The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, August 17, 1928 Page: 2 of 8
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TO THE MEN AND
^ . , WOMEN OF TEXAS
1 cannot too strongly urge a con-
sideration of the Hon. Tom CoipaHy
for United States Senator. I think
that T know the ideals of the Texas
press with regard to public office—
it stands for honest, clean and cap-
able public servants.
I have known Tom Connally inti-
mately for thirty years. He is hon-
est, clean and capable, and is admir-
ably well equipped with the qualities
of mind and heart to reflect credit
upon his native state in the United
States Senate. ,................-.......— .
How well he stands at home is in-
dicated in the returns of the primary
election held July 28. He carried this.
Falls County, his home, by s vote of
3492 to 353 over his present opponent
and receiving 82 per cent of all the
votes cast for United States Senator.
McLennan county
CONNALLY GETS HEAVY
MAJORITY IN BELL COUNTY
The Herald last week Invited its
readers to watch for a vote of confi-
dence from this, Tom Connally’s con-
gressional district which was certain
to be accorded him in the primaries
of Saturday. The result may be point-
ed to with pride, for, as you have
seen, the vote was overwhelmingly in
his favor, notwithstanding the fact
much of the congressman’s district
was also the old senatorial district of
Mr. Mayfield when he was in the
State senate, including Bell county,
where the last count shows Mr. Cor-
nally had polled more than 5,000
votes, while his opponent was polling
less than 1,000. To add to this, Mr.
Connally carried by a good vote Bor.
que county, the home county of Sen-
ator Mayfield. He carried his own
county—Fails, almost solidly. People
of Texas, this means something! If
nothing more, it shows conclusively,
how the people of this district who
are undeniably in a position to know
and judge the superiority of these
two men as to qualification, fitness
and ability to fill the high office '
U. S. Senator stand. It is the opinion
of thousands of Mr. Connally’s
friends that if he is elected to this
exalted position on August 25th, the
place for him shall be perpetual due to
govern•
Now is the time for you to build or make repairs on your
home. Do it before the fall rains set in. A neglected repair
that is small now may cost you two or three times as nTum
if you put it off. Check up on your needs, then get ovfP
money-saving prices on lumber. f
GET OUR ESTIMATE ON THE COST
When you get ready to build a home, do any kind of repair
work or build any kind of building, let us estimate the cost
fof you. s •
We are willing and anxious to serve you any way we can.
Our retail lumber trade is growing rapidly for which we are
duly thankful. ^
We Are Serving Others—
Let Us Serve You.
Today you demand infinitely mote in your
automobile than you did five yean ago. In
order, to satisfy you, Oakland now bunds the
AiL American ■ Si* and the Pontiac Six with
greater care than ever before.
Oakland a—d Pontiac Sixes are built in fac-
tories constructed almost entirely within the
past two yean.
Oakland i* constantly discarding and replac-
ing equipment, content to use only the very
newest, most accurate designs. Oakland in-
spection standards axe second to none.
Wouldn’t you prefer * car built in the world’s
most aaodem automobile plant with standards
. o£ precision such.as Oakland employs? Drive
an. All-American Six or a Pontiac Six, and
you’ll find theanswer in superior performance,
stamina and reliability.
gave Connally
8100 votes and Mayfield 1400. Mclen-
nan joins Bosque, the home of Sen-
ator Mayfield, and it also joins Falls,
the home of Connally.
In Bosque county, in his congres-
sional district and the home of Sen-
ator Mayfield, Connally received 1820
votes to Mayfield’s 763. Connally car-
ried Bell county by 5613 to 939. Bell
county is the home of J. E. Ferguson,
now
LUMBER
CHAS. R. NELSON, Mgr
CLIFTON. TEXAS
who opposed Connally and has
come out for Mayfield
Men and women of this d
who have followed Ferguson in his
former campaigns, and who know
Connally as well as Ferguson, will n*-
fuse to follow Ferguson into the May-
field camp. They know that the vic-
ious attacks made on Connally are
for campaign purposes only, and they
will not be deceivM by them.
Fraternally,
J. M. Kennedy,
Publisher, The Marlin Democra*.
his unusual knowledge of
mental affairs, and to the honest, sin-
cere and conservative service he will
be sure to render to the people of
Texas.—Killeen Herald.
PERSONAL LIBERTY together; organise, and start a eam-
Arthur G. Staples, verteran editor paign t*» floor this Volstead business
the Lewiston (Maine) Evening if it can be done,
turnal, printed in his book, “The Now Mr. Editor, I am no bum and
using Age,” the following letter you can’t make me a bum. I like b
om "A correspondent who seems to little drink now and then and I have
ive taken some offense at our opin- taken a third or maybe it is a fourth
n on the duty of good people to and I am more than ever convincew
>ey the law.” that any man thqt doen’t is a big
To the Editor: idiot You say that this evabion of the
You seem to take a good deal of1 law is producing a stafie of affairs in
our Grear nand Giorous Country. You
are wronh. This ciuntry is jess as
good as ever was and was a great
deal better country and I will leabe
it to you f Sit wasn8t, when we had
free rum. 1
1 want to say to you that this
Secitch is all right. A lot of it Would-
n’t do us harm. When we ened stimu-
lany we need it. My grandfayer was
brougr up on rum. They had it in the
housd all time. They dranj it freely
and even the ministew drank id when
he came to our housa. It8s a pretty
kinf of a cointry when a garndson is
better than his gundfaher. I can drink
this sort of Scutcg all day not be no
worse a citoxen than I was befote. I
could drink ths whole quaet and neger
quiber an etelash.
Bue whay I wneat o f yiu is to re-
mund yiu oner agaiaian abd agnain
thqt you arw dead wronh^kconu-
fenging evert bony whu drinhnfas a
bouhn. We ain’t criulals.
I will sat inxlosihg , thqt i wisg
yiu a 2meRrt Chrihywax” an haooy
Six years ago, through the united
efforts of the Ku Klux Klan, the rail-
road interests and the big oil inter-
ests of Texas, this combination whs
able to remove from our Nationa
Senate Chamber, the distinguished
Chas. A. Culberson But the spirit ol
that grand old chieftan is speaking
to, the people of Texas today, and on
the twenty-fifth of August, 1928, thi^
people is going to nominate a son of
Texas worthy to wear the senatorial
toga that Mr. Culberson was fom-d
to lay aside. Tom Connally was one
of Senator Culberson’s devoted!
friends for many years while they
National
M. L. ROBERTS
(CLIFTON
delight in telling other people how
to live and perhaps that is your bus-
iness, but it seems to me that you
exceed your duty when you arrogate
to yourself the right to inform all
of those who may happen to enjoy
an occasional drink of “Scotch” on
occasions.
I have been presented a fine bottle
of Scotch whiskey for Christmas am
it is before me as I sit at my type-
writer and indite this letter to you.
It bears the label of Sandy MacDon-
ald—a good, fair, well-bodied liquor
which I am assured was bought be-
fore the war and has been in my
friend’s cellar ever since. What right
has any form of Law to make me a
criminal if I partake of this gift as
it was intended that I do by the
giver.
I claim that any such law is an in-
vasion of my personal liberty. I no-
tice that you have referred often in
your excellent column to the so-called
Bill of Rights which secures to all
men and women certain inalienable
rights to their persons! liberty, which Ner Yrare”
as you say, are not inconsistent with Rexcevtfillu Yioytdx OSBdt Swrvt.
the rights of others. How do you yec-1 Willie B. FulLe r.
oncile your statements? -
I have just tasted of this bottle of MAYFIELD DECLINES DEBATE
liquor, I will confide to you, and I Dallas, Texas, Aug. 8—Earle B.
cannot see where or how^I am invad- Mayfield has declined the invitation
ing the rights of any other person on of Tom Connally of Marlin, his op-
earth. I find it excellent- It farms ponent in the senate run-off, for a
my stomach; it inspires my thought-: series of joint debates.
I cannot feel, Mr. Editor, that t have -
wronged the community or added t< C C C
the lawlessness of the general so- 0 D 0
ciety in so doing. It makes me tired CurM Chills Fever
to be classed as a criminal for an> Intermittent, Remittent and
such occasion, and I notify y0u that I Bilious Fever due to Malaria.
before long, there will be a revolt! ft y]|a tj,e Genas
against the sort of stuff that you arc -
writing. T r n
Just to show my independence of * • U. LOStOH
such truck as you are writing J, * PHY8ICIAN AND SURGEON
have taken another drink of the 0ffice’ Do^tairs in Brooks building
aforesaid most jubilant Sandy Mac- Next door Corner Drug Store
Donald, and I will say to you that it Te,«Phonea: Office 80; Residence 78
is about as smooth a drink as a crim- CLIFTON TEXAS
inal ever put into his system. The
second drink, which I shall soon fol
low by a third, makes me more cer-
tain that those who feel their sys-
tems require-stimulant, should band
find they cannot do so well where all
is quiet.
’ Mark Twain used to write his best
stuff lying in bed wearing an oh
fashoned night gown. Frank R. Stock-
famous "Rudder
THE BEST CONDITIONS
K FOR YOUR BEST WORK
labored together
Congress, and Tom Connally is the
Texas son who is going to Washijig-
ton; take the seat made vacant by
Senator Culberson’s retirement and
there take up the work where that
worthy Texan quit off some six years
ago.—Llano News.
I suppose every writing man or any
successful man is constantly in re-
ceipt of letters asking him about his
personal habits. The correspondents
all want to know under what condi-
tions he does his work the best. They
even inquire us to what he eats and
what clothes he wears.
One of these correspondents once
wrote Bill Nye asking what clothes
he wore and how he dressed. He an-
swered, 4Tn the morning I wear
und in the <everiing 1
ton produced his
Grange” dictating it while he lay in
a hammock and sipped lemonade.
Hazlitt, the essayist, spoke entbus-
iastcafty about the benefits of out-
door walks. Many other people cannot
think while walking.
Schubert scratched off some of his
best -songs at odd moments. One of
his famous pieces was jotted down
CONNALLY WOULD DO TEXAS
CREDIT IN THE SENATE
It is a rather curious situation
which Texas faces in regard to the
run-off for the United States Sena-
torial nomination. The four former
candidates who are not in the second
primary, together polled 294,000
votes—within 88,000 of the combined
total (377,000) given Senator May-
field and Representative Connally.
Thus the figures stand at the Texas’
Election Bureau’s final count
And those 294,00 “scattered” votes
loom beside the July 28 showing of
either candidate now in the run-off—
Mr. Mayfield's 199,000, or Mr. Con-
nally’s 177,000. Yet, all things con-
sidered, it would appear that ti c bulk
of that scattering should be thrown
to Mr. Connally on August 25—cer-
tainly enough to give him the vic-
tory.
It is hoped so, most earnestly. A:
every fair, practical and legitimate
point of comparison between the can-
didates and their fitness to serve
the Senate at Washington, San Anto-
nio Express sees Tom Connally thi
gainer. His -teady-going, clean-cut
career of usefulness since the time
he entered the public life of Falls
county and the State, as legislate
and as prosecuting attorney early ir.
this century, deserves commendation
and respect tnd has won both thru
out a great part of Texas. The same
sturdy devotion to patriotic duty
which marked his service as an e.i
listed man in the Spanish American
war and as a captain in the. Great
War, characterizes the record of hi-s
six tern>3 in Congress.
Unremitting application to the
tasks of representation—to the inter-
ests of Nation and State—thorough
respect—worthiness, a proved abilitj
to get things done, an intelligence and
a patriotism which can be counted on
alike in quiet times and critical, ar.d
qualities upon which any Com men-
walth’s electorate should insist when
morning ______
wear evening dress, and at night I j*st thYng to do is not to
wear a night •dress.'” ^ ^ instate somebody else but to
About the best jaiie ior-doing your £nd thr wheai your own thoughts
flow wth the greatest ease and then
work hand.—Dr. Frank Crane.
beat work is to ‘find those conditions
that suit you best, wherein the brain
functions the most -effectively. What
these condition* sue varies in the ease
of different people.
Elie Metchmkoff, the Tittle Russian
Jew who herssne one -of the famous
“microbe busters1” and -discovered
that in the human body aw oells hos-
tile to disease microbes, said be could
always carry on his i ijirrisifiti best
when pretty girls ear dbee by- In
your case, however, tins kxad arf sur-
roundings might have a distasting ef-
fect.
Paul Ehrlich, another experimenter,
used to have the grind-organ musi-
cians play dance music outside the
laboratory. He said his best ideas
came when he heard gay music like
that.
Dickens always had to have the
same kinds of slips of paper and blue
ink and a quill pen when he wrote.
Stephen Foster, an American song
writer, composed his melodies in a
silent room with heavy carpets and
draperies.
Newspaper men, used to the cease-
less noise of typewriters and the
hustle of a copy room, sometimes
LEMENS THANKS VOTERS
I wish it were possible to take
each person who voted for me by the
hand and tell each, personally, how
I really appreciate the splendid vote
gSwre me hi my recent campaign for
the Legislature. Since this is impos-
sible, I hen avail myself of the best
means at my command to acknow-
ledge my indebtedness and at the
same time pledge you that the orl/
method by which I can repay the ob
ligation is to give an honest, diligeiu
incumbency for the benefit of all thr
people of the entire district. To this
program I am committed.
Most gratefully,
VERNON LEMENS
Four years ago Jim Ferguson op-
posed Esrie B. Mayfield for the U,
S. Senate with his usual bitter tirade
and abuse—but was defeated; now
he says between the “two evils” May-
field and Connally, as contenders for
the U. S. Senate nomination in the
August primary, he will supppri
Mayfield—and drives his venom into
Connally. “Bug under der chip”—
Beware!—Walnut Springs Hustler.
TOM CONNALLY GETS
OFFERS OF SUPPORT
There were six candidates for U. S.
Senator in the first primary, when
Connally and Mayfield led.
Since the primary Blanton, who
ran fourth, has offered his support to
Connally, as has Mrs. Cunningham.
McLemore, who received the few-
est number of votes, will support
Mayfield. So far Owsley has not said
positively who he is for, but his cam-
paign manager has announced for
Connally.
Mr. Connally, who led Mayfield by
859 votes in Milam county in the find
primary and who carried his home
county and district by a tremendous
majority, while his opponent lost his
home county and the county of his
more recent residence, looks like a
sure winner in the run-off.—Cameron
Enterprise.
NOTICE
District Executive Board of the
Boy Scouts of America will matt
Tuesday, Aug. .21 at 4 p. m. at the
First National Bank. All committee-
men are urged to be present. Very
important business.
Publicity Chairman.
H. J. Cureton
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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If what Jim Ferguson ssid about
Earle Mayfield six years ago was
true then and is true today, then Jim
is supporting a mighty ugly candi-
date for the United States Senate—
FOR THE
Fort Woi
have seen those qualities manifest foi
12 years past. It will be tb Texans’
interest to nominate Mr. Connally by
a great majority on Aufcust 25—
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, August 17, 1928, newspaper, August 17, 1928; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775275/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.