The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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SEE J. SANDFORD SMITH FOR FIRE, LIFE, AND TORNADO INSURANCE, MEX1A, TEX.
The Mexia Weekly Herald.
enth Year.
MEXIA, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1914.
VOTE FOR TOM BALL
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$1.00 Per Year
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To the Democratic Voters of Limestone
County:—
The primary election is now but a few days
off—July 25th, 1914, is the date. In our
opinion the issues of this primary are more
far-reaching and of more importance to the
people of the State of Texas than the issues
of any other election which has taken place
in many years.
If submission of the pi'ohibition issue is
carried, the next Democratic Legislature,
which will convene in January, 1915, will be
politically obligated to submit to the voters
of Texas a prohibition amendment to the
State Constitution, at an election to be held
in 1915, prohibiting the sale of liquors in
Texas as a beverage. Submission will no
doubt carry in the primary, as only Demo-
crats will vote at the election, and no such
issue has ever been defeated in a Democrat-
i primary in the State.
If submission carries, the Democratic Leg-
islature, will, of course, do its duty and sub-
mit the prohibition amendment t6 the voters
of the State. Then will come the fight to
adopt such amendment. When it is adopted,
the liquor issue will be settled in Texas, so
lar as politics are concerned.
We believe the great majority of the Dem-
ocratic voters of Texas will hail with delight
the day when the liquor business is outlawed
and the liquor issue thus eliminated from the
politics of the State. We believe the best
and most feasible way to reach this end, so
much to be desired, is to vote for submission
and for Mr. Ball in the primary. Some of
our reasons for this belief follow:
We must vote for submission or else we
will have no opportunity to vote for a prohi-
bition amendment.
As to the candidacy of Mr. Ball and its
relationship to the adoption of prohibition in
the State, we submit the following:
Mr. Ball stands and fights for prohibition
and has done so since his boyhood. His
principal opponent, Mr. Ferguson, is against
prohibition and fights for liquor and always
has done so. and he is so ultra in his views
that he has pledged himself in advance to
veto any liquor legislation which might be
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G. N. Groves
MEXIA.
S. J. Jackson
R. J. Jackson
B. W. Jackson
G. W. Butler
E. Prather
J. J. Beckham
passed during his term of office, whatever
might be the necessity for same.
While it is true the Governor cannot veto
a constitutional amendment, nevertheles, if
we adopt the amendment in 1915, it will not
be effective until suitable laws are enacted
putting it into effect and providing for its
enforcement. Such laws Mr. Ball will favor
and approve. If Mr. Ferguson is Governor,
such laws will be vetoed, and we will then
have to wait until another Governor can be
elected before such laws can be enacted.
Mr. Ball advocates a law disfranchising
the Mexicans and other foreigners who can-
not read, write or speak the English lan-
guage. This is the bunch which carried one
county solidly against prohibition and pro-
hibition candidates at one election; but if
such law is enacted it will eliminate about
75,000 of these most undesirable votes,
which are always counted for the organized
liquor interests. This is Mr. Ball's proposi-
tion. Mr. Ferguson will veto it, because it-
would be against the interest of organized
liquor.
If the courts should at any time decide
that there is any defect or "loop-hole" in the
liquor laws as they now are, Mr. Ball will
approve a bill curing same; but Mr. Fergu-
son would veto it.
Our Court of Criminal Appeals, as now
consituted, decide practically all liquor cases
and kindred questions by two votes to one.
A vacancy which might occur on this Court
would be filled by the Governor. As like
begets like, the Governor would appoint a
man entertaining his views. That is a pro-
hibition Governor would appoint a prohibi-
tionist. An anti-prohibition Governor an an-
ti-prohibitionist. Hence if Mr. Ball is gover-
nor and one of the majority judges of that
Court should die or become disabled Ball
would appoint a judge like the two are now.
But if Mr. Ferguson were Governor he would
appoint a judge who would vote with the
present minority judge on that court, and
then practically all our liquor laws, which our
anti-prohibition friends have so often declar-
ed are the best in the world, would be an-
nulled by the Court, and could not be amend-
ed except over the Governor's veto. This is
a contingency which is not unlikely to hap-
pen at any time.
We will not engage in vilification or vit-
uperation but mention some of the alleged
arguments being used in this campaign.
1. Ferguson says it is a joke to talk of
using the State's money to buy homes for
ihe tenant farmer, whom he desires to reg-
ulate by law. The joke is that Ferguson's
bank is now borrowing $50,000.00 of the
State's money at S1/) per cent and for the
State to loan it to the tenant farmer to buy
him a home, as Ball wants to do, would nec-
essarily take it from Ferguson's bank.
2. They say Ball belongs to a Club which
serves liquor to its members. Ball says he
has not seen fit to forego the social features
of the Club because of the objectionable li-
quor feature, which he will abolish if he can,
although he does not drink liquor. Ferguson
pretends to regard the liquor feature of the
C lub as an evil, but says he will veto any bill
abolishing liquor from the Clubs. The hotels
in all large towns and cities in wet territory
sell liquor. When you go to suclrtown you
go to the hotel, not BECAUSE of, but in
SPITE of, the sale of liquor there. Mr.
Ball would not abolish the Clubs or the ho-
tels, but would abolish the liquor from them.
Mr. Ferguson would veto any bill that af-
fected the liquor interests.
3. We cannot concede to Ferguson or his
supporters absolute sincerity in their opposi-
tion to Ball on the ground that he is not good
enough prihibitionist, when we consider that
Mr. Ferguson himself is and during his en-
tire life has been a rabid anti-prohibitionist
to the extent that he will not stand for any
liquor legislation whatever.
4. Mr. Ball was several years in Congress
and was the friend of the people and no at-
tack has ever been made on his conduct
there. The only time Mr. Ferguson has
come in contact with the public, so far as the
public knows, was as a usurer, lending people
money at a rate of interest, by reason of a
subterfuge, in violation of law.
5. Ball is and always has been a progress-
ive Democrat and while Ferguson was oppos-
ing the nomination of our matchless Presi-
dent and supporting a reactionary, Ball was
fighting in the ditches with the people for
Wilson.
6. All who have ever been associated
with Ball in business are actively supporting
him. All who have ever been engaged in
business with Ferguson are actively oppos-
ing him.
7. Ferguson cannot stand for Ball's elec-
tion because Ball belongs to the Club. Ball
will abolish the liquor from the club. Fer-
guson will veto any such bill if it effects his
client,—liquor.
8. Ball is a high toned Christian gentle-
man, so his neighbors and the preachers of
Houston say. Ferguson is "the degenerate
son of a noble sire," so Ferguson says; and
Ferguson ought to know; and it seems from
the statements of Ferguson's neighbors and
business associates that they agree with
Ferguson in 4this particular.
9. Ball has numerous supporters in every
part of the State from the most obscure to
the highest, including practically all of
the protestant preachers, who are actively
supporting him, without pay or hope of re-
ward, other than the good they may do the
State in purifying the State. Ferguson has
lined up in his support all the purchasable
element, who are supporting him for pay.
Every speech in this campaign for Ball is a
free-will offering. Most, if not all, speeches
for Ferguson are the product of hired men— ,
the advocate working for pay. Consider
Ferguson's active supporters in this county.
For all of these reasons and many others
which suggest themselves, it seems to us
that all good men should, and we appeal to
all patriotic citizens of Limestone County,
whether pro or anti, to join the Ball support-
ers and help purify the politics of Texas by
electing him Governor.
May we appeal to you to go to the polls on
election day and vote for submission and for
Mr. Ball for Governor, to the end that the
politics of Texas may be purified and the
cause of civic righteousness and good gov-
ernment may be promoted.
Yours for Sumbission and Tom Ball.
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 1914, newspaper, July 22, 1914; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292265/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.