Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-22
SURELY welded TO HIS IDOLS.
WILLIAM EVERGREEN FARMER
AND GOVERNOR HoGG.
A Spicy Interview I'm which the Pep
uiist stccrcr Got Some Good Advice
which He VIII Not FoIiow--An Adj
mIrer of the Ex-Governor.
Special correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Austin, Tex. Jan. 2l.--Colonel will
lam Evergreen Farmer, the Populist
agitator and Ex-Governor James $.
Hogg were great friends at Longvlew.
Gregg county, twenty years ago.
Their political paths diverged. but they
remained good friends. They met on
the steps leading to the capitol build
ing today. embraced and then the fol-
lowing dialogue ensued:
Farmer-wen, governor, when you
were running u one-horse Democratic
paper at Quitman, Wood county.
twenty years ago, l was driving n
scraper assisting in the construction
Of the Texas and Pacific railroad.
Hogg-Farmer. have you read my
message. by gatlins?
Farmer-Well, governor, l have read
the important parts OF your message.
HoEg-Well, by gatlins, / want you
to rend 1t all, 1t Will do you good and
assist you to quit your foolishness.
By gatlins. you are good man, but
you have gotten off wrong. Farmer.
do you know that l can knock the hat
OF any mans head who IL not over 6
feet .? You don't believe It, but can
do IL. You just ask Judge Reagan by
gatllns. and he win tell you that l can
accomplish the feat. DO you walk
much, Farmer?
Farmer-No; not II can help II.
Hogg-You ought not TO walk 1t
gives a man the rheumatism Some
people say It don't. but / believe a
mans joints are like the hinges OF n
door They wear out. You may
luugh, but all the scientists In the
world can't make me believe that I
am in error, by gatllns. | would like
to farm one year If i was able, but,
you see, / have been here eight years
In Office and. by gatlins. I am fun OF
wind and wnter. / want TO harden my
tissues and my muscles Then I
would be as strong at 10 as | am now.
But, you see, when ! make my bal
ances with the state OF Texas l will
be as poor as a church mouse. by gat-
Inns, and ] can't make n living farm
ing. / might hire out for Sl5 per
month, but, by gatlins, l can't live
on that, especially when maa can
hire men for SIS who can do better
blowing than j can. BY gatlins, read
my message and you win quit fooling
with the Third party Farmer. do
you remember when you moved my
printing press from Longyiew to Quit
man?
Farmer--Well, I should say ! did,
governor II seems but yesterday.
Hogg-By gatlins. didn't It rain that
night when we slept together under
that wagon? The hardest rain l ever
saw fall, by gatllns.
Farmer-Do you remember when our
big mule baked and refused to bulge
an inch2
Hogs-I have a slight remembrance
OF something OF the kind.
Fnrmer-Do you remember that you
drew weapon out Of your pistol
pocket and said, by gatlins, Farmer,
IL you Will pay FOR half OF this mule
/ VIII pay for the other half, and
Will kill him, by gatlins?"
Hogg-What did you say, by gatlins?
Wen, good bye; must go.
Farmer gazed admlrngly upon the
receding form Of the ex-governor, and
then turning TO the writer aaid
by CAD. sir there goes n man. He
came from the ranks of the common
people and the mystery with me is
why he has not Joined the Populists
and gone on his way rejoicing In the
hope of Populism."
Which is another way OF stating
that William Evergreen Farmer IL
welded to his false idols.
HUGH FITZGERALD.