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Kf.V -VA TINMAN THURSDAY MA1.CH 3 I&92.
What Can Cuticura Do
For Babys Sfo'n Scalp and Hair
Everything that is cleansing purifying and beautifying for the skin
scalp and hair of infants and children the Cuticura Reme-
dies will do. They afford instant relief and a speedy cure in the
most agonizing of itching and burning eczemas. They clear the skin
of the most distressing of scaly crusted pimply and blotchy humors.
They cleanse the scalp of dandruff scales and crusts destroy micro
scopic insects which teed on the
. . M.
rr r T "TIP? liatr ami supply ine roots witn
energy and nourishment. They
prevent inflammation and clog-
ging of the pores the cause of
pimples blackheads rashes
red rough and oily skin. They
heal rough chapped and fis-
sured hands with itching burn-
ing palms painful finger-ends
and remove the cause of shape-
less nails.
Thus from the simplest baby blemish to the most torturing and disfiguring diseases
If the skin and scalp even when complicated with hereditary or scrofulous taints
these peat ildn cures llood purifiers and humor remedies are equally successful.
Everything about them invites confidence. They are absolutely pure and may be
used on the youngest infant. They are agreeable to the most refined and sensitive.
They are speedy economical and unfailing.
W"Ari. Anoirr thb Skim Scalp and Haii" mailed free to nny address 64 pagei 300
Diseases 50 1 limitations and 100 Testimonials. A Look of priceless value to every sufferer.
CimciiBA Rr.MHDiES ore sold everywhere. Trice Cuticura the Great Skin Cure 50c.: Cun-
err a Soap an Exquisite Skin Hurificr and Ifeautilier ?o: Cuticura Kesolvbnt ll.e greatest
of liiood l'lirifiers aud Humor Remedies $1. prepared by 1'orraK Dhug and Cubm. COKf. liostuu.
For Baby's Skin Scalp and Hair
ns purest and sweetest of toilet and nursery soap. '" celebrated Cuticura Soap. The only
medicated toilet soap and the only preventive of Inflammation and dogging of the pores the cause
of pimples blotches rashes rough red. and oily skin. Sale greater than all other tkm and eorr;.
plexion soapi combined. Sold throughout lilt civiluwl woilil. fiiee C
is happiness.
Buy om of our celebrated water filters and
save sickness and expense.
i
life)
rrr
Every case of typhoid fever may have been
prevented if pure water only had been 1 used.
Call and see one in operation.
I.
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5
Next to Fostofuce.
In our new room wo have nearly every-
thing for kitchen and dining room. -
Cups and cancers 4rt (10 70 and
$ 1 por set.
l'latoa 6-iitch ;!" iound (Vm set.
Plates 6-i:ieh :!") 4"j and Coo set.
Plates 7-inch 10 65 and Too sot.
Plates 8-lneh 10 niid 00c set.
Wood Howls 10 "0 and 30c.
Painted Chamber Pails 3ja.
Galvanized Chamber Pails loo.
SPECIAL.
One 8o-pieco Dinner Sot Opaque
China $10.
Ono 5(1 piece Dinner Set Hand
Cli i mi $5.7".
10 piece Chamber Sets $3.90 $ i.r0
andfo.
3-pieco Painted Toilet Sets $1.45.
I Ji nip Chimneys No. 1 or 2 LaUas-
tn Glass.
Lump Chimneys No. V Common 5c.
Lamp Chimneys No. '2 lioet Lead
Flint ii for i!5e.
We want the ladies of Austin to feel free to
come in look around price good3 ask all the
questions they wish and to feel assured that it
will be all right if they do not purchase any.
thing.
SAUTER & HALLOCK 914-916 CORE ME
1892-
5 For Over Thirty Years
'. wo li.vt; ;iKv-.ys li.ul very rlcastnt dm lines together thft.
V r fl i i sovv -'ox vubi.c ruui imv:.v-ji. ana i nvMin n.uo ui pi'-astirc oi
-Cr-.- s-yti" - ''ir ' 'i .i -. rwii'i.tii.i; to them my Annual Vfit-.'trtUe and
-'V'Vjj ' i'li "'1 Cau!op;io. It contmis the tisu.tl
4'."-:i'y. V ' K jv' n-rJ y -' " J it :'ni"M v.iriotvof si-d witl. si'ih new kinds aUed
f'rf-r k1" rf- VfiU'g.h.ivr proved to br real acquisitions. KaiMtigniany
( ''i'iM'' '"I Oifc- 'Srtf&.ir ul tli'!- varieties myse'.l. on my four seed farms
i -12Ha 'iX lit L t Kf Ais and to imy otliers 1 am able to warrant their freh-
I iM S-i" f. rjy nsandputity.iuHlersuchn'.ipableconditionsasarecnn-
f9T yeK '-d; t.iioerl in my C ataloRue. Having Ihvii ilKir rriuinal intro-
tv "flv diiver. I am lu .n'timrters for clinice Cory Corn. M illt-r MeltMi.
ii-13ti'.?St irsur Eclirxe I'.eet. Hubbard Sutush. lieen ll.ml. All Seasons ami
IOf Hlfo anvil l.'.ibli.i?". l:n-.. ! tr. I':it.il.mu ratrRtnall. t
ioy tC m mafcAWao" J. .1 .
I. II. UKKOOKY itou.V Murblrheud. Mas.
CANTON
ALL STEEL
GOTTCUandGOniJ
PLANTER
BEST
OF ALL.
The t'AMTOJI
Planter has
BREAK PIN
ATTACHMENT
adapting it to use in
eeclioDS where other
pUntcri will not
work.
ft
?ARLIN
The most compli-tf l'lnntor made. tinnstrtiPtud cntitvly of Siecl exoerit hnmllcji.
i.u'rvfian- win iwii iw u-nra. I'ower aenvon ny it snnctntiimt iuiribL.lnu MUU.
nu i uuiii in mmum mm guiutr trusn. ruoilivt runtt rLtu I'lmnpeu irom
vuiwH iu irii iu h ivw uuuutvs. ji is me ncmesi Ptronpost tnnt tiintiHaQiid
uiyst IirmciiiiuriBnicronincmRriceiamiishULLV UUARANTEED. Ask your
ueaicrioritaiiuintenoninpr.H run null hpiifu-mint i.ah.ii.
iu r uii paniL'utare in circular sunt irve to any adiircts.
Wo also manufacture Canton Clipper Plows Volun-
teer and Victor Cultivators Disc Harrows Tri
cycle Sulky and Gang' Flows and
handle Buggies Carriages
Carts rumps. Wind uuis
Superior Grain Drills. Scientific;
Grinding Kills BAIN & COOPER
WAGONS. Write usfor your want
OHFNIIOhFF TiATmX.AB TEXAS.
t". -sT-r . -W--r i-!!
9c
U. GSO. till
FIRES THE OPENING GUN IN
THE CAMPAIGN OP 1892.
IT IS WAR TO THE END
He Arraigns the Present Administration For
tho Elective Commission The Alien
land Law and Using Public Of-
fice for Personal Ends.
HIS PLATFORM CLEARLY DF IKED
Spcviul to The Statesman.
Weatiikkfokd Tox.I'eb. 27.
Hon. Georgo Clark fired tho first gun
in the gubernatioiial campaign here
today. A largo crowd was present
and tho speech was received with en-
thusiasm. Weathorford was selected
for Judge Clark's opening speech in
reeponso to earuos-t solicitations of his
old friends this being the place where
as a penniless boy ho started out on a
life which has proven eventful hon-
orable and useful. Following Is a full
toxt of the oration:
Fellow Citizens:
It is said that after tho charge at
JJalaklava and which resultod In the
useless loss of many brave and valu-
ablo men tho cry went up from the
army as the remnant retreated back
to tho lineB "Somebody has blun-
dered." And so when we look abroad
at this fair land and recall the many
wonderful advantages vouchsafed to
us by a kind providence and which
ought to make us the freest and hap-
piest and most prosperous people
upon earth and realize the stagnation
around us the prostration of trade
tho loss of confidence tho oppression
of labor the destruction of invest-
ments the arrest of progress and the
general devastation and ruin which
rises up before our vision that same
cry repeated by the English soldiery
might well be repeated now wkh
reference to Texas for "somebody has
blundered." Texas today ought to
stand among tho sisterhood of states
the brightest and most peerless star
in the galaxy. God has done for us
more than we could have asked lie
has given us a land fruitful beyond
computatiou an atmosphere more
irenial than any eujoyeu by ino cun
dren of men and a poople who will
compare most favorably with the best
the bravest and tho truest of which
history gives account. And yet no
thoughtful citizen ot the stato who re-
spects his reputation for veracity can
say and suy truthfully that Texas is
prosperous today. I'or some reason
her development has been arrested
prosperity lias leit her borders
STAGNATION AND JiLIGHT
have conio upon her peonle her agri
culturo is depressed her "labor fitils to
find remunerative employment her
money is garnered in banks her peo
pie uro tlistressed bej'ond measure
And yet sho is tho banner Democratic
state of the Union. It is to be
supposed that her government
and her laws are based upon
Democratic principles. If these
principles and their application havo
produced these results as legitimate
consequences I do not hesitate to
say for myself that I am ready to aban
don any party wntcn advocates ineni.
If a strict adherence to the teachings
of Thomas Jetl'erson havo resulted In
prostrating these people and bringing
them to their political and commer-
cial ruin causing desolation to sit upon
their hearthstones and sadness to rest
in their hearts" these principles have
been erroneous and ougnt to no aban
dotted by a free people. But if on the
contrary this result has been attained
by au evasion or a perversion of those
principles we cannot go back too soon
to thoir reassertion and ought not to
neglect or forego any eilort until they
are re-established as the land marks
of our government. For one I do not
hesitato to say and I believe it with
a fervor equal to that of nn enthusiast
that all the evils and all the ills under
which our people now sufler como
from a departure ltom the true princi-
ples of democratic government as
taught by the fathers of tho repub-
lic and that we can trace every well
founded complaint uttered bv any
man or by any class in our midst to
a neglect either irom ignorance or de-
sign of those principles which must be
the essential basis of every well or
ganized republic.
THE TROVHLE HAS 11EF.K
fellow citizens that in our mad rush
for wealth and for power and forolllco
we have not .been careful to preserve
tho true land marks and the true
principles of genuine liuerty in our
country. Too frequently we have
been disposed to sacrifice principle for
expediency to base our political ac-
tion upon what we thought might
win and not upon what we thought
was right. And the result has
been that our platforms of party
principles have become paper
promises and their fulfillment
has been usually poet potted to 6ome
more convenient season so as to evade
responsibility or to retain place. It is
time my fellow citizens that "we
should call a halt on this line of po-
litical action. If we are a party of
principles we must assert thoso prin-
ciples and not only standby them but
be ready to fall with ttem and for
them. If we are a party of trimmers
the sooner we acknowledge it and dis-
integrate the better ior ourselves aud
the country. In so far as the govern-
mental evils under which we are la-
bel ing may come from Federal sources
every Democrat can very well con-
gratulate himself that we aa a party
cannot be chargeable therewith for
we have not had possesion of this
government for thirty years. Jt is
t.-uo wo may not have done all we
should have done to ubolish that Fys-
teiu 01 legislation which bus precipi-
tated these evils upon the county aud
our sins of omission may be many but
except in rare instances no sins of
commission can be properly laid at
our doors. I say in rare instances
because we are
NOT ALTOGETHER JII.AMELESS
even upon this basis. fcJome of tho
most advanced steps towards central-
ism in our government have been pre-
cipitated upon the couutry through
Democraticinstrumentality. I allude
to the interstate commerce law and
tho oleomargarine law but I do so
not with the inspiration of carping
citicism but simply as illustrative of
the tendencies of the times and of the
broad road we aro traveling to de-
struction. I have no desire or inten-
tion to enter upon the question of
Federal politics neither does it con-
cern me in this campaign who shall
be president. 1 have already spoken
upon Federal questions with no un-
certain sound aud I retire those is-
sues hero and now with the simple re-
mark that notwithstanding any mis-
takes of the Democratic party
1 doclino to join in any rebel-
lion against the organization
of the party and expect to support its
nominees most heartily no matter
who they may be. I am here today to
discuss Texas interests solely to join
issuo with those who havo been in
power in Texas for two years past and
to lay before you my views of tiio situ-
ation and tendencies of legislation in
order that with joint counsels we may
improve our condition. I am here as a
candidate for governor iu opposition
to tho candidacy of the Hon. James S.
Hogg tho present incumbent of that
ollice. I am not here to abuse him
personally or to say aught against
him in so far as he as an individual is
conco'iied. With his personality I
have no concern. I propose t j deal
ONLY WITH 1113 I'UtlLIC ACTS
as a servant of the people. And I am
candid enough to say loyou that if
as governor of Texas he has proved
faithful in all things; if he has upheld
and protected your constitution; if he
has faithfully and unselfishly admin-
istered your laws; if ho lias so acted
as to manifest that he has regarded
your former confidence as a sacred
trust to be administered solely for the
public benefit and not as a personal
chattel to be used in the interest and
for the behoof of himself and his
chosen friends; and if under his ad-
ministration contentment and pros-
perity have come to your homes and
happiness reigns upon your hearth-
stones you would be an unwise people
to demand his retirement in behalf of
any other candidate for he would be
entitled to a re -nomination and re-
election at your hands. If however
tie nas proved uulaithiul; if he has
disregarded your constitution either
through design or ignorance; if he has
administered your public affairs as if
they were private property belong-
ing to himself and to be
used only for the benefit
aud advancement of himself and his
friends; and if under his rule and as
a consequence thereof prosperity has'
spread her wings and sailed away to
other lavida leaving behind her many
hopeless hearts and ruined homos and
a general prostration of material and
commercial advancement then you
would be equally uuwjgp jf you did
not demand an immediate change in
that ollice.
There can be little of sentiment in
your decision fellow citizens. The
question is purely practical. Indi-
viduals or individual interests so far
as the incumbency of public office is
concerned couut'as aa infinitesimal
quantity when compared with the
welfare of a whole people; and tho un-
written law of a mere custom cantiTit
outweigh tho public security aud the
public interests. That under ordina-
ry conditions it has been a party cus-
tom with us to continue a governor in
oflico for two terms is not pregnant
even with the suggestion that this
custom must be observed to our det-
riment. If the present governor of
Texas deserves a second term at j'our
hands he will receive it; if measured
by his publicacts ho fails to come up
to this standard he ought not to re-
ccivo it. This is the sole question for
your decision.
I am not vain enough to assume
that even tho governor or myself are
indispensable to Texas or to the par-
ty. Doubtless there are other citizens
of the state who could serve her bet-
ter than either. Indeed a wail comes
from some smircc-s that
NEITHER OF US
are desirable in the present emergen-
cy. But nevertheless the governor
aud myself are here and " circum-
stances have made us opposing candi-
dates for the highest ollice within
your gift. Speaking for myself aud
knowing the governor as I do I
think also I could speak for
him iu this behalf. we
havo entered apon this race
because we are proud to represent op-
posing ideas iu government; and so
far as I am concerned and the go. -
fiuui eau speaK ior uimseit when he
addresses the iwnnlo f taf t
- 1 f .v HUJ U
candidate for my health nor am I a
uumiuuiie in oenan oi any one else
nor have I anv irW nf
claims (if claims I have) for the bene-
in nuu uuvauiuge oi some lellow who
is sitting in the grass waiting for
nominating lightning to strike him.
There is no room in this race for a
politician of tho neuter gender. There
is no special demand nr. thin innfn.
for the appearance of some pliant fel-
iuw wnu uappenea to be made at a
time when barkhnnpa tmrt n-;.
and the Lord used n IpIIv tni. u
j.uijjusu u supplying mat poriiou of
l.ta IMInlnn.n fl'l ill
. ... i. "ere win ue no room
in this fight
. FOIt A HYBRID TICKET
composed of a fhln
ger. 'lhls is a contest of ideas; it is a
battle of principles and it will be
fought to a finish before the people of
Texas between Gov. Hogg r.nd my-
self regardless of dark horses or an v
other kind of a nni.io an-voi rm..
- Huiuiai lug
governor will want to be ie-elected on
the principles and policies represented
by his administration and I will seek
the same high honor upon the princi-
ples I advocate. The advantage if
advantage it be that I hold over him
is that his day for promises has
passed and he must now bo judged
by his performances; his public acts
are now ou trial before you fellow
citizens aud hi3 past promises are
useml only fjr pui poses of compari-
son. The day of undue passion and
excitement of angry prejudices
aroused or harsh words ypokeu be
cause of intolerance of opinion of false
hopes excited by promises incapable
of lulfillment have all passed thank
tiod never to return I hope
and we staud today amid a peaceiul
atmosphere with the clear sunligh
beaming upon us in full effulgence
enabling us to search all places and
fiud the living truth.
That the condition of Texas has
changed within the past two years
aud changed for the worse no man
can deny. Her people are burdened
as they never were before; her ma-
terial development is arrested; her
farmers in great measure are impov-
erished; her laborers are without em-
ployment; her commerce and business
is stagnant aud nearly two-thirds of
tne state still awaits devolopment.
Only two years ago your retiring ex-
ecutive congratulated the state in his
farewell message upon tho flattering
measure of prosperity widt h then ob-
tained with our people. Today a blight
seems to have settled upon us and
prosperity is a reminiscence Our
lands the
CHIEF I1ASIS OF OUlt WEALTH
and our credit by reason of constant
attack upon our titles are unsaleablo
and unpledgable and our banks only
are possessed of any money. The la-
boring masses aro crying aloud for
some relief and even the accumula-
tions of tho rich are taking wings and
flying away we know not how we
Know not where. Money which
moves the world comes to it's no more
aud tho little wo dig out of tho ground
leaves us ns wo reach out our hands to
grasp it. This condition of stagnation
comes with peculiar hardship upon
the poor. Usually wealth is not af-
fected by Ettch depression; it is always
able to take care of itself and capital
when unprotected or antagonized
seems to possess wings with which it
can fly to other lands aud thereenable
its possessors to revel in their accus-
tomed luxuries; but the poor must
remain and starve for thev
havo no other alternative. If it
be a crime on the part of the govern-
ment to oppress capital how much
nioro grievous how much more dam-
nable is it when by means of such .op-
pression it lays its heavy hand on
labor for labor cannot live without
employment and stagnation moans
for it starvation.
Now it would be unjust to charge
the whole responsibility for this con
dition of affairs upon the present ad-.
ministration in Texas. It comes from
several causes: from a scarcity of eirmi-
lation; from the robbery of a tariff
which ruuiiessiy tramples ns under
foot for the benefit of a favored few
and deprives us of the power of mak
ing exchanges of our products for the
products oi otner countries who wish
to trade with us and buy of us; and it
comes also from an organized system
of robbery under various guidauces
by wntch under tho form of legisla-
tion the functions of our government
have been perverted to the accom-
plishment of private ends and for pri
vate gnins. But tho chief cause eo
far as Texas is concerned is attributa-
uie
TO OUR OWN ACTION.
V.'o havo passed through dir.ilr.r
emergencies in the past but without
such conditions as confront us today.
The crash of 1873 found Texas pros-
perous and its effects YVPrA KnnKU.li-
perceptible hero because tho prostra-
uuu m uinerianus and in oilier states
coupled with theliberal laws and in-
ducements then held out by Texas to
he world brought to us a tide of pop-
ulation and a flow of capital for in-
vestment which enabled our people
to secuie piosperity without being re-
minded of the fact that other states
and other countries less fortunately
situated were suileriug serious evii.
Today the states of tiio Korth and of
the Fast and of the West and of tho
Northwest aro prosperous and their
people contented; even from somo
states of tho desolated fcouth and
.southeast comes no wail of
discontent uut Texas which before
surpassedall of hereisten in the ra-
pidity of her development and build-
ing up stands today the chief sufTerer;
and for what? Because iu an evii
hour we listened to the demagogue
and forirot our wisrinm nn .fvi
' " - . uui I'ClllJH-
were taught to believe that those who
fame ainoii us 10 ueip us build up
the state were public enemies nnd
ought to be in our penitentiaries. They
were taught to believe by designiii"-
and unscrupulous partisans that the
chief function of the railroads of (he
stato was
TO lion THE PEOl'LE
of their substance and that they were
rioting in their ill-gotten wealtb.wben
a slight investigation would have con-
vinced the most skeptical what your
commission already admits.that much
of the railroad mileage of the slate
w-as bankrupt. It was charged that
the stock of tho railroads had beou
nnteieu itnu mat me people were be-
ing taxed in order to pay dividends on
watered stock when in truth and in
fact as is well k
has never been a railroad in Texas
uiai ee paid ono dollar of dividend
on its stock. They were told that
bonds to an nnlimUnri nmnni i i
been issued upon the mileage of the
tauiuuua ami mat in order to pay the
iuteiest on these bonds the people
were being ground to the earth by
h f hncn ah.. ... . 1 .
uj uuaeiujjiuous carriers. And
there was scarce a railroad in the
state that paid it8 interest ..n mv-
tiling except the first mortgn-r.. bonds
and usually unon tho i.io
$18000 to the mile cheaper than tin?
iuuu cottiu oe imitt fit tfao present
tiniO. TllfV WPVO trvlrl -! u .
prehension tilled them with alarm i ba t
aliens were swarming upon us indi-
viduals and enrnornf imm c
upon and gradually' absorbing the
lands of the state so as to
deprive our people of their homes-
when as a matter of fact if there was
one thing above another which an
alien did not want it was Texas land.
And the people grew desperate by re-
flecting upon these evils so greatly
magnified and entered upon a career
of legislation which scarce has a par-
allel in the history of republican com
monwealths we threw behind us
in our efforts to reach a remedy and a
preventative for evils many of which
were imaginary v
PRINCIPLES OF GOVEKSJIENT
sanctified by tho blood and efforts of
otir ancestors in their struggles for
liberty and the effect of our action
has been only to vitidicata in lines of
sorrow the soundness of these princi-
ples. We proclaimed to tho world by
our votes that wo did not wart other
people's money to come ) and
help us develop this great . dand
other people havo kept thti: iaoney
at home. We announced in a manner
equally official and authoritative that
we believed rhilroads were a curse to
the country and we wanted no more
of them built and the world has
taken us at our word and has not
built any more for us. No Texan has
ever been found'foolish enough to put
much of his money in a Texas rail-
road and tho Yankee has been equal-
ly as smart as the Texan for there is
but little Yankee money in a Texas
railroad. They had hotter use for
their money up in the East and so
they prevailed upon the alien to come
aud put his money in railroads here
through them and the railroad mile-
age of Texas represents to a great de-
gree the confidence of the alien. The
Eastern man had better use for his
money; ho kept it in the shape of
mouoy so as to depredate upon us
whenever our crops began to move
and thereby ho had Fhown more sa-
gacity than tho alien for ho doubles
it pretty much every Beaton either in
interest or in speculation. Aud in order
to seo that he is duly fostered and
encouraged in hi3 depredations we
passed an alien law which has result-
ed only in driving the alien from us
and preventing him from dealing di-
rectly with us and enabling the
Yankee to borrow tho alien's money
at 4 per cent and lend it to us at 10.
The logic of Governor Hogg's election
two years ago was tho culmination of
a series of aggressions upon capital
which had been invited here for In-
vestment under a guarantee of protec-
tion. It was the closing act of a long
war inaugurated for political pur-
poses and its result has cost Texas
and her people many many millions
of dollars.
I am not here for tho purpose of
DEFENDING RAILROADS
for they have abler men than niytelf
employed for that purpose. I have no
connection with them and no special
iuteiest in them except in so lar as
their interest niay comport with ihe
interest of the people of Texas lteceut
lessons iu government have taught us
that these interests are reciprocal and
inter-dependent aud that a blow-
aimed at one will necessarily recoil
upon the other. Texas cannot destroy
her railroads without bringing ruin
upon her people no more than she
could destroy her people without in-
jury to her railroads. We are in the
same boat and must float or sink to-
gether. There was no necessity fellow citi-
zens for a disturbance of business or a
terrorism of investments from the
passage of a commission law or an
alien land law. Other states have
these laws upon (heir statute books
which have worked no serious detri-
ment to their people but not such
laws as Governor Hogg recommended
and approved. The administration of
railroad affairs hy a commission is
not necessarily hurtful to the
i.iiixuiiuo oj. iu the state
if conservatism prevails in our legis-
lation and administration. It was
promised us two years ago by (hose
who felt that (he problem of railway
control was unfnlvable excep't
through . the form of a commission
that no radicalism should obtain in
our legislation and that (hose of us
who wero distrustlul of tho plan were
unnecessarily alfimcd. But tho re-
sult has more than vindicated the
gravity of the apprehension and we
have today upon tho statute book of
.1 exas a constitutional monstrosity in
tho shape of law as the result of our
experiment. I undertake to say as a
lawyer and if the test is ever applied
in any court I am willing to submit
my vindication to (he judgment of
the court this commission law un-
der which 8.500 miles of railroad are
being operated managed and con-
(rolltd today in Texas
WILL NOT STAND ONE HOUU
of judicial scrutiny in (he supreme
court of Texas on account of its vio-
lation in many provisions of both our
state and federal constitutions. That
it has not been attacked is due. per-
haps as much to my own efforts as
to any other cause for my advice has
been to these people to obey the law
and trust to tho justice of the people
of Texas for a remedy. I have told
them that the people of Texas are a
liberal people and a just people; and
toat they would not tolerate wrong
on their own part when discovered.
And if it could be made to appearto
them that gross injustice was being
donoany person or any interest they
would bo more prompt to i remedy
that injustice at the ballot boxlhan
would a court and the remedy they
applied would be more efficacious.
This commission law is not the result
of the matured judgment of your law-
makers. It was driven through the
legislature under whip and spur and
few of the members understood its
provisions or their effect.
It came as the
ULTIMATUM OF THE GOVERNOR
and was so announced and understood
upon the floor of both houses of the
legislature It was declared that its
amendment would not be tolerated-
fr th VVe1r' beingr resPnsible
for the commission demanded this
rairiH00r."f0tbiil'ir'and the leislature
yielded its judgment and passed the
law. Other measures were proposed
. ...v.ouiaiiime jarmore fust
in d nioie fn-f ftoin constitutional ob-
.l';"t.o" bi.MbA seed fell upon stony
places. The Hon. Thomas J. Brown
a distinguished member of the house
from Grayson county who had de-
voted years of study to the question
and after due ncubation had matured
a bill designed to correct the evils in
railway management introduced his
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