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Bellville. Austin County, Texas, Friday, June 13, 1924
1 46 No. 24
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Wallis
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June 10th
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I am a business man who has opposed to it now, when either
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Jack Walton governor of Okla-
homa, because here in Texas it
Touching at the outset of his
address on the charge of his op-
ponents that he was a million-
aire, Mr. Davidson declared that
to us by our forefathers as a
priceless heritage of democracy.”
Texas and by the strength of an
organized minority seek to ad-
minister the affairs of a common-
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as government This part of his
address took up the platform of
the farm-labor poMtieal confer-
M. J. Harris is spending
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a candidate who purports to be
of anti-klan persuasion is a trait-
or to the citizenship of Texas if
he campaigns the length and
so determined that no man shall
be governor of Texas who favors
against mobs and floggings and
backwoods parties, yet fails to
Klux Klan he is talking about”
Lynch Davidson’s address at
another point was featured by a
condemnation of what he term-
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Misses Frances and Virginia
Thomas are spending this week
in Houston with relatives.
Johnston left Sunday
»enter the credit classes
Southwestern State
s College in San Marcos.
Mollie Johnson of Bell-
s the guest of Mrs. J. F.
last week.
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its great governmental principle
of special privileges to none and
equal opportunity to all.”
“While diligent personal ef-
fort has brought its reward,”
he stated, “on the other hand I
carry well in mind that I could
not have reaped any reward ex-
had an opportunity to make an
intimate study of Texas govern-
ment. My tenure of office as a
state legislator, state senator
the klan or the influence it has
created among us has dissipated
from a militant character to an
assumptuousness which seeks to
Lynch Davidson, Candidate for Gov-
ernor, Speaks Here
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Without mentioning the name is operating under the misnomer
money as money means little of the candidate to whom he re-
E. L. Pennington, accom-
by her daughter, Mrs.
Brown, left for San An-
Lt Tuesday night. Mrs.
has returned, leaving her
fora longer visit.
Perritte, superintendent
Wallis schools, is in Hunts-
king summer work at the
puston College.
I Ruth Kubricht left Sun-
Leek ago, for San Marcos,
she is a student at the
which are crowding our in—no
asylums and jails in the misery
of their mental abandonment;"
highway construction and high-
way maintenance; prevention of
Mabel Ratdiff and niece,
Ciss Adda Mary Ratcliff,
' Poplar Bluff, Mo. this
t. and were accompanied
man a chance to succeed, and
equal protection. And thus it is
that I answer your very proper
question as to why at the hilltop
undermine prohibition; rei
tion; flood and water co
tion; farm relief; labor;
portation; and public heal
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of state affairs.”
This latter remark preluded
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ization. It no more represents
the home loving, home owning
farmers and laborers of Texas
than I do the planet of Mars on
this earth. And in bringing this
message of warning to you, I
bring it also in the strict nature
of a warning to the farmers and
laborers of Texas with whom I
have always been in the deepest
understanding. I speak their
language, for all the years of my
minority were spent in toil, and
considerable of the years of my
majority, and if when I am gov-
ernor of your state—and I’m go-
ing to be your governor—I ever
have the temptation to violate
that democratic principle of spec-
ial privileges to none and equal
opportunity to all, it shall be to
the favor of the farming and
laboring classes. ”
Lynch Davidson went into de-
tail on the subject of the farm-
labor political conference plat-
form as announced at Dallas and
which he said his namesake to a
great measure had subscribed.
“Mark you well,” be began,
the guest of Mrs. McNutt
Ibb Perle McNutt.
I Perle McNutt and neph-
arnest McNutt of Kenney
Irland Smith of Caldwell,
Bests of Mrs. Dick Irvin
Ibb Johnnie McNutt.
W. N. Hill and son of
are guests of Mrs. F. D.
L and they, with Mrs.
land children, are spend-
• latter part of this week
ston and Galveston.
J. H. Stuckey left last
or a visit to her old home
rgia.
Herbert Schroeter and
laughter are spending the
r with Mrs. Schroeter's
8 in Los Angeles, Calif,
hroeter and son, Herbert,
B in Bellville, where Mr.
ter has some preliminary
D connection with the new
which will soon be under
iction.
tion. I know every mother’s
son of them, for wasn’t it my
fight against the Non-partisan
league in Harris county that sent
me to the Texas senate? When
ernor has afforded me the very
excellent opportunity of obtain-
ing governmental experience.”
it quite proper to make the dis-
tinctinction that it was not I—
Lynch Davidson—who bargained
with this non-partisan league to
foster and carry out if possible
in the government of Texas such
a socialistic program.”
With considerable vehemence
the candidate added: “Why, I
wouldn’t want my children, or
my children’s children to think
that it was Lynch Davidson who
back in 1924 carried this banner
of Leninism around Texas.”
On this subject, the candidate
pointed out that “it is delicate
to the extreme to treat of the
farm-labor political conference,
which I charge and assert is
nothing more nor less than the
non-partisan league that wreck-
ed North Dakota; the same non-
Lynch Davidson of Houston,
candidate for Governor, appear-
ed before a large and responsive
crowd at Bellville last Saturday
afternoon in “a heart-to-heart
talk,” as he expressed it, “be-
tween the stockholding citizens
of this vast Texas corporation
and one who seeks to be the
manager of your enterprise.”
Mr. Davidson in submitting his
candidacy to his audience spoke
of his aspiration to be governor
of Texas because “it is the high-
est honor the citizens of this
state can bestow,” but added
“My primary purpose in seek-
ing to be your governor is to re*
from the farm-labor political
conference I recognized it at
once as nothing but the Non-
partisan league, and pitched it
into the waste basket. Charged
later at Dallas with contemptu-
ousness toward this political
clique, I then and there made
answer, and make this answer
now and for all time to come:
Lynch Davidson is the candidate
sume the stern responsibilities of
as exacting an office as governor
of Texas.”
In the measure of a political
orator or candidate, Mr. David-
son’s appearance was unique.
Admitting at the outset he
brought no flowery address “nor
flag waving declamation” the
sincerity of his remarks drew
his listeners close to his own
magnetic personality and held
them with not the slightest show
of impatience for a matter of
more than two hours.
“One of the greatest compli-
ments that has been paid me
during this campaign,” said Mr.
Davidson, “was my introduction
a short time ago which included
the statement that I was not a
politician. I am not a politician.
I am-first of all a business man.
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John G. Manasian and the debt I owe for the
Miss Vaughn Sproles of
with what he ed the effort of the Non-partisan
league to poke its head into Tex-
part of his mention in this discurse in veky
plain syllables that it is the Ku
returned in the evening, cept under the protecting wings
Mrs. Pickens for a long-
perpetual law making and pro.
they sent me that questionnaire per enforcement of proper lawa;
further progress in woman suf-
frage to the extent that woman-
hood should be surrounded with
the protection that belongs to
her and bring to her all the civil
and political rights that are pos-
sessed by men ; a guard against s
any attempt, no matter bow sub-
tle. which seeks as a wedge to
of government which gives every immediate dealing
termed "the fundamental
of thia campaign" by a pro,
nouncement of the tendencyaof
"clique end bloc rule >" gover
of bureaus and commissions;
this non-partisan league always salvage of "the human derelicts
of no clique or clan, or bloc ’or
group or faction in his candidacy
for the governorship of Texas,
and will pander or bargain with
no self-seeking, self-serving po-
litical organization in exchange
for their political pottage, know-
ing full well that not only would
I be a traitor to the citizenship
of Texas, but if I sought to car-
ry out any such program and did
carry it out when elected I would
wreck this state.”
Mr. Davidson named the pro-
posal to eliminate the state’s 35c
ad valorem tax limit and “give
• Evelyn Frayard is epend-
e week in Bellville, the
of Miss Mollie Johnson.
•nd Mrs. Clifford Pickens
u8ton were guests of Mr.
Irs. J. A. Pickens. Mr.
mes:
sting is being held at the
church this week, con-
by Rev. O. D. Richard-
ealy. It is expected that
ices will continue during
ek, also.
nd Mrs. J. R* Ratcliff
jghters, Adda Mary and
Ruth, Miss Mabel Rat-
nd John and Gridley
spent last week-end in
the Ku Klux Klan as “one of
the extraneous issues of this
campaign which our Anglo-Sax-
on temperament has forced upon
us.” He spared no words in ex-
pressing his opposition to the
klan.
“I was the first state’s official,
back in the dark days of 1921
who had the nerve to come out
publicly in opposition to the Ku
Klux Klan,” declared Mr. Dav-
idson. “It was then in its mili-
tant form. Why, old Simmons
himself came over to my own
county, Harris, and organized
the first klan in Texas. I op-
posed it then in its militant form,
when opposition invited physical
violence. My first public utter-
ance against it was followed by
no less than 3000 anonymous
letters to my desk, warning
me of consequences. And lam
after one has secured the com-
petency necessary to a fair com-
fort of existence,” and added:
“But I’ll tell you what it does
stand for. The man in your
community who has secured this
competency is generally respect-
ed for his conversatism, wisdom
and ability, for in the fact of his
competency rests the proof to
his fellow men that by the value
of his experience through life
he has succeeded and profited.
Were any corporation or business
enterprise of Bellville approach-
ed by one who sought to become
manager of that enterprise, would
not this applicant expect to an-
swer the question, ‘wherein lies
your qualification for this posi-
tion and where is proof of your
past accomplishments and your
recommendations to our employ-
ment?’ ”
“It is my solemn belief,” he
as far as Houston by Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Ratcliff and baby and
Miss Bessie May Prouty.
Last Thursday afternoon, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Wooster, the marriage of Miss
Ella Trittine of Brookshire and
Walter Wooster of Sugarland
was solemnized, the service be-
ing read by Rev. J. H. Stucky of
the Methodist church. The cou-
ple entered the living room as
the soft strains of the nuptial
music was played by Mrs. Stuck-
ey. The living rooms and hall
were made attractive with bas-
kets and vases of summer blos-
soms, and an informal reception
was held after the service, the
guests being drawn from the rel-
atives and a few old and inti-
mate friends of the families. A
dainty ice course with cut cake
was served in the dining room,
carrying out a color scheme of
white and pink.
The bride, who is an attractive
blonde, was attired in an after-
noon frock of orchid georgette,
later changing for a going away
dress of gray. Mr. and Mrs.
Wooster left later in the after-
noon for a short auto trip to dif-
ferent points in the western part
of the state, amidst a shower of
of rice and good wishes, and af-
ter their return, will be at home
in Richmond.
J. W. Parchman, who has
made his home here for the past
ence held at Dallas, March 3, to
which Mr. Davidson asserted,
another gubernatorial candidate
“bearing my name,” T. W. Dav-
idson, subscribed and bargained
to carry out in exchange for
what political support this non-
partisan league organization
could afford him.”
“I shall not deal in personal-
ities in this campaign,” declared
the candidate. “But I do deem
the legislature a sky limit on tax-
ation;” plunge Texas into the
insurance business and add 500
employes to the stat pay roll;
create a policy of credit lending
by Texas for the erection of ru-
ral and urban homes that would
necessitate billions; and remove
taxation from improved city pro-
perty and spread it upon the un-
developed lands of Texas, a pol-
icy which would with certainty
plunge the government into an
escheating process by which
“we would eventually have noth-
ing but dirt in the state treas-
ury when it takes money to run
this government.”
To every one of these proposi-
tions, declared Mr. Davidson,
his namesake had subscribed.
“Do you blame me,” he added,
“for making the distinction and
impressing you with the fact
that it is not I—Lynch Davidson,
who seeks to burden Texas with
such a program?” He said he
would just as soon be caged with
a wild-cat and expect to get out
unscratched as to turn the state
legislature loose on Texas proper-
ty without an ad valorem tax
limit.
“We’ve got 4000 convicts in
our penitentiaries which don’t
cost us a cent for labor except
room and board, yet we lose a
million dollars a year,” he add-
ed, in reference to the proposal
to put Texas in the insurance
business. “How much, in con-
science’s name, would we lose,
if we had 500 insurance employ-
es on the state’s pay roll?”
In this climax of his address,
Mr. Davidson concluded with
the remark that “until I present
to you these extraneous issues
of the 1924 campaign, I cannot
pass to the real fundamental and
vital problems in Texas govern-
ment which are confronting us.
These extraneous issues ought
not to be a part of the campaign,
but they are forced upon us.”
The candidate, in dealing with
what he termed the vital prob-
lems confronting Texas, named
rehabilitation of the penitentiary
system; a better system of tex-
ation involving coordination of
the taxing agencies of Texas;
economy in the administration of
education and distribution of
state educational aid; elimination
ferred, Mr. Davidson added in
this connection:
“It is well that I inform you,
also, you who agree with me in
my stand against the Ku Klux
Klan that another candidate in
this race was a state’s official
back in those days of 1921. It
is well that I remind you again
that when opposition to the klan
by state’s officials was so neces-
sary there was an uncomfortable
silence from every one of those
officials except from myself.”
“T. W. Davidson, another gub-
ernatorial candidate, was a mem-
ber of the state senate at that
time,” he said.
Lynch Davidson did not com-
plete his remarks on the Ku
Klux Klan until he again made
the reference which created such
statewide interest upon its first
pronouncement “You who are
governmental affairs, the discon-
tent of the people will 8ro" 2
of success it has given me under leaps and bounds, due to t e
various vices ensuing from ex*
travagance and mismanagement breadth of this state in a tirade
of life, after a quarter of a cen- ment” during which he named
tury of hard labor I seek to as-
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added, “that unless men of ac-
tual individual accomplishments the Ku Klux Klan should bear
in life interest themselves in
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the passing to that
address having to do with
slogan of his campaign, moe
business in government,
government in business.
Mr. Davidson postponed an
wealth which was handed down partisan league that elected
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