Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-21

lobbyists in the l6oby and signed his
name george Clark, attorney for all the
railroads IN Texas except two" now IN
vites US to turn the state and her railway
commission over 10 his guidance, to turn
her loose from all embraces but his own,
under his solemn promise that be would re-
leVe her from all her Affections Sin one
hour" lie honestly believes That he could
do this, for you viii find the personal pro
noun ''I'' 100 times in his Weatherford
speech. Nor is this strange, for the same
powers that viii furnish him the siaews OF
war have Tor years paraded- Coke and Ross
as caudal apPendages to their modern War
wick.
Effect OF CLARK's SPEECH ABROAD.
The citizens of another state, in reading
the speech of Judge Clark in which he
pictures ''our universal distress and
''the idiocy and tyranny Of our laws,
'the irs scu1ty of our titles, - "the stagna-
nation of our commerce. and ''our polite al
and commercial ruin, cruising desolatlon TO
sit upon our hesrthstones, - would shun our
borders as they would the shade of the
deadly bohan-upan tree. What can you
think Of a bird who thus deliberately fouls
his own nest and who pictures our
domestic poverty and charges upon our
laws the destruction Of liberty, when every
legislative act Of which he complains was
carefully demanded by the state platform
Of that Democratic party, to which ne even
now processes allegiance2
The party itself should De buried II this
mans arTaigumeut is just, and some new
one founded on its ruins.
LEFT HIs BOOST TOO SOON.
Warwick. in search of the early worm,
has left his roost too soon. He few early
once before, and succeeded, but thereby
hangs the tale, the telling of which reveals
q political skeleton; that skeleton l will eX
pose, and it should warn Us now. Before
the last Prohibition canv1ss, spring had
just opened, when Gen. Richard Harrison
invited me to attend q meeting at the Dris-
kill hotel IN Austin TO prepare Tor opening
che anti-PrOhibition campaign, he informed
me that George Clark, & railway attorney,
with Waldo, Faulkner ana other celebrated
railway officers, with 4 few atners, would
be IN attendance. The answer was prompt;
IL was: -Sir-None Of these men were
known rs Observation-Disclosures during the
four years of abuse have endured, for
honest opinions expressed in the senate on
this subject. The meo ing, Il seems, IS TO
be composed mainly OF railway lobbyists
and attorneys, and its object is to divert the
public mind from railway regulation, tub
TO the popular whale. The conspiracy may
perhaps succeed, for the people are plant
ing, and the press viii help, the war cry
will be 'paternalism,' and these same rail
way men will crystalline hereafter the sa-
loon influence and use the same cry of
'paterDalism' to defeat a commission. My
voice will not be heard" Ask your assist
ant Encouragement if this was not my
answer, and ask yourselves if il was not
true prophecy, and if that early caGV ass
did not OBSCURE every other issue and post
pone railway legislation two years.
We again hear the cry of "paternalism"
against your railway commission. These
same men who now cry 'paternahsm''
when the state protects its citizens against
robbery, might as well arraign it as paternal
when II jails horse thief or hangs muir
derer.
The same quick hunt for the early worm
has again begun, with the assistance of the !
daily press, 10 capture the cities, now mad
and mourning over collapsed boons. This
time it will not succeed. An unbought
people will not select for a governor one |
whose mind for years has been
TRAINED IN THE CORPORATION HARNESS,
no matter how honest or intelligent. MEN
DO not gather grapes of thorns, or figs of
thistles."
OPINION OF GOVERNOR Ho6G.
The staple of Judge Clark's harangue is
bbuse OF a governor now confined at
Austin with the legislature on executive |
iutles. He needs no defender as his an
tagonist will find TO his cost hereafter My |
mission here is not for Hogg, but to put /
Texas on her guard against a dangerous |
Place-huuter who assails him. 1 owe the !
The governor nothing, nor is he my debtor; |
means than most men Of observing him, l |
IsSert that he has stood for the enforce
nent OF law ard with eyes wide open to |
he fact that he had provoked the resent
nent Of the lawless element OF Texas. For
his he deserves our confidence, and be-
cause he has courage equal to his con-
yictions, and 4 patriotism which lifts him
above cllques and factions, he will get my
support for reelection.
Had this man pleased the corporations in
MS appointments he would not now be as
sailed. Had he consulted their emisaries
and ioc6eyed with principle he would have
served you four years without their abuse,
md then, perhaps, retired to some literary
office conferred by his own appointees. He
s not the product of the old regime, but
the young blood Iof Texas, and
because he appointed young man to the
senate, on whom he placed a higher es-
innate than many of US, he is abused. No
natter what you think of his choice, he fol-
owed his convictions Of duty
Let us not be deceived. The object of
his crusade is not alone to defeat Hogg
The object TO be destroyed is the railway
commission, and Hogg is the obstacle in
ront.
THE RAILWAY COMMISSION.
Your railway commission was demanded
" the people. For the first time in the his
DRY of our country an American senator,
ull OF years and honor, resigned his high
'hice to help his people, ana accepted a
over salary as commissioner. knowing
nat the envenomed shafts of the money
'ower would seek, as they have done for
ears, every joint in his harness. Judge
lcLean, who was taken from the district
,euch, and Mr.. Foster, a nor-professional
laa, were both appointed to aid him. Their
work was to regulate the tolls and check
xactions on nearly 5000 miles of railway.
ne legislature should have told the people,
When they Went home, to practice the vir-
ne of patience, for hat more than 4 year I
aust elapse before these men could master
he details of the great problem before
hem. We are witnesses to the fact that
hey have worked night and day, |
nc Just when they are reach {
nc 4 time when they may safely determine
ow much reduction in tolls the roads
hould stand, without injury to honest in !
cstmcn.s. this canvass opens against {
hem. Though more than two millions Of !
money have been saved the people in the !
ost Of transporting cotton, lumber and
rain already, NO one but = simp,e,on could /