The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-03
! SPEECH BY MR.. GIBBS.
Further Remarks Coucerniuq hi.
Visw OF Recovering Money.
SAYS EVERY Thing USED 10 BE RIGHT
When He Wns Holding office ms n
Dcmocrat--Sttii lndorscS Rob-
erts and Coke.

Hen, Barnett Gaobs at Paris Saturdays
You all have read the various letters that
have passed between your democratic gov
ernor ana attorney general and myself,
Every honest democrat In Texas that reads
an udep. ndent paper knows how they
loundered ana c,aied tn question. Every
honest democrat knows that the contract
was drawn and kept by the governor in
Violation OF the constitution ani laws that
he was sworn TO uphold. They trhd O.
unload on Hogg, who may have worked
them but woo was not eating the bread OF
the 4-cent cotton people o. Texas and under
oath Crane MAS not only shelyci IN his
oiiSiai capacdy, but politically. What is
u. hnality of all this? Your governor
substantially admits now that 10 save the
hohor OF Texas a part OF that money must
DC returned by legislative act to TIE United
states government, viii this save unfair
nlshed the honor OF this gr,at Stateg
say no. The necessary statements made by
Representative Sayers and Senator Chiffon.
IN good faith no doubt, 10 brother con-
gress men TO GIT this paltry sum OF money
VIII be REMEMBERED against this proud State
lust so long as we have a government IN
washington City, even IL returned 1t were
ptt',r ny far that We had never touched
this money than 10 have blot such as the
transaction leaves on the escutcheun Of
ieSas. 1t mover could have happsned un-
DER the old time democracy. which was
less greedy and selfish The sugar bounty
rejected was holy money compared with
TINS maui. Tht great searcher OF all hearts
knows that am free from any grea, polt-
zeal ambition ans after twenty four years
s,rVice 10 democracy only quit II because
knew that in Texa5 1t had become corrupt
rs " aud i,af No.
eminent were being hawked around like
q ! hder's wares for so much money |
knew we were imprisonlng for life the
train robber and permitting powerful demo
cratic combinations TO hold up corpora
lions for princely SUM, | knew and
charged when quit the party that the
sacred school fund was bling squanicred on
political favortes on false vouchers, which
were known to be false. j. NJ Carlisle now
admits that $500 600 per annum OF that fund
he's been drawn out fer seven years on these
fslsc vouchers and shat he long since gave
notice to your leaders. See his letter to
| DR.. Lott, the original retained by the Dal-
las News becaute 1t was so astounding that
the News rad visions Of libul suit, al
| though the letter WIS signed officially. Be-
| fore finished my correspondence with
! your State officers on that Federal appro-
| priatlon and that $1,000 fee ! run up on
the official proof OF this stupendous rob
bankrupted any but n rich state like Texas,
| with so many resources and devious sys-
! tens of taxation. II Hanna is what the
! democrats a Texes say he is, the oil mans
mouth will water when he reads of three
millions. one hundred and fifty thousand
| collars slipped out 81 n State treasury in
niven years by false vouchers, You demo-
Gratis read the letter OF your own State
superintendent publ. he'd in all but those
country democratic organs that never pub
! lish anything except by permission OF the
men who give them public printing. You
have read II In the News signet officially,
| When we told IL on the stump they said II
was a populist le but soma smart demo-
| Gratis instead OF helping 10 stop the steal
rushed on like the Fort Worth democrats
and Gid some OF the stealing The enter
prising people CT that democratic head
quarters, according to Superintendent Car
Isle, only got in on the last year to the
| tune OF $4,000. Huva you heard OF your
State officers prosecuting anybody for this
| $3.50, 600 per annum raid on the sacred
| school fund that Joe talks so nicely about ,
| Did he not indorso II In his famous Tyler
| speech? Here ara his words as published
in the News; II shall stand by the admin
| istration OF this State government from
| iSis 10 the present time. The republican
administration only excepted. say that in
the administration OF Charles Culberson as
governor the democratic party aas redeem
| ID every pledge that It. made to the people
| Of Texas TWO years ago"
Does that sound like q man who Will
change things? or like one who thinks to
the victor belong tbs spolls. and that all
things are spols? II the democratic party
in Texas ls defeated in November or given
a close run for its money. Its leaders VIII
talk diff rent ana will act different, Bright
young men. who are now cowei down. Will
then critcise and oppose II. They will not
tics. suitable to an empire State like Texas.
You ask me why | quit thg democratic
! party? II you vote the ticket you have got
to indorsc these things and one hundred
more that will appear when some one gets
a look at this books. who holds patriot m
above party You thus encourage bal gov
ernmcnt II you run for a high office in
the Texas democratic party OF today you
must go to Tyler and crawl on your belly
and swear that everything done by the big
and little Joss is divine Justice.
come OF one hundred years of democratic
stock In Tennessee and Mississippi but not
these kind OF democrats. | would rather be
a dog and bay the moon without another
independent dog on the same prairie than
to say that indOrse what even the records
show at Austin. much less those thing
known to all men as facts outside OF tle
record. / will never be hypocr!te in my
religion or politics whatever other sins
My indorsement OF the party was before
these strange things had happened and
before courts Of justice and receivers were
made political money making ma hines fol
politicians brought out and moved around
like pawns on chess board. You have
county officers who are held up for cam
paign funds just like the corporations. ant
, some OF them are 50 ashamed Of this new
cat apple slavery that they lie about IL
while Others Will tell the truth They ca
this democracy; well, they can name 4, ant
take II. but IN my democratic twenty ;hreI
years In Texas they had none OF 1t, AMI 4
would have given Roberts. Ireland or Rosi
apople1y.
Old democratic county officers know th'
truth Your county officers are no lonse
independenf and fearless as they once acre
They said we were getting rid Of the Tyle
} gang and going 10 have new democracy
yet your can5idate fsr governor dared not
on his political lie. open mis- clnpa gn any
where but Tyler. and dar-d not omit from
his Enforcement one iota OF What hAd beer
done. His Endorsement even eStsnded U
that federal appropriation which y9ur soy
ernor now admits must be partly returne,
20 tie federal treasury TO Save In part TN
honor OF your state 4 poihcal party 4
! n,lx n partnarshIn xunposei 70 he foFme.