Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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junior memT
Jr., now diseased. _
joined the Canfedeate army as a
private, in which . capacity ' he
served, refusing all offers of pro
motion to official jauk until near
the close of "The war he was pre-
vailed upon to accept the command
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leased. In i860 he of the court to d.scharge the de-
fendatft, District Attorney Spencer
indignantly ’withdrew frond the
case. The Court then proceeded
to enter judgment against the $|ate,
declaring the election unconstitu-
tional and void Upon the strength
of this de^sion Governor Dav(s is-
sued a piCT&h mation forbidding the
assembling of the newly elected leg-
islature That body, however, as-
sembled at the appointed time, but
Governor Davis declined to receive
any communication from them
Governor-eject £oke sent a note 'o
tO Davis demaqding the ^surrender
of the office. Davis answered by
marshaling the troops at the state
house. Governor Davis applied to
President Grant for assistance; but
Grant refused, whereupon Gov-
ernor Davis vacated the guberna.-
Wills Point Chronicle ideath of senator coke
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< 8PIAR8 A GILMOTRB, Proprietor. 1
WILLS POINT.
ized as navigable With the 9*
' Soon. after his return from the
war, in 1865, he was appointed
____ „ , district fudge ol the Nineteenth
confiiscating the property and di- judicial district, at that titae com-
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Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Com-
anche, Erath and Bosque This
appointment was secured for
him by Ceti. M. D. Herring with-
out the knowledge of th* recipient,
and when he received the commis-
sion, the first intimation he had of
his appointment, he wrote a letter
declining to serve, but his friends
ported in 39 Texas, 705. Frank
M. Spencer, district attorney of
Harris county, was appointed by
the court to represent the state in
the absence of the attorney general,
and was . assisted by Hons.
M. A: Long, S. C. -West,
Thomas E. Sneed, W. M. Walton
and L-' W7 Terrell of the Austin
bar. The qlistric-trict attorney,,
when the case'was called, promptly
challenged the jurisdiction of the
court upon . tha»- grdlind that the
case was,a fictitious one gotten up
fpr the purpose of extorting from
the courts an opinion as to the con-
stitutionality of the election. This
opinion was so strongly fortified by
timesis manifest. ‘ v>-
“The tide will soon set in against
w the republican party unless the de-
pression of business is altered. w_
Idleness and want breed discontent,
which will never be overcome un-
til there are ample employments.
~ “The foes Ameffca’ has to fear
are not the sullen, savage Turk nor
the insurrectionists of Cuba, nor.
the territory-grasping British, but
they are our patient and heart-
tried people, our owu suffering,
much-promised people, who, be-
trayed and disheartened, no longer
have faith in their party, $nd will
turn to any leadership that offers -
promise of better times, believing '
that worse times can never come v
than those no W existing. It is a ter-
rible tnrng to observe public septi-
immitted ment adrift and uucaptured and the
people sweeping away from their
affection for the old party., 1
“The Young men are growing
up indifferetat to republican princi-
ies or
broken platforms, who use national
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election ronttacts > The political
religion of the ■ nation is falling
lower and lower under insults to
intelligence, violation of law,
rebkless, daring and unscrupulous
bosses 1 “ . ** . '
“There will most assuredly coine ’ >
a day when there will be a mighty
revolt and resistance, resulting in
a revolution that will give birth,to
a new party.” ....,3
An Oklahoma bachelor, on a ,
“claim,* has as companions*in his
sod house, twenty-two cats.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Ripharp Coke was born in Wil-
liamsburg, Va., March 13, i8ip
He graduated at William and
Mary college, and was admitted to
bar when just 21-years old. In
1850 he removed.to Texas, locating
cifically setting forth what duty’iS, „tice of law, and in 1853 he was.
married to MiSs M. P. Horned
daughter of Dr J. B. Horne^ and
during the same year he entered
into a copartnerahip with J L. L ,
McCall-, now of Weatherford, Tex.
This partnership Was dissolved two
grandest men who has helped to
_-l_ aw.ay , „ .
peacefully aChis home on the night. Texas, but was’removed by Gen.
of May 13th. He was strickep
with paralysis of the lower limbs
about a week before', sod while
physically -helpless was in posses
sion c' 3*“* '*—-----
death claimed him. His wife and
only squ with some of their, most ------------- ~ . - 1
intimate ^.friends were’ ^t ‘ his | ing one of thq strongest legal firffljb
Ip November in obedience-to Governor Coke’s re-
_____ Conven-1
tion which adopted the present con-
stittition
j was re-,
ttwivu guvciuui, Hubbard' being
,ut ..u,va», v, *lso el®cted lieutenant governor,
baggers, who were given control of UP°? assembling of thelegisla-
■ ... ture, May, .1876, Governor Coke
i was elected to the United Statesi
The conduct of- Governor Coke
during this memorable crisis was,
such as to endear him to the Texas
people and his first message/o the
legislature ringing with. denuncia-
tions -of the methods of the
carpetbaggers and pledging to
the people a return M 40 dem-
ocratic government made him
not alonq the most prominent
but the most popular man in the
state. His campaign for governor ‘
had been a vigorous one and his at-
tacks'were at the
itji fitter war had been
made upon the constitution of the
sU{£, adopted in 1866, under the
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> from a wttgtm at Bowigrialiing nn 1 A^et
t sion of the brain bus resulted.
Neye Sniith Wai. bitten by a
copjierhead snake near Denison
His teg is swolen to an enarmous
size and be sutlers great, pain. * ■
In an altercation at Texarkana,
A la Green, a colored woman, was
thrown, striking a rail on the
Cotton belt track, breaking her
neck. . —
The Southern Interstate Orator- 9nJ’ i®Pr,|vement yt the wretched ■
ical association will hold its t,raes ”
seventh annual contest at the Uni
versify of Texas on the evening of
May 19. ' : '
Howell Taylor, a negro, was
killed about twelve miles north-
east of Marlin. _
other negro, was arrested, charged
with the crime.
Dan Walker, under sentence of
death for a murder at Bonham,
has been granted a fifteen day's’
respite by the governor' to give
the boat a of pardons time to con-
sider An application for commuta-
tion. .
While attending federal-court a
Paris, John Tidwell was Vrested
by the courity officials on a charge
of cattle theft. The offense is al-
leged to have been coi
in Cooke county over twenty-five
years ago
Joe and Alfred James were con-
victed in the district court of La- f --n>— * ----r;-
mar county for passing counterfeit' n/o resPcct *<>£• partii
money. Each was given a three r - ».
year/sentence in the-state peni. a“^tate ‘“JP^nt of
tentiary. Lon Richardson was
acquitted of the same charge.
A difficulty spurred at a popu-
list meeting twelve miles from
Goldthwaite, Mills county, with
the result that'Thos. B. Weathers
was fatally injured, Will Curtis was
shot through the thigh and John
Patton through the leg just above
the knee. ' It wass a reopening <of
an old quarrel over a trivial matter.
The parties are /bring men of geod
torial offitt and” Governor Coke ’‘““^ng and all iparried except
took possession. / CuHia. ’.
' Senator -Dehoe of Kentucky
of Cassius M.^Jity, for
His Funera| Last.Sunday Was One (jf^the Largest Ever Wit-
nessed in lexas—Biographical.
Hon. Richard Coke, one of the
ucutnui L/vuuv crx 111vj , giauuxst meu wuu lias Uvi|
" is said to have indorsed Brutus- make Texas history passed
Uay, son l* w .
Minister to SwitWtand.
The widow of Chief Justice
' 1 Woodward of—Pennsylvamay- -i*
dead. She was childless and .left
f300,00ffto distant relatives.
~ A U. S. gunboat will be sent to
•Alaskan waters to protect Ameri-
cans and American interests from
the raids of foreign adventurers.
At Cleveland, Ohio, a strike'is
on between two labor unions over
the proper division on piece work
for the Ship Building companies
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George Steptoe Washington,y>f
Phiiadelphja,. tf great-^reat-grand
nephew of Gen. Washington, has
been refused an invitation to the
unveiling of a monument to Wash-
ington in his home city.
The queen regent of Spain r^ftts
issued a decree authorizing the
raising of 8,000,000 pounds, to be
secured by the customs duties of
that kingdom, to meet the cost of
military operations in' Cuba and
the Philippine islands.
It is given out from Wall street
that Russell Sage js seeking to
/’ control the railroads x>f the south-
west now under the presidency of
Geb. Gould. He desires to wear
the crown of the late Jay Gould—
that of being bdes^pf the situatioii
: jinn.. ' ^ tiawaii is scared at the expec-
. jp Japanese war ship nt
Honolulu. She expects indemnity
/ to be demanded for the goyern-
ment’ef refusal to* allow Japanese
-----immigrante to land; but,sips cour-
age from the presence of a United
' States steamer.-^
It has been announced that tl
convention of Jews will lie held in
Germany, at Munich, this year,
. beginning August 2.5, the purpose
, of which will be the founding of a
Jewish state in the anolent land of -
Palestine, where Jews living in all
‘ parts' of the earth can come to-
gether in a home of their own;
Henry W. [Roberts, formerly
correspondent of the Houston Post
in Washington, .who resigned tp
—Ticcdpt the'position of secretary to .
Mr. Terrell, the American minis-
ter at Constantinople, and later
left Mr, Terrell to act as war cor .
respoiident for the London Daily
News at Salonica, han “been made a
prisoner by the turks. Congress-
man Sayers has asked-the state de-
partment tb insist that Mr. Roberts
be protected in alibis rights as am
American citizen. Roberts is 28.
Republican leaders in New Jer
sey are worried over a mistake of
“ Guv. Griggs. Under the. govern- .
or’s proclamation there is no power
~ to check legislation of the special
session. When the intention of the
governor was to call the legislature
simply to change the Word "pro-
vided” to-“prohibited” in the anti
gambling legislation, which must
. be submitted to the people in Sep-
‘ tember, the governor has recon-
vened the legislature without spe-» at W’00. ^h^re he began the prac-
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expected of. them. The anti-
gambling bill involves about, three
million dollar’s worth oT property.
All the trouble was caused by an
error of a pretty typewriter, who is
greatly worried over the mistake.
The Rio Grande Irrigation com- years‘later -and" he practiced law
pany has been operating under a
permit granted y»y- Secretary
Hoke Smith. About $200',000 has
, been spent and plans contemplate
ing an investment, 000,000.
laid out- Senor Romero, Mexican
minister, claims that the damming
of the Rio Grand would be a viola-
tion of the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo Under that treaty the
river is recogni
rafts AttdriAey General McKenna *
has decided that the Mexican Min-*'
ister’s contention is right, and on
this deciiion he has iss-ed an order
recting that criminal prosecution be posed of the counties of McLennan,
instituted. The irrigatian com- " " 0—:1,“~ r'—
", pany is backed heavily by British
capital and it is believed that the
action of ejc-Se’cretary Smith has
made this government liable for the
I damages which the the company
will sustain. The company was
organized to build the; largest ar-
tificial lake in the world. '
prevailed upon him to accept. A
year later later he was elected a
judge of the supreme court of
Shmidau as au impediment to re-
construction. * . - ■
After the Tbrockrporton admin
naj au istTatioQ vv.is 'ileposeS in w • , .
of -his giant intellect until Judge Cbke, M- D. Herring and j] officials^jbul
M. Anderson organized the firm.of
Coke, ’Herring & Anderson, makr
intimate ? inends were at his ing one ot tb^ strongest legal hrn^
bedside as his spirit passed over.the! in the state. This partnership donf- . meant a’ constitution and
divide. - tinued until 1873. I,. ...
.tte mttad couneii. ol tu ooUou . 7,„ nSfetFCiH
As a citizen soldier jurist and ; dect on ot Judg,e Soke was erno Hubbar
statesman he was without a super- X“fdicaIs or^arnet- also elec,e l lieutenant r
ior in loyalty, courage, ability or Acxas over ;ne radicals, or Tarpet-*
integrity. He was a s sincerely I “ZZ ‘
loved..be »a,«nive,s.llytr0,led. •£.u«.sov.^meo,XW'jX »“ ««««■ <• - «»««
af[er the war Th« leaders were taking jn, seat Marek , ol
departments of the state govern- . . . . rein* of nower ensuing yfear. . . "i
ment Were all closed, the flag on r g 1 f . ’ * He was re-elected in 1883 and in
capital lowered to half mast and 1889, and at the end of his third'
both housesof the legislature ad Lit^ra^^^rvaJduJ -m hTdecfin^ to l^ a^niiS
journed in honor of the man who ftb . lose Rodrivue» a Horace Chilton was elected to suc-
had so faithfully andhonorably, —Xmtetl 1>*la on ^th day of March, I.— ----------, — ..
served as legislalbr, district an<i jb . vo»jn„ Rodrieutz 189$ Senator Coke voluntsurily [pasbage pf the -hill, in consequence
UnPitZd StaZsgs^atngrOVerDOr- through his attorney, A. J Hamil- retired from official life, having of which there would be a large
United Sta^s senator. - . .1^ applied to Chief Justice Wes- t*rved his people faithfully twenty-Jmixirtatiou of wool, woolen goods, ... .
His funeral at Waco on Sunday ley Ogden of the state supreme one years, three years as governor sugat, etc. Such delay will inef-
was attended by a procession of sor court for a writ ot habeas corpus and eighteen year's as United States | itablytresult In* largely (nullifying
rowing friends, the largest,"per- The cte-e-came up under the stvfe ^"“tor. During all these years thejevenue qualities of the bill the
haps, ever witnessed in the state. of ex parte Ro. ngu. z and is re- his course was marked by a consis- first year.-; ...
■ tent adherence to democratic prin- Of course the estimate of an iu-
. ciples aud k loyalty to his party, creased revenue Jronxaugar through
innd at no time did'he lose the confi- au abrogation. <jL iha.'tp6aty
(deuce of We Texas people. Since Hawaii has nothing^ to do with
his retirement from the senate he tariff. tegislatfori:' •“ The revenue* *
declined to take any part in poll- from sugar u&der the house bil^^^
tics or appear at public meetings of (setting aside the question of abro-*
I , any kind. His health was not gating the Hawaiian treaty) would* .
g"od and he had been endeavoring be larger than under the senate
to live as quit as possible at his amendments? " , <* ——■—
home, a splendidbut unpretentious ‘ “Criticisms overlook the fact
[brick mansion on South Eighth, that the ways and means commit-
1 in the city of Waco. . ".tee estimates ofthe revenues the
“ ■ first year were based on the as-
LATE TEXAN NE1VN sumption- that the bill should be-
---—. c^me a law before May l.”\
Mi. Gimmuus, Agml <15,■ and Mrs. 1 —- virii p 1 irrv .....--
I Bozeman, aged OU, were married A rAKii- '
I ■ at Glade water. ■ ' ■ - ■.■'■"7- ___7>
I | r -, , Prmtrt.rt by John Wann.n>.k.r- Ho
1 weuty one women s c-Tubs met critietM*. si^Kiuiey. AWmint.tr.tioM.-
nt Wfcoaud formed the Federa- t Harrislm’s post master genera),
tion of Women s Clubs of Texas. John Wanamaker, recently create<| <
(1. Floyd- Bledsoe, was-thrown a sensation by a speecn at a ban-
| :fr»>rri~n witgon^■ Rewij), falling <m Hm-'t 111 Philadelphia • lie said, in
I | his he>vi. It is feared that concus-T^wt:
II .... . ... “The country is not prosperous.
Since the outset .of the last presi-
dential campaign the party press
and political leaderk generally .fixed
the November election as the date
of the beginning of good times. A
lull half of the ye«;r has expired
sippe the will,' of the republican
party was declared. Thus far but -
one of the issues of the campaign
is nearing settlement, and hardly
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Does Not Lt Me the Way ti\r Senate Ha»
/ Treatad HU Bill.
The first statement which Chair-
man Dingley of the house ways and
means Committee fias consented to «
make -since the tariff bill was v
amended by the senate committee
is as follows: ' •'
'“While thfe amendments to the y
bouse bill recommended by the
senate finance committee appear to
be multitddifious, about 200 of
them are mainly verbal, leaving
about 500 which change rates The,
effect of these amendments, as a
whole—outside of the that impos-
ing a’duty on tea for two years and,
a half and the amendment increas-
ing the internal revenue_Qn beer 44
cents per barrel for the sfmeperiod,
and the increase proposer! on to-
bacco and cigarettes—is. to pro- —" ■
duce less revenue than would be
yielded by the house bill.
“Tke amendment increasing the
duty on opium from $6 to $8 per
pound would not increase the reve-
nue, in the judgment of the admin-
istrators of the law, who say that
S6 per pound is the point which • .
will yield the largest revenue,r *
“Undoubtedly; the contingency
which would exert, the largest, in-
fluence on opium from $6 to f8
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Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1897, newspaper, May 20, 1897; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1302541/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.