The Fort Worth Record and Register (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 178, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 11, 1908 Page: 6 of 12
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Waitin’ for the wagon
When the road is fine for walkin’!
He aits up thar an' scatters
rhe music fur an' free;
The notes that he don’t keer fer
Would be bankin' notes to me!
On this 102d day the sun is in benelc as-
pect with the 10-day-old moon.
Those who have favors to five, particu-
larly if they are superiors, will be well in-
fluenced toward yielding to requests in thia
period.
But here I am, with Fortune .
A-treatin’ of me wrong.
While still he singe-- unconscious
That there's money in h9 songi
Thank, you. Mister April,
For one sunny day—
For a breath of blossoms
All too sweet to stay.
And thank you. Mister April,
For the promise of the May!
"If the country is in clover
An' green on all the boughs,
it's good to walk it over,
But—leave some for the cows!"
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Thank you. Mister April,
For the ripple of your rills—
The mockingbird whose music
Through the woodland silence thrilli
For the green fields and the meadows.
And the glory of the hills!
(Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.)
A Song of Thanks.
I one of the delegates if the vote for
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Saturday, April 11, !•<>•.
The powers In kindly ways will lead
The man who hath a cause to plead.
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Italian Woman’s Congress.
The/first women’s congress ever'held in
Italy will take place in Rome next month.
Education, home industries and works of
beneficence are to occupy the attention of
this meeting. An inquisitive English visitor
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Thank you, Mister April,
For the wind that waves the pines—
The hummin’ bees, a-browsin’ «
In the mornin glory vines,
An’ the dew that like a diamond
On the meadow daisy shines.
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magistrtes or other persons
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businese, particularly before
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large the indorsement of hie private trans- ! easy to raise • 390 steer as a $23 one, be-
a good reason why on the same day a very
low point and the very highest point in
cattle selling should be reached.
There is a demand for good steers—so
strong a demand that in order to fill it
packers are willing to pay abnormal prices.
The producer of beef steers who receives
these premium prices for his beeves is mak-
ing money faster than the man who pro-'
duces inferic r steers and sella, them at in-
different prices. "
It would be unfair to say that it is as
The Practical One.
That mockin'bird ain’t conscious
Of what to him belongs;
Ef I could ketch him I could git
Big money fer his songs!
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•f the management_________ .
By agreement between the city commis-
al on and the City Federation of Women’s
dubs. Saturday. April 26, has been desig-
nated as “clean up" day for the city of
Fort Worth. The city’s first general clean
tA.Trs GA—ifiSl Hotel Mew* stana.
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Want Plenty to Drink.
W. B. Ward, one of the largest property
owners of Jefferson, offered a reward of
$2,500 if prohibition carried In that county.
The ladles of the W. C. T. U. entered the
fight and wan it, and Mr. Ward will make
good his offer. The ladies are going to put
down an artesian well in Jefferson and es-
tablish public watering places, so that
neither man or beast need go thirsty.—Mar-
shall Messenger
Good Man Gone.
All Texas morns the death of Colonel
E. W. Taylor at Fort Worth last Friday
[ night. He was one of the most prominent
of the gallant Confederate Veterans and
prominent in their councils. -Clarksville
Times.
"Nothing political," was the discreet re-
ply, "is included in the programme. If
there is any allusion to the electoral en-
franchisement of women it will be in the
byways of speeches unforeseen by the sev-
eral committees."
All reports are to be confined to 200
words, so “byways" will inevitably be few
and hrief. The sister of the newly elected
mayor of Rome is taking an active part, and
the charities are under the presidency of an
American woman who is married to aa
Italian.
gratifying to recount that never in’its his-
tory has Fort Worth had such well kept
highways and byways, back yards and va-
cant lots as has been the rule the past twelve
months. Generally speaking, every day has
been a c2.1 up day, but there is still much
to be accomplished in the good cause.
It is frankly admitted by those interested
in the work that Saturday was elected so
that the children would be able to give their
aid in the work. All over the country. In
the erusade being carried on for better kept,
more sanitary and more beautiful cities
the children are playing a very important
part. and it is an opinion almost unani-
mously held by those giving much time and
effort to an awakening of eivic pride among
Americans that if the work is ever to be
made greatly successfu it must be with
the aid of the children of the country. They
must be impressed with the necessity for
perfect sanitation and cleanliness, and the
bearing thereof on the individual and com-
munity health, and they must be brought
to know that a love of the beautiful and
the dwelling amid wholesome, attractive
surroundings forms a large part in the up-
lift of humanity anS the making of broader,
better lives and greater accomplishment.
WIththis view in mind, in Fort Worth
as in many other cities, it is .proposed to
include instruction along these lines in the
---------------- up day was instituted last year, and it is
Fort Worth •• Sec9“
Go to a Hotel.
Fort Worth made a clean sweep of bar
hospital and turned twenty-five patients out
because they could eat! When you «o to
Fort Worth hospitai you had better leave
any appetite you happen to have on the
outside if you want aceommodations.—•
Weatherford Herald.
cause the one represents but little care
while the other has been coddled and petted
and pampered. But coddling and petting
and pampering paid a dividend of $67 on
each steer.
Then there is breeding to be considered.
Not a week ago a consignment of grass
steers sold at Fort Worth at better than ICO
per head. They were choice. They were
fat. They found a good demand, but it was
not equal to the demand for the prime
steers of yesterday, and the price proves it
*5 SO per hundredweight against $6.75.
If one seeks to make money raising cat-
tle he must produce something better than
Inferior stock, and the better the breeding
and the heavier the feeding the more profit-
able will be the outcome.
Mals st. Pbone adain 5433.
advertisements taken-
Life in Lee County.
Life in Lee county is at high water mark
now. Editor Beazley ways:
“Leesburg people are eating strawberries,
cabbages. beets. lettuce, onions and other
garden truck raised right here, and yet
many places have the snqw on the ground.
It don't take half as hard work to make a
living in Lee as It does up North. Praise
the Lord for* it, as the fish are mighty
tempting on a hot day when the creek runs
cool. Lee is a garden spot of the gods, but
a graveyard of the paper man."
public school course. The idea is excel-
lent. but there is no better advice concern-
ing the instruction of the young than the
famous saying of the crab of the fable,
which, when reproved by the father for
"always walking in a sidling manner," re-
sponded. "My father, the young learn more
readily by example than precept." If the
children are ever to be taught the great
benefits to be had from a clean city they
must have the example of their elders to aid
the lesson.
To talk of beautifying a city until after
it has come to a point of being faultlessly
kept is a little like painting a dusty cheek,
but when the clean up idea has become well
established, there are many things which
the city commission and the federation may
do for the making of the city beautiful,
and in many of which the aid of the chil-
dren may be called in. much to the good
of the work and the individual welfare
of the child.
“I do not believe in fine churches." is an
i expression one hears frequently. Too few
1 of us believe in them, and our creed is
easily read of all men. Most of us believe
in fine residences, fuxurlous furnishings
and homes supplied with every comfort and
convenience; we believe in fine stores and
public buildings, and are constant in our
efforts to beautify and make them more
splendid. We believe in fine clothes and
self-indulgence. We believe in maintaining
our social standing, and that calls for more
er less expense, generally more. Most of
us want the dollar for ourselves and think
I the penny quite good enough for the Lord.
. it is quite possible ♦ that some of our
churches would not be even comfortable if
the builders did hot expect to sit in them.
The plea is made that the poor are not dis-
posed to frequent fine churches, as they,do
not feel at home; but, bless your heart, poor
people are not afraid of fine architecture—
they see that every day—they are embar-
rassed by fine clothes and stiff necks. Our
churches should stand in need of no apology
should the Lord Himself choose to visit us
in person. They should represent the high-
est intelligence of every community and
they should bear more efficient testimony
r the. love we profess.—Timpson Times.
If the Lpr IIImseif should choose to visit’
some churches He would have to look in the
city directory to find the location.
Don’t whip your boy. The world will
punish him severely enough, heaven knows,
and he will-heve need of all the self-respect
and confidence in his own manhood that
you can train into him.— Uvalde Press. No,
don’t whip your own boy, and don’t whip
any boy, even if he ia not your own. There
is a better way of guiding the wayward
young feet over the rugged paths of life than
by whipping them into submission. Whip-
ping is a relic of barbarism. If you must
fight, go out and. attack someone your own
else and weight, not a little, helpless child
who is unable to defend itself.—Venus
Times
2an» or.
Now that the Bailey issue will be thrashed
out in the primaries, have we any assurance
in case Bailey wins out, that the oppool-
tion will abide the results? They have not
not done it so far. When the legislature
by a two-thirds majority declared Bailey
Innocent of the charges preferred the op-
position kept right on bellyaching instead
of abiding the results like good Democrats.
— Sterlins City NewRecord.
Senator Bailey is one of the brightest,
ablest, brainiest men in the Democratic
party of the state as well as of the nation.
, Only a year ago he was elected by a Demo-
cratic legislature to serve the state in .the
United States senate for a term of six years.
His every act was known then as now.
True, charges were preferred against him,
but after formal and thorough investigation
he was exonerated, vindicated and elected.
The party’s seal of approval and Indorse-
ment was stamped upon him. No power
within the state can unseat him before the
expiration of-the term for which he was
elected—five years hence. What, then, is
to be gained, what can be gained, by this
way upon him further titan possibly to im-
pair his usefulness and Influence to the
manifest discredit and injury of the state.
In their mad desire to hurl Bailey to po-
litical death and aamnation, his enemies, by
their action, declare their willingness to
injure or destroy their state. Of course,
the fight is of no political or even partisan
concern to the republic, but none the less
does it deprecate it, for, however the end
be, the state must be the loser. Had the
senator's enemies nursed their wrath and
venom until he again came before the peo-
ple asking for further confidence and sup-
port, they might have opposed and made war
upon him, but to now seek to destrcy him or
impair his usefulness as one of Texas’ rep-
resentatives in the United States senate; is
unwise. Impolitic, indefensible, even crimi-
nal. The Republic is neither champion or
apologist for Senator Bailey, but it earnestly
hopes and sincerely believes that an over-
whelming majority of the people of Texas
will sustain him and repudiate and un-
horse the political malcontents who. through
envy or hate, have attempted to bring him
into disrepute.—Texas Republic.
And the speech of Senator Bailey! Truly
the gods could not have created an occa-
sion more propitious. The immense audi-
ence who heard him was swayed by his elo-
quence as he expounded the logic of De-
mocracy as the magician sways the things
within the realms of magic. A telling point,
a beautiful oration period, a tumultuous
applause, and Senator Balley would raise
his good right hand on high and still the
applause, silence would reign over the con-
vention hall, and listening earn would be-
come all the more intense to catch the every
word that fell fro mhis lips. The speech
itself was certainly the most fitting, if not
the most eloquent, that Senator Bailey has
ever, delivered to a Texas audience. Not
once did he stoop to that level of returning
anathema for anathema, of answering ridi-
cult with ridicule, or of descending to the
costermonger habits of those who have tra-
duced him. From the time he opened his
address until he closed it, an hour and forty
- minutes thereafter, he marshaled logic, ar-
rayed argument and eloquently wove a "mesh
of Irrefragable truth. Each part fitted the
other parts In perfect harmony and in per-
fect unity, the whole presenting a word
picture of clarified lucidity and of impreg-
nable strength. He resorted to non of
the artifices of a stump speaker to catch
applause. He spoke mpre as a lawyer
would address a court, or, shall we say. a
senator would address the most august
body of the world, and the sheer and im-
pelling force of his argument, and the sheer
and impelling force of his reason met with
such responsive shouts of approval that the
steel rafters of the immense dome of the
Coliseum fairly shook. Senator Bailey in
the closing sentence of his masterly address
expressed his appreciation in words which-
rang with truth, and with a feeling which
ran deep, for the signal honor which those
present had paid him and were paying him.
There came over the vast assemblage a
feeling of love for the party which abso-
lutely defies word description or mental
analysis.—Hamilton Herald.
actions. which they condemn. By their own
logic, then, their support of Mr Davidson is
their indorsement of his private conduct.
Hence, they must repudiate Davidson or
stand committed to the vile and revolting
practices permitted upon property which
he controls.
The onr respectable thing for the oppo-
sition to do is to withdraw Davidson from
this contest—and really that is the best way
out of the shameful incident. The Waco
convention which nominated candidates for
delegates at large indorsed Mr. Davidson.
He and his cause and all that he represents
are part of their cause and what they rep-
resent. The News makes pretense to high
standards of morality and patriotism. and
yet it has no word of condemnation of Dah
vidson’s practices. The Record does not
hesitate to say that if Senator Bailey were
guilty of the same practice it would repu-
diate him and oppose him with all its might,
and the News, as a respectable journal, owes
to itself the duty of reproaching Mr. David-
son by instantly withdrawing its support of
him as a candidate for a third term.
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Some of the men who are opposed to me
say that while there I* nothing wrong in
what I hat* done. I did wrong In conceal-
ing it from the people. I win freely grant
that, irrespective of the moral quality of my
conduct. If I concealed it, or attempted to
conceal it, from the people I would be Just-
ly subject to their censute. But that eriti-
clam la baaed upon a statement which la
exactly contrary to the fact, and I ean make
that ao plain that every fair-minded man
must regret that he haa ever been milled
Into making such a charge. Let me briefly
review the history of this contest. Eighteen
months ago I stated all of what I ant about
to say: but many of the people did not read
it and many who road it then have now
forgotten it. This war against me was in-
auzurazd the latter part of September.
1*0*. Md It was based upon what they
in s6int debate at Houston with M. M Crane,
I not only affirmed the propriety of my
employment In that Tennessee ease, but I
went further and I declared that it was not
my only transaction with Fierce. A refer-
ence to the newspaper reports of that de-
bate will show that I said that I had had
"many transactions with Pierce and for
him.” • ' •
Their whole complaint against me at that
time was based upon the single transaction
with reference to the Tennessee properties,
and I might well have rested when I an-
swered that, but I went further and fur-
nished them information of other transac-
tions. The statement which I made was
stronger against me than the facts, for I
said that I had had “many transactions
with Pierce and for him," whereas, in fact,
I had had only several, and many means
more than several. Thus, if It were a sub-
ject for a just attack upon me I gave these
men the benefit of more than they have
proved or could have proved.—Senator Bai-
ley at Lufkin.
God bless the dear girls. They want
pretty dresses and hats and all sorts of ex-
pensive things for Easter, but when we see
them arrayed In their beautiful garments,
eyes sparkling, cheeks aglow, vivacious,
happy and dimpling, we forgive them their
extravagance, and if we had more money
we would be willing to buy them more
"Merry Widow" hats and more flounces
and ruffles. There is nothing as bewitch-
ing as a young girl in her new spring
clothes. She is as pleasing to the eyes as
the trees and flowers when after ther long
winter sleep they don their spring attire
if green and red and yellow and royal
purple.—Cleburne Enterprise.
That's true, every word of it. Let the
girls nave all the finery you can afford to
buy for them. Some persons may consider
such expenditures foolish, but they are not
as foolish as a lot of the ones in which men
indulge while criticising feminine extrava-
gance.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN STEERS.
The sensational price of **.76 per hun-
dredweight paid for prime beeves on the
Fort Worth market yesterday is worth con-
sidering by the feeders of livestock who
ship to this market. At the same time these
cornfed bullocks were being weighed up at
the highest price ever paid for open market
cattle at this point, graasfed steers of the best
quality were being bargained for at $4.80,
with indifferent quallity steer* as low as
$2.25. The approximate difference per
head between the Indifferent and the prime
steers was $67: that is to say the best on
the market sold at close to 190 per head,
the others around $23.
flow, this difference represents the meas-
ure of profit that comes from properly fit-
ting cattle for the market, and It may come
to one man as well as another iq he will
put Into his efforts a like modicunf of skill
and brains Too many cattle raisers in
Texas are prone to find fault with mar-
ket conditions when they are to blame for
them If average cattle, prices are low, as
they are, comparatively, at the present time.
It is generally due to the fact that the
quality of the beeves brought on the mar-
ket is not such as to fit in with the demand.
No one should expert to receive a good
price for an undesirable lot of cattle. When
such stock sella above the market figure it
is because of a scarcity of good beeves
This week's steer market is closing from
1# to 25 cents lower than the average of the
i week's prices, and at the low potntof the
week appears this sale of steers at St 75,
the highest price outside of show cattle
ever pajd at Fort Worth. And yet there is
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If a lifetime of probity is not to serve a
man when he is accused upon suspicion,
what are one’s moral assets worth? Can a
self-confessed perjurer and blackmailer be
given credence against the evidence of a
United States senator, an ex-governor and
reputable business man? Those who assert
that Bailey did not repay the money bor-
rowed of Pierce ask the public to take the
word of a blackmailing bookkeeper and con-
fessed perjurer against the sworn statements
of ex-Governor David R. Francis and Sena-
tor Bailey. Remember, also, that Mr. Bailey
was not brought, under supicion by any act
of his, personally or officially, but was
charged with accepting a bribe when he had
done nothing to cast suspicion upon his of-
ficial conduct. In other words he had not
delivered the goods he is charged with sell-
ing for borrowed money from the president
of the eil company. Until something haa
been stolen, charge no man with stealing—-
Abilene Reporter.
And whither Ungers the "Chapparal Cocke”
amid all this storm of war and words?
While Culfen Thomas, Center, Cyclone
Davis, Riddle and other saintly Pharisees
scour the streams and burn the brush the
melancholy chanticleer either pine© in soli-
tude or sulks amid the environs of his own
immediate dunghill, unheralded, unknown
and unnoticed Alaa* how ftekle and even-
escent is fame even of one’s own creation!—
Texas Republic. S-s-h, major! Do not dis-
turb the ’tumultuous thoughts of the noisy
Cocke. He is still writing that same book—
history of the Bailey trial—that is to set
the San Antonio river on fire.—El Paso
Times.
The woman whose birthdate this is may
expect to receive favorable news in June op
July. It will come from a nearby place.
The man with this birthdate must be prww
pared for annoyances in business which
will need to be met with an equable tem-
per promotion will come to those in em-
ployment.
The girl born today will probably spend
her life far away from home. She win
marry young.
The boy born this day will be very for-
tunate in the employ of others. He will
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Summer Garments for the Baby.
It is a wise mother who is planning and
getting ready to make summer garments
for her children in these last days of
spring, so that she may devote her entire
time to the wee orfes during the hot and try-
ing days of summer.
The prettiest material for long dresses is
handkerchief linen, which costs about 15
cents a yard. A long dress should measure
one yard from the/hem to the neck. Long
white petticoats are made on waists of long
cloth. These waists are cut in one piece,
which necessitates shoulder seams only.
Finish the neck and arms with a one-
eighth of an inch hem, which may be either
feather or catch stitched. The flannel petti-
coat is made in the same way. The bottoms
of the flannel petticoat may be scalloped
and buttonholed or embroidered more
elaborately or else merely feather stitched.
The simpler thes tiny garments are the
more comfortable they are for the child,
but they should be daintily sewed byapd
with small and even stitches
On the hem of a dress mark a simple
Roman border design and then feather
stitch the outline. This makes effective
trimming for dainty summer dresses. Tucks
and feather stitching combined with dainty
French knots are exquisite.
Alternate rows of insertion with waved .
rows of feather stitching on a ruffle for a
long dress are a little more elaborate.
The first shert dresses should be about
twenty-one inches long. Pretty caps for
summer are made of mull and lawn, and no
end of hand work and lace may be lavished
on the airy little bonnets. None are prettier
than those made of rows of hand sewed
tucks alternated with French knots and
trimmed with ruches of lace and dainty rib-
bon bows.
Too Much “Jake."
A Mississippi editor says there is "too
much 'Jake' for Joseph” in that state.
"We are facing here the sale of a villain-
ous compound known as ’Jake,’ composed
of one part alcohol, one part extract of
ginger and two parts hell. It does not
create a whisky diseased habit, but follows
as the natural consequences of first creat-
ing a whisky thirst. It differs from cocaine
in that it more frequently kills the user of
it. Cocaine is as liable to kill a man who
knows nothing of its effect.”
Commenting on the above, the Adams
(Ga.) Enterprise says:
"Somebody shipped a gallon of that same
'Jake* our way. ‛ The day the office force
sampled it a man called to whip the ed-
itor. The foreman threw him out the win-
dow, and he fell on the back of a Mind
mule, but, though blind, the animal ‘felt'
for him, and ‘settled' him by kicking him
to the roof of the town hall. The mayor
was holding court at the time, and when
the man came down his honor promptly
fined him 150 for contempt of court."
In Louisville the chiidren of the city are
making bright spots in every available place
by their little flower gardens, the city hav-
ing given the seeds practically without coat
to the children, and the work has been su-
perintended by the school board and com-
mercial club, and under the same direction -
many plants and shrubs have been set out.
In San Antonio the children gardeners have ,
done much toward beautifying unsightly
places and have made the Alamo city more
than ever a city of flowers. In Indianapolis
not only flower gardens but kitchen gardens
have made unused property attractive, the
children doing the work, and in Denver en-
ergy has been expended in the direction of 1
planting more shade trees. The plan was
first tried in 1906, when 10.000 shade trees
were given away by the city. Last year ’
20,000 were distributed and a like number
will be given away this year. Record has
been kept of every tree, and more than 80
per cent of them have had good care and 1
have grown and flourished. In Portland.
Oregon, for several years the municipality
has made free distribution of rose bushes
until now all summer long millions of roses
blossom by the humblest cat and the most -
princely dwelling. In-San Francisco, when
it was known that the naval expedition
would visit the port, what was possible was
done in clearing the city of the terrible
debris which the fire had left, and in addi-
tion millions of flower seeds were scat-
tered broadcast over the bare sand hills
and unsightly piles of rubbish so that’in-
stead of the scars of a great fire the visit-
ors will see a city which has mantled its
ruin in a garment of bloom. *
These serve but as suggestions. Let us
have a clean city first. In a clean city
disease may be prevented, and is better pre-
vented than cured, and in filth and rubbish
is developed practically every germ disease.
A clean city will attract additional popula-
tion more quickly than any other Induce-
ment we might have to offer, and a clean
city is the only sort of city to live in.
The clean city accomplished, let us have
the beautiful city. Let us have shade trees
wherever they may be made to grow to ad-
vantage. Let us have more park space,
let us have no weeds on unused property
and let us have a bit of brightness and
bloom in a flower garden even if it may
be only ten feet square, and if as indi-
viduals we be so placed that we have not
ever so small a portion of ground, let us
resort to the porch and window box for our
flower culture. Moral purity and mental
strength feed and develop from wholesome,
beautiful surroundings and manners of life.
Local Social Notes. —
Mrs. Stewart Moore is entertaining Miss
Hughes of Dallas.
Mrs. C. L. Ware will go to Dallas this
morning for a visit of several days.
Mrs. Conway Smith of Chicago is ths
guest of her sister, Mrs. C. E. Roberts.
Mrs J. H. Reese of Henderson is visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Connell.
Madam Anna, Chauchon of Dallas wi
spend next week with Mrs. J. Montgomery
Brown.
Mrs. C. C. Dickson of New York is visn-
ing her mother, Mrs. Alvord, on West Hat-
tie street. t
Mrs. W. H. MeKenzle of Enid, OWa., wm
arrive today to visit her mother, Mrs. Pau- >
line Rintleman.
The first of the week Mr. and Mrs. Owen
Matthews will move to their suburban pace
on White Settlement roa near H-Mount.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Connelf have returned
to their home in Big Springs after a visit
here with Mrs. Connell's mother, Mrs. A.
K. Peterson.
The Young Women’s Home club has post-
poned indefinitely the tea which was to
have been given at the home of Mra. W. B.
Paddock this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scofield returned
from their bridal trip Thursday night and
are for a few days guests of Mrs. Scofield’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hovenkamp.
Mrs. Rose Elmore announces the coming
marriage of her daughter, Velma, to Mr,
John B. Erisman, at Christian Tabernacle,
Wednesday evening, April 18, st 8:30
o’clock. »
Mr. Wilim Owen of New York win join
his wife, who is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
J. Montgomery Brown, Sunday, and after
a week’s stay they will go for a visit with
Mrs. Owen’s mother in California.
of the services which Gruet had performed
for him was an an expert accountant In
connectiomhwith certain Tennessee proper-
ties, for which I had been employed as
counsel. Pierce’s testimony was immedi-
ately sent broadcast over the state, grossly
exaggerated and misstated, and at once
these men began to organize against me
and to declare that if they had known of
my employment in that case I could never
have been nominated at the July primary of
thatyear. In answer to all of that I simply
turned to the files of ths Dallas News and
showed that more than a year before the
primary that paper printed, under conspicu-
ous headlines an account of my visit to
Nashville as the attorney in that case, and
stated the names of my clients, including
that of H. C. Pierce, who was particularly
described as ths H C. Bierce ef the Waters
Pierce Oil company. Ithus fully and com-
pletely disposed of the charge that they
knew nothing of my connection with those
Tennessee properties.
In my second epeech, which I delivered
THE FOyH- WORTH RECORDt SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1908. ?
A combination of authority and bad judg-
merit are too frequentily set up aa the war-
rant for whipping No one ever questions
tbe "right" of a parent to whip a child, even
if the real reason for the whipping is due
to parental 111 temper and constitutional
cruelty, although the general opinien con-
cerning such a parent may be changed ma-
terially and none to his credit. Many a boy
has been sent into the werla to taste noth-
ing but its bitter defects because he was
whipped—whipped to a standstill at the very
threshold of, life. He was whipped as a
child for little acts of mischief; he was
whipped as a boy because his exuberance
of spirits carried him beyond the Inflexible
rules concocted by parents devold of con-
sideration — whipped, whipped, whipped.
Many a parent deplores the fact that his son
is a failure in life, but attributes none of
the cause to where it properly belongs—his
own senseless misconception of the respon-
sibilities' which were laid upon him as a
parent. He evencharges God with recom-
mending a course which was invented by
that old bigamist, Solomon, "Spare the rod
and spoil the child."
STANDING FOR DAVIPSONISM.
There are in Texas two or three or-
gans calling themselves Democratic that
are actually publishing a® special dis-
plays scandalous matter about chosen
and faithful officials of the Democratic
party that no Republican newspaper in
Texas would think of using. They have
reached a desperate depth that has not
been sounded before in this country—
not in a contention against the Repub-
lican party, but against a chosen offi-
cial of the Democracy of Texas. Who
pan wonder that such abuse has been
followed by a general popular condem-
nation that now roars like thunder
about the heads- of those who thus in-
sulted the Democracy of Texas? And
the worst of it is that the slanders were
sprung upon this faithful official while
he was in Washington prosecuting the
oil trust.—Dallas News.
We presume the News alludes to the ex-
posure of Attorney General Davidson's part
g ownership and sole control of certain prop-
erty in Galveston notoriously used for many
years for immoral purposes. This particu-
lar phase of the News' concern for Demo-
cratic officeholders is quite as consistent as
Ite denunciation of Judge Brooks for ex-
pressing his friendship for Senator Bailey
and its frantic appeals to other officehold-
ers to express themselves on the same ques-
tion
From the beginning of this campaign
against Senator Bailey it has been one cow
tinuous crusade of defamation, misrepresen-
tat ion and slander, nowhere and at no time
touching his official conduct, which is ab-
solutely above reproach or Democratic criti-
cism, always and everywhere digging into
his private life and distorting his personal
transactions. In all the history of Ameri-
can politics there has never been anything
to equal this campaign of abuse and vili-
fication. and the cry against the crititism
of the Democratic attorney general is a
wail of hypocrisy fr< m the camp of his ene-
mies
So far as The Record is concerned, it re-
fused to publish any allusion to the David-
son scandal until Mr Davidson himself, in
a public statement, virtually confessed the
truth of the charges brought against him by
he Austin Statesman. It is a shameful
thing, to be sure, and it is humiliating not
only to every Democrat but to every citizen
of Texas who has pride of state and citizen-
ship But it is one of those shameful things
that must be known and condemned, and
the proper point of criticism is that Mr.
Davidson’s defenders and apologists are so
steeped in prejudice and political passion
that they have not the courage to condemn
his conduct.
The becoming thing for the anti-Baileyltes
to do is to withdraw their support of this
man whom they have indorsed and repu-
diate him as unworthy of their sympathy.
If they would do’ that they might commend
themselves to the decent citizenship of Texan
in their furthef assaults on Mr. Bailey, but
so long as they defend and uphold Mr. Da-
vidson they must defend and uphold, his
conduct. They are preaching that the in-
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