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VOLUME XXXII.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1912.
NUMBER 34.
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K WILSON’S VIEWS
* ON REFORM
NO. 7814.
CAPITAL - - $50,000.00.
SURPLUS - - $10,000.00.
E. W. Nicholson, Vice-Prcs.
J. G. Mullens, Vice-Pres.
W. A. Shown, Pres.
IS. Castleberry
*E. A. Gwaltnney
G. Mullens
DIRECTORS:
E. W. Nicholson
W. A. Shown
Sil Stark
Wra. Turner, Cashier
J. P. Newell, Asst.
Cashier
J. H. Timberlake
Wm. Turner
J. H. Walters
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We offer to the people of Jack County all of the advantages of a
thoroughly up-to-date and conservatively managed banking institution.
The affairs of the bank are administered by a conservative Board of
successful business *men, under the direction of the Treasurer of the
United States. The books are audited at frequent intervals by a com-
mittee of competent accountants, and examined twice annually by a
Special Agent of the Treasury Department, thus insuring to our de-
positors the greatest security known to the modern Banking fraternity.
Our depositors are among the best citizens of the community;
and, if you are not already one of them, a very cordial invitation is
extended to you to become one.
No deposit is too small to be welcomed, and equal courtesy is
shown to all. vttboot r*v*r«i ® *-»e size (of their balances.
THE JJCKSGORO NATIONAL UK
Jacksboro, /Texas
IN LETTER TO PROF. DABNEY
DISCUSSES INITIATIVE, REF-
EREDDUM AND RECALL.
SURRENDERED TO FACTS
Thinks Each State Must Judge for
Itself, and Absolutely Oppposes
Judicial Recall.
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HER TO BAKE
perfectly unless you provide her
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flour of course is the chief. A
sack of our Jacksboro flour will
settle the perfection question so
far as flour is concerned. Order
a sack today, so that perfect bak-
ing, at your house may begin at
once.
JACKSBORO MILL &
ELEVATOR COMPANY.
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The following two letters will be
read with much interest by all as
they give quite fully, the views of
Governor Woodrow Wilson on ini-
tiative, referendum and recall:
Dr. Dabney’s Letter.
To the Editor of the Times-Dis-
patch:
Sir—One hundred and twenty-two
years have elapsed since Washing-
ton was inaugurated as President
of the United States. Dividing this
period exactly in half, we find that
while seven native Virginians occu-
pied the presidential chair during
the first half, not one has done so
during the second. It is sixty-one
years since Zachary* Taylor died. It
'is fifty-nine years since a Virginian
(Winfield Scott) was even nominat-
ed for the Presidency by one of the
great parties.
But it is a long lane that has no
turning. At last, after weary wait-
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mental traits than to the opinions
of some others. This reason is that
I have known him personally and
intimately ever since we met as fel-
low-students thirty-two years ago.
Long before he went into political
life I expressed the opinion that he
was better fitted for the Presidency
than any man in the United States.
I know his character, and I now de-
clare, with the coolest deliberation,
and with the unmost earnestness,
that George Washington himself
was not more incapable than he of
even the faintest insincerity, either
in private or in public life. And, as
for the charge that, because he
partly changed his mind about the
initiative, referendum and recall, he
is intellectually vacillating. I will
call attention to the sentence in
his letter of Nov, 16, in which he
states that reliable citizens of Or-
egon floored him flat with their ac-
count of the actual workings of i
those policies in that State. In re-
gard to this, I wrote to him recent-
ly, and he says in a ’etter from
Trenton, dated Dec. 11: “Before the
experiments in Oregon, there had
been no American facts to floor me
with. I had been going altogether
upon my theoretical conclusions as to
hoy/ far the facts in Switzerland
would fit conditions in the United
States.” And be it remembered
that these Oregon experiments are
very recent things—so recent that
the great majority of those who cen-
sure Wilson for allowing his views
to be modified by them have not
found time to examine the experi-
ments for themselves. The truth
is that Wilson, like all statesmen,
as well as all scientific thinkers,
who are both open-minded and hon-
est, modified his theories when con-
TEXAS WELFARE
R. C. DUFF OF HOUSTON CHOSEN
CHAIRMAN OF ADVANCEMENT
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ASSOCIATION.
PLAN MANY MEETINGS
Open Session to Be Held at Various
Towns. Suggestions for Good
of State Solicited.
W. W. Turney, W. P. H. McFaddin„
E. O. Dunlap and R. C. Duff. The
commission held its first session at
the Oriental hotel in Dallas, Texas,
Thursday, Jan. 11, The office of the:
commission will be at the head-
quarters of the Texas Commercial
Secretaries’ and Business Men’s As-
sociation in Fort Worth, Texas. The.
resolutions adopted by this associa-
tion at its meeting on Oct. 5, 1911,
by virtue of which the commission
has been organized, defined the ju-
risdiction and work of the Texas
Welfare commission as follows:
“The investigation to be conduct-
ed by the commission shall have
special reference to the status of
Texas industries as affected by the
laws of Texas, to determine at
what points, if any, existing statutes
are in disharmony with the efficient
and profitable operation of the vari-
Dallas, Jan. 11.—Formal organiza- ous industries of the state of Texas,
tion of the Texas Welfare Commis-
sion was perfected here Thursday a
meeting held at the Oriental hotel.
Officers were elected and the cities
at which open meetings will be held
was decided on. The dates for
these meetings have not been decid-
ed on as yet. Fort Worth was hon-
hored with two officers of the or-
ganization. The officers selected
are as follows:
R. C. Duff, Houston, chairman;
O. E. Dunlap, Waxahachie; Tom Fin-
ty Jr., Dallas, and Paul Waples,
Fort Worth, vice president; J. A.
Arnold, Fort Worth, secretary.
At the morning session no busi-
ness was transacted but spirited dis-
cussion started when Mr. Finty in-
troduced a resolution that the ma-
chinery of the state government
was so constructed as to make it dif-
and whether the highest good of
the state of its people requires the
maintenance of such a statute re-
gardless of the effect on business,
or whether, on the other hand, it
would be wise to effect changes in.
our economic laws with the view of
improving the conditions of the bus-
iness or industries affected.
“It shall he the duty of said com-
mission to hold open sessions in the
larger cities of the State of Texas,
and at such other points as the com-
mission may find advisable, and up-
on such dates as the commission
may select and designate. Such ses-
sions to be of such durations as the
commission in its discretion may
deem necessary. This association
and the commission shall issue invi-
tations to well informed persons res-
ident in Texas or interested in the
welfare of Texas, who have ahy-
,T. . . ,, * fronted with new facts. Even m-
mg, Virginia has a goiden opporcu-1 ,, ,
... ,, . . ! fallible Popes have ceased to deny
nuy to renew the glories of the . , ,--------
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p$st for the eyes of multitudes of i „ , . . , , of Texas.
' Magellan s ship circumnavigated the
| globe.
MONEY
Money to Loan on Improved Farms and Ranches,
Vendors’ Lein Notes Extended
Come and See Me,
WALTER ISBELL
Jacksboro, Texas
Americans are now turned eagerly
toward a native of Virginia as the
foremost statesman of the land, and
are looking forward w-ith hopeful
resolution to his election as the
liext President of the United States.
Yet, strange to say, while other
States are hailing this Virginian as
their political Moses, Virginia her-
self is lukewarm—or, at any rate,
seems to he. So far as 1 am aware,
neither her Governor, nor either of
her two Senators, nor any one of
her ten Representatives in Congress
have come out and urged his nomi-
nation by the Democratic party.
Explanation of Fact.
What is the explanation of this
amazing fact? Simply this, I be-
lieve, Virginians are a conservative
people ,and a considerable number
of them have been led astray by
ficult for laws favorable to the ma-
teria’ interests of the state to be-1thin§ to offer concerning the mat-
ters under consideration by the
commission, above indicated to ap-
pear before said commission and to
come active factors in the upgrowth
An amendment that
would call for the necessity of a
constitutional convention was lost, iSubmit tbeir views’ complaints
Immediately beneath my signature j ^ mQtion fee withdrawn and the ! oP^ons, either orally or in writing,
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I give Woodrow Wilson’s letter,
and sincerely hope that it will dis-
pel the erroneous conceptions con-
cerning him and cause all Virgin-
ians to rally around his victorious
banner. R. H. Dabney.
Univ. of Virginia, Dec. 13, 1911.
Woodrow Wilson’s Letter.
Staunton, Va., Nov. 16, 1911.—My
Dear Heath: We did not have a
chance when I w^s with you to have
our talk about tjie initiative, refer-
endum and recall; it may be worth
while, therefore, in view of the im-
portance of the subject, for me to
summarize somewhat mere formally
what I said to you in scraps.
original resolution passed without
i to the commission. Persons who
determine whether changes in the
economic ’awws would be wise.
Prof. R. C. Duff of Houston went
my own state cf mifid. I surrender- I facturing state
wholly erroneous statements to the
effect that Woodrow Wilson is a led to the facts, as every candid man , ..Th0 state is suffering from too
radical demagogue who is either in-, must. My whole prepossession—my. much politics» declared Ben B. Cain
sincere in character or intellects j whole reasoning—was against these Qf Dallas chairman of the meeting.
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an abundance of the best of water I am prepared
to do in best shape all Laundry Work
Your Patronage Solicited
HRS. CORDA PHIPPS, Proprietor.
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The following would be a good New Year Resolution:
Resolve. That 1 will get all of my
Job Printing in Jacksboro.
THE GAZETTE OFFICE
Is Better Prepared toDo Your
Printing Than Ever Before
Orders Solicited
ally too vacillating to be trusted as
political guide. This notion—su-
premely absurd to those who really
know the man—is based chiefly up-
on the fact that, after disapproving
for some years, in-his Princeton
lectures, of the initiative, referen-
dum and recall, he has now express-
ed a qua’ified approval of those
measures. I say a qualified approv-
al. But most of those who criticise
him do not know that his approval
is emphatically a qualified one.
They do not know (1) that we whol
ly disapproves of the recall of
Judges, (2) that he thinks each
State should judge for itself as to
the adoption of either initiative, ref-
erendum or recall, (3) that, even in
those States where he considers
these measures to have been suc-
cessful, he does not consider them
as anything but a means to the res-
toration of representative govern-
ment, (4) that he does not think
these policies desirable in Virginia,
or in any State where genuine rep-
resentative government now ex-
ists, (5) that he regards the na-
tionalization of these policies as
wholly impracticable. All of these
qualifications to his approval will
appear in the private letter to me
which I give below. In addition, I
will state what I know to be a fact,
viz.: that it was in accordance with
Woodrow Wilson’s own deliberate
advice that the New Jersey Dem-
ocrats exc’uded these policies from
the platform adopted in their recent
campaign.
Knows Him Intimately.
But when I came into con-
dissent. The investigation by the are mvited but are unable to attend
welfare, commission will determine | ™eeL*n»~ the commission shall be
whether existing statutes are not in !mvited io correspond with the corn-
harmony with industries of the state,1 miSSKm and sba11. be uY^ed to Pr0‘
and will also include the power to vide to tae commission in all neces-
sary detail, arguments, statistics, ex-
hibits and other such data as may be
necessary to indicate completely and
on record as favoring a “new'consd- I'tbe condition of an-v business
tution for the state, but doubted Ior tBduslry alleged to be suffering
. . ..... . , on account of the adverse effect of
the advisability of the commission s , u
any law or laws in Texas.
“Any person resident of or inter-
ested in Texas, who doe3 not re-
ceive a specific invitation to appear
before the commission is invited to
submit in writing his views on sub-
jects under consideration by the
| commission. ,
“In the performance of its duties
the commission is authorized to use
its own discretion as to the general
method for its w'ork and the manner
in which the same shall be perform-
taking up the matter at the present
time.
“The laws are hurting Texas,”
said W. H. P. McFaddin of Beau-
mont. “We are an anti-state and
we are especially anti-trust. The at-
titude of the state is hurting the ef- j
In the first place, with regard to fort8 Qf Texas tQ become a manu_
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spirited men who could speak (with Uon arg Dallag ^ Worth Hou3. | bodying information from those who
regard, for example, to Oregon)] """ --------"----v
from personal observation and ex-
Waco, Abilene
perienee, they floored me flat with
their narration of what had actually
happened. I found in the men who
had advocated these things, who
had put them into operation, and
who had accomplished things by
them not critics or opponents of rep-
resentative government, but men
who were eager to restore it where
it had been lost, and who had taken
—successfully taken—these means
to recover for the people wliat
they had unquestionably lost—con-
trol of their own affairs.
Each State for ’itself.
In short, they were not trying to
change our institutions. The initia-
tive, referendum and recall were in
their eyes (as they are in mine)
merely a means to an end—that end
being the restoration of the control
of public opinion. Where opinion
already controls, where there is
now actual, genuine representative
government, as I believe there is in
Virginia and in the South in gener-
al, they are not necessary, Each
State must judge for itself. I do
not see how it could be made
subject of National policy. The peo-
ple will, in my opinion, demand
these measures only where they are
manifestly necessary tto take leg-
islation and the control of adminis
trative action away from special
hopelessly intrenched interests
They are no general or universa
panaceas!
ton, San Antonio,
and Austin.
Statement Given.
The following regarding the meet-
ing was given out officially by the
commission:
“The Texas Commercial Secreta-
ries and Business Men’s Association
of Texas hereby announces the final
organization of the Texas Welfare
commission. The commission con-
sists of the following well known
citizens of Texas: J. M. Lindsay,
Dr. E. O. Lovett, Dr. S. P. Brooks,
G. W. Brackenridge, Colonel I. T.
Pryor, J. N. Simpson, Tom Finty Jr.,
Paul Waples, B. E. Huff, J. H. Kir-
by, W. T. Loudermilk, S. A. Lindsay,
But, before giving his lettter, let
me state one reason why the reader Against Recall of Judges,
may reasonably attach more weight The recall of Judges I am absp-
to my opinion of Wilson’s moral and luteiy against, and always have been
It is a remedy for a symptom, not
for a disease—the disease being the
control of the system by influences
which general opinion has ceased to
control.
It interested me very much to
find that even in Oregon literally
no one thought of these new meth-
ods of action as a substitute for
representative institutions, but only
as a means of stimulation and con-
trol. They are as devoted to the
idea of our representative institu-
tions as we are—and are bent upon
realizing these ideas in practice.
That is their conscious object.
As for the recall, it is seldom
used outside the municipalities. I
do not remember an instance of its
use on a State officer. It is merely
“a gun behind the door.
Faithfully yours,
Woodrow Wilson.
appear before the commission touch-
ing the conditions of all businesses
or industries which may be bettered
by the changes in our laws and tc
collect-and collate the true facts
concerning such businesses and in-
dustries.
“That the expenses of the Texas
Welfare commission, including a sal-
ary for a secretary, be defrayed by
the Commercial Secretaries’ and
and Business men’s Association of
Texas. Members of the commission
are to act without salary.
“That the Welfare commission be
requested to conclude its labors and
to submit its report to this associa-
tion at the next annual meeting
thereof, to be held in the fall of
1912; that when said report shall
have been received and approved by'
this association, that the same be:
certified to the governor and legis-
lature of the state of Texas for-
their consideration when the legis-
lature next convenes jn regular ses-
sion.
“The commission has tentatively
determined to hold open sessions at
different points in the state during
the year. %
“At the times and places mention-
ed the commission will invite per-
sons interested in the welfare of
Texas to appear and submit infor-
mation and data touching any of the
matters the study of which has been
undertaken by the commission.
“The Texas Commercial Secreta-
ries’ and Business Men’s Associa-
tion confesses to a feeling of pride
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1912, newspaper, January 18, 1912; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729536/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.