Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-26
COLONEL GIDDINGS
ADDRESSES AN APPREclATIvE
AUDIENCE


GRoEsnEEcIx, TEX, Oct. 25.-tSpe-
cisl. r. Col. d. O. Giddings spoke this
afternoon at $3.50 to q small, but apl re-
ciatiye audience at the court house
here. The audience vas composed o.
representative Demo- rats, Hogg men
and Populista Col. Giddings first
spoke Of the convention at San Antonio
and Its platform, through which was
first heard the tocsin, "Hogg and COM
mission He said the Democratic
party believed in railroad regulation,
and through q commission II necessary:
but the commission must be one which
was at once just, controlled directly by
tho people and above all constitutional.
That under Gov. Hogg there
had been more unconstitutional
legislation than had ever before
disgraced the state. and on November
B II the people are as cool as tho courts,
they would KNOCK the stuiiing OUT Of
Hngg as the courts had out OF his laws.
he cited the alien land law, the drum
mo- g tax decision, the land titles de-
cision, the commission law, TO show
Governor Hogg's intimate acquaintance
with the constitution he was sworn to
support, "but W which his attention
had never been called.n He then re-
cited the action Of tho Lampasas con-
vention and the national convention,
aud compared thoir Dem. cratic utter
ances with the platforms Of the Hogg
carstnhlo convention and tho
Democratic convention held ut
Turner Hall. From this he
Hriftod into u discussion Of the
two platforms ON the silver question,
declaring that he deemed the Matlock
action hasty, that no had tried 10 get
the Hogg Reagnn-Chilton crowd TO
adopt some Democracy anyway, but
1tcagan had declared Ia committee and
On the floor Of the convention that the
silver plank would gain Hogg at least
So goo votes from the Third party, aud
practically served notice OF rebellion
upon the national Democracy. This
was rebellion in the face OF an adyanc-
ing army. and had these gentlemen
been embarrassed by Confederate
record they would have known that
in martial law they would have been
called out and shot; and in time OF
party war they wore not entitled TO be
In the Democratic army. He could not
find where the graduated income tax
idea had been taken from, as only the
direct income tax had been proposed
and attempted by Damocracy's organ
lied foe, tho Republicans, but this
Hogg platform, being in the nature OF
Il crazy quiS, the origin Of the patches
made little difference. aud the idea was
simply rank communism II Reagan
had TO fix the tax, it would be Just
little above the salary he had drawn
from the publ ic crib for 10 these
many years. Tho Democratic idea
is q government by general
consent through just laws, but
the Hogg idea was a government By
force. The government has no right
10 DO dishonest, and tho attempts to
conilscate railroad property, TO thrust
upon the people the alien land law and
TO shake land titles had deprecated
property % per cent in the past two
years.
The speaker said he had known
George Clark many years, and knew
him to be n fine lawyer, n good soldier
and an honest man, and felt assured
that he had read and was learned la
the constitution and needed no school
teacher TO call his attention TO It's pro-
visions; while, as 10 himself, he was
only interested In the contest ~ pri-
vate citizen anxious for his couutry's
good. All he asked for himself was
tho good will OF man and the grace OF
God.