The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-04
Addresses a Large Audience at
the City Hall.
Is the Populists and Republicans-The Hogg
Laws of ISoI-o4- That $4,000 Fee-Against
Lynching-Wants All Spells of War.

Union.
Z. The law creating a railroad commits
sion. an institution now the subject of
much criticism by people who failed TO
look at the conditions that prevailed be-
fore the commission went into effect. when
So per cent of our traffic was Interstate.
when now go or 65 DER cent of lit is local.
The commission had reduced cotton rates
first . cents. then again 3 cents and again
cents. making a reduction OF 20 cents
per bale. Some people maintained that the
railroads would make voluntarily better
rate were Ii not for the commission. but
he noticed that the roads were now en-.
Joining the commission.
After being instrumental in the adoption
OF these laws against trusts. combines and
railroad monopolies. II was now charged
that he was a railroad LAWYER. If he de-
sired 10 be one there was nothing in the
code OF professional ethics that prevented
him. but 1t so haGrened that he preferred
general practice and was in nowise con-
nected with any railroad corporation as its
attorney.
Under The present laws affecting rail-
roads IN Texas preventing them from wat
ering their stock and creating fictitious
values. there were no excuses for strikes
against railroads and no scaling OF wages
that he had heard of. II was different
in other Statcs where railroads were ope--
ating upon Fictitious values
Ihese laws had been in effect only foir
wears and from the good results already
achieved what might not be expected if
they were in force for ten. twenty or forty
years.
The populists and republicans. said Gov
ernor Hogg, had fused with the republicans
promising to deliver their vote to the pop-
ulist State ticket He did not see how
any fusion could be made between two
narties whose cardinal principles were SO
diametrically opposed. The republicans
favored protection. the populists free trade:
the republicans a gold standard. the popu-
lists free silver and fiat MONEY the re-
pubicans believed that land should be
owned by people according to their capacity
10 acquire it, while the populists be-
Heved in free land.
These We're some of the differences In
iact. the two parties don't get any closer
together than parallel lines which never
meet. These two parties are not together
on any matter of public policy. and whale
the democratic party favors some of the
polimes of each of the other parties, yet
on fundamental principles il stands out
also'no,lVeiy fer itself. Fusion. he said
was the mixing of incongruous parts Take
an egg shake 1t well and mix the white
ana yellow and YOU have fusion: few
days later break the shell and YOU have
the essence.
III there was any political trait the
,'.sa tnnHred more than another it was
party reality. He hated the so-called in
dependent In politics and used lot of ey-
pressive ac1ectives TO describe his DISCUS,
Tor MN. IT party organization is to he
maintained we must bow to the will OF the
majority as expressed by the concens,,s
of party wisdom manifested at The nmn'a,
ries. Wv ''i'"-
The sneaker here announced thai h.
was about to close and asked if anv ops
desired to ask him any questions
voice from the audience: "Eow aho,-
that $4,000 fee?, o'>
Governor Hogg started In to saw that ho
ihad not yes gotten the fee but would Set ~
Earring dishonesty and repudiation. when
announcer voice from the colored c.ntinsent
OF the audience said How about lvnch.
ing?' "' Such-
Amy one" replied Governor uosg ",s,o
engages in lynch!ug engages in mnrJor VIA VIA
muraerers should be hanged Ara, one who
engaged In lynching should he IA sted and
punished as murderer The deno,ratic |
party or Texas has done more to sunnrnss
w,npueeapism. lynching and mobs than
either OF the other parties. 1t so expressed |
ltself In its PLATFORM adopted at Claws. !
ton While the platforms of both tbe renuh- |
mean and populist parties were silent ,,non |
uniS point. The man who would pin a no |
Ice on another mans gate in the dead I,
nour OF night, warming him to quit the I
nelshborhood was a cowardly scound-sJ |
without the courage to enforce the warn, |
ing. NO brave man would participate IA :,
mop and II he did he deserved nanpine |
he would not vote for any candidate for |
oiilce whose party was not oultspokan and |
pronounced in opposition to lynching
After the speaker had ventilated his |
views very forcibiy as being opposed to ,
lyn5hing, whitecapism and mobs he re
CURED to the $4,000 Fee
He said this fee had been promised him
Ior collecting claim of SOL. 900 due the |
.ho by the general government for over
lhlrty-edght years The money was now
n the State treasury and he had simply |
charged the State 10 per cent for collsctjnp
1t. He asked II any lawyer in the audience
would Undertake to collect claim over ten
years old without charging 10 per cent and |
y any lawyer in the audience had ever col !
lected claim over thirty eight years old.
He paused for a reply, but none came. He !
had done this and he was being condemned
Tor II. He explained the origin of the claim
as growing out of the Mexican war and
rs being in part compensation for the
claim that Tixas once had on New Mexico'
part OF the money had been paid. Texas !
creditors had laid claim to part of the |
balance and In 1873 the State demanded the
OF what WAS then still due. n
WAS urouRn research that he had discov-
cred that this money was dIIe the State.
He wrote the secretary OF state concerninR |
u and learned the exact amount. He told |
the governor OF It. hut the governor
thought that the money belonged to the
heirs OF tire creditors. He then proposed
tn collect 1t for the State for 10 per cent:
The governor replied that It was splendid
bargain for the State. He had collected
The money under a straight. legitimate.
business con1ocd and unless perfidy and
reputation stained the fair name of Texas
be would get the fee,
The speaker waxed wrath In referring Ia
his detractors and calrmniators concerning
this fee Din and FAXED them over the Goals
n his usual plain, blunt and forcible way.
In conclusion the speaker. referring TO
he State Campaign. said that at the head
If tine State democratic ticket was a man
whose honesty capacity and integrity could
not be questioned. Joe ID. Savers was
nan OF upquestioned ability, nerve and
manhood. Pure, straight, honest and faith
ul and he predicted that II elected bis ad- !