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ERCEDES TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO.
L. T. HOYT Manager and Editor
Subscription $2 Per Year in Advance
Entered as second class mail matter at
the post office at Mercedes, Texas, Janu-
nary 23, 1914, under the act of March 3,
1.879,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918
A VOTER’S PRIVILEGE
Voters who participated in the
Democratic primary last July pledg-
ed themselves to support the nomi-
nees of that primary at the elec-
tion next Tuesday.
The question arises. Who is the
regular nominee for senator of this
district?
/ The senatorial convention at Cor-
pus Christi split and both Glasscock
and Parr were certified as the nom-
inee by their respective factions.
Later the Democratic State conven-
tion in session at Waco reviewed
these certificates of nomination with
the evidence attending each of them
and by a unanimous vote declared
Glasscock the regular nominee.
In pursuance of this action the
Secretary .of State directed Glass-
cock’s name to be printed upon the
official ballot.
The scene then shifts to this coun-
ty when a single judge, exercising
the remarkable power conferred up-
on him, reverses the action of the
Democratic State convention and
enjoins the carrying out of the di-
rection of the Secretary of State.
Under these circumstances it
would seem that the voter should
have the fight to determine in his
own mind who is 'the rightful nomi-
nee for this important office re-
gardless of the appearance of the
official ballot.
WEEKLY MARKET REVIEW
OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
(Continued from page 1)
English is being taught to French
girls in France under the ausipces
of the Y. W. C. A. It is proving ex-
tremely popular.
Wisconsin Danish seed ranged about
steady at $16-20 per ton f. o. b., Wau-
paca, and$16.70 in the Racine District
selling to jobbers in Chicago most-
ly at $28. Colorado stock ranged
steady at 90c-1.00 per cwt. f. o. b.
Greeley at $1.25-1.50 in Kansas City.
During the corresponding week last
year New York domestic stock rang-
ed $30-32 f. o. b. Rochester, while
New York/ and Wisconsin stock fol-
lowed a general jobbing range of
$35-45. Shipments increased to 1,031
cars compared with 914 last week
and 1.540 for the corresponding week
last year.
Onions in Slightly Firmer Position.
Conditions improved slightly in
eastern shipping points and prices
held firm throughout the week, rang-
ing $1.30-1,50 per cwt. sacked f. o. b.
Rochester, N. Y., and $1.40-1.60 at
North Ampton, Mass Consuming
suming markets ranged nearly steady
at $1.25-1.75 in the east and $1.25-
$2 in the middle west.* California
Australian Browns ranged $2-2.25
per cwt. sacked for carlots in south-
western markets. During the cor-
responding week last year New York
Yellow stock was held at $3.25-3.65
f. o. b. Connecticut Valley Yellow
Globes ranged $2.50-3.50 in leadinng
consuming markets and California
Australian Browns sold to jobbers at
$3.25-4.25 per cwt. Shipments the
past week were 739 cars compared
with 873 cars last week.
Citrus Fruits Becoming Active
Florida started 365 cars of grape-
fruit this week compared with 231
last week and 281 cars of oranges
compared with 76 last week. Price
of grapefruit tended slightly lower.
Central District Brights medium size
closing at $2.50-3.00 per box in pro-
ducing sections and $3-5 in northern
consuming markets. The range of
auction prices also declined slightly
and the range at the close of the
seven days was $2.63-5.10 for com-
bined sales of fruit from various
Florida sections, Central and Indian
River oranges, Brights, medium size,
followed a prevailing range of $4.50-
5.25 per box in northern markets.
CHARLES J. BRAND,
Chief of Bureau.
No Mystery
in Meat
Some things are so simple
that they have to be explained
again and again. When things
are obvious, people keep looking
for mysteries behind them.
So it is with the packing bus-
iness. The mere size of Swift
& Company confuses many.
Because their imaginations are
not geared up to scale, they be-
lieve there must be magic in it
somewhere—some weird power.
Swift & Company is just like any
other manufacturing business run by
human beings like yourself; it takes in
raw material on the one hand and turns
out a finished product on the other.
Swift & Company keeps down the
“spread,” or the expense absorbed be-
tween raw and finished material, to as
low a figure as possible. (If it didn’t
it would be put out of business by
others who do.)
How much Swift & Company pays
for the raw material, and how much
it gets for the finished product, depends
upon conditions which Swift &
Company does not control.
It depends entirely upon how much
people want the finished product, and
how much raw material there is avail-
able to make it from.
The profits of Swift & Company
amount to less than one cent per pound
on all meats and oy-products—less than
one-fourth of a cent on beef.
Keep Your Pledge
Make Good for Our
|«i Fighting Men
BUY WAR - SAVINGS
STAMPS
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
The fourth Liberty Loan drive was
a great success in Texas.
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The food administrator for Texas
calls upon the people to use less cof-
fee.
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Many cities in Texas are enforcing
“the work or fight” order of the gov-
ernment.
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Brigadier General John D. L. Hart-
man of Douglas, Ariz., has become
commanding officer at Camp McAr-
thur, Waco.
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A carload of mohair shipped from
Fredericksburg to San Antonio
amounting to 36,700 pounds brought 81
cents a pound.
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Colonel W. L. Redd of the regular
army has been selected as chief of
staff of the 100th Division at Camp
Bowie, Fort Worth.
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Land six miles north of Waco has
been leased by oil prospectors, and the
indications for oil and gas are said to
be exceptionally favorable.
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About 10,000 acres of land northwest
of Bronte, in Coke county, have been
leased by oil promoters who will start
soon digging a deep test well for oil.
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The game of football that was to
have been played at Houston on No-
vember 2 between the University of
Texas and the Rice elevens has been
postponed to November 16.
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The campaign being conducted
throughout the state to collect fruit
pits and nut shells to be used in the
manufacture of carbon for gas masks
is progressing satisfactorily.
A certificate to do business in Texas
has been granted by the department
of insurance and banking to the Inter-
state Business Men’s Association, an
assessment society of Des Moines, la.
The announcement that the govern-
ment has decided to pay $4.50 a bushel
for castor beans instead of $3.50, the
guaranteed price at planting time, is
very gratifying to the ones who plant-
ed castor beans in Texas this season.
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A respite of 28 days was granted by
Governor Hobby to Frank Gilbert, who
was to have hanged in Liberty county,
Texas, November 1. Gilbert is under
death sentence for the killing of his
wife, and a 21-day respite previously
granted expired November 1.
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Carrying a consideration of $75,000,
the Crown Oil and Refining Company
of Houston has purchased a three-
quarter interest in the Allison Oil
Company’s twenty acres, located on
Hogg Island, at Goose Creek, Texas,
one producing well being located on
the tract.
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President R. E. Vinson of the Uni-
versity of Texas, after conferring with
the local health authorities at Austin,
announced this week that there would
be a further suspension of all classes
at that institution until Monday, No-
vember 4, on account of the influenza
epidemic.
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Orange (^ipxas) shipyards are to re-
ceive the aM of more than eight hun-
dred Texas soldiers, who have already
started to arrive. T^e soldiers are
members of federalized companies
who have not yet befen called into ser-
vice. The men are to receive the pay
accorded civilians.
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Delegates from local unions in Tex-
as, Louisiana, Oklahoma, California,
Kansas and Colorado will meet in El
Paso November 19 for the purpose of
perfecting permanent organization of
the International Union of Oil and
Gas Well and Refinery Workers, a
charter having been granted the or-
ganization at the last meeting of the
American Federation of Labor in St.
Paul.
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Renewal of contracts for furnishing
of 18 of the adopted text books used
In Texas public schools was refused by
the publishers, and the governor, in a
proclamation, calls for bids for the
furnishing of books covering the fol-
lowing subjects: Spelling, geography,
arithmetic, United States history, ele-
mentary grades and general history.
The bids are to be received up to noon,
November 27, and are to cover a pe-
riod of from one to six years.
The field officers’ training school at
Camp Stanley, San Antonio, for the
Texas cavalry has opened.
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The Texas bureau of the United
States employment service has been
asked to recruit 5,200 men within the
next thirty days for employment in
the munitions plants. That these
workers must come largely from the
ranks of men now engaged in non-
essential work was made known in a
communication received by Raymond
G. Miller, examiner in charge of the
Texas bureau, from H. W. Lewis ol
San Antonio, federal state director of
the United States public service re-
serve.
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State Land Commissioner J. T. Robi-
son makes the suggestion that at the
close of the war, when thousands of
American boys will return maimed
and without the personal equipment
or qecessary means of supporting
themselves in a befitting manner, that
the national and state governments
should earnestly consider the matter
of requisitioning the large land hold-
ings upon terms deemed fair to the
owners and turn them over to the use
of such told'.or boys as would be in-
clined io occupy teem.
Gov. Hobby Declares
D. W. Glasscock is Regular
Democratic Nominee
F or Senator from the Twenty-third Dis-
trict, and Sends the . Following Tele-
gram Affirming His Support:
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“Austin, Texas, October 22nd, 1918
“Untainted Democracy at home is as much to be desired as an unkaisered Democracy
abroad. The recent victory for honest government in Texas makes it most inopportune for one
to occupy office except when chosen by a majority of honest bona fide voters. For this reason
the election of Hon. D. W. Glasscock, the nominee of the Democrats of the Twenty-third Sena-
torial District, is extremely important now. The highest Democratic authority in Texas, the
Democratic State Convention, speaking for the hosts of Democracy everywhere in this state, in-
vestigated the resuluts obta ined in the Twenty-third Senatorial District and found that the nom-
inee is Hon. D. W. Glasscock. For this reason and because I am grateful to the Democrats of
the Twenty-third District for their loyal and patriotic support of my candidacy and believing it
to be to the best interests of that District as well as to the whole state to stand by the choice1
expressed by the Democrats of the District, I sincerely trust that the friends of good govern-
ment in the splendid region of the Rio Grande will rally to the support of and make sure the
election of Mr. Glasscock in November.
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--At j.
. W. Glasscock, of McAllen, Hi-
dalgo County, is tlie regular Demo-
cratic Nominee for State Senator for
the 23rd Senatorial District of Tex-
as, because:—
1. —He received a majority .of the
votes iiL the Democratic primaries.
2. —He was declared the nominee
by the regular Democratic District
Convention.
3. —He has been declared to be the
legal and regular nominee by the
State Democratic Convention.
4. —His name has been officially
certified as the regular nominee by
the Secretary of State, the State Of-
ficer charged by law with that duty.
5. —Hon. M. H. Wolfe, of Dallas,
Chairman of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, in a telegram
to Hon. C. H. Flato, Jr., of Kings-
ville, October 19th, said:—
“In the face of the evident frauds
in the primary election in your sen-
atorial district as disclosed before
the committee on credentials at Waco
and the action of the State Demo-
cratic Convention in declaring Glass-
cock to be the rightful nominee for
senator, you are without doubt justi-
fied in asking the voters of that sen-
atorial district to schateh the name
of Parr and write in the name of
Glasscock on the ticket before cast-
ing the ballot in the November elec-
tion.. M. H. Wolfe.”
Information as to Voting.
We are calling upon all citizens
who believe in celan politics and
honest government; in the purity of
the ballot; in control by the people,
and all those who desire that the
will of the people be fairly repre-
sented in the State Senate to support
D/ W. Glasscock on Nov. 5th.
The Ballot (How to Vote for H. W.
Glasscock
The name of D. W. Glasscock will
not be printed on the ballot because
Archie Parr secured an injunction is-
sued by Judge Chambliss directing
that the name “A. Parr” be printed
on the ballot and that before the
election is too short to secure a
hearing in the higher court, there-
fore:
A voter may vote for D. W. Glass-
cock by marking out the name of
“A. Parr,” by drawing a black pen-
cil mark through the name of
“A. Parr,” under the heading “For
Senator of the 23rd District,” and
writing the name of D. W. GlassCoek
in the proper blank column to the
right on the official ballot, which
only gives the names of the officers.
The question has been asked: Will
the Democratic voter who marks out
the name of A. Parr as printed in the
Democratic column and writes in the
name of D. W. Glasscock in the blank
column as above explained, be
“scratching the Democratic ticket,”
and will this affect in any manner,
the party standing or regularity of
said voter, or his record as a reg-
ular Democrat who votes the Dem-
ocratic ticket straight? No.
The only way in which a Demo-
cratic voter can comply with his
pledge is to support the nominee .of
the Democratic party is by marking
out the name of “A. Parr” and writ-
ing in the name of “D. W. Glass-
cock” in the manner above ex-
plained.
“A. Parr” is not the Democratic
nominee.. D. W. Glasscock has been
declared by the Democratic party of
both this district and this State to
be the legal and regular nominee.
This question has also been asked:
Will the machine which is supporting
Archie Parr be able to exclude from
the next Democratic primaries the
Democrats who mark out the name
of A. Parr?
No. This Rio Grande machine ~<jf-
ter Nov. 5, 1918 will have gone down
in final defeat. The incoming State
Administration is fully committed to
the policy of cleaning up these con-
ditions. Hon. Walter J. Crawford,
State Chairman of the Hobby cam-
paign committee, in a formal state-
ment addressed to Mr. Chas. H.
Flato, Jr., as District Chairman, said:
“This campaign having been
fought and won for clean politics
in every part of Texas, we can
not now afford to yield a sin-
gle point in any county or dis-
trict.”
The Texas State Democratic Con-
vention, the highest Democratic au-
thority in Texas, sitting as a body of
the whole, repudiated Parr’s claim to
nomination as State Senator for the
23rd District
Question. Why does Parr’s claim
to nomination depend on the Duval
County vote? Answer. According
to Parr’s own figures, “in all of the
counties outside of Duval in the 23rd
District D. W. Glasscock received a
majority' over Parr of 1162 votes.”
Question. When Parr admitted
that Glasscock had received a major-
ity of 1162 votes outside of Duval
County, how many votes did he take
out of his vest pocket and credit
himself with in Duval County? An-
swer. 1303 votes.
Question. Do the Democrats of
this district approve Parr’s methods?
Answer. No. The Democratic Dis-
Political Advertisement
W. P. HOBBY.’
trict Convention strongly condemned
same, threw out Parr’s returns from
Duval County and declared D. W.
Glasscock the Democratic nominee
for State Senator from this Dis-]
trict.
The Democratic State Convention
by a unanimous, rising vote, (after
investigating the returns from Duval
County) passed the following reso-
lution:
“It has come to the notice of this
convention that in the conduct of
the recent primary elections in Du-
val County, there was corruption and .
fraud of the most brazen character^
as shown by sworn statements and
affidavits, secured by officers of the
State of Texas, such as indiscrimi-
nate voting of illiterates and persons/
not citizens of the United States
who cast ballots and prepared them
without their dictation or suggest-
ions; the wholesale payment of poll
taxes by unauthorized persons for
illiterate and unnaturalized Mexi-
cans; the voting of the women who !
were not American citizens; the fail- J
ure of election offiAfe; to make re-
turns within the preMbagttg^s and;
in the manner provil^^^^^Bw, in
short, practices which^^^^^K the
violation of almost e\I
culated to safeguard the tEt
ballot.
"It is a notorious fact that Iffchie
Parr of Duval County, is claiming
the Democratic nomination of the
Twenty-third Senatorial District for
State Senator from said District, and
his claim to said nomination is pre-
dicated on irregularities, 'fe-aud and
corruptions, in the holding, balloting
and declaration of results of the pre-
tended primaries held in the County
of Duval.
Therefore, be it resolved, that the
Democrats of Texas, in convention
assembly do hereby condemn the de-
spiseable methods followed by those
responsible for the activities herein
mentioned, and hereby express their
severe censure of any candidate for
public office who knowingly encour-
ages, accepts, or acquiesces in such
methods and means to secure a nom-
ination for office as a Democrat.
“Be it resolved, it is the sense of
this convention that the Secretary
of State shall refuse to certify the
name of Archie Parr as a candidate
for said Senator from the Twenty-
third Senatorial District, but should
certify the name of D. W. Glasscock,
the legal and regular nominee.
“Be it resolved further that the
Governor .of the State be requested'
to continue the investigation of the
conditions herein set out, as occur-
ing in Duval County or any other
county in this State, and use all the
means at his command for this pur-
pose and call upon the legislature to
pass such stringent laws as may be
necessary to correct same.’’
ABOUT WAR LOANS
The money we pay out and what
we get for it is a fair statement of
our war program and of our na-
tional achievement so far, and indi-
cates definitely the magnitude of
our undertaMnng, the giant scale of
preparation and the standard we have
set for ourselves in this grim strug-
gle to preserve our national life and
the civilization of the world. What
we have done so far points to what
is before us—what we must do week
by week and month by month till the
war is won.
In normal times—in eace times—
it costs about a billion dollars a
year to run the government! For
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918,
congress appropriated in round num-
bers, including deficiencies, $18,882,-
000.000. For 1919 congress has ap-
propriated in round numbers at the
present session, including deficien-
cies and appropriation bills pending,
$24,330,000,000.
The mind is often confused over
“appropriations” and “expenditures”
Congressional appropriations fix the
limit of what may be used. Then the
governmental departments and bu-
reaus spend what is necessary, and
at the end of the year the appropri-
ations lapses. Official figures show
that for the fiscal year 1918 the gov-
ernment spent $12,696,702,471.41. and
in addition during the war months
of 1917 disbursed $885,000,000 for
loans to allies.
Up to the very day we entered the
war Germany believed that victory
for the Central powers lay just
ahead. A‘ strong factor in this cal-
culation was their belief that the
Entente powers were financially ex-
hausted.
Germany had spent fifty years
preparing for a war of conquest. She
knew that from its very start she
must wage it from withinn the circle
composed of herself and her allies,
that she must produce from within
this circle her raw stuffs and manu
factured material, and by doing this,
though the war has continued far be-
yond the eighteen months that Ger-
many s\t for its winning—if there
was to be a winning—she has kept
her money at home, used it over and
over again, as the same water often
turns the wheels of many mills.
Our allies, on the other hand,
owing chiefly to the lack of prepara-
tion, had to come into the markets
of the United States for most of
their war necessities and in the years
of our neutrality their account with
US totaled approximately $9,453,524.-
547.
A nation and an individual are
alike when they want to buy any-
thing they must have money or cred-
it, which is based on money. Our
allies were short on both and we
supplied their need. We advanced
them money and credit, and we call-
ed the transaction a loan. In the
fiscal years 1917 and 1918 we loan-
ed them $5,623,000,000. Their secur-
ities and governmental undertakings
to repay lie in the vaults of the
treasury of the United States.
What our allied did with that}
credit or money is of vast impor-i
tance to us. They looked to us to
supply them with wheat and corn
and cotton from our fields, coal and
ore from our mines, and finished
products from our factories and foun-
dries they could not remain at war,
so they brought this credit that we
had lent them into our markets and
spent it over our counters.
During the fiscal year 1918 our
exports amounted to $6,000,000,000.
Six billion is six thousand million.
Most of these went to our allies, and
was turned immediately and eagerly
into fighting stuff for winning their
war—our war.
You will be interested in knowing
some of the things our allies really
did with the sums we lent them.
First they used over $150,000,000 for
relief in Belgium and Servia. The
people in Belgium call it “blessed
money.” Beside the enormous ex-
penditures embraced in the term]
“munitions of war,’’ they have spent
$800,000,000 for c&reals, $800,000,000
for meat and other foods, and $600,
000,000 for cotton.
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Another advantage the movie hero}
has is that he can prove he was in
the war by showing a picture of him-,
self cleaning up with thV helmeted!
opposition.
Our position simply is that the/
German army represents the kaiser's
heaviest running expense.
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