The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-19
H0GG AND THE ALLIANCE
HIS INSULT TO THE ORDER AT
CORSICANA
Charges the waco Meeting with He
Ing Gang of Lobbyist and the
Mercury Takes the Hair OFF His
ExceiIency.
From the Southern Mercury.


Governor Hogg, who has all along
been coqueting with the allancemen
of Texas, and asserting that he was
the only safe repository Of their prin
ciples, let the cat out of the bag in
his speech at Corsicana on April 29th,
last.
Being asked by an old man in the
audience, why he did not appoint S.
d. A. Duncan on che railroad com
mission, said.
NOW you want to ask the question
If would have appointed Duncan if
the resolutions had reached me.
simply tell you no, no, no. would
not have appointed him. Applause
and cheers. AT this point the old
gentleman who asked the speaker the
question got up to ask another, and
the crowd showed disposition to hiss
him, which the governor promptly
stopped, and when quiet had been
restored the old man said: 81 am
Hogg man, but there is consider
able Third party following in Navarro,
and just wanted them to know how
it was. Applause Can you ex-
plain why these men are against you,
Gov. Hogg7" That's all right. Ask
anything you want and will not
get offended, nor offend you. When
the Alliance as an order made the
demand upon the governor of the
state it was getting little too big for
its breechesl Cheers and applause.
| am the servant of the whole people
and not of any particular class. re.
spect religious organizations, | re-
spect social organizations, respect
political organizations, but when an
organization outside of the Democratic
party rises up to command me they
will get fooled every time. If you
have any demands to make on your
servants, make them in your
platform, and if it suits
me | will obey, and if it
don't l will not run. | did not feel
like appointing the man the Alliance
suggested. | felt that if the Alliance
made the demands on me in good faith
they would not be mixed up with the
lobby in Austin, Applause from
Tom Smiths corner There was a
meeting at Waco of a lot of railroad
LOBBYISTS and few fellows calling
themselves Alliancemen. Applause
and cheers. Before it adjourned,
some of them in the same month had
been down in Austin trying to run the
Legislature"
When Hon. Jas. S. Hogg was a
candidate for governor in 1890 he was
the avowed champion of the Alliance,
which had, in prior state AL.
lance assembled declared by a
unanimous vote in favor of rail.
road commission, (It must not be for.
gotten that prior to the State Alliance
pfomulgating this demand, Jas. Hogg
was opposed to railroad commission
His Rusk speech was accepted as an
espousal of the alliance demands upon
the state government, and to a man,
alliancemen began a vigorous cam.
paign in his behalf. The San Antonio
convention showed the result of their
united efforts. At the San Antonio
convention Mr.. Hogg had everything
his own way; he dictated who should
compose the committee on platform,
aud what the platform should be,
When the platform was published ,
the first act of Mr.. Hogg's duplicity,
was shown up by the committee Ding
out of its way to stab the Alliance sub
treasury plan. Some of the delegates
caught on then. but the enthusiasm
and hurrah was so great that they
could not be heard.
The sub treasury plan at that time,
owing TO the heat of the campaign, had
not been generally discussed ?
members Of the Alliance; ocssaes; r,
1 in no way entered into the state cam
paign, and the farmers were so enthu-
siastic over their victory that they
lost sight of everything else but state
polity and selected as delegates any
one who would vote for "Hogg and
the commission"
Imagine their surprise when weeks
afterwards they recognized the insidi
GUS stab at the Alliance demands
Notwithstanding all this, Alliancemer
generally believed that Jas 5: Hoe@
was incapable of such duplicity anG
remained his steadfast friends til
Id raoommended thu