Populist Texan

I don't know why they asked me about politics. They weren't interested in politics in general. They weren't exactly interested in how it is done or how to do it. I thought that they might be interested in the history of it, but I was wrong. What they seemed most interesteded in was the ethics and philosophy of it!

I told them to consult a comedian or two.  I wasn't kidding, but found that I didn't recall one I could recommend. The only ones I coud remember were dead. I told them to find their own comedians.

They continued to pester so I told them to go get a populist.
They looked puzzled so that I added that a populist was a person interested in fairness. I said that they were particularly interested in getting  fair way of taking care of their families. They seemed to find that good a didn't ask me what fair is.

They did ask me where to get a populist. I couldn't remember any living or dead. Then the name Ann Richards came to mind. So I told them, "Texas! Look in Texas."  They asked me if Johnson was one and I said that I don't think he quite made the grade.

They started to look bored, but I was getting interested. I was thinking that Texas was probably a better place to find them than Oklahoma, Kansas, or Missouri. I felt a certain inspiration and said that Texan populists were probably the best teachers of populism in the Country. I add that there were also a lot of nut cases in Texas which they seemed to already know. I still couldn't remember the names of any Texan populists. I was sure that Andrew Jackson wasn't a Texan. I did tell them that while they were asking Texans about populists to hold off asking about guns, god, and gays right off.

Still haven't remember a name of a populist Texan, but the name Davis comes vaguely to mind. If the names of any Texan populist comes to your mind, please tell it to me. I'd like to find out what they had to say about ethics and philosophy.