Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — Minister Hubbard. [ARTICLE]

Minister Hubbard.

New York Star. So our relations with the “Yankees of the east,” are to be more intimate and amicable, thanks to my ponderous Texan friend Dick Hubbard, who is our minister to the island empire cf the orient. Richard Hubbard, to speak of him with the respect due his position, personality, and ponderosity, is a renowned citizen of tfle Lone State. He possesses an inexhaustible supply of eloquence of the intense and flowery style which still prevails in some portions of the south. In size he is tall and of gigantic girth, like the late David Davis. He was, as a young man before the war, a popular orator in his State, and was opposed to old Sam Houston. Hubbard was big round then aXnewf and his tongue was even more glib. In a speech one day he irritated the hero of San Jacinto beyond endurance. Houston, at the first opportunity, referred to Hubbard’s speech, and said: “My friends, I never contemplate the too ample proportions of Dick Hubbard without a feeling of awe, for when he was made the creator tried a great experiment. He wanted to see how far the human skin could stretch without cracking.” - A