The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-28
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.
AREPLY TO GOV. HOGG,S SLAM
DEROF THE STUDENTS
I'm the University at Austin i'm HIS
speech at Beiton--Mr. Davidson
Defends the Young Men and does
Handsomely.

Bolton, Tex, May 24.-[To the
Dallas News, I'm his speech It this
place yesterday Governor Hogg said
that be had employ ed lawyers to pros
ecute the gamblers in Austin, and that
while previously the university stud.
ents and others were open in
their games of chance with
the professional gamblers under
the brilliant glare of the cleo
trc light from one end of Congress
avenue to the other, now the Capital
city, SO far as gambling is concerned,
is as pure and spotless as the driven
snow. Without questioning the gov.
ernor's right to interfere with the mu
nicipal affairs of Austin, any more
than he should with any of our other
cities, and believing what he tells US
about the extreme purity of Austin at
the present time, | cannot see why he
should have spoken in derogatory
terms concerning the university stud.
ents.
To say that the students of the
university were regular participants
in gambling would leave the impress.
sion that out Of body of 800 some
ten or fifteen or perhaps more were in
the habit of spending the greater part
of their time in that way. Nothing
could be farther from the truth.
know of no better proof of this asser-
ton than the fact that previous to the
governors action concerning the
gamblers. DR.. Waggenner, chairman
of the faculty, received the hearty
Endorsement of every pastor in Austin
as to the morality and exemplary con-
duct of the students. Visitors to the
Capital city frequently express the
same opinion, or, if one wishes to
inquire more closely, let him ask the
police force in Austin, who certainly
know about these things in regard to
the conduct of the students He
would fud that out Of the vast mum
Der of students that have been attend.
log the university from year to year
never has there been more than two or
three that were addicted to excessive
drinking and gambling, and where is
there an institution in which we do
not tiud one or two black sheep?
There is popular impression that
the students of the university of Tex.
as are set of sports, and it may be
that the governor thought it would be
to his interest to express that opinion.
This, think, was very unjust. Why
did he not speak of the railroad EN-.
ployes or the young business men
They certainly did more gambling
than the students ever did.
Again, it may be that the govern or
has received the popular impression
in regard to the morality of the stu.
dents and has never yet had time to
acquaint himself with the true state of
affairs If so, we most humbly beg
his excellency's pardon and would like
to say that the university of Texas is
the home of the poor mans sons.
Many OF the students ARE working
their way through. Here we have an
institution richly endowed, equipped,
with chemical and hysical labora-
tories not to be excelled in the south,
with a faculty of eminent American
scientists and scholars, free to the
youth of Texas. No earnest, industri-
Gus student, who is in sympathy with
higher education, should fail to take
into consideration the advantages he d
out to him by our own institu,
ton, the university of Texas.
WILSON T. DAVIDSON.