The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-01-31

talking together, and heard him say
something about the court house and ills
court bill We talked some time about
the court bill, and l actually thought il
was a movement to move the county seat
He said not; that he thought it more
to end the whole matter, and would like
you to help us out. He told me some
body else, l think Turner, Todd and
Hudgins, had the bill. later met Hud-
gins about the gate and we talked about
the matter. l asked him if he had q copy
of the bill. He insisted that the matter
was intended to settle and adjust the
county seat matter instead of to re-
open it. l studied the bill over carefully
and the next time l saw Hudgins l asked
him how they were getting along wi b it,
He said he didn't know, and asked me
what / thought about it. L said it seemed
10 me that Armistead and Harrell ought
not to be on the election committe, ard
went on to tell him why-that they
would naturally be somewhat prejudiced
against Frost. The next time / saw him
was at the Driskill. l want it distinctly
understood that | had made up my mind
about the matter to the effect that if
could enlist Hudgins, Todd and Hart in
Frost's case they could do great deal
more than I could. l was writing, and
saw Hudgins coming down the steps,
and drew off the proposition to bin,
laid it down and went on with my writ
ing. Pretty soon he came up and sat
down by me, and | handed him the propO-
sit0n. He read it and we talked some
time about Armistead being a fair man
and ready to do the right thing. l express
sed myself as hopeless in the contest
case-that Frost was beaten and that |
had not the heart to stay longer.
He said L ought not to go home yet
awhile. | said | was here at Frost ex-
pense and that if 1 staid longer it would
have to be at his (Hudgins) expensr. He
said that was all right, that they wanted
my help. After more talk we parted.
don't remember where we met again.
The next one of them l met was, thiuk,
Charlie Todd. l thought that az this
TeXarkana bill, being court bill and
local bill, expected that | could go before
the Populists and show them the reu son.
ableness of the measure, which I regard
as a very just settlement of % very yeXed
question. Hudgins. think, just knuekled
down in his pocket and pulled out $40
bill and handed it to me and said, Take
this and stay over" and did. About the
same conversation occurred between Mr..
Todd and myself as that had with Hud-
gins.
Mr.. Davis was then cross-questiornd by
Major Walton, but nothing new W3S de-
yeloped in this examination. Committee
man Rogers also fired number OF cues
tions at Mr.. Davis, with no new develop
ments apparent, other than that Mr.. Davis
stated that as far as the money wa con
cerned, 81 wanted it to help defray the
cost to which the Democrats had pat Mr..
Frost. | thought that if the TeX;.rEa
people got that court bill through they
could well afford to pay me 500 of lrost's
contest expenses. l thought it was 2 local
bill, that l could explain it to the hopu
lists and get them to vote for it."
Mr.. Cough then took a whack 3 Mr.
Davis, but with no new developmeI Ia.
The examination continued it's cary
length until near the witching hour mid
night. When it came dangerousl 1car
the time, for the light to be put cNg the
committee adjourned until $50 this morn.
ing, with Mr. Davis still on the stand
having been there over four hours.