Longtime
Texas Governor Rick Perry might like to think of another ex-governor: After he
left office in 1895, James Stephen Hogg’s political enemies would not leave him
alone.
In
florid prose, a Galveston newspaper quoted a New York paper in 1896:
" 'It
was the Hon. James Stephen Hogg, then governor of Texas, who prophesied that
the sky-abrading towers of Chicago would be besprent with the livers and lights
of plutocrats if these persons kept on in their plutocratic career,' observes
the New York Sun. Yet, in the last
campaign, he spoke a kind word for the plutocrats.
He
is rapidly becoming a plutocrat himself, and now he knows how much
circumstances alter cases."
--The Galveston Daily News, Nov. 29, 1896
But
a Houston paper gave Hogg a pat on the back, praising him for “the
wonderful hold he has upon the favor and affections of the people, a hold that
no abuse or assaults from his enemies can shake.”
--The Houston Daily Post, Aug. 22, 1897
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