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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 1892.
Austin Jftatcsman
ATESMAK PUBUSHIN COM PANY
JYTON BROWN. R. J. HILL
President and Gen. Manager. Vice-President
. Henry W. Brown Secretary.
11TK are anthnrlzpd tn announce O. W. Glass'
Y cock as a candidate for the district Judire
of the Twenty-sixth judicial district composed
or tne counties oi Travis ana v uuamsou buu
lect to the will of the people.
j7E are authorized to announce S. A.
aa a fiitiritduf a far w.lllltv Jllflffe Of
Posey
as a candidate for county Judge of Travis
ionnty Texas:
"TTE are authorized to announce Chris. J.
TV Wilhclm a a candidate for county com.
missloner precinct No. 1 Travis county.
TD ANDERSON candidate for re-election to
JJ for county treasurer 01 Travis county ioi
its yoer support. Many thanks for past favors
DEMOCBATIC TICKET.
President:
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Vice-President:
ADLAI STEVENSON.
Congress:
HON. JOSEPH D. 8AYERS.
Third Judicial District
H. C. FISHER Chief Justice.
W. M. KEY Associaie Justice.
W. E. COLLARD. Associate Justice.
State Senate:
HON. WALTER TIPS.
Representatives:
TH08 H. WIIELESS.
D. A. M'FALL.
JudKe Fifty-third Judicial District:
JAMES II. ROBERTSON.;
Jimge Twenty-sixth Judicial District:
F. O. MORRIS.
OR
T. B. COCHRAN.
District Attorney Twenty-sixth Judicial District
A. 8. BURLESON.
Clerk of District Court
JAMES P. HART.
County Judk'e:
WM. VON ROSENBERG Jit.
County Clerk:
JOHN P. KIRK.
County Attorney:
A. S. WALKER Jn.
Collector of Taxes:
W. B. THRASHER.
Assessor of Taxes:
II. M. METZ.
County Treasurer.
J. A. STUART.
finer!!!:
R. E. WHITE.
County Surveyor
JOHN E. WALLAOE.
ostices of the Peace Precinct No. 8.
M. M. JOnNSON.
PHIL. P. BARBOUR.
Constable Precinct No. 3.
J. M. DAVIS.
County Commissioner Precinct No. 1:
J. W. BROWN.
Co iuty Commissioner Precinct No. t
C. W. THORP.
Couuty Commissioner Precinct No. 3.
D. G. IIEISNER.
Couuty Commissioner Precinct No. 4.
W. II. CULLEN.
THE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.
The address to the people of Texas
ordered by the Houston Democratic
convention to be prepared and issued
by a special committee appointed for
that purpose is this morning given to
the public It will be seen that it is a
review of the conditions necessarily
leading up to a revolt of the people
against the Hogg rule and policy;
placing in strong contrast the reign of
Boss and of Hogg. It is also a plain
unvarnished statement of how the
Hogg majority in the Houston con
ventlon was secured how maintained
there and how the nomination of
Hogg was thereby made possible. It
gives a short sketch of how the split
was made necessary and closes with
an arraignment of the Hogg policv
and a plea for a return to Democratic
usages and form of government.
About the address there is no attempt
at ornamentation no reaching after
rhetorical effect. It Is the blunt
statement of men dreadfully in ear-
nest whose whole desire seemed to be
to put their case so plainly before the
people thai all could read and none
fail to understand the meaning. There
is no domagogery no specious plead-
ing. The reader is cited to history
plainly quoted as the words fell from
the lips of Governor Hoes he is then
asked to contrast that history with
the condition of affairs as they exist
today. The address courts no conceal-
mentit is a huge sign post painted
with letters so large that one who runs
may read. It is an address not for the
verbose politician.to take before any
character of audience and read any
way to suit his purpose. It is an ad
areas mac me people are to take as a
plain business letter directed to each
one personally and in their homes by
candle light they can read it under
standing and make up their minds
as free men.
The Houston Post says: "It is le-
ported that the Republican party will
indorse Clark and that rank Republi-
can paper the Globe-Democrat of St.
Louis advises that it do so. Men who
bolt the Democratic party without
reason or excuse will no doubt wel-
come any assistance they can get in
their effort to defeat the Democracy."
And a faction of the Democratic party
that would bolt the national Demo
cratic platform to secure Third party
votes should keep awfully quiet about
political methods. Its mouth-piece
also should be as dumb as a clam.
Patriotism and politics do not al-
ways go hand in hand. The Houston
Post boasted of its patriotism before
the convention when it fought Hogg;
it now has to fall back on politics.
Texans which are you patriots or
politicians policy men?
SIMPLY THE JOT OF VIXDICATIUX
The Statesman has frequently
seen it in print and heard it assorted
in public that George Clark's follow
ers are delighted with Judge Mc
Cormick's decision; that none of them
have denied they were delighted and
that this delight proves Clark's and
their insincerity when they assert
they favor a railroad commission
People who so assert reason to little
purpose and most illogically. They
take only a surface view of thin
and in speaking as they do they are
talking only as politicians and for po
litical effect. The Statesman is as
good a friend as both George Clark
and the railroad commission have. It
wants George Clark elected governor
of Texas and it wants Texas to have
the very best railroad commission law
it is possible to enact. And The
Statesman is one of the very many
friends of George Clark that sincerely
regrets our present law has
been decided unconstitutional
This regret is founded on
its earnest desire that at the very
earliest moment possible both the rail
roads and the people of Texas may be
enjoying the enforcement of the equi
table provisions of a just and salutary
commission law. If this day is delay
ed by this decision we sincerely re
gret it; but if this decision shall after
all be the means of hastening its
speedy and surer coming then we re
oice over it. For The Statesman is
not one of those who believe in the
enactment of a harsh and unjust law
that whiie benefiting one class of
citizens imposes great burdens and
unnecessary hardships upon another
lass. If in very truth our commission
law is so restrictive as to amount to
confiscatory so one sided as to rad-
ically oppose the even course of jus
tice and in a word so foreign to the
theory of republican governments as
to bo unconsi'lutional then we owe it
to the railroads and to our people to
rejoice that a stay in its proceedings
has been ordered. It is because of
this just way of looking at the ques
tion that the Clark followers have
been heard to express satis-
faction over the decision. And if
this crucial time in the
political affairs of the state they have
exhibited particular joy over this de-
cision it must not be taken as directed
gainst the disabled commission but
against the dismayed and unhorsed
enemy who claim all the credit of its
parentage. Jor it must be remem-
bered the administration has lost no
opportunity of hanging its hat on "the
commission" of claiming for itself all
the glory for the enactment of the law
and insisting it was absolutely per-
fect. George Clark in the opening of
his campaign joined issue with the
administration on this law contend
ing it was imperfect and needed
amendment. To this amendment be
pledged himself if elected governor
In such a condition of affairs who
can blame his followers for being jubi-
lant over his vindication? And as
stated and as can and'will be proven
ubilant not because "the commission"
has been disabled but because it
furnishes them an opportunity to show
up in the clearest light the tremend
ous pretensions made by Governor
Hogg and his friends. Why should
Texas in its long line of legisla
tures and governors have only one
legislature and one governor in whom
the peeple could place implicit reli
ance and in whom they must rest
their hope of safety from oppression
or forever give up hope of deliverance
and succor? Such a proposition is
monstrous. The Statesman was for
a railroad commission long before
Governor Hogg was converted to that
idea and is firmly of the conviction
that some other legislature and gov
ernor will find by means of a sound
railroad commission law balm for the
people's wounds even though the
wisdom of the Twenty-second legisla
ture and the policy of the present ad-
ministration may then be things very
much of the past.
"ARE ALL STRIKES FAILURES?"
Of all the subjects holding the at
tention of political economists and
thinking men everywhere no other
has as much serious interest as the
question of the proper relation of labor
to capital. To the solution of this
question the best thought of today on
both continents is directed in its
proper solution is wrapt up the sta
bility of governments and the happi
ness and prosperity of millions of peo
ple. The Chicago News Record under
the heading above quoted has these
pertinent thoughts on the late labor
troubles of our country:
The defeat at Homestead the dis
aster at Coal Creek and the collapse of
the strike at uunaio provoke the in
quiry: Do great strikes ever succeed?
Workmen have gone out from all
sorts of employment confident de-
fiant and loyal to each other only to
fail. Other workmen have been found
to take their places upon the terms
which the strikers refused to accept.
Therefore many assert that strikes
not having accomplished the specific
purpose which they set out to ac-
complish should have "failure" writ-
ten up against them.
But this is a very narrow view to
take of the subject. Every strike has
left its lesson and its impression
some superficial and others deep upon
labor eonditlons. Strikes have served
to mark the limits of oppression by J
employers and the autocratic demands
of employes. They have demonstrated
repeatedly to managers of corpora-
tions that there is a line ot wage-slavery
beyond which they cannot go. At
the same time innumerable failures
have taught striking employes that
there are demands which cannot be en
forced no matter how strongly they are
urged by strikes boycotts and the in
timidation ot non-union men. Organ
ized labor has a library full of expert
ence acquired in striking lor more
than the labor market would yield it.
Corporate monopolies have lost mil
lions in acquiring the knowledge of
just how far they can go in reducing
wages or imposing restrictive condi
tiorjs.
While strikes have perhaps failed
as strikes it can not be assumed that
they have failed as lessons. No sta-
tistics can be obtained nor can any es
timate be made as to the number of
strikes which have been prevented by
the spectacle of strike failures. Dis
satisfied employes will learn from
Homestead and Buffalo to be moder
ate in their demands and prudent in
the methods employed to enforce
hem. Employers will likewise learn
wisdom from these same examples.
The world in general learns that an
honorable fair and effective method
of settling: labor difficulties must lie
found.
SETH SHEPARD CALLS COKE TO
TIME.
If Senator Coke was at all familiar
with the history of the creation of the
Democratic platform in Chicago his
late reconciliation of the Hogg plat-
form with it indeed entitles h'.ta to
tho sobriquet of "Old Brains" brains
to excuse palliate and extenuate. But
the Hon. Seth Shepard thus pointedly
calls him back to the facts in the case:
The position of Senator Coke that
here is no conflict between the na
tional and state platforms on this point
is utterly untenable. Ex-Senators
Reagan and Chilton took no such posi
tion in the debate. The great import
ance of this silver question was lully
realized by the platform committee at
Chicago. Cleveland's views were well
known and his friends constituted a
majority of the committee. Ex-Con
gressman Patterson of Colorado and
Senator Daniel of Virginia both free
silver men like Senator Coke were on
the sub-committee and it was under
stood that the point was discussed for
many hours. Patterson brought
the matter before a full com-
mittee and begged for a change.
which was denied. He appealed
to the convention confining his mo-
tion there to the insertion of one word
and was voted down. He returned to
Colorado repudiated the platform and
has carried over his paper The
Rocky Mountain News the hitherto
Democratic organ of Colorado to sup-
port Weaver. The Chicago platform
demands an honest silver dollar.
worth 100 cents in gold. It means a
return to bi-metalism upon a sound
honest and permanent basis. To ob-
tain a sure and lasting ratio between
silver and gold it relies upon agree-
ment with the leading commercial
nations of the world by which it
alone can be obtained at anything
like the present one and upon legis-
lation confirming the same. The es-
ablishment of the original ratio of
5 to 1 by act of congress in 1792 was
lpon the supposition that this was
the true proportionate value of the
two metals throughout the world.
This was afterwards found to be erro
neous and by an act of 1834 the change
was made t the present ratio
of 16 to 1 by reducing the
number of grains in the gold
uonar. ne questiou was tnen re
garded as It should be now as one of
economics ana not poiuics. to lllus
trate the extreme thinness of the sen
ator's statement I read the clause of
the Weaver platform adopted at Om&-
ha July 4: " We demand the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and gold
at the present legal ratio of 10 to 1.'
There is certainly no difference be
tween this and the Houston platform
The latter demands the free and un
limited coinage of silver at the "ratio
heretofore provided bylaw'' which is
of course the "sixteen to one" demand
at Omaha. This is what the senator
voted for and for what he is commend
ed by the Houston platform. He
should also receive the thanks of the
inird party in convention assemhlpri
Any man with ordinary sense can see
mat iue nouston convention reiected
uo piauurm oi Cleveland and ac
cepted that of Weaver. Th n.wk.
wardntssof the situation will be hot
ter realized when the Third party
electors and congressional nominees
meet ours on the stump and demand
to know upon which platform they
It is
privileged to every man to
state his own views and convictions.
but these cannot altar the standing of
cold facts. That the Hogg conven
iion reiused point blank to adopt the
silver plank of the national Democratic
platform is a matter of history. That
it did so for a purpose Mr. Chilton can
be taken as authority. And that
while refusing t) adopt the national
utterance on the silver question It re
cited a plank totally at variance with
the wishes of the national Democracy
Senator Coke nor anyone else can sue-
cesafully dispute or deny.
A "COMPOSITE XATIOX."
The Richmond State has the follow
ing editorial on Fred Douglass' idea
of present victory in politics and fu-
ture race growth:
Fred Douglass the black incendi-
ary has the kindest regard for the
inird party movement in the South.
He expects it to aid in bringing about
that conclitiou of affairs which will re-
? l looked for "composite na-
! ' 1 hn wrd is significant. Have
jouever seen a "cnmnnoitii i.f
graph? Ten or fifteen
Photographed and then all are
blended nto nn hv k uT
lriP8 rt'th?. result being one
X 01 tne characteristics
he "U aJ8' ln.hi! "compos
nor ShSt? httf !kWU1 b'e De"r bIack
hteibut that will have enough
of negro blood in it to suit him. To
accomplish this nit n " i A0
An:
lUD uvertnrow or the Dem-
ocratic party in the South. That is an
obstacle in his way. He and Harrison
have had no hope of overcoming this
enemy until the Third party loomed
up. As a Washington Republican
puts it "We expect the nigger and
the Third party to do the work in the
South for us and boodle to whip the
West into line." iso "compjsite
nation" for Virginia. This state is not
ready for that.
Texas is now seeing quite a good
deal of "composite" politics but this
state nor any other state in the South
is not now nor ever will be the field
for the formation of a "composite" race.
Politics is one thing race distinction
quite another.
WHO WERE THOSE 50000 VOTERS
Did ex-United States Senator Hor
ace Chilton really say In the platform
committee room that the silver plank
meant 50000 voters for Gov. Hogg
and if that plank was not put into the
platform that number of voters would
be lost to Hogg ? If he said it what
did he mean by it? The national
platform had spoken on tha subject
and why did he not think tha Would
suffice? Was it fear for the national
Democracy or the Hogg party that
made him insist on that silver plank?
Who were the 50000 voters he wished
to catch not for the national electors
dui ior ine xiogg party y i nev were
not simon-pure Democrats for the na
tional platform prescribed how such
men must vote and that plank
at cross purposes with
the national platform. If they
were not Democrats then who
were they Mr. Chilton was fishing for?
Not Republicans for they too have a
national platform from which they
will be too wise to deviate. It could
only have been the Third partyites
And why should they besought after
why should they be placated ? Have
not the straight Democrats in the past
proven themselves able unassisted to
carry all Btate elections ? Why this
bid now for the Third t arty vote?
Clark and his followers for months
have charged that Third party men
were going into the primaries and
capturing them for Hogg was this
true? Don't that silver plank look
very much like it? Was it this in-
fluence in the Hogg convention that
put it into his platform or if not was
it done to keep the Third party friends
it has been so often charged had
helped Hogg in the primaries and
win others of them to his cause?
Were these the 50000 voters meaut if
not who were they ?
The Houston Post has several times
since its re-baptism admitted it fought
Governor Hogg's renomination from
sound convictions of what was best
for Texas. What The Statesman
and a great many people would like
to know is in what way have those
ground rock principles been changed
or affected ;by the conventions in
Houston ? If Governor Hogg was an
unsafe man according to The Post be-
fore the convention in what way did
they change him so as t make him a
desirable man ior governor again?
He was serving as a governor creden-
tialed by a united Democracy when
The Post wae fighting his policy he
is now but the nominee of one wing
of a split Democracy. How the un-
safe policy of a governor can in so
short a time be metamorphosed into a
safe policy of a candidate for the gov-
ernorship The Statesman and those
same great many people fail to under-
stand. The Houston Post says: "The
prompt find outspoken declaration of
Senator Coke that he is heart and
soul tor the platform and nominees of
the state Democratic convention and
will canvas the state for them is chur-
acteristic of his earnest Democracy
and bis strong personality."
The Statesman differs with the
Post and thinks that Senator Coke's
action is rather indicative of desire
to flop over on the winning side of the
case; but in the present instance he
has made an awful blunder. He has
misjudged Clark's strength as he
misjudged the strength of the opposi
tion to prohibition and hence feared
to take any side.
Politics and In fact all other sub
jects are beginning to wane in inter
est in the lurid light of the approach
ing pugilistic encounter betweenSul
livan and Corbett. The Statesman
is not making any bets but contents
itself with saying that if both discard
dodging and stand up to their punish
ment the nation may be relieved in
the future of at least one contestant
in these brutal exhibitions. Prize
fighting is not an resthetic amusement
or one to reflect credit on any nation
but the people seem determined that
the newspapers shall give every such
event with minutest detail.
What a dreadful state of affairs
politically in Texas! Bolts and dead
locks among Democrats everywhere
and fusion among Democracy's
enemies to down it. And can
it be that Texas with her im-
perial majority and her unbroken
Democratic representation in congress
is now on the verge of political disso
lution? Must the rule or ruin policy
of the administration overshadow Tex-
as In national as well as state affairs ?
Truly it seems so.
The fashionable ladles' corrective tonic la An-
ostura Bitters the world renowned tonic of Dr.
B. Siegert a Sons. Ask your druggist
THE ADDRESS
OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVEN
TION TO THE GREAT PEO-
PLE OP TEXAS.
'WE ARRAIGN JAS. i HOGG1
A History of the Conditions Leading Up to
the Bevolt Againt the Hogg Policy
How the Split Occurred and
Why Hogg Ii Ar-
raigned. Address of the committee selected
hv the Democratic convention of
Tex!' to the voters of the state.
The extraordinary conditions sur
rounding and attending the recent
convening of Democratic delegates at
Houston and a decent respect to the
opinions of the Democrats of Texas
reoutre that we a committee appoint
ed for that purpose should declare the
causes which produced the re-organi
zation of the party.
The crisis has been reached and
passed in the history of the Deino
cratic party and Democratic methods
in Texas. The party has been reor
ganized while the necessity therefor
is to be regretted the result is un
avoidable and absolutely inevitable
On Aug. 13 1890 James S. Hogg re
ceived at the hands of a united l em-
ocratic party the nomination for gov
ernor. In his speech of acceptance
before the Democratic convention he
pledged himself "to stay with our
constitution under all circumstances
and to guarantee simple government
machinery impartial laws lignt bur
dens and universal justice adminis
tered upon the humane doctrine of
equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none." A confiding people
accepted his pledge and elected him
governor at the ensuing November
election and he wai duly enaugurated
on tne day ot January lavi.
At this time notwithstanding the
wide spread ruin in other states by
tne rinancial panic which fell upon
the country in the fall of 1890 and
the effects of the unpredented drouth
of 1888-89 in Western Texas our state
was in a prosperous condition and
hope nerved the hand and inspired
the heart f every Texan. That this
was i he conditiou of Texas at that
time we here copy the following ex-
tract from the message of Governor
Ross of date Jan. 13 1891 said by him
in the discharge of his official duty:
TEXAS UNDER GOVERNOR ROSS.
It is as follows: "The past four
years have been active and busy ones
an impulse has been given to the en-
ergies of the state and its progress
has ceased to be silent and unseen the
people have greatly accelerated their
industrial developments and all the
affairs of the citizens have felt an ad-
ded stimulus. Prospeiity has paid
unusual tribute to every trade busi
ness and profession opening new
doors of employment advancement
and emolument.
Labor has created capital and cap
ital has given labor a broader field to
worn in. Manufacturing enterprises
are profitable and others are being
Inaugurated. Geological researches
have developed immense stores of
hidden wealth and large investments
are being made in various mines and
tneir out-put increased in quantity
and quality. The railway business in
mileage freight and passenger
traffic and betterments ex-
hibit marked improvement. Her
land policy has been in a great meas-
ure removed from state politics and
stability permancy and practical util-
ity imparted to th9 system. Its ex-
tremely liberal provisions have at-
tracted a vast tide of iinmiarauon.
populating and organizing counties
and swelling the taxable values of the
state over $101000000 in the last two
years and at the same time augment
ing the permanent school funds $250.-
000 and its annual available revenues
from the result of sale and lease alone
$550000.
1 he fiscal affairs of the educational
department have been put upon a
casn paying Dasis oy tne liquidation
of over $500000 of deficiency claims
due the teachers of the public school
and there Is a cash balance of $275271
in the treasury to the credit of the
permanent school fund awaiting in-
vestment. The scholastic term has
been increased and uniform method
established. Publio order has been
maintained and crime reduced over 40
per cent as shown by
the report of the county offi-
cials. The penal and charitable insti-
tutions for the care and treatment of
the erring the dependent and the
sick in body and mind and all the
educational institutions have been
greatly enlarged and many new ones
established.
The capitol in which you hold your
deliberations has been provided with
all the facilities to enable you in com-
lort to discharge your duties to the
public and affords ample accommo-
dations for th various departments
with thir Increasing business and ac
cumulating archives. The peniten-
tiary system with its immense busi-
ness has been made self-supporting
and no longer remains a burden upon
honest tax payers. The university
and its former branches and the med-
ical school that is added have m.
ceived in loans and extraordinary ap-
propriations from general revenue
$237900 greatly increasing the effi-
ciency of all their departments. Out-
standing warrants duo officials of rh
judiciary were fully paid. Theindem-
uity uiaim against tne United States
government of long standing has
been adjusted resulting in the collen.
tion of $1072214 and the tax rate re-
duced below any list known since the
war. Every publio claim upon the
treasury has been met. and it holds a
a cash balance of $772889.56 to the
credit of the general revenue account.
This conditiou of public affairs while
ource or pride and gratification to
me personally and officially te due in
a large measure to the wisdtm and
statesmanship of our predecessors and
officials throughout the state. When
I had the honor to assume the duties
of chief executive a serious drouta had
effected a large portion ot our people
necassitating an extraordinary appro-
priation of $100000 out of the treasury
tor their releif and this was followed
by the varied and multiplied necessi-
ties of our pu blic institutions to which
your attention has been directed.
These extraordinary expenditures
have been made upon a rate of taxa-
tion reduced during the present ad-
ministration from 25 cents to 20
cents and for one year
(1888) to 10 cents 4 on the
$100 which accrued to the direct bene-
fit of all the tax payers.
Immediately upon his inaugura-
tion Governor Hogg began an
UNPRECEDENTED AND UNRELENTING
WAR
against almost every settled policy
and existing institution within the
state; his wild and un-Democratic
recommendations were swiftly chrys-
talized into un-Democratic and uncon-
stitutional laws inimical to capital
oppressive to labor and destructive
to the public weal. An enumeration
of the unwise un-Democratic and un-
constitutional laws Is deemed unnec-
essary as they have been discussed
and denounced both publicly and
privately during the last five months
by every Democrat who loves his
country and esteems the fundamental
principles of his party above the po-
litical fortunes of a Junto of time serv-
ing politicians and place-hunters.
We submit to every candid and in-
telligent mind if it is not true and
self evident that the tendency and ef-
fect of the administration and reign
of the governor has not been to take
from the people powers and rights be-
longing to them and transferring
these rights to Austin and thus
building upon the ruins of popular
and local self government a reign of
imperialism; to increase instead of re-
duce an irresponsible army of appoint-
ive offices to devour the substance of
the people; to arrest and impede the
material progress of the state and her
people; to drive money and invest-
ments from her borders destroy the
credit of our people at home and to
impair it abroad: to irritate the Bpecial
fabric array class against class
section against section race against
race and finally to erect upon the
ruin he has wrought a political boom
- all at the sacrifice of every princi-
ple and method of Democracy known
to him who worships principle rather
than man.
So shocking was this state of affairs
to every Democrat who has watched
the trend of the administration
and who dared to stand for
the cardinal principles of his
faith through weal or woe.
that they resolved to protest against
the further encroachment of "Hogg-
ism" and the final delivery of the ark
of the covenant of Democracy from the:
enemy.
An opposing candidate for governor
was found in the person of the Hon.
George Clark
A TRUE DEMOCRAT. A PATRIOT
and statesman of the first order. Hie
campaign was conducted throughout
upon the high plane of exalted patri
otism and statesmanship. His every
appeal was to the virtue and intelli-
gence of the Democracy of Texas to
stand firmly for constitutional and
Democratic government and to hurl
from power those who had scaled the
ramparts and shattered the frame-
work of civil liberty and were pro-
faning the temples and despoiling the
aaureu aitars oi pure uemocracy.
While on the other hand the cam-
paign of the administration was con
ducted upon lines born of desperation
and inspired by place-hunters bent
upon the achievement of the
ends desired. regardless of
the means or methods emnlnved.
This campaign being aided and sun-
ported by all the power of tha ma
chinery of the party and officials of
the state government who whil
drawing compensation from the tax-
payers left their officers in the cus-
tody of their subordinates and
stumped the state in the interest of
their chief.
Their appeal was not to the reason
and patriotism of the Democrat but
to the prejudice and passion of the
voter regardless of his political faith
to go into the primaries and dominate
the councils of the Democratic party.
In many of the pretended Democratic
primaries practically no test of narrv
fealty was required or applied. The
rules and regulations which had gov-
erned the party in its primaries from
time immemorial were ruthlessly and
defiantly set aside and the known
and acknowledged ennmlpa nf tha-
party were admitted into ita
and allowed to participate in the se-
lection of candidates and the
gation of principles for the party.
As the result of these and many
other equally disreputable and revo-
lutionary methods the voice of De-
mocracy was absolutely stifled in
many counties and Hogg's nomina-
tion made possible. Failing by these
methods to dominate the actions of
county conventions
THEY WILFULLY PLANNED
and deliberately executed bolts In
many counties without the shadow
of excuse and sent up contesting dele-
gations to the state convention In-
structed for Hogg and thus practi-
cally disfranchised one hundred and
twenty-nine votes instructed for Hon.
George Clark. We therefore confl-
uou"j assert mat no man cognizant
of these facts could conscientiously
and truthfully affirm that even a ma-
jority of the Hogg delegates accredit-
ed to ihat convention owed their
election to the Democracy. The
methods and means bv which a lare
per cent of the Hogg delegates secur-
ed their credentials and instructions
to that convention are of such doubt-
ful propriety as to absolve every
Democrat in Texas from niwinmo tr
its action without
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Hogg convention or at the dictation
of its masters.
Before the Hogg convention had as-
sembled in the hall prepared for the
purpose it was manifest that the des-
potic spirit of the Hogg regime would
dictate its methods and dominate its
action. In advance of the hour for
opening the convention Chairman g
FINLEY AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS
against the Democracy and its meth-
ods issued an edict that no mart
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