Evening star., 1919-03-02

EoSIMASIEN GEN EhAL III HlaESVN
general of the state on an anti-rail-
road and anti-monopoly platform.
Coming to his new and greater Of
flee with much resolution and energy,
he caused the arrest trial and con =,
viction of man who had committed
sixteen murders in his community.
The man was dumfounded. Texas
was electrified. Eogg at thirty-nine
was governor of his state. he mad
been nominated at San Antonio unan-
imously and had been elected by a
plurality of t50,0 900 votes.
Murderers and cattle thieves trem-
bled at the mention of his name.
But there were other hard cases in
Texas, he.said. They were operating
railroads and managing trusts, he
pointed out. He promised TO send
them also to jail. Henry M. Flagler.
with John d. Rockefeller, had gone
into Texas with his oil and processes.
a warrant for his arrest was ordered
TO be issued by the governor of the
state and attempts We're made to
serve it both in New York and Flor
ida, but without success.
Now. House and Burleson had been
watching Hogg and analyzing his
performances. They weighed him
carefully and then gave him their
sympathy and support by tradition,
they should have met the issue and
promptly Joined the side OF wealth.
They were old settlers and landewn-
ers and properly belonged to the con-
servative class.
The first House, for instance, Thorn
as William. an Englishman by birth.
had settled in Texas during the year
1887, going there from New York,
where for some time he had been
ton merchant and the owner Of yes
sells and wide boundaries of prairie
land.
AS to the Burlesons, they, in the
person of Edward-Gen, Edward. he
Is commonly called--were establish
ed in Texas as early as 1891. Gen. Ed
ward. born in North Carolina, moved
to Virginia. then to Tennessee. whence
he emigrated to Texas. AS Il boy, he
fought in his fathers company under
Gen. Jackson. against the southern
Indians. He commanded the first reg
iment of volunteers at the battle OF
san Jacinto and thus was one Of the
heroes who defeated the Mexicans
and made Texas an independent re-
public by itself. He was vice presi-
dent of Texas in 1871.
For ten years GEN. Burleson pro-
tected the Texas frontier against the
raids of Mexicans and Indians and
during part of that time Thomas Will
liam House was q volunteer soldier in
the ranks. Thus the father of Col.
House and the grandfather of Albert
Sidney Burleson. Postmaster General,
were comrades at arms and in this
manner began the family and martial
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present day.
There was still another Burleson---
Maj. Edward as he was known. His
father was the general: his son Is the
Postmaster General. Maj. Burleson
fought on the Confederate side during
the civil war. And Thoma9 William
House. In the same war. ran the
blockade with his ships of cotton to
Cuba and the West Indies aud
brought guns and ammunition back
for the armies OF the south,
There were other bonds. in the late
eighties and early nineties. between
Col. House and Albert Sidney Burle-
son, They were democrats, OF course.
Likewise they We're educated men.
House had graduated at Cornell, Bur
Lesson at the University of Texas A
year after his admission to the bar
Burleson was appointed assistant at
torney of Austin. He served six an
nual terms In that Office and then
GOV. Hogg appointed him prosecuting
attorney OF the twenty sixth district.
And 80 at Austin, in the year 1891,
the personal situation was as follows:
Hogs was Governor of Texas; House
was preparing to take an active but
self -effacing part In politics; Burle-
son was in a minor station that had
been given him by the state admins
tration.
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. The political situation, generally