The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1930 Page: 3 of 4
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^ptJnder the Ferguson Admniistration Orange County received Over a Quarter
of a Million Dollars for new-Road and Bridge Projects. These included the
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Sabine River Bridge and the Port Arthur Trestle. The Fergusons want to build
abridgeon thé Orange-Port Arthur road at Dry den's Ferry. __ "J_
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Under Four Years of Sterling as Highway Commissioner, Orange County
received nothing on new Road and Bridge Projects, and only about $100,000 to
complete the Beaumont road, a Neff administration project. Outside of this
and maintaining old projects Sterling has done nothing and promises nothing.
refused to grant state aid on a free ferryon the Port Arthur road.
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It is strange that all of the remarkable
accomplishments oTthe Houston milloin-
aire, and all of the high crimes of the Fer-
gusons, are each located hundreds of
miles away, where we cannot enjoy the
first or conveniently investigate the
second.
Perhaps the Liberty bridge which has
been under construction y for over three
years is an example of Mr. Sterling's am-
azing organizing ability. Perhaps. _
^ Oráñgé^óümy ib interested in Orange
County as well as Harris county, Let us
see what Mr. Sterling and the Fergusons
has done for us in the past.
When Orange and Port Arthur asked
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Mm for a state-operated ferry across the
s, Sterling replied: "I have plenty
money for bridges, but not a cent for
' like the despotic king of old,
who when the multitude cried out in hun-
ger for bread, replied: "What, hav¡e they
no bread^^SGive them cake." 1 Did they
get the cake? Did we get the bridge.
Beaumont which is against a bridge be-
tween Port Arthur and Orange now sends
slick political amassadors of brotherly
love to tell us to hate the Fergusons and
how to vojte. , The last time Beaumont
grew brotherly with Orange they came
to get Orange's help on a bridge for Beau-
mont. ' . / :
Now Beaumont which has all
bridges it wants tells us we must hate ari<
vote against the Fergusons.
V James E. Ferguson promised in Port
Arthur that his wife would appoint no
highway commissioner who does not first
pledge himself to heed the'plea of Orange
and Port Arthur for a bridge. ; <
' Mr. Sterling promises us a bond issue
of $350,000,000 in the first campaign..
Backs up on it in the second campaign
for a time and now says he is for it. /
Mr. Sterling, we are told, seeks the
governor'8 office for the honor of it. He
was chairman of the finance committee of
the Security Union Ins. Company, which
failed a few days ago, leaving over $600,-
000 unpaid to crippled Texas laborers.
Mr. Sterling grandly wrote a check fOr
$35,000, neglecting in the boasts which
followed to state just How the balance
would be paid. His friends say he didn't
If now What was going on in that insur-
ance company. As chairman of the fin-
ance committee, he should have known,
and if he did not, how will he know what
is going on in Texas if he is elected gover-
nor. ;
He is will to pay millions fof the honor
of being Texas' governor -but only
$35,000 for the honor of his insurance
company which owes Texas wprkingmen
$600,000. / ,
All the while shouting of purity and
honor, they have dragged the corpse of
little Minnie Zapalac from its grave in
the expose of the Langhorne case. Re-
volting details of this case, unfit for
adult consumption, let alone, children,
have keen freely cumulated to prejudice
the minds of those unfamiliar with the
case.
Their charge is that Mrs. Ferguson com-
muted young Langhorne's death sent-
ence to life..¡vThey have told, you only
half the story.
• They neglected to say that Jake Wol-
ters* one of directors of the Sterlng cam-
paign made an.appeal to Mrs. Ferguson
asking the commutation because the y outh
was of unsound mind. They neglected
to tell you that the parents of the dead
girl received.-300 acres from the Lang-
hnrnft^ Jim Ferguson's advice, and they
lead you to believe he received a huge
fee in the casewhenasa matter of fact
They, should not wonder at" Ties which
the newspapers, are printing about the
Fergusons when they learn that these pa-
pers, have paid Ferguson over $25,000
cash for libeling him in the past. They
cannot deny this. The Beaumont Enter-
prise, which is daily printing a column of
praise for the millionaire, was one of
those those who paid off.
Recently they challenged him to turn
them loose so they could lie on him even
more, in an effort to forestall future libel
'suits which they know are doming.
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he has not received one cent or not one
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They forgot to tell you that scores:
of prominent citizens of
County asked the boy's commutation,
just as was done when Dan Moody com-
muted the death sentence of "Fete" Mc-
Kenzie at San Antonio for the cold blood-
ed murder of Detective Street. They
didn't mention Bob Silver, bank robber
and murderer, whose death sentence
Moody also commuted.
They forgot to tell you that Mrs. Fer-
guson in the first primary of this contest
lead Sterling by 127 votes in Wash-
ington County where wthe Langhornes
live and by 512 votes in Fayette County
wher the girl's- family lived. Those
people know the facts in the case and they
have endorsed the action taken by Mrs.
Ferguson. •. —■
erguson spent $265,000 in improving
County—Sterling Spent .$100,-
000. Neff and Ferguson spent about a
year building a bridge over the Neches
at' Beaumont. Sterling has spent three
and a half yeárs laying the foundations
of a bridge across the Trinity at Liberty,
v The Fergusons want to pass an old age
pension law . They want to pledge peace
officers to sobriety; they want to keep
Texas money in Texas; they want to pro-
tect homes against inhuman foreclosures;
they want to make the highways safe for
travel. —— ■
\ What does Sterling want to do
a $350,000,000 bond/issue and he is not
sure about that.
They sneer at.Jim Ferguson and his
friends because he has been a friend of
the cómmon people. Let them sneer. A
few more months of "Hoover and Moody
and Sterling prosperity" and everybody
will be common people.
Sterling, this millionaire candidate,
whose followers* are rediculing the com-
mon people, held all his state and section-
al rallies in the roof gardens and ball
rooms of palatial hotels—--at Beaumont,
at Dallas, at Houston ... thus barring the
average citizen. " Yet he claims'to be the
sweetheart of labor.
j Many good people wonder why the
newspapers have conspired with Ross
Sterling to change the name of T-E-X-
A-S to T-A-X-E-S. They are surpris-
ed that Texas newspapers publish noth-
ing but Sterling, news, despite the fuel
that Mrs. Ferguson led Sterling
votes in,the primary.
Sterling said he would let them print any>
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thing Jim said, when he and everybody
else already knew they were not going
if 0I,ly Jim
would let them he on him, 1 l
Failing in this the;y have had p*Hi!6é$Js
several hundred thousand booklets con-
taining the lies Mrhich the papers are afraid
to print and have circulated them over
Texas at a total cost not less than $20,-
ooo. . ■ - . •
Sterling supporters may offer you one
of these booklets.. Ask them why the
Beaumont Enterprise does not print all
of the mis-information in contains.
Mr. Sterling pretends to a passionate
love for Union Labor. He says this af-
fection is a lifelong affair* but his home
town paper. The Daily Democrat, back
where they know him well in old Goose
Creek, declared last week that his is a
new-born romance with the lowly labor-
er. Read:
"It is difficult to believe the Mr. Sterl-
ing actually is in sympathy with labor.
His record as an employer of oil field
workers does not show that he was in
sympathy with labor. He showed no
sympathy for those who joined in an at-
tempt to get better working hours and
higher rate of pay. He did not recognize
the bargaining right of organized labor in
that time of almost starvation pay for oil
field workers." ,
Mr. Sterling's home town paper also
notes in the same issue that Mr. Sterling's
110,000,000 worth of skyscrapers which
he says were built with union labor were
built in a town where there was no other
kind of labor—where all skyscrapérs and
everything^else was built by union labor,
so he cannot t>e. decorated, for that. The
Demorcratalso recalls how Sterling when
he owned the light" plant there charged
20c a kilowatt for Ugl
Ferguson passed the simi*<iionthlypay
day law for railroads and East Tex. saw
mill employees and raised the wages of
the state railroad to the union standat
v Ferguson revived and rewrote the
Workman's Industrial Compensation Law
and no insurance company failed dur-
ing his administration owing the laboring
men of Texas over $600,000. AlKclaims
Vere paid promptly and justly.
Ferguson first asked for a square deal
•«rmer.
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A VOTE FOR ORANGE. '
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more country schools than all the other
governor^ have built together. He
the gasoline tax to three cents and gave
one fourth to public schools. , , \ $;A
He wrote and signed the rirst rural
school bill in Texas. He brought the
compulsory education law to Texas* •
Ferguson built more public buildings,
in addition to school husese, than all tilt
rest of Texas governors put together and
the recórds now show it.
Fegiison has housed the insane, blind,
leebTe mindedrtubercUlarg, and orphans*
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He wants to double the capacity of
tubercular hospitaiat Carlsband and will
when elected.
Ferguson has, built puWie hospitals,
i>ew land office, and highway^uildings, a
score of buildings for teacherKcolleges
for Tefch. an«| Aw& M. Where are the
buildings that Sterling and Moody! built*
' Jim Ferguson4id thesethiMs——-y®*
tell you he stole all the money. They have built
nothing, done nothing, promise nothing <yet they
talk-about honesty in government.
The effort of Dan Moody and Sterling to form
a political dynasty in which the crown shall be
handed down from one to ¿¡he other without break
has no parallell in Texas or the nation. Dan.
Mooay is not only out stumping the state, to nam*
his royal successor, but he is likewise attempting
to name the next attorney general. ■■ <
His bitter, uncalled for, unsportsmanlike fight
on Jiinmie AHred who has been, content to run his
own race for attorney general and had the wisdom
and courage to let the people select their own gov-
ernor, has gone un-repudiated by Sterling. This
in itself sufficiently shows they intend to merge aU
political power into one organisation, which they
will own. ■ — ' \
If you will analyze the Sterling campaign fair-
ly,'you will find that is based on a "doctrine" oí
hate and the $350,000,000 bond issue. In all the
weeks of this campaign they have not told you of '
one specific thing that Mr. Sterling has done of
importance as highway commissioner or one tl'
that he guarantees toi do if governor. They
you he is fine, big, wondrful and great, but adjec-|
tives do not make a governor. The only thing he|
•ever has set but to do in this 'campaign, he is m
uncertain of doing. / ,
' They are sayipg that Texas will be disgraced.]
if Mr. Sterling is not elected. Two oil millionaires!
were defeated in Oklahomá and it will hurt no on*
but a few millionaires and a féw Wall street bond]
brokers if our own Mr. Sterling who sold out to the
Standard Oil company, is defeated in Texas. !
Texas does not need any foreign corpojrationJ
country or state to tell it how to vote. Texas does'
not need any more "yankee prosperity" whethei
ft be called Hoover or Sterling. If the price ofI
fame in the eyes of Wall street is' Sterling and a
$350,000,000 bond issue, let us then be disgraced as
quickly and as thoroughly as possible. ^ ,
a In submitting the records of Sterling and Fer-
guson it is not the intention to bring shame to Mr J
Sterling's friends. The idea is that the great pub-
lic may know, even as personal friends know, that
he is not quite a Millionaire Archangel.
Every voter should consider that a campaign]
which stoops to spending of thousands of dollars!
on libelous and unsigned material when, it has 98
per cent of the newspapers on its side, must be)
lundamentally* weak.
Every Orange C9unty voter should considei
seriously the re$>rds of tnese two men in relation]
to Orange County.
No single vote should be cast against Jim Fer-;
.guson in Orange County, which he üas stood by in
umes of his greatest power and our greatest need,
on the basis of any ciaim or charge, the full truth
of jvhich you are not personally able to swear to.
Do not let last minute statements or half-truthsl
sway yoi
We do know that he has given us in the past a!
bridge across the Sabine here and made possible
the tfort Arthur road. We do know that he has
' promised to recognize, our needs for a bridge on
this route. We,do kaowUiis proinse is good,! be-
cause he delivered on hs previous promise. '
We do know that Sterling has declined to even
operate a ferpy service where the Fergusons wsnt
to build a brieve.
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The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1930, newspaper, August 21, 1930; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142760/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.