The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-18
TEXAS AND TENNESSEE,

Ex- Gov. Hogg and Gov. McMillan Art I Proud of Their States and Don't Hesi < tate to Proclaim it Loudly. Said the EX- Governor of Texas to the , Governor of Tennessee, T say, Mac, this gloomy, dreary, desolate sort ol a day, and here's a forlorn looking newspaper man-now, the loneiest look T ing animal on earth is lonesome news- , paper man-so let's take him up in my
 room and jolly him up bit. The big man from Texas led the way , the Governor of Texas followed, and
 the other traled along. They were soon comfortably seated in Gov. Hogg s
 room at the Planters, and the noted
 Texan proceeded to demonstrate that a dull, cheerless atmosphere outside does
 not obstruct any sunlight where real,
 genial Westerner turns on the conversa- -
 tional arc light.
 "I don't know if you gentlemen have
 observed it., said Gov. Hogg, but the
 State of Texas is an ever blooming pan-
 sy blossom, and don't you forget it. Did
 you ever stand on hillside and see the
 sun sink over the Texas prairies? Did
 you ever see the heavens where they
 seem to bend down and kiss those wide
 spreading plains?. Did you ever stand
 on the banks of the Brazos river and
 see it stretching out for hundreds of
 miles like great copper-colored ser
 pent, winding it's sinuous folds in the
 sun? We'll if you haven't, when you
 come to die your having lived will not
 have been all of life, and you may have
 the satisfaction of knowing there is
 something for you to return for.
 Yes, I know, Governor" continued
 the Texan to the Tennesseean, you
 have a great State, and great people.
 In fact, it is asserted that you have q
 more bounteous mixture of sunshine
 and moonshine than any other State in
 the Union. Especially moonshine, if the
 revenue officers are to he believed. | know you have iron and coal and phos- | phate mines in abundance, and 'tis said
 you have one of the most liberal and progressive State administrations in the | Union, but you want to come to Texas 1 for expansion. I'll tell you what, there 1 is Something in that big State, with | it's 1,000-mie stretch of territory that | just naturally makes a man grow in 1 spite of himself
 | Yes" said the Tennesseean to the | Texan, "I, too, will admit you have a great State and great people. Why shouldn't you have? Most of them went from Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky, but speaking of seeing things! Did you ever get out on camp stool on the rear of sleeper, going down from Nashville to Chattanooga, with those two mountain chains run l side of you, the blue sky above and the green earth beneath? Did you ever have that feeling of mans insignificance and natures vastness? Did you ever come jolt up on the tawny Tennessee river, with it's mighty waters seeming to cut their way through mountain sides2 Did you ever round that mighty river curve, coming into Chattanooga, l and find yourself under drowning brow of Lookout Mountain where a divided l Nation once stood in battles magnifi | gently stern array? Did you ever see 1 the frowning brow of that mountain | clothed in imperial purple, and try to | penetrate the purple haze in search of | the blood spots left by bleeding Ma | tion? No; well, you, too, have missed i somethng.'
 By the way said the Texan, not ! to treat a serious subject with unbe- coming levity, do you know that sol diers on both sides now unite in de- claring that in the artillery fire direct ed against the troops on Lookout the guns aimed did the most execution? Now, that's a thing I've noticed that applies to people as well as guns. I ,J. t, latr I,n clyi ! of the gunner or even intimate that intent and training are not one-half of lifes battle but we must still make allowance of fortuitious chance. But, speaking of States, I want you to come down to Texas-way and visit me. l want to show you what young Ameri- can giant can do when it gets up and humps itself. You know we've a deal of territory to go on. From Texarkana to Fl Paso is LOGO miles as the crow | flies and it's 500 miles from Texaline to Corpus Christi We've got everything down there from cattle and cotton to oceans: the finest fruit lands that the eve of man ever rested upon and there's hardly any season in the year that our beds are not in blossom ''I know you can beat us on iron and and it may be you have better brand of moonshine, but if you'll come down to Texas about watermelon time, if we don't make you follow the lead of Sam Houston and other Tennes- see pioneers, and apply for citizenship, I'll forfeit my hardearned reputation as 2 prophet
 Here the great men branced off into a friendly and fraternal discourse. They talked of the great resources of their States, developed and undeveloped; Of the wonderful progress of the Southland and grew eloquent over the virtues Of her distinguished sons. 'I declare your address on Andrew Jackson, at the Tennessee Society's ban 1uet in St. Louis the other night was l masterpiece" said the Texas Governor Q Governor McMillan. "If that address g ever published in it's entirety I want you to send me copy of it. I am fond If good talk, and think l know one s when l hear it. '' I The Governor of Tennessee promised t D honor tho acquisition of his Excel I
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