San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-27

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lions in no way involving federal
affairs. The division then being
upon state issues the question
arises: Is it reasonable, right
or necessary that the party
should stand asunder any longer
upon them? This leads me to call
your attention to those disturbing
problems.
First: "Hoggism" as it has been
termed.
Second: The proposition to
have a law passed prohibiting the
fictitious issuance of stocks and
bonds by railway companies.
Third: The demand for a law to
restrict the execution of bonds by
towns, cities and counties to actual
public necessities.
Fourth: The adoption of a law
to prohibit the ownership of lands
tor horticultural, agricultural and
speculative purposes by corpora
tions. Upon these four issues the
campaign for the Democratic
nomination was made. 1t is
doubtful if reference to the
exciting scenes, of that exciting
contest is calculated to revive
pleasant memories. My allusiOn
to them is only to point out the
causes that led TO the division and
to show that they are no longer in
the way. No doubt that on per-
sOnal grounds many Democrats
while having deep love and great
respect for other members of the
ticket, could not "swallow it" on
my account. What led them to
such extreme distaste to me is a
matter for which / have no con-
Germ, nor does it now involve the
interest of the party. Sufficient it
is to admit that "HOggism" in 1892
either for or without cause, repell-
ed many orthodox Democrats who
have never before assaulted their
party and led them to bit
terly oppose its nominee. This
issue will be out of the coming
campaign, for the reason | now say
in the presence of this assem- blage,
as | announced at San Antonio in
1890 in accepting the Democratic
nomination, repeated at Houston
in 1892 in accepting the second
nomination of the party, and reit-
Grated in my inaugural address at
Austin in 1893, that in reaching the
office of governor l have gone to
the summit of my political ambi-
ton. There is no other office in the
gift of the people of this state that
| covert, have ambition for, or
could accept. Now, finally and
for good, in view of the frequent
mention of my name in con-
nectiOn with third term
for the governorship and for
the United States senatOrship,
l tell you, gentlemen, that for
reasons satisfactory to myself, con-
sistent with the public good, |
would not accept a commission to
either if rendered me on a silver
platter, or in any other way. In
the first place, as / have declared
and repeated, in serving two terms
each as attorney general and gov
ernOr, | have reached the highest
round Of my political ambition,
and if for no other reason, the
pinched poverty into which | have
drifted as a public servant would
lead me to the necessity of return
ing to professional pursuits, at the
meridian of life, where |
can have more of the COM
forts and less of the hardships
than has ever been my lot in pub
lie office. Higher still, as to the
third term, is the respect due to the
grand precedent set by my vener-
able, honorable predecessors, who,
in justice to the common law OF
the party, have not sought, and
doubtless would refuse the nomin-
alton to the office of governor for a
third term. 1t would be strange
indeed should so forget my obi
CATION to the public as to break or
attempt to disregard this party
law, equal almost to a constitu-
tiOnal inhibition, which is so
wholesome for the perpetuity of
the rights and liberties Of a free
people.
When the time comes that our
liberty loving citizens shall be so
far misled as to set the precedent
Of a third term for the chief eX-
ecutive Of the United States or of
the grand empire state of Texas,
they will live to reap in bitterness
Of disappointment a harvest of
barren regrets. Rotation in office
is the route to liberty. The re-
verse leads to centralism and the
destruction Of the rights Of the