The Examiner-Review. (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1914 Page: 2 of 6
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At the county convention at Ander-
son last Saturday the delegates went pelves county by county.
the
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Entered at the Navasota post o«ce as
second class mail matter as required
by law. ‘ . -
ThedExaminer-Review
ED F. BLACKSHEAR
a clelr majority In a two-handed race.
And now that he has won. it seems
Er
primaries will break it.
probably another sensation hunter.
but
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IS THE RECORD DISGUSTED?
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,7Campaign ____
taught a lesson, ;
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WEDDING AT PLANTERSVi
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THE DASHER STILL WAVES.
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A dispatch from Dallas says that t'emp^red add charitable'old Father r
of their fellow men-in political con-
tests. Away with therm."
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Freeh turnip seed. Received today
shipment of hundredth's new turnip
in awhile do seed. R. B. Temple man A ton Co.
BUSINESS
FAILURES IN TEXAS
ixas. That act was
rhe closing of the
the world will
idency to
Waco News: On the face of the re-
turns from Saturdays primary elec-
tion James E. Ferguson will bet the
next governor of Texas and the anti-
prohlbition forces in both houses of
the state legislature will be augment-
ed. And this is the result jjot so much
of a change in sentiment on the part
of the people as it is of the siw<
organization behind the movenfet
choose an anti
I and legislature,
atrate the correctness of the
icnts of bis partisans or of bis critics,
it to begin now to arrange fer op-
I term is not
from a political
standpoint, but It Is unjust to .Xhe paign, which be had
voter* of the state. Give Mm
“Truth will come uppermost in
time, but that doesn’t do the man
who is dead justice nor does It atone
.renter the wrong that has been done.
on account of
I to persecute
worm of the Still, ’The combination
was too great. The cold-water cohorts,
the grape-juice gulpers, the devotees
of the Gambrinus brew, the long-
throated Barleycorners and the dreamy
drones grown oven-shaped from over-
doses of pot liquor marshaled their
forces and stood like an Austrian
phalang. Buttermilk, the true elixir
of life, went down, but it went down
shouting the words of the immortal
Lawrence, “don't give up the ship.**
Some day souls will grow full-
statued and men will grow farseeing
- and then will* dawn the golden age
foretold by prophets of old and sung
about by poets of latter days, when
EFuttermilk shall sit enthroned and
its regency no man will dare dis-
pute. Then shall we behold the sunlit
splendors of perfect days, , then
shall astral glories shine resplendent
through matchless nights. The sun of
polities! righteousness will trail its
We also know what the people of
We have Temple, in all the walks of life think
of Father Heckman. He is fairly
worshipped in his home town by all
the people and his daily life is a
sufficient warrant for this unanimous
feeling. The Examiner-Review plays
the game of politics fair and open,
throwing mud at no man It does not
know absolutely -entitled to receive
of the ordinary.
'w Fefers to"j>e
geBed nene st so illy than to nlwnya
tool that there is no honesty in either LCJT-A pair of Kryptok eyeglasses
great
the
the grape-juicers, it
“Hand it to you’F When,
think you are? You’rrf la I
and l*m in Chicago. sted ,y<
to wait two wedka for that' anw.” - >
Whereupon the dealer J hung the
saw on n peg and put th-1 money !b
his cash drawer.
“That makes I14T.T he said, *Tt
has cent you t cents more and taken
you to weeks longer to get it than
if-yon bad paid my price la the first
place "—Bquare Dealer
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ANOTHER NEW BALE.
robes of burnished gold over a path*
way of planets, and starj of pence w)jjCh
and love will gem1 night’s radiant
brow. All men will be , -‘ill men ferng
will be good, and the wgrdrum will jr p]
throb ^0 more*.
Defeated—yies; hopeless—no!, The
eternal passion which befriends mta
most fe mountaln-etaed in the true <
t [buttermilkw’s bosom and is m''active
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gold frame, chain and pin, tn-
’. L. M.” thereon, last Friday
___ ,__ J In Anderson, between Col.
hie every utterance Mtoehum s residence and the new
■ton or McDonald park. Reward paid
tor return thereof W L. McDonald.
room w
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happy c
lot of erstwhile scoffers at the
lue attached to exchanges. No
e wants, or is going to buy that of
lieh he doM not know something
t^s value. Cotton may be worth five
dollars per bale more or lees
the world knows. However no
going to take the chance on
ng ten dollars more. Thus it
to that the real raise of the exchanges
ie known and made necessary. Further
more, ths raiser Is going to be the
nee to sustain the greater loss.
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Houston, Texas., July 30.—TiSere
wars only 4tl commercial failures In
Texas last year, while the year be-
fore MS were reported In this State,
according to a recent Issue of Dun’s
Review. The figures verify the fact
that business conditions in this State
are rapidly impsovlng. ’The Ml
failures reporu-d last year lavotve
ernaai separator, t gailoo capacity. 4S.M3 Texas bMiaeos concerns, with
Phone 49. W1;M llaMlittee sTSgsting HA11AM.
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But eved as the crowd was about
to gather the clouds thickened, the
winds blew and the rain fell in such
a way that all hopes of an open air
wedding had to be abandoned.
However, "Strong , hearts ca
cannot give .up," Southern an
end ferns were quickly arranged
side and the lights, from many cae
showed a scene in white and .g
altogether beautiful.
On arrival the guests were st
Into the dldlng room where „
decoration of white and green
lUll to be seen and asked to reg
in the bride’s book.
Shortly after the appol
Miss Maude Jeter sweet)/
You" by Lawrence Montai
panted at the piano by
Chandler. Then to the
Mendelssohn’s 1 '
little girls quii
altar and
white str
Of course it Is easy to forgive and
forget when you are a winner, but
the thing to do is to learn to be a
xood loser and not narbor 111 will. To
do so shows a decided narrow streak
as well as lack of grey matter.
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Galveston'S Carnival and auto
races will claim attention the re-
mainder of the week. Dozens of auto
parties have passed through Nava-
sot* for ths past two days, en route nf j,
from northern points in and out of
Texas.- " ’’
Ing member of each side of the sev-
eral controversies.. Even yet kis
election is regarded as a pitiable
circumstance—for Texas. »
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TRXA* FENAL INgTITUTtONg.
Huntsville, ^exaa. July M—There
*1* 10» prisoners per 100,000 popula
tion confined In Texas penal institu-
tions. and ths total number oouflned
Is 4^», accordtag to a report which
has Just been Issued froea the Census
Bureau. Abeat ot tbs primers
are negroRMlM are Whites In tbo
eatirs United States there are 111.000
prisoners confined in penal ; todMte*
ttens end tbo ratio to Itl per 100,000
population
by ’to
Of this nuaxM
161, are Ooroii
colored and*
'wbosq anttett
The ratio 4
1100,000 papal
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■Amos Cgwtbon living on the Terreli with other States tn
place seat of town, brought in a new there are twenty state
bale of eotton today weighing M01 pauper* ’ *
pounds. TM bale was L «-
M. L. Floyd warehouse. If tbo report assallbr ratio of pang
to comet tbto to the flint NMtood TWriysoa per oea
by a waiwboMe of thta seaoea*b crop, born white panpers
The other new bales went to the nMS-|tosmMb were born tn
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expressing his preference. However,
we can see do good at this time in
hollering "mercenary motives” at Mr.
Ferguson because he seems to want
the El Paso convention to endorse
the national administration. He may
be sincere in it and if he isn’t it will
be time enough to repay him for any
treachery afterward.
(J. H. liowry in looney Grove Signal
recent candidate for congressman-
at-large.) i, : Jf .
it was the first battle.
The delightful acidulated lacteal
fluid unfurled its snowy banner and
attempted to plant the ensign of
peace and love upon the gilded dome
of the Nation's capitol. The line of
march was thickly set’with the lions
poke the Ballites in his "keep the < of the enemies. It -------
record straight”- column. > Wd hope 'river* of water, it led through
the Record realizes that a repetition 'ln®ykr’J* : ■ •aj-ujjwai.i
Ll . -v Pa«»ed through the bogs and fens of from the greet branch bad-not lost
of the recent campaign should neveY the pQt 1|cker^ ,t bl<w| lt, u>g
br PeR«d ihant iteMys°r any W ert throu*h '0“’«B*niiig breweries and Rut eve* ns the crowd wes about
Campaign sanders should bel4°ll0Wed ,be Wlttd,ta* Path °f th* to «ather cloud' ‘Wck*M< the’’
I "Campaign Wars should b<^ taught a
lesson. .7; ’ *
"There, are campaign liar* every-
where in all parties and in all fac-
tions.
“They do not hesitate to assassi-
nate character.
“They pick up any dirty or con-
temptible story which tends to be-
smirch an opponent and they make
use of it ..-7
“There is a demand for clean poli-
tics; there is a demand that the as-
sassins of character shall bo throt-
tled.
“Now why should men tell political
lies about their opponents?
1 “Why lie?
“Truth will
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with such cases in a modified way. be rid Of thia foolery.” ?
In the case of Cyclone Davis,-we oaa-
not but feel that Texas needs a wet
purse. The gentleman is neither
democrat or republican, populist or
socialist pro or anti, having at some
Miss Mattle B. Williams and Mr. U. I
Paul Jones were married at the hdme 1
of the bride’s parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Williams, Thursday evening, ;
July 30, T914.
The lawn had been beautifully ,
decorated and arranged tor the oc- j
cation; ' the marriage vow to have
be4n solemnized underneath the7
sturdy old oak whefe Mattle bad j
spent many, many happy hours. When'
a child it bad sheltered her ^dolt
family and the long swing that hang
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The following from-the Fort Worth
Record is a remarkable document
when one comes to remember the
part played by the Record In the late
election. The Record editorially did
pot say so^uch as did Its dally con-
tributor, Hu'gh Nugent Fitzgerald.
Hugh Nug^nr didn’t permit an op-
portunity- to pass where he -could
poke the Ballites in his "keep
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Atetta, T<
Ml pMper*
ttamaa’s dsflnttioa of war in
th*'old days was emphatic enough
fot all pnrpoae at that time. Wonder
shat he would call tha pressut Ils*
turbance in Europe with it* atteadan:
results to the United States, in the
meantime?
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The Galvestoft-DaHas News Almanac
ha* perhap* been referred to more
often during the last few days than
any other publication or reference book
we know of. It carries a complete
record of the 1912 elections, etc., and
a comparison of the vote at that time
with the returns recently has been an
almost hourly occnrence with the
most of us.
be' content to Walt and see- and to J
t markets KjVe Mr< Ferguson a chance ip
- B <Jecl<i®d demonstrate that the claims ot his
the eyes of a whole!
were correct and that we
j have bet n In the were Two years will demon-
f-tke value of the ,1,^ tge correctness of the state-
to tbo sellers of 1 nie - * - ■
ties. The value of I «a.£
OUL w uTi>a*a uvw w a
ago Is simply in Ita’p^t^ hl.
second
0 quote thb ruling price* of on]y foolishness
4 oa various oommodlttes,
e people raise, also the value
to this and that stock or
JI of the exchanges of th*
e closed today oe account of
rld-war In progress, heace
can be *0 quotations given as
s veto* of cotton, corn, wheat
lything else. If the exchange*
In dosed for any great length of
we repeet it is going to have
obvious
> the
one-^iaif of one per cent of those who majority favored prohibition, but not
J now. The tightening of the local
Graham is option laws has satisfied a large and
important element of good men.
They believe restrictive liquor laws
have gone far ertough. They ai
1 willing to vote prohibition on them-
H^^I^^HBMMiBlMemaaW'7 ----- but they
on record in an unequivocal endorse- are uot willing to vote it through a
ment of the National Administration. «‘1«ct,on on coupttM which do
. , . «1 1, . “ . - _ not want It. They regard the saloon
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U. otter tatt ttw 10 ttoir o.o lottlltltt. b.< thw or,
. ’ t T »«> ”'”100 to rot. Ilttor -boll, oot
we do not believe should have been' -
. xu » , of their reach.- Prohibition in Texas
done. The Idea to endorse President 4 .
, .will steadily gain, but it will gain by
Wilson is unanimous in this county. I / . . .
... ' . .___ . degrees. Counties slways heretofore
.b. o tbo .odoro^t Ot Coiooiu w|n tttt.tti.tt
»oM not b... btt. 0 o.oottt.0.
one We do not believe tha delegates . ** t ___
selected over the county td assemble ®mon,t,*X1B<
at Atfderson would have permitted
such endorsement to go on record
had they been there. Also, had there
been any intimation that. the state
administration would be brought up
for endorsement we believe > that
’ decidedly more delegates would have
been present Th* writer has nothing
1 personal ai^inst Gov. Colquitt but
! ho I* quite positive that he would alt
If necessary
vote to endorse any
A dispatch from Austin to
Houston Chronicle, on,the 29th,
tains the following bit of informa-
tion:
I). L. Graham, an Austin lawyer,
former farmer and real estate
'' man, has announced he will make
the race for governor on an In-
dependent ticket. He claims that
therw7;i%.f much dissatisfaction
----..Ai. n_i] men and the
nomlnatiod of Jas. E. Ferguson
would cause thousands of the
supporters of the Houston can-
didate to vote for an independent.
As to the pledge taken by those
who voted In Saturday’s primaries
Mr. Graham said that most of
them who took the pledge did not'
know they wbuld have to support
Ferguson. He also declared he
expected the Republican vote.
We have not the pleasure of
Graham’s acquaintance, and it
' and Chronicle. ■
The R. and C. to unquestionably
' correct in it* advtoo above. Of all
th* nuisance* in th* world of poKtic* that w* believe him ta b* a good man
it I* a poor lo*«r. Also it to utterly and a sincere on* in ev*ry respect.
‘ foolish to hold to th* view that the
opposing side I* all bad.
enough confidence tn the people of
Texas to believe that no one side of
a political scrap possesses all the
tratnF and patriotism. It will be
time enough after th* newly nominat-
ed governor shows his unfitness to
begin to prepare for opposing his
re-elsctlon. This to not th* time for
such talk and the Dallas pros, if they] IL And even then It prefers to deal
continue to agitate, wfill do tbair
party more harm than good. Another
thing, so tar a* the Examiner-Review
is concerned, it proposes to take any
statement coming from the pros of
north Texas with plenty of salt In
our opinion they ought to be keeping portions of hto career be*n a work-
very quiet st this particular time.
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simple endorssmenVof Mr. Ferguson j just th* sain*,** j *
-All right.” 1*14. th*' custom^- ifer*U1
“You can **nd U along and eharg• U
to my account."
Not on your life," the dealer ro-1
plied. “No charge aooounts. You can’t?
,—..—...... do businete With tod*
and we could not say otherwise than hou* that Why. Fork ov
Th* eudNMr Mtoplis
-Meir 2 cents for postage and 5
cent* for a money ord*r.“ |
“What—” 'ip .‘Ts
“Certainly:'yon hat* to Mod a
letter and a money order to a mafl
order houM, y<M taunt- f
The customer inwardly raving kept
to his agreement and paid th* picket
“N6w 38 oeato expresses*.“
Wei! I’ll be ----,* he said, but
paid IL saying. “Now hand me thatl
saw and I'll take It bom* myMlf *nd|,
’oStaJS
rouu have
In graceful, dignified words, Hon.
Thomas H. Ball speaks of the result
c He is not the first man of ability and
popularity to encounter such an ex-
perience. He will find that a man of
honor and patriotic purpose, worthy
of **te«m, will in no wis* lose the e*-
teem of his people because of a polit
leal reverse. He ha* served Texas
wen. Hto defeat was political, not
personal.—Waco Tribune.
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Th. greatest handicap Col. B.H
ijto contend witk^wm. Bailey’s in-
H isn’t poMibie that you
ooked the fact of th. Houston
haven’t
nerlor
rent to
;i-prohlbftlon governor
legislature, which bad been
| carried on in this state for several
months before the campaign actually
opened.
State Press, in Galveston
Further on the News elaborates its
explanation of the defeat of the pro-
hibition candidate and the rejection
!of submission. A hundred other news-1
| papers ■ have printed similar or
divergent guesses at the reasons for
?the unqualified triumph of the anti-
j statewide prohibitionists. State Press,
| being as good a prohibitionist as any
of them—and this being a free
country—is moved to add his contri-
bution to the explanatory symposlulm:
Here it is: Ball and submission were
'defeated because a majority of voting
Mr. Texans are opposed to statewide pro-
is hibition. There is no ground or reason
likely we have not. lost anything by for any prohibitionist attempting to
the fact. If he know* (anything of deny or conceal this very
ms he ought to know that not fact. Three year* ago possibly
“A newspaper writer should stick
to the truth. . i ■;!'
“A political preacher should stick
to the truth.
“A candidate for office should stick
to the truth. ‘
“In politics why should a man who
Is a gentleman in all other fields
stoop to the methods and tactics of a
sewer rat? 4 ^ < •
"The campaign closed last night.
“It is to be hoped that in future
counties are the men of Texas will frown upon
desirability of those who resort to disreputable prae-
local prol^ibitlon. Genuine prohibition- tiees and do not hesitate to impugn
ists lost nothing in the recent election j the motives or attack the character
except pride. If they will hencefokth
devote the same energy to county
prohibition that they have heretofore
devoted to state prohibition temper-
ance will gradually gain. But this re-
form, like all other vital and enduring
reforms. Is a creature of slow growth.
Time, tact and patience must rule
l» oettUon . ...k It MttttOT.lh‘ WMtt.ttWttl...
--Wttr-r vote to .ndovse any} £’ wMteMM^ssiMww
man’s administration who so far for-
got bis obligation to tbe school chii- J*«> l«toers are already arranging to
t dren of T.xaa as to veto approprla- secure a man to run against F.rgu*
vaaota tkm> whksh he *,n«w-wM *ta»>«teiy ®on two years hence. Those pro
. necossary for the decent mainteaance leaders had better “back up." Fergu-
a e of the stat* institution. We can for- «** has been nominated, tantamount
J give all else, also jve .ar* willing to to election. It to time for every
1 theviiM,m,t that he WV ”*rha’’i’ JnMtftod citizen of Toxa* tq. hope that
Jjin losing his temper on account of ,
Texgi
e-hi
took Che pledge iu last Saturday’s
as a seething volcano—- i
“Eternal hope! Whe^ yonder spta
sublime ■ "* 4 j
Pealed their flrot note* to sound —
march of Tim. 4 . 1 Il
Thy joyous youth began: but nm.‘ to
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■When all th. sister planets have de- 1
cayed.
When, wrapped in fire, the n ’ *
ether glow
And heaven's last thunder ah
world below,
Thou, undismayed, shall , ( ‘
. • ruins smile IS
And light fhy tor<^ »t
I funeraj jiU.” z ;ji T
And so. like Marmioi
- milk shakes the fro.
bladp and give, a' shot
“’I churn dashdr I.....
the work!* - j
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<,,G0T Hi8 GOAT. <
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The map who lives tor ht«
will soon be living atone.*
__ ___ilipI■■mkman 1
to us, supported Ball should Review during the recent’ campaign(into’a store to buy a a«w. He
Yt te “3“ to |U had no right to say that we took tbs kind he wahted and asked
* few "mud shot." at Father Heck
kraclous." said the man
man of Temple. The E. R. made no ^ Bal4erthlM fronJTS
comment whatever on anything Robuck for
Father Jleckman had to My, in fact; “That’s less than U coef —
we failed to note where thia good-the dealer, "but Hl s*B^
man had anything to say except In a'same terms as the mall, dr
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Ml-Upit- SUUVI V. »>. ■
during the early portion of th. cam-
perfect right
a to do according to our way of re-
chance to make good.—Deuton Record garding the rights *of miniMysro of
-“■* the Gospel. Th* editor of the E.-R.
know* Fether Heckman personally
Ed Blackshear of the Navasota
Examiner-Review went bravely down
into th. last ditch of defeat with the
Ball forces. He even rod* on the tame
seat with the political Colonel* with-
out utteranoe of a protest loud enough
to embarrass the Ball battle front.
His conscience permitted him, even,
to take a few mtid shots at sweet-
Heckman of Temple. Bui there’s a
limit to what even Blackshuar
stand for. albeit he waited till
election was over before he exploded ‘x
to the following effect: . .
“Don't ask us to analyte'jin dieettofeu The
Uur result of a people who winin« thS- w
for a man like Cyclone Davis to ,
, , represent them in the bongreus of, <
5 flrptnwo yeara ijnitf'd States. It is asking to
0. w p.iorv.r -- .^ entltle hlm to a Jnueh.’’- Bealey News.
id no sort of exceae to second term without ^oppoiltioA. We KeWs doe, Examlnar.
axs upon the sc.hooh fought for Bail, but Fdrgusoh won br L . , ,
s>. upon L.,'s* • • Review a iserlcua injestice n th.
WIM WUUU W living
show. If Its editor read the Examiner-j Ddwn in Oklahoma
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