Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-06
HOGG'S CHAMPION.
Captain Frank Ball Roasts the
Enemy.
BOTH BECKHAM AND JARVIS
Come In Tor a Large Share Of The Speakers
AiIenilon-Traln Westward Club
Meetings and Other Lo'
cal Politics.

cal Politics.
The meeting OF the Ninth ward Hog
club was held At the court house las
night and was we'll attended.
Chairman Ayres called the meeting
to order and introduced Capt. Ball, tn,
business OF the club being postponed
until after the speaking
Capt. Ball said no felt compelled Il
respond 10 the invitation TO address
them on state politics, though not In Q
state OF health he would like II TO b,
under the circumstance.
Capt Ball said he had made q speech
n few months ago In the court house
before the meeting Of the Houston con
yention, and made some review OF thu
campaign. The opposition had Sian
dered Hogg though bound by every
party precedent and all party ethics d
support him. Clark had behind his back
secret influence, tho influence OF the
railroad and aggregated wealth OF the
corporations; the last stago was the
comlcal, when he described how Clark
had shifted from side 10 side, and that
he would DO so badly beaten before the
Houston convention that he would be
glad 10 ride into town ON n broken
legged mule.
Another stage had developed since
the Houston convention, tho curious
stage, that lies In this fact, that you
find honorable men, men who would re-
sent IL as an insult to DO called dishon-
orable, engaged In opposing the
regular nominee, on u basis Of fraud
and falsehood. He could only undor,
stand II in this way, that tho Clark
Democratic leaders have become inn
prcgnatod withe old maxim:
"All 10 fair In love, war and politics"
To say that anything Is fair In
politics is deceltful and IL Is diBhonor-
able to say any lie or SANDER may bo
written in politics that could not be
written In business or social life. But
II seems TO be the rule IN this cam
paign
As an instance Tho had read from
THE GAZETTE Of July 18th the resou-
tons adopted by the Democratic con-
venuon OF Tarrant county, held at the
opera house, Mr.. Ball began his com
ments. There was never an equal az.
gregation Of bareiaced, ba ld-headed
lies as was put in that paper, Would
any decent, honorable man
vote for n candidate so
describedY He Inferred II these men
believed these llbelOus resolutions. they
wilfully libeled this candidate, or whom
they told tho convention they would
support the nominee OF the Houston
convention they said what they did not
intend TO carry out.
lie named two OF the delegates who
went 20 Houston, carrying this plat
form In their hands, Il. r. Bcclhnm
and j. j. Jarvis. What do you think Of
a man who could do this? Describe u
man as the most vicious criminal In the
state and yet say you would vote for
him II he was nominated, and this in
what they did, They Intended 20 vic.
late their plighted faith or support u
political monster.
Follow this Houston delegation along
some IRE good mon but he was talk
ing about tho nannel-mouthed men, the
hnanciers who are so concerned forsil-
vcr and other monetary matters.
Ho charged that the men sent by tho
opera house convention went there TO
bolt, and they took their 100 delegates,
a mob like they had over az the opera
house. II thoy deny this no charged
them with ialsehOod.
Alter they went there, tho majority
bolted, ON what prctoNty Not the Tar.
rant county delegates They were a
little sllcker' He pavo his version
OF the contest over the election Of the
chairman az Houston, and then read
The report Of the Tarruut county dele.
gates 20 the Houston convention to
their constituents, published Ia cxtonso
In THE GAZETTE lie rnad tho first
clause of the report, in which the dole
gates stated they NJ first regarded tho
Houst, convention as regular, but
they hol;ed later, and yet Gs "Brutusr
said, they are honorable mon.
Here some one called out; "MatloclSw
"Paddoakw
Well, said capt, Ball, III thore IA
and Matlocls and those who boliod nj
first AFRO the moro respectable. for they
had courage and showed 1t. There
was q
BoLpNEss IN THEIR RAscALIrY
that commands admiration. but tho
action OF Beckhum and JAWS and those
who wore with ihom was mean. con-
temphblo and sneaking.n Great laugh.
ter and applause.
He then criticised the position OF
these honorable mon ON the platform
aud thought because the Texas con-
grcssmon had voted for tho FREQ coin
ago OF silver II was wrong for these
men 10 eriticlso the Hogg platform.
He took up tho state banl, plank and
asserted that tho national platform and
the Hogg platform wore identical in
this respect. And yet these men en-
dorsa the national platform and bolt
the hogg platform. IN men come to
you asking for clerkship and making
tuch a tissue OF Misrepresentation
would you give them omploymentyn
he did not know II II was true, but he
hhu heard II said BY Clark man that
everything was all right at first with
JARVIS tnnt ne stood on the platform
aud all that untn tho graduated In.