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HoCC OF TEXAS.

The onward wave of reform has wash
ed to the surface an inDumerable num-
Der of cranks and demagogues and not a
few of them have landed in positions of
trust and responsibility. PETER and
Kyle and Irby have foated into the
United States Senate; Simpson, Lafe
Pence and half a score of others are
quartered at the other end of the CAPT
tol; Colorado has been called upon to
endure the blasphemous rawlings of
Waite; Illinois has suffered the humilia-
ton and disgrace of Altgeld; Kansas
has been weighed down to the dust by
the antics of Lewelllng; the proud stand
ard of South Carolina's honor has been
dragged in the dust by the blatherskite-
ism of Tillman, and Texas has trusted
its reputation to Hogg.
In some respects Hogg is, as his name
implies, different from the rest of the
tribe of demagogues who have fastened
upon the body polite these past few
years. In proclamations, pronuncia-
mentos and messages, Hogg is really ter
rife. When the brutal and cowardly
outrage at Paris called forth universal
condemnation from all decent men,
Hogg sent message to the legislature
condemming the crime and demanding
the honor of the State should be vindi-
Gated. And the legislature sent his mes
sage to the waste basket. Hogg had
power enough and was sworn to execute
the laws of Texas, but he was content to
throw the responsibility upon some one
else.
A few months ago Hogg discovered
that what Texas needed most was desir-
able immigration, and he organized
party of prominent Texans to visit the
business centres of the North, and point
out to the capitalists and investors of
that section the advantages of Texas
soil and the salubrity of the Texas eli
mate. Hogg himself headed the delega-
ton, and after Fourth of July
visit to Tammany Hall, proceeded
to Boston. Here he and his as
sociates were dined and wined re-
ceived all proper courtesies from city
and State officials and had a royal good
time generally. In the course of the fes-
euil Hall and the governor of Texas
made speech. And chock full of pa
triotic sentiment that speech was to be
sure. If there was place in all this
great republic where Hogg had yearned
to be, spot calculated to enlarge his
love of country and cause his very soul
to bubble over with devotion to the sa-
cred cause of human rights, it was the
grand old Cradle of Liberty. And Hogg
told how the inspiration of that occasion
would never fail to strengthen his patri-
otism and increase his courage and
broaden his horizon and expand his in
tellect and do lots and lots of other
things. And Hogg was affected to tears
and wept at the portraits of Washington
and John Adams and Wendell Phillips
and couldn't speak for emotion for few
minutes. And he did and said good
many other things calculated to make
those pictured lips' break their long
silence.
Despite of all, however, the capitalists
and investors of the North declined to
cast their money upon Texas waters and
Hogg went back again to the soil and
climate of the Lone Star State.
Now he is safely home again a change
has come over the spirit of Hogg, he for
gets all about the glory of Faneuil Hall,
has lost all the patriotic inspiration oc-
casioned by his visit to the Cradle of Lib
erty, don't care a fig for Washington
and Adams or any other patriot, and
wants to move out of the country and
drag Texas along with him. Wants to
form an independent republic out of
Texas under the constitution. of 1886,
and have nothing more to do with the
rest of the earth, particularly the United
States part of it.
1t is painfully evident, the waters of
Massachusetts, and the waters of Texas
affect Hogg differently. and Hogg, of
Texas in Faneuil Hall, and Hogg of Tex
as in Texas, are two entirely separate
distinct individualities.--St Albans Mes
senger.
The Senate Saturday confirmed the
nomination of Andrew j. Sibley to be
postmaster at Montpelier and jerome