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THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE. COLEMAN. TEXAS.
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1M4.
TdE DEMOCRAT VOICE
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
By the Democrat-Voice Publishing Co.
Coleman, Texas,
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at the postofflce at Coleman, Texas,
under act of Congress of March 3,1879
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CURE FOR SNAKE BITE.
(San Antonio Express.)
In these days of political campaign
are afloat for intended effect upon ucat.onal Association who are de J™* * f Fer(fUMOn We do not want
SOCIALISM.
(Harvey Scot!, in the Fra.)
Socialism is in the air. It has con-
quered the ranks of labor and per-
meated the schools of learning, and
now it marches on the erstwhile cita-
del of individualism, the clear-eyeo
and iron-hearted band of the great
captains of industry. The brainy
organisers of finance, trade and man-
ufacture, who have denounced trade-
unionism and scoffed at the sentimen-
tal utterances of pulpit and Action
and pedagogue- these, at least, are
tired of competition, and have set
themselves to kicking down the lad-
der on which all a'hievement, rung
by rung, in pain end loss and strife,
has come up. *
They may not succeed: but if they
succeed they will fail, and in the
crash of that failure Will go down the
most colossal ruin of human history.
One civilization after another has
failed—Egypt, Nineveh, Babylon,
Carthage. Greece) Rome—and this
great Teutonic-Celtic fabric of me-
chanical industry may crumble to the
dur as prone as any. In the day that
competitive system is thrown away
our doom is sealed. Without incentive,
ambition will die away. Without riv-
alry, exertion low* Its point, With-
ut competition, Improvement be- |e^g and Wonc oi erauicanuo >•-
omes needless and impossible. With- be-n(r facilitated by the use of ?1,7«0
atmiro-lp The very faculties .
the electors, and in this angling sea-
son when marvelous fish stories are
of doubtful authority, one rrtay be ex-
cused for being a bit incredulous on
occasion.
From time immmemorial it has
been the custom of the fisherman to
provide himself liberally with bait and
snake bite remedy before starting out
to beguile the finny denizens of the
deeps and shallows. ’ ■
There has heretofore been but. one
recognized dependable prophylactic
for snake bite, the universally accept-
ed essential of every rtisherman’s
equipment; but now comes a veraci-
ous chronicling of a cure by other
means near the little city of Charm
The statement is that a man, while
fishing, was bitten on the hand by a!
moccasin. Instead of appealing at
once to the recognized “snake medl-
cine”—to be taken internally—he ap-
plied kerosene to the wound with
such curative effect that he suffered
little pain and was well in a jiffy.
The statement is too direct to ad-
mit of any suspicion that it is a cam-
paign canard in the interest of the
anti-liquor party or that it is merely
a fish story. The supposition is that
the Supply of the usual remedy hdd
• been exhausted when the wound was
inflicted and that the substitute of-
fered by the kerosene wagorrwas the
best available, and that it WfflrappKed
externally for obvious reasons. Some
of the greatest discoveries have been
the result of accident or of neces-
sity which is the mother of invention,
and maybe thi* is a case in point; but
is tradition to be shattered and a
long-cherished ideal iconoclized?
Five cases of bubonic plague have
developed in New Orleans. The dis-
ease, according to authoritative infor-
mation, does nor-rartf^‘Severe peril
to a well and cleanly population, but
has its chief peril among people in
adequately nourished and housed
without regard to sanitation. There
are said to be 400,000 rats in New Or-
leans and the work of eradication is
rat traps.
SO rtfttf rxx
The l
S. senate has voted $200.-
for the relief of the sufferer.-
the Salem. Mass., fire. Th?
a lady doesn't have to pay out any
money for shaves and hair cuts.
Dallas News.
But you* must remember, old scout,
it takes money to buy talcum.
Del Rio Herald: Just a few more
days in which to lie about your oppo-
nent.
Houston Post: A New Jersey man
died as he was grasping a pen to sign
hi® will. Lucky lawyers.
A William Son county farmer has
been fast asleep for ten days and his
relatives are alarmed.—Houston
Post. i
Talked to sleep by campaign ora-
tors, probably.
Dallas News: Our idea of a hero
is a little boy who can put up a good
fight with one hand while holding his
-reusers on with the other.
• Comanche Chief: A man may be-
come drunk on prejudice as easily as
on booze, and do almost as much
damage.
Bryan Eagle: It vyould be a blessing
to Texas if the next legislature would
devote-every minute;of its time except
that needed for the appropriation bill-
to repealing unnecessary' laws and
untangling some that are necessary,
hut incapable of interpretation.
Bryan Eagle: “Evangelist Ham ha=
just Billy Sundayed Palestine—that
is, in additions and reclamations. We
did not get the figures on the other
end of the proposition.’’
Clarksville Times: Some men will
get out of bed at midnight and run
fourteen blocks to a fire who cannot
be induced to get up at 7:00 o'clock
and start one In the kitchen stove.
Houston Post: Sedgwick county.
Kansas, has a treasury that is $50,
000 short. A countv that hasn’t sense
enough to keep the republican party
out of its treasury has no busbies-
I'.'ith
money.
—■—e-f-t—^
Democrats in the Third l^ouisiana
out struggle, fhe very faculties
atrophy, nerve fails, and muscles are
enfeebled with disuse.
When our “Harm*r*izations" be-1 0(>0
come complete, nobody will need toUrom the Salem, Mass., nre. i-i-mm .«*- ... ....... ”,
build r;*w railroads, or improve faeil-; democratic president before Mr.| congressional district are saw o >e
it*.**, or invent new machinery, orj wi)#0n wtoed an appropriation for | deserting to the Bull Moose party mow
Study economy, or reward exception- the relief „f the drouth sufferers of advertised as a white man * par •
■I fidelity or energy We - hall fall to Wwt and Northwest Texas on the The leaders are \\. H. , '
a dead level of mediocrity, stagnation. Lround that BUCh approprations were | Pogers Edwin Broun^d, John Ma k
and then decay. >„ conflict with the constitution of the Samuel LeBlanc and M. T. Peterman.
The agencies that have built us up United States, President Wilson has Mr. Price is a brother of the dx-con*
not- as yet, acted in the matter of gressman; Mr. Rogers is a big sugar Thf| opporients of colonel mm nan
the senate appropriation for the Sal- ! planter; Mr. Brousafd is a brother of ar(1>scourjng woods for something
(11 pr,, sufferers > the United States senator-elect, .lr, u.,, .in tirintr on oirainsl him
1 ' Marks is a state senator and a mem-
built us up
gill be destroyed, the props will be
vithdrawn. The great machine will
■evolve awhile of it- own accumulat-
>d momentum, and then it will stop.
,nd upon the ruins of what is left j
ve survivors will erect another sy
The high cost of politics is a
I more dangerous situation in this coun-
•m. still imperfect no doubt, but j than the j,igrh cost 0f living. In
of So‘ fact, corrupt politics, inefficiency in
sidious
(urged of this
dal ism
Through some such dread experience
is this we msy have to pass, for Na
ore will make her lessons understood,
it whatever cost is necessary to those
»h<> would set her at defiance. The
process of creation is not to be re
rersed because some of the partici-
iants are tired of the struggle
Although in the midst of drouth, we
lave a flood of oratory
,,fftec and duplication of official
boards are very largely responsible
for the high cost of living. Increased
taxes and unsatisfactory local and
state government are some of the re- policy on the sugar tariff
suits of politics. But these are not
far j her of the Democratic state commit-
tee; Mr. LeBlanc is a member of the
Democratic state legislature; Mr. Pe-
terman is -beriff of St. Mary’s parish.
The split in the Third district is ex-
pected to extend throughout the state,
and is regarded in Washington as a
protest against the administratibn’s
all. Think of the waste we sustain
! every year because we tolerate the
! luxury of partisan politics.— Texas
I Farm A Ranch.
| A| the recent session of the Texas
|- Bar Association in Dallas, the co+n-
The evidence is all in in the gov- on jurisprudence and law re-
rnor's case and the lawyers are now , (orm recommended the following-
leading and counter pleading ; “We recommend that the judges of
~ the supreme court and all other court*
j m Texas be selected by a nominating
convention and thus, as far as possi-
ble, that the judiciary of Texas may
* “ " the
In the November elections Missour-
ians will vote on an amendment to
the constitution giving women the
I right to vote.
DANGER TO DEMOCRACY,
July 26th should be set aside for
rayer. Somebody Has lied in this
ampaign and there should be a day
f atonement.
An organization has been effected
l North Fort Worth called the
Henkecked Husbands' Protective
issoci»tion.“ What's the game, old
(route’ Put us next.
• aero-■
The U. 8- Senate haa voted to re
kin the twenty-cent mileage graft
t was hardly to b* expected that
he senate would rip tha boefd*
ta own house.
San Angelo has had its second au
nmobile and motorcycle collision and
obody killed. But the undertaker is
retching the proceeding* with com-
ilacency. knowing that buxine*- will
oon pick up.
be kept out of politics and that
selection of our judges be relieved as
far as possible from the disastrous
consequences to the judiciary of the
primary election system.’’ Final con-
sideration of the recommendation was
postponed to next year awaiting a
specific recomfiiendation as to the
method of nomination.
’Joseph W Bailey has announced
that he Will attend the State Demo-
e-atie Convention at El Paso, but that
he has no thought of attempting to
prevent an indorsement of the Wilson
,i,ministration Mr, Bailey is quoted
a* saying, in part:* "I am going to
the state convention in the hope that
I ran hold our party (n Texas stead
TEXAS POLITICAL NOTES.
For and Against.
It would be interesting to know just
but would be thankful to have
nutural curiosity gratified. Houston
Post. , »
The Ball rally at Dallas was held in
a church because it was not a political
meeting. It came so near being a
political meeting that the narrow
margin was a source of pain.—Temple
Telegram.
If Colonel Ball is nominated next
month (and we think he will be) it
will be due to the fact that he is a
broad, sensible man and will give fair
play even to his anti friends, who are
supporting him. -Devine News.
Candidate Ball now declares that he
was a very intimate friend of the late
Governor Hogg but Will, Tom and
-Mike Hogg, the governor’s three sons,
are supporting Jim Ferguson in this
race. Those boys know who put the
cold steel to their distinguished daddy
at a. crucial moment in his career.
—Longview Leader.
Col. Ball has two enmpaign mana-
gers named Walker, but he is doing
the running himself.—Dallas News.
Five dollars reward for anything
derogatory to the character of J. E.
Ferguson, candidate for governor.
No matter whether true or false the
bigger the lie the more it will be ap-
preciated. , All you have to do is to
write wit your statement, stretch it
and twist it so as to make it as damn-
able as possible, go before a notary
public and swear to your statement,
send in to Home and State and get
JF.on for it. That is what they have
hee/i paying their spies in Bell county
for “uch work.— Baird Star.
The Waco Tribune says that Colonel
Ball has been “apologizing ever since
he became a candidate for governor.”
Not so. He has had many lies and
slanders to rebuke,but he has not been
apologizing to anybody. Houston
Post.
(Waco Tribune.)
Will the Progressive Prohibition
party of Texas, of which Colonel T.
H. Ball is the standard bearer, merge
into the national prohibition party
after the El Paso convention 7
Stranger things have come to pass.
The convention which nominated Col.
Ball declared for national prohibition,
and embraced in its membership men
who have stood aloof from state poli-
tics for years because they belonged
to the national prohibition organiza-
tion. They have joined the Texas
party of which Col. Ball is the spokes-
man, and if they control the delega-
tions that will go to the El Paso con-
vention, they will reaffirm their de-
claration of national prohibition which
was made at Fort Worth, thus lending
up to a coalition with the national
prohibition party. At a conference of
the national prohibition party In Clin-
ton, Mo., recently the treasurer of the
national prohibition committee made
the statement that a prohibition pres-
ki our Mfiy «n li?X05 nlCMw tnc nilIvIDviH Hint u pruniuiuuij piw»
fastly to the doctrine nf state’s rights j blent would be in the white house by
f , ,i to a .Itmd tariff policy Or. to be j I'm Incidentally.he stated that there
A London paper publishes statistic* „tp|j more specific, 1 am going' to the | was but little hope for the advapre-
mwing that the material -damage ;taf„ convention for the purpose, first., ment of the prohibition cause by the
rooght by militant suffragettes J ,.!P<niring a de-hirstien against Fed- : adoption of the constitutional amend
nee the beginning ..f 191ft amounts J ffl|j womBB , iff rage, econd, for the ment now pending in congress
• fl£90,000 exclusive,; of the damage J.purp, nf securing a declaration The movement in Texas today is a
(against National prohibition, and. i movement to strengthen the notional
third, for the purpose of securing a j prohibition party, but it ought not to
declaration in favor of the ancient j be done'through the sacrifice of the
and traditional tariff policy of the|democratic organization Texas demo
Democratic party. And in order that] cricy is in d»nm>i- illegal method
everybody may* know just what I in-
tend to ask the' convention to say on
the tariff question, 1 hand you this
resolution, which I will, ask you to
orint; 'We are in favor of a tariff
for revenue only,-limited to the rw-cc
••Hies of the Government economical ' **ejr ta be on guard El Faso will
ty administered,- and -m *jlj)i*ted as {witness-either » declaration;
trr avoid all discrimination either for] Hon*] prohibition or it .will witness a
*■ A— JL. .... ___ mai* ‘i * I*, lf«1
W(,rk» of art. which ran not be
can red. A* a general thing worn-
, come* high and sometimes she is
orth the price.
n F.ari
Miss Lillian Earl Bcav of Anniston,
laliumn. married Mr. James Oscar
kllops- of Terrell. Texas, whom she
id never seen prfftr to the hour of
# wedding, which Wa« conducted at
•rrell the 13th inat. The courtship
is conducted by mad It , some re*
mmendatjon for a Texan when a
■oapecthre bride will cross three
a(*s to marry him without ever lay
g her eyes on him- let o* bray
_____, ... In danger; illegal method
have been followed by the pm* to get
(heir candidate before the people of
this state in the democratic primaries
The law which provide* how candi-
date* shall be"chosen was ignored, *fd
would l*e well for organized demon
ir against any industry, class or sec
tion. In, obedience to (he principle*
herein announced, we are opposed t<>
SOME CUCUMBER. ntroing raw materials and farm prowl
g D Jayroe. who lives in the fer* urt, on the free Hat so long as, dytiro
.sandy lands in the vicinity of Nov i are levied on mar ufa-'tured r- U "
Coleman county#, wa* exhibiting! >attir .
, week a cucumber which measured The federal lawmakers have ap
»et 5 inches in length, 13 inches in oropriated f.VWJIOfi to pay the ex
Liter at iti lar^Lat part and Uense of the United {Hate* exhibit at
JJJJ g pounds Can you heat it? I the Panama-Pacific exposition.
There arc eighteen, laws on the
statute book? of Texas in favor of the
landlord and not a single one recogniz-
ing that the tenant has any rights
whatever. But when Mr. Ferguson
rai-es the question that the law res;.-,
i gnize a minimum and just rental for
land, the cry is raised that he is a so
cialist and interfering with property
rights, Granbury News,
The opponents of Colonel Tom Ball
_re‘seouring the woods for something
that they can bring up againsj. him
to try to defeat.' him for the nomina-
tion for governor. Some of thorn put
the argument forth that there is some-
thing “rotten” when a man will quit a
$20,000 a year job to take a fl.OOo a
year salaried office. Ball did that
Ferguson is trying very hard indeed
to buy the same $4,000 office
with *80.000 of his own money- Lub-
bock Avalunche.
The regular saloon Is regulated by
law and policed, the club saloon is
neither regulated nor policed. If
there had never been a Sunday law
enacted in Texas there would never
have been a social club with a saloon
in connection. The sole object of such
clubs is to “bootleg" the Sunday law
and early closing laws of this state.
Farmersville Times.
For the information of arlyone inter-'
ested, we do not hesitate to state that
we accept the unsupported statement
of Dr. Rankin or either of the Gam-
brells on a moral or political question,
and would not believe Peter Radford
oi the manager of the Texas Business
Men’s Association on oath".—Bronte
Enterprise _
The report ha#-been in circulation
in this county that Jim Ferguson is a
Catholic, and thl* campaign lie, like
many others, have been unwittingly
repeated by many good men. We have
evidence to prove that Jim Ferguson
is only not a Catholic, but a Mason of
high degree, hence could not be
Catholic. This report was doubtless
started from the fact that. Father
Heckman, a kindly and much beloved
Catholic priest in Temple, wrote a
letter commending Mr. Ferguson for
his many acts, of charity and benevo-
lence Comanche Chief. •
Tom Ball has been apologizing ever
since he became a candidate, and
every man in the Ball organization,
from platform land- pulpit, is apolo-
gizing for him in every speech that is
made. The fact of the matter ia that
fitofct of Ball's campaign has been one
of apology and explanation. He has
apologized for being the attorney for
the corporations and quit his job so as
tn be eligible as a candidate fi.>r gov
ernor. He has apologized for being
a member of a club which ,-ells liquor?
He ha* apologized for his attack on
Hogg in the ronventiftn which met lb
Waco in 1000. He has apologized for
bis assault on the-principles of the
apologize for having voted against
the Panama canal?—Waco Tribune.
Tom Ball’s peraohal character Is
vouched for by Rev. Sam R. Hay, of
Houston. Jim Ferguson’s personal
character ia vouched for by District
Judge John 1). Robinson, of Belton.
Dr. Hay .pastor of a Methodist church,
has the esteem and respect of all the
people. Judge Robinson, an elder in
the Presbyterian church, has the es-
teem and the respect of all the people,
Hay knows Tom Ball. Robinson
know* Jim Ferguson. Let’s drop these
personalities and consider the issues
of the campaign.—Waco Times Her-
ald.
Del Rio Herald: Jim Ferguson is a
good man and so is Tom Ball; there
are issues that divide them; they have
a right to their opinions nnd in a free
country the race of either is perfect-
ly legitimate. Why then these per-
sonalities by friends?
Keep Cool!
No matter how tho primary goes,
there is no reason to expect an earth-
quake. The sun will continue to rise
just the same whether Ferguson or
Ball is nominated for governor; and
the universe might not collapse, even
if Lep Morris got 5,000 votes. This
pessimism reminds us of a circum-
Ktanqe in .Tim Hogg’s second race. A
well meaning but puritanical old min-
ister expected civilization to collapse
in case the big East Texan defeated
Geo. Clark. After calling on God for
all His Omnipotent force to defeat
Hogg, he wound up by asking that a
bolt of lightning might, strike him
dead on the day of inauguration in
the event that the forces of hell and
the devip prevailed at the polls. But
Hogg was elected and the bolt did not
fall; and at the present time the
strenuous minister, a very old man,
is living a life of repose among his
grandchildren, a mild old man. His
views broadened by a glance back-
ward over his public career; his heart
sweetened by goodness and charity,
he realizes.that thc(world can not be
made over in a flay, and that the for-
ceg of good are working-every day
along tb? lines of natural law.—Sea-
ley News.
——
Dayton Airless Tires.
Be sure to try the famous Dayton
Airless tires. They cost a little more
to start with, but they last two to i
three times as long and are absolute-
ly puncture and trouble proof while
they last. I have a pair that have been
run over 8,000 miles and are good for
three or four thousand miles more. 1
also have sample showing construe
tion. For full particulars write or sec
me: John West, Route 3, Santa An
na, Texas. 28tf
School Transfer Notice.
Non-resident patrons of the Cole-
man Independent School District
should attend to the matter of trans-
fers before the first of August. Those
whb do not transfer are not entitled
to free tuition. Those whb do trans-
fer get the state pro rata of the
state fund and the board of trustees
of the, Coleman schools has always
been liberal in the matter of special
tax. 1 - :
Parties who wish to transfer can
see to- the matter themselves or noti-
fy J. E. Hickman, giving name and
age of Children to he transferred and
the district from wl(kh they are
transferred, and the matter will be at-
tended to. J. E. HICKMAN,
28-31 Secretary School Board.
Coleman, TeXfl.*..
• . Summer School.
Leo. L. Smallwood’s summer school
will begin on Monday, July 20. All
pupils report at SdUth Ward building
at 9:00 a. m.
Rates-—50c per week for one subject
and $1.00 per term for each additional
subject Whole course, all subjects in
any grade, $5.00. Don’t fail to be
there—*Adv. 2829
JACK HAMILTON
Do your JOB PBlNTINCT
HE KNOWS HOW
Hamilton Printing Co.
’Phone No. 46
HEAVY HAULING
I solicit your hauling of all
kinds, especially that the other
fellow can’t do. House and
heavy machinery moving a spec-
ialty. I’m always on the job
JIM PRINCE
PHONE 66
If in the
Building Line
See
Burton-Lingo Co.
Dr. W. V. CHAPIN
DENTIST
Office at Residence, four
blocks west of Dodson’s
Lumber Yard
WEDDING PARTIES AND FUNERALS
Satisfaction Gmrtnt«4
THE NUSSBAUNER FLORAL CO.
TckpkftM CmmcIIm SAN ANGELO, TE1AI
Garrett’s Drug Store, Local Rep,
D. W. WATSON
RENTAL AGENT
also Fire, Tornado & Hail Insurance
Front office over Kinney & Hen-
derson’s Grocery Store.
Office Phone 193, Res.Phone 144
DR. JOHN CAMPBELL
Veterinary
SANTA ANNA, : TEXAS
Will be at White’s Wagon Yard first
Monday of each month. All domestiA
cated animals treated.
Calls answered day or night
FOLEY KIDNEY PUIS
FOR RHEUMATISM KIDNEYS AND B LAO OCR
r
with tfcw Ball organ).'*.)Hon m tho j Hogg amendment*. He hn. apologlz
Tcxa* wing of the notional Inrnhibi f ml for keepingjpmnpanv with the tw«.
‘"’o tuirtv It matter* not to the rank anti leader in this state, Clarence
file lif the tirnir-.w ivft prohibl Ouslev and R. M J,ohH«ton He hn
Hnnfaita that Col Ball Ha* rpje’-ted j apologized for accepting a nomination
declaration for nationwide- The*
tip believe in it fHev still talk for it
"d they have thei* ren'e-sentative i"
*h« *enate of the United State* in the
oerxon of Mnrri* Shennard, who l*
fighting for it every day.
on-a platform that declared for na-
tion-wide prohibition. He "declare*
that he hits not taken a drink in two
years, which I# In effect an opology
for what he did do prior to that time
, Will he, before the campaign closes,
What counts isn't what you pay—but what you
get (or what you pay. The Ford buyer gets the
most value for his money in the car and the best
service afterwards. Big production, skilled work-
men and best materials make the Ford quality
high and Ford prices )ow>
Five hundred dolliirs ia Ihe price of the Ford run about; the touring
car is five fifty the town car seven fifty—f. o. b. Detroit, complete with
equipment Get catalog and particulars from Harwell Motor Co., Cole-,
man Texas
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