The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 4, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 15. No. 11
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Dallas Churches Fight for City’s Purification
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it is so. If the preferential primary suggested by
Home and State can be made general, and' it
looks that it might be, it is evidently the fairest
and surest road to the triumph of Texas reform
forces in the election next year, and in all the
BY REV. GEORGE WESLEY BENN
Executive Secretary Council of Churches.
OR three years a Reservation or Segregated
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Prohibitionists Want One Candidate
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READ the front page article in Home and State
September 27, suggesting a preferential pri-
mary to be participated in by Progres-
sive Prohibition Democrats to determine who is
the most available man as the candidate of re-
form forces for Governor in next year’s contest,
with a great deal of interest.
Information in this office, and gained by personal
visits to various parts of the State, show beyond
controversy that there is a general, and, I might
say, universal demand that some fair plan be adopt-
ed that will enable reform forces to go into the pri-
mary next year united on a single candidate for
each office. The feeling is practically universal, that
every man with political aspirations, who really has
the cause of reform at heart, will cheerfully agree to
any just plan, looking to the enthronement and
success of the cause, above the mere question of
personal honors and success.
T occurs to me that the plan suggested by the
Home and State editorial is perfectly fair. There
may be some difficulty in securing action in all the
counties of the State, but whatever that may be,
one candidate is not likely to be affected more
adversely than another. I know beyond the shad-
ow of a doubt, that comrades in a great reform
movement are. honor-bound to treat each other
right, and, if possible, all comrades are more
bound by honor to take care of the cause of re-
form than they are to take care of each other.
The supreme matter among reform forces is
not to find men who are loyal to the cause, be-
cause we have such by the thousands, but to
find men for various positions upon whom all the
reform forces of the State can unite.
There are thousands of as good men as live in
Texas, who can not be elected to State offices, and
it is no reflection upon them or their loyalty that
cial campaign under the auspices of a so-called
Committee of Ten was launched about four years
ago. The results were anything but encouraging,
however. About sixty cases were brought for
prosecution before our courts, but not a single ‘
verdict of guilty was secured. Our whole system
of procedure against this evil has been so weak,
, and the false sentiment upon the part of jurors
was so great, that no convictions resulted.
What Has Been Done.
As soon as the Men and Religion Forward
Movement took form in Dallas, the executive
committee at once began to consider this evil
and the measures that could be taken to eradicate
it. It was evident that the first thing that must
be done was to wage a campaign of education. Our
own Committee of One Hundred, on account of
the reason that I have stated before, was divided
in its opinion about the wisdom of having a Seg-
MR. MAYES HESITATES.
Lieutenant-Governor Mayes’ formal an-
nouncement that he will be a candidate for
Governor came directly on the heels of the
suggestion by Home and State that Prohi-
bition Democrats select by a preferential pri-
mary their candidate for the Democratic nom-
ination for that office.
Home and State had received the person-
al assurance of Honorable W. P. Lane, an
avowed candidate, of his willingness to sub-
mit his name to such a primary. Honorable
Cullen F. Thomas, who is just returning from
abroad, had also stated that, if he should be-
come a candidate, he would readily submit
to any fair method of elimination that might
be agreed upon, so that Prohibition Democrats
would unite in support of one man.
As we had not received any expression on
this point from Lieutenant Governor Mayes,
we sent him the following telegram:
“Home and State desires to know, for pub-
lication, whether you are willing to submit
your candidacy to a Prohibition primary, as
suggested in our issue of last week.”
On the following day we received this re-"
ply:
“Editor Home and State: Inasmuch as the
only other Prohibitionist who is an announced
candidate for Governor has, repeatedly stat-
ed that he would not submit to any plan of
elimination, and business engagements calling
me out of the State preclude the possibility
of attending the suggested conference dur-
ing the State Fair, I prefer to await further
developments before answering. (Signed) ■
“WILL H. MAYES.”
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regated District. Even in the Pastors’ Associa-
tion there were some who .thought it was the
best thing that could be accomplshed.
The very first thing that we did, therefore, was
to have one of our pastors give an address on the
subject before the Ministers’ Association, stat-
ing in vigorous, concise fashion the fundamental
and incontrovertible objections to the system of
segregation. This address was repeated after-
wards in a general mass meeting.
Expert help was secured from outside of the
city to combat the false notions that have pre-
vailed here. Dr. Winfield Scott Hall of North-
western University in Chicago was secured for
a four days’ campaign, and in that time lectured
before clergymen, physicians, lawyers, mothers,
fathers, boys, girls, in department stores, and,
most important of. all, before a joint meeting of
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power of the Police Department. As soon as this
Reservation was established, the matter was car-
ried to the courts at once, and fought through
the halls of justice up to th highest tribunal in
the State, with a unanimous verdict against the
Reservation. Yet it has continued until this day.
The great thing that delayed us in our cam-
paign upon the social evil was that we
had already had an unsuccessful campaign. Be-
cause of the fearful prevalence of this evil in Dal-
las, and because houses of ill-fame were scattered
all over the city, and existing in great numbers
in the very heart of the business district, a spe-
was established by an ordinance of
City Commissioners, and is protected by
HON. W. J. BRYAN OF TEXAS FOR LIEUTEN-
ANT-GOVERNOR IN 1914.
The announcement of Lieutenant-Governor
Mayes that he will be a candidate for Gov-
enor next year takes him out of the lists as
a candidate for a second term as Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, and leaves that field an open one.
It is of the very highest importance that the
next Lieutenant-Governor of Texas should be
an undoubted and unequivocal Progressive, and a
Statewide Prohibitionist, of the stripe that does
not believe in compromising or harmonizing or
co-operating with the enemy.
We should be certain to make no mistake in
this matter, and, without knowing whether or
not he could at all be induced to accept, Home and
State ventures to suggest that it would be glad
to support as candidate for Lieutenant-Gover-
nor before the Democratic Primaries next year
some such Democrat as former Senator W. J. Bry-
an of Abilene.
The record of his eight years’ service in the
House of Representatives and four years’ service
in the Texas State Senate guarantees that the
minions of the liquor traffic and of all special in-
terests would be as powerless to influence him
through force, cajolery, or flattery as to sell him
political gold-bricks.
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Thomas, W. W. The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 4, 1913, newspaper, October 4, 1913; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569567/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.