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SPEECH OF JUDGE A. W. TERRELL
former united states minister το turkey of Senator J. W. Bailey.
Speaking at Georgetown Satur-
day April 11 against Raileyism
Hon. A W. Terrell of Austin for-
mer United States Minister t ■> Tur-
key said:
Fellow Citizens: For more than
fifty-five years 1 have represented
yon or your fathers as lawyer judge
and senator and there is not one
man among you who will declare
that 1 ever willfully wronged him
or lied to him. 1 am here on your
Invitation and will speak to your
understanding with the language of
truth.
The times are out of joint when a
United States Senator leaves his post
in congress every year to canvass his
state in order to prove his own hon-
esty Joseph Bailey who should now
bef in Washington to protect our na-
tional interests has projected him-
self into this canvass for delegate to
a rational convention—a thing un-
heard of until now In this or any
ot (1er state.
All political power Is inherent in
th# people the senator is their ser-
vant. and common decency should
prompt him to imitate the examples
of Culberson. Campbell and all the
senators in all the states which
should restrain him from wanting to
go to Denver to write platforms for
the people who are his masters.
Answers liuiley's Abuse.
1 am told that last Saturday Sir.
Bailey here indulged in abusing sev-
eral gentlemen—myself among the
number—after refusing to meet in
discussion those who believe that he
betrayed the interests of the people.
To abuse the witnesses is the old.
old dodge whenever a man Is on
trial but it never diverts the exper-
ienced prosecutor from presenting
the evidence of a prisoner's guilt. I
can not find it in my heart to hate
Bailey. 1 pity him for when 1 con-
sider heredity and the environments
of his youth. I am amazed that he is
not altogether depraved.
I have no answer to his abuse ex-
cept to say that even as a boy when
1 hunted in the wilderness if the
slime of e venomenous reptile was
across my path 1 looked and stepped
beyond it. The snow of eighty win-
ters have whitened these locks and
1 have neither time nor inclination
to answer the billingsgate of Mr. Bai-
ley.
Presidential Elector with Bailey.
Twenty years ago Joseph Bailey
and myself were electors for the
state at large. I then admired his in-
tellect and predicted for him a ca-
reer of usefulness. He has to a large
degree that magnetism and hypnotic
gift that often captivates the multi-
tude— for he can hypnotize the weak
bulldoze the timid and deceive thl·
credulous. Thus equipped he now
hopes to succeed through what he be-
lieves to be the ignorance of thf
people.
Hero Worship.
Hero worship is not in the naturt
of any self-respecting free born citi
zen. The man who shouts with alio
tber man's collar around his neck
... κ i.:. ..Πο ΐνΛ
is only imitating the red-shirtet
monkey who dances to the music o!
the Italian organ grinder. Some mer
can never be converted by reason
The ward heeler the man who is th<
servant of corporate power the fool
and the corrupt editor who neve]
commits himself on a great issue un-
til he is paid are all blind to reason:
but the silent voter who wanting tc
do right who loves his country and
hates corruption in high places tc
him and to him only I address my
eelf.
What Bryan Thinks.
I have been made a candidate foi
elector at large over my protest anc
hope to vote for that pure statesinar
and friend of the people. Willian
Jennings Bryan. I admire the geniu:
and the honesty of that great man
■lust nine days ago Mr. Bryan it
Richmond. Va said: "I believe thi
time will come when a man turns ί
public office to a private advantagi
he will be whipped from societ;
along with the embezzler of money.'
Out law puts stripes on those wh(
embezzle money.
Again Mr Bryan said: "Ever;
senator can become rich if he wil
ODly sell his soul and the opportun
ties of the congressman are but littli
less"—and again: A man is lacking
in eithef intelligence or honesty o:
both who defends the acceptant
by public servants of employmen
from those whose interests are ad
vers*· to the Interest of the public.'
1 propose to show you that if Mr
Bryan is right Joseph Bailey has n<
right to be in a convention to nomi
nate William J. Bryan.
l>ls< usses Bailey's Wealth.
It has been often stated and no
denied that when Bailey was electei
to congress executions against bin
were returned unsatisfied and tha
his paper was not worth thirty cent
on the dollar. He is now rated as on
of the senators worth one million ο
money His rapid success in makini
money was a mystery to bis col
leagues from Texas. No one ha
heard of his large fees as a lawyer
and so the mystery deepened.
Every man knows that 110 law
maker if he attends to his dtitie
can make a million of money b;
clean methods. Xone of you farmer
who strike the yielding bosom ο
the earth for food and raiment no
you lawyers who represent them
none of you merchants who sel
them goods or you doctors win
nurse them can make a million ο
money by honest methods.
Predatory Wealth.
We must not censure men ο
great wealth when it is honestly ac
quired But riches piled up by ou
trusted lawmakers through the favo
of trust magnates is a fearful men
ace to good government for wha
will become of the common peoplt
if their lawmakers grow rich througl
the favor of'trust magnates? It ii
harder now for a young man to gel
a start in the world than it was ever
twtnty years ago for all our indus
fries are absorbed by rich corpor-
ations and trusts and individualism
is forced to the wall.
How The Beast is Served.
That trust beast of the Apocalypse
has Briarian arms and Argus eyes —
for in every state it employs the
ablest men to serve it; it terrorizes
its servants with hints of displea-
sure when they vote against its
methods and woe to the unhappy
laborer who displeases it. Oh gentle-
men. the hope of this country is not
in the political rounder or in the
rich and venal politician but in the
silent voter. Our silent voters at
Austin had been watching Joseph
Bailey at short range and they re-
pudiated him by an overwhelming
vote.
1 digress for a moment to correct
a statement made at Austin last
week by Mr. Bailey which was with-
out a vestige of truth and which he
"knows was not true as all of you do.
He said he did not speak in Travis
county when we held the primary
that condemned him until the day
before the election. He spoke there
once in the Opera House once in
the Skating Rink and once at Tay-
lor. His henchmen came down from
the Panhandle to work. A sleeping
car of workers came up from Hous-
ton and a senator was brought here
from Eùftern Texas to speak. I only
mention this that you might have a
proper value of his veracity.
More than twelve yt^rs ago the
Attorney General of Texas sued the
Waters Pierce Oil Company and as
an oil trust which by unlawful me-
thods nad monopolized the sali of
oil in Texas. It had crushed all
competition by underselling and
then sold its oil at twice the amount
charged in other states. On a capital
of $400000 it made 700 per
cent. Over seven millions of money
were thus mulcted from the people ■
of Texas. It plundered the rich and
the poor alike. While it gave light
to the votaries of fashion it levied
its tribute on the oil of the poor
mother who in the stillness of the
night watched her sick babe.
Both the Supreme Court of Texas
and of the United States decided
that it was a trust and should be
expelled t'om the state. When
Pie; re applied to Bailey for help in
St. Louis on the 25 of April. 1900 '
Bailey knew that the Supreme Court
of the United States had decided
that the Pierce Company was a vio-
lator of the trust laws of Texas and
must leave the state. Everybody
knew it. and yet he said to Pierce
"If you can convince Me—Me Joe
Bailey that you are not a trust. 1
will see that you ha\e no difficulty
in doing business in Texas." 1 pass
this disgusting egotism and ask you
to be patient while 1 trail him with
facts solomnly sworn to. facts that
he can neither contradict nor an-
swer.
The Grand Jury at Waco indicted
H. Clay Pierce and evidence was at
hand to make him pay $103000 lor
his oil trust methods and the evi-
dence was clear that John D. Rorke
feller was co-defendant with Pierce
and other oil people.
How Pierce Got Influence.
Pierce was alarmed and. as Mr.
Johnson the Waters-Pierce attorn-
ey. swore he "needed political in-
fluence" for his company had been
branded as a trust by the highest
court in the Union—and every true
man in Texas knew and rejoiced at
the decision. He found his influential
man in Joseph Bailey who had been
a schoolmate of our then attorney
General Tom Smith.
Bailej came first to Waco with 11.
Clay Pierce and John on his attorn-
ey May 2 19C0 and was closeted
for two hours with Cullen Thomas
the state's attorney Stribling his
assistant and H. Clay Pierce. Cullen
Thomas swore before the legislature
that investigated Bailey in 1901 that
Bailey was the first man to propose
what Bailey called a "compromise"
by which the suit against Pierce
1 should be dismissed and as an .n-
ducement to "compromise" Bailey
said that Stribling the lawyer for
the state should be paid a "liberal
fee." Thomas swore that Bailey said
t "liberal fee" but Bailey swore he
proposed it was to be a "reasonable"
fee. Just think of it. my friends; to
ι what depths of servility have we
; plunged when without rebuke a sen-
1 ator from Texas can thus pollute the
• stream of justice by proposing to the
prosecuting officer of the state that
the very man charged with a felony
should pay a liberal fee" to the at-
torney for the state as an induce-
i ment to dismiss a suit against him?
ltailey Approaches Sttyers.
I'nable to shake Cullen Thomas
from the oath of duty (for he told
th< m he thought it wrong to do what
[ Bailey «anted) we find Pierce Bai-
ley and Johnson their attorney only
a fe» days afterwards in Austin
■ registered together in the Driskill
■ Hotel Bailey went up to the capi-
tal: he called on (!o\. Joe Savers
; and told him that n. thought "that
• if Waters-Pierce oil Company or
! any other useful business wanted to
come ίο the slate to continue in it
they ough' to be permitted to do so
- as long . - they obeyed the laws."
- Il· got no comfort for "honest Joe"
' told him "that he intended to see
> that everybody and every business
Ε did obey the law "
Bailey and Attorney General Smith.
■ Bailey then went from the gover-
nor's office to that of his old school-
. mate. Tom Smith. Smith the Attor-
ney General told him that attorneys
of Pierce had offered him "fabulous
sums" for permission to stay in Tex-
! as but he told them "that money
was no object when principle was
• involved Bailey told Smith "if you
■ think they could do business legal-
ly" on account of a friend "1 would
be glad for them (Pierce & Co.) to
be admitted." Smith said to Bailey:
•"Joe did you get my note'.'" "Have
yeo read our statute on the sub-
ject?" Bailey answered: "No I have
not reed It." Smith was inflexible
and told him that they "could not
ο business In Texas under the old
harter."
Bailey himself swore that he told
'ierre that the "only thing left him
■ as to dissolve the offending corpor-
tion and organize a new one and
hen come back in Texas with clean
and* and obey the law." "Clean
ands." Well all things are possible
'ith God. but no one but Joe Bailey
ver thought it possible that Pierce
he head of the Waters-Pierce Oil
'ompany after plundering from our
leople by his trust methods seven
nilllons of money would ever re-
urn to Texas with "clean hands"
f· there was anything left to plunder.
Pierce followed Bailey's advice by
;oing back to Missouri dissolving
he old Waters-Pierce Oil Company
nd then he took out a new charter
η Missouri for a new Waters-Pierce
)il Company with the same old oil
wagons the same old drivers and
he same old Standard Oil crowd
vho concealed their stock in the
ïame of other people. Tom Smith
ivpnotized by his old college chum
lermitted the charter to be filed
nd from that day to this that com-
lany has been at its old game of
ilundering a patient people. I be-
ieve that this blunder of Tom Smith
lelped to kill him for he was an hon-
est man. Gov. Hogg denounced* the
vhole thing as a fraud on Texas
loseph W. Baiiey according to his
>wn sworn statement is responsible
or all this and he acted with his
■yes open for only a few days be-
ore he came to Austin with Pierce
îe was told in Waco by Congress-
nan Bob Henry that the Standard
Dil Company was in combination
vith the Waters-Pierce Oil Com-
>any.
Bailey From 1001 to 190«.
And so Bailey was acquitted and
or five years or more grew worse
md more wealthy. The newspapers
η Washington rate him as a million-
lire. but the methods that enriched
lim remained still a mystery. Some-
imes we would hear of him in Ken-
ucky on his blue grass racing farm;
iometimes he was dealing with Kirbv
he lumber magnate and sometimes
lis friends would say that he made
nuch money in the stock exchange;
jut no one knew until last Septem-
ber that his name was in the cipher
■odes of the Standard Oil or that H.
'lay Pierce had become his "dear
3ierce" and had staked him when he
vanted money.
He Now Hates Davidson.
You all know that the people were
η absolute ignorance of what Bailey
lad been doing and voted for him
in the primary election of 19 υ β.
Davidson found out after that in
it. Louts how Bailey had grown rich
ay serving the "interests" and got
possession of the papers to prove it.
The publication startled the people
and consternation was in every facv.
What was to be done? Good men
petitioned Carden chairman of the
■itate democratic executive commit-
tee. to call his committee together
to give the people a chance for an
>tli<-■ r vote. He refused. tor Bailey
had put him there and protested
against criticizing Bailey's conduct
because he said it would injure the
party. Oh. gentlemen the party
lash should have no terror for an
honest man. Had the executive com-
mittee done its duty this primary
■lection would have been held last
fall and Mr. Bailey would have never
have been sent back to the senate.
Flinched From Investigation.
Bailey denied the notes and tele-
grams discovered by Davidson and
said they were forgeries. He howled
aver the state as he is now doing
and refused to speak from the same
stand with men who opposed him.
Confronted at last with the papers
that showed him the confidential ser-
vant of the trust leaders he was
compelled to admit they were genu-
ine. Then he tried to prevent an in-
vestigation by the legislature last
year by saying it was not necessary.
Ί ne legislature met and w as
treated to a long lecture by Thomas
B. Love Speaker of the House on
the duty of sticking to Bailey "as
the nominee; ' and the lifted gavel
in his hands reminded the members
to sing low if they wanted him to
recognize them. Machine politics was
busy and the terror of the machine
lash alarmed the timid.
Conscience Above Machine.
Right here I want to say that it is
more important for the voter to
have a clear conscience than to λ io-
late it by sustaining a nominee after
his corruption is discovered. 1 was a
member in 1857 of the first st;ite
democratic executive committee e\er
organized in Texas; twice since then
as chairman of committee on plat-
form I have written the party prin-
ciples of Texas but I never yet saw
the day that either machine politics
or a political boss could make me
vote for a man whom I knew to be
unworthy and not to he trusted.
When ver our people believe that
machine politics and l oss rule should
prevail over patriotism and con-
science. their necks are ready for
the chains of despotism.
You who think that a voter
should never scratch a corrupt name
from his ticket go and read the
printed address of Washington to his
countrymen. So. the fear of the
machine saved Bailey.
Whitewash of 11M)7.
True men in vain insisted that
Mr. Bailey's case should be Investi-
gated before they elected a United
States Senator. The watchword was
"stick to Mr. Bailey as the nominee."
first elect him and investigate his
conduct afterwards. And this they
actually did This was like the man
who was warned that his daughter
was about to marry a dissolute man
and who said. "Let them marry and
we will investigate;" or like the
farmer who was warned that John-
son grass was mixed with hie sor-
ghum seed but who sowed them
first and investigated afterwards.
In vain did members of the Inves-
tigating committee ask leave to go
to St Louis and examine there Mr.
Pierce and his books. In vain <11(1
good men strive to make Bailey de-
port himself with ^cency.
He not only denounced the wit-
nesses as liars without rebuke but
actually dictated who should ex-
amine him. Mr. Cocke a member
of the House who wrote the charges
against Bailey could not examine him
because Bailey protested. And he
(Bailey) calls this an "investiga-
tion!" For five weeks he strutted
back and forth between the Driskill
Hotel and the investigating commit-
tee room with his body guard of
corporation employes book agent
lobbyists and sleeping car attorneys
and the attorneys of H. Clay Pierce.
And so the miserable farce dragged
on and all the time Mr. Bailey was
drawing pay as a United States Sen-
ator while the congress was in ses-
sion.
Pierce's Attorney on the Committee.
Judge James H. Robertson the
attorney employed to defend H. Clay
Pierce for false swearing was on
that committee but they were mis-
taken in the man for that clear
headed lawyer voted against white-
washing Bailey but Wolfe Odell and
Cobb v.'ho are now in the band wag-
on with our spotted senator were
then active in his service.
But after all the committee of
investigation '•.as a hung jury
for though a majority of the
house committee acquitted the
senate actually dismissed their
turn a verdict for it was known that
a majority of them would condemn
Bailey. The legislature thus side-
lined. hobbled and bulldozed with
the stale cry that "Bailey is the
nominee" deliberately acquitted him
over a protest of over forty repre-
sentatives who voted against him—
and refused to whitewash.
Bailey Furnis! ed Influence.
But that investigation has shewn
us how our senator got rich. Give
me for an instant ycur patient at-
tention while you follow me in dates
and facts revealed to that commit-
tee. which must brand Bailey with
treachery to his people and that
brand will cling to him like the shirt
of Xoesus. forever.
On April 25 1900 the very day
that the mandate of the United
States court was filed in Texas which
declared that the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company should be driven from the
state Bailey first met Pierce a
stranger to him in St. Louis. The
lawyers of Pierce had failed to save
him—he needed political influence.
The man who would soon be a sen-
ator from Texas and who had been
the schoolboy chum of Attorney Gen-
eral Smith was of all men the very
man that Pierce needed. Bailey was
poor and needed money and Pierce
needed him. Then and there Pierce
told him of his troubles in Texas
and Bailey informed him that he
did not think he would have much
trouble. Then and there Bailey bor-
vnu ûil frnm tViie afranffor 4 Q 3 Λ fi
and agreed to return to Texas and
help him and in eight days is in
Waco trying to "compromise" with
the state. Thus in an evil hour Joseph
deliberately placed both of his feet
in the oil trough and was compelled
to go forward for he was poor and
the charming glitter of gold suggest-
ed the road to fortune.
Bailey Borrows From Pierce.
Since the revelations by our pres-
ent Attorney General we now under-
stand Mr. Bailey and the method#
that made him rich. I am about to
show you how Joseph Bailey in 1901
used his influence as our senator to
fasten on this state the fangs of the
oil octopus which he helped Pierce
to reintroduce and that the money
of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
was in his pocket at the very step.
You must not forget that the
Waco Judge held that when that oil
company surrendered its charter no
execution for penaU.-s could be sat-
isfied from its property and the
judgement of the state on account
of its illegal acts amounted to noth-
ing. Ard so Senators Grinnan and
Paulus' on Feb. 1 1901 offered a
bill in our state senate to make the
property of a defunct corporation
liable for penalties recovered against
it. and on Feb. 27. 1901 Mr. McFall
offpred a resolution that the read-
misifton of the Waters-Pierce Oil
company into Texas was fraudulent
and void. Both bills were reported
favorably. March 1 1901 Pierce was
alarmed and hurried from St. Louis
to Washington for he again wanted
influence and so on March 1 1901
he signed the following note without
interest :
"8000.00. Washington March 1
1901.—Four months after date I
promise to pay to the order of H.
Clay Pierce eight thousand dollars
at his office in St. Louis. Value re-
ceived.
"Signed) J. W. BAILEY."
That $8000 figured on the books
of the Waters-Pierce Oil company
areong bills receivable and to "legal
expenses on account of Texas litiga-
tion" until June 1902 and then was
charged off to "profit and loss." No
payment is shown on the books of
the oil company.
March 4. 1901.—Bailey took the
oath in open senate as asenator from
Τ exas.
March 7. 19(11—Three days after
that Mr McFall's resolution was re-
ported favorably in Texas.
March 9 1901—Ten days after-
ward the Grinnan and Paulus bill
was made the special order in the
Texas senate for March 13.
March 10 1901—The Washing-
ton correspondent of the Galveston-
Dallas News telegraphed that Bailej
would leave for Austin th* next day.
And so this man who only six
days before he took his seat as oui
senator hurried away from it as s
place of no value: mere friendshil
for Pierce surely did not constrain
him to quit his post at Washington
to become as we will see a lobbyist
in Austin.
Oh. gentlemen mere friendehif
for Francis or "My Dear Pierce'
could not have made Bailey turn hii
back on the American senate cham
ber where he had struggled so long
to get and to take a Journey of a
thousand miles only eight days af-
ter he was seated there. Follow these
dates in connection with Bailey's
acts and then give your judgment
fair play. When passion rules reas-
on is dethroned. Follow boldly when
truth leads you no matter what you
have thought for the men who can
not be changed by reason are fanat-
ics and fools.
March 12 1901—The Washing-
ton telegram to the Galveston-Dallas
News announced that Bailey was on
his way to Austin to fight the Grin-
nan bill and the McFall resolution.
March 14. 1901—The Driskill ho-
tel register shows that Bailey arriv-
ed in Austin.
March 13 1901·—Bailey gave out
to the press that he opposed the Mc-
Fall resolution.
March 27 1901—Paulus publish-
ed an open letter to Bailey saying
that it was reported that he had
come back to Austin to defeat his
bill which would render the prop-
erty of an oil trust corporation lia-
ble for penalities after its dissolu-
tion. That letter was never answer-
ed.
Bailey had seen the legislature
and went home. On the next day
March 2S 1901 he wrote to Fierce
the following letter:
"March 28 1901.—Mr. H. C.
Pierce St. Louis Mo.: My Dear
Pierce—Send me New York Ex-
change for $ 17 ">0. Have it made
payable to my order so it will not
be necessary for you to indorse it.
Send it at once. I ought to have had
it several days. Your friend truly
"J. W. BAILEY."
Bailey had been at work lobbying
and did not want the name of Pierce
on a check that brought him money.
April 1 1901—Four days after
that the Grinnan bill passed the sen-
ate and went to the house.
April 2 1 9· 1—On the very next
day April 2. the house committee
reported favorably on the Grinnan
bill—in spite of "Bailey's" opposi-
tion: and. again there is great fear
in the camp of H. Clay Pierce for
the register of the hotel shows that
Bailey returned and spent the next
day in Austin.
April 9 1901—The legislature ad-
journed—for wai t of time it did not
pass the Grinnan-Paulus bill which
died on the calendar and the McFall
resolution also—and thus Pierce
triumphed through the help of our
junior senator. .
Bailey admitted that in March
1901. he received direct from the
head<iuart<n\s of the Standard Oil
company 26 Broadway New York a
fee of $2.500 ijBid to him for his le-
gal opinion tlA they could not do
business in Tees. Any fool in Texas
could have to· them that. They
kn··\ν it—hut Eur legislature was In
session—Pierc» was in danger and
his partner the Standard Oil com-
pany adopte^ their shrewd way of
greasing Mr. Bailey's path.
June 12 1900—But the year be-
fore all this in 1 900 the Waco cases
were pending and Stirbbling the at-
torney for Texas was threatening to
place the Waters-Pierce Oil company
in tlie hands of a receiver and so on
June 5 1900 George Clark had writ-
ten to Johnson the attorney for
Pierce that he t^ad better "have Bai-
ley communicate with Stribbling."
Just seven days after that letter
on June 12 Pierce telegraphed as
follows:
"Lake Nebagemon Wis. June 12
1900-—Andrew G. Finley St. Louis:
If Johnson approves authorize Bail-
ey to loan Stribbling on his note $1-
500. Bailey should quiet all Texas
parties; tell liim I will s«e him soon.
H. CLAY PIERCE."
What! Joe Bailey loan money for
Pierce the millionaire? Why select
Bailey to quiet Stribbling by "loan-
ing" him money?
Jure 12 1900—On the very same
day. June 12. 1900. J. W. Bailey
thus authorized drew his sight draft
on Pierce for just $1.500.
June 10 1900—Bailey then began
to prosper for on June 10 1900
"Merce directed the secretary of his
oil company to send him at Gaines-
ville exchange for $1750 and that
money was charged up by the oil
company to account of "legal expen-
ses in Texas litigation."
And now this senatorial friend of
Pierce caught and exposed makes
a virtue of necessity and has confes-
sed that he brought back to Texas
that "great trading corporation" and
that he. being an honest man can
represent public service corporations
while a senator though other peo-
ple can not.
On August 8 1900 he said in a
Waco convention: "Do we as demo-
crats of Texas believe that we have
fallen so low as to elect a senator
who sells his services to corpora-
tions? I do not believe that time will
ever come." At that very time he had
$•..850 of the money of the Waters-
Pierce Oil company in his pocket.
But why pursue further in detail
the trail of our Joseph with the
mantle of many colors? Every single
fact stated by me has been establish-
ed by testimony as true. Bailey was
confronted with the notes letters
and telegrams and could not deny
them. Why dwell on his borrowing
$28000 from John W. Gates with-
out interest and his subsequent
change of heart when he ceased his
opposition and supported the Port
Arthur bill so dear to Gates? The
sworn statements by witnesses have
established that his fees for services
and money borrowed from public
service corporations amounts to
nearly half a million of money and
yet during all that time no man has
ever stated that Mr. Bailey rendered
any legitimate service as a lawyer in
the court house.
The American senator should I
think be as careful of his reputation
as a Christian minister. Let us sup-
pose that a Christian professor in
your great university here had been
led by a bad student into a house In
St. Louis of 111 repute he being ig-
norant of its character. The good
man would be believed if he
denounced the man who deceived
him and compelled him to explain
It. But now suppose that minister
had been found soon after in com-
pany with that same young man in
just such an evil house in Memphis
ind in New Orleans and never even
called on the young man to vindi-
cate him against suspicion; how long
would that professor be tolerated in
Four university?
Bailey's Devotion to Pierce.
If Mr. Bailey had come out and
ienounced Pierce for deceiving him
η charging off Bailey's loans to
'profit and loss" and entering them
:>n his oil books as money spent "on
iccount of legal expenses" and all
hat we might possibly have still
rusted him—but this "president of
he race horse club of America" this
iockey of the quarter-stretch detec-
:ed in his secret transactions with
Pierce clings to him still with the
enacity of devotion. The scorching
'lame of public censure can not sev-
îr the tie that binds Bailey to his
'Dear Pierce" and Pierce recipro-
cates the devotion for his attorney.
Johnson testified that Pierce would
?ome to Austin and testify "if Bailey
wanted him." And that too when
Pierce was dodging arrest under a
iharge of false swearing.
How Corporations Get Influence.
When a corporation chief wants to
secure the influence of a public offi-
ciai by using money he surely will
30t take the man out before witnes-
ses and after stuffing money in his
Dockets say "There now I've brib-
ed you." No. no loans and presents
ire less dangerous. The Arabs say
Give a man a horse and you will
>wn him." The bible says "the bor-
rower is the servant to the lender."
4nd all people in all ages recognized
his truth until the advent of Mr.
Bailey.
Bailey's Malice and Kgotism.
At Austin in 1907 Mr. Bailey de-
nounced all the gentlemen of the
last legislature who refused to white-
wash him as scoundrels liars hyen-
is and rogues; that he intended to
tiave a rogue's gallery in which their
pictures should be hung and that
be would drown them in the gulf.
Re declared that he wished for the
renom of a snake that he might
make it hiss in his words and said
hat he would teach his children to
hate your legislators.
Bailey's Fort Worth Ovation.
His ovation at Fort Worth was a
spectacular affair carefully prepared
(o catch the men who never think
nud who forget that the "interests"
have money and know how to char-
ter sleeping cars with bands of mu-
sic and to cook a mock enthusiasm.
A chief of police accompanied by de-
tectives and armed policemen escor-
ted him from the railroad depot at
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With muscular voice sanctimonious
visage and imposing gesture he
greeted his obsequious followers and
accepted their adoration. Is this the
way to instruct the human mind in
truth? Sometimes lie exhibits the fe-
rocity of the race track bully and
then with rubber shoes he touches
the soft pedal as he lays his fat hand
over the breast where a heart should
beat and with bowed head he ex-
claims "I have done no wrong." His
own friends disgusted with his
gross vulgarity compelled him to
comparative decency at Fort Worth
but a few days after that he broke
loose again at Gainesville for he
called on his friends to make it im-
possible for his opponents to live in
that town. He improved on his for-
mer wish to drive them in the gulf
and said that he wanted them burn-
ed in a fire twice as hot as the one
that consumed a house there.
And thus it is that this boaster
struts from town to town escorted
by the sheltered tribe of corporate
agents textbook lobbyists and ser-
vile worshipers to insult our people.
What Texas Can Not Afford to T>o.
Texas can not afford to send a del-
egate to Denver who while a senator
has grown rich by devious practices
which he concealed from us for six
years.
Texas can not afford to send to
Denver as a delegate a man whose
crooked trail has been oiled by pred-
atory wealth.
Texas can not afford to send to
Denver as a delegate a man who op-
posed Senator Culberson our leader
in the senate on the canal bill the
rate bill and on every measure of
great importance.
Texas can not afford to send to
Denver a delegate whose name is
among many good democrats the
synovm of duplicty whose honesty
is questioned and whose character
had to be whitewashed whenever he
was elected.
The democracy of this country has
no use for a millionaire senator
when they make a national plat-
form. A millionaire requires all his
time to attend to so large a fortune
and has not time even if he had
the inclination to look after the in-
terests of common people.
We can not afford to send as dele-
gate to Denver one who admits that
he was the employed agent of au
oil trust magnate even if he is hon-
est.
Texas can not afford to send to
Denver a senator who is continually
leaving his place in the senate to
canvass among his own people in or-
der to prove that he Is honest a^d
has not been bribed.
Let us rebuke the boss rule which
now threatens Texas and let no man
delude himself and stay away from
the polls for the sluice gates of cor-
porate wealth will be wide open and
its slush fund will be everywhere to
corrupt and if necessary to doctor
your ballot boxes.
Φ Put none but unbought democrats
on guard. Send true men to the
helm; then the old democratic ship
with her white sails shining in the
sunlight and her streamers floating
to the breeze bearing as their mot-
to "Equal rights to all men"
though buffeted by the storm of
treachery will sail triumphant into
port amid the cheers and blessings
of an unbought democracy.
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