The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-26
/ AM JEEMS STEPHEE.
The Greatest Living Mana
Speech as Read Between
the Lines

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THE News is in receipt of the fol-
lowing report of a speech by Gov.
Hogg not as actually spoken but as
read between the lines:
FELLOW CrTIzENs:-I need no in.
PRODUCTION to you for / am Jeems
Stephen Hogg, the heir apparent to
the Gubernatorial crown of Texas. /
am the man who was once your attor
ney general and | raised more Hades
and done less good than any man that
ever preceded me. am today the
greatest living man in all the world
since the sad death of Alexander the
Greot. l have been told that in
manner of speech and general get off
| resemble Sam Houston and that is
why | opened up my CANVASS on San
Jacinto day-do you catch on-do
you understand? By gatlins, give
me gourd. l want to drink little
red blud. want also to take sip
of nitric acid and spew it out on the
heads Of my unloyal subjects, such as
Jim Crow Senators, unwise and
mouthy law makers of the Garwood
stripe, who persist in telling the truth
on me, and those foolish sons of toll
who according to my idea are too en-.
larged for their pants.
What do you think fellow citizens
of motley lot of wool hat skunks
asking Jeems S. Hogg to appoint one
of their number R. R. Commissioner?
l want them to understand that | can
only use the Alliance people once
every two years and that is for voting
purposes. Do you understand?
People don't understand me for they
say that | said at one place where
lands were bought from r. RS. and
the title not good, l could make the
purchasers disgorge, and at another
place / would validate the titles. My
dear boys, damn fool never changes
his mind, but smart man like me
changes it whenever he thinks it gets
votes, by Gatlins. am good deal
like Sam Jones because he always
tells his audience that if his talk gets
too hot to get up and git, but they
don't git That is why l always
make that circus talk and the fellows
are afraid to leave. Amt smart
l tell you I believe if l lived IN New
York instead OF Smith county, | would
. be called upon to accept the Demo
cratic nomination for the presidency
John, the high priest OF Palestine
told me on the quiet that | was tn
brainiest and grandest statesman sine
the days of Jefferson, but that don
give me the big head, l hear it s.
often. Can the people of Texas pu
me aside? am the man that toll
&c Gossett what kind of an alien lam
e bill to get up. admit that it did no
+ suit exactly, but l made EN- take un
T. til Horace made his round for senate
e; busted many a man by delaying tn
N calling of an extra session. but that
lie all right and l never would hav
S called it if George Clark, Harry Tracy
&c Sledge, Mcdonald, GarwOod an
es Others had kept still. They are It
of toughs. They don't like me.
cant use them. / am a patrio
true Democrat and every u
IN terance l make is honest al
ne from the bottom of my heart. Fe
n low citizens, were l to tell you
It. make one dishonest statement beto
ct God | would want to fall dead on tn
Sc spot "a voice get off the spot Jeem
lie Charley Bonner has you corneret
Nv If you elect me Governor | promi
his you times will be harder than they a
OF now, for with my big right hand | W
ut procure the eastern border of 20
ad state, and with my No. II bachel
he brogans on the state line sh'
Use stamp out of recognition all corpoi
h. tions desiring to enter the state, al
or with that same big right hand sh
zee murder at the line any alien bringil
W. cheap money to Texas. want
bankers who are putting up and ms
aging my campaign to lend all t
money in Texas and for the sar
Of good purpose shall place old 10
chr Reagan at the northern border; he "
hat need no instructions. He is
the daddy Of the interstate commerce
nth ON the west shall place Mclean
,er. we don't get much from that sour
wa ~ $500. Ill Dlooa Eoat