The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1914 Page: 9 of 10
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>L RAM. MAKES UNDER WHICH FLAG, TOM?!Jj
CONFESSION
H 'in 1" "rn"11
Opening o! Two New Headquarter* Causes Conscieniktui
Proa and Trusting Antis to Wonder.
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Over the Protest of His Politi-
cal Advisers Houston Can-
didate Admits to Gambling
MIKES FULL CONFESSION
(Treat l-udcr of the Monit Funm
t'OMttl < liwi on I'okcr Charge—«'o.
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CLARKSV ILLbV Tex. Jui> 13.
U>t Saturday tho Clarksville Times
sent tho following telegram to Colonel
Thomas H. Ball; "Have you, within
tho last twelve mouths, played cards
for money anywhere In the state <>f
Texas? Answer yes or no.
"A. J MARTIN.
•Tho Clarksville Time*.'*
day) Colonel Ball overruled the ob-
jection of hla friends, and Issued »
statement admitting that h* bad
played poker for money,
"I want all the falsehood* In this
campaign to be confined to tho othor
side. I would as soon steal u nan's
pocketbook as steal hla tola. If
whether or not a man played cards la
an Issue In this campaign. I want the
people to know tho whole truth,” said
Col. Ball «» ho sat In hi* room at th#
Southland Hotel, resting from a hard
week's campaign,
"Tea, 1 have played poker," went
on Ball.
And then entered the room some of
Ball's political friends. They urged
him not to tell that he had played
poker, even tn a aortal way Ball
became Indignant
'Why. 1 have ployed poker," de-
Ti - Fort Worth elemlnatton eon-
ventton that nominated Tom Bail far
governor on tho prohibition ticket and
declared In favor of National' prohi-
bition, provided for Mr. Itall'a cam-
paign a state advtaory campaign com-
mittee headed by Tom Love, and this
committee eatabllshed headquarters at
th* Southland hotel at Halloa In par-
lor* A. B. C and D. and placed A. W
Walker, a prohibitionist, la charge.
Every member of this commute* was
a prohibitionist and they were In-
structed to work for Bail and submis-
sion
Mr. BaU tn ills Groanvilla speech re-
pudiated National prohibition, atalua-
tory stata wide prohibit***, the five
and ten mile law, th* sealed) package
taw, la fact, everything for which the
Fort Worth convention stood, except
submission.
And than th* anti colonels and bosa-
** of Texas whom tterguacm bad darted
aud defied Immediately "became satis-
fied" with Hall’s views on prohibition
and ieiaed the Ball rhorua, stating “It
tb* anil# war* “wlae” they would fol-
low them Into tho Boll comp."
About thro* week* ago th* Dallas
newspapers discovered that a new Tom
Ball headquarter* had been opened
In the Ht. George hotel at Dallas, and
another on* In Hoaelon. Texas, both
IN ACTIVE CHARGE AND COM-
HOMED ENTIRE!,* OF ANTT-PHO-
HIBITIONI8TH. Aftor mu oh sroalon
Mr. J. H. Walker, the aatt In charge
at Dallas, admitted hla organisation,
known aa th* North Texas Torn UoU
headquartera and th* South Texas
Tom Boll headquortars tn ehargw of
Tom H. stone, another anil, war*
working for Tom Balt BBT NOT FOR
SUBMISSION.
Why THREE Tam Ball headquar-
ter*? The Fort Worth eaavanUoa on-
ly provided for ONKI Isn't It strong*
that ONR Boll campaign oommltto*
should ha working for Ball and Buk-
in below. and TWO otbem should ha
working for Ball and AUVINHT SUB-
MIHHION. To which committed, Col-
onel, do you owo ftret ailegtancoT Un-
der which Rag do yon want t* mar-
■hall your army t If ro* keep faith
with the Bonthlond headquarters and
»re “far submission." can you keep
faith with the other two \ oadquartOra
and ho "against eubioterioa T"
It la not strange that Ota following
story was related St th* Dallas Fer-
guson rally. Dr. Rankin, R. M. John-
son, and Colonel Ball were tn eon'
eneo dlecuaalng a very "knotty"
lltical question. Dr. Rankin sold, "I-et's
pray for guidano*' Colonel Johnston,
th* eouth Texas anti -bom'* mid. "No.
let's take a drink" Trouble seemed
brewing and Tom Boll sold, "Lot's not
have any disagreement, wo eon set-
tle this matter easily, fat's do both."
Con ole Ball's trap "to catch 'em
agwte* oad oooming'' wtlt not work.
«srrsr.^T
cruor on a platform of Ilea am! d«-
i frit*. (Vrfulnly I pluyiwi pok#r.’*
'Hut penpl* will not understand
“A. J. Martin.
'“Editor Times,
'•Clark*vtil*. Texas
'‘Ywik Full *t*t*rm**nt wiii l> i**uri<l
, from Daitma tomorrow.
-THOa. U. H M L.”
The StatfAHK To
Dallas, Tex.. July !Jl *
stutauu-nt rvprarUitui iramGliMC
prepared at the pro htaad-pi.ii t* rs t • -
tkxy, vqry carefully, an.1 ' n :i .*■ Emit-
ted to a number of htx spv-ari • ■' >
WfT« here to «'onf* r w. n h tn • >• r
Sunday. Many <>f th*-
orou*ly obJectFti to :n** * m**rt '1
which th** t.*oloiM*l ■»*i 11' n 1 ’h.,r \ ••
had played • aids for m durnK
rh« lima RptH iflHtl. *>•»*! ’ - it Hi » •'ll Ui IL'C
publto. L»M0 of th'1.1, 'V *■' ' rp.!")
of Or^nviiio. rwUn d h.* **MR*>r* , -
tofiU «n<1 il* riar • 1 n?* * ■» * -1 *'-1 r.* * ^ ,Mj
hla np^akinff dnf• if ’ii*' •• ‘ « ’ '• 'f i
was permitted t«> r»*a* h ?ii»* i-s*1 • _4m
S«j aftr>r » ionK AUMion it wni l**-i‘l* d j in
to withhold lh« »t»ivm**nl. , .
HaM (HerntlrB ohjti limi
DaJlaa, Tax July 1 3 - f-‘Uv iMm- , m.i
I you.” ono of hla atlvlsfin nuUI. "If
1 th*y all knew you a* well aa we do,
| it would bo all riicht.”
• W‘l) ft # golnn fo bo all rlxht,
i anyway," exclaimed Hall- "I ani not
I afraid <»f th# p«\>pla. 1
ilar wher* one of my *xxd friends de-
nlrd In a t-t h that I had ev*r play-
••♦1 a xainr of pokftr That friend ia
mUiakon. I d‘»h't want to put him
In 'h»> position of deuyin# sornethlnff
rthoti? m«* that is truft. If the jhd»i>|»l€
• >f T< \.i» w-tnf to condemn me for
u-liiric th- ftto truth. I wmt to hr
■< m miu 'l rufht now. I toil yoa the
iit-H 1 thi H«ht ntu«r he con^lmd to
? In* "th* r R! * I **
A • 1 'he for two hours t hnif who
th'O.Kh? Hall wuii d Injure hL»n*elf pe-
■ 1 ,i !y j u ,iil* »i will) li tm Ha !
• •• . j Wli.'n t h<'y Had .1M fhd-h
if it hurt* to
•uf to hurt in
.•»!!»'.1 in A “>1
I fl Nt.il i‘tU «*l t t
•f'W the truth. T
elf riKtit now." |
■ n osri ph-r 1111 *1
him to b** ftwiil
. pHpFt'W of r*'XalB In t hilt
he admit* h*- plavrd poker.
Some Campaign Lies
Nailed to the Cross
Th# friends anJ eupertsr* of Col-
ee *1 Ball tier* r. *ort«U to a great a«s»l
of abuse. ■lan;l«r, aa«i rnu*i-sllsgtag.
.nil we are recounting a few of < ii«
oiag.v that we has- bars compelled be-
en use of suck m«th»4a to deny, and we
want now tn warn th« friends of Jim
Ferguson that on the eleventh hour
wkan tt la too late for us to reach
omr friends to deny them, the** same
people ere going to use *he old ttma- l Hall
worn scheme of trying to holster a
falling campaign, and lasu# a!) ktn Is
• +{ campaign Has, slandsr and abuse,
g. i*k our frtenfN to be on '/ • look -
oat for such canards amt promptly de-
ny them. 'V that 'hose, who *o not
kttae Jim Frrgussm mar be spprvsej
ef the real truth.
l»a.l«r» of alt local unions In Tempts
rarne to thu front with u. denial of this
Ue. and It baa beau dropped.
IluHn*. and after the Tit'll County
Bail lially at Midway I'ark "ii July 6.
they told that Mrs Wallace, Jim Far-
giiaaon f inothor-ln-law, had a led up-
on i he reception rommlttea nt the
park, wore a Ball badge and pinned
had*"* on her
awrr
(By D Ale. Ikirnaa—Hla Neighbor.)
If Mr. Fvrgusoa were not a___
maa I would not claim hla* aa an* ef
my Intimate personal friends. la alt
my association with him I have never
hoard him tel, a dirty, amutiy gtory.
I h*v* nevar heard him say a disre-
spectful thing about a woman. I have
boon In Ida home a hundred time#
and he tn aty home aa often, many
hetxra at a time together, often with a
group at men fHonda, and I have
never been Invited to play a game of
OARDB WITH HIM and n«V«r saw a
«*rd In hla home. I havo never been
effered anything HTRONGBR THAN
ICB WATER at hi* home. I know
him ftp he abMIutely devoted to hie
fhmlly—and I have never heard a
whisper associating hla name With Im-
morality of any eert. t have never
•ren him oatar a saloon, even on pre-
tended business.
Ho helonga to no club—unless being
i honored Mason, could be a* sea-
med. Ha dees not talk gossip. He la
excesatvsly (yank and out-spoken In
his oplnlong and do*a not know how
te define tho word policy. I consider
him thoroughly sheer*, and have vat
ta find Mia tnaiterously faliafylng, for
tho ooho of money or prestige. He la
no god—ha makes errara, and to hasty
ta speech, oad Impulsive to demon-
strate Ms friendship, and to resent
wrong.
He Is largely self educated; Is
splendidly endowed by nature with a
quick, keen. Judicial mfnd, which with
tho extensive knowledge he has ac-
quired In his various walks In Ufa,
make bint a remarkably strong man.
do not say this because he Is run-
ning for Oovcruor; he always Impress-
ed me ap being magnificently endow-
ed and a si Undid example of Ameri-
can manhood.
He la a keen student of human na-
ture and can Intuitively tell when he
has conversed five minutes with a
man aa to what kind of a man stands
before him. He hates ehauis, frauds,
grafters, and the state can rest as-
sured when he Is governor that only
men of ability and men who can de-
liver the goods will ever receive ap-
pointment* which require ability, In-
tegrity aid honesty.
Without exception every man tn
Temple concedes he la a man of
ability, a man that brlnga things to
'ZTZ1 iiZgS-lj?’
sou mss Ana aa# **”T®*i*«* V»UavI|B
of running for
-they wars mads I ,
_____ fallow tr.eh—-most I
Uvea would havo ssnrsd towarj
hlblUonlatn, but Jim kept •
three-fourths of hla gifts to ,
people that weru fighting hi
oad night. Mr. Fergwoon hail
given the press notice or a gift!
or* hla public charities—his lay
vote charities, and donation*
solicited at banka, ora not her
tloned. they also amount
sanda
Not to my Ic no sledge ha*
gift her* given ever been ann
bg the blare of trumped* or
the blare
press.
South aide Building
Church, Tent pis ...
Baptist Church, Per “
Lutheran
Baptist
lurch, Pendleton ...
-mi
I have seen so many ridiculous, out-
rageous, untruthful statements mado
concerning James E. Frguson, can-
didate fur Governor—that from being
a passive onlooker I have become a
positive and active partisan.
To the Bell county people who
j know him personally tt Is not neees-
aary to tell about him, but I am go- _ _____
lug to open even their eyes to »«»'’«| marking the'amourit l3.3UI.tf
of hla virtues, no mutter how well|u, OI. a total c|ly ,axos 0f
R. Church,
si Church, Temple...
lot Collet*, Meridian
Toung Men's Christian Aaso-
ctanoik* T# in pic, ••• *»•*»••
Sldswalk Improvameu*. Chris-
tian Church, Temple .....
Cottage Homo, Girls. Baylor,
Belton ..................
Temple High School, Victoria
Masonic Lodge, Belton......
Contribution to Methodist
Minlatery, Belton and Tam-
ale butt 14 year* average
1*8.00 per year .........
German Church. Temple, for
t years, at 1*4.00 ........
South Bide Baptist Church,
I t-* years, at *38.00.....
Old School Prebyterlan, *1-*
years, at **4.00..........
Cumberland PresbyteriM««
Church, 0 years, at $**.00 :
Christian Church. * *-* years,
at *38.00
Father Heckman. 5 year*, al$
*24.00 ...............
Other Church and 8ohoola,|
past years
Large Public Charity at Tem-
ple. pledged for 10 years
* years paid
TAMES E
J DEPGUSON
Jim Ferguson, Who Defied the Political Bosses of Texas
and is so Eloquently Pleading the Cause of the Plain People
Total ................
I went to the tax office
and here Is 1.1a tax list paid
to 19 13:
Personal and for his batiJ
paid Pie city of Temple
Electric light plant taxes—r
they know hlin. I am going to reveal
Jim Ferguson to them and to the peo-
ple of the state as I know him from
every angle. I want to state that
while I have done business with him
and he Is a most agreeable man to do
business with
cent from
Th* first tie told W»* 'hat Jim Fer-
gnson was an In ft0*1 th * refuted this
by th* tootlaony of Tempi* minister*,
and they bav dropped tbst.
friends, llenrhig
of this rank lie Mm. Wallace, w ho Is
73 years old and reside* at Holland [
Immediately sent slgtu <i statements te j
the oto-m denying tb* assertions of j
tb* Bail speakers as absolutely (also, j
statins that they had tried to Indue*
her to wear a Ball badge at th* rally 1
and she Usd Indignantly refused; that!
eomsone plnnstd on* on her and she ;
removal tt and lbrew It upon tb*
ground, and retteralcd, over and <>»«r j
bar loyalty to Jim Ferguson So, they j
bav* abandoned that Ue.
BaU speaker* In Bell county hsve
bran repeating a pathetic tale of how,
la tb* bauklng bnal-
n*a* tn Ballon. Mr Ferguson robbed
a certain "widow woman" out or bu
[ tint* farm, or Uttl* home, or »<•**-
_ > thing of that kind They had r*-
They then r-hatred Ferguson with ***'"« U>« •*-?» ovee sru! over.en-
not render!og hM Will* for taxafi-m. " *nd ,e»™
vr* proved this a »# by th* record*
of th* tax collector of B**au» '.,«nty.
and th*y dropped this
They than ssdd Ferguson employed
SS^pSni^r Ki I
testimony of his tenant* on bis farms, f
and th*y dropped that.
atgh* aad sympathy scad each re-taU-
l»g. until tt uwansd to som* of th*
Ferguson auppoi !*ra te os 11 upon the
[ poor lady and ash bar about It. It was
' found that th* bsutnee* transaction
referred *0 by t. • Radi speakers, which
Mr. F*rgw*on had bandied for her te
They th*n charge*! Ferguson with
being a ''degenerate wit." *«d ws
* mm, ___ , Oni* of the Uvnnm'lUm, »»<! that mid
aSzxr^sett5, bsv« ssutt- -J,m
ootgn: w* putted th* reword aad pro- |
disced letters refuting this statement, t Bewar* of t’kmpstgn U*n. Fsrgn
That had bo** dropped- I *o» ban n put term upon which h* ta
That charged F*rgu*on with haring ! R certain principle*, ff bt* opponent
brought Mitt against hi* fsther Far- b»* ao m*«t ef Ms own aad n* deft
gsutafl was threw tstn *ld wh«n hto, ett* P««' ie# ter th* government of
father died and tht* »*ntr»v«t*d thln'rid' tad admtnUtrartOB of th* offlc*
tt- oad they BraggnG Usst. : to w-b h h* asptrea. oft th* Ua* that
——— might bo told on Dm Ferguson will
They charged Fergus** srtth batng > not Blast him. Bo fair aeon though
•toCriemdlp to organtnad labor. Thw i the teavoea tell.
BllVAN’S WARNING AGAINST RAIL-
ROAD CANDIDATES.
; .William Jeunfnga Bryan, in the Com-
) tnoner.
“Aa the time approaches for the selec-
tion of candidates, the voters should be-
ware of Special Interests. Special
Privilege in still eoetesting every Inch of
ground. Governors are tu he chosen in
many commonwealths. There are four
Special Interests that need watching.
First, tho railroads, for they have a pecun-
iary interest in opposing effective regula-
tion, whether It la attempted through the
enactment of new legislation or through
the enforcement of laws which now exist.
“The voters should see that men select-
ed are not under obMgatkras to the rail-
roads, for every offlcfal who deals with
Special Interests is In the attitude of a
Judge or Juror. He cannot be Impartial If,
either by general bias or because of some
particular relation, he is connected with
those in charge of the railroads.”
President Wilson on Prohibition
As Governor of New Jemey, Woodrow Wilson Wm Guided
By the Same Standard Ferguson Has Adopted.
Ia s letter to s friend In Newark.
N. J.. Woodrow Wilson beg the fal-
lowing ta say on tho subject of “Local
aprioa.*’ "local aalf gavarnmant." an*
the prohibition question In general:
WtMdswm Wawn's DeUSW.
Trantwn. N. J., May 1. t»tl
Bav Thomas B. Shannon, If Ctlntao.
Street. Newark, N. J.
My Door Mr. Bhannoti;
Colonel Ball a Tax-Dodger
a State sad other sub- r !M*
I pf Taoos early la tb* atloo.
pm pen
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ft1*4 Aogwst ». IUL Dtetrtri (tear!,
' salt No. SAMS.
j suit NO. *A04S
IIM, tamo r*»8m$.
IMS. pewperty set rendered ter lu
1011, property not tendered ter uut-
IHg Rs flypt year Mr
■■mm ta Matrrte *oux
Ball owned
r, pr* party
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Tho slate ami eouiity itti
more, $(,671.65, so Bell
Temple consider Jim a goj
with a total of $16,486.St
schools, bridges, roads an®
Then Jim does more for the
I hare never borrowed , )lt„ ranch In Borque count)
him—and never asked j jlls 40(l Hereford* and
tween $75,000.00 and
envy or malice or
call Jim Ferguson 1
dodger?
In a speech Tom.----
did he make hla money? _
It." Jim Ferguson came t
Christmas, S years Ago I'
"Doctor congratulate me if
sake—her mother made h>
this morning of a thov
farm." Jim Ferguson w.f
ready a rich farmer and'
was dally building up
his wife, and her farm, ,
has randled It, Is hsvinl
and profits placed back^
improved conditions all
testifies.
As I have to acoredl
people outside of Bell
copy Tom Ball's plan
only restrict It to WHA(
AND HOLD. I am a
can, dyed In the wool,
htbtlonlst. Some antlsf
trow In Tom Hall's
In my face if they
to lose and nothing
letter. The antis
me because I am a
I am for Ferguson
sideways at me.
I am a steward at
the official board of j
dlst Church. Temple j
years. I am prcsldd
Side Improvement a1,
man of ward 3, Temf </
county democratic <
too; secretary of l
crattc convention; a
urer of Temple
(Benevolent);
without pay for elt
last but not toast. I 1
friend of aad for
THE NEXT OOVJT
hint for a cent—and he never tried to
get me from my bank to his, which
proves him both ethical and having a
long business head on him, for I am
woefully lu tho red at my bank.
Neither urn I a seeker for office after
he Is elected for Governor—so the
only bins with'me Is my personal re-
gard and friendship for him. HIS
BENEVOLENT AND PHI LAN-
THKOPICAL CHARACTER. How
woefully the people arc allowing Ig-
norant and deluded people to mislead
them as to Jim Ferguson s real self.
Ho Is the last man In Temple to brag
about hi* benevolences, and 1 had the
hardest kind of a time gettlfig the
facts I shall now give. He has been
accused of being a money getter—a
regular Shy lock.
Do those kind of nun give largely to
public charities—to churches—Sunady
schools—T. M. C. A.*—minister*—
hospital* and schools? Especially do
they do this, and yet ba outside of the
pale or I ho church? Jim Ferguson be-
lieves In tho Bible and Its Dtvtne In-
spiration-but ha Is only * brother-in-
law to the church, hla wife being a
member. There Is not a dtixen out
of tho church or tn tho church that
has dons what Jim Ferguson has for
his fellow man In tho way of benevo-
lences In Bell county In the past six
years, since he moved to Temple. Tn
one instauce only do tho benevolence*
which I enumerate below extend
further back than atx years—and
NO BENEVOLENCE IS MENTION-
ED SINCE HR BECAME A CAN-
DIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, except
th* one at th# University Church
at Austin, which he sent back to Aus-
tin tho second time now. The** state-
ments are absolutely true and I hold
myself responsible for them, th* prob-
abilities ar* that Mr. Ferguson gave
several thousand dollars more that I
could not secure the data of. Tb* Temple, Tw.o.
Mr. Ferguson A
Is Not College
But e questions Involved ora so-
da! and moral and an* not suaceptl-
hla Of being mad* part* of a party
program. Whenever they bav* baan
mad* tb# subject matter of party con-
test*. they bav* cut tb* Bn*« at pariy
organisation and party octloa athwart
te th# utter confusion at political ac-
tion tn every other field. Thay have
thrown every other question, however
important, into th* background and
has* mad* conatroeUva pony action
tan possible teg long years together, ftp
ter aa I am n.yaaif concerned, tbaro-
fttra. I eon never nsnsant te ton* tb*
qmattoa of local sptloa mada
b««Maa poBUeoi partlm to ft
My Jodgmatu |p vary «lsw In
r d^C J ^1^0 4 H IS ^
H
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The Dallas Evening Journal of July
3. tn Its account at Mr. Fergunon’a
(telnesvtU* speech, mid;
Hon Jamen B. Farguaon. who re-
ceived an eathnaimaUc recaption her#
today, make* no aenrat of tb* fact
that he teals keenly th* charge mada
at the pro rally te Dalta* that h# te
u u educated.
"The preacher# and politician* are
charging m* with being Hill era t a.
with being unaduentad, and era con-
demning me beoanaa I have hod no
college education and do not bold n
collet* diploma. Thin action on the
port of Mr. Boll te a surprise to mo
and an insult te tb* people of Taxon
It mean# that every poor bay te Tax**
who te not abla to got
ration must forego any ambition te
hold a pi*00 of public trust.
'Tht* charge of tho preaohern that
I am uneducated, te no ahnno, hot
the troth. I have never graduated
from any oalteg*. Whan mm* MM
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The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1914, newspaper, July 17, 1914; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth543271/m1/9/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.