Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-07
JAMES STEPHEN HOGG.

nlv children plant pecan tree at my head and walnut tree at my feet and when they bear and the nuts fall to tbe ground. let them be given to the plain people, so that they may plant them.'' is what James Stephen Hogg, coal oil magnate and former governor ot Texas. contributed to the collec- lions of "Last Sayings of Great Men, inst before he died in Houston on Saturday.
 The ruling passion in him was strong in death. James stephen Hogg was born and reared in the sand hills and piney woods Cf East Texas. not far from where G. r. M. Turner. once a citizen of Memphis, first saw the light. When a big, un- eainlv but gooa,natured boy, he came into the little trading town and went to work as a printers devil Ill the office of the local paper and in time he learned 10 set type, at the same time becoming unconsciously educat- ed. Those were the days of bour- seoise, pica and long primer type and it required but little work to ser enough to fiji country weekly, ana young Hoge had much time for study, to which he applied himself assld- ucrsiv. In ,he courthouse he heard the lewyers crate and his ambition was fred He resolved to be lawyer ana his university was his employers fireplace. where he read by the light of fat nine knots every night until late hour.
 !Je had heard the politicians of the Roger c. Mills stamp telling the Deople how they were being robbed by the iniquitous tariff at a time when, perhaps, not $10 worth of inn norted goods were consumed in any congressional district outside of few coast towns and he was quick enough to see that the people loved to be
 SOAA structive statesmanship has no sort of chance in the race with destructive statesmanship.
 Young Hogg was elected county attorney soon after receiving his li- cense to practice law. Here he culti- vated the art of popular oratory. He was in demand at picnics, Sunday school gatherings and political con- ventions. He had the voice of a Stentor and fund of humor which. with a quaint vernacular, natural and acquired, made of him a successful public speaker, His fame soon ex- tended beyond his county and con- gressional district and while he never was more than we'll near the front in the second class of lawyers, he was elected attorney general of the state where he served two, terms, and af- rewards became it's governor.
 Gov. Hogg, though topping the beam at three hundred and odd, was particularly active in mounting and riding every foam-crested wave of popular excitement that came along. He bided his time and when he saw how things were, came out on the popular side and fought valiantly. AS a young man he was a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar ofsATe byyhight in the Greenback movement, and l. when the Farmers' Alliance was in the ascendant he was found espousing its cause, although not, a member of it. Of course, he was for free silver when that was an issue, and in its fa- yer poured out floods of torrential eloquence, pledging himself ,tossdefend the plain people as long aeNfs lasted him. and from time to time he, took up the cudgels in their favor and against the trusts, with the idea, it was snrmised, of spcqeeding> Senator Bailey, who laid the foundation of his present big fortune by escorting the Standard Oil company back to Texas after this octopus had been driven out .s7 .s'r1. ,s..
 Like all "good. fellows,p Gov. sHogg had certain amount of cunning and shrewdness and considerable amount of selfishness in his makeup. At home and among the plain people he was careless of his dress and in- sisted that he preferred cornbread, hog jowl and green to any other dish es. In New York he. put up at the Waldorf.Astoria, :. and dressed :. a la mode. He is said 10 have grown rich ir the .Beaumoht 6al fields, where he 1 got in on the ground floor but tno doubt reports of his wealth have been exaggerated: '-' =, 7-. y f'"Nf . Y I Some months ago he was neaf eif' uhtd