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governor. then have as good reason for
supporting Mr.. Sayers as any man In this

governor, then have as good reason for
supporting Mr.. Sayers as any man In this
race.
l have in a previous communication to
the public shown, first, that there is no adj
ministraton or anti administration issue
before the people, this being the end OF
the Culberson administration, when, ac-
cordlng to democratic usage, a new admin
istration is to be created: second. that on
the charge of having appointed 'bolto-
Gratis to office. MIR. Sayers is willing to
| show records with any candidate in this
race vested With the appointing power;
third, that as many of the supporters of the
Hogg and Culberson administrations are
row supporting Mr.. Sayers for govei ior as
can be found marching under the banner
of any other candidate; fourth. that his
| record as a consistent and outspoken adyo-
cate of the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver antedates the adoption of the Chi
cago platform. and that he was and is a
loyal supporter of the principles and poll
cies enunciated by both State and National
dt mocratic platforms.
Though Mr. Moore's letter was intended
as reply to my statement, it remains
in its essential features still unchallsnged
by him. except by irsinuaton, inuendo and
misrepresentation.
In the concluding paragraph of his article
Mr.. Moore asserts that the issue in this
campaign is Conservatism against Hoyg-
ISM" Remembering as he doubtless does
that ], and very large number of other
gentlemen throughout the State who are
supporting Mr. Savers have been and now
are among Governor Hogg's most steadfast
| personal and political friends; Mr.. Moore.
as the representative of the conservative
element in State politics evidently feels
alarmed at the prospect of inaugurating
another Hogg and commission regime IN
Texas In the event OF Savers election.
| am forced to this conclusion when ] re-
member how Mr.. Moore's extreme Gone
servatism" as representative OF Milan
county in the legislature moved him to
wabble all over the record in voting against
| the present law regulating the issuance of
| railroad stocks and bonds at a critical
| period, when that great measure, enacted
! for the purpose OF preventing the issuance
| OF fictitious and fraudulent stocks and
bonds, was before the legislature. Had
| there been few more such "conserv-
alive men in that body, that act which
was the companion law to the commission
| bill, both of which were and are approved
| by Mr. Savers, would not now be in the
statutes. We're ] given TO impugning the
motives of my felowmen as Mr., Moore
| does In his letter. ] would allege as a rea-
son for his conservatism versus Hogg-
| ISM at that time, that he was then, a
| believe he now is the attorney for the
| Trinity, cameron ana western taiiloau
company and that he did not want any
anti bond watering law on the statutes
until his own road. then contemplating a
future bond issue, had quenched its thirst
for watered bonds, but am not so given
and therefore conclude that he did not
want any such law enacted because he OPP
POSED that character OF legislation.
In conclusion permit me 10 assure the
democrats of Texas that 1t is my intention
to conduct clean campaign, free from
personalities and in a spirit OF friendly
contest If from no higher motive this
should be done from the reason that we
shall have to elect the nominee OF the
narty, and the campaign for the nominn-
ton should not be such as to lead the pub
Lie to believe that the worst men In the
state were aspiring to the governorship,
and that one of them had been selected
as the nominee OF the democratic party for
| that high office. L. L. Foster.