The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-07
THE CENTRAL TEXAS FAIR.
Fair a Success and the Attendance
Very Large.
SPEECH OF COLONEL S. W. 7. LANHAM.
His ELOQUENT Tribute to the Lost Cause
Received With Enthusiastic APP
plause-A Characteristic Speech.

Bryan, Texas, November 6-This has
been another successful day for the Cen.
tral Texas fair. The weather continues
fair and the crowds today were almost
us largo as yesterday. There really were
more people present from this immediate
section. but the crowds were augmented
yesterday by the excursions from dis
tancc. and by the representatives of the
various colleges. Today was Farmers and
Confederatcs day and many Of both were
present
The event of the day was the address
OF Hon. 5. w. T. Lauham OF Wcatherford.
lie was introduced by Hon ~ H. Tracy
OF Rockdale who was au old comrade
III arms of Colonel Lanham. The speaker
expressed pleasure on being present on tlis
occasion, aud especially SO whcu he rcmrm.
oeicu an honor The people of Brazos conn.
~ on'c conferred upon nim, referring TO
tue ract that this county instructed for
nun When ne was Il candidate for governor
re V0mplncuted the iair very highly and
leGefrvd 10 tue magnificent paraaV OF yes.
teru1l, the splendid exhibits, inc STOCK
pdi"uc' etc lie INDUCED the hope that the
Aalt would continue To grow until IL sur
passed MnHt It's present splendid indica-
t'oh9 would suggest, Tue speaker took
Iut MS thOmc. rae Lost Cause and said
tnat II had been his privilege to sneak
IN many cldes, In many states, ana before
me courts OF Texas and the supreme court
OF the United States, bur IL always gave
aim more pleasure To address his old com.
rAueS In arms than any other kind OF an
audience ne mad ever had the pleasure OF
appearing before. 1t gave him pleasure be-
cause ne had been with them at a time
mat tried mems souls; aud even now he
would love to recall. II possible the forms
ana races OF companions whom he saw fail
ON the fields of carnage; but IT, could not
ne done and we can only sigh for rho
touch of vanished hand and the sound
of voice that is Still' He referred to
the class OF citizenship that went out on
the side Of the South young, vigorous and
full of courage They believed the cause
FOR which they fought was Just and right
and no cN-Confederate soldier had ever
YET thought any other way; that the war
was Wngcd for constitutional liberty, and
the right of local self government He
believes that future historians will vet do
us justice and said II the Lost Cause was
stricken from the pages Of history, that
some Of It's brightest pages would 20 with
IT, He took NJ the course Of the Con
federatc soldier since the war, and that
II had been honorable In the highest dc
gree, that cN-Confederate soldiers now o.
cupled some Of the most important places
in the country IN every walk of life Some
were on the highest benches In the coun-
try and some were in the executive chairs
of many OF the States that the sentiment
would he Cherl shed in the hearts of the PEG
pie Of the South, and as long as there
was man left who wore the gray they
Will continue To meet together and tell
over Inc OH camp nfe stories, ana i've
over again the days OF the past The feel
ing should he kept alive, because It is
history, and the children should he taught
to revere the halowed memories OF the
past Colonel Lsuham referred 20 the pen.
sion act and said he Believed In pensions
for deserving soldiers and If the North
| mad gained the victory and he had been
ia congress ne would have favored giving
those who deserved 1t pension, and was
GLAD that the State of Texas was trying 10
give a pension, though small, 70 the needy
4 N1. 10 N4l IA a
among his private papers at home were
eight commissions to serve his district
In congress his license TO practice in all
the courts and many other papers that he
priced highly: but that he had rather give
Them all up than to part with that old
wrinkled and faded parole which said that
Sergeant Sam LHnham was ut liberty 10 re
turn 10 his home His closing was burst
Of eloQuencc that moved and sWdycd inc
vast audience like storm He referred
In II to the old mothers of the south their
hcroism during the war. their SacrlhceSt
their anxiety for news from the front, and
said that now. wherever there was one Of
these old Confederate mothers, the young
men and the young ladies' around her
| should plant flowers along her pathway and
make for her a fitting and triumphant end
| ing OF the glorious life she mas lived HIS
| review or the Roosevelt Washington incl
dent the death of President Mckinley his
| tribute to the memory of Jefferson DAVIS
| and the hope held out by the christian
| religion OF that glorious reunion hereafter
| was worthy a place in the classics and no
| language less than verbatim report would
| do IL anything Ike justice. There was
not a dry eye in the vast assemblage, ana
when nc closed the old veterans rushed
TO him eager TO shake his hand and Win
the tears streaming down their old and
wrinkled faces literally picked him up
| and carried him out on TO the ground;
where tho people could get TO him, ana
Tor half nm hour they thronged around him
TO shake hands. Ii was memorable oc-
casion. -,
Hon r. u. Prince telegraphed Governor
Severs from mere today stating that he rep
resented him here yesterday in opening, me
fair and Governor Sayers replied thanking
him for so doing and said be would nave
been present himself had ne not peeh pre-
vented by business affairs.