Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
CLARK AND TURNIPS.
Waco's Little Giant Talks at
Mckinney.
RUTABkGA JOHNSON THERE,
And He Pulls the Deadly Newspaper Clipping
on the Texas Warwick.
Judge Aldredge of Dallas Puts His shovel
in and Praises Judge Terrell, to the
Delight of the Horny Handed
Husbandmen.
CIarI. In Collin.

Clark IN Collin.
Special to the Gazette.
McKINSEY, Tex March 26.-The esteem
in which Judge Clark is held by the people
of Collin county was manifested to-day by
the crowds who came from the most re-
mote outlying districts to hear him speak
upon the issues Of the day. The
town people had begun their part OF
the celebration on Friday evening
when a committee went down to Dallas and
escorted MIR Clark to Mckinney Upon
his arrival here a large crowd cheered him
as he stepped from the train, after which 1t
was determined, In Difference to the de-
nauds Of the people. that preliminary
meeting should be held at,once. A thousand
people followed the little giant Of
Waco" to the courthouse whore sew
eral speeches were made, although Judge
Clark's remarks were not very extended.
This morning bright and early the horny
handed sons of toll, began TO arrive. They
came from all directions and in all sorts of
conveyances. It was apparent before noon
that the women folks OF Collin county were
masters of the situation at home, for nearly
every farmer within fifteen miles of town
square. waiting for the hour
10 arrive when his excellency, the governor,
should receive another caStigation at the
hands of the Warwick Of Texas. This is
the home Of
EX-GOVERNOR THRoCEMoRToE,
4 firm friend and active supporter of Judge
Clark, who, although in poor health, was
about the streets, rs full OF enthusiasm as
any Of the Younger men.
The meeting was at the opera house. The
audience room, while very commodious,
would not begin to hold the people who
surged about the doors unable to erect an
entrance judge Clark was introduced by
q wa
he stepped to the front of the stage.
He SAID that it gave him great pleasure to
stand in the presence of Collin county
audience, which district he referred to as
the most magnificent in Texas. He was
glad as an honest Texan to be able to look
her people il the face and congrat ulated
himself that he had the privilege of adj
dressing them. He then paid a compliment
10 his friend. Governor Throckmorton,
whom he referred to as the best friend of
Texas now living. At this point
RUTABAGA JOHNSON,
a prominent citizen and well-known charac-
ter in Collin county, arose in the body OF
the house and asked Judge Clark
to read his GAINESVILLE speech,
claiming that in that address the judge
had taken water, and receded from
his position on the commission bill as stated
in a newspaper interview at his home IN
Waco some weeks since. The judge invited
where the old gentleman was
received with cheers of delight
by his friends and neighbors. who
evidently expected an interesting tilt at
arms. AS he took his seat the Judge, in
answer TO a question by him, replied,
Certainly I'll answer you, for l came
not to the righteous but to call
sinners to repentance" AT this the
house went wild. Shouts of laughter
and prolonged cheering for some time, but
old Rutabaga held his ground, pulled from
his pocket some newspaper clippings and
went for the Texas Warwick in
way which he has not experienced
since his campaign tour began.
Judge Clark replied in language both ex-
pressive and decided that he was of that
opinion still and then took up the thread of
his address. He declared that when the
bill was passed by the leg
islature it was not to be
supposed the people perfectly understood the
He said he was George Clark's friend
because he had in his heart and body the
qualities which had made him dear to the
people Of the South, vet he was not satisfied
Us to his position in the present canvass,
stating in this connection, that he, johnson,
had no friend that he would discard princi-
pie to follow. TCheers. He claimed that
Clark had declared in the interview re-
ferred To that the commission bill was uu-
constitutional, and wanted to know if the
Judge was yet of that opinion.
measure in all its bearings, and proceeded
to point out, rs he has often done, the feat
ures Of the bill which were not in the inter-
est of Texas or her people. He said that
Senator Cone johnson had attacked
Tom Browns bill at Austin, destroyed
and defeated it, and declared that the
present bill was the personal handiwOrk of
Governor Hogg, who had engineered and
inaugurated it at midnight caucus,
precipitated it upon the legislature
and forced its passage, when as a
awyer he ought to have discovered that it
would not stand the scrutiny of judicial
inquiry. The bill said to investors, when
they appeal TO the courts, that theSs tribu-
mails stand mauacled and powerless to pro-
tect them-a clear infringement on the con-
stitutional rights of the people.
He said that not Texas but the entire
country was suffering from the effects of
bad condition Of financial system, deployed
the fact that the farmers We're sufferers
thereby, and in a dramatic man
ner said that if 1t ever came
within his power 10 do so, he
would work in their interests, and for the
institution of sounder and more equitable
and just system of banking. He here re-
told the story OF having stopped ex-Sena-
tor Reagan during the fighting in
the Wilderness. while that gentlem an
was uuconsciously riding into the enemy's
ranks ana added that this was the only
wrong act of his life. He now thought that |
If he had allowed the Yankees to capture
and Kill Mr.. Reagan the people would have
avoided the interstate commerce law.
lGreat cheering.
The rest of Judge Clark's speech was de- |
voted TO the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Gov |
srnOr Hogg, wiz with the statement |
Hogs ita; :. d ri and ColsseaAe ready d -. to
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