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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1893.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1802
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Galveston, Tex., March 3,1892.
WHAT OF THE TRANSITIONf
Congressman Harter is mentioned by Mr.
Cummings in the New York Sun to have said
in congress that ho is in favor of the free coin-
age of silver provided everybody be free to
accept or refuse it after it is coined. He does
not want any one to be forced to take a silver
dollar if it does not seem worth as much as a
gold dollar. With that statement Congressman
Harter takes up a position which in its reason
is impregnable for all anti-patemalists, That
is to say assuming that ho means as far as
future contracts are concerned. Possibly,
however, he insists on his rule being laid
down as to existing contracts, in which case
the equity can be much disputed. If the law
does not make a general creditor nccopt the
object named as a dollar the law does not
really make a dollar of it. The permission to
the creditor to pick and choose between dol-
lars, after the contract and where the contract
was silent, is something that when supported
by authority implies invasivo government. It
is apparently in accord with reason to conclude
that if a certain coin will pay a debt there can
be no fundamental wrong in paying it in an-
other coin of the same kind aud quantity of
metal. The apparent or circumstantial
wrong, as contended by the other side to exist
in such proceeding, accuses a pre-existing pa-
ternal limitation, which alone could have
causod an artificial value in use to attach to
the limited coinuge at the moment that it was
borrowed, whereafter it does appear that even
liberty which increases supply works a hard-
ship to the creditor as an investor. There is
certainly no perfect reconciliation of interests
of debtors and creditors, investors in old re-
strictions and enterprisers iu new production
and service which destroys the advantages of
the old restrictions. Some disappointments
or compromises of interest are inevitable.
The interesting question for the future, to
really thinking men, should bo to get upon a
basis that will not cause further injustice or
tie Gordian knots. With a fresh start Mr.
Harter's idea would lead to specific contracts,
a premium on gold if it shall be worth a pre-
mium, honest understandings, honest doaling,
no paternalism of suppression or of forcing
alleged equality of values. Thus it is admir-
able. On the other hand the silver men are
patching freedom with compulsion, declar-
ing for an ambiguous or fiat paper
money; shutting their eyes to a possible gold
premium and advancing to measures of force
such as have always sent gold abroad: pretend-
ing to make different thingB equal by law.
In this hist error they are encouraged by
nearly all statesmen. Why shut their eyes to
the facts of nature? Silver and gold will vary
in value like lead and iron. 'Law can not alter
the fact. It can only do violence to it. Sena-
tor Voorhees, for example, spoke on February
29 for "a full and sutliciont volume of money
in circulation, consisting of gold, silver and
legal tender paper currency, at par with each
other and interconvertible." The project is
presumptively illusory, for the conditions seem
to implj otlicial limitation, but an ollicial de-
cision of what shall be deemed a full and sutTL
cient volume is a self-evident impertinence
with regard to business needs and
liberty in goneral. What Congressman
Harter's side of tho question is
suffering from now is the consequence of not
having held and lived up to the affirmative
side of Mr. Harter's doctrine. It is nice to be
in favor of free coinage on a rational basis
after about twenty years of bitter opposition
to free coinage, during which time they in-
sisted, contrary to nature, that diverse sub-
stances should have a fixed parity of exchange.
A timely re-establishment or a continuous
maintenance of free coinage would have en-
abled thom to plead with advantage for the
sacred right to contract for gold. A timely
repentance for tho greenback repudiation of
the war, when creditors were forced to take
depreciated paper for coin that they had
loaned, would have been a better shield
against the new fiatism which is threatened.
Governor Hogg says: "Stop tho calamity
howlers." If Governor Hogg had not started
the calamity howlers it would bo a doal more
becoming in him to order them stopped.
THE WOOL DUTIES AND II.'RESPONSI-
BLE ADMINISTRATION.
The New York Tribune says that neither
Mr. Springer, who is supposed to have framed
the wool and woolens bill, nor any oue of his
associates or supporters, has met the questions
which that bill raises at tho very threshold of
discussion. These questions are two: Who is
to be benefited by the proposed changes of
duties? and how shall the revenue be raised
which it is proposed to cut off by thoso
changes? It contends that not tho least trace
of an intelligent answer to either question can
be found in the report of the committee rec-
ommending the bill or in the arguments of
its supporters thus far. Then the Tribuno
proceeds:
In any other self-governing country those who
propose a measure of this sort are obliged to
meet such questions as these at tho outset, or to
see their bill thrown into the waste basket.
Imagine, for instance, that a measure reducing
the revenue by mauy millious had been offered iu
the British parliament It would not bo support-
ed by anybody, even by tho political associates of
those who proposed it, unless nccompaii>v*l by
a clear statoinent of the benefits to bo vlerived
nnd of the mode of raising tho revenue to. be cut
off. If such a statement wore refused, u'ie party
in power would instantly decline to consider the
measure, and ministers would be forctyti to offer
explanations, both intelligent and faiv. or to get
out of office without delay. Is there any reason
why a similar responsibility should not attend
tho proposal of a bill to greatly reduce the reve-
nue in this country?
Perhaps the reader will bo disposed to draw
the inference that tho difference between tho
two political systems, direct a»d speedy re-
sponsibility on the oue side and a present irre-
sponsibility on the other, is the main question
upon which the Tribune has glided by mis _
chance. The wool bill and its managemo'
are pretty certain in some way to exhibit ■'the
working of the comparatively lrrespon*' iblo
congressional system, as other measures <?o.
The fact does not relieve the Tribup e of
peculiarity among republicans for sc , (iis_
tinctly advancing the superiority of the ; >arlia-
mentary system of responsible mil titers.
The ways and means committee does d 0t have
to justify its bill in every respect and 1 or these
good reasons: It is not the admiD iatration
and not removable at pleasure. X Qder the
foreign system which the Tribune praises the
house majority would constitute an executive,
the republican cabinet would resign and then
thero would be unity in the committee
majority and tho treasury administration:
moreover tho wholo management under the
president would depend for continuance in
office on it keeping a majority of the house.
Dealing with the wool bill merely brings up
the radical difference of systems. When such
questions are raised as the Tribune propounds,
one is reminded of other not less but more
startling phenomena. Some time ago the
country was being legislated for by a republi-
can majority and yet thero wero staying at
home and waiting a year for their seats a ma-
jority of democratic members of a now houso
already elected. Why did not the old con-
gress step down and let the new one assemble?
It would have boen so under the foreign sys-
tem which tho Tribuno uses for comparison.
At this time the cabinet is composed of gontle-
inen who can not get the support of the house
for their party and fiscal moasures, yet they
do not resign. Thiings can not go on so uu-
der the excellent foreign representative dem-
ocratic system which the Tribuno lauds. Of
course, however, tho republican organ is ex-
aggerating when it declares that no interest is
shown to be benefited. In a certain sense it
would be an uncommon merit to have legisla-
tion which would not bo for the purpose of
benefiting any interest more than another.
Free wool is to benefit the manufacturers and
the consumers, and not to hurt the wool grow-
ers, it is considered, as the stimulus to manu-
factures by different wools to mix and the
cheapening of woolens should brighten the
market for domestic wool by promoting con-
sumption. The revenue question would moet
consideration if the democrats wero in office
with power to pass a comprehensive rovenue
bill. The wool bill is for tho present a chal-
lenge or campaigmcard.
By tho time the people get together the dem-
agogue is out of sight.
THE RECORD INTRODUCED.
Governor Hogg's record as a public man is
phenomenally monumental with official fail-
ures. It can not be shown that his interven-
tion as attorney general in tho International
and Great Northern railroad muddle was of
any benefit to the state or to anybody except
his personal friends. The supremo court of
Texas held that this intervention was without
just cause and inherently futile. So tho
courts have held in several other litigations
and sensational demonstrations in which ho
assailed simultaneously and sweepingly rail-
roads and private laud titles. Since ho has
been governor his mistakes have been quite as
conspicuous. He signed and approved tho
"alien land law," which has been declared
headless and unconstitutional by tho highest
court of the state. Other acts of tho last Ieg-
latrure quite as invalid, including an effort
(chapter 77) to grant to tho commissioners'
court of any county tho right to confiscate tho
property of residents in tho territory of de-
funct municipal corporations, declared by t|io
supreme court of the stato to havo never had
legal existence, which act is clearly an assump-
tion by the legislature of authority to create a
debt for the citizen without his consent, wero
signed and approved by Governor Hogg. His
political suits as attorney general won votes
for him, but were afterward dismissed at great
cost to the stato by competent judicial author-
ity. There is no room foo- donial of this fact.
The so-called laws referred to, passed with de-
liberation by tho two houses and deliberately
approved by him, havo, rrfter great and useless
expense and delay, been consigned to the
dumping heap of legislative abortions. If
Governor Hogg had never becsn a lawyer tlieso
mistakes would weigh less agafnst him. Hav-
ing been an attorney for years and
knowing presumably the caro and accuracy
required in matters of this kin tl- for him to
approve acts of the legislature so clearly un-
constitutional defies excuse or pa'Jliation. Tho
proverbial tyro whose license has not yet lost
the odgr of fresh ink knows tin it tho legisla-
ture has no authority to create a private
debt. It is quite safe to assert t hat thero aro
not a dozen lawyers in Texas wlho do not un-
derstand that the defendant in a lawsuit has a
right to some sort of service or notice in suits
against him. Yet Governor lie >gg, when at-
torney general, actually sought by a suit
brought i'n Dallas to forfoit tho c barter of the
Trunk railroad without giving < 4ie defendant
either notice or a day in court. ..He failed in
this just as ho failod in other tstnts of a liko
charact* r. Surely it is not eves', necessary
that a gi jvernor should have boen a lawyer in
order to know that overy act of tho legislature
must ha ve its caption, sotting forthi briefly only
one su bject of legislation. Tho friends of
Governor Ilogg cannot deny those mistakos
m the» very face of tho record. Otther acts of
tho legislature will bo found u acon.stitutional
as soc »n as they aro brought befbro the courts
for judicial dissection. Anothier mistake of
Govet rnor Hogg was the sud flea and unox-
pecto u appointment of Mr. Ohilton to the
senat o. But this and other Lais takes in the
way of personal favoritism are far less im-
port ant and significant than th pse committed
in Lis efforts to ovorride thccortstitution while
he. was attorney goneral and in his failure to
consult it beforo approving ' ihe unconstitu-
tional acts of the legislature. The latter class
X)f mistakes prove Governor Hi >gg to bo a man
of much less ability than thio high office of
governor requires. His otficia/. record is pro-
fusely punctuated and blazon ail with heroic
failures.
——
If Governor Hogg is re-elect«Kl the result
will provo that the prejudices oif the people
are stronger than their commcc ^ense.
A^.iaiia sioner Foster finds souno track out
of repair, whenever Judgo Cilaiik goes and
makes a. break for the place with his pockets
full of f/p ikes to fix it. Great seotion boas;
but can'*, lay track like Boss Pceagan.
Gov/eb:nor Hogg's record, both as attorney
j^no'/al and as governor, is fuill of blunders—
tho fA-ipreme court of Texas being the chief
witi toss.
T^he politiciansTaiso their bristles as soon
as ever "Miey hear Judgo Clark coming.
'"The gold brick swindler is one great educa-
tor who does not seem to educate. The world
is alive with fools aud tlioy must have their
green goods to comfort them.
It is t8ie wool that has been pulled over the
«eyes of the American voter that keeps his
pocket empty.
Govewnor Hogg, who went in on a howl,
now waoits the calamity howler euppressed.
Hon. Hamlet Gossett fai'ted utterly to
carry Kemp for Chilton, broke liis campaign
off at thie handle and quit.
Senator Hill, talked to the JMi9sissippians
yesterday on the force bill. Now, that is
easy. rl!here is not a democrat who is not as
much opposed to the force bill as is Senator
Hill. Tue democratic party wants to run no
risk of having a force bill passed and signed
by a republican president, and therefore it
does not yant to risk the next election on Sen-
ator Hill or any other candidate whose record
would alienate a considerable number of hon-
est independent voters in the critical state of
New York.
Texas to Tennessee—"Mo too, Pete."
SNAP SHOTS.
Remember, young man, that there is a limit
that no man can afford to raise.
Man formerly had four feet, but he decided
to deal the cards with two of them.
Tho world is so crowded that one must
stand still if he wants to keep off the toes of
somebody.
Wreigh your words. Say less and say more.
The highest typo of ambition is not merely
an appetite for reward.
THE STATE PHESS.
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
General Claiborne is still booming the "city
of New Birmingham" in the Times:
To-day with nearly 400 buildings completed
and occupied, she claims, and justly so, a
population of 1000. Her streets are all graded.
Her business houses are of the very best class
of brick buildings. She has a magnificent
hotel, which cost about $G5,000, and is fur-
nished with all the modern improvements,
such as electric lights, call bells, hot and cold
baths and water closets on every floor. Her
streets and houses are lighted by electricity.
She has planing mills, sash and door factory,
wagon factory, three modem steam brick
manufactories, bottling works, steam laundry,
and electric light plant and many other man-
ufacturing concerns now oeing negotiated for.
The water is freestone, clear, pure and cold,
with many chalybeate, white sulphur and
alum springs, whose medicinal properties are
unexcelled.
Tho Goliad Guard says:
The Galveston. News is doing yeoman ser-
vice for the Waco candidate for governor,
while the little boomlet of Galveston's favor-
ite son languishes for the want of some one to
care for it Governor Hogg says tie up the
calamity howlers. What will provo a benefit
to the future political prospects of the present
executive will be to tie up Finley, the chair-
man, of the state democratic, exocutive com-
mittee. He is coarse and vulgar. A few more
speeches such as he made at lylor will forever
ruin the prospects of Hogg.
The Jasper News-Boy says:
Our farmers are .in the best of spirits, and if
things continue as favorable throughout the
year they wouldn't care anything about who
is governor. They will be as independent as
a hog on ice. Let politics go to grass this
year and let us all pull for old Jasper county,
our schools, our roads, our churches and de-
velopment of our resources.
The Woodville Eureka seems to lean that
way. It quotes an article which says:
Attend to your businoss; allow tho poli-
ticians to do the talking; go to the primaries,
elect honest and sensible men as delegates to
tho state, congressional, senatorial and county
conventions; resume your work, allowing tho
politicians to continue the talk, go to the polls
on election day and knock the demagogues
and self-soekers out of the ring.
Texas papers seldom boast of the health
and longevity of the people. The facts are too
familiar to attract attention. The death rate
does not seem to exceed 15 per annum to
the 1000 inhabitants. A late; publication
says, in speaking of la grippe:
The deaths in London in tho two middle
weeks of January were 1500, and 1762 over the
average of the corresponding weeks of tho
last ten years. The average rato Of mortality
in London in the mouth of January for some
years past has been 24 per 1000. The rate for
tho first four weeks of this year was 42, J12.8,
40 and 40 per 1000. The death rato for that
usually healthful winter suburb, Brighton,
went up to 60.9 for the third week in January,
whilo towns that had not been smitten by the
scourge showed death rates from 10 to 20 per
1000.
It is generally the toad that is swallowed by
other reptiles, but the El Paso Herald gives
an instance in which the harmless reptile
came out on top:
In the courthouse yard there aro quite a
number of large, sleek looking toads. One
of these toads was seen by the loungers about
the templo engaged in an earnest attempt to
swallow something that seemed to tax all his
energies. A closer examination revealed tho
fact that the toad had seized a centipede by
the rear end and was slowly and placidly stow-
ing him away within his jaws, in spite of the
victim's frantic efforts to escape. Nearly one-
half of the reptile had disappeared, when tho
centipede, with the unincumbered balance of
his 100 feet, succeeded in getting a ground
hold ?uid with a desperate effort freed himself
from the jaws of the devourer and was mov-
ing rapidly away when the toad, finally realiz-
ing the situation, made a jump, and again
caught his victim. Tins time tho centipede
seemed to realize the hopelessness of his situa-
tion and frantically turned to the right and
left, each time nipping his enemy severely
upon the lips and head, but all to no purpose.
The toad would coolly brush away these at-
tacks, first with one foot, then the other, all
tlie time taking the centipede in, until at last
nothing remained but tho toad calmly and
serenely seated upon his haunches considering
the next move.
Tho Fort Worth Mail advertises a pawn-
broker's sale of "unredeemed pledges, very
low." Wait until the next election is over and
that kind of goods will be more abundant.
The Uvalde Herald says:
There can scarcely be a doubt that this rep-
resentative district is for Mills for the senate.
If there is a doubt that it is for Mills there is
none that it is opposed to Chilton.
Tho Beeville Picayune says:
Tho farmers of Bee county never began a
year with a brightor crop prospect than is now
prosented.
The San Marcos Light says:
R. W. Robertson, representing The Galves-
ton News, was in the city Wednesday working
iu tho intorost of that paper, and while hero
he met with a gentleman who has been a sub-
scriber to The News ever since its birth (1842)
and is now as enthusiastic over the paper as
ho was fifty years ago.
The Cisco Round-Up is in its twelfth year
and large for its ago ana town—thirty-six long
columns, with a supplement of twelve more,
compactly and clearly printed and edited with
judgment. It says:
"Turn Texas loose" will be the campaign
slogan... .We ask: Can the Hogg administra-
tion answer George Clark's Weatherford
speech? Fine rains throughout the Cisco
country insure an abundant crop this year.
Tho San Antonio Light, republican, says:
Tho action of the late republican conven-
tion foreshadows a full state ticket in the
fail.
The Spectator says Wharton county farmers
say the season has been better so far for the
planting of crops than has been for years.
Tho Empire says;
Stephenville has never had a boom, there-
fore there is no danger of a collapse. She is
now advancing rapidly in population and
buildings, but this is only a steady, natural,
solid growth. For Years the town was cutoff
from the outside world by railways, aud the
country settled up, leaving tho town far be-
hind, and tho town is, now that it has railway
connections, taking on its legitimate growth.
The Bastrop Advertiser says:
Clark's candidacy is growing in popularity.
Demonstrations in every part of the stato
prove him to be the people's favorite Sev-
eral thousand bales of cotton sold at Bastrop
last week at prices ranging from 5%c to 5 7-10c.
All the criminal cases appealed from Bas-
trop county were affirmed by tho court of ap-
appeals, so Gladstone Saunders aud Mack
Brown will soon be in the pen. William Al-
sup is alroady there, and Tobe Cook, unless
Governor Hogg choses to intervene, will
soon swing into eternity, or rather, "climb
the golden stairs." The 17th of Juno comes
on Friday. It will be the anniversary of the
murder of Cook's victimt Miss Belle Moore,
and would be an appropriate day for the hang-
ing.
DEMOCRACY'S SLOGAN.
"THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS THE
SUPREME LAW."
Bayard's Letter of Warning Against the In-
sanity of Wrecking Democratic Prospects
by Neglecting Tariff Reform for Silver.
Wilmington, Del., March 15.—[Special.]—
Hon. Thomas F. bayard has addressed an
dpen lettor to tho democrats of the country
upon tho question of free silver coinage, in the
course of which he says:
"In proportion to tho gravity of public ques
tions plain and candid utterance becomes the
duty of an American citizen. I have watched
with increasing apprehension tho legislation
of congress in relation to the coinage of silver
and from tho very first have deplored and op-
posed the false position assumed, by the gov-
ernment in 1878, for the first time in its his-
tory, of entering tho market as a purchaser of
silver bullion and forcing its coinage as money
and as an unlimited legal tender at nominal
value beyond its intrinsic and real market
value. While as a democrat I may and do de-
rive some satisfaction from the fact that tho
responsibility for such grave errors and con-
sequent injury to the country can not be laid
at the door of the party, and on tho. contrary
have been Btrongly disapproved by the only
democratic administration of tlie past thirty
years, yet in the progress of events I &ee that
native satisfaction is giving way beforo the
consternation which I perceive in the present
congress and elsewhere such indications oil
the part of democrats professing to represent
their constituents to accept, expand, intensify
aud continue these terrible mistakes of their
opponents, and this too just at a moment
when tho public mind seems to have been
slowly awakened to the exposed and admitted
dangers of such a course of action. I can not
sufficiently express my amazement and sorrow
to see men of the democratic party hastening
to adopt these dangerous fallacies and cloth-
ing their honored party with such cast-off,
diseased and fatal garments, to impede its
march to power and usefulness by such balls
and chains of suicidal error.
"I don't protend to read between tho lines
by the votes in tlie house of representatives.
If it moans shrewd and cunning finesse, tho
strategy of concealed motive, I can only say
that it is playing with firo and is starting a
question of the gravest public import in an
unworthy manner. But if the votes mean
what they say, thou I say the hour has struck
for the democratic masses to examine their
individual consciences and sense of duty to
the country, and to realize that tho 'will of the
people is the supremo law,' is the battle cry of
true democracy everywhere."
Hill in Mississippi.
Meridian, Miss., March 15.—Several thous-
and people assembled at Meridian this morn-
ing when the train bearing Senator Hill and
party rolled into the city. He was received
by the music of bands and a salute of mus-
ketry from the Mississippi Southrons, a mili-
tary organization of Meridian. Senator Hill
was introduced by Captain W. H. Hardy,
chairman of the citizons' committee, as fol-
lows :
"Friends and feliow citizens, I have the
pleasure of introducing to you the great demo-
cratic leader, who never leads but to victory
and who never won a victory but for tho good
of tho people. He is pre-eminently, the ex-
ponent of the old democratic doctrine that all
political power is inherent in the people,
nonce there is in his political creed no place
for force bills, no countenance for tho rule of
plutocracy, but that tho will of the people is
the ay promo law that should guide and
govern the official conduct of ail men in
public stations. [Cheers.J Torday all eyes
are turned to him a3 the great and wise
leader under whose banner the democratic
hosts of this country shall -march to victory
next November. And not only that, but when
that great victory shall be won it will bo a
permanent one, to continue year after year
and term after term until this government
shall be fully restored to that glorious career
begun under our fathers and so go onward
and upward till it reaches that great destiny
which in the providence of God awaits the
bravo, virtuous and free. Mississippi's guest,
the Hon. David B. Hill." [Cheers.]
Senator Hill spoko briefly and forcibly
on national political issues and was loudly
cheered, He denounced the force bill and
billion dollar congress and said tho people
would pronounce against the republican party
in tho coming election. [Cheers,]
hill at jackson.
At Jackson an immense crowd assembled,
and Governor Stone met the senator and wel-
comed him to the state amid the cheers of
5000 Mississippians. Hill became the guest
of Governor Stone during his stay in Jackson,
and a reception was held at the executive man;
sion at 12 o'clock, whore tho. senator shook
hands with a stream of visitors for over an
hour.
At 2 o'clock the legislature met in joint ses-
sion in tho hall of the houso of representa-
tives, with Lieutenant Governor Evans and
Speaker Street as Joint presiding officers. Tho
galleries and lobbies wore crowded to their
utmost, and loud cheers greeted the appear-
ance of the guest of Mississippi as Senator
Hill entered the hall in company with Gov-
ernor Stone, who introduced Mr. Hill to the
joint assemblage.
Hill's speech was devoted principally to
national issues and was well received by the
legislators. Ho reiterated the position of the
democratic party on the tariff question and
denounced the Fifty-first congress for extrava-
gance in public expenditures. His reference
to the attempted passage of the force bill and
the declaration that the various states should
be sovereign in control of their own domestic
affairs provoked great enthusiasm.
Governor Duckner Favors Cleveland.
Louisville, Ky., March 1^.—[Special.]—Ex-
Gov. Buckner, who wiil probably be a delegate
to the democratic convention next Juno, was
interviewed yesterday in regard to the candi-
dates. He has just returned from Washing-
ton, He says tho leaders aro all at sea. They
are discussing Boies, Pattison, Russell, Palm-
er, Grace and others. Each has admirers.
Tho general sentiment is that the dissensions
in New York are so great .they must look else-
whore for a candidate. The Hill movement
seems to havo disposed of Cleveland and has
also dug Hill's political grave. The drift of
congressional sentiment seems to be toward
Gorman.
"My own opinion is that Cleveland ought to
be nominated, regardless of the fight against
him in New York. The democracy ought to
say to the Now York politicians: 'We will
nominato Cleveland and elect him in spite of
you.' The, fact that Cleveland's is the onjy
democratic administration since the war, that
it kept every promise that the party has made
to tho people and that his emphatic enuncia-
tion of the domocratic principle of tariff re-
form set the people to thinking and resulted
in the great popular victory two years ago
would make it impeach your record to look
elsewhere for a candidate.
"As for Hill, if he has any democratic opin-
ions I don't know of them and know nobody
who does. If he has any policy beyond his
own advancement I have boen unable to dis-
cover it."
New York Wants Cleveland.
New Yoke, March 15, — [Special.]—Tho
Herald learns from the most intimate friends
of Cleveland that his friends will enter tho
Chicago convention with a petition signed by
200,000 to 800,000 voters of Now York state,
asking for the recognition of that state in be-
half of Mr. Cleveland,
llalf-and-llalf In New York.
Albany, N.Y., March 15.—The congressional
apportionment bill, which as nearly as possi-
ble divides the congressional districts of the
state between democrats and republicans, has
been prepared and will speedily pass hoth
houses and bo signed by the governor. Thero
are thirty-four districts in the state. Hie hill
makes sixteen districts democratic, fifteen
republican and throo doubtful.
Opinions on Cleveland's Letter.
New York, March 15. —[Special. ]—The
opinions of several gentlemen eminent in
politics on Mr. Cleveland's letter to General
Bragg foliow:
Frederick Counert: Tho lettor will teach a
lesson to tho democracy. In it Mr. Cleveland
says: "Success is still within our reach."
Tho word "still" I assume to mean that had
not the democrats been acting foolishly suc-
cess wpuld unquestionably bo in their hands,
but owing to their ways of late they have
lessened their chances, though there is still
hope.
William R. Grace: Like all of Mr. Cleve-
land's. utterances, the letter is thoughtful,
wise and democratic.
Charles S. Fairchild: It is an acceptance
pure .and simple.
Wijlitain C. Whitney: It is a good sound
letter, filled with true democratic principles.
The Socklcss Statesman's Sentiments.
New York? March 14.—[Special.]—The
Herald's correspondent at Washington talked
with Hon, Jerry Simpson yesterday and
Simpson said General Weaver of Iowa could
get the alliance nomination to the presidency
if he wanted it. The alliance would carry
eigbt-states this year—four northern and four
southern. If Weaver, would decline Donnelly
of Minnesota would, be the best choice. Said
Simpson: , "It is hot tho presidency we are
after. Our underlying purpose is either to ob-
tain control of the house and thb senate or
else, to hold tho balance , of power iu both
houses- What we want, is the. control of the
legislative branch of tho government. We
uqtyer can accomplish our purposes iu any
other way."
Rhode Island Republican#.
Providence, R. I,, March 15.—The state
republican convention met here to-day. Reso-
lutions wero adopted opposing free silver coin-
age, approving tho policy of reciprocity, in-
dorsing the maintenance of the t ariff system for
the protection of labor as a cardinal principle
of the republican party and commending the
administration of Prosidont Harrison. The
following ticket was chosen:. Governor, D.
Russell Brown; lieutenant-governor, Colonel
Melville Bull; secretary of state, Hon.
George H. Utter; attorney general, Robert
W. Burbank; state treasurer, Samuel Clark.
TEXAS POLITICS.
Lone Star Sympathizes With Finley.
Lone Star, Tex., March 15,-—In obedience
to a call of the Hon. M. J. Whitman, demo-
cratic ex-ehairman of Cherokee county, the
democracy of Lono Star met in mass meeting
on the 12th day of March tp give expression of
their choice for United States senator.
J. G. West, esq., ex-chairipan of the beat,
took the chair and explained the object of the
meeting. Hon. James I. Perkins of Rusk was
present and was called upon to make a
speech on public in on and measures.
The judge was in a happy frame of mind
and made a good speech, covering the tariff and
financial issues. Ho then announced himself
as being opposed to the presont state adminis-
tration, and closed with ah ingenious argu-
ment in favor of Chilton, after having served
Mills with the usual charges made against
him by his enemies. At the close of his
speech it really looked like a bleak 4ay for
Mills. After a few moments silonce tho cry
"Cleaver," "Cleaver," brought to the. front a
tall gentleman wearing a blue shirt with shoes
and pants stained with red dirt, indicating
that he was just from the plow handles. Ho,
after thanking Judgo Perkins for his visit and
speech, said: "I indorse all of your remarks
except that part .reflecting on Mills," He
then proceeded to meet and overthrow every
point made against Mills, and closed with a
glorious tribute to that statesman, asking the
democracy if fiiey wero ready to retire a true
and tried servant in order to retain Chilton
even if he was the playmate of the presont
executive, aud "unembarrassed with a con-
federate record." By this time Mills' stock
was way above par, when Captain H. C.
Cleaver offered the following:
Whereas, Jefforsonian democracy has been in
tho wilderness for the pust thirty years and a
Hpocios of paternalism and centralization, bath
aliko dangerous to the liberties of our people and
perpetuity of our form of government, substituted
therefor, and
Whereas, the time is at hand whpn tliQ democ-
racy should select as staudard brarew none ex-
cept puro and ablo rnon, brave, and fearless iu ad-
vocacy of right and wrong, and
Whereas, wo the democracy of Lone Star in
mass meeting assembled recognize in It. Q. Mills
all that is desirable in a loader, therefore be it
Rosolved. that %ve indorse R. Q. Alills as a.man
in evory souse worthy to represent us. m the
United States senato and earnestly request and
instruct our representative, Dr. Lloyd, and Stato
Senator Koarby to do all that is honorable to
effect his election to succecd and fill out tho un-
expired term of Hon. John H. Reagan, resigned.
The motion was put and voto taken on reso-
lution and nominations aud tho vote carefully
counted by tellers and announced by the chair
as follows: Mills 25, Chilton 10, Quite a num-
ber present declined to vote.
The following was then offered and unani-
mously adopted, with cries of "Down with
Finley."
Ro6olved, that we reaffirm our declaration of
principles as sot forth in the resolutions on Feb-
ruary 18, and now tender Chairman Finley our
unfeigned sympathy in this his hour of dire ex-
tremity, and respectfully suggest that he walk
dow» and out of a position that ho is in no wise
worthy to hold.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
J. G. West, Chairman.
W. L. Block, Secretary.
Clark Club at Beaumont.
Beaumont, Tex.,March 13.—To The News:
A Clark club with 265 subscribers met and or-
ganized at the opera house Saturday night.
The meeting was very pleasant and enthusi-
astic, and with the exception of two or three
republicans, present merely as spectators,
the entire meeting was unanimous for Clark.
After adopting the constitution and by-laws
the meeting called upon Mr. Hal VV. Green
for a speech, who responded substantially as
follows:
Fellow citizens, ! accord to Governor Hogg
sincerity of purpose and purity of motives; I
concede him to be an honest man, and what I
say of him is not uttered in a spirit of dis-
courteous criticism but solely upon the ground
of governjnontai policy, for tho bost interest
of the most, gallaut, warm hearted and gen-
erous people of the most glorious state in this
American union.
I do not find fault with the private charac-
ter of our chief executive, but my opposition
springs from tlie reason that I.do not think
he is mentally constituted m a way to fit him
for the great office he hoids, and because of
the obstinacy and tenacity with which he
clings to and forces upon tho people legisla-
tive onactments detrimental to their interest.
He looks upon thiB great state as his personal
property, and by electing him governor he
thinks the people havo indorsed this idea;
having been raised in tho political school at
Tyler it is not his fault that he possesses such
a vain thought, it is the fault of his teaching.
While attorney general ho introduced his
personality so strongly into the exercise of the
functions of the oflico that it became the most
sensational cornor in Austin, and the more
applause he received the more sensational he
became. He found it tickled the masses,
while it gratified his own poculiar teaching of
statecraft to be down on railroads, down on
corporations, down on land purchasers, down
on all forms of large investments—in fact,
down on all forms of prosperity. On this
hobby he became the governor of this great
state, and he has boon true to the spirit of
communism that elected him to that high
office. Capital became alarmed when he was
elected attorney goneral tho second timfe, for
capital is very sensitive about going where it
is not welcome,; but )vhen he became go vernor
it took fright and actually left the state. A
period of depression haa come upon us during
a season when harvests have been more abund-
aut than ever before iu the history of the state.
Moneyed men want to comehere, but they are
afraid of us. They know that Governor Hogg
is at the helm, and that means his personality
overspreads all things. They know he abso-
lutely dictated the present shape of. the rail-
road commission bill and forced the legisla-
ture to leave the appointment of . the three
commissioners in .liia hands absolutely. Know-
ing he thus dominated oue meaBUrethey tluuk
ho has dominated ail other Jeclslation hostile
to legitimate investment |n,large enterprises.
Knowing all this they have withdrawn their
money from the state; raijroad building has
stopped absolutely, and there are no other
large enterprises being engaged in.
Whilst candor impels me to say Governor
Hogg is not responsible for all tho financial
depression existing here, yet truth equally re-
quires me to say I think tho spirit on which
he was eloctod as well as the manner iu which
ho has acted since does make him responsible
to a very great extant.
These arc some of the reasons why I oppose
Governor Hogg, and their antithesis lies in
my support of the Hon. George Clark of
Waco, . : . • a
Here is a man whose brain, whose heart and
soul responds to the spirit of progress—largo
progress, great in results; a cultured aiul re-
fined mind: a patriotic, loyal heart; a judic-
ious, cautious,temperament—the very man of
all others to make the greatest governor [pro-
longed applause] of the. greatest state [ar>-
plause] in the greatest government on earth.
[Applause,] A man whom tho rich and poor,
the great and small, the proud and lowly Can
all .go to. for protection against injustice,
I toll you, fellow citizens, tlie mppiont Clark
is nominated [applause] for governor you will
see a revival of prosperity never before
equaled in this state. Capital wants to como
here—it is an inviting, a profitable field, and
the moment the news is flashed over the wires
that it will get justice—that George Clark has
been nominated for governor—$5,000,009 will
be placed on the financial ledger of the world
for investment in Texas.
O, "turn Texas Texas loose" and let them
come. Turn Texas loose and let them open
up our mines, turn with' .the plowshare our
magnificent soil, build railroads, invest in
manufactories. Turn Texas loose aud let the
money pour into, this rich field and reJiovo
the necessities and distress of our farmers,
our laborers, _our mechanics, our business
men, our professional men—everybody. Turn
Texas loose from this spiritj of communism
that has ridden her like a nightmare and let
us all be free.
Turn her loose and let her go on up, up to
the top, tlie largest state in every sense—larg-
est in area, largest in population, largest in
production, largest^ih. cpnimerce, largest in
wealth and largest in happiness. .Turn Texas
loose by nominating George Clark for gov-
ernor at your next democratic state conven-
tion, f Applause,]
The Clark club will meet again next Thurs-
day night.
The club will very likely attend the recep-
tion of Mr. Clark if ho speaks in Houston in
a body 265 strong, as Mr. W. W. Green is go-
ing to charter a train and run it specially for
the occasion. _
Who the Patriot? Who the Charlatan?
Translated from tho (democratic, German) Staats
Zeitung of S:ui Antonio, To*., of March 11, ed-
ited by Captain Edgar Schramm.
More and more interest is awakening in the
battle waged fo secure the gubernatorial of-
fice. The candidates, like tho olden Roman
gladiators, aro confronting each other and
now, as then, in more modernized form, opin-
ions and predilections are watched by them—
how to sway the public in the giant battle they
have undertaken.
Let us view the two champions and by the
powers they wield judge how the battle will
proceed.
Mr. Hogg has the advantage of incumbency,
and as the very existence of a number of per-
sons depend on him his strength is not incon-
siderable. He has the whole machinery of
state government, which by its ramifications
to the remotest parts and boundaries is moro
or less exercised all over the state in his behalf.
Mr. Hogg also relies upon the usually ex-
tended courtesy of a second term that may in-
fluence him to declare to the people that two
years were not eiiough to show the public tho
intentions of his administration. Besides this
advantage, Mr. Hogg relies on the personal
friends ne has made as chief executive, and
finally he believes in a large contingent pf
those who have no opinions whatever and can
see no benefit to accrue from voting for a
change from "the powers, that be." These aro
the elements of Hogg's strength over his op-
ponent. irrespective of his friends'individual
desires to help themselves.
Now let us see the vantage ground of Mr.
Clark beyond the power of his personal fame
against that of Mr. Hogg. Mr. Ciark is but a
plain citizen and an attorney at law. As such,
though he enjoys an enviable prominence and
Ills opinions are sought and treasured by our
greatest institutes, and considered as authori-
ties, something that can not, bo claimed for
Mr. Hogg if we remember his reversals by
our highest courts.
Mr. Clark never sought an office, he only
yielded to the public pressure to enter the race
against the presont administration for the wel-
fare of the state and her people. He repeats
what he.did in 1887, when the liberty of tho
individual person was assailed by a class of
people running parallel with those that now
control the helm of. state. Mr. Clark never
made a promise ho did not perfofm, and least
of all would ho have made one for tho sako of
office, which ho knew beforehand ho had no
power to fulfill, as it now appears Mr. Hogg
has done togaip his place. Let us review
some traits of each and see how they appear
before the public gaze.
Mr. Hogg obtruded himself as their disin-
terested friend tQ the citizens•, our railroads
ho declared as a systom of jobbery, yet not-
withstanding this, he had the fcheok to offor
that the.school fund of pur children stiould.be
handed to these roads. Who is giggling thoro?
When during the last campaign Mr. Clark
was urged to become a candidate for gover-
nor, he answered that he did not want the
office, he preferred his private life, and even
as an attorney for railroads his practice de-
manded a duty to.his clients.
Mr. Hogg sought as a means to popularize
himself to wage a relentless war against the
roads, and though he denounced them as tho
enemies of tho people, his untenable suits
could, not stand beforo our highest judges.
Our Btate had to pay the costs of this manner
of his popularization, and now wo ask, who
was the friend and who tho enemy of the pub-
lic there? . : .
Mr. Clark could see no aid. to us by a rail-
road commission and candidly stated it, and
as candidly he states now that with sensible
improvements of such an institution it ought
to remain as a perinancncy.
Mr. Hogg likewise declared a railroad com-
mission as nonsensical not very long before
the last campaign, but changed immediately
as soon as Mr. Terrell had demonstrated that
the ill feeling of our Farmers' alliance against
the roads demanded one. The wink thus
given by Mr. Terrell was at once taken and
Mr. Hogg had plain sailing, only, instead of
giving the people a commission fpr their
benefit, he created a triumvirate that must
submit to his capricious whims or be in fear
of being turned adrift. Who was the states-
man there? Who the adventurer?
In spite of his accumulating private duties,
Mr. Clark was asked in 1887 to lead tho anti-
prolubition campaign. Ho. yielded at once
and declared it to be the duty of each citizen
to guard his "personal freedom" whenever
danger appears to destroy or overwhelm it.
Mr. Hogg threatened to enforce a law be-
hind bayonets which good authorities have
declared to be in conflict with the constitution
of the United States, and the validity of which
remains still undecided. It affected a locality
opposed to all such laws. Who reasoned best
there—Clark or Hogg?
Clark has never boon untrue to any person
or party. He wants to be surrounded by a
free people—governing themselves, uncrippled
by too many useless laws.
Hojjg, as a democrat, glittered falsely be-
fore his party. He sang siren songs to the
Farmers' alliance^ ana now, since ho has
kicked them, wants the democrats to help him
into office again, to forge new fetters, just so
he may rule.
Who is tlie patriot and who the despot and
charlatan?
Mills Leads in Cherokee.
Rusk, Tex., March 15,—Up to date only
eight out of twelve voting precinots have been
heard from as to the democratic choice for
United States senator. These eight are the
heaviest voting precincts in the county and
contain about 3000 voters, largely demoerSEic
The attendance at the mass meeting was ver.-
small, tho largest turnout being at Rusk, Off]
cial returns show: For Mills, <J59 voteB; Chi.
ton, 352; Culberson* 31..
J udge Georgo Clark will speak here on tho
3d pioximo and his friends are preparing^ -
receive him. It is confidently expected thr ;
from 2000 to 6000 people will hear him on that>
date.
Moutgomery's Voice for Mills.
Montgomery, Tex., March 15.—Accprdit'.;
to previous notice a mass meeting of the cif A
zens of Montgomery and country surroimdi:^
was held Saturday in the old courthouse in tho <
town of Montgomery for the purposo of aseor- j
taining the sentiments and choice of the peo- \
pie for United States senate. G. D. Gay be-
ing called to the chair briefly stated the object ,
of the irteefihgV when on motion Dr: M. t. '
Price was made secretary; whereupon the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions were intro-
duced, approved and unanimously adopted,
with not one dissenting voice:
Whereas,, we the democrats of precinct No, 4,
Montgomery county, .Ua'U6vin£ th£t tTio unjust
and oppressive protective tariff is the moit po-
tent factor in creating aii'd maintaining the un-
equal distribution of wealth and prosperity
among the masses, and recognizing in tho Hon.
R, Q. Mills ^ts most uncompromising aud fear-
less foo, therefore be it
Resolved by the democrats of said precinct in
mass meeting horo assembled, that our sonator
and representative bo and they are horph'y in-
st"uctcd to vote for tho gceat champion of tariff
reform, the Hon. R. Q. Mills, tor United States
senator in tlie coming called session of tho legis-
lature, j, Bo it. further
Res)lyod, that a copy of the proceedings of this
meeting be forwarded to The (IalVijston News
and Willis Index with request to publish same.
No further business, meeting adjourned.
G, D. Gay, Chairman.
M. L. Price, Secretary. #
Newton Not for Hogg,
Newton, Tex,, March 15.—Political ques-
tions are being discussed to some extent in
Newton county, ahd the News correspondent
has heard a good many citizens express them-
selves as to political preferences in the coming
gubernatorial campaign, and finds that Hogg
men aro very scarce in this county. Some are
for Clark, some for ThrOekmortoh, some for
Rass and other probable gubernational timber,
but Clark soems to be in the lead, and such
expressions as "Don't like floggs," "Am not
Hoggish," "Anybody to beat Hogg,"aro often
heard. In the last campaign Hogg swep't
Newton county almost as a cyclone, but the
enactment of such laws as the railroad com-
mission, the alien land law and some others
w^hich have been so detrimental to southeast
Texas, has struck a death blow to tho
administration. Newton and surround-
ing counties, with vast forests of pane,
oak, a!sh, gum, hickory and many other valu-
able tiuioers with their fertile soil and.:gra2iiig
fields are lying and will still lie dormant so
long a£ capital is kept out by class legislation.
Mills is the choice of the county for senator.
There have been over two hundred good cit-
izens signed petitions to Hon, C. J2. Code, our
representative, asking him to support Mills in
the special session of the legislature, the
watch-cry being "Hurrah for Mills, first, last
and all the time!"
Judge McCormiCk's Old Home.
Brazoria, Tex,, March 15.—Politics are
warming up. The democrats at Velasco have
formed a Mills club and are ready for tho
fray. Clark is the favorite of the democrats
ahd Cuney, "tho yaller rose of Texas," the fa-
vorito of the radicals.
Judge McCormick's indorsement by his
native county is almost unanimous and most
emphatic. Though fought most bittorly po-
litically, no inah etfer doubted his integrity
officially. -In his business affairs his word
was as good as hij bond, and he always paid
promptly 100 cents to the dollar.
Preparing for Clark.
Rusk, Tex., March 15.—A meeting of tho
citizens of Itusk at the courthouse at 10 a. m.
to-day to arrange forjudge Clark's campaign
speech here on the 2d proximo' appointed the
requisite committees on arrangement, recep-
tion and entertainment and adjourned sipo
die. The said committees meet again on Sat-
urday next to hear reports of their subcom-
mittee^. The people, without regard to person-
al preference for governor, all are anxious to
extend a cordial welcome to the distinguished
opponent of Governor Hogg, and much en-
thusiasm is being manifested among Judge
Clark's friends.
Third Party Rally.
Gonzales,Tex., March 15.—The third party-
ites will have a grand rally here on the 2Gth,
ajid the democrats intend to meet their speak-
ers if a division of time is granted.
The democrats will nominate everything
from constable up ahd will make an aggres-
sive fight. . *
Majorities for Clark and Mills.
Centreville, Tex., March 15.—The test
vote here Saturday resulted in large majorities
for Clark and Mills. About 100 votes were
cast. ... ....
NEUTEALITI VI0LAT0ES.
Surrendered Himself—An Old "Woman
Tries to i)rown Herself.
San Antonio, Tetf., March 15,— Pablo Vara,
Agapito Canales, Ramon Vasquez and Juan
Vera, who are accused of violating the neu-
trality laws, were released to-day oh bonds to
appear before the United States' commissioner
on March 23, when the father-in-law of Garza
and other alleged prominent revolutionists aire
to be examined.
The county commissioners this afternoon
passed resolutions to provide fQr the quarter-
ing of the proposed branch of the court of ap-
peals provided it should be located1 here, and
also for tho appropriation of a sum for the
formation of a nucleus of a library and the
salary of a competent librarian.
An individual giving his name as F. C.
fravia surrendered to-day tQ the , police and
said that ho had formerly been station agent
of the Mexican National railway at Fuente
station and there robbed the road of $2Q0,
which ho had spent. Telegratns were Bent
asking if he was wanted there, to which no re-
plies have thus far been received.
There is a petition in circulation hore that
is being signed not only by the bar but the
citizens gonorally asking the governor to call
on the legislature to establish a criminal dis-
trict court here and do away with oue of the
district courts. The dockets of both of tho
district courts here are crowded with civil
business, and it is necessary that they both re-
main and that a criminal court also be estab-.
lished.
Jesusa Rendeau, a middle-aged Mexican
woman, deliberately threw herself into the
San Antonio riyer, with the intention of sui-
ciding, this.morning, but the water where she
jumped in was shallow and sho soon became
so cold that shew^aded ashore.and sought shel-
ter in a Mexican jacal near by. After she had
dried her garments she Was arrested on a
charge of lunacy and will be tried to-morrow.
She has five small children, and being unable
to provide for them and being disappointed in
life sho no longer cared to live.
Willie Johnson accidentally shot Lump
Boone while thp two \vere shooting at a tar-
get. Boone's wound is in the ankle, and
while the bullet was small it shattered the
boino and may cause serious consequences.
Got No Money but Was Shot.
Zephyr, Tex., Miarch 14.—Mr. Fulmer of
Ricker went to Brownwood last evening to
get some money he expected by last night's
express, and stayed until the train arrived
about 10.20 p. m. Failing to get his money
ho started home, walking on the railroad
track. When about half a mile from the
depot ho was approached by a man who
struck him with a stick aid then ordered him
to take off, his coat and hold up his hands,
which h^ readily did. Alter throwing up his
hands he was shot in the face, and attempting
to run w|as shot in the back just between the
shoulders. Mr. Fulmer is in a very critical
condition. He did not recognize his assail*
ant. Officers are on the alert.
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