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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 2(5, 1894,
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problems of state politics, and who Is
faltWful and true as steel to his beauti-
ful sword—General Mabry, with the so-
lemnity of one ministering sacred things,
certifies: "His utterances bristled with
patriotic periods and every sentence
;breathed with devotion to his state and
to the union," But why does he say
teen-story buildings. This is an important
correction, although Colonel Cocke's su-
perior officer, General Openheimer, iwrltes
that his ears took in the fourteen-story
measurement. The speech was so startling
to even military ears, accustomed to pretty
much everything, that the matter of a few
stories more or less will be overlooked in
arriving at a proper tfnderstand'ing. Ae-
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'bristled" when he refers to Governor i cepting Colonel Cocke's version as the more
] Hogg? And this sacramental defender I probable of the two, it will be admitted that
of the great and the
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or action, from whatever source, that
would tend to obliterate states' rights
lines, but he expressed no sentiment
that might convey the impression that
armed resistance 'by the state would op-
pose federal authority, or that secession
would be sanctioned or tolerated." Then
what did he mean when he flung back
his shoulders in heroic defiance and de-
clared: "As soon as I returned home
from my northern trip I wired to head-
quarters that I would not stand the call-
ing out of federal troops in this state
until I had been first consulted?" Gov-
ernor Hogg admits that he said this.
What did he mean further on when he
declared: "Whenever thay try it I will
be there to stop them, and, by gatlins,
I'll stick to my ground?" What did he
mean last March when he declared that
federal soldiers would not be permitted
to come into Texas to protect United
States mails "while I am governor?"
General Mabry denies too much. He
denies much more than the governor
does and even more than General Open-
heimer denies. He does not even allude
to a "liver" or a "light" to "hair,"
hides," "linvbs" or "blood." He omits
the panther sign entirely. Why? Gov-
ernor Hogg did not object to the report
of his speech in The News, and did not
pretend to deny it until he saw it con-
demned by the people. He was inter-
viewed about it by a reporter of the
Houston Post, who carefully read to him
The News' version, sentence by sentence.
He reiterated every sentiment, qualify-
ing the report only in two instances, as
follows: Where the statement "if dis-
integration should occur" appears he
claims to have added "and God forbid
that it should ever happen." Where the
sentence appears, "I would not tolerate
the calling out of federal troops until I
had first been consulted," he says he
did not use the word "tolerate," but the
word "stand." The governor made these
immaterial changes and his zealous and
grateful friends seem determined to do
the rest. But why should the most effu-
sive of these, in defending and deco-
rating the oibject of his adoration, omit
that crowning glory, a wild and wide
dissemination of promiscuous human
giblets over the architectural ruins of
Chicago? To leave Hamlet out of the
play would hardly look like a more fatal
omission.
DEFENSE AND DECORATION WITH
A FATAL OMISSION.
Governor Hogg's official friends in their
eagerness to serve him have involved
themselves in some apparent, contradic-
tions. The governor, in order to dis-
credit The News' report, begins with the
assertion: "My speech accepting the
watch from the volunteer guard was ex-
temporaneous and no reporter took it
dawn at the time. The published report
of it was given from the memory of a
reiportej.'' General Openheimer caught
.the aide and began by declaring: "Your
reporter took no notes during the deliv-
ery of said speech and of course no man
oam report verbatim et literatim from
memory." In the face of these assertions
as to the weakness of the memory of
mortal man 'both the governor and Gen-
eral Openheimer proceeded to fall back
upon their own memories, on which they
seem to consider It quite easy for the
world to rely, and upon these alone they
presumed to correct the reporter whom
they accused of relying upon a similar
faculty. The truth about the matter is
that the reporter did not rely upon his
memory as they assert and did "take
notes" of the speech. There is no loop-
hole hem The following on this point
lis from the Austin Evening News: "Now
the truth is, the speech as it appeared
In The Galveston News was almost a
verbatim report. The Evening News and
tin New York World had g. reporter on
*h« ground taking notes, and yesterday
ithe Evening News noticed a few of the
discrepancies in the printed speech and
Jn the language actually used. The
epeech published was so near a verbatim
report that the Evening News, knowing
Governor Hogg's kindness in such mat-
ters, at once concluded he had furnished
a copy to The Galveston News and
the Express." Lieutenant Richardson of
iDenton says: "I heard the speech made
by Governor Hogg in accepting the
wyaJtch presented him by the Texas
volunteer guard. I heard his utterances
Very distinctly and declare that the
words credited to him in The News is
about a verbatim report. Near where I
was standing was The News reporter
Memingly taking notes, and not far from
ih'lm were reporters for the San Antonio
Express and Austin Statesman." A
hundred other witnesses are at hand
Ibut these are not needed to show the in-
consistency of men who strive to dis
credit the reports of professional ex-
perts In reporting by asserting that they
come solely from memory and then pro
ceed to fall back upon their own memo-
ries! Governor Hogg said to a reliable re-
JWiter Immediately after the speech was
delivered that he did not remember what
be said well enough to reproduce it,
However, it is fair to General Ope nhei ni-
ter to add that his statement of what the
governor said bears out every material
allegation in the original News report
We feven admits that the governor said
the threatening issue between capital and
labor was apt to result in a conflict that
Would "I patter those fourteen-story
building Chicago with blood, brains,
lights, 1 i \ s and limlbs," and this not-
Wttlhfitand ...g the statement of Colonel
ft. Cocke of the hird regiment tihat the
saiid "brains, livers and
i J not "blood" and "limbs,"
and notwithstanding the further sljfuifi-
calot modification by Colonel Oooke that
'"he didn't say they would be scattered
Oi» fourteen-story buildings, but said
Beyen-story buildings," Thus we set a
difference in giblets as well an a de-
cided difference of seven stories between
•two military officers who are always ex-
pected to come up to military precision,
general Ma'bry, after whom the very
le«tny was named, who loves his eom-
BJandHMu-chlrfand has seen him heave
Mkd QgrMldra. to iuul UiuatU Li*
ages to reach the roof of even a seven-story
structure.
SNAP SHOTS.
The right to live carries with it the right
of self-defense.
Love gets all over one 'before he knows it.
It is what man 'blows in that imakes
countless thousands mourn.
Indolence is a profession to some peo-
ple.
When one gets under obligations it seems
he can never get over them.
Man knows some truths that he will not
confess even to himself.
Love is both a luxury and a necessary.
Man is usually long on his own short-
age.
If you would knock a lazy man out just
strike him with a sunbeam.
Every chance of a lifetime has wings
on it.
Man is a slave and his appetite is his
master.
WORTHY OP ANY PLACE.
Laredo News.
Evidently Judge F. Ch'arles Hume of Gal-
veston has lost hope of the creation of the
southern federal judicial district of Texas.
He was a candidate for the judgeship of
that district anil made quite a canvass far
the place. Now, however, he is in the field
for a seat on the supreme bench of Texas.
He is a man worthy of any place he might
seek.
SETTLING WITH FARMERS.
Chenango Junction, Brazoria Co., Tex.,
July 25.—Jacob Whistler, late of Nebraska,
has built a hotel here. This part of Bra-
zoria county Is settling rapidly with west-
ern farmers.
THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER.
Some one suggests that had the state
troops presented Governor 'Hogg an
eight-day clock instead of a watch that
the governor would have declared war on
the Spot.
SENATOR GORMAN'S PLEA.
How small a matter wrongly stated or
omitted makes the difference between
sustaining and confuting Senator Gor-
man's assault upon President Cleveland.
In a dramatic manner the Maryland
magnate took pains to establish that
Secretary Carlisle was fully cognizant
of the agreement to pass a modification
of the Wilson bill in the senate and
that President Cleveland probably knew
something of it and approved such ac-
tion. But now comes the reference which
accounts for all that which Senator Gor-
man charges to caprice of wilfulness
and the facts referred to give the presi-
dent's action a wholly different com-
plexion to that which Mr. Gorman aims
to put upon them. Before the senate
reached an agreement it was talked that
the difficulty seemed too great there
and time was being lost. It was openly
suggested, as reported on several occa-
sions, that the senate majority should
pass a bill, even if not such as to be
finally acceptable to democrats, ithat then
the conference committee could backstay
the measure and Infuse the honest vi-
tality into it. The senate would ithus be
nearer the final move. It was not cal-
culated that democratic senators, after
admitting the difficulty of overcoming
obstruction, would at the last turn
a gain sit any amendment of tha bill that
had been passed for the purpose sug-
gested—of getting around the opposition
that had been consuming much time.
So Mr. Gorman's charges, true though
they be to the letter, amount to nothing
at all like what he would fain have
them taken to import, It is a political
expedient merely to sanction -the .passage
of a bill in the senate so as to get it
into a conference committee, and yet
this appears to be all -that the senate
democrats undertook to do or Mr. Cleve-
land approved. So far as any of the
managers pretend that they did not un-
derstand anything of modification to be
made in the conference they place them-
selves in the position of being wilfully
ignorant of what the public knew by
press representations. However senators
miay vote they can not persuade the in-
telligent public that the president never
distinguished between' a time-saving
move and a final surrender to protection.
The east Texas horticultural fair
opened at Tyler.
has
The striking miners at Lehigh have re-
turned to work.
orator
lights,"
The machine and repair shops of the Fort
Worth and Denver at Fort Worth will be
reopened August 1 with all the old force
on hand.
Sena tor Gorman hops oft the platform to
fight for protection (for his friends.
The McKln'ley bill is <ibout to kill the
democratic party.
The "stormy petrel" Isn't In it iwith Gov-
ernor Hogg.
The natural line on which the American
people are divided to-day Is the difference
teuween President Cleveland and Governor
Altgeld.
When people abandon and despise law
and order they become anarchists at once.
The union man In the ranks who strikes
for no grievance of his own in obedience
to orders is much less to blame than many
thoughtless people consider htm. The pres-
sure on him is so g-reat that he hj^raicttcul-
ly forced to obey orders.
Colonel I>lck Cock^ commander of the
gallant third regiment, who heard Governor
IlsgK deliver his now famous stop watch
•ration, corrects The News correspondent's
report at the speech to the extent that
''brains, livers and lights" would be ecai-
Indianapolis Sentinel: The letter of Pres-
ident Cleveland to Chairman Wilson proved
so eminently fitting and timely as to com-
mand the commendation of Senator Hill.
And when anything that CJrover Cleveland
writes commands respectful attention of
Uavid B. Hill it must be fit and timely
Indeed.
• • •
New York Mail and Express: President
Cleveland's letter is an extraordinary doc-
ument. It Is pertinent to the question,
bu.t impertinent to the situation. It is ve-
hement in its demands only for raw ma-
terials "to fulfill democratic pledges and
the redemption of democratic promises to
the people."
■ * *
Richmond State: Those ipopulists and
malcontents who have been so busy in
charging the president with being the crea-
ture of trusts and corporations should read
his letter. Better still, the senate should
recede from its position on the tariff. There
Is no room in the democratic party for the
Gorman "conservative element."
* ♦ •
Springfield [Mass.] Republican: We in-
cline to the view that the letter will have
the effect of marshaling the reform forces
In congress to a successful stand against
the rascally conbination headed "by Gor-
marr. Hut let the issue be joined at once
and a final vote had. 'Thils continued delay
and uncertainty Is having a killing effect
on the business of the country.
• *
New York Morning Journal: President
Cleveland's manly and straightforward let-
ter to Congressman Wilson was made pub-
lic at just the right moment. If the sen-
ate is wise, it will take the advice con
tained in this frank and outspoken docu
ment, will talk no more of refusals to re-
cede, and will come to an understanding
with the house at once.
• • •
Brooklyn Eagle: The letter was written
on July 2, after the duties on coal and iron
ore had been imposed by the senate, and
there is not a line in it which does not
reflect the sentiment of the democratic
party as contrasted with the senatorial
highwaymen who have been masquerading
in its name. Mr. Cleveland rightly says
that the democracy is on trial for Its life.
• • •
Richmond Dispatch: The president hais
compelled the senate to choose (between
making 'concessions to the house and see-
ing the tariff bill defeated. Wall street has
already jumped to the conclusion that the
result of Mr. Cleveland's interference at
this juncture will be the placing of a
moderate duty on sugar, and that coal and
iron will be put upon the free list. So it
looks to us, too, at this moment.
* ♦ *
New York Evening Post: The letter of
President Cleveland to Chairman Wilson
is both timely and just. It may be, as
some senators' say, unprecedented. If so
this is a suitable time to mafte a prece
dent. Mr. Cleveland had a perfect right
to send the letter to Mr. Wilson. Mr.
Wilson had an equal right to read the let
ter in the house or to send it to the clerk's
desk to be read If the house was willing.
• • •
(Minneapolis Journal: As the situation
ds now both parties are disinclined to
yield an inch. The president's letter has
precipitated a combat which may last for
weeks. Any prolongation of this tariff
debate will be chargeable to him. He
says the democratic party must show that
It is capable of making an acceptable
tariff bill and passing it, and to bring
about such action he craoks his whip over
house and -senate.
• • •
Memphis Commercial-Appeal: As we ex-
pected, Mr. Cleveland's letter to Mr. Wil-
son has created intense bitterness and
roused the fiercest resentment among dem-
ocratic senators. If it had been Intended
to widen the breach between the two
•houses and Intensify differences of opin-
ion into a bitter and irreconcilable feud,
it could not have been more artfully writ-
ten or more cunningly employed for that
end.
• • •
Lancaster |Pa.] Intelligencer: It seems
to us to interpose a needless obstacle in
the way of agreement to urge that the
house shall not yield free raw materials
to reach an accommodation with the sen-
ate. It does not seem to our judgment
right that the president should say to the
democratic senate that -It has so plainly
violated democratic principle In its tariff
bill, that it is not possible for the demo-
cratic house to accept it.
* * *
New York World: Of course the presi-
dent's letter will be criticised as an inter-
ference with legislation. Of course he will
be attacked by the roistering Reed and
the anti-Cleveland organs. But the Ameri-
can people like frank, open talk, and there
will be a general feeling that if congress
would follow Mr. Cleveland's advice the
country would be better off to-day than
dt is, business would be more active and
prosperous than ever and labor would find
employment.
• • •
Washington Post: We believe 'that the
production of this remarkable letter will
defeat the purpose of those who produced
atrlcal effect, and dt <Ls our profound con-
viction that the result will be utter dlsap-
it. Whether the climax of Thursday iwas
deliberately planned we do not know.. Wo
do know, however, that lit operated a ^he-
polntment It is our conviction that the
tariff bill ds in greater peril now ■than It
has been at any time since the Fifty-
. third congress assembled, and, that what
was formerly a mere difference of opinion
as to public policy has been crystallized
into a sentiment, i&L£U-UUl
m Hit foi'i UlfifHMth
STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout the State Are
Talking About.
Paris Advocate:
iHarsh measures, as a general thing,
should be avoided by the government to
the liast extremity. Bu: that extremity
•lias been reached. It ha* come to toe a
Question as to whether -Mr. Debs oir the
law is to direct -the indu.-'i'^s of the coun-
try. If the law, then Mr. l>ebs be
squelched without furtl ceremony. If
"Mr. Debs, then let all p: i^nse of law and
order be thrown to the winds that, while I
discord reigns, every man may look out ;
for himself and loot his ivi^hbor at ww:—
if lie be quicker on the trigger than the
neighbor. Let's have no more sham about
this business.
•Corsica na Demoora t:
The populists all over the country are
indorsing the destroying of property and
•the obstruction of interstate commerce and
United States mail by hnv.ing mobs. How
can t'hey do this and be'.iv ve in a irepub.'l-
oan form of government.
Brow n sviile Hera Id:
President Cdeveland has given a very neat
object lesson showing the country that ithe
government at Washington still lives.
Meeting the arch enemy in his own ele-
ment. The Yoakum Graphic says: -
The Graphic has observed that in the
north it is customary for the preachers
to take a vacation during the 'hot summer
months and give the -devil a chance, but
down here in south Texas the hot months
the season when our evangelists put On
their best work. They are well enough
acquainted with human nature to know if
there is ever a time when a southerner
will hedge against a hotter climate it 'Is
•in July or August.
At such a time dt puts the old adversary
out to ask: "Is this hot enough for you?"
Waxahachie Democrat:
When a man joins in a strike he should
get out of the way and give somebody eise
a chance to work We need peace and
safety at home about as badly as we need
missionaries abroad.
San Saba News:
Cotton is suffering for moisture all over
the county. Without rain soon the crop
will be short....We are gHad to see that
all the conservative papers and the lead-
ing men without regard to party affiliations
are indorsing President Cleveland's action
in so promptly suppressing the unwar-
ranted and inexcusable riots of the past
few days. That such conduct meets with
general condemnation is a hopeful sign for
the future of our country.
Lockhart has a paper, the Globe, printed
in Spanish.
Temple Times:
Elsewhere in this issue is a short tele-
gram of the sayings of one Myron Reed,
wherein he declares that "Jesus Christ was
an anarchist and socialist, but never a
deputy sheriff." It would seem to us a
good thing for more of the Ananias prac-
tice to be indulged in. For such blas-
phemy to come from one claiming to be
a preacher out-herods Herod. And that he
should be cheered for such utterances in
a Christian land is of all things most won-
derful. Christ an anarchist! How does that
sound in the face of '1 come not to destroy
but to fulfill the law." Christ a socialist!
How does that compare with "Render to
Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and
to Godt the things which are God's." So-
cialism recognizes no "mine and thine,"
but "ours." No individual possessions, 'but
community property. But truth needs no
defense and calumny 110 doctor—The ac-
tion of the pops in indorsing the strike at
Temple shows to iwiiat extremes a bobtail
party will resort in drumming for votes.
Whether the strike was right or wrong,
it was In no sense a political matter.
Beaumont Enterprise:
The heavy rains of this week have only
•been partial. Unless we shortly get heavy
rain all over the country the rice crop,
already suffering in places, will toe a par-
tial failure "Parmer" says that the rice
crop is all right arid prospects are good.
Rain has fallen plentifully in spots at dif-
ferent times dfurins the week, putting
cheer into the heart- of the farmers The
Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City railway Is
now completed to Buna, Jasper county,
about thirty-eight miles from Beaumont.
Denison Herald:
Governor Hogg'*3> latest 'vmik will give
Texas a vast amount of . .0 advertising,
but it will not be the kind of advertising
that invites capital and immigration The
Herald derives :i> erne satisfaction from
the thought th ii was never guilty of
supporting Hogg , for governor.
Houston Herald.
If the present railroad depression is kept
up much longer alii th»' roads in the coun-
try will soon foe in the hands of receivers.
That is only one step from government
ownership. In fact, it is government own-
ership for the time (being, anyhow.
Velasco World:
The day for the (boycott has gone. The
American people will not tolerate this new
device of persecution, whether it be applied
to the employer or the employed The
great strike was a failure because it had
not a single principle or idea of justice
upon which to stand; because public sen-
timent was against it from the start; be-
cause sensiible people know full well that
during these hard times, when a man
ought to be satisfied to be even making
a living, and because the main ibody of
strikers had no grievance to start with.
A (bicyclist meets with serious results.
The New Braunfeis 'Herald says:
As Walter Stein was going to dinner
on his wheel he had the misfortune to
run into a hole in the street which caused
the wheel to turn, throwing him to the
ground, "breaking his left leg just a'bove
the ankle, making a very painful wound,
which -will necessitate confinement to his
bed for several weeks.
Beeville Bee:
Grand Master Sovereign of the Knights
of Labor by his refcent strike order ex-
posed) the weakness of that once powerful
society. Claiming to have a million men
at his back, his strike order amounted to
practically nothing, few members of the
society responding to his unreasonable de-
mands.
Sancho's opportunity. The Segudn New
Test, colored man's paper, says:
The present labor troubles ought greatly
to improve the condition and opportuni-
ties of our people. Some of the brightest
men we have are growing gray in the Pull-
man service. They have not been enabled
to pass porter's station simply and solely
because of their African blood. If the
strike—and if this one has not, one will
come that will—If this strike, we say. has
had the effect of opening up the avenue
of promotion, we should give thanks unto
j of the workingmen, but they never began
' as labor agitators or ranting demagogues.
Nacogdoches Star-News:
All laborers who join in what is called
the sympathetic strike here in the south
where there are no grievances have to
bleak their contracts and do themselves a
positive and permanent injury and they are
foolish for doing it -to help those restive
northerners Low wages are disagreeable,
but it should not be forgotten that strik-
ers receive no wages—Debs gets $3000 a
year but the striker and his family only
gets hungry. Hardly a fair division.
The editor of the Clarendon Banner is
to take offense and appreciates a
compliment:
Geo. Washington, one of the best natured
and most successful farmers lln the coun-
ty. was in town last Saturday selling prod-
uce, buying goods and—don't tell it—talk-
ing politics. After accusing the Banner
man of .being a mugwump, a knownothing,
and a whole lot of other mean things, he
added: "I like to discuss politics with you,
because 1 can express myself freely with-
out giving offense, but," he continued smtto
voce, "some people are inclined to be a
little bit intolerant and get mad at me."
Rusk Standard Herald:
The president did right when he restored
order by enforcing the law.... There Is such
a thing as "state rights" and we delight
fin giving this principle our hearty support,
but we believe the president was right in
respecting the mandates of the courts and
doing what the states seemed unable to do
—to protect the property rights of citizens.
Temple Sun:
The good men who lose their jobs here on
account of the strike have the sympathy
of all. The great masses of the people
sympathize with the laborers and rejoice
when their condition is bettered. Yet labor
is apt to go wrong when in power, as is
capital, and while the methods used last
week and the pretext of the strike were
not such as to command public sympathy,
yet the misfortune of those who are out of
work appeals to the sympathy of friends
who acknowledged their sincerity while
condemning their judgment....Better for
the railroad employes, better for the com-
pany and better for the city that the mayor
of Temple acted in time and vigorously in
anticipation of trouble during the strike.
Although Templ^ was the first town in the
state to tie up trains and in face of the
fact that Temple had been selected as the
point at which the struggle was to be
made and from whence went out the emis-
saries to the other towns, yet there was
less disorder here than at the other places
and in fact there was no violence of any
kind offered or received.
The Waco News reads the handwriting
on the wall to this paper, "mene, mene,
teakettle:"
The Galveston News is Simply the tool
of corpora ted cash, as the changeling min-
ister to Turkey used to say. and in the
gory time which Hogg predicts we will
not be surprised to read of Its tall building
being spattered with lights and livers, hide
and hair, and blood, but no brains.
Corpus Chrlstl Sun:
It can not be stated strong enough—It
can not be spread far enough that the sen-
timents and convictions of the great mass
of our people did not find true expression
in the language used before the state militia
at Austin by our present governor, James
Stephen Hogg.
Nacogdoches Star-News:
Sympathy for men on strike against a
too greedy corporation and indorsement of
the violation of law in any manner are
entirely different feelings....People who
have had no personal experience In a revo-
lution are apt to talk more glibly on the
subject than those who know its full mean-
ing... .Martial law is many points ahead
of anarchy, in Chicago or elsewhere.
Editor Brann of the San Antonio Ex-
press and MciLemore off Ithe Corpus Christ!
Caller have had many tilts ais literary
critics, ibut the Caller is chivalrous enough
to say of 'the San Antonio knight amd one
of 'his little ibooks:
For the (benefit of "An Inquirer," we will
state that the author of "Pot'iphar's Wife"
is a very mild mannered, modest looking
gentleman, dresses plainly, is rather tali
and thin, wears a clean shaven face, chews
tobacco and does not object to atn ooca-
siona'l glass of beer, provided it is 'brewed
in 'San Antonio, it is true that he once
wrestled with and threw a large lion, still
is as gentle as a lamb and can be ap-
proached even by a little child. "Po'ti-
phar's Wife" was never published in a
newspaper that we kinow of, tout this does
not prevent it from being rich and racy
reading.
Houston Press:
The good people of the United States
have not yet given up the government, and
some of the would-be wreckers of this re-
public will likely find themselves strung
up some nice morning by the swiftest
hands of justice A number of well fixed
Hou'stoniaji's wild leave to-morrow and
next week to spend a time bathing and
li.-jhing at Galveston bay, etc., the most
delightful summer resort in these United
States.
Brenham Press:
Hogg is 'doing the crawfish act. He says
he was misquoted.
But he will not say what he did say.
Don't remember.
Goliad Guard:.
Cleveland is fast regaining his popularity
and will leave Ithe white house the most
popular executive in the history of the
past century. He is eqaial to any emergency
and is the greatest living statesman of
the day.
Brenham Banner:
Even the garbled accounts that occasion-
ally get into the newspapers appear to have
a good purpose in their very garbling. A
train wrecker at Terre Haute, while one
of a group was reading such an aocou.nt
of the wreck he helped create, denounced
the account as incorrect and related the
true version. Then he was arrested.
Sain Antonio Express:
The 'Express is pleased to learn thaft
Governor Hogg does not approve the se-
cession and anarchist sentiments contained
in the printed reports of his encampment
speech. The fact that he denies the cor-
rectness of the newspaper reports is not
of so much consequence as the fact that
he denies the dangerous sentiments attrib-
uted to him. It is always much safer to
trust to the trained ear of a reporter than
to the memory of the orator for a corredt
version o'f an extemporaneous speech.
Hogg pro'bably spoke substantially as re-
ported. ibut as lie did not mean it the
Great Religious will intercede for him and
procure a pardon, it desires to caution
him, however, against the folly of attempt-
ing extemporaneous a Idresses. His mind
is not sufficiently well disciplined ito re-
WHO STRETCH HEMP.
Last of a Ferocious Monster
Memphis Who Cut His
Wife's Throat.
at
Another at Fort Smith Hanged for the
Treacherous Murder He Committed on
His Traveling Companion.
Memphis, Tenn., July 25.—Harry Bennett,
the negro murderer Who stabbed Fannie
Bennett, his wife, to depth 011 the night
of May 22, 1892, was hanged in the jail
yard to-day in the presence of a small
crowd. The trap was sprung at 12.21'-
o'clock. Bennett was pronounced dead in
ten minutes and his body was cut down
in fourteen minutes. Bennett died reiter-
ating his belief that he was going to a bet-
ter and happier home. His courage never
forsook him. His execution was without
any extraordinary incidents.
The crime for which Henry Bennett to-
day paid the penalty with his life was the
murder of his wife, Fannie, May 22, 1893.
Bennett was of a quarrelsome disposition,
and frequently beat his wife in a most
brutal manner. The woman stood his ill
treatment for several years, but was ifnal-
ly forced to leave. On the n'ight the
tragedy occurred Bennett met his wife
near rhe bridge which spans the Memphis
and Charleston railroad tracks on Madison
street and picked a quarrel. The woman
attempted to escape, but he seized her with
one arm and cut her throat with a razor
With the other. The enraged brute then
attempted to throw the bleeding body over
the railing of the bridge in front of a
moving train, but the arrival of the police
prevented it. Bennett was tried and con-
victed and an appeal taken to the supreme
court, but the verdict of the jury in the
criminal court was sustained. A strong
effort was made to secure executive clem-
ency from Governor Turney, but he refused
to interfere.
LOUIS- HOILDEfR HANGED.
Fort Smith, Ark., July 25.—Lous Holder
was hanged in the United States jail yard
here to-day. He was the seventy-eighth
man hanged by George Matedon, the fed-
eral executioner here. Holder kRled George
W. Bickford, in the Indian territory, while
on a hunting and trapping trip.
It was the day before Christmas, Decem-
ber 24, 1891, away up in the dark wilds of
the Sans iBois mountains of the Choctaw
nation in the Indian territory that Lewis
Holder killed his friend and companion,
George iBickford, and rolled the body down
into a deep gulch some 300 yards from
the road, where it might have lain through-
out all the ages but for one of those un-
accountable -things that always come when
least expected. A month after the killing
A. T. Echols, traveling across the moun-
tains, found 'himself pushed by the dark-
ness and concluded it would be safer to
spend the night in the mountains than
undertake the dangerous descent in the
dark. Only water for camping purposes
was lacking, and, leaving his team in the
road, he followed a "drain" down the moun-
tain side, hoping to find a spring tor pool
in easy reach. iNot being promptly re-
warded, he picked his way and pushed the
search for several hundred yards, when,
to his utter amazement and inexpressible
astonishment, he came upon the body of
a dead man lying on -his face in the stone
bed of the dry gulch. Investigating suffi-
ciently to see that the man was dead, he
hastily returned to his wagon and pro-
ceeded on his way, regardless of the dan-
gers of the road. INext morning «he reached
a settlement and reported the find. A
party was organized, and in due course of
time the body was taken to Wilburton on
the Choctaw railroad, where officers were
notified. The body was Identified as that
of George Bickford, who had left the
coal camp of Wtlburton in December in
company with Lewis Holder, traveling with
an outfit that "belonged to 'Bickford. A
search for Holder resulted in his arrest
seventy miles away in the .Arkansas river
bottom in possession of the team and trap-
ping outfit of Bickford and wearing Bick-
ford's hat and overcoat. He claimed to
have bought the things from Bickford and
confessed the killing, but said it was in
self-defense. His case went to the supreme
court of the United (States, where the
decision of the lower court was affirmed.
A strange circumstance in connection with
the crime is that the body of 'Bickford
was buried at Wilburton in a grave dug
for another man killed under conditions
almost identical with the Bickford kill-
ing. This other victim was William Van-
diver, who, with Bolding and 'Pointer, was
traveling in a wagon from Texas to Ark-
ansas. The day after Christmas, just two
days after tihe murder of Bickford, these
•three young men camped In the valley not
'twelve miles from the scene of the iBick-
ford murder. Pointer brained his two com-
panions with an ax while they slept, threw
their -bodies in the bed of a branch and
made off with the team and outfit. After
the grave had been dug for them, friends
came for the bodies, which gave Bickford
a ready made grave. Pointer was arrest-
ed, tried and convicted, and will be
•hanged September 20, 1894.
has a large orchard and says that over fif-
teen bushels of apples have been stolen
from it recently.
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SENTIMENT AT TAYLOR.
Taylor, Williamson Co., Tex., July 24.—
With the view to obtaining a consensus of
opinion of the leading citizens of Taylor
in reference to Governor Hogg's speech be-
fore the state militia the following ex-
pressions were obtained from personal in-
terviews by The News reporter yesterday
evening:
V. it. C. Awry, democrat and candidate
for the kglslatuie: "i am strictly a Hogg
man, but am sorry the governor made such
a speech."
John T. Dixon, lawyer and democrat:
"From pre.-'s interviews 1 think the gov-
ernor is 'sorry that he spoke.' "
Major 1.. Garry, democrat and cotton
speculator: "The X ws. i think, miscon-
strued t.'i" gov-; norV meaning. It is op-
posed to birr, anyhow."
U. U. Pumpiii-ey. democrat and stock-
man: "To say the it . <t oil 11, I'm sorry that
our governor id., ie :i a foolish talk."
C. H. Welch, rt ' .lean and banker:
"lli.'gg is governor of T.-xas; he was elected
by a handsome maji ritv but does not
voice the s-.-ntinienu at' the people. I think
it a foolish speech. Cleveland was right.
If Hogg had a consensus of opinion of the
people of the slate he would lin.i that the
overwhelming democratic majority of Texas
would sustain President Cleveland's action
in attempting to preserve law and order."
James Griffith, democrat and city aider-
man: "I am surprised that the man occu-
pying the position he does should make
such a speech, it does not voice the senti-
ments of the people. That speech, I think.
Will cook his political goose in Texas."
H. Bland, democrat and capitalist: "I do
not indorse anything he said. Such ex-
pressions coming from the chief executive
of our state government is a discredit to
our people; it's a shame."
Dr. John Threadgill, banker: "I am
strictly a Jim Hogg man and am ready
and willing to stand by him. His position
is democratic. There are a few malcontents
and soreheads who are abusing him, but
they will not amount to any more now than
they did in '92."
John S. Kritser, democrat and stockman:
"I think his speech was altogether out ot
place but in keeping^ with what he has
heretofore done."
G. E. King, democrat and stockman: i
do not think there is language sufficient to
do the case justice."
C. H. Booth, republican and banker: I
think he raised Governor Waite just seven
stories. Waite wanted to bespatter livers
and lights seven stories high, but Governor
Hogg'went him seven stories better.
M. M. Williams, populist editor: The
people of Texas raised h—1 when E. J.
Davis attempted to override state rights,
but since Hogg has assumed this position
we hear him denounced by the hired tools
of the corporations as an anarchist.
JOHN WESLEY HARDIN A LAWYER.
Gonzales, Tex., July 25.-The examining
committee appointed by Hon. T. H. Spooner
to examine John Wesley Hardin, testing
his qualifications and knowledge of the
law with the view to being admitted to the
bar, made their report into court, holding
that the applicant showed sufficient knowl-
edge of the law to be granted a license to
practice, and an order was entered accord-
ingly. Mr. Hardin will open up an office :n
this city as soon as his license Is issued
and make a specialty of the criminal law.
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OHUlRiCH SHOOTING AFFRAY.
Lockhart, Caldwell Co., Tex., July 23.-
Yesterday at Daniel's chapel, a colored
church dn this county, Grayson Petty shot
Sam Shoaf twice with a pistol, one shot
taking effect In his side, the other -in his
arm. Shoaf may recover. IBoth parties are
aiegroes. Petty escaped, but was subse-
quently arrested and placed in jail. He
was under a $500 bond for his appearance
to await the action of the grand jury for
shooting at Shoaf some time past.
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THE MISSISSIPPI WARRANTS.
St. Louis, Mo., July 25.-Secret Service De-
tective Murphy to-day notified District At-
torney Clop ton of an order from the secre-
tary of the treasury that the seized Missis-
sippi warrant plates be returned by Mr.
Murphy to the St. Louis bank note com-
pany pending an investigation by Mr. Clop-
ton. The latter says that he will await
directions from Washington.
TRAIN ROBBERY CONSPIRACY.
State's Testimony in Case of the Devers
and Von Evans at Georgetown.
BARREL EXPLOSION.
Bastrop, Tex., July 25.—Mr. Schulke, an
old gentleman, was preparing an old whis-
ky barrel for wine, boring into it with a
red hot poker, when it exploded, tearing
his hand very badly and scattering the
pieces far and wide. The old man is in bed
from the effects.
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NECK BROKEN.
Tyler, Tex., July 24.—This evening while
the Telegram force and the postoffice boys
were playing baseball Henry W. Harrison
fell from a tree, breaking his neck. 1 he
deceased lived here and was about 23 years
old.
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WANTED IN CHEROKEE COUNTY.
Palestine, Tex., July 25.—Owen Jones, a
negro, was arrested here to-day by City
Marshal Durham and carried to Cherokee
county, where he is wanted on a chargt
of gambling.
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COMMERCIAL MATTERS.
RECEIVER OF Al'ASTILN ESTATE.
Kansas City, (Mo., July 25.-Harry C.
i<rui 11 „ ;n , " , i spond 'happily, lnitelMgently and patrloti-
5>f «J? Jul,. lpatlon— ! etlly at a moment's notice. It is much
our y' : better to make due preparation for the
The new issue. The Baiird Star asks:
1'nder which flag do you prooo.se to
fight; the su:s and stripes or tlu blood
red Hag of anarchy?
The Star - v
prepa
I'icuro act ithan blaze away at irandom
I hen quarrel iwith the reporters because
hi.; speech does not read like Lincoln's
address at Gettysburg.
ISrownwood 'Bu'iotin:
Chief Delx actually 'thought he was a ' Without any more rain 10,000 or IL'.OX)
bigger man than Uncle Sam. Mr liebs I of cotton will be marketed here this
would have 1 irned something to his ad- t ,1:- 1-'ast >'ear there avere only 6400 bales,
vantage hail lie consulted some of the old I'-rommwood merchants are preparing to
battle scarred ex-confederates south of hawX* more ti»i*le than ever this fa','.. AM
Mason and Dixon's line before li • rammed i :lIV expecting targe crops wild consequent
his head into a hornet's nest. Have you ' pro'fSperlty with everybody,
noticed how fiu.'ot everything has been In
Georgetown, Williamson Co., Tex., July
25.—The trial of Nath Dever, Lass Dever
and Von Evans, charged with conspiracy | "Ward of Kansas City was this afternoon
for train robbery, was called Tuesday morn- I appointed receiver of all the property of
Ing. The first day was consumed trying to i John J. Mastin & Co. in Missouri, Kansas
secure a jury. At G p. m. the venire had \ and Colorado, worth three and a half mil-
been exhausted and only ten jurors se- ! Hon dollars. The debts of the firm ag-
cured. I gregate $800,000.
By 10 a.m. to-day ail was ready and The .petition for the appointment was
•Billy iMayfleld. -chief witness for the^proae- \ filed by Julia Mas tin of Galena. Kans...-.
ration, took the stand. His testimony was ' widow of John J. Mastln. She makes
'aJbout as given in the examining trial and .charges of gross mismanagement ag.iins't
in substance as follows: The Dever boys Thomas H. Mastin, brother of the
asked him to help them rob the Internation- ceased.
fll and Great Northern train; he refused The appointment was mad'e by
at first; afterward consented, though with States District Judge Foster at rapc yt.
the purpose of betraying the contemplated At the time of his d»'ath in !•'" .John .1
•crime to the officers; he entered apparent- j Mastin was in the re.il est at" «•*
de-
United
the south iiuv this disturbance began,
and how firmly the southern people have
stood by Pr. si.ient Cleveland in his efforts
to uphold the supremacy of the law? if
there ever wms a doubt that the southern
people would rallv around the stars and
stripes to de:' nd -it against foreign or do-
mestic foes that doubt has been dispelled.
It was not the putting down of Hogg's
foot on the federal government, the Beau-
mont Journal says, that caused the earth-
quake. The earthquake came before Gov-
ernor Hogg's remarks.
The Ijaredo Times draws it mild:
The governor was doubtless considerably
excited, and while lite words, if correctly
reported, border too much upon the .sensa-
tional, the .sentiments are .in the main
solid, and his stand for states' rights emi-
nently correct, in so far as the principles
are concerned. The remarks of the gov-
ernor were- rather intemperate and some
parts had best not been said at all. For
Instance, his reference to "Texas landing
on the constitution of 1836 and going it
alone as a republic again," simply means
secession, and that Issue was burled too
deep by the war to ever be revived. How-
ever, whiile there's no denying of the fact
that there are sad indications of rough
saiillng ahead, it in to be hoped that the
governor overestimates the gravity of the
present situation and that the ship of
state of the grandest government that
was ever formed may, through patriotic
zeal and the .strength of true democratic
principles, be wrested from her nearness
to the breakers.
Nearly, If not ail, the rich men 'in Texas
commenced life poor and accumulated
means by Industry, economy and enter-
prise. The IHouston. Post says:
The greatest men to this country, the
most prominent figures in every vocation
**£ -tuMia Hit x-uikj
Temiple Tribune:
Tern-pie will market nearly, if not quite,
•10,0)0 bales of cotton the coming season.
Will compress 100,000 bales and .crush 50,000
tons of cotton seed.
Hays County Times:
The 'Galveston News is one of the truest
•indicators of Texas prosperity aaid prog-
ress, iand one glance ait this magnificent
an.l immense daivy is aibundant (With solid
assurance.
Orange Tribune:
Mr. M. K. King was in 'from his rice
farm Wednesday and sayis the has the
prettiest rice crop ever seen. 'His punup
is running steadily, flooding t ii^ field.
San Antonio Globe, colored man's paper:
Alderman O. J. Williams, as shown by a
recent issue of The Galveston News, is
not a voting ibut an oratorical member
of the Galveston 'board of city fathers.
Alderman WiWiams has more sense in his
linger tips than Alderman Harris has in
his whole body.
busi
John I. Mastin's interest in the Unn. which
was valued at ?3,r»<>0,000, was willed to the
widow. The widow sols forth that the
mortgages on the real estate now amount
to one million aoi arl or twice as me. h
as when her husban I diet .-n • ,:.iys U. u-
as 11 Maston has mismanaged the business
of th* tlrm. Th- property of the rirai :s in
' 'vnson, Oiiero-
and
•ly into their plans, which were for May-
rtleid to board the train at Hound Rock
j with ticket to Palm Valley, where the
iDsver boys were to be waiting to rob the
train; when the train stopped Mayfleild was
I to hold up the conductor with two pistols:
; Nath and Lass were to pull off the engineer
1 and fireman, carry them to the express ■ .
car and fou-.- them to break It open; May- 1 Kansas City, Wyandotte, Johnson,
lie id would hold up the three while Nath k« - and Chase counties, an 1 in Ki'.i. n.-
and Lass went through the express; -Lass 1 and Gunnis n count. in 1 .dorado, the
iwas to -press a knife to the heart of tii 1 | Hinsdiue proper!y 'be.ng the ueean u nve
messenger, slowly hut steadily, until he j and Wave of the (n ^hi inming c a ms
consented to open the safe; a sack four feet 1 and! the Gunnis n county property 'be.ng
•long was prepared to carry off the money I the Tin Cup, Carb vn;>">■ Ou-en. ( <rbonate
and valuables; the .passengers were to be King, and Pine Fiats rnlnln.'v Claras.
rob'oed, and then they were to run ajvay | Mr. Ward has sent a pond for $100,000 to
•with the treasure; the telegraph poles were | Ju:Ty;e Phillips for his ajr^'ova:.
to be cut before the train stopped; mufflers i John J. and Th enas J-l. Mast.n were
had been made for the horses' feet to pre- i active members < *' the Mastin bam:, wh cn
vent being tracked by bloodhounds. The ] failed in 1878 with deposits a mount .ng to
train failed to -stop, and the scheme went , aJbout $1,300,000. The failure was attributed
to pieces. I to unwise investments in mines and ex-
Ma yti eld's testimony was in part corrob- ! tensive advances _ to the National water-
ItEVIVAL AT GRANGER.
Granger, Williamson Co., Tex., July 23.—
The Baptists have built a large arbor ad-
joining the church building and are con-
ducting an Interesting and successful meet-
ing. Rev. F. S. Payne of Vernon, Tex.,
is assisting the pastor. There have been
11 fteen accessions to date, and much in-
terest in the meeting is .evidenced in the
town. It lias been continued for a week,
and bids fair to continue another week or
ten days.
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KIL/L/EfD (BY A FREttGHT TRAIN.
Ohanning, (Hartley Co., Tex., July 25.—
George Cannon was run over and killed
by a freight tfa'in mtiai1 ikhe Uej>ot Oi
(LUU evttuiliufr
orated by other witnesses. The state has
.closed its testimony, but the trial will prob-
ably last two days longer.
BOND COLLECTED.
Cuero, DeWitt Co., Tex., July 24.—This
[DeWitt] county has just succeeded in col-
lecting a $7000 bond given 'by Bill Meador,
one of the accused) in the Brazel murder
case of twenty years standing, and who
himself is now dead. The bond was thought
to be of a faulty nature and Meador was
permitted by his 'bondsman, Mr. Timon of
Live Oak county, to go at will, which he
did until three years ago, when he was
brought back and placed on trial, at which
time the bond question was agitated, ter-
minating With the above results.
works company. The
blow to the town.
failure was a severe
SHOT WHILE STEALING.
Palestine, Tex., July 25.-A1 Cartwefll, a
well-to-do farmer living two miles west of
this city, caught a young negro, Walter
Knight, in his orchard stealing fruit this
evening and tired a load of squirrel shot
into his arm andi body. Seventy-one shot
took effect, inflicting a dangerous and per-
haps fatal wound. Cartweil came in and
gave himself up and was released upon
giving a email bond for his appearance be-
fore the examining court ln> tne morning,
utie I# ftBlt fltfuida well. Ha..
BA NK © I 3PEN3IOX.
Henrietta, Clay Co.. Tex., July 21.—The
Citizens' 'bank of Henrietta, Tex., failed
to open this morning for business, and
the following notice was posted on the
front doors:
"1 have this day made an assignment ror
the benefit of ail creditors. C. VV. Easley,
'president Citizens' bank, and C. W. Eas-
ley individually." , ,
The financial trouble of the bank dates
back about one year, at which time an
assignment <was made. However, there was
an agreement made between the ibank and
the depositors 'by which the bank was re-
opened July 24, 1893, agreeing to pay one-
half of the deposits in twel-ve months
and the balance in eighteen months. The
first payment <was due to-day, t>ut owin<g
to the stringency of the times the bank
could not meet the obligation.
W. G. Suddath was named as the as-
signee. Ail depositors since the re-opening
ot the ibank one year ago -were paid in full.
The liabilities and assets can not be ascer-
tained at present.
DSHD OF TRUST.
Tyler, Tex., July 25.—Mr. Robinson, a
liquor dealer, llted! a deed of trust last
night. Assets not listed. Preferred credh
limn! lu &101&
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