The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-09-30
BARNEY'S MUDSlLLERISMS.
lBY l.. a. PETIT

special. )--When at the beginning of his
canvass Barney Gibbs the populist nomi-
nee Tor governor, announced that he pro-
posed to naugurate campaign Of educa-
tion, some curiosity was manifested with
regard to what he proposed to base such
campaign upon, as the average Texas voter
Is well up in everything pertaining to the
administration OF the States affairs. and
aware OF tae gauzy nature OF the stock
arguments used by populist office chasers.
1t was expected that perhaps the Chief
Mudsiller woulsl treat the public to a Sec
ond dose OF the comic almanac stuff he put
into print in his endeavor to induce the
Old Alcalde TO lead a forlorn hope against
Culberson, and afterwards revamped on
the stump while starring as a populist can
didate for congress In the Sixth district
But bis mudsillership has changed his
business" He has abandoned the role OF
Jester and developed into vulgar and
brutal prevaricator as the following, which
is an excerpt from one OF his late speeches,
| indicates:
There has been so much loose business
at Austin that 1t makes me sick to tell
even what ! get from democrats, who can
hnd out from the records what they won't
let populist or republican see. charged
TWO years ago, and SO did kearoy, that
some countless notably the colore1 and
Mexican counties, ruled by czars, had taken
thousands OF dollars every year from the
school fund by padding the census o! chill
dren within the scholastic ags. The demo-
cratic bosses said 1t was populist lie and
TIE business men with a collar around their
fool necks, said Amen. May God have
mercy on the souls of them populst liars.'
kearby's vote scared them so that the last
legislature cbangai the law. That $10,100
was only whisky money along side of this
other raid on public money that amounts
| to $4,000, 900 in seven years. There are
| $3.oOo,0 600 worth Of political school teachers.
| The populist lie of two years ago Is now
| certified to by democratic State officer
| In two letters to democrats. He never
knew that | would get them. In some
| counties. they counted dogs as children in
| the scholastic age. Read the letters. The
| boys say am up against hard game. |
have no campaign funds, but have off,
| cal letters and government records cover
| Ing the last two State administrations"
| The only answer TO be male TO the above
| is that truth Is outraged in every line
| thereof
To begin with, in seeking to convey the
| impression that departmental records are
inaccessible TO republicans or populists,
Gibbs is guilty of what he knows to be a
| gros perversion of facts For three years
| or more the Granberrys and other resi-
| dent and visiting allies OF Gibbs have kept
the path to the State departments hot rush
Ing after information from tho records,
which are always open to them as well as
to the humblest citizen. Gibbs himself has
been here more than once looking up data,
| but in his case 1t was not information for
| the benefit OF the people he was after
Breaks in the statutes of which he might
possibly take advantage to avoid paying
his taxes were the subject of his researches
which. in one instance, proved so success
full that legislative action was found neces-
sary TO bring him to time.
Gibbs assertion u1at he. along with
kearby. charged two years ago that thou
sands OF dollars were fraduentiy drawn
from The school fund in certain counties
where the colored and Mexican elements
predominant is but another OF the many
liberties he takes with the truth. He and
koarhy simply repeated the talk of an EN-
Differed individual who did not come TO
tle conclusion that there was anything
wrong with the scholastic census OF the city
of Eagle Pass until Governor Culberson had
relieved him OF a health citizenship at that
point and bestowed 1t upon Il gentleman
who was a member OF the bolr,i which re-
turned said census. The embittered gem
ueman was given every opportunity to
make good his charges and when, after pa
tient Investigation, II was ascertained that
slight mistakes had been made In the CEN
sus taken ono year before the date of the
cessation OF his pull upon the public treas
ury 1t was discovered that two OF his own
children were among the few Illegally re-
| turned.
The allegation that the change in the law
regulating the taking of the scholastic CEN
4 sus made by the Twenty-fifth was brought
about through fear OF the growth OF popu-
list vote is as bold a misrepresentation rs
could well be uttered. State Superintendent
of Education Carlisle had been recommend
ing thc change for several years and 1t Is
due entirely to his efforts that the law was
amended. But he has never certified to any
populist lies, neither has he written any
thing to sustain Gibbs in his assault upon
the facts. Prof Carlisle's contention was
, that without strict regulation rival cities
would not be over particular In keeping
within the scholastic age limit in making
| returns, In their efforts to make good show
| ings, He has never contended that money
was obtained from the school funi simply
TO be Incorporated, or worse, The most
that can be deduced from what he has said
on the subject Is that children were being
educated in some communities ut the ex
pense OF children in other communities who
We're rightfully entitled to a share of the
State fund OF which they were being de-
prlved owing to the lack OF legal methods
for compelling the taking OF an accurate
census. And no stuck to his text until the
reforms he suggested were made by DEM
ocratic legislature. while Gibbs, Kearby
ct al were busy trying TO effect fusion
that would fuse with Quincy. Green aud
| Huston.