Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-25
COCHRAN TELLING HIS PLANS
SHOULD HE BE ELECTED GOV
ENnoR or TEXAS.
How He stands on Finance, En-
forcement Of the Laws, the
workinRmnn ana other
Questions.


was heard by large audience and
aroused much enthusiasm. Following
Is his speech IN fun.
Friends and Follow-cltlgens; Re-
spending 10 the invitation OF partial
friends, apear before you for tie pur-
pose Of innugurauug my canvass for
governor By presenting for your con-
Hlderation tho policies ana principles
which VIII guide me II elected to that
high Office
Let me say, however, that IN tho alb
seuce Of a special invitation. ! would
have deemed II not Inappropriate TO
open my campaign IT. this place
More than twJ score and ten years
ago. my father. now numbered with the
derd built near this spot the third log
cabin erected In Dallas county the
smoke which aHCeuded from those hum
bic homes marked the first human h0bi-
tatious West of White Rock creek
Here upon the then wild frontier,
among the hardy pioneers Of that early
period. who sowcd the seeds OF civili-
2ntion with one hand and warded OF
the savage with the other 1 spent my
childhood and boyhcod; received the
slender education our meager tncilitic3
then afforded formed the ties and
learned the lessons and imaibed the
principles which have so largely IN
nutnCed my life. Many. may most or
my ancient friends OF that day are no
more Some surrendered to the hard
ships OF life Of whose prvations few
can form any adequate conceptions
others persisted under the tomnhoWk
and sc1lplnE knife others taken cap
tive met an unknown fate, while Others
OF happier lot, survived to Yield their
lives a willing sacrifice In their coun-
try's cause at ManAssa, Frederlcksburg
around Niclssburg, ON Shiloh's dark and
bloody ground. on the slopes Of Gcttys-
burg End on every ousungulnCd field
that marked the progress OF the bloody
drama Of the late civil war TO the close
at AppomattON. Yet others wore spared
10 aid In repairing the ravuges OF war
and recreating from the broken elc-
mcuts new civilization greater.
grander and more benlhcent, let MS
hope than the old and stlll a fow re-
main with MS to this day living examples
Ut the virtues characteristics Of those
dead. but not forgotten heroes
But though dead those pioneers yet
live They live IN the imperial domain
rescued from the savage and the wilder
ness, In the Institutions whose fOundu-
lions they laid. Ia the examples Of pa
triotigm and fortltude they set, aud In
their descendants, many Ut whom | see
about me at this time. II bchooves
these and all to take counsel that the
sacrifices orr fathers made he not In
vain. and that we preserve and trans
init undimnished, n not augmented,
the blessings secured to us through
their prlyationB.
iInd Honored Him before.
But not only are you cndenred to me,
my feilow-citi2ons, by these tender rec
elections OF the past, but by the re-
membranes OF your own KINDNESS TO
me which has sustained mo IN every
vicissltude of ne ! nave SIX times re-
ceiNed your Hulituggs Tor Tue leBlsln-
ture; at two terms have presided aa
speaker OF that body, At all / have
taken an active, u not influential part.
| Ia aduitlon you KNOW thht on no pup-
ne question nave renamed hlleht
when II was becoming TO speak. IL Is,
therefore, win deep ana peculiar grail
hontlon that feel able 10 confront you
on this occasion; 70 begin my canvass
where ] begun my life, and 10 submit
my candidacy To your Judgment In
full view of my whole life, public and
private, ana 10 say mat unless ] re-
celve your support aud the support OF
Dallas county l VIII not remain In the
canvass,
| have come TO THIS resolution hc-
caure. " after my long residence In tliis
county and Intimate acquaintance with
her people, you do not esteem mo
worthy Of this honor, | cannot In rea-
son ask or expect the people OF the
state MT large 10 support me for IT, But
with your cordial support 1 feel that
may look with confidence to the result
OF the cunvasa upon which I now en-
ter Not that ! have or claim any pc
cullar merit FOR the position, hut there
ig a deepening feeling prevalent
throughout the state among fair
minded men Of all parties and every
class that the farmers OF the state arc
entitled 10 u larger participation than
they have heretofore enjoyed in tho re-
probabilities, honora and cmolumenta
OF public station, 10 farmer, with one
or two exceptions. ever sat IN either
branch Of congress from ths state from
! It's admission into tho Union To this