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WICHITA WEEKLY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, APRIL 19th, 1912.
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GoV. COLQUITT EXPLAINS.
One day last week the Times pub-
lished an article taken from the Ochil-
tree Investigator, explaining that it
was being published at the request of
a patron. The Times doubted whether
the article gave a full explanation of
the matter it treated with, and for that
reason did not endorse or vouch for its
fairness or correctness. Someone, evi-
dently a friend to, the Governor, has
wealled-his-uttention to the-prining-ob
the story as originally published by
the Ochiltree Investigator, and from
the way Mr. Colquitt makes reply it
would seem the Investigator has not
shown as much care in giving the facts
of the matter as its name would In
dicate. Following is Gov. Colquitt's
explanation of the matter which the
Times gives space with pleasure:
Austin, Texas, April 12. 1912
April 12, 1912.
The Times Publishing Co.,
Wichita Falls, Texas.
Gentlemen: I notice that you pub-
lished the article from the Ochiltree
Investigator under the heading “Col-
quit Shields Railroad Promotion
Swindler,” and say that you have
printed it by request. 134
I am handing you herewith a copy
of a letter I have written to the editor
of ‘the Ochiltree Investigator, and ask
you to kindly print the same for the
correct information of your readers.
If desirable, 1 will send you copies
of telegrams and letters submitted to
me after I granted the requisition
showing the willingness of Mr. Wil-
liams to compromise with Mr. Um-
stead for a comparatively small sum
of money.
Yours truly,
O. B. COLQUITT.
is being made to collect a debt by ex-
tradition and imprisonment, that 1
usually refuse to grant the requisition,
und I did not hesitate to say to the
Governor that if the facts in the papers
before him indicated this to be the
purpose, he need not hesitate to refuse
to grant the requisition I made upon
him, and that I would not consider it
a discourtesy should he decide to do so.
With reference to the expenses of
the sheriff of Sherman county it was
the custom of my predecessor not to
pay the expenses, of sheriffs to other
States in quest of fugitives from jus-
tice, except in murder cases: All such
expenses have to be met by the Gover-
nor out of the appropriation to his
department for the enforcement of the
law, but I have adopted the policy of
paying the expenses of sheriffs to
other States after fugitives from jus-
tice in all cases, except where the
sheriff falls to return with the fugi-
tive, and in that case I do not feel
justified, under the law. In expending
the people’s money on that account.
I trust you will give publicity to
this letter, as it states the facts with
reference to my action in connection
with the matters complained of in your
article. I deny that I have attempted
to shield anybody. Under Section 18
of the Bill of Rights of the Texas Con-
stitution, imprisonment for debt is pro-
hibited. The same guarantee is in the
Federal Constitution, and I presume
is a part of the Illinois Constitution. I
do not think that the machinery of the
State Government, or the Governor’s
Office, ought to be used for the pur-
pose of collecting debts or settling dis-
putes between men in the promotion
business, as the evidence before me
now shows that Mr. Williams expected
to profit by Mr. Umstead’s undertak-
ge-ee-eeno
I am handing you herewith a copy of
a letter received by me from the Pri-
vate Secretary of the Governor of Ill-
inois. to which I replied in substance
as above indicated, after copies of tel-
egrams and other documentary evi-
dence had been presented to me. 1
am the last man in this State who
would want to protest a swindler of
any kind, and if the parties interested
in this prosecution are willing to pre-
nt further evidence to me showing
that it is not an effort to collect a
debt. I will grant another requisition
upon the Governor of Illinois for this
gentleman. Yours truly,
O. B. COLQUITT,
r Governor.
The re-entry of Morris Sheppard
Into the Senatroial race proves con-
clusively that the campaign is to I’ve
based on prohibition lines—a subject,
that should he stay in the Senate a
thousand years, the probabilities are
he would never be called upon to cast
a vote one way for the other, while
there are issura and questions of vital
import to the people with which the
Senator will have to deal, but will be
ignored. It is safe to muddy the wa-
ters with an alien issue.—Denison Her-
ald. ,
The waters were muddled before
The puzzling part of that famous
case to the average unbiased reader of
newspapers is to determine in his own
mind whether it is an effort to find
out and punish the real perpetrator or
perpetrators of the various crimes
< ommitted in connection with the burn-
ing of one of the principal churches
of that city, or to shield the real crim-
inal or criminals. One day, judging
from the testimony as printed, one is
convinced beyond a doubt that Norris
is guilty, and the next that the indict-
ment has been returned against the
wrong party. If the twelve men sit-
ting on that jury can ever agree on a
verdict, a great deal of evidence in-
troduced by both sides, given by men
who stand high in the city of Fort
Worth and the State of Texas will
have to be discredited.
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Ochiltree, Texas.
Austin, Texas, April 12, 1912
April 12. 1912.
The Editor, Ochiltree Investigator,
Dear Sir: Someone has sent me a
copy of a Henrietta paper which con-
tains an article taken from yours in
which it is charged that I have shield
erf a railroad promotion swindler, to-
wit, Franklin A. Umstead. I presume
you want to be fair and just in the dis-
cussion of all public matters.
Upon application of the proper
county officials of Sherman county, 1
made requisition upon the Governor of
Illinois for Franklin A. Umstead, on
an indictment charging him with un-
lawfully by means of false pretenses
and devices and fraudulent represen-
tations to induce J. L. Williams to
execute and deliver to him, the said
Franklin A. Umstead, a certain nego-
(table promissory note dated Decem-
ber 6. 1909 for $10,500.00 payable to the
said Franklin A. Umstead at the Texas
State Bank, Texhoma, Texas, on or be-
fore five years after 'date, with 10%
Interest per annum, payable semi-an-
nually.
This requisition on the Governor of
Illinois was granted as a matter of
course, as to the practice for the Gov-
- ernor of Texas to do, when papers In
legal form are presented tb him. 1
had no knowledge of the transaction
or the facts relating thereto. After the
requisition on the Governor of Illi-
nois was made I was advised that a
protest against its being granted was
filed with the Governor of that State.
It to my practice, when the Governor
of another State makes requisition up-
on me for a fugitive from Justice, and
when protest to filed against its being
issued, to grant a hearing on the pro-
test. This I am constantly doing in
order that I may be advised of the facts
before acting upon the requisition of
the Governor of another State, as 1
believe all persons accused are enti-
tled to a hearing on' the charges
against them.
After I granted requisition upon the
Governor of Illinois, the first knowl-
edge I had of its being contested was
a telegram from J. L. Williams, whom
I personally know, nnd with whom 1
have had some correspondence refut-
ing to official matters while I was a
member of the Railroad Commission,
and involved the building of a depot
at Texhoma on the Texas side of the
Texas-Oklahoma State Line. He wir-
ed me from Kansas City that an effort
would be made to induce me to recall
my requisition. This I did not do.
but the Governor‘of Illinois, as I un-
Here and there ministers of the gos-
pel, disproving the oft repeated asser-
tion that the impeded real progress
and reform, are coming to the front
and are refusing to perform marriage
ceremonies where the contracting par-
ties do not furnish certificates from
physicians that they are physically
and mentally fit for marriage. It
would be a glorious thing if the min-
isters generally would take this stand
before the legislature of the various
states enact legislation making such
a certificate compulsory. The Times
believes that this will eventually be
forced by legislation. It is also cer
tain that nothing they could do would
so assert the moral leadership of the
clergy as their taking an advanced step
In this matter. The moral effect, too,
of their doing this ahead of legislation
would be immeasurably good. When
this is done either by the ministers
Morris entered the ring. When Tom , ,__„ . n
Ball announced bo would be a candi voluntarily or by legislation the di-
derstond it, gave the parties two weeks'
in which to present evidence to show
that the requisition ought not to be
granted by him. In the meantime, an
attorney or agent of Umstead visited
Austin and presented to me papers
showing that Mr. Williams had sent
telegrams to Umstead offering to com-
promise the matter for a specified sum
of money, and inviting him or his
agents to meet Williams, as I now re-
member, at Kansas City for that pur-
pose.
It was stated that the Governor of
Illinois desired to give time for a rep-
resentative of the Governor of Texas
to present reasons why the protest or
. the contest of the requisition should
not be granted. It was incumbent up-
on the proper county officials of Sher-
man county to present reasons why
the protest should not be considered
by the Governor of Illinois, and I wrote
date, it was a mistake, pro leaders
thought, and Mr. Ball was finally con-
vinced of it himself, and was not long
in withdrawing. But before he done
this, Col Wolters, whose greatest dis-
tinction is that he sucessively man-
aged the, statewide prohibition cam-
paign. for the anti side of the ques-
tion, announced his candidacy, and so
far as the Times can ascertain he will
poll at least 90 per cent of the anti-
prohlbtlon Democratic vote in Texas,
and possibly a great many who never
voted a Democratic ticket in their
lives. Therefore, if the prohibition
question is the principal Issue In this
senatorial campaign, who is to blame*
It occurs to the Times that the pros
made an honest, consistent effort to
keep this issue out by causing the with-
drawal of Col. Ball. If the antis had
wanted to be as fair in the matter as
the pros, they should have advised the
man who won his spurs in champion-
ing the cause of the liquor interests to
withdraw. Yes, as theHerald says,
the question of prohibition should not
have been injected in the senatorial
campaign, but it is there now, for
keeps, and will be fought out along
that line. If there are more prohibition
Democrats than anti-prohibition Dem-
ocrats in Texas, then Morris Sheppard
should win. His political and private
record is, to use the expression of an
ex-president, "as clean as a hound's
tooth," and pro Democrats who cannot
give him their support must have per-
sonal reasons for not doing so. He
is a brilliant man, and as he has re-
reflected credit both upon himself and
the State he represents in the lower
house of Congress, he will. If elected,
do the same in the upper house. The
only thing he needs to do to win this
race is to mount his horse and ride
him through to the end. He has lost
considerably by his withdrawal from
the race after he entered the first
time, occasioned by ill health, but this
can be more than made up if he can
make up his mind to “hit the ball”
from now until the polls close on July
47th. The Times has no fault to find
with those who are giving to Col. Wol-
ters their support. He is the recog.
nixed leader of the anti prohibition-
ists of this State, has proved his faith-
fulness to their case, and to there-
fore entitled to and should receive the
support of those who think and vote
as he does on that question. But he
cannot consistently ask for .the sup-
port of any pro Democrat, and so long
as the pro Democrats have in Morris
Sheppard a clean man, both in public
and private life, and a man who ranks
at the top. in the long list of Texas'
most brilliant and able men, no pro-
Democrat will ever have cause to be
ashamed of the ballot he casts to ele-
vate him to the United States senate.
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court trials, Fort Worth is easily the
winner. The trial of Dr. Norris, pas-
tor of the First Baptist Church of that
city, to attracting nationwide attention.
You can’t get ahead of Fort Worth. It
is now occupying the limelight in one
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A SERMON ON BROADER CHRIS-
TIANITY.
At the request of a patron, the
Times reproduces excerpts, of a ser-
mon delivered at the First Presby-
terian church at Frederick, Okla., last
Sunday by the pastor, Rev. C. A. Har-
ris, as taken from the Frederick Lead-
er. It is a new kind of religion for a
man professing the Presbyterian faith
to advocate, and a kind of religion that
doubtless coincides with the views of
many church-going people. As for the
Times, that kind of religious doctrine
does not appeal to it strongly.
A service of unusual interest and
gratifying results was held at the
First Presbyterian church Sunday
morning. The pastor, Rev. C. A..Har-
ris, look for his subject, "New Bottles
for New Wine,” basing his discourse
on Mark 2: 22. After showing briefly
the historical setting and meaning of
th etext, be proceeded to ita applica-
tion to modern church conditions, say-
ing in part:
"Now, as in the time of Christ’s
earthly ministry, the spirit of Jesus
Christ needs no forms for its self-ex-
pression. The present-day forms and
methods of the church are crude and
out of date and inadequate to the
needs of the spirit of Jesus Christ, as
found ‘n our modern developed com-
plex life and scientific education.”
Defining the e’nracteristics of the
modern mind and modern manhood as
unprecedented In world history, owing
to the development of our scientific,
civil and social life, the pastor pro-
ceeded to show how this affected re-
ligious views, and made it necessary
for the church to change, not its point,
but the manner of its attack. Contin-
uing. he said:
"The old appeal to fear and the self-
ish element in man with the tones, not
of divine, but of church and pulpit au-
thority, may appeal to the sensational
and the simple minded, but not to
thinking .Intelligent men, affected with
the spirit of the age. We demand an
intelligent, manly presentation of the
gospel addressed to our hearts through
our intelligence: a gospel of common
sense and practical serviceableness.
More intelligent, broad-minded, fine-
thinking, clean-lived men are un-
churched because of the lack of the
pulpit's appeal to our better elements
of manhood and our modern Intelli-
gence than any other one thing to-
day.
“The doctors and scribes of Jesus'
day were very resourceful law-mak-
ers and framers of ethical codes. They
were asked the question whether one
could eat an egg that was laid on
Sunday without moral defilement. Aft-
er three months of most profund delib-
eration they reached the conclusion
that if the hen that laid the egg was
kept for the purpose of laying eggs,
one would be morally tainted, but. if
the hen was kept for eating purposes,
one would not be defiled. In regard to
Sabbath observance, they said, one
might walk out on the Sabbath day
2000 paces from the city walls without
defilement, but if one walked 2002
paces, he would become morally de-
filed. This is laughable, but no more
so than some of the moral standards
set up by self-appointed moral censors
of today, who do it in the name of re-
ligious authority. Allow me to men-
tion a few:
“Some say that the man who goes
to the theatre cannot be a Christian;
that he is a hell-bound man. He plac-
es the ban on the stage presentation
of such great plays at Lew Wallace’s
'Ben Hur,' Goethe's ‘Faust,’ Dante's
‘Divine Comedy,’ and Shakespeare’s
great moral dramas. He refuses me
.the right to avail myself of the educa-
tional, inspirational, broadening and
uplifting influences of the staged ge-
nius of the centuries. No man who is
acquainted with the part the theatre,
has played in education, and" who
knows the uses made of the theatre
for the presentation of biblical scenes
by the church of Jesus Christ as re-
corded in our authoritative history,
■ will pass a wholesale condemnation
upon the theatre .
“Again, you condemn dancing. You
say a virtuous young woman will not
dance; that the girl who dances is
immoral. Oh, you may dance a clog
or a hoe down when you ‘feel that
way,' but you must not dance grace-
fully, scientifically, to the accompa-
niment of musle. Why? I ask. And
modern, scientific educators and some
of the most noted physicians in the
land advocate dancing as healthful ex-
ercise and having a cultural value for
form and movement of figure.
* “You say the man who plays cards
will go to hell. You may play games
with blocks of wood, bone, ebony or
ivory, or you may play games with
bits of pasteboard if they have num-
bers or the names of our presidents
written upon them without moral taint,
but if those bits of cardboard bear
the images of kings and queens and
hearts, you are damned. Why? 'O,
'cause.’ A
"But men gamble with cards. (So
do they with dominoes and chess and
checkers. Men gamble with money.
Then why not in the name of common
sense say that the man who handles
money is damned? But the man who
condemns the cards worships the mon-
ey and will make dishonest transac-
tions to get It.
"Now, I am not advocating dancing,
card playing, or theatre going, neith-
er do I condemn them. But I am ar-
guing this: That no man has any di-
vine authority to set himself up a cen-
sor of public morals, and unchurch and
condemn every man who does not be-
lieve just as he believes. God has
confidence in man; Jesus Christ be-
lieves in men. He gave them two com-
mandments, love to God, and love to
man, and said this fulfilled the law.
" ‘O, consistency, thou are a jeyel!’
Thou hypocrite, why dost thou tithe
mint and ainse and cumin and neglect
the weightier matters of love and
mercy and faithO Why dost thou
strain out a gnat and swallow a
camel?' Why dost thou quibble over
the trifles of a petty piosity and neg-
lect the great law of love of your
neighbor? Why dost thou make hair-
splitting distinction in regard to mat-
ters which can be settled by no law
and yet practice the things condemn-
ed by even the moral standards of the
street?
"Moral science to a normative
works of Professor Royce, Muirhead.
Stearns, and Quarles, Professor Mc-
Curdy, in the preface of his great work
on ‘History, Prophecy and the Monu-
ments,’ says one of the benefits of his-
torical study is that It gives breadth
of view and makes a man slow to con-
demn and ready to see the good in
those who differ with him.
“This Bible of mine is too full of
big things; life is too short, time is to
precious, for me to twaddle with’ the
little things of a petty plosity. We
are getting so religious that we have
lost our christianity.” * ■
The speaker mercilessly scored ap-
peals to fear and selfishness, continu-
ing In forcible language to advance
arguments and facts with a logic that
so appealed to his audience that they
listened with rapt attention through
a sermon which lasted an hour and
ten minifies. In closing his service
he said, in part:
"If it is expected of me to preach
a gospel of, mere sentiment, to deal
In blood and thunder and hair-raising
tales of horror and deathbed scenes,
I want to know it and will vacate the
manse before another Sunday.”
He urged those who did no care to
listen to a thoughtful, solid gospel
presentation to go elsewhere' to ser-
vice, declaring that he refused to
“cater to the nervousness of any peo-
ple or lower the dignity of the function
of the pulpit."
The sermon closed with a climax
when Rev. Harris carried his audience
back to the Christ of history and said
if there was a man in the audience
who wanted to join the church because
it was right, because he wanted to
help the church and the church to
help him, who accepted the Christ of
history as his Savior and the word of
God as the guide to his faith and prac-
tice. Interpreting it for himself under
the influence of the spirit of the
Christ, he had an opportunity to do so
then and there. The appeal was re-
sponded to by a number of his audi-
tors.—Frederick Leader.
Attorney General Lightfoot has
withdrawn from the race for that of
flee, or rather has decided not to be-
come a candidate for re-election, and
Hon. B. F. Looney of Greenville, one
of the brightest and most able lawyers
of Texas, has announced for the of-
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