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WICHITA DAILY TIME*. WICHITA FALLS TEXKs, APRIL 214t. 1008.
BAILEY’S LIFE IS BLAMELESS
T POINDEXTER SCORES TRADUGERS
the imperishable principles of the
declaration of American independence.
Not only so, but be went further and
aided in writing the same Blank in the
national democratic platform upon
which William Jennings Bryan was
nominated in 1900. These achievements
were unparalleled in the history of
American politics and stamped Mr
Bailey not only as the recognised
leader of the Democratic party of Tex-
as, but gave fair promise of his leader-
ship in the national democratic party.
Political victory and supremacy for
him meant political defeat and obscur-
ity for those he had opposed, and so
he left behind him in Texas the dis-
appointed hopes and smothered ambi-
lions of a long line of politicians who
have stood ready to seize upon any
pretext to impair his strength or de-
stroy his usefulness. He returned to
CLEBURNE JURIST STRONG IN AR-
GUMENT AND VIGOR IN
DENUNCIATION.
SEVERE ON TERRELL
HIS ATTACK ON BAILEY CHARAC-
TERIZED AS UNPARDONABLE.
_
TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH
Nearly 2.000 Hillsboro Citizens Hear Texas in 1901 to receive at the hands
Nearly 2,000 * - . of the legislature the election guaran-
teed by the voice of democracy ex-
pressed in the democratic primaries of
Texas In 1906, but his political ene-
mies had preceded him and kindled the
fires of persecution, through which he
was forced to walk before receiving his
A
Notable Speech in Defense of
Texas’ Greatest Statesman.
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Hillsboro, Tex , April 18.—Judge Wil-
liam Poindexter of Cleburne delivered
a masterly argument here today in pre-
seating the case of Senator Bailey to
the people of Hill county. In spite of
the wretched weather which prevailed
he was greeted by a splendid audience
numbering between 1,500 and 2,000,
among which were many ladies, who
listened to the judge with rapt alien
lion during the two and one-half hours
that he spoke. As a matter of fact it
was the largest and most representa-
tive audience that has assembled in
Hill county since Governor Hogg de-
livered his famous speech here in 1892
Tonight Judge Poindexter is being
commended on all sides by Bailey men
and anti-Bailey men alike for having
delivered one of the finest and most
convincing arguments ever heard in,
the court house here. After the speak-
certificate of election or taking the
oath of office in the American senate.
Though the youngest man tn that great
body, his powers, of mind and heart,
his love of country, his devotion to his
people and his marvelous knowledge of
the fundamental principles of this gov-
ernment and of the democratic party
were such that he took flrat rank with
the greatest of the great men and soon
became the acknowledged leader of the
democrats of the senate. He grew in
strength and public favor until the
democrats both North and South were
looking to him as a presidential possi-
bility. But it was his misfortune to
oppose the ambitions of a multi-mil-
lionaire_edifor, who sought the presi-
dency of these United States upon the
Ing was over the Record man heard' at
declare that he had been shown the
declare that they had ben shown the
error of their way and had returned
to the fold of true democracy.
During the day a circular, was dis-
tributed here, referring among other
things to the alleged loans made by
the senator from the Waters-Pierce oil
company, and declaring that no evi-
dence other than the word of Senator
Bailey had ever been produced to prove
their payment. Judge Poindexter was
most severe in his comment on this
circular, which he declared to be a
nameless thing, whose author was
ashamed of it, ami sent It Into the
world a waif to care for itself.’ He
then took up this phase of the Bailey
inquiry and showed conclusively the
false statements of the circular.
He was particularly severe in his
comments on the speech of A W. Ter-
rell of Austin and his denunciation of
Terrell's effort brought forth thunder-
ous applause.
He followed in the main his recent
speech at Cleburne, with the following
additions:
Poindexter’s Speech,
- Fellow cit Izena, after I had gone
th rough - That Tong in vest Igation, heard
all the evidence and examined all the
evidence anil then re-read and re-
weighed all the testimony and reached
the firm conviction that Senator Bailey
was not guilty, I began to search for
the underlying cause of this unjusti-
fiable assault upon his integrity as a
man and as g representative of this
great State in the United States senate.
I had heard Senator Bailey declare
that William R. Hearst was the Insti-
gator of this movement, but at that
time I neither understood nor appre-
* ciated the declaration. I knew t. Sen-
4 ator Bailey was guilty it was imma-
terial who made the accusation or by
what motive it was prompted. But
when I reached the conclusion that he
was innocent and that the accusation
was false, it became important to dis-
cover, if possible, the origin of the as-
sault and the hidden motive for the
attack. And now, after reviewing the
political history of this country during
the last ten years and noting the rapid
growth of Joe Bailey in public favor
and national renown, I am firmly con-
vinced that his declaration was true.
Yon will remember that in 1898 the
spirit of territorial expansion was rife
in this country and especially in Texas.
You remember the great political bat-
tle fought in the State democratic con-
vention in August, 1898; you remember
that the friends of Senator Chilton led
that fight for the doctrine of expansion
and that Mr. Bailey almost single-
handed and alone, both in the platform
committee and upon the floor of the
convention, opposed IL but he went
down in defeat and the democracy of
Texas, by a platform declaration, was
committed to the doctrine of foreign
aggression and territorial expansion.
Mr. Bailey returned to congress, and
upon the floor of the house of repre-
sentatives “continued to struggle for
the supremacy of the cardinal doc-
trines of the declaration of independ-
ence. His speeches there not only dis-
tinguished him as the leader of the
democrats of the house, but marked
him as one of the greatest leaders of
the Democracy of these United States.
In the spring of 1900 he announced as
a candidate for United States senator
against Senator Chilton, and his post-
Hop assumed before the state conven-
tion In 1898 and his position in the
house of representatives became his
platform before the democracy of Tcx-
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democratic ticket, and W. II. Hearst
was defeated. Hearst discovered that
Senator Bailey stood In his path and
determined to destroy him, and he
bided his time. Now listen.
Hearst Opens the Fight.
In July, 1906, Hearst sent an agent
to St. Louis, and through this agent
tried to buy from J. P. Gruet these
"vouchers." In September, 1906, the
Cosmopolitan, a magazine owned by
Hearst, published a series of articles
ch racterizing Bailey as a millionaire
senator, as an attorney of the Stand-
ard Oil interests and as a traitor to his .............. . ...... ....... ... ............
people. The emissaires of Hearst ap years I read that same slanderous
peared in Texas and the political ene- statement in the public prints of the
mies of Bailey began to organize. The
fight was carried Into the legislature
and there they sought to defeat the
election,of Senator Bailey. Copies of
these vouchers were turned over in St.
Louis by Gruet to the agent of W. R.
Hearst in January, 1907, and on the
eve of Bailey's election these vouchers,
together with an overdrawn, untrue
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honest man, and I know it is not true."
I heard that report Ove r and over again
but 1 as often said
to -myself: "I
know it is not true, because Jeff Davis
is an honest man, and no honest man
will steal!" That mother had faith In
God anti she had faith in her fellow
man, and I had faith in her. In after
statement In the public prints of the
country, and though denied by ex-
President Davis and disproved by oth-
ers, for political purposes that slander,
together with a hundred others, pur-
sited that Christian man. that hero of
all the ages down to his tongueless
grave. After his death his surviving
widow, that queen of the South, de-
voted many years of her life to the
and sensational interview by J. P. pleasant duty of writing the history of
Gruet were published in the Hearst that great man, and be it said to the
papers and freely distributed about the shame of the mehods of American poll
capital at Austin For weeks the re- tics and to the relentless tongue of no-
ties and to the relentless tongue of po-
porters of the Hearst papers hung litical slander, that great woman felt
went your State—capital____and sent constrained and driven to the necessit V
broadcast the most reckless, sensa-
tional and scandalous reports touching
Senator Bailey and the conduct of the
legislature of Texas that could be incit-
ed by malice or born of falsehood. Fel-
low citizens, Christ, the Son of the liv-
ing God, and Savior of the world, had
His Judas; Washington, the father of
his country, had his Benedict Arnold!
is it strange that Senator Bailey, the
greatest apostle of democracy, has his
W. R. Hearst? Though the blessed
Christ, through the betrayal of Judas,
was put to open shame and crucified
upon the cross between two thieves,
yet He rose triumphantly over death
and the grave and the Christian relig-
ion now blesses universal humanity.
Though George Washington, the pa-
triot of all patriota. was slandered and
traduced by hla enemies and betrayed
of giving much of the space of that
splendid history to the task of prov-
ing that the great leader and president
and commander in chief of tiie armies
For Eight Years on Ohio Avenue.
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by Benedict Arnold, he ami his brave
little band of patriots survived the
slanders of his political enemies, the
betrayal of his friends, defeated the
armies and successfully resisted the
tyranny of Great Britain, established
this great republic and bequeathed for
all time the blessings of liberty to his
people. Anil 1 believe Joeeph W. Bai-
ley, the greatest representative of the
democracy of this State and nation,
though his character haa been villified,
slandered and his name traduced by
W. R Hearst. Cyclone Davis, A. W.
Terrell and those who seek to compass
his destruction will peas through this
Aery furnace unscathed and unaurt and
that May 2 he will be vindicated by the
votes of the organized democracy of
Texas and the grand old democratic
party will survive and the militant
democracy of this nation under the
leadership of the peerless Bryan will
march to victory next November.
Unjustifiable Slander.
Fellow citizens, in the long ago, at
the feet of a sainted mother 1 learned
the history of the life, the persecution,
the trial and the crucifixion of the low-
ly Nazarene and received my flrat con-
viction of the injustice of unbelief in
God and man and in the undescribable
horror of bearing false witness against
my neighbor. I did not then under-
stand. I have never been able to com-
prehend how or why for political or
any other purpose a man can no far
forget himself aa to pervert the truth
and publish or breathe a slander upon
the name and character of his fellow
man. Whilst a barefooted boy and
while this fair Southland was in rags
and in woe. I heard the report that
Jefferson Davis, the president of the
tottering Confederacy, had abandoned
Richmond and stolen from the Confed-
erate treasury over $2,000,000 of gold,
1 repeated what I had heard to that
mother and she. said: "Don’t you be-
1 Davis is an
Took Out the Expansion Plank.
The result was that he not only de-
feated Senator Chilton,but he reversed
the position of the democracy of Texas
upon this great question. When the
State convention met in 1900 he took
out the expansion plank of 1898 and
wrote in the democratic platform of -u*us „„M sun. mesu.
Texas an anti-expansion plank and lieve that report; Jeff
of the Confederate States was not guil-
ty of the theft of $2,500,000 from the
vaults of the Confederate treasury, I
thought then that the tongue of politi-
cal slander had reached its limit. Lat-
er on In life I read a series of articles
written and published at Waco, Texas,
attacking the character of old Dr. Bur-
leson, president of the great Baptist
university at Waco, charging that man
of God, who had done more for the ele-
vation of manhood and womanhood of
Texas than all his accusers could ac-
complish in 10,000 years, with Immor-
ality absolutely shocking to the moral
sense of every decent man in Texas.
All men w ho knew Dr. Burleson, either
personally or from reputation, and who
had faith in human integrity, knew
that these charges were false, and de
manded no proof of the innocence of
that great and good man. Baseless
and unfounded as were these charges
against the reputation and charcater
of that great and good man, they were
rolled as a sweet morsel under the
tongues of thousands and followed him
to the silent embrace of his last rest-
ing place. I then thought that surely
the tongue of slander had reached its
limit in Texas.
Later on I read a speech purporting
to have been made by an attorney for
the •plaintiff in a trial between two
factions of the Baptist church at Del-
ias, Texas. In this speech an assault
was made upon the character, upon the
honor, upon the integrity and upon the
Christianity of the Baptist ministry of
Texas, unequaled by the assaults of a
Voltaire or a Tom-Paine in the darkest
days of skepticism and infidelity. 1
said then, surely surely, the tongue of
reproach has reached its uttermost lim-
Its in Texas. But, fellow citizens,
last Sunday I read in the Dallas News
a speech delivered at Georgetown by
Judge A. W. Terrell against Senator
Bailey. -In that speech I read this lan-
guage: "I cannot find it In my heart
to hate Bailey; I pity him, for when I
consider heredity and the environment
of his youth I am amazed that he is not
altogether depraved." 1 have under-
stood for many years that Senator
Bailey and Judge Terrell were bitter
enemies and not on speaking terms. I
am not unmindful of the fact that in
political warfare It Is entirely proper
to discuss the political record and the
official acts and conduct of those seek-
ing office at the hands of the people.
I know that where the fact is admitted
or not seriously controverted the pub-
lic will sometimes excuse or tolerate
an attack upon the personal Integrity
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