Upshur County Echo. (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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THUESWIY. FEBRUAEY 16, 1911
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recommended by a Republican
tended for in the last National
Democratic platform and inci-
stated in no uncertain language
that he will veto such charters
unless the section providing for
the recall is eliminated. It will
be remembered that in his cam-
paign for the office of governor
Governor Colquitt has received
considerable criticism as a result
of his opposition to th recall
feature embodied in charteis
asked for by many of the cities
is
the
the
nohonest-
□city with
comparatively small experience
in politics, can't understand why
it should be deemed proper to
pursue the tactics of a jury*
muddling lawyer in discussing
the matter of a bribery Senator's
right to sit as a representative
of the American people. Senator
Root thinks that the mere fat
that expensive bribery was prac-
ticed in behalf of Lorimer oug’it
ously object to our using that
part.
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of an envelope for the kidnapping
FAMILYLITE OIL
The Safest Oil Manufactured For
HOUSEHOLD USE
One of our exchanges has sug
gistedthat Governor Colquitt’s
penee and ml” piatol meant
that he Would give the legislature
a piece of bis mind when inaugu-
rated and the res* a little later.
—GrandSaline Sun.
bitien premptly when it was pre-
• seated to him and said it gave
-him pleasure to do so.
This is our Reciprocity issue
of The Echo. If you don’t agree
with what we say on that subject
we shall hot become, offended
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some Democrats in Congress, a
few of them from Texas, who
make the specious argument
that it would be, hurtful to the
motives-prompt them or how
they can oppose the question is
beyond our comprehension.
Singie Copy
Three Monthas
Six Months
One Year -
riskit.—Bzownwopd Bulletin.’
evidently made to prejudice
laboring classes against
measure and in the Inter”
yeah We always try to advo-
ate right principles and pro-
gressiveness. We don’t mean to
boast of these things, but merely
mention them that the reader can
judge for himself as to whether
the country newspaper does any
good. Then, dear reader, can
you blame the newspaper man
for having a kindly feeling to-
wards that representative who
speaks a kind word and casts his
vote, when opportunity is pre-
sented, for the interests* of the
country press, There are some
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port Lorimer they would cer-
tainly' give him the cold shoul-
det.—Naples Monitor.
selected as the"principa! speak-
er for the unveiling of the Sam
Houston monument at Hunts-
ville, April 21, this year.
President T‘aft. We think every
Democrat ought to favor the
man factoring corporatio
want Protection. Then
some representatives w
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President Taft commuted the
sentence of Fred D. Warren, the
Socialist editor who was sen-j
fenced to six months imprison-
ment and lined $1,500, by strik-
ing out .the imprisonment and
As an evidence that the farm-
ing people do not oppose Reci-
procity with Canada, we give the
following resolutions adopted by
the National Grange at their
meeting in Atlantic City about
three months ago: “We favor
I
quitt and says that the people
of Texarkana shall not exercise
the right of local self govern-
ment, but that be will veto the
charter unless it is made to con-
form to his ideas. Thus, we see
local self government go a glim-
mering, the first time Gov. Col-
quitt had a pass at it.—Mt.
Pleasant Timles Review.
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Church people of Collin and
Hunt counties are going after
Senator Tom Perkins because of
his alleged flop on the Prohibition
measure. Verily’ the McKinney
statesman is blinking in the lime-
light. —Pctty Enterprise.
ntereaatth vostmce!n Gilmer. Tezas •• sec
ondciass mailmatter.
—Pittsburg Gazette-
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Senator Root, being a man
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in any 0
Hared t
It takes a two-thirds vote of
the Legislature to pass a con-
stitutional amendment, but a
majority vote of the people puts
the amendment in our organic
law. Don't let any one fool you
on this proposition. 1
Conada would, not be beneficial,
, but we can’t believe that all who
oppose it.think so.
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Senator Culberson favors the
Canadian Reciprocity agreement
and Senator Bailey opposes it.
Reciprocity with Canada would
, benefit the numerous poor news-
, paper publishers over the entire
, country, enably them to buy
blank paper cheaper than at
present. If the newspaper is-a
good thing and helps in any way
to disseminate news and . build
up the country then it is easy to
see that there would be some*
benefit accruing to the country
at large,. Butif the. newspaper
is a bad thing and ought to be
suppressed then we ought not to
have Reciprocity with Canada
that would give us pulp wood
cheaper. This reminds us that
the Echo alone feed# two families
and from two to three employes
besides, and most of the money
is spent with home’ people. We
occasionally contribute to char-
itable, religious and educational
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While not endorsing Socialism
at all, we are of the opinion that
the suit against Editor Warren
was brought and prosecuted
through malice and that the
punishment was entirely too
severe, if there should have
been any punishment for the
technical violation.
.J. Bryan has been
for - ressure methods to en-
-0 collections. Quite a num-
•ek of agents have been to see us
on some kind of a premium or I
xuessing contest, but our an I
swer to all such propositions has J
been. The Echo goes on its mer- 1
its or not at all. Some of the
agents have tried to make us be-
lieve that our business would go
to the bow wows if we did not
fall in line with other papers and 1
put on some kind of a contest,
but when they come at us that
way we make the reply. What I
subscriptions we can’t get on
the merits of the Echo we are I
willing for the "other fellow” to
During the campaign, Mr.
Colquitt, told the people of Tex-
arkana that he believed in local
self government, and the people
of Texarkana believed what he
said about it, for that city gave
him a majority in the primary.
Therefore, after Mr. Colquitt
was elected, the people of Tex-
arkana voted to adopt a special
charter with the recall provision
in it. The charter, as adopted
by a vote of tile people of the
city, was submitted to the legis.
lature and passed by that body in
accordance with the wishes of
the people who are to be governed
by it; but now come Gov. Coi-
Gov. Colquitt is in hot water
because he refused to approve
the re call provision of Texar-
kana’s new charter. The people
of Texarkana earnestly desire
the recall feature and are wor-
rying no little over th action of
the Governor. Mr. Colquitt
should “recah” s6me of his cam-
paign utterances about local self-
government. His action on the
Texarkana matter completely
farmer and laboring man i ,
general Such argument '
* State Pro Chairman T. H. Ball
expects’each precinct, to send
delegates or have representatives
at the prohibition mass meeting
•at the court house the 25th
instant.
and return of ex Gqyernor Tay-
not be a lotof decaying matter to lor to the Kentucky authorities.
to offset the fact that it is
known positively whether
than four • legislatrs
bought.—Dallas News. "
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with Prohibition, Anti-Prohi-
bition or any other subject upon
which people are divided in
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Governor Colquitt signed the, taken every opportunity to sup-
resolution for State-wide prohi-•
Mr.Colqittmadea strong plea
for local sgrernment. rhergzand We Pey
Senator Lorimer last week was
one of the best things we have
ever known that gentleman to
do. It seems to us that if the
great mass of the supporters o
Senator Bailey knew his attitude
in this matter and how he has
n that have embodied that feature
1 in their charters want the recall
purposes from our means. 1 1— ------ auve vees
even contribute to tk a’ lately trying to induce
of churches and N"
over the 8000 bOUsts
V EOnty oecasionally.
‘tariff speech made in Congress
1 Dec. 13, 1910. He takes up the
i position of t ha Democratic party
on the Tariff questton and shows
bow it Jias stood almost from the
founding of this government. It
is the most exhaustive speech
we have read on the subject in
recent years. Every Democrst
should read it.
President. . It would in a mea-
sure bring about the results con- the article has
to get his print paper cheaper
But this is only one item to be
considered. It wold relieve the
stringency on a number of ar-
ticles of prime necessity, ac- to endo . _________ ________- .____
cording to our way of under- notur derstand the significance I in reply to a toastcommended the
standing. However, n there are " “
get them. We go to considera-
blexpense to make the Echo a
meritorious paper and we are
The State Board of Health has
designated March 11th as gene-
ral rlean-up day for Texas. The
people of Gilmer should begin
cleaning up the trash and refuse
matter abcut their premises
KCilSS . CongreaasanR.M.
-----------the negotiation of commercial
Senator Root’s arraignmentof treaties that will open up new
is a difference ofsplalon -As to
the proposition of reca^Mg pub-
lie offichals, but there 6s no de-
n¥ .ng the fact that a large ma-
jority of the voters in the cities
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representatives in Congress
favor the Canadian agreement
We collected more on sub-
scriptions during the month of
January, 1911, than we ever co'
lected during any month r’
we-have been in businesp nce
ing that our business ’ show.-
as the years go -— 48 growing
good feature Py And the
no high - ab9v: It is, we use
State officers were a co mplete
loss. The records of th e House
markets for American products
and do away with tariff wars
which now shut our farm pro-
ducts. out of many foreign
countries.” In this connection
the National Grange {Sassed a
resolution “condemning the
tariff law of 1909." It should be
remembered here that the
Grange is not a political organi-
zation -and that its members
come from both Democratic and
Republican parties, and that the
organization is strongest along
the states bordering on Canada,
where it is claimed the farmers
would be affected most by
Reciprocity.
Austin.
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a 7 larm
adersvauuVe Diu-OuVT *•* • -E*
e editorial column and the press as being the best educator
. orial rule. But if the same in the land, and incidentally as.
m > atter appears without the sertod that the average country-
5 ditorial rule, the editor does not, editor is a far happier man than
mean to endorse it. We just use the governor of Texas. Imide-
M High Protecive ' Tariff . as an diatly about half the newspaper
illustration. The idea we wish men present offered to exchang
to impress could be illustrated 1 their plants to r his office, aqd
maybe opinion. Every reader should -- ,________——
note the difference in editorial go much.with our legislature**
rules and common dash rules and
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Next Wednesday is Arbor Day
and Wasiington birthday. Re-
memberto set out some trees on
that day.
reducing the fine to $100. War
and it is hard for them to
understand why a governor
whose hobby has been home rule
and local self-government should
object to their governing them-
selves in local affairs. ’ Why have
home rule in the liquor traffic
when it is to the Interest of cne
saloons and dictation from the
governor in other affairs?—Wills
dentally′ the newspaperman endorsing it. For instance, if
anediterial clipping endorsing
the High Protective Tariff up- newspaper representatives-
pears and .there is no comment Austin and certain legislatorsand1
to the co ntrary, ^e editor means senators by
J. J. STEPHENS, Editor ana Prop’r. of Representatives vere- also
destroyed, but the ecords of the
St Ate Senate were saved.
in that way distinguish between I
editorial writings and news I
items. Sometimes an editor I
may merely state a fact and put I
it with his editorials because of I
its importance or the prominence I
of some party mentioned. In I
such cases no opinion is express-
ed either way. Editorial opin-
ions should never be sold at any. l
price, and the editor who will
sell his opinions would sell the*
interests of the people if he were
placed in a position where me
could do so. If any of our read,
ers don’t know an-editorial qule,
when they see it, watch for one
just after this editorial.
Point Chronicle
convicted of violating - t !
A large majority of the Texas
Lively, writing to us reccently,
had this to say “You publish a
splendid good paper -all home
print, his is unusual. I hard-
The editor of a payer ao, not ly see how you can do this. You
for Reciprocity recommended by aWa!s endorse everything that work on your paper than is cus.
appearsin.his paper. If you tomary.” The letter from which,
editorial opinions c ok 10 his this quotation is taken was not
editorial amns, wchether the il tended for publication, but we
writingis origina cris clipped feeijsure Mr. Lively will not seri-
fi om some other F aper But if1
Ex Ggernor T. M. Campbell
has organized a guaranty State
bank at Palestine with a paid dp
capital stock of 1100,(XX) of which
he holds a controlling interest.
Weare sure there will be more
money, rest and peace to him in
this position than there was in
the office of Governor. - • ;
I Cather Doyle, thereat Paulist
priest, says: “Of all the evils
whish have, cursed mankind,
rushed women’shearts, sent
youth to destruction, driven vir-
tue to the haunts of shame and
paved the pathway to hell, there
is nothing that can compare with
the evil of intoxicating drink.”
The Missouri Capitol was de-
stroyed by fire the night of the
5th instant, caused from being
struck in-the cupola of the dome
by lightning. Many of the re-
cords of the Goverhor and other
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Stephens, J. J. Upshur County Echo. (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 16, 1911, newspaper, February 16, 1911; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1431175/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Upshur County Library.