The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-02
NGIpBs AND TUE ropuLrsrs.

EN-Lteutenant Governor Says He
VIII Not Go to the Democrats.
Dallas News
Hon. Barnett Gibbs was asked yesterday
If there was any truth in the statement
made by South Texas paper that ex- Gov
ernor james S. Hogg and Farmer Shaw
had lured him away from the populist
camp and decoyed him into the democratic
wigwam. lie said
The Houston Post has no right to say
that | have ever intimated that | INTENDED
to rejoin the democratic party. ] don't
even know where the recruiting office il.
don't know whether 1t is in New York
where Croker presides. or in Jones' Arkan-
sss forests. / voted for Bryan and that is
more than many democrats did. still / am
prosecuted Ordinary political prosecutions
don't object TO, as IL is part OF the game,
but 1t is calling for free and independ-
ent voter to be ON political partisan
grounds deprived of his rights as a citi-
zen, rights which he has paid for. | am a
voter without political aspirations ana
can't be prosecuted into political subsection.
From the day / announced my intention to
vote the populist ticket on State issues and
the semi populist national ticket | was ey-
identity marked for slaughter by the bosses
From that day to this have never re-
ceiyed II single package of my inalienable
rights in garden seeds. Before | asserted
my independence every few days l received
my rations OF morning glory seed duly
ranked or Endorsed by senator or repre-
sentative. The day the News reached
Washington city was dropped from the
morning glory list
Il can prove this persecution by the mail
carrier. for | used to divide garden seed
with him. have been prosecuted worse
than goldbug democrat. for one OF them
fnlA las IL AZ
still allowed him his pro rata, although he
did not vote even one-half the ticket
II he Post did me another great Injustice
IN charging that Bill Shaw was getting me
hack in the party. Bill and myself were
great friends for years, and our long stand
tests, even that OF drinking out OF the
commission sourd. 1t is true Bill
skinned me in every other column of his d.
yersified journal because | would not go
the whole ticket: 1t Is also true that In the
early days of our friendship he passed him
self off in Galveston as Senator Gibbs and
Dau good time that was intended for me.
Il have received his farm journal for
years and am progressive farmer. mort
gage and all. but am a reader of papers
and don't see what icklog Bill might car
ry me to. see that Bill himself has been
mathematical II not communicated
from grunting against the Texas farmers
BIZ has been saying some prayers that were
not down on the democratic formula. which
allows YOU to pray for deliNrance from
republican devils and populst witches but
not from familiar spirits commissioned for
good or evil. There Is certain church and
agricultural affection existing between Bill
and myself which has no political sgnifi-
canoe The Post may have heard me dis
cuss with Bill agricultural depression and
freight transportation exhilaration ana
jumped at conclusions. Bill has denied the
infallihility OF some of the democratic
Aoseses and inst at present an invitation
from him might mean trip to the bot
tomless pit.
1T is very early in the spring for birds
70 mate. and why should think of sharing
ire political griefs of my friend Shaw,
when he. too, may be cast into outer dark
ness and cut off from the honorary list of
morning glory fayortes without being Civ
en- silver medal for the fights he has
made. told Johnson OF The Post. as one
~ the high priests, that in Shaw's case
hoped he would see that the Lord would !
temper the wind to the shorn lamb-just /
us, snd nothing more.
The twenty years. friendship of Jim |
ifogg and myself Is not impaired because
ne dances with one girl and with another |
as long as my girl sticks to her luncheon |
m With her, Jim Hogg. as a public SER
want and Jim Hcgg as a lawyer with an |
Eye open to fees Is an entirely different |
INDIVIDUAL and he knows ana observes the |
,,iherence in the obligations. When FIRST |
,eVei him he had certain pinev woods |
,fsshness about him that hated to see
a,spart hut this change always follows DO
Iiteai promotion Just as death does old |
,age; but lin Is all right. even II his pollt-
'sa' predictions induce him to keen COM
rsny with the other girl | don't know that
I'm Horp or Bill shaw are going 10 be on
,Ne cor'rittae OF invitation TO the next
galleries." =