The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-01

highly delighted with The cordial re
ception rendered not only him, but
his speech as well.
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A STATESMAN reporter ran against
one OF his POpulist friends last night
and asked him for his opinion con.
corning Governor Hogg's speech at
Dallas Saturday on me subject of
Harmony. He was AFRAID OF ito
warmly spoke the man OF silver dollar
fame Eyes, SIR, he never touched on
that silver question Mt all; he was
afraid OF 1t. l think il was The biggest
mistake he ever made Does he lhink
that issue u dead one? BY hockey,
Congressman Bailey aud the rest OF
us don't think so, at any rate. He
failed utterly TO mention the most i'm d.
portant issue which divided the
Democracy III 1892 He states four
as the sum total Of the differences, but
he must nave known that these were
not all nor are they the main issues
When the state Democracy through
it's several district cnairmen met at
Lampasas in the summer u 1899 10
send delegates to Chicago, il ia well
known that the silver question popped
up first, lasI and all the time, "what
kind of dollar shalt we have?u and
no little time was takenup fixing up
the delegation with instructions to
Chicago. When the Houston con.
yention met, Jno. H. Reagan ahapad
the the platform of the carshed con.
vention, and the most prominent feat
ure in 1t was the silver
question The Clark platform
was in all essential points
with the Chicago Cleveland platform
On that issue the campaign was
fiercely fought in all those sections of
the state where the populistic element
was strong, and the hogg men every
where baited for the populistic whale
with this silver plank.
Now, Go Hogg and Reagan propose
to have no silver plank or do they
propose to give up the silver plank of
the carshed platform, or do they pro.
pose to come to the Chicago Cleveland
platform? Let US hear from them on
this point. We want to hear ( bis Sell
yer ring" What shall it be. We
speak from the shoulder at all times,
we pOpulists do, and we don't want
any eva lon of the question on that
silver subject by Governor Hogg.
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Capt. j. s. Myrick--Outside of an
earnestness on his part for harmony,
can see Lothing in Governor Hogg's
speech. He gives no decisive plan or
action outside of the scheme OF return.
ing to the 1890 vote for basis of fu.
ture operation. 1 must give him
credit, however, for showing more
earnestness in this harmony move.
ment than l thought he would ex-
hibit. AS far as am concerned 1 am
most heartily in favor of harmony,
but In that harmony movement 1
don't intend eating any crow, 1 can
assure you, and unlesb some plan can
be arrived at without my taking crow,
why, count me out.
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w. H. Richardson-The only thing
that can see where Governor Hogg
offers any scheme for bridging the
rupture Is his 1890 scheme, and as for
that we all know that he was elected
on POpulist vote that trip, and to re-
turn to that would simply be
out of the question. His speech |
reminds me of woman's letter; the
gives the deal dead away.
1t is on the order of "come unto me,n
and "our executive committee" and
as for that, can't consistently do it,
and that's all there ia about it. Gov
ernor Hogg talks fair enough In the
first part of his speech, but that
woman's postscript gives it all away.
Wa oanif and womb aWaIl0W Raka
executive committee, and that is
what Hogg means when he uses the
term.
'tI request that my name should not
be mentioned" laid prominent gen.
tIemsn yesterday, "but the question
of harmony Is very serious one.