Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 191, Ed. 1, Monday, April 21, 1890 Page: 1 of 8
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Correspondence of the Gazette
Weatherford Tex April 19 Yes-
terday evening Mr J M Boise a car-
penter of this city while carrying a pack
of shingles up a ladder fell and was se-
verely if not fatally injured
The members of the Christian church
are buildinff a beautiful parsonage near
their churoh building
The oity is full of strangers prospeot
ing with the view of locating and in
business oircles everything is booming
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Correspondence of the Gazette
Baikd Tex April 19 Distriot court
adjourned yesterday until Monday
April 21
There will be a Mayday Sunday
school picnic on Mount Airy west of
Baird May 1 given by all Sunday
sohools of Baird and Callahan county
A steady rain is now falling here and
Indications are that it is a general rain
All feel sur8 of good crops now and
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CHAPTER ONE
The GazetteJay GonM St Louis
w it was Received with Brass Bands
and Flying Banners to the
Amazement of Nightcaps
Sleeper Accommodations for the Dallasltea
Who Coma to Fort Worth the NIsht
Before to Catch the Train
TO BE CONTINUED
Special to the Gazette
Texabkana Tex April 20 It was
about three months ago that The Ga
zete and Mr Gould first put their
heads together to try to arrange for a
fast train service between Texas and the
East The Gazette was always willing
but Mr Gould was at first a little doubt-
ful of the expedienoy of the move How-
ever when he came to Texas and saw
what a great state it was and how many
people got on and off every day
at Fort Worth the magnate quiokly
warmed up to the idea and before he
left the Fort he tipped a wink to The
Gazette which translated Into railroad
vernacular meant she goes
The next thing to be done of course
was to select a routo Mrj Gould as
is well known owns more than one
railroad leading out of Texas to the
east Here follows a bit of confidence
but you good reader will not betray it
The Gazette had reasons of its own lor
desiring to follow the Southern route to
Texarkana for the people of Dallas like
to read The Gazette before break-
fast just like other people It
urged upon Mr Gould that
in this scheme of benificence
for the wayworn traveler Dallas was
entitled to some consideration He lis-
tened patiently and look out his map
and made some figures Then he ejacu-
lated Difference nine miles it aint
worth it When Jay says it aint
worth it the man who has
a duok to sell might as well
take it to another market
As < 3 concession however Mr Gould
feree that provision should be made
Jentertain over nijrht iu
t Fort Worth Dallas
the Pullmans
passengers who
be in to Dalla3
may a hurry go eas r
people must not think harfl of Mr
Gould he showed a reallyttender so-
licitude for their interests and
observed that it wouldnt do Mjm any
harm anyway to soak aw hfle in Fort
Worth atmosphere before venturing far-
away from home
It wasnt long after midnight before
the cockroaohes around and about the
old Bhell that passes for a Union depot
at Fort Worth found i out that
something unusual yas going
on The lights glowed with a strange
brillianoy and darted and sputtered and
vsizzed as if they had something important
to communicate Ah old wharf rat that
for ton years has retired regularly at
midnight was observed to sidle around a
pile of trunks about 1 oclook
and point bis nose toward the
north in a significant sort of way
At 1 oolock some fellows wearing lan-
terns and large yawns appeared upon the
scene At 145 the lights in the Pullman
standing on the west side of the depot
visibly brightened and a bluecoated
portei peered out into the face of the
starlighted night At 215 engine No
47 slowly backed to the train
of cars to whioh the Pullman
was connected and begun to fuss and
fume in an effort to get up steam At
230 things were in motion from Dan to
Beersheba Trucks were running up and
down the platform and candidates for
passage came thick and fast At this
juncture a nightcap emerged from
a vSKUgJow of the Pullman
agS close after it came
fiffierbeaten face which accosted
ftie nearest individual with the query
Is this St Louis When correct in-
formation was imparted the nightcap re-
tired behind a streak of profanity It
was afterwards learned from the porter
that the inmate of the bunk was from
Dallas and that he had been snoring
heavily
It was 25i when Conductor Legg
sang out in a oheery tone All
aboard Engine No 47 gave a little
feminine screeoh and instantly the
wheels began to revolve Every passen-
ger except the sleepers reached for the
seat in front of him and clung to it
tightly for a few minutes The grasp
relaxed when it became plain that we
were still hugging the earth It must
have been out about the fair grounds
that No 34 caught the supreme in-
spiration of the moment she
jumped the Trinity bridge and as
she fell on the other side the Dallas pas
sengor put his head out of his bunk to
remark that if Sam Jones were on board
he would like to ask an interest in hi3
prayers Pausing not an instant No
34 clambered up the hill with
the ease of a kangaroo In a breath we
were at Hodge and it appeared that we
were one and threequarter minutes
ahead ot time having gained one min-
ute The next run was a stretch of fif-
teen miles to Roanoke We had just
thirtytwo minutes in whioh to make it
and we consumed thirtyfive minutes
Here was a state of things While No 47
paused to blow The Gazette man
swung into the cab and reminded En-
gineer Wales that it was the wish of Jay
and The Gazette that he should
either put that train in Texar
kana on time or in a ditch
Dave Wales replied that No 47 was just
eetting her wind and that it was a wise
horse that knew when to run the fastest
AtArgyle eight miles further on the
situation was unohanged Between Ai <
gyle and Denton No 47 braced np a
little and came within three minutes
of striking the schedule when me pulled
up at the latter place The train was
instantly surrounded by a crowd of en-
thusiastic humanity who called for The
Gazette They roused up the news-
boy who was asleep on his box and who
asserted in triangular language that
he be damned if he knew whatwaB tfcd
matter with The Gazette it was
then explained to them that The Ga-
zette didnt suppose thejf would be out
at the unseemly hour of 410 am
and in the economy of Its distribution
FORT WORTH TEXAS MONDAY APRIL 21 1890
they had been marked down for
the second edition By a unanimous
vote they oalled for the first edition here-
after and the train movqdon
Before we reached Pilpt Point the east
began to show some streaks of gray and
at every farmhouse the cooks gave
No 47 a rousing salute to which she
sometimes replied with a snort The
dim light of the morning showed a large
gathering of people at the depot as we
pulled in at Pilot Point We
remained just long enough
for the mayor to present an
address and the keys of the city to The
Gazette At Whitesboro whioh we
reaohed on time at 525 a seven
yearold youngster dressed in
the costume that Hory OMoore
attributed to Governor Irelands
childhood ran with all his might to the
train and shouted that his mamma
wanted a Gazette The reporter took
the copy out of his pooket not
yet read and threw it to the
tot There were many others who
wanted Gazettes and who went
away w th the heartache which always
follows grave disappointment
The track was pretty rough between
Whitesboro and Sherman and we again
dropped behind iu what should have been
a Hfty minutes run It was now
light enough for all practical purposes
and as we pulled into Shermau it was
easy to tell the color of the uniforms of
the band whioh wa3 playing New
Coon in Town When the
train came to a dead stop a great
cheer rolled out from the throats
of a mighty multitude Several crates
of Gazettes were emptied out of the
baggage car and a town lot speoulator
offered a lumping price for the lot To
save time a bargain was struck and
when last seen the purohaser was run-
ning a successful auction
While we were standing at Sherman an
engine and a coach pulled in from the
south on the Central T he passengers
of whom the number was not
large all changed < cars aud
bought Gazettes Our oonduotor said
he thought it was a bobtail that had
been put on for ilytlmo As it hurried
on northward the Dallas passenger put
his head out of the wjndow and trolled
Goodbye my lover Goodbye
Bells and Savoy ea 6h gave us an ova-
tion and at Bonham where we paused
for breakfast a procession of little
children with waving banners and appro-
priate mottoes came down to testify
their gladness at the restoration of The
Gazette to the homes of its Transconti-
nental friends
At Paris the genialjigent of The Ga-
zette wanted to takiull of the article
that was left in stockbut he was geutly
restrained on behalf of the people of
Blossom Prairie Clarksville et al
The balance of the trip why tell of
it How The Gazette pleaded with
Engineer Wales for more steam how
we dropped behind to catch up
to drop behind again how
the huzzahs of gladdened people
greeted The Gazette and Jay
at every station and how finally we
pulled into Texarkana just twentyfive
minutes late having run 244 miles in-
exactly 9 hrs 4G min are not all
these things written down in history
Thus endeth the first chapter in the
history of The Gazette Jay Gould St
Louis lightning express
Later A comparison of your corres-
pondents watoh with Engineer Wales
splendid time piece reveals the faot that
Y C8 W was ahead of time and No
34 made the trip on time
A MIK1STEK COJXVICTED
Found Guilty of Perjury In a Trial for Seduc-
tion and Given Seven Years
Special to the Gazette
Fort Smith Ark April 20 Rev
George A Marvin of the Methodist
ohuroh was convicted of perjury in the
Sebastian county court yesterday morn-
ing and the jury assessed his punishment
at seven years in the penitentiary In
January 1888 Mr Marvin was assigned
to a circuit in the Greenwood distriot
this county and boarded with one of his
parishoners a respectable old gentleman
named Bassett who had a handsome
daughter Marvin seduced the girl but
before this beoame known was tran s
f erred to another distriot In
February 188D the young lady gave
birth to a ohild and her father caused
Marvins arrest He waa tried in the
county court Greenwood distriot and
convioted of bastardy They appealed
the case to the circuit oourt and took a
change of venue to the Fort Smith dis
triot He failed to appear at the proper
time and in the meantime was indicted
for perjury on four counts having sworn
falsely in his oase at the time he was
cried before the county coisrti He was
arrested about five months ago and com-
mitted to jail here where he has slface
remained his trial having resulted in
conviction Marvin entered tjhe ministry
when about eighteen years of age ahd Is
oniv 5
now twentytwo
The T P
HOUSTON
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A Hefclng A X lveFctond Tojjfh
The Braz6 > Jrsshytery
Special to the Gazette
Houston Tex April 19 The state
meeting of the Travelers Prooteotlve asso-
ciation will be held here May 7 and men
ot the grip from all over the country wilj
be here in force
W A Polk civil engineer of the
Houston East and We3t Texas road to-
day brought in the tooth of a mastodon
whioh was found in the bed of
the Brazos rlyer It is perfect
In Its formation well preserved and
weighs twelve pounds He alBo had the
huge knee cap but it resembled pumioe
stone
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The Bayou City street railway company
commenced running street cars on one
line today In all they have seven lines
and twentyeight miles of track Ther
have put up a 40000 stable and claim
to be the best equipped line in the state
The Presbytery of the Brazos adjourned
today to meet in Bryan on Saturday be-
fore the fourth Sabbath In May O Bi
Caldwell aoted as moderator and R W
Elrkpatrick as seoretary Reports from
all the churches were flattering A new
church has been organized at Quintana
and Is flourishing Austin college at
Sherman was praised
Reports of all officers
insd and appxored
for Its efficiency
were read exam
HOGG AT EUSK
The AttorneyGeneral Opens His
Campaign on His Native Heath
Texas Must Either Regulate Her Kail
ways or the Eailways will Soon
Begulate Texas
A Clear Outllne of the Policy Ha Would Porsue
wero He Eleced Governor of the
Lone Star State
OPENIXG THE CAMPAIGN
Rusk Tex April 19 The following
was the speech of Attorney General
James S Hogs here today opening the
campaign for governor of Texas
Fellow Citizens Acting o n theinvitation of
a committee from Husk and in obedience to
natural impulsesI am here where I was born at
the playground of my childhood to begin among
my lifelong friends and associates a formal
canvass of the state as a candidate for governor
Just after the war when merely a boy many
of yon will remember I left these familiar scenes
and generous people to cast my lot among
strangers in another county How they have
trusted and treated me ask thom Lookamong
this vast concourse and you will see many of
those good people a hundred miles from their
homes taking part in this demonstration They
have been drawn here by ties of affection that
are too strong for dissolution too pure for
others than friends to bear To them I di-
rect you for an account of myself in all
the walks of life since I left you so many years
ago As a day laborer and a penniless printer
theyreceived me to their firesides and cheered
me on In the journalistic field they gave me a
generous liberal support and made my paper a
success They trusted me with the positions of
road overseer justice of the peace and county
attorney they joined with five other counties
in making me their district attorney and after-
wards they generously contributed their full
strength in electing me attorneygeneral the
office I now hold How I served m the first po-
sition every hand who worked under me will
cheerfnlly testify now but they complained
then when the full measureof the law was being
complied with It is ever so However when
hardships are over and the good results of duty
faithfully performed are seen men cease to
grumble I am not censured now for having
done my duty then How I conducted the offices
of justice of the peace and county commis-
sioner may be seen by reference to the dockets
and financial records of Wood connty
When the commissiorfers court of which
I was the head took charge of that then
sparsely settled and poor countys affairs we
found a floating debt of over S20000 taxes at
seventyfive cents on the 100 and scrip at
twentyfive cents on the 100 Within thirty
months we diminished the debt to less than a
S1000 reduced the taxes to twentyfive cents on
the 100 and increased the scrip to par It was
all done by the law under the law and accord-
ing to law without imparing the rights of any
individual or abridging necessary public de-
mands
A few years later I filled the office of county
attorney for one term afrVbe end of which I was
promoted by election to the position of dis-
trict attorney Ask any person white or black
of that county or from any one of the six
counties that composed the district if any
favoritism was shown criminals of any kind or
if official delinquency was ever complained of
against me Felonies and all classes of mis-
demeanors received full attention under the
law according to law Ask the people over
there what was the effect on their general wel-
fare Ask themif malefactors did notstand
scattering while peaceful citizens got their
righteous protection
To duty a lawyer is called when he accepts
employment His profession in a marked de-
gree teaches him fidelity to his clients cause
When he has no engagement no client he fol-
lows the course of his training and usually
stands with the law as he finds it Added to the
professional obligations so deeply laid upon me
I have taken in each office that I have held and
the one I now hold an oath to support the con-
stitution and laws That I have kept faithfully
the obligation of a lawyer to his client and the
oath of office as well my conscience and the
great God who guides our destinies can best
judge
In returning here to you my friends I offer
the record I have made as attorney general of
the state for your inspection
This invitation is made without reservation
While doing so read every letter opinion plea
and document that I have written or drawn No
one shall be slighted orrefused access to a single
book or item in the office The law requires all
my official letters opinions and acts to he kept
of record and it has been strictly obeyed So
hereafter there will be no excuse for men to
speak of my deeds without being able to pro-
duce the records If they do it is well to dis-
count what they say about ninety per cent and
allow the remainder for campaign gas If any
of them wish to discuss my record and there is
plenty of it let them do so like men If I can-
not meet them then a just public on a hearing
will in vindication of its own honor condemn
me If it contains a single disreputable act ybu
should out of respect for the good name you
bear as a just honorable people condemn me
as an unworthy son of Cherokee
The very section of the constitution which
creates the office of attorneygeneral requires
him to look after private corporations It says
He shall especially inquire into the charter
rights of all private corporations and from time
to time in the name of the state take such ac-
tion in the courts as may be proper and neces-
sary to prevent any private corporation from
exercising any power not authorized
bvlaw
Within forty days after I qualified I took
action under this provision of the constitution
and have continued to operate under it actively
and effectively ever since Jly first work under
it was against illegal fire and life insurance
companies generally called wildcat con-
cerns Then there were about forty of them op
eratinu in Texas in violation of law By the aid
of an efficient and faithful commissioner of in-
surance through the courts I effected the exter-
mination of every one of them within twelve-
months Many good men were innocently
in the service of those companies Somebf them
may yet regret the losaief lucrative positions by
the n enforcemeJtfcof ihe law but tfcey all
oughtto be and ddabtle s are patriotic enough
to jfejoice > at the general public good effected as
tiny result By this workthe commissioner in-
forms mf the peojjUe have been saved at least
faiOOOO ayear <
railroad from Sabine Pass
The to Beaumont
had ceased to JopeTate For months no traiaof
any charajcterwere run between the two points
a distanced thirty miles Ifwas the only road
to the PasS Und the company refused to operate
it down lere Complaint fas made to me and
I brought action against it apd forced it to re-
construct equip and operate the road Since
that time it has been doing its duty to the pub-
lic without complaint
Yon all remember the Texas Traffic Associa-
tion Perhaps you do not It was a combina-
tion of nine railroads of other states with aU the
ra droads in Texas except one line under a cen-
tral management In other words it was a
pool to control the railroad lines of the state
and tHeir connections outsidet so as to maintain
rates i nd prevent competition among them
Under tie agreement of all those railroads an
executive committee selected by them arbi-
trarily fixCd the rates on traffic iaving origin or
destination within the state of Texas In the
absence of tTiat committee one man called a
commissioaer had the power which he
freely exercisivl to raise or lower the rates on
every article of commerce received or shipped
by the people ot this state By that agreement
under severe penalties no railroad belonging to
xhe combination could at will reduce rates be-
low the schedule fixed by the executive commit-
tee or the commissioner but at pleasure they
could be raised ns high as the company
carrying the traffic wished Thus the railroad
companies were protected against competition
insured goodrates rendered indifferent to their
obligation to the public andlad to believe their
power was superior to law Commerce was at
the r1 mercy without a representative on thev
°
jg od for the country that commerce needed
iequality of rates that competition was
death to trade that combination was far
better than competition and that the rail-
roads would be mined and capital driven out of
the country if war was made on this modern pet
ot railroad magnates
Acting under the constitution without prece-
dent in the face of formidable opposition I
enjoined and finally succeeded in dissolving and
breaking up that association Fol
lowing its destruction was the or XBization of the
TOL X1Y NO 191
International Traffic Association with head-
quarters out of the state having like purposes
in view and also the International weighers
association located in Texas intending to
operate m disguise to reeulate the traffic of thu
country Each of these I succeeded in dissolv-
ing by the power and effect or the decree en
tered in the first instance By this work many
men were deprived of profitable situations and
employment that they held and received in vio
lation of law Of course some of them are
not friends to me and arc readv to say that
my election will ruin railroads drive capital out
of the state and retard progress and prosperity
in all respects
Since the dissolution of those associations
instead of the railroads being operated under
one central power they have acted so far as the
law applied to ihem as independent carriers
under separate control and management Com-
merce ha3 not fully rallied from the evil effects
of them but a general healthful stimulus to
trade and attendant benefits have been the re-
sult This no one will deny
In additiqn to this Texas Traffic association
there are two great railway systems with their
headquarter put of th state that controlled
the stock and received the earnings of nearly
every railway company in the state One known
as the Missouri Pacific system with headquar-
ters at St Louis operated the Texas and Pacific
the International and Great Northern the
Missouri Kansas and Texas and their
branch and connecting lines It elected ther
directories appointed theiy officers controlled
their traffic arrangements received th ir earn-
ings and disbursed their expenses atits office in
St Louis Through the directors elected by
that foreign company it increased the bonds
and stocks of each of said roads at Will iu de-
fiance of the law3 of our state Such was the
case also with what was known aithe Southern
Pacific Railway company with headquarters in
San Francisco and New Orleans that operated
and controUed the Galveston Harrisbuxg and
San Antonio the Texas and New Orleans the
Sabine and East Texas and other lines
Nearly all of the 23000000 expended annually
by the people of Texas in freight and passenger
charges wero disbursed at the headquarters of
the said two railway systems This alone kept
the stato drained of its proportion of the cir-
culating medium and to that extent contrib ted
to the prosperity and wealth of other sections
These two great railway systems as they ara
called do not so boldly operate in Texas now
Why Look at the rocords of your courts Tha
first case that tested their strength and legal
status was brought by me in the district court of
Travis county and is known as the Stato vs
the International and Great Northern railway
company For the construction of this
road the state donated to it 12SA
acres of land to the mile and exempted
that land and all the property of said company
from taxation for a period of twentyfive years
from 1S75 At first it was an excellent road and
rendered good service to the commerce of Texas
It had its headquarters at Palestine at which
place it made the deposits of its earnings and
paid the expenses of its operation So long as
it was thus managed it added lifo and prosperity
to every section through which it ran Ab-
sorbed however by the Missouri Pacific sys-
tem its offices 1 officers and headquarters were
removed out of the state and as a result its
roadbed rolling stock general equipments and
depots became dilapidated and so out of repair
as to render travel over it in every way disa-
greeable tardy and hazardous The action
brought against it had the effect of dissolving
its relations with the Missouri Pacific system
removing its general offices and headquarters
back to Palestine and having its roadbed and
rolling stock placed in such condition as to
make it equal to any road in the state
While I failed to ecover a forfeitureof its tax
exemption on the ground that it was > part of
the property and could not be severed from it
yet asdo from that the beneficial results ot
that action can never be questioned y any fair
minded man At manypoints along the line of
that road decent depots nave Been constructed
the roadbed put in good repair and all expenses
incurred by it are now paid out along its route
in the state Pending the trial and in answer to
the states petition the Missouri Pacific rail-
way company through its president Mr Gould
filed its written release of all claims to and con-
trol over said road and property This cut tha
link that gave the Missouri Pacific system its
strength in Texas and it immediately aban-
doned the state Without tho necessity of
action the Southern Pacific system soon fol-
lowed that example
Another action that had good effect was the
one against the Texas and New Orleans railway
company which resulted in compelling it to
remove its headquarters and general offices from
New Orleans back to Houston
Following up these precedents and the law
that was passed subsequent to their establish-
ment I have compelled the removal ot tho
headquarters general offices and shops of every
railroad in this state which were located in for-
eign cities and states back upon the line of
their respective roads They have been com-
pelled to remove to Srtn Antonio to Houston to
Galveston to Dalhw to Fort Worth to El
Paso to Dcnison td Texarkana to Tyler and
to other places where they belonged under terms
of their charters
For the delinquencies nonnscrs and abuses
ot its charter franchises I brought suit against
the East Line and Bed Biver railroad company
and succeeded in forfeiting its charter and hav-
ing a receiver appointed to take charge of its
affairs This is the first case in the history of
this country where a receiver has been appointed
over a railroad at tho instance of the state and
it is the first one in which the charter has been
forfeited in this state The precedent is a just
and wholesome one which in time will result
in great good to the railroads and the public
Without entering my fellowcitizens into
further details of the services I have performed
asattorneygeneral which this occasion will
not permit I wish to state that by suits and offi-
cial action duly taken I have compelled most
of the railroads in Texas so far as the law
would warrant to decently repair equip and
operate their roads to ceaso discrimination in
many instances between shippers to
construct and keep in proper order
suitable depot buildings and to
otherwise perform their duties to the public Iu
the same way I have compelled the dissolutioa
of many unlawful combinations within the stata
that have been for a long time operating in defi-
ance of law Included within these was tha
express association the insurance underwrit-
ers the coffin combine tobacco trust and others
I have represented the state in numbers of cases
in the supreme and district courts against de-
faulting sheriffs and tax collectors delinquent
land lessees and others who were due the state
or sought to recover from it sums of money I
have stirred up through the efficient district
and county attorneys delinquent tax payers
and many others who refused to perform their
legal obligations to the government
1 have sued for and recovered of several rail-
way companies lands which I know if there
is any meaning to plain language
iu the law that they are not and
never were entitled to These cases
are yet pending In the courts and therefore will
not be here discussed i have enjoined the Mis-
souri Kansas and Texas railroad company in
the ownership and ase of 10000000 of stock of
the International and Great Northern railroad
which it claims to own If the records are true
that stock was not o ly illegally held but is fic-
titious under oar constitution and laws for it
was issued without the payment of money or
any consideration whatever
I have intervened in behalf of the stata in tho
action brought by the bondholders to recover
15000000 against the International and Great
Northern I contend and will prove that 65 per-
cent of these ibonds were also issued without
any money q other consideration whatever
Since my induction into the office of attomey
generafof all the suits I have brought I hava
never lost but two nor haTe I ever
taken or applied for a continuance in a single
one that I have appeared in In all this work I
have had to aid meonly two office assistants
and one clerk and aside from the salaries paid
them and myself the state has not been put to
2500 cost since I took charge of the office
Before I accepted the positions I have held
I fully understood that my actions should bo
controlled by the law I now defy any critic to
truthfully point to a single instance within
my whole life wherein I have
not strictly performed my official dutes
If assaults on my official acts are honestly made
they can if true be substantiated by the records
and proofs adduced By that I am willing to
stand or fall To it I refer as evidence of what I
shall always do so long as I hold office
Turning from the past and looking to tha
future I wish to tell you what my policy will ba
if tha people of thi3 stata elect me their gov-
ernor Since I was twentyone years old I have
cast my ballot at each election forgovemor with-
out knowing but little ot the convictions he en-
tertained or tha policy he would pursue
except as indicated by the platform promul-
gated by the Democratic convention that nomi-
nated him The nomination of a man for that
officeby the Democratic party in this state is
tantamount to his election Therefore I hava
always elt and yet believe that any one who
aspires to it should go before the people and dis
tjAiss the issues ard acquaint them with his
principles and convictions before the nominat-
ions convention is held Moved by these con-
siderations and not wishing to evade any issue
that legitimately pertains to the pending cam-
paign I have made my appointments to speak
to the people of the different sections of this
state and to explain to them what I shall do if
I am elected No man who is elect a governor
could nor should be expected to do more than
obey and comply with the constitution
and whatever that instrument commands
ought to be fully performed Iu limi
tations should not be overridden nor
Us mandates disobeyed The citizsns by th ir
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