Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-30
GOVERNOR HOGG
Entertains a Large Audience
OF His Admirers.
CHIEFLY FROM THE COUNTRY.
Hs Told Of What He Had Done, Whai He Was
Doing, and What He Was Going
10 do-seoring Ms
Enemies.

Yesterday morning at $50 o'clock the
committee appointed to receive Gov
srnor Hogg was at the depot awaiting
the arrival Of the north bound Katy,
but he did not come until
the Houston and Texas Gem
trail train came In, coming up
from Houston. The committee did
duty and was ON hand. II was Messrs.
John Bardon, chairman; VIM. Came
ron, j. Q. Scott, Thos. Bratton, Geo.
". Finger, Geo. w. jackson, Samuel
Rosenfeld, j. s. McF'adden, Claude
Butler. Jno. f. Reed. Ben NJ Terrell,
q, S. baltimore, John Bratton, II. l..
uowan, w. 5. Essex and II. N. Bah
cock.
The governor was escorted to the
hotel by the committee in carriages
and there was seen by his friends and
admirers during the day.
At 2 p. m. under the chaperonage OF
Messrs. Stedmau. Ayres, Randolph,
Young, Booty, Ball and others, Gov.
Hogg went TO the court house yard
where a stand had been erected and
seats provided for several hundred peo-
pie. These were speedily filled.
The governor said he wanted an en-
dorsement by the voters Of Texas be-
cause OF his record In the past, and II
elected he made many promises for the
future, all In the line OF good govern
ment for Texas such as he had given
her for the last eighteen months.
''They are after me. They have been
hitting me, a'in't they? But am like
young tree you shake now and then,
they just make Inc strong"
He did not come as governor or as
anything else but the standard-bearer
Of the Democratic party
He insisted on the regularity OF his
nomination by the Democratic party at
Houston by over two.thirds Of the I'M
contested delegates OF the party and de-
nounced those who were recreant to
their moral plight OF faith In going into
the primaries and refusing TO support
him as the regular nominee for gov
ernor. He denied he was the nominee
Of faction OF the Democratic party.
What Clark had was
MERELY A SPLINTER
70 make Quincy toothpick and II would
be so chewed up by November it would
not make fourth rate tooth brush.
The plan OF this campaign was
marked out before he took tho oath OF
office as GOVERNOR and IL was to malign
him with the people OF
The state, communications having
been written and mailed to various
papera from Austin before he had even
bot in the governors office, and his
course as governor was condemned be-
ore he had even indicated what 1t
you'd be.
The speaker thought all the people
Bf the state IN all parties were in favor
Of good government except the Quincy
Clark combine.
He eulogized at great length on the
three great reforms his administration
bad objected, many minor ones, but
three OF prime Importance, the reduc-
lion OF taxation % per cent, reduction
VI the contract rate OF interest from -
10 10 per cent and legal rate eX-c0ntract
rom 10 o, and the reduction in trans
,ortation rates.
Now people on gilt edge 80
surity, could borrow money at six per
cent, mot on cotton patches turned
INTO town lots, but on some bonds OF
Fort Worth, for instance, with no fly
Jpecks OF suspicion on them" He
charged the transportation companies
were putting up for this campaign
They'll deny il but he knew N was 30.
They would deadhead anybody to
a Clark meeting, but YOU
never heard OF anyone be-
Ing deadheaded TO his meeting.
He asserted railroad corporations had
greater power in taxing the people
than the state, for there was no limit
10 the tax railroads imposed on the
commodities Of the state without other
restraint than their own wills; this nm
restrained power was exercised until
the commission interposed for the BEN
EFT Of the people. lie told Of
the way he busted" the pool
lat .
fact that railway companys freight
rates were made by officials who were
not under oath or bond, and as the
state railway commissioners were, they
We're more competent and honest In
making freight tariffs.
Under the commission for eleven
months until little Federal Judge in
E5stered, the prosperity OF the stnte
was never before exceled. For the
FIRST time in the history Of the state our
wheat was ground at home, our corn
was fed TO our cattle at home instead OF
lying in cribs 70 be eaton by weevil,
and our lumber was used in building
our houses, Before tho commission the
domestic traffic Of tho railways was 10
per cent; the foreign IS per cont.
After the commission got In it's worl.
the domestic traffic was 60 per cont
and that Is the reason the railroads
undo more money with lower freight
rates than they did before with high
rates.
He gave some figures showing the
great difference In interstate or foreign
and domestic railway rates and got
back TO a reiteration Of his assertion
that no factory could live In TeXa,
without commission, unless q traffic
manager Of a railway was b H. aud
when he wanted all OF the stoct 10 just