The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-22
HAT FORT WORTH SPEECH.
,oor Culberson Explains What
Ne Said About Buckner.
,1KEp Up BY HISTORICAL FACTS
.a Rrokner Made an IueSousa-
(mP" .,dn some OF the Abuse
winch Has Been Overlooked

,, Texas. October Ex-Governor
-, returned today from cam
~, thur. Monday 5000 people gathered
cameron to hear him and on yesterday
o.s N an overflowins house at Bel
,,a saws that he has met with the
H., encouraging receptions everywhere,
-, ,tb the exception OF having severe
throat from cold and open air speak
i 10 seems TO be none the worse for
bar.
Iwben asked by The Post correspondent
40, his Fort Worth speech and the Ian
,se therein with regard to General
S,ckntr. he replied:
Ths sneech was not written and l am
.os,,iye as to the exact language used.
said. however, was in effect and
an,nc that the Indianapolis convention
a nominated for president the Federal
nsra, who had most outraged southern
In kentucky. and for vice president the
,,ederate general who had made the
Ne, inexousable and reprehensible surren-
m our side during the civil war. My
rcmson was based on many discussions
Confederate soldiers in my presence IN
mast and on historical criticism, and
fact that General Forrest refused TO be
rrendersd. but took his command ont OF
fort without serious opposition or re-
,auce The statement that charged
neral Buckner with cowardice is I'M
he"
As the above language seems 10 have
On seized upon hy some of the COVER
r's enemies for indignation meeting pur-
los II NAV not he amiss TO call the at
him of those who are attempting 10
,st II into mn insult to old Confederates
several beautiful opportunities they have
pass for uncorking their Indignation.
instance. In speech delivered in this
~ during the present campaign jerome
lsrby. without cause or provocation. re-
c,ed upon General Hardeman and other
ICortederates concerned in the manage
IN, Of the Confederate home by charging
said home is disgrace to the state.
Dallas jerome Kcarby heaped CON
nely upon Judge Reagan and asserted
The hearing OF several thousand people
the cabinet officer Of jefferson Davis
pillar OF the Confcderacy had not
med an honest living in forty years.
few days ago report was given cir
s,ion by enemies u the administration
ich by indication conveyed the i'm
ssion that General Hardeman would per
The Inmates Of the Confederate home TO
coerced into voting for Culherson. al
purh majority OF them were for
arby
n defense Of General Buckuer some OF
friends have rushed into print and
Rrged that he was the victim oi General
bert Sidney lohnston's "militarv inca
Fifty" General Buckner's Louisville or
defends him by saving that Generals
low and FLOYD were "inglorious de-
tiers"
member Of the Palmer and Bucknor
Sas executive committee. a resident OF
reighhorns county. recently stated in
city that Mckinley was right when
speech at = Grand Army Of the Re
bic reunion he said that Confederates
re traitors Bcurko Cochran. famous
Inner and Bucknerte has nothing hut
nse for the people N The South in his
A feohes and takes occasion to bluri out
a southern democrats want TO dehase
Il moiey NJ the country 10 get back as
IT es nossihlo IN tho choap slavery labor
while Secretary n Agriculture Morton.
sNmpathiLcs" with the Indauanolis
ket is more abusive II ANYTHING than
'krsn and declares that tho South is
KING to return to the fiat Of tho Con
rracy"
ave these people license tn vilifv dis.
t,shed eN Ccnfoderates and abuse thc
'n AZ will Or docs anything 20 with
INDIGNATION brokers lust 40 " como.
me government by the injunction
OF the house,