The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-02
From the Fort Worth Gazette

| from tne r orr W OTlH SaHetle
HnLsBoRo, April 24.-Having beer
staunch friend and subscriber tc
your daily paper for the past seven
years | feel that | have the right tc
ask you to please give your reasons
for, at this stage of the fight, denOunc'
ing Gov. Hogg and coming out for a
third man.
Please show us wherein Gov. Hogg
has not carried out the platform ad-
opted at San Antonio. If so, why do
you wish to retire him? If the plat
form is wrong, is it right to censure
Gov. Hogg? And if wrong, would it
not be more manly for Texas to take
the blame upon herself and not
shoulder it upon Hogg? Please show
to US, the governors who preceded
Gov Hogg that have unfilnchingly
carried out the policy of the party
Gov. Hogg has the confidence of the
rural Democracy. They have found
in him man who will do their bid
ding in the face of monopolies. He is
the only Democratic leader that can
check the third party move. With
Clark or third man as leader of
the Democracy, Henry E. Mccullough
will be the next governor of Texas.
No matter how good man we may
nominate for governor, when we throw
Hogg overheard without just grounds
we compromise our platform and go
back upon the demands of the people,
and the mass of the people, our coun.
trymen. Let's look we'll before we
leap, Yours truly,
JAS. D. STEWART.
The Gazette holds itself to be a
servant of the people, and responsible,
IN like manner as public official to
them for its acts and opinions. Our
correspondent puts square question,
and he shall have a square answer.
First, however, its primary assump-
ton is not correct. The Gazette
has not denounced" Governor
Hogg; it will not denounce him.
1t will not denounce Judge Clark. 1t
is quite content to leave the jnvective
Of the campaign to schooib0ys and
men for whom age has not done the
kindness to given them sober reasou.
We have frankly said that we do
not look at the administration of
Governor Hogg with the eyes of his
Waco critic. He is not to be charged |
with the fact that cotton has brought
but D cents per pound, or that res.
estate has deprecated in value. THE |
things would have existed under sdy |
governor. -
We have said, and the truth, is
worth repeating until' every man
catches it, that it is the general tone
Of an administration by which it must
be judged. The tone of Governor
Hogg's administration has convinced
The Gazette-and it was one of the
asst of the conservative element to
admit it, then sorrowfully-that
second term for him means possible
disaster to the state.
Is not our correspondent aware that
from the time of Governor Hoeg's
to this hour the state has
been rent with agitative and angry
discussion, originating either with i'm
'r with his chief counselors? The
'ocsin of war sounded by Judge Ter
ell many years ago has been adopted
by the administration against the pro.
ests of its most faithful and conserva-
i've supporters. 1t is for this that
he Gazette opposes Governor Hogg;
hat with the opportunity open to him
o commend the commission to the
ust-minded people of the state, with.
ut regard to their previous opinion of
t by such conservative and just ad-
of affairs as would force
he approval of all, he deliberately (
hose to open the hoodgates of apita.