The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. [4], Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1907 Page: 4 of 10
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N. P. HOUX, EDITOR * Pwowmitoa
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.09
Entered at tbo postotflee at Mexia, Texas,
«S second-class mail matter.
THAT
ANTI-BAILEY
TION AGAIN.
PETI-
Duncan resolutions did. But
there must be specific charges
first.
In tha contest for state senator
in the the Abilene district Mon-
day, the issue being Bailey, Cun-
huningham, the Bailey candi-
date. defeated Hawkins the anti-
Bailey man by nearly three to
one.
Just to show how rapidly Hons
ton is becoming a great city, we
call attention to the fact that a
local merchant announces the ar-
rival of a car load of prunes. —
Houston Post.
Gee! Houston must be a great
place for boarding houses.
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
Senator Bailey Has Consumed $24,000
Wortii of Time.
Stair Special:
Austin. Texas, Jan. 23.— The
legislature has been in session
days and has devoted 12 of
the 14 days to the Bailey imbro-
some of tl^em names that ap-
pear on the list did not belong to
the little cotton seed trust in and
around Mexia, that saps the hon-
est dollar from the farmers?
Yes, indeed.
Well, I guess Mr. Bell will
have set aside a couple of thous-
and dollars for us farmers to in-
vestigate their case. Now, do
glio.
At $2000 per day, which is the u or h f ( thinki
cost, of maintaining the legisla-i , B
Judge W. M. White seems to
take issue with this paper on ac-
count of the article published last
Monday on the subject of the
paper that was circulated and
sent to Representative Geo. A.
Bell, concerning the Bailey fight
that is being waged by some of
our people.
The judge makes the mistake
of presuming that he was the
target. We wish to state here
and now that our article was not
aimed at him at all, but at the
Dallas News special under a
Mexia date. We heard Judge
White tell Mr. Reed of Coolidge
what the document contained,
and had no reason to doubt his
word, and have not done so. It
was the way the thim>" was sent
out to the world that we objected
to and do object to now.
The correspondent of the Dal-
las News stated to several gen-
tlemen that he did not read the
paper but that he had reported it!
just as Judge White had told j Hon. John L. Peeler represen- the clear, while as it is he
him. He was requested to go j tative from Travis county, is and find himself up a tree if he 'bread both. This corn
and get the document and see if \ has been an ardent supporter of fers tor re-election next year.
What Bailey did to those
vouchers when ho got his eyes
on them was i pi nty. And now
the antis are figuring on a post-
ponement of the election in order,
no doubt", to trump up some
more insinuations, or perhaps to
allow Gruett time in which to
steal and doctor some more pa-
pers.
The exceedingly warm weather
we have been having for the
past few days was no doubt
caused by the hot air of the an-
ti-Baily wind merchants in the
legislature. And as soon as this
warm wave was met by the cold
facts'set forth in Bailey's speech
the atmosphere cooled down con-
siderably.
ture total reaches $24,000 which
amount the taxpayers must stand
for. On top of this the com-
mittees to investigate are autho-
rized t. expend $20,000. Most
of the expense is due to dilatory
tactics.
It will be observed by this that
Bailey is rather an expensive
luxury.—Houston Chronicle, ilflfil
Well, if that isn't the limit of
gall. The very idea of the Bai-
ley persecutors trying to saddle
the responsibility of this legis-
lative expense on the Bailey peo-
ple. But then it is in keeping
with many other things they
have attempted to do since they
commenced hounding Bailey.
Hon. Geo. A. Bell gave as one
of his reasons for voting against
Bailey that he does not believe j
the senator is or has been true J
to the trust reposed in him by j
the people of Texas- In other i
man believe that our representa-
tive is representing the majority
of the voteis in Limestone coun-
ty? I will answer, No! Not by
3 to 1, If they want to investi-
gate J. W. Bailey's case let them
furnish the money to do it with.
Now let me say the time will
come by and by when the voters
of Limestone county will be
heard from and a democrat will
be elected that will represent the
whole people, and not a few.
The Bailey men are here to stay
and vote too.
I want to say in conclusion
the Hon. J. W. Bailey is the
nominee of the democratic party
of Texas and i'? it was left to a
vote today the trouble of all this
investigation would end at once.
B. L. S.
LEISLATIV ■ APPROPRIATIONS.
Seed Corn For Salle.
The best stock corn,
it
it contained a clause asking Mr.
Bell to vote against Bailey. He
went off and returning stated
that Judge White told him the
document had been sent to Mr.
Bell and that he could not see it. |
But this is a matter that con- :
cerns the judge and the News
correspondent. The said corres-
pondent was also requested to
send a correction to the News,
stated that he had no correction
to send as he had stated the mat-
ter as it was told to him.
On this information we wrote
the article that was published in
Monday't issue of the little daily,
and it was after said article had
been written on the strength of
the information secured from the
words Mr. Bell has never been a makegfrom g to 7 busheis
Baileyman He m.ght have, h h
voted tor Bailey and given as his i .
reason that he was under in-1 the common corn with the
, structions from his people to do same cultivation. That is
— so. He would then have been in j saying a whole lot, but it is
Hon. John L. Peeler represen- the clear, while as it is he will j a fact. Corn is meat and
will
I bs for sale at F. G. Robert-
Joe Bailey. But in a primarv
election held in his county he
was instructed to vote against
Bailey, and he complied with
those instructions. That is more
than can be said for many of
those who voted against Bailey.
J. Beckham's.
Lee Hensley.
After'all of thi: fuss made by
Mr. Duncan and his anti-Bailey was produced, was not on
followers, they only mustered 31 play, and the attorney general
votes against the election of jun- acknowledged that he did not
lor senator. They had as many
as 55 votes on one of their fili-
bustering resolutions. Maybe
some of the boys were fi-
nally overtaken by a guilty con-
science or got scared.
At last Joe Bailey got a look at 1 son's and J
those vouchers, on the strength :
of which he has been relentlessly j
pursued by his political enemies Commissioners Court,
for several months. But the ( ^ ^ie jasj- ^erm 0f ^he com- ]
Henry & Stribling voucher, f°r j missioners court the following or-
which Bailey begged and plead, I drrg were entered:
and e/en offered to resign if it, That rendition of T. F. Mays
C*1S~; of 1 acre on the T. P. Anderson
survey be made to apply to the 1
H. & T. C. survey.
That the rendition of W. J. •
Hall of 150 acres on W. J. Ellis!
survey for 1906 be reduced from i
$1,500.00 to $450.00.
, That County Judge issue war- i
pression that he had it. Well,since rants on school district, No. 13'
reading Bailey's speech delivered
have it, and that he never claim-
ed to have it. But he referred
to it in his letter to Bailey, and
when called on for it he did not
aeny having it, but left the im- i
__ . ,, . . for $6.70 in favor of John Heck
Thirty-three names were placed in the house Friday we are more and ?2 fX) jn favor of Mrs Mo|lie
before the house when the elec-, than ever convinced that he has
the
News correspondent, that the . ,
judge told us he had a copy 0f; ^on of senator came upTuesday. ; not been guiltyofany wrong. All
the document m his office, and .
that we could read it if we de- jtlve
sired. | standing he haa Deen instructed , A bill has been introduced m
Considering that we had |in Primaries an(l said instruc- senate prohibiting railroads
neither criticised the judge or his! ti°ns have never been annulled, (from giving free passes, and
document, but instead the man-;
Hon. Geo. A. Bell, representa- anti-Bailey men should read
county, notwith- speech.
i standing he had been instructed
Sharp and on No. 67 in favor of
L. J. Taggart for $1.30 and on
No. 72 in favor of R. J. E. Mil-
ler for $6.00 on account of error
in assesment in 1904.
That Road Precinct No. 179 be
ner in which it was sent out to
the vorld, did not think it neces-
sary to read the document.
Parties who signed it did not read
it. We should not be blamed
for not doing so.
And so far as we
been
to vote for Bailey, nominated
Judge Kimbell of this county.
All this too in the in the face of
the fact that several telegrams j This is a hit at the country press | Brown, Mrs. Carter
| were sent from this county on j and the boys 0URht to get busy j Echols to the west ba:
! Monday and Tuesday to Mr. Bell and g0 to writing letters to their! Navasota river; said exten
| urging him to obey the will of. senators,and representatives and I be thirty feet wide.
i i.tl n maav\1 a ittIi a rn-\ ->4- 1 W> 4-4-* f U n i . -a . I
■t extended as follows: Begin at;
contains a section prohibiting j Wiley Brown's near Sardis!
the exchange of transportation j church, thence west on land lines j
for newspaper advertising, j between Mrs. Carter and Wiie.v i
,i i;
i.„AW the people who sent him to the
-r „ Know, tne; legislature. What will the dem-
erroneous report in the Dallas, ocrats 0f Limestone county say
News has not yet been corrected.; about this? Wait and see.
But in all fairness, it should have j r—
been, in justice, not only to Mr.1 press bureau of the James-
Bailey, but to the signers of the j town exposition, realizing that
petition as well. | a]j enterprises of that sort must
have the support of the news-
j uc li 111 \jy icct vv me.
i make an effort to have t h i s' number of claims
j clause uf the bill stricken out.; the county were allowed.
; Certainly no man with sufficient1
ieo.
'if i j
on to
against
Capt. W. J. McDonald of the
Texas Ranger has been named
as the new State Revenue Agent
and will leave the ranger service
to take up his new duties.
t
Help! Help! We are sinking.
If you can't come to the rescue
send a telegram.—Duncan. In
other words, "A horse! a horse,
my kingdom for a horse," or a
donkey or any other old thing.
1 /, It is the general opinion
j Austin that the investigation
7 resolution that passed the house i
last Saturday provides for a more
sweeping investigation than the
papers of the country, and deem-
ing that the recent ruling of the
interstate commerce commerce
commission regarding the ex-
change of advertising space for
transportation, is unjust to the
papers of the country and will
hurt exposition, have taken up
the matter and will endeavor to
get the law modified so as not
to interfere with the right of
(contract making! between the
at roads and the papers. All pub-
lishers in all parts of the country,
should second the motion and by
petition to their members of con-
gress and otherwise render assis-
tance in this movement.
intelligence to represent his peo-
ple in the legislature will claim
that transportation given in ex-
change for advertising in a news-
paper is a pass. If this bill
passes with that clause it will
cut off a lot of good business
that is considered the same as
cash in all newspaper offices.
Get busy, boys and let them
hear from you.
A Farmer On The Bailey Investiga-
tion.
Well, Mr. Editor, didn't Mexia
get a move on her when they got
150 signers in one hour to a pe-
tition to congratulate Mr. Bell,
their representative, for setting
aside $10,000 of the peoples'
money to investigate the Hon. J.
W. Bailey? Don't you recon
Bailey Is Elected.
In the voting for United States
Senator in the legislature Tues-
day, J. W. Bailey was re-elected.
In the house there were thirty
three names presented. On the
ballot Bailey received 89 votes
and scattering 31 votes.
In the senate Bailey received
19 votes, scattering 3 votes, not
voting 7, absent 1.
Hon. Geo. A. Bell, of Lime-
stone county, is recorded as vot-
ing against Bailey.
FERTILIZERS.
For thin soils and medium
grade lands it pays big to
fertilize. For the best at
prices see
J. J. Beckham.
BY W. E. DOYLE
The profligacy of some men is
absolutely unreasonable and
disgusting. This kind of a
man is common even in our leg-
islatures. The battle ground of
San Jacinto is so close to Hous-
ton as to be used by that city as
a park—an outer-urban park
as it were—provided it can be
put in park condition at the
expense of the tax payers of the
State. Senator Griggs of Hous-
ton will introduce a bill asking
an appropriation of $25,000 to
pay for 14 acres of land lying
between the battlefield and Buf-
fale bayou. This strip of land
belongs to northern capitalists
and the citizens of Houston
want the State to b' y it so that
it may add to Houston's interest
and attraction. It is further
stated that "the present condi-
tion of the battlefield is to be
made plain in the call for an ap-
propriation to assist in the im-
provent of the sacred reserva-
tion now said to be so grossly
neglected." Poor Houston, how
she suffers and bleeds on acconnt
of this gross neglect! What ap-
propriation will be asked that
this "grossly neglected" place
may be made a beautiful park
for Houston, at the Stats's ex-
pense, is not stated. However,
the State has no money except
that taken from the pockets of
the taxpayers, and hence Mr.
Jones must pay the'freight even
if it be $100,000. As just re-
remarked the state has no mon-
ey except that exacted of the
people and fortunately for them
the constitution regulates the
expenditures of that money
(See Art. 3, Sec. 48.) In this
there is no provision for such
appropriations and therefore
they are unconstitutional.
So tne constitution does not
provide for taking the money of
the people to build a park for
Houston. However much the
people may be actuated by sen-
timent or patriotism no appro-
priation can be made to enlarge
or beautify battle grounds as
the constitution now is.
In these things our legislate s
should be guided by the consti-
tution and not by sentiment or
patriotism, as Gov. Lanham was
when he vetoed a bill appropri-
ating money to build a home for
indigent Confederate widows
on constitutional grounds and
approved one to appropriate
$65,000 to buy the Alamo build-
ing in San Antonio. But in
his His Excellency's patriotism
was inordinately inconsistent.
To have built the Confederate
widows' home would have been
charity to say the least of it.
But he was right in vetoing the
appropriation for this widows'
home as in doing so he bowed _ to
the dictates of the constitution,
and should have done likewise
as to the appropriation for the
purchase of the Alamo.
Some great constitutional ob-
served suggests that the legisla-
ture should appropriate $100,000
that our militia may have a bet-
ter time at the annual encamp-
ment, but—I will hush.
Mrs. Bailey has closed] up her
boarding house, having sold the
houses and lots \o Mr. J, A.
Gentry and the furniture to Mr.
Dan Bailey. She has been in the
hotel business for a number of
years and says she wants to
take a much needed rest. Mr.
Gentry says the houses are now
for rent.
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Houx, N. P. The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. [4], Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1907, newspaper, January 24, 1907; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth302246/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.