The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-08
COURSE OF GOV. SAVERS
Hon. Frank P. Holland on the Walls Of the
Disappointed.
pEluDtD THEMSELVES As 10 The POLICY
which Thcy Believed would lie Pur.
sued and che Governor Has
violated no Promise.

=. Holland, former mayor OF Dallas and
strong Bryan democrat, and asked his
views on the policies of Governor sayers
and the course of the present legislature.
Mr.. Holland was asked II he Is one OF
those who assert that Governor Sayers has
violated some differentiation or ante
election promise. made directly or inn
piled. that corporations, under his admin
is.Iation would be permitted larger
share of liberty than they had formerly
enjoyed.
Mr.. Holland said: Governor Sayers
is true and an honest man who never
violated promise in his life, and who,
during most trying times, has done his
duty to his people He does not deal by
implication or inuendc. He is a straight
forward, manly man who says what he
thinks and makes up his mind for him-
self | have been somewhat amused at
the course Of the gentlemen who are
saying that Sayers was elected by the so
called conservative element with the un-
Outstanding that he was going to adopt
laisse2-faire, or do nothing, policy and
that they have been betrayed In the ex-
ment they are. consciously or uneon-
sciously. obscuruR many facts which are
necessary to a plain understanding OF the
situation. Who else was there in the race
for the guhernatoriai nomination but
Sayers, whom this conservative element
could support? Certainly not Crane or
Wynne. both able and brilliant. for both
Of these had long been in the very fore
front OF the battle for popular rights and
Al q pnOEpn nnippfg
biu,erest denunciation OF the 'conserva-
tives Not Jester because he had been
elected lieutenant governor on the ticket
with Culberson and Cuiberson, next TO
EIogg has probably stood more abuse than
any other man In the State. To support
either OF these three the conservatives
would have to retract. in action IL not In
words, all the charges they have been
making Sayers was the only man to
whom they could look. For many years
his arduous duties as representative In
congress had removed him from active
participation In Texas politics. His theater
was National affairs. and the very pronl-
nent part ne played left him little time
| for matters at home, To him the con
servatiyes' turned the eager eye OF hope.
They began by expressing the belief that
prosperity Was right at he door and "
/ Texas could only get an old fashioned
4 business administration everybody would
, De happy They got themselves inter
Viewed and these interviews were copied
in the Eastern financial journals. They
began shouting that Sayers was the one
man who could bring an industrial re-
/ vival, whose election would restore con-
| hdence.' They carried these tactics to
| Washington and even before Major Sayers
was an announced candidate, these gloomy
/ pictures were painted for him and he was
implored to save Texas from the antlcl-
| pated awful fate which awaited her should
! either Crane or wynne be nominated aud
elected, These gentlemen deluded them
selves that they were making an impress
sion on the future governor, They Thought
! they were working him They overlooked
several things which do not require very
long memories TO remember.
1.-THE record Is the thing by which a
man Is judged The only two conspicuous
instances when Major Sayers projected
himself In State affairs occurred In 1889
and in 1892 In 1896, when The railroad
commission fight was at it's height when
the fate Of that cherished project was in
doubt, Major Sayers, from his seat In
| congress, wrote a letter TO the people OF
the State urging them to stand by the
I commission and expressing the hope that
they would never rest till they had so
amended the constitution that the legality
! Of the commission would be forever I'M
questionable. In 1892, when the whole
state was rent by the bitterest political
fight in its history, Major Sayers, against
the advice OF many OF his personal and
political friends, declared for James s..
Hogg and the policies James s. Hogg
was then advocating, Since 1892 the party
in Texas has been reunited and DEM
ocratic nominations being practically
equivalent to election, have required but
little assistant from the congressman.
'Majcr Savers congressional record Will
bear the closest scrutiny He has always
been for the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver at tho ratio OF 16 TO and has
voted that way scores OF times When the
Sherman antitrust law was before the
house Major Sayers with other democrats,
tried TO frame a statute which would for
ever prohibit the organization OF trusts in
this country; but they We're thwarted by
the republican majority and had to take
the best law on the subject they could
get.
80 we see that from the beginning Of
his official career Major Sayers had done
nothing nor said anything which could
give the smallest grain Of comfort to iht
class which is now charging him with
trickery and double-dealing. Since his an
nOuncement for governor, in his formal
opening speech at Tyler aud in every other
mterance during the campaign Governor
! Sayers has distinctly and positively an
nounced his intention Of carrying out th'
Identical policies which are now being 81
J severely criticised. Talking TO merchants
at the banquet given him at Dallas. talk
! ing to the Farmers In Angelina or Trinit,
counties. it was the same Voice, anC
though some OF these men who are fore
most in criticism Of the governor wen
around whispering that Joe was playint
TO the farmers and would be all right at
ter he was elected, those Of ne who knew
the man simply humored the conceit or tn
ignorance and went our way No man VIII
tried TO benumb the judgment Of 10
seph d. Sayers by false representations o
impending calamity and distress and VIII
voted for Major Ssyers believing that hi
twenty years OF public service and hi
! frank declarations at Tyler were insln
; cere, Is no man who voted for Major Say
I ers under the delusion that he would tur
: Texas over to the rapacity OF the corpora
lions Is a good citzen or one 10 be entire
e ly believed where his material interest
4 are involved. And when they charg
I cowardce and bad faith they but indie
4 themselves and make him the stronger"
what do you Think of his yetoes q
The railroad consolidation billsf
THE governor has but followed the rul
I ings Of the attorney general In each an
= every instance. When these bills came
him they were referred to the attorne
general for investigation and report as
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