hogg was governor and he took
hold of 1t as a balloon upon which to carry
him into the Office he now occupies; the
commission was a fact long before Hogg
was ever thought of fort governor"
The speaker then had something to say
about the threadbare incident of the negro
in the wood-ple, and continued:
THE issue, plain and simple, is, do we |
approve OF Hogg and his methodist Do we |
approve OF his actsl Or can we entrust |
the state in his hands another two years? |
James 5. Hogg is an Notwithstanding |
more.
Il oppose Hogg because he is not Dem
ocrat. His ideas of government are not
those of Thomas Jefferson, which are the
cOrnersto ne of liberty. He is Republican
masquerading as a Democrat. His whole |
theory of government is paternalistic. He
is a Moses of olden times; that he is a
Moses he has proved himself, as the
plaques have followed in his wake, and he
has visited them upon the people of the
state.
'If his theories of government would
compel Gould and Huntington to build rail-
roads in the state, then l would be for the
denomination and reelection of James
Stephen Hogg for governor of Texas. He
Democrats Opposed to the Capitalization
of power2 Opposed to protective TARIFF
Yet he has brought upon the state of Texas
a tariff ten times more odious than is the
terial itself, and prevents enterprise in
every phase. '
. again, oppose Hogg for reelection be-
cause he is demagogue. 1t runs through 6
his every Official act since he was attorney )
general to the present day. AS attorney
general he attacked the railroad corpora ,
lions, and the supreme court decided it :
none of his business. As encouragement =
he began to impugn and question the mo-
lives of every citizen of Texas. While at
he sought to prosecute every I
.axpayer because they were not honest in b
heir rendition of their taxes T'HThat's So V
hats 500 shouted half dozen voices
The speaker referred to the assessment Y
If the governors father-in-law's mill in o
Cast Texas, which was returned assessed n
It a valuation of $4,000. when at the same s,
ime, said he, an attempt was being made
o sell it for $4,000. 1t was when the U
'wenty-frst legislature failed to pass a =
commission law, that Hogg first discovered | =
e was for railroad commission; then he II
Sed as it means to ride into Office He | -
ccuses Clark of insincerity on the commits
ion, but after it was engrafted into our 81
rganic law Clark accepted it as a fact az
lead Hogg's late message and see if dem h
gogue wrote it2 If an honest statesman W
ad anything to do with it? q
Mr.. Ross then spoke of the manner in p;
'hich Hogg was educated said the gov
rnor claimed he was educated and reared sc
enlnd the plOW and IN the printing ottice. m
e, (Hogg) regarded the state of Texas as G.
le great printing Office in which he was is
aging the devil. tn
The speaker opposed Hogg because It is 81
1t safe to entrust the railroad commission "
his hands. II am for the commission
as formerly for the commission and Hogg, or
1t now am for the commission without the eli
ogg. NJ
The speaker denounced THE GAZETTE in an
tier terms, claiming that it attempted to he
mother sentiment, to which it was i'm s.
ssible to reply. Thought a newspaper he
ould give the truth and nothing mr.
1t the truth; said THE GAZETTE didn't wi
that. lit accused US of being pot-house col
said he, land came out with tn,
attempt to prejudice the country people he
ainst the city. Bet a plug cady to a
ew OF tobacco The GAZETTE won't come
t in the morning with my picture as a Sr
bernatorial possitility-but my chances q
2 just as good as many that have appeared Yr
Gently in that paper" TIA
The speaker concluded by saying he was Pa
: Clark for the same reasons that he fav- II
I'd Mills, for the enemies he had made Cle
am for Clark wholly, and pray God the r j
ople will give him victory" Po
And then he sat down and the glad fifty WI
aVed sigh of relief. ST
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