The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-18

campaign thunder to let the broad
open light of day shine through and
bear the scrutiny.
Judge Aldredge's picture of the In
ternational business received immense
applause. He said: Jay Gould's
lawyer went to Austin and invoked |
Jim. do not say that Jim was cor
rupt. do not believe that But Jay
Gould's lawyer hitched him up and |
worked him just as you would mule.
Here 1t is in this look, sworn to,
volume l, page SO, report of the legis
lative investigating committee, You
cannot buy or beg one of these books
in Austin. They printed 10000
copies of the governors message, but
only 300 of these books and nearly all
of the 800 fell into the hands of the
Hogg people and straightway they
went and hid them.
AT the solicitation of Gould's law
yer Jim sailed in, and with the states
most gracious writ of injunction he
lariated the old international COW and
held her while the Tyler gang MIXED.
And boys she was rich. She did give
down handsomely. Counting what the
bank got they pulled 100000 worth
Of cream. Tyler vac just swimming
in cream. She looked like a fly in a
pail of milk. And that old cow is
browsing around now in Jay Gould's
pasture branded J. G..
But she is all right now. The legis-
lative committee whitewashed her.
The other day some of the senators
tried to pull her into the senate cham
Der, in order that they might strip the
coat of whitewssh off her rotten car.
cass, but Crane and the administration
forces drove her out. Then she went
and lowed at the gate of that Hogg
pen at the other end of the building
and they shut the gate and drove her
away. She is like the ieper of Judea,
nobody wants to come in contact with
her.
In his close Judge Aldredge said of
George Clark:
We present you man who has
never been found wanting in any con-
dition of life. When grim yisaged war
was affrighting the whole earth on the
CORY plains of Virginia he was ther c
facing death with steady hand and
an unfinching eye, and hundred
times did he offer his young life a
willing sacrifice to his country's honor.
In the darkest hour of Texas history
he marched through the ranks Of
Davis armed minions and rescued
your state from the grasp of that des .
pot. AS attorney general, though
young, he stood your champion, as
David did of old, against the tallest in
the land, ana victory crowned his de.
votion, and he lifted from your shout
ders a burden of $20,00O,OOO. He
made you wise, just and fearless
judge. In private life his daily walk
has been so upright and honorable
that lynxeyed SANDER has found nc
flaw to point you to. Then we Offer
you brave soldier, true statesman,
} pure patriot, profound lawyer, ant
greatest of all, an honest man. AnC
what in the reply from the other side
} They say that when he comes to be
inaugurated governor, standing
there freighted with the hopes
and prayers of a million patriots
/ striving to save this glorious state
from demagogism, from oommunistiC
J tendencies, from centralized, despoti'
and un.Democratic power; standing
in the presence of that God whom h,
loves and fears and surrounded by hi
fellow man, to whom he has plightec
his unsullied honor, they say, annie
these august environments, when h,
lifts that battle. scared hand to take
that awfully solemn oath to snppor
the constitution and laws of you
state, they are afraid that he viii
swear lie. The man who tells yor
that when he does not believe it is {
demagogue and deserves your con
: tempt. There are those who can say
this thing and believe it. Metaphy-
sics teaches US that we reason princi
pslly from inner CONSCIOUSNESS. 70,
would have hard time convincing {
bad woman that other women were
v.rtuous, not from accident, but from
innate purity. For the man whose
heart is so gsngrene with hate anC