Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-25
GREENVlLLANS
Listen to Judge Clark on the
Administration.
TEXAS TURNED LOOSE ALL
The Rains She Had in the Clouds Above
but the Ardor of the People
was Not Dzmpened-What
Warwick said.
CLARK at Greenville.

CLARK at Greenville.
Special to the Gazette
GREESvILLE, TEX, March 24.-In the
midst of a binding rain storm Judge clark
arrived here last night from Sulphur
Springs. He was met at the depot 0y
delegation of citizens and escorted TO the
Bickham hotel, where he was after
wards serenaded. The weather con-
tinued to be bad, rain falling throughout
the entire night, rendering the
roads practically impossible. Not
withstanding that TACT however,
THE WACO GIANT
talked to full house at the courthouse this
afternoon. He was introduced by Judge j..
s. Scherrill, who in presenting the speaker
referred TO the depressed condition OF az
fairs in Texas, stating that she was to-day
in shackles worse than ever before. lied
hand and foot, il was necessary to do some
thing for her people. The issue was be-
tween Democracy and demagogism; 1t had
resolved itself into a fight between the peo-
pie and a favored few. In every reform
movement a leader was necessary, and he
took pleasure in introducing as that leader
the Hon. George Clark of Waco, "a man
of whom all the people of Texas had just
and sufficient reason to be proud.
Judge Clark was
GENEROUSLY oHEERED
as he presented himself and, as at Clarks-
vile, began his address by stating that
Texas was now confronted with a condi-
ton, not a theory. For some reason, which
it deyolved upon the people to investigate
and. determine, prosperity had left her
borders and gone no one knows where
Our prosperity had been arrested, our
energies paralyzed, and as there was
always some cause for every public i'll he
did not hesitate to state that, in his judg-
ment, the present Stagnation emanated from
the government.
He did charge the full responsibility of
the present decentralization in the state
upon the present chief executive, and did
not propose to hold him responsible in any
measure not sanctioned by his record. He
had thus far in the campaign endeavored
TO eliminate from his discussion all abuse
and personalities, and had no word to say
of that character regarding Governor Hogg.
There was some reason exterior to the
state line of Texas which had brought
about the change. He ridiculed the story
that the failure of Barring Bros, had the
slightest effect upon the prosperity of the
people, claiming that the state has passed
through more disastrous crises than that,
and still maintained her credit and
financial probity. There was some other
cause, and it was found in the fact that the
chief executive had slandered the fair fame
of Texas. TCheers. These slanderous
statements which had retarded the growth
of the state, had prevented Texas from
having 40, 600 miles of railroads which she
required to develop her vast and pro-
life territory, and yet outside capital
could not, under present conditions, be in
duced to seek investment within her Dor
ders. Under proper conditions, Texas re-
ceived $50 from abroad to 81 which she dug
out Of the ground. 1t was not the railroad
commission which deferred the investment
of money in the state, but it was the result
of long continued and persistent warfare
upon capital, which had eliminated in
Hogg's election, which fact was accepted
by the outside world as an Endorsement by
the voters of the state of that worthy's acts
as attorney-general. He then referred to
Hogg's fruitless and bootless attacks, htiga
Cion against railroads and individuals, and
his heartless and uncalled-for attack upon
the land titles of the state, and stated that
there was nowhere on earth law so pc
cRliarly ruinous in its provisions as the
ALIEN LAND LAW
which had Frustrated the credit of the
state at one blow, and left her people at the
mercy of local money loaners.
Judge Clark repeated his position regard
ing the commission, reiteratlng his demand
for an elective board. His remarks upon
this subject were cheered to the echo. He
referred to Hogg's campaign argument of
two years ago, that the railroads were rob
bing institutions, and yet said he had the
temerity to recommend that the sacred
school fund of the state be turned over to
these corporations.
a remedy for the stagnatioD now existing
could not be found in appeals to passion and
prejudice or class distinction, or by encour
aging a feeling of resentment and animoSlty
between the farmers and the people whose
homes were in the towns and cities Of the
state.
Mr. Clark then took up the question of
what ought to be the position of the people
regarding the great railroad system of the
state, and as in his former speeches, advised
the people to adopt policy of fair and just
treatment towards the roads.
They should not be so exacting as not to
guarantee a fair return upon investments
of this character, but he believed the proper
course to pursue was TO encourage invest
ments, promising protection to investors to
the end that Texas might as she should,
become the imperial state of the Union.