The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-30

party, bctn9 compelled to make their flel,ts
AGAINST ana win these battles over tho
strenuous opposition Of the closest friends
ana most active supporters Of Major say
erA Viii pe IGNORED and doubtless their
ccunseie disrceardcd. Two years hence,
when the contest comes on again between
the forces Of the money OF the constitution
ard those Of the gold standard the iuflu-
ence Of the administration must naturally
be expected. under all these circumstances,
20 pe against the people In the fight The
following from a letter written to me by
Hon Fred p. Hamill, chairman OF the
county democratic executive committee CT
Bell county. can not fall to have its In
Iinence upon the democrats OF Texas In
substantiation OF this charge, viz:
Major Savers first visit to Temple
warned our democrats to steer clear OF
1im Hts entire stay. excepting
very short WHILE was spent with men
who voted the straight Mckinley gold
standard ticket in the last election,
When not engaged with Mr.. George
II. Wilcox, gentleman who voted In
our primaries md afterwards violated
mis- obligation and voted the republican
ticket, he was In private conclave with
q certain banker OF this city, who il
Just as pronounced n gold standlrdite
as Mr. Wilcox. and 1t is expected that
should Mr.. Sayers be elected these
patronage of this county. and we ask
the democracy OF Texas to assist us In
avert.ag any such misfortune for tho
democratic party of Bell county. In
recent conversation with Mr.. S1yers'
manager OF this county as to an article
recently written by me fer one o. or
local newspapers. wherein argued
that only those who supported the
ticket In the last election should vote
in the coming primaries, he accused
me OF doing this damage to Savers
candidacy as, he said, to knock thu re-
puhlicaus and the Palmer Buckner
men out would damage Major Snyrrs
told him ! liked his candor. but 49,
his democracy.
Major sayers is a clever, genial, affa-
bic, obllging gentleman. have never
spoken of him otherwise and wish now to
emphasize my high regard for him as a
man. But II these qualifications alone are
sufficient TO mark him as suitable timber
for governor of the democrats Of Texas at
this time, then either of the present candi-
dates is equally fitted for the place. In
deed, genteel, genial and winsome as is
Major Sayers, he can not claim pre-eml-
nence over his opponents in the possession
of these accomplishments. In fact, such
accomplishments are not exclusively con-
fined to the present candidates for COVER
nor. There are thousands of private citi-
zcns of Texas who possess them. and many
OF them are gallant old Confederate SOL
diers, too. who do not consider them reGui
sites fully emitting them to the high place
of chief executive of the State. | think
Major Sayers is a far better man than the
people who are behind his candidacy, aud
do not believe that the democrats OF Tcxas
have failed TO learn from past experience
that their governor particularly il he be
OF an obliging disposition, will be con-
trolled largely by his environments.
Believing, as do. that the democrats of
Texas are earnestly in favor of free silver
and Bryan MS their rallying cry and stand-
ard bearer in the next campaign, and that
to the men who have staked their political
futures in bold. manly and effective war
fare for the policies and measures for which
the democratic party of Texas has declared
during the past eight years, | am opposed
to the candidacy of Hon. Joseph ID. Sayers.
Remembering as ! do, the slough OF de-
spond" into which Two years ago the demo-
Gratis OF our county had fallen, how even
our leaders We're not only Whispering but
aloud that tho county was lost
to the party, and that at this Cpportune
Hon. M. NJ. Crane met in my city
Cyclone Davis and utterly demolished
him. and by his bold. fearless, brilliant
speech here and at Rockdnle he carried, as It
were, the democrats upon a mountain and
showed them the early rays of the coming
victory, and how he for the past eight or
ten years has ably, boldly and candidly
fought the battle of every principle and pol
icy dear TO the hearts OF the rank and file
of the democrats of Texas and how man
fully and unmurmuringly he has borne the
abuse that has been heaped upon him be-
cause of these battles he has fought for the
people. and how ably and consclentio,isly
he has discharged every trust committed
to him, and knowing him to be a man OF
the purest motives and high personal ac-
believe him 10 be the
proper person for governor of Texas
Monta j. Moore.