Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1898 Page: 3 of 6
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Sherody Parker epent last Sun-
honest politics and justly merite
and see who is misrepresenting it. salary, yet you will not claim that
it would have been economy for
The record is open to the inspec
as you admit in
virtually admits that his rst arti-
H. P. l).
of it all.
article of July 7th and corroborates ing quarterly financial statemen’s
t
former speech at
be
come before the public in your last equality of all citizens before the
I, via in the comin election.
the Front
Beat.”
he made. He contemptuously refers by resorting to low personal flings
than office, could for one moment
of every charge made by
The reasons why I cannot
ceived $500 ex-
ANTED—Several trustworthy
fully,
did it. After I published my open
letter then be came before the pub-
moment, and, pardon me, but I do
not believe you made it in good
ported by the facts. Besides, you
lave the advantage; for having
the test of economy is not simply
the salaies received but the efficien-
cy of the service rendered, you will
readily see that we could never de-
cide which was the more expensive;
did not want
to vote for
accept such a proposition, for it is
likely we could never agree upon
the test of an administration as to
reply that you would not have
time to write to me any more, yet I
see you have found time to write
article was a gross mierepresenta-
tion of facts and that every charge
made by me is true, I can not help
it, if people have some hesitancy in
taking what you now say as the
whole truth, notwithstanding the
fact that you got the assistance of
Judge Whitton and R. E. High.
Let me again call your attention
to some of the misrepresentations
of the record contained in your
state that all your references to
what I should have said, as to the
Pops being lazy, as my stating that
Friendship...
Landmark ...
Canton......
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Frof. D. C. Lake and Johnson
Walker ol Wills Point spent Sat-
urday in the city.
Editor G. T. Spears of the Willa
Point Chronicle is visiting his pu-
vs of sat ing in a
Bright Star that
His Pop Opponent Some
Unwelcome News.
wishing to b”v a
a roundabout way
/
men of the World will unveil
-
.Nov. 3,
. " 4,
those who know me, either Demo-
crat or Populist, require my afida-
vit to what I say. My friends are
airminded, honorable gentlemen
and they are not so prejudiced as to
persons in this state to man-
age our business in their own and
nire to enter into a personal con-
George Davis and Sid McCauley
visited Edgewood Sunday.
Judge Whitton re;
For Sole.
I have for sale a place abnut 4
miles southeast of Ben Wheeler,
a single Republican
home would do
. am very anx-
J :
And Shows How Abounding It la of Fla-
grant Misrepresentations of the Record.
Declines Without Thanks the Insolent
Propositions Made Him by the Erudite
Frog-Pond Statesman,
TC THE PUBLIC.
I desire to call your attention to
the fact that thia controversy be-
tween Mr. Flowers and myself grew
out of an article published by him
(n the Populist Herald of July 7th.
In this article Mr. Flowers made
certain assertions that were con-
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officio in 1895, and $441.66 in 1896,
the exact figures given by me, yet
in your article of July 7th you
stated that “the Populists allowed
Judge Whitton only 8400 as ex-
classical Scholar, I will say that I Wheeler was in town the first of
have never paraded my education i the week.
before the public. What little ed- A. J Adams'of Lawndale hn_
endorsed by my party, your last is
but a lame apology for that asser-
tion. I give no further attention
to that matter but shall notice the
two propositions submitted in your
letter of the 10 h inst. As a prelim-
inary to these propositions you say
that your friends believe what you
say about the record and my friends
believe what I say about it. You
limit the whole thing as to the cor-
rectness of the statements made in
your open reply, and that, too, as
to judges’ salaries. This is very
wise in you, for anyone can see that
your open reply contradicts your
rebuke by the voters. In answer
tion when he can do so more ably
than I can. The issue between us
was whether your arti le of July 7th
was a correct statement ofthe reconi.
I claimed and still claim that it was
a misrepresentation of the record
and introduced the record to prove
my assertion. You were under ob-
ligations, if your assertions were
true, to defend them, if untrue, you
should have owned to it and cor-
rected them. You do neither, but
seek by a species of confession and
avoidance to conceal the real issue
from the public by introducing
other questions wholly irrelevant,
people would think you would be
better acquainted with the record
and more likely to get it correctly
than a man who had never been in
the office a half dozen times. But
every statement made by* me in my
open letter. I did say that you
made misstatements of the record
in your open reply, I said so in my
speech at Roddy and you acknowl-
edged it, yet realizing, what was in
store for you when I-should make
my rebly to your open reply, you
try to ward off the effect and save
yourself from the humiliation of
having these misstatements of the
facts shown up. The issue between
us was not whose administration
was the cheapest, neither was it
the record of the Democratic offi-
cials of this county. It would be
manifestly unfair and very pre-
sumptuous for me to undertake to
trouble of going to »ee you. Now
• I remember my goode are in the
monument at the grave of J, A. । sume shape the school buoka are,
nearby counties. It is mainly of-
in your open reply you admit that J
faith.
very much, and I believe Fshull be, leash or part cash. L. L. SANDERB,
work conducted at home. Sal-
straight 4900 a year and ex-
STRICTLY CASH, It appears to
me there is some people who don’t
' want to pay their debte. It‘e get
, all you can and pay no man. Now
। if you ever intend to pay me, pay
| me NOW; for the Gnod Book saye
, to pay thy debts. Yours rempect-
whether it is expensive or not. It
would be unfair to lake the salaries
paid as a test of economy; for the
►alary of an officer cannot be a test
of ecc nomy aside from the charac-
ter of the service rendered. For
instance, the people of Grand Sa-
line paid you $45 per month to
teach for them. You will not deny
that they could have secured the
services of some other for a smaller
trove:sy with you. I will onlyfice
at me you try to escape the penalty
for having made those misstate-
ments of the record. I can take
your open reply and before twelve
honest men, I care not what their
politics may be, I can convict you
investigation, wonld result in your
withdrawal and my unanimous
election. Yours respectfully,
H P. Davis.
trary to the facts. His political
friends, knowing that he had been
deputy county clerk and therefore
should be acquainted with the rec-
ord, were using these assertions of
his in the interest of his candidacy
to help their party. More than a
month before my open letter was
published, in a private conversation
with him I called his attention to
the fact that his assertions were
ucation I have was obtained by my ored us with a call while in the
working on the farm part of the Capital Tuesday,
year to procure money to pay my I
tuition and board for the rest of the
ord toget her, choose a Republicnn if
you desire it, get the record as it is
(which I maintain is stated in my
open reply to you) and each of us
sign it and make affidavit that it is
correct. 2nd If Judge Whitton
received more money than Judge
Spinks will have received and if
the expenses of Whitton’s adminis
tration were more than Spinks’, I
will withdraw from the race and
vote the Democratic ticket, if, in
case Spinks will have received
more, and the expenses more, you
will withdraw from the race and
vote the Populist ticket.—Extract
from E. Lee Flowers’ letter in the
Populist Herald.
TO I. LEE FLOWERS.
Now in order to get ourselves
properly before the public I pro
pose: 1st. That we go to the rec
consider it are: 1 I was nomi-
nated for the office of county clerk
without reference whatever to the
expense of Whitton’s and Spinks’
administrations, but my qualifica-
tions for the office were the sole
Notice to the Town mid Country.
Canton, Tex , Oct. 27 —Your
note or account is now due aud af-
ter this dale I will not sell on time
to any one. It seems that any one
would have the money now to pay
for what little medicine they would
need, it they ever will have it. I
want you to pay me and save the
lowed Juc,2) Whitton only $400 as expense of either?
ex ofticinJ^d that included super-
intends %f public schoole." Thus
out of, ur own mouth - ^ou stand
convited of having published a
misstaeinent,of the record. I never
impugned your mtive for writing
with no sacrifice of principle, and
therefore hw you could propose ’ containing 295 acrs of land 60 of
to enter into such a contract, but I! which are in cultivation. Good
cannot conceive of how any true hngand well, the place is well
Wills Point, Tex., Oct. 17.— served as deputy county clerk, most
Mr. E. Lee Flowers.—Dear Sir;—
open reply. 1. You state that
“for the benefit of the public” you
will give a statement of nil money
received by the judges since 1892,
yet you failed to include $80 it-
ceived by Judge Whitton for mak-
had to turn loose and squirm in
the trap they had set for our Prof.
The affair was a triumph for De-
mocracy, and this community will
roll up a good majority for Prof.
law. Your party is a factional
party. It arrays one class against
another, and seeks to overthrow a
representative form of government
and upon its ruins to erest a com-
munistic form of government in
which the government is to be
everything and the citizen nothing.
I could not agree to abandon my
party which throughout its splen-
did record has been true to the in-
terests of the people and which has
given us for the past 25 years one
of the best state gover ments known
to the An erican people, for a party
year; for I was left an orphan when
a mere boy, without the means of
securing an education, and my
sympathies have always been with
the boy who, under adverse circum
stances, is struggling to obtain an
education. It is true that in some
of my speeches and in some letters
to Democrats I mentioned the fact
that I am a graduate of Thornton
Institute and of Thornton Uni ver
sity and that J also hold a first
grade permanent life certificate to
teach, granted m, upon exhn.ina-
lion, by the state of Texas, but in
all these references I have never so
much as mentioned the fact that
you were teaching on a second
grade county certificate. ’At pres
ent I cannot hope for you to see
matters in their true light, but af
ter November the 8th I hope you
will have plenty of time to reflect
over them and to sincerely repent
to the fact that I bave not lived in
Van Zandt long (only a little over
five years) and appeals to the peo-
ple to support him because he was
born here. The fact that a man
has not lived all bis life in this
county certainly should not in any
way detract from his personal
worth and qualifications for office;
suspeot most of the voters were
that for the sake of office in the
campaign «f 1896 B • doned ite _ .. . ..
every principle and allied itself “One Wuo Sat on
and $10 for extra work. You failed
to give the $20 received by Spinks
for making financial statements.
You also fail to give amounts re
ceived by judges as trial fees in
civil suits. You will not deny
that you left out these items. You
did not deny it when I charged it
against you in my speech at Roddy,
but you admitted it. Yet you
the first you seek to do me an in- in your open.reply that your first
ole was a gross misrepresentation of justice by asserting that I am not
4. I cannot
the rst article. I did try to get
you to correct it before I forced you
to do it, and you refused As to
what motive you had in making
the assertions in your last letter I
eave the public to judge.
It is not necessary to get any
particular one to go to the record
jet for the reasons given above I Ben Wheeler, Texas.
mustdeoline to enter int» » co,.- Free S,7^Ca,n|. No 365 Wood-
tract which I know, under honest
ever before. Every body is request-
ed to rail aiiq examine our Goods
and get Prices. Our prices are
LOW and will sell ouly for CASH
from now until January, 1899.
Yours truly,
D L. FILEY.
Deau’s Appointm ents,
J no M. Dean will speak at Iha
following times aud places:
Friday, Oct 28 at night, Edom.
Monday, Oct. 31, at night, Mar-
tip’s Mill.
Mr. Dean authorizes on to invite
Mr. Rhodes, his opponent, to meet
him at the above appointments, at
which an equal division of time is
promised him. The Ladies am
especially invited to attend upon
these appointments.
Spink-’ Dates to Speak.
entertwin such a proposition. Not- well to see me as I
withstanding, I desire to Le elected I ions to sell and will rell cheap for
Evans in the Canton cemetery on
Sunday, October 30th, at 1:30
b’clockp.m Everybody invit-
him. Friday night he mentioned
this, and asked the audience if he
ever used such language there.
Several voices answered ‘ Nol" The
Pops then said they heard some-
body say that he said it. We now
suppose that “Senator” Youngman’s
third cousin in Arkansas told E.
I ee‛s nephew’s sister’s school mate
that her next door neighbor told
this to “Honest” Warren The Pops
will be qtriet on th 8 line hereafter.
They were squarely cornered and
tion of all. Neither do my friends, them to have done so, will you? As
letter and maintain thatyou gave the
record in your open reply. 2. You
gave the trial fete received by
Whitton at 8318, when the record
shows that he received $324. I
have never maintained that Spinks’
entire salary was less than Whit -
ton’s, but I did maintain the ex of-
ficio and per diem received by him
was less than the amount received
by Whitton. While I made a mis-
take in the per diem of Spinks,
which I corrected as soon as I dis-
covered it, and which letter of por-
rection you ignored as you had no
right to do; yet the record shows
that in these two items up to the
present date Spinks has received
less, and if you include the amount
for making financial statements, he
will have received a great deal less
than Whitton. Yet you know that
both of them received all that they
were entitled to.
I have thus mentioned enough
errors to show the public that the
statements made by you in your
open reply are wholly unreliable
and misleading
2. Now, as to your second prop
osition, I cannot entertain it for a
not born in this county. He says
that all the tax he has ever paid
has been paid in this county. I ad-
mit that I have paid some taxes
out of the county, but being a poorofficio." Again you admit that
man with a family to aurport I Whitton received $132 per diem in
with its avowed enemy, all for the
sake of office, lean see how you
migb: vote the Demnneratie ticket
P.8. I have refrnined Trom no- ed .especially Woodmen,
ticing your misrepresentation of mv
remarks in my speeche8 and in pri- \
vate conversation, for I do not de-
facts. He further admits, by
thanking me for giving him the op-
portunity to publish his reply, that
he never would have corrected his
mistakes, notwithstanding he knew
he had made them. In doing this
he shows that he has no regard for
his obligations to the public; for no
man who permits an erroneous and
misleading statement of facts made
by him to go uncorrected until he
is forced to correct it, has a proper
appreciation of his obligations to
the public or willfully seeks to mis-
lead the public. No friend of the
people will try to mislead them.
,, He asks the public to read his
open reply and see that he has
dealt fairly with me. Yet in the
face of this he goes outside a dis-
cussion of the issues between us and
in some cases by direct charges and
in others by insinuations he seekr
to create a prejudice against me.
He claims to give what I should
have said in some of my speeches,
yet, with the exception of my re-
marks on his infamous war resolu-
tions, what he says is either a mis-
quotation or is absolutely a false-
hood. The man who instead of
relying upon his own merits to ob-
tain an office, seeks, by unjust per-
sonal attacks to detract from the
merit of his opponent, is wholly un-
to the efficiency of the service ren-
dered. Besides, it would be very
difficult, as I have found out, to
get a correct statement of the actual
expenses of the Pop administration,
owing to the fact that for the latter
half of the year 1896 neither the
Pop county clerk nor his deputy
kept the finance ledger, although
they were paid $50 for tl e doing so.
Under such circumstances it would
take too much time to post the
books so as to arrive at a correct
statement of expenses. Again, in
justice, we would have to deduct
from the expense of Spinks’ first
year and add to Whitton’s last year
all the amounts paid by his admin
tration to lquidate debts contracted
by the Pops just before they went
of the people. He claims to deal
fairly, yet he goes out of his way to
make an unjust attack on those who
are in no way connected with the
controversy.
He charges Judge Spinks cf hav-
ing apportioned more funds to the
Wills Point school than it was en.
titled to. When at his request I
explained to him and the audience
at Roddy the matter and proved
that his charge was unfounded he
promised to correct it, yet more
than two weeks have passed, and
although he has published two let-
ters, not one word of correction has
Communicated.
Bright Star community has been
the Populist hot-bed since the birth
of Populism in Van Zandt county.
It seems however that recent devel-
opments have proven that Democ-
racy is now in the a-endency.
Friday night, the 21-t inst "Sen-
a tor” Youngman and Prof. II. P.
Davis crossed oratorical saber-
over the politics of the county.
Prof Davis’ opening addreFs was
logical and forcible. Standing up-
on reason and facts, he hurled hot
shot into the enemy’s ranks.
Notwithstanding the “senator”
was surrounded by E Lee Flowers,
in whose interest became, Berzette,
and a concourse of “hoodlum”
howlers, his attempt to answer the
argument of Prof. Davis was a fail-
ure.
The Pops have accused Prof. Da-
contrary to the fact and urged him Although you asserted in your open
to publish a correction. He never
worthy the confidence, and support defend Judge Spink-’ d ninistra-
me. For
_
mmaaam
out of office, such, for instance, as
the poor farm contract by which
the county was forced to pay over
$1000 more per annum than is be-
ing paid now for the same service,
and there is that stationery account
of several hundred dollars and
those bridge contracts all let after
you were defeated. 5. I cannot
accept the proposition , for under it
I must pledge myself to support
the Populist iicket. This I could
never consent to do; for I could
not agree to abandon the principles
of my party and .agree to support
another party whose principles are
repugnant to the doctrine of ind -
vidual, personal freedom, and of
Democrat, who loves principle more watered with springs. Any one
to your charge that I claim to be a | “Uncle” Lewis Jenkins of Ben
To close ont my large stock of 39
ary atraighttWuua year and ex- FURN.TURE by 3,150179
pen.ee—definite, bonafide, nomore, cang t ' W A G * ' 4 17
holessealary. MnnthhKS. Ref- dment pnce-W. S' He 62 06
erences. Enclose self-addressed ‘ * 20 9 99100
w...,______ , - the Pop” had left the treasury emp Flumped envelope, Herbert E Heus. Remember us when ;131 5 40 3
elcilccconnted for upon the theory that ty, as to my not wanting Republi- Presdt.,Dept. M,Obicago. 3:1599 your cotton. 3 :29 50 5
zdp-hegeg J0 14 * 4 1 <•
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considerations. 2. I hive no
have never been able wadcumufate 1895, and $111 in 1896 (I put it right to make such a contract and
much property on which to pay $108, and I still believe I am cor- for me to do so or to offer to do so
taxes, but the record will show that red), and you admit Spinks has re- would be an insult to the party that
I pay more than a poll tax I ceived in all 1180 per diem, th? has so highly honored me. 3. The
In conclusion, 1 ask the public amount I gave in my letter of cor-' proposition is absurd, and your
not to judge too harshly y oppo- rection Yet you stated in your making such a proposition can be
nent for the low, familiar languago article of July 7th that ext--.
take my word if it were not sup- for the public alone can decide as
“ 5, 3 p. m.
rents at thie place.
J. T. Giles of Edom gave us a
pleasant call Saturday and ordered
the Enterprise sent to him.
A holiness meeting will beginat
Elm Grove on the fifteenth of No-
vember and continue ten days.
Misses Birdie Thame, Irene Ev-
ans, Lula Starnes and Amma
Montgomery visited Edgewood
Saturday and Bunday.
W. V. Cates of Ben Wheeler re-
membered us pleasantly Saturday
while in the Capital, on his way
home from Willa Point.
Percy Clark of this place and
Miss Lillie Joslin ol Grand Saline
after a romantic elopement were
united in the holy bonds of mat-
rimony last Monday.
A certain gentleman from Grand
Saline found his way to our sanc-
turn sanctorum Monday and made
us turn red behind the ears by the
presentation of a a heel.
Misses Willie, Jessie, Alice, and
Kittie Davis, Lucile Millsapa, Lin-
nie Spears, and Lula Starnes and
Mens. George Davis and Gid Brero
visited Mr. W. J. Hale’s cane mill
last Thureday and report a good
time.
Misses Noma and Allie Tull,
Amina Montgomery, Hattie Thomp-
son. Dovie and Lera McWiBiams,
Ethel Lively, Ejrdie Thames, Ru-
ble and Pearl Taylor, and Virginia
Peace and Mr. Frank Wallace vis-
ited Mr. W. J. Halt’s cane mill
about 22 miles east of town last
Friday afternoon. An enjoyable
time reported.
Fall Announcement.
I have just received my stock of
Fall and Winter Goods, consisting
of Dry Goods, Dress GoodA, Shoes,
Hats, Groceries, Family Supplies,
etc. ,
My stock is complete, and up-to
date Good? are cheaper than
Jie in anopen reply in which h two letters to me since then. In
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H• P * • With which he addresses me. j and per diem r-at the e.ine. | "adrowning mancatches ntatraws." can vote, and my endorsing the PARAGRAPHED PENPILINf 8
LEE FLOWERS. *’k thut 11 be attributed not so Again, you AdmiCint Judge Whit- For what can be more absurd than 1 Harrison county methode, etc., etc ,1 *
— —......... much to a lack of good breeding or ton received ind 395 $246 and in for a candidate who is the nominee are mierepresentationa which dome
The nomn-roticEnNinn T II toalack of refinement, but to the 1896 $283 arat uperintendent of of a party to propose to withdraw if a great injustice. Your seeking day in Terrell.
6118 inexperience and thoughtlessness schoul-, the eeet figures given by one man’s administration has coat, out w hat I should have eaid in pri Rev’ C H smithigin T le
of youth coupled with unfavorrble me, yet in y r article of July 7th $1 less than another’s when he had vate conversation and then mis- this week n "0.8 - 5
political environments and to un- you stated pjAt “the Populists al. * nothing in the world to do with the'quoting me, is not in keeping with
wise and irrespousible political ad-’’ *’ au* ’ h ’ - ...... .1. ... ..... 1
visers. Respectfully,
DIGS UP HIS LYING OPEN REPLY H. P. DAVIS.
D. F. Clark. *
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