The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-11-03
TRAVIS TURNED LOOSE.
A LARGE AND MAGNIFICENT CLARK
DEMONSTRATION AT THE DAM.
Over Six Thousand People on the Ground
During the Day-Rloquent Speeches De-
livered by Hons. Henry Brown,
Seth Shepard and Colored Orators.

barbecue at the dam. Early in the
the people began to come, all
the trains entering the city bringing
large crowds, gathered up from the
points along the line. The special
from Llano brought in between 400
and 500 enthusiastic supporters of the
Little Giant, and in all it is estimated
that about 1900 visitors were in the
city, attracted here by the speaking,
all willing and anxious to participate
in the popular demonstration for che
champion of their righteous cause.
Old Travis certainly did herself honor,
and in after years when looking back
on yesterday it will be found marked
as red letter day in her glorious
history.
The dummy railroad people were
taxed to their utmost capacity to carry
the large crowd that was clamoring
for transportation to the dam. They
had not enough cars of their own to
carry the people and had to cali on
the Houston and Texas Central rail-
road from whom they obtained four
passenger coaches. From 8 O'Clock
in the morning two trains were con-
stantly running leaving the avenue
every half hour and every one
of them after IL O'Clock went
packed and jammed. In addition to
those who patronized the dummy
hundl eds drove or walked out. The
I'M nd in oil q
time. AS soon as they would reach
the grounds they would begin to
scatter and managed to cover very
large amount of territory. TO estimate
the number in such shifting and
constantly moving mass of humanity
is always difficult task, but THE
STATESMAN thinks it is not exag-
gerating when it says that during the
course of the day there were between
5000 and 1000 persons on the ground.
The grove which the railroad peo-
pie have cleared up and fenced in is
in a beautiful spot, making an ideal
barbecue ground. The cedar trees
have been trimmed up and all the
underbrush cleared out. There is
plenty of shade, and the spot is bound
within very few years to become an
exceedingly popular park. In the
midst of the clearing in the center OF
the grounds the speakers stand had
been erected with plenty of seats ar
ranged on the west side. The speak
ing WAC advertised to commence at II
o'clock, but owing to the fact that the
crowd was rather slow in leaving the
city, and then when they did reach
the dam the lake and the big granite
wall first attracted their attention, it
was IL o'clock before the first speaker
was introduced.
Mr.. A. HI. Graham called the as
sembly to order, congratulating the
audience and the management on the
loveliness of the day. Their cause
was the redemption of Texas and God
apparently smiled on it and them.
Hon. r. HI. Ward, the chairman OF
the meeting then in few appropriate
remarks introduced Hon. H. p. Brown
of Cleburne, presidential elector for
the Sixth district. awe find today"
said Mr.. Ward, "Texas with all her
boundless resources almost in a
state of bankruptcy, all attributable
to the administration of Governor
Hogg.
HON. HENRY p. BROWN,
The speaker, was one of the few men
who had been nominated at the Lam
pasas convention as presidential elect.
or who had after the Houston conven.
tion repudiated the alleged Demo.
cratic platform of the Hoggites and in
the platform and principles OF the
party headed by Hon. George Clark
recognized the only true Democratic
party. He first reviewed the Hous-
ton convention at length, claiming
that it was not at all remarkable that
the convention at Houston had split,
being made up as it was of people
whose views so widely differed. In
reviewing the platform of the Hogg
party he claimed that it repudiated
the national Democratic platform in a
very material plank and was there
fore democratic. Charged that
their platform was an abortion many
of its planks being openly and DELHI
erately stolen from the Third party
platform for the sole purpose of catch
ing votes. He believed that the in
corporation of state banks of issue as
called for in the Hogg platform was
un.Democratic and in direct opposi-
tion to the principles set forth by the
national Democratic platform. His
arraignment of the Hogg platform
was thorough and complete showing
its teachings and principles outlined
were un-Democratic and tending to
the worst interests of the state, while
the Turner Hall platform was in con-
formity with the national Democratic
platform and was therefore the only
Democratic platform in the state. He
concluded his able, eloquent,
patriotic and Democratic address
by predicting a great, glorious and
over Ehelmning victory for the Hon.
George Clark and the great and glori-
GUS cause he represents and the prin-
ciples he teaches.
At the conclusion of his re-
marks dinner was announced, and
in very few minutes the
crowd had moved itself
from around the speakers stand to
the barbecue grounds proper, where
they found long tables groaning be-
meath the weight of vast quantities OF
meat, barbecued in the very finest
style possible by Uncle John Grum-
bles, bread, pickles and splendid
coffee. There was an abundance OF