Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. [39], Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1910 Page: 4 of 10
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TICKLE Y
PLEASE
FEED STUFF DIO YOU SA
Dornberge
cretidns were at times
WHEN HER BACK ACHES
am
above
Hall Hardware Co
Dentist
no more.
A Woman Finds all Her Energy
and Ambition Slipping Away.
Lane and Earl Osteen, of Bronte
visited their grandmother, Mrs.
L. F. Gressett, last week.
Kyle Rei^ Dickinson left 1
day for Abilene to attend
meeting of American Yc^emen
J. W. Matthews, of Commani
was here Tuesday on business.
win practice in all the Courts
Office over the Ballinger State Bank
received. Yours for good things to eat.
tor oil to cleanse the system,
sure.
ANTED—A buyer for Broad*
jflaee, with or without house,
t be sold at once. Apply at
13th Street, or Phone 489.—
I. L. H. BACON.
Fyr sale by defl
cents. Foster-Mil
two weeks these letters
sent to the Dead Letter
Thai is what you do when you buy Groc
frum Dornberger, for he always has the
the market affords at prices that please.
I cater to the best trade and by good g
and at prices that are reasonable, succeet
reaching it. Two phones, two deliveries m<
prompt service and satisfaction.
contract lor 50
nson Grass Hay.
SPANN & CO.
After
will be
Office.
■escribed dose after each
>wels more than natural i
Tom H. Bell, of the Ledger,
left Tuesday afternoon for Stam-
ford to attend the meeting of
Texas Press Association.
Arthur, C. J.
Goble, Willis. 1
Johnson, H. L.
Williams, Hunter.
When calling for the
please say advertised and give the
date of this list.
A Large Crowd Listened Attentively
to the Expelled Senator for an
Hour and a Half— Many Con-
verts in Town and County.
Jay Erwin, after a few
visit to home folks, - ret
Tuesday to Brownwood.
FOR SALE—At a Bargain. Lot
end one half on Broadway, one
lot from Pou Ave. Lota 1 and 2
Miller addition on tenth st. Must
««li at once; will take 1-3 cash,
balance to suit. Address E. J.
SALE—Good mare and
r Would trade for gbod
horse or pair small mules!
A. L. Spann A Co.
ence.
dress
author or the resolution expelling
me from the senate and yet a few
days before he introduced the
resolution, he heard a lobbyist
under oath say that he had been
playing poker with three sena-
tors and three representatives;
that a thousand dollars had been
lost in one of the games and that
a lobbyist had paid the fines of
three legislators. After this evi-
dence had" been taken down by
the stenographer, he made a mo-
tion that all the testimony show-
ing gambling on the members of
the legislature and entangling al-
liances with the professional
lobbyist be suppressed from the
senate journal. Theh 8,000 of
these journals were printed and
paid for out of the state treas-
ury, and distributed in my dis-
trict, and it was advertised that
these journals contained a full
report of the lobby investigating
proceedings. A
never published,
ago I spoke at
home of Senator
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Garrett, of
Winters, returned home Tues-
day after a short visit tovMr. and
Mrs. P. O. Holtjen, of this city.
to it at home where it seems to
be as rampart as any state in
the union. And let a man raise
his voice against these things
and he is looked upon as a dream-
er, a erank, a fanatic, a scound-
rel—the very embodiment of tot-
al depravity of the human 'race
and the arch enemy of his state
and country.” 1 ’ '•
Contrary to former announce-
ment that H. Bascom Thomas
would speak at 2:00 o’clock Mon-
day, after arriving in the city
he changed his speaking hour
to 10:30 in the morning in order
that he could leave for Winters
and Abilene on the 2 p. m.
A. & S. .
‘ Mr. Thomas spoke on the street
in front of Higginbotham-Currie-
Williams Co. for an hour and
a half to a large crowd of atten-
tative listeners. His remaks were
straightforward and direct and
his attact on the lobbying*and
grafting system which he says ex-
ist? af* Austin, fell upon receptive
FOR SALE—Household goods
; vary reasonable discount, about
iO.OO cash makes the deal. In-
lire at this office. Will not talk
1 second-hand men .
of the grafter, for the grafter and
by the grafter.”
“Senator Braehfield was the
Paint said Wall Paper at Hig
|inbotham-Curie-Williams Co’s,
’rices always the lowest.
FOR SALE—Jersey bull, twb
tars old. Subject to registra-
m. Price $25. Phone 246. P.
, Box 446, Ballinger, Texas. 38-2t
Ballinger women know how the
aches and pains that came when
the Kidneys fail make life a bur-,
den. Backache, hip pains, head-
aches, dizzy spells, distressing
urinary troubles, all tell of sick
kidneys and warn you of the
stealthy approach of diabetes,
dropsy and Bright’s disease.
Doan’s Kidney Pills permanent-
ly cure all these disorders.
Can Ballinger sufferers desire
stronger proof than this womah’s
words ?
;en. Pnee
tarn Co., B
talo, New York, sole agents
the United State®:-**
Remember the name—Doan*
and take no other.
•Well yes, we always have all kinds of 4
stuff, and at prices that please the most ex;
ing. We solicit a share of your trade in
Ballard’s Herbine is
absolutely effective in
Price 50 cents per bot-
Pearee.
FOR HALE—A one-acre lot
with good Store-house 54x20 feet,
with counters -and • shelving, a 3
MOM dwelling with fine well of
Without the proper Im-
plements.
We sell the line that
has passed the experi-
mental stage
STANDARD LINE heads
the class in DISC PLOWS,
CULTIVATORS, PLANT-
ERS, HARROWS, Wind-
mills, Pumps, Pipe Work
bigger lie was
A short time
Henderson, the
Braehfield, and
he occupied a seat in the audi-
When I finished my ad-
Senator Braehfield came to
platform and begged his
home people where he had been
practicing law for twenty years
to remain a few minutes until he
could relpy. Braehfield was hoot-
ed from the platform and the au-
dience began to yell: “Sit down,
sit down,, you garfter, we have
heard all we want to and we don’t
care to bear any more.” Sueh a
spectacle was never before seen
in that section.”
No man in the senate showed
more bitterm ss towar1 mb than
Senator Senter. Me knew that
the national banks in Teens
raised a campaign iind of sev-
eral thousand dollars, with which
to defeat the passage of the bauk
guarantee deposit bill. He k icw
that the gambling and sporting
men in Texas had r.-. sed a cam
paign fund of h-ufiI thousa” I
dollars with which to prevent
to passage of the anti-horse gam-
bling bill, I would like to ask
Senator how much off that money
found, its way into the pockets
of certain members of the legis-
lature who Hid all they could to
assist the lobby in preventing
the passage of these bills who
voted for my expulsion and who
talked loud and long about a re-
flection upon his senatorial dig-
nity, integrity and honor.
“A man does not have to be
in Austin twenty-four hours until
he knows that rottenness is in
the very atmosphere in which he
moves and knowing this as I do
for me to remain silent and say
nothing, would mean that I
a scoundrel who deserves no re-
spect and confidence of a,>decent
man in Texas. If 1 had remained
silent and §aid nothing; if I had
warmed my soft senatorial chair
and kept one hand behind me,
if I had always winked one eye
and never told stories out of
school, some of that crowd would
be looking upon me as if I were
an ideal statesman and one of
the saviors of $iy country. We
talk about graft and corruption
in California. Pennsylvania, Mis-
souri and other state and yet we
will close our eyes, ears and noses
and Cisterns.
Plumbing work of the most approved Sanitary order properly in
stalled. Bath Tubs, Sinks, Lavatories, etc.
We solicit your business on all lines. Builders Hardware a Special-
B.8ALE OR EXCHANGE—
set Double Harness and one
tier’s Wagon. Harness cost
$102.50; Wagpn cost new
0*0. Beeil used about six
ha. Will sell at a big bar-
A. L. SPANN & CO.
ears.
In an interview with Mr.
Thomas, he expressed himself as
being quite confident of election,
He said he was surprised at the
is a pretty hard thing to accom-
plish when you’re blue, bilious
and out of sorts. There is a sure
cure for all kinds of stomach and
liver complaints—constipation and
dyspepsia,
mild, yet
all cases.
is to go back to Austin, pass the
appropriation bill and then go
home,” knowing that the anti-
race horse gambling bill was still
pending in the senate.
He read the following telegram
which he received the next day
after his expulsion: “Stephen-
ville, Texas, March, 1909. To
H. Bascom Thomas, Sulpher
Springs, Texas: Lt. Governor
Davidson pleaded guilty to gamb-
ling with cards in Erath county
in 1906. Certified copy of in-
dictment and judgement herewith
mailed. Stay with them Baseom.
M. J. Thompson, county judge of
Erath County.
He referred to the fact that at
the first investigation all of the
senators but one voted for his ac-
quittal. “One. night about twelve
o’clock just bofere adjournment
this senator arose and said: “You
fellows may vote for his acquittal
if you wish but I shall vote for
his expulsin, for I do not believe
that a man who would reflect up-
on the honesty of his colleagues
deserves a seat in the dignified
chamber.” That very night at
2.-00 o’clock this senator was
capght in a poker game at the
Driskell hotel, violating the laws
of the state whicj* he had helped
to make and y
fore he had stood n the floor of
the senate and talked loud and
long about a reflection upon his
senatorial dignity, integrity and
honor, a thing he has not had
since he was born. When such
a man talks about his senatorial
dignity, integrity and honor, it
reminds me of Judas Iscariot
singing Te Deum to Jesus Christ
in a church choir on a Christmas
morning.”
The following startling state-
ments were made by Senator
Thomas: “I have a letter in my
possession written by a banker
from a certain county certifying
to the fact that a few years ago
when two men were elected to
the legislature from his county,
one of them w#s turning down
$10 grocery bills he could not pay,
and the Jther was settlinge his
debts at 50 cents on the dollar,
and when the legislature was over
they returned home and went in-
to business and advertised a cap-
ital stock of $25;000.
“I have in my possession three
letters certifying to the fact that
a man in Bell county admitted
that he had paid a check of $250
to a certain senator if he would
second a motion to have the cot-
ton exchanges re-instated in
Texas. And yet this man was
one of the senators who voted
for my expulsion because I had
reflected upon his honesty.”
“A short while ago I was talk-
ing to Clenn Pricer of the Austin
Tribune, and he told me that a
certain lady of Austin admitted
to him and his wife that her
husband had made $4,000 while
the legislature was in session.
He said that he had been in-
formed that this man had been
lobbying against the anti-fee bill
of which I was one of the au-
thors.”
“I believe that with $25,000
the lobby can prevent the passage
of four out of five of the bills
through the state senate. All
that will be neccessary to do is
to bribe or control sixteen sena-
tors and ttte work will be done.
But you say this charge cannot
be prove <. Here is a more ser-
ious charge that I can prove. I
can name five general railway at-
torneys who are drawing salaries
from $15,000 to $25,000 a year,
and who were in Austin during
the last legislature and I will
wager the ears off my head, and
I never bet, that four out of five
of the bills opposed by these
lobbyists never became laws and
most of them never got out of
the committee rooms. What does
this mean! It means that these
five corporation lawyers have
more in fluence in shaping legis-
lation affecting the corporations
of this state than the five hundred
thousand sovereign, qualified vot-
ers in Texas combined. And yet
we talk about this being a gov-
ernment of the people, for the
people, and by the people. Some-
times I think it is a “government
t, close to one of the best
ol buildings in Runnels coun-
A splendid opening for a mer
,ile business. Consideration
.00. The store aloneis worth
jeeting to his speaking on the
streets •here, andthat it was the
first time that he had ever been
interrupted in such a manner.
After the interruption of the
I pea king, Mr, Thomas was -ac-
corded a hearty demonstration
by his ardent admirers and he
was hoisted upon the shoulders
and carried for some distance.
Senator Thomas was introdu-
ced by a local newspaper man
and immediately began his re-
marks by giving a brief history
of his experience in the senate,
his attack against the lobby, the
storm it precipitated and which
subsequently culminated in his
expulsion, from the senate. He
described his trial before that
body, how the door wm thrown
wide open and the professional
lobbyist together with his lick-
spittles and his puppets were in-
vited in to watch the proceedings,
and there in the midst of 3000
people he was looked upon as if
he was thief or a murderer, or
as if hp was on trial for treason,
or for bribery.
He told of a prominent lobby-
ist playig npoker with three state
senators and three representa-
tives, how all of them one night
including different kinds of lobby-
were arrested for gambling; that
one lobbyist appeared in court
the next morning and paid the
fines of one state senator and
two representatives, Then, he
added: “Why in the whang-
doodle was a lobbyist paying the
fines of that state senator and
two representatives! Was that
part payment for services per-
formed, or was it a favor expect-
ed to be returned! God being
my witness, I believe that a state
senator or a representative who
would engage in a poker game
with a lobbyist, who is asking
favors at his hands, and then
permit that lobbyist to pay his
fine for him, is susceptible of
bribery and will receive a bribe
at the ifirst opoprtunity, if he
has not already received it.” He
referred to the fact that a cer-
tain cashier of a baiik of Houston,
who had been in Austin for sever-
al weeks lobbying against the
bank guarantee deposit bill, had
lost $1,000 in one game and he
endeavored to find out how much
of that money had found it’s way
into the pockets of the so-called
representatives of the people.
“I have talked to men of long
experience in legislation and I am
told that this method of bribery
has been resorted to practically
in every state in this union. When
a lobbyist engages in a poker
game w’ith a member of the legis-
lature the cards are so dealt/and
so manipulated that the legisla-
tor gets a winning hand. It is a
case of “heads up I win, tails up
you lose.” Just here I will say
that a lobbyist who would engage
in a poker game with a legislator
and win his money in the game
is a natural born fool and ought
not to hold his job twenty-four
hours.”
Here Senator Thomas told
about the arrest at Austin for
gambling of one district judge,
two district attorneys, one county
judge and one district clerk, who
were at Austin lobbying against
the anti-race horse gambling bill,
how he tried to defeat the bill and
referred to Davidson’s speach
in Dallas, when he said: “All
the legislature ought to do now,
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Knight, Howell G. Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. [39], Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1910, newspaper, June 10, 1910; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1195057/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.