The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-08

:" emulate their example and bolt? Wa
it guilty conscience that made tn
v Hogg men think it "evident" til
Clark men would bolt? The Clar
address with its history and charge
1t was published several days before til
Hogg address was written. The al
thors of the latter address knew {
e the former, for in general terms thei
!. address refers to it; why dit
they not attempt to deny the charge
= and the history if they were untrue
Have not the people right to thinl
that part of the Clark address un
: answerable, since the Hogg commit
tee in it's infinite stretch of power anC
assumption could not answer it?
So much for the two addresses w
to their history of the split. Both ad
dresses go in detail into their respect
i've versions of that compelled occur.
renee. The Hogg men insisting and
the Clark men insisting, they each
were compelled to act as they did. A
most glariDgly weak point in the
Hogg address, however, is this where
it says, "The refusal of the conven-
ton to submit to this gross injustice
"a viva voce vote) is the only ground
upon which the Clark supporters
bolted from the Democratic conven-
ton at Houston" This is I'M
qualifiedly untrue. The Clark
men did insist that they had
right to viva voce vote, but re-
fusal of that was one of the least of the
grievances complained of. 1t was the
Acknowledgement of counties entitled
to vote in the temporary organiza-
ton that at last forced the Clark men
to assert their rights. A short ex-
tract from the Clark address on this
point is as follows:
"When Dallas county was reached
a demand was made of the chair
man to know how the vote of that
county was cast, and then for the
first time after he had ordered the
roll call to proceed he answered that
the vote had not been called; that the
executive committee had decided that
no county in which there was con-
test should be permitted to vote.
When other counties were passed,
in response to inquiry, it was an
nounced that they were contested,
but the demand for information as to |
how and by whom contested, and the
evidence thereof, the inquiry was ig-
nored. The same rule was adhered
to until the call of the roll of counties
had been completed, which resulted
in the Acknowledgement of more than
100 of the instructed votes of Judge
Clark.
For more than two hours the friends
of Judge Clark stood upon the floor of
the convention hall and appealed to
Finley TO be heard in defense of the
rights of the Democracy of Texas
against his arbitrary and tyranical
rulings. During this time, under the
dictation and direction of Finley, all
Of the counties in which there were
alleged contests We're being disfran-
chised, and secret ballot was being
taken on the election of temporary
chairman and sent up to the secretary
on Slips OF paper, over the protest
and appeals OF earnest and true Demo-
Gratis.
1t was at this point, when tho coun-
ties they represented, Were, without
any warrant in right anu most
arbitrarily without investiga-
ton, being DISTINGUISHED, that
The Clark men elected their
chairman. 1t was not
when and because the viva voce vote
was denied, as the Hogg committee
and all men conversant with the facts
we'll know. And the remarkable
part of the Hogg address is that it no.
where discusses the action of Finley
in refusing in the temporary organi-
zation to receive the vote of those
counties, one set of whose delegates
had prima facie right to vote, and
whose right could only be finally de-
by the credentials commit l
Zee; but until such determination,
whose right none could impeach. ,,
Upon this point the Clark address
aid great stress, upon this point the t
split, and yet about this {
'oint the. Hogg address is silent. 1t :
indeed strangely silent, while at {
'reat length it attempts to bolster up q
is third party silver plank. 1t seems t
little space might have ,
'een given to an attempted +
of Finley's monstrous a
uling on that subject.
Finally attention must be called to =
his sentence in the Hogg address: v
The address of the boilers shows
learly their manifest determination t
0 press upon the people some of the O
uestions which have been settled in f
he party by the action of the Democ. t
acy OF the state in its primary con. g
entions. q
This is exactly the point where the i
lark and Hogg men part company. II
he Clark men deny that those cues. 6
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