The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 30, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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Dallas Texas, September 30, 1911
Volume 13, Number 14
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THE HOME AND STATE
AN ILLUSTRATED FAMILY WEEKLY
ESTABLISHED 1903
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exposed the weakness of the Post’s pet
institution, and now the Post is lament-
ing because the pros continue to stand by
their principles.
All we have to say is that in the elec-
tion of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor
and a Legislature, we want the pros to
stand firm by prohibition candidates. But
as to the other offices, our position is that
all things being equal, give the pro can-
didates your support, but otherwise make
your own choice.. But pros do not need
advice from any source. They know their
duty and they will stand by it regardless
of the whining of the Post or advice from
any quarter, for that matter. So let the
Post possess its soul in patience.' Just as
long as the saloon is in politics, prohibi-
tion will be there to look after it.' And
as long as the saloon has a place in Texas
it will keep its offensive nose,-in politics.
The Post knows this, but it fils ‘to make
note of it in its doleful wails about pro-
to the core and he will state himself une-
quivocally and with great directness
when he gives out his platform of prin-
ciples. He believes in constitutional pro-
hibition, and in the meantime he believes
in such drastic and repressve measures
as will bring the liquor question into sub-
jection to public sentiment until it can
be fully disposed of by a vote of all the
people.
But, we want a Governor who is not
only sound on this paramount question;
we want one sound on all other questions
touching the weal of the people. We are
not contending for a one-ideaed Govern-
or. We want him to be broad and com-
prehensive. Texas is making rapid strides
in her commercial and industrial devel-
opment. Our election laws need import-
ant amendment; our judicial system
needs a general overhauling; public en-
terprise needs general encouragement;
and the entire political control of the
State needs to be taken out of the hands
of petty politicians and put upon high
moral plane. We, therefore, want a Gov-
ernor capable of constructive statesman-
ship; and thousands of men who are con-
servative antis who have no patience with
the sort of administration given to us by
Governor Colquitt will gladly follow the
lead of such a man. Judge Ramsey has
the qualifications, and we hope to see all
prohibition democrats who believe in a
clean government and a broad and pro-
gressive administration of State affairs
fall into line and give Judge Ramsey
their united support. We believe they
will do it. And in that certain event, vic-
tory will come to us next July beyond all
shadow of doubt. The outlook is inspir-
ing.
THE HOM.
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tin Tribune and give to it our
hearty endorsement. Even an
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HILE Texas has made marvelous
improvement in the law-abiding
character of its people, neverthe-
less we are made to- blush with
Entered at Dallas, Texas, Postoffice as second class mat-
ter, under act of Congress, March 3rd, 1879.
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THE HOME AND STATE CO. DALLAS, TEXAS
shame when we contemplate the reckless
disregard of life among certain classes of
our people. Last year there were fifty-
four homicides of all grades in Dallas
County alone. This was more than one
for every week in the year. Not half a
dozen of those who wrought this havoc
in human blood have been punished for
their crimes. They are walking the
streets and the public highways of the
community unwhipped of justice. Their
victims are sleeping in crimson graves,
and those who sent them to their bloody
leer seem to have no concern. Even the
few who were tried and convicted have
either had their cases reversed by the
higher court, or expect such favc- when
action is yet had in their cases. Thi
state of things is a burning shame and
an inexpressible disgrace to Dallas County
and to the State of Texas. As a result,
we have already registered forty-two
homicides this year and we have three
more months in which to push the record
beyond that of last year. That we will
do it, no man reasonably doubts. Why
are we thus confronted with this disre-
gard of human life? There are several
reasons. (1) Carrying deadly weapons
is one of the sins of the age. The law on
that subject is inadequate and what law
we have is not enforced. Were you to
search nearly every tough and thug, both
black and white, traveling our streets and
roads, you would find him carrying a
deadly gun loaded to the muzzle. He is
ready to shoot or cut and kill on the
slightest provocation. (2) Our juries have
lax ideas of this enormous crime. They
often deal leniently with these killers.
They have become accustomed to this
crime and it no longer horrifies them.
Blood is so common that the average jury
has no trouble in finding an excuse to
clear these bloody scoundrels. (3) We
have a certain class of criminal lawyers
who have reduced the art of clearing
murderers to a science. They know the
sort of men to put on juries. They have
studied the population of the county
thoroughly, and they know how to so con-
struct a jury as to get men on it who
will either clear the criminal, or tie up
a verdict and give the wretch the benefit
the next time of a hung jury. Such law-
yers are a menace to the peace and order
of society. They put in their days and
their nights studying the best methods
for turning these bloody rascals loose re-
gardless of their guilt. (4) Our court
of criminal appeals is not blameless. They
have heretofore made a fetish of the
Constitution. And when these red-hand-
ed murderers go before that tribunal it
almost invariably reverses the sentence of
guilt, and sends it back for a new trial.
By the time the trial courts again get at
these reversed cases most of the witnesses
are gone and people have lost hope of
seeing the law enforced and the wretches
go free. If our court of criminal appeals
would do their duty and let these blood-
thirsty criminals either hang by the neck
until they are dead or go to the peniten-
tiary for life, we would have less killing.
Men 'would be more careful about using
their guns and knives when they realize
that either the gallows or the penitenti-
ary is just in front of them.
Therefore, we need to revise and read-
just our whole court procedure in order
to protect society against the bloody dep-
redations of these men who cut and shoot
and kill their fellows without let or hin-
drance. Texas in general and Dallas
County in particular are glutted with hu-
man blood, and it is time to stop this
disgraceful custom. It is time for our
courts to stop their kangaroo perform-
ances and become dignified tribunals for
the enforcement of law and the adminis-
tration of justice.
THE HOUSTON POST SOLICITOUS.
UDGE D. E. Garrett of Houston
and Representative Cureton of
Bosque, in making their announce-
ment for Congressmen at large,
stated that they are going, to make the
race regardless of their position on the
prohibition question, and the Daily Post
takes up that phase of their announce-
- ment and makes it a text for one of its
homilies against prohibition. And it ex-
presses grave doubt as to the possibility
of any man being elected to office in Tex-,
as separate and disinct from this issue.
And the Post deplores the fact that the
prohibition issue failed of settlement in
the July election. It is very anxious to
have it eliminated from politics, and says
that the ultra pros will not permit this
to be done.
Well, how does the Post stand on the
question? Is it not tooth and nail for
Colquitt for re-election, and when you
scratch under the skin of the Post, is not
its real reason for such support based
upon the fact that Colquitt is a rock-
ribbed anti? It surely is. The Post looks
at the anti-prohibition side of the issue
exclusively when it comes to boost men
for office. For this very reason the Post
opposed Judge Poindexter for Governor
last year and threw the weight of its in-
fluence to Colquitt. Now the Post has
found out that its anti principles are in
a hopeess minority when the pros stand
united, and it is weeping over the fact
that they will not let the Post take the
question out of politics. No, the Post is
always satisfied when it can boost the
saloon ami keep the whiskey interests
far to the front. But the July election
JUDGE RAMSEY’S ANNOUNCEMENT
EDGE W. F. Ramsey, member of
the Supreme Court of Texas,
has announced himself as a can-
didate for Governor subject to the
vote of the Democratic primaries next
summer. He did this, we understand, at
the earnest solicitations of a great many
prominent Prohibitionists of the State
and other influential friends. He has
given it out that he will state his plat-
form at length at the proper time.
Judge Ramsey was prominently men-
tioned as a candidate last year, but two
other Prohibitionists entered the field
and those urging him knew that it would
be useless for his name to go before the
primaries with two popular and promi-
nent men already in the race, represent-
ing the very principles for which he
would have stood. So he declined to be-
come a candidate. But just as soon as
Mr. Colquitt won the office on a minority
nomination a large number of leading
men throughout the State turned their
eyes toward Judge Ramsey as the man
to lead the moral forces in the next race
against the present incumbent. At first
he demurred, as he already had taken his
seat on the highest tribunal of the State
and the position was thoroughly consist-
ent with his taste and temperament. But
the urgency became greater and greater
as time passed by, and in obedience to the
demand he has entered the field. _
It is hardly probable, therefore, that
any other leading Prohibitionist will be-
come a candidate since it was demon-
strated last year that there is no hope of
success with our forces divided between
two men. In order to succeed we must
stand as a unit and then we are invinci-
ble. Perhaps there are those on our side
of the question who would have preferred
some other candidate than Judge Ram-
sey for personal reasons; but it is our
candid judgment that he comes more
nearly bringing into his following the
great majority of our forces than any
other one man whom we could mention.
In fact. when you come to think of it,
there is not a prohibition democrat in
Texas who can not support Judge Ram-
sey. His course has been such toward all
questions and toward public leaders as
to command the respect and esteem of
fair minded and conservative men every-
where. While his position on all para-
mount questions is well known and will
become even more generally known, nev-
ertheless he is not an extremist. He has
a judicial temperament and he is en-
dowed with capacity to weigh with great
care all important matters and to reach
safe and sane conclusions concerning
them. He is a Statewide prohibitionist
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knows that a millstone can be seen
through when it has a hole in it. So
when the antis/in question lay aside their
saloon impervogsnesss and Jouk (hine;
squarely in the face as they are, they too
can see the truth dimly and ive fairly
good advice. But read the excerpt for
yourself:
"'Acting under a law passed by the
Thirty-second Legislature Gov. Colquitt
appointed an anti-tuberculosis commis-
sion. Each member receives a salary of
$1800 a year and his duties are supposed
to be to educate the people along lines
of the best method for prevention and
cure. One member of the commission is
an attorney, another a newspaper man
and the third a real estate man. The
commission has just issued a circular for
distribution, from which the following
paragraph is taken: ‘Do you spend mon-
ey for beer or other liquors, or for quack .
medicines, or ‘cures?’ They are all
‘fakes’ and ‘beer and other liquors are
fakes,’ and ‘may make the patient
worse.’
“What kind of advice is this the anti-
prohibition administration is giving out?
On the first page of the circular appears
the following: ‘Prevention is better than
cure and far cheaper.’
“This is undoubtedly pretty good ad-
vice both for consumptives and to those
who may have a fear or dread of con-
tracting disease. Of course, every one
has a dread of the disease and the advice
may be made applicable to every one..
Possibly it was not intentional, but com-
ing as it does from laymen paid a salary
of $1800 a year to advise the people, the
document strikes us as being about the
strongest prohibition document issued in
a long time. Beer and other liquors can
scarcely be defended, but declaring they 1
are ‘all fakes and may make the patient A
worse’ is going pretty strong for a Col- E
qnitt commission.” - ~A8
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THE HOME AND STATE COMPANY, Publishers.
1802 JACKSON STREET, DALLAS, TEXAS.
W. A. Stevens, Mgr. W. W. Thomas, Asso. Ed.
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