The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-18
A DEFENSE OF HoGG.
Mr.. Kennedy, OF the Marlin Demo-
erat on the Cameron Time"
Incident.

Incident.
TIE The News;
MARLIN, Texas, May lin your
issue Of May 4you say, in answering
a correspondent at Axtell, among
other things, that Bart Moore and j.
r. Mobley heard the governor raise
the question of time ten minutes be-
fore time" Granting that these gen.
tlemen are correct, is it not fact that
Governor Hogg arose when Judge
Clark stated that he (aogg) had called
time on him and that he wonld have
to close, and said in substance: Judge
CLARK, go oD; | told you you could
have all the time you wanted" The
writer was in FIVE feet of the speakers
stand, directly in front, aud heard the
words plainly. There is difference
of opinion about this matter of time.
According to my watch Judge Clark's
time was up when the question was
raised. There were others (Clark
men) by me who said the Judges
time was not up. l, for one, was per-
fectly willing for Judge Clark to have
all the time he wanted and SO stated
to the gentlemen by me. 1t pleased
me very much to hear Judge Clark
then, for he was cutting his
own throat so to speak and
| saw no reason for any Hogg man to
interpose | will ask you and also
Messrs. Moore and Mobley if it is not
also fact that when time was called
on Judge Clark by the committee,
during his opening speech, if Gov.
Hogg didn't tell Judge Clark to GO
on? Judge Clark himself, or any
other truthful man will not deny this,
neither will they deny that Gov.
Hogg said substantially what is quot
ed above.
These two acts show that Gov.
Hogg is not the unfair man THE
News tries to prove him. Such con,
temptible methods as THE News and
other Clark organs employ to besmirch
the character Of Gov Hogg and to
hold him up in ridicule will only prove
as boomeraugs, This attempt to
make political capital out Of the Cam
eTon episode is about at par with
that disreputable aud consumate
falsehood about the confederate
record, the pitcher racket, the low
price of cotton lie, which was dropped
like hot br ok, aud mum
erous other silly charge:
against Hogg. Two years age
Judge Clark denounced the people al
fools. THE News and other support
. ers are running the Clark campaign
upon this supposition, Judging by the
foolish subtertuges you resort TO. Blu
you are mistaken, The people hav,
. Just little more sense than you give
them credit of having,
When the convention meets a
, Houston | expect to see old McLen
! nan, whose common people are as in
teIligent and patriotic as the sui
= shines on, Notwithstanding the effort
! of THE News to show them up other
wise, cast her vote as unit, alopj
with her little sister Falls, for GU
present and next governor, Jane
Stephen Hogg, the patriot and states
man who said and whose platform i
E The people will rule Texas" whic
e is more expressive than all Judg
: Clark has uttered since he initiate
! his boom at Weatherford and thou:
and times more logical than the plat
a form promulgated by that Waco con
e ference called together to repair tn
g damage the "httle giant discovere
when his boom collapsed, Hogg
- friends don't have to get together
IS find out where he stands on anything
&c They know, Yours Truly
JAMES M. KENNEDY.