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THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, APRIL 2, 19C9
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SHERRILL HAS IT!
If it is a Diamond, Watch, Chain, Charm,
Fob, Necklace, Locket, Bracdet, Brooch,
Barrett, Cuff Buttons, Ear Screws, an Um-
brella, a piece* of Cut Glass, a Thimble, or
anything: in Jewelry, I have it at the price to
suit every purse. I sell the best in all lines.
FINE WATCH REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT
NOTICE.
On last Friday Governor Campbell
placed hia signature to the amended
pension aot relating to Confederate
veterans, abolishing the odious pauper
clause and allowing the pensioner to
possess property to the amount of one
thousand dollars exclusive of house-
hold effects. The law will become
effective on the 13th day of next Jane.
Whatever may be said of the short
comings of the 31st legislature the
above provisions made \*U11 go do&n
in history as just and patriotic.
CLASSES FITTED
Fitted as accurately as it is possible for it to
• be done at
SENATOR SENTER ON THOMAS.
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William J. Bryan will address the
Texas legislature next Monday.
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: Austin, the reputed Athens of Texas
has forty-one institutions of learning.
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Union and her capitol building second
to none in the world.
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There is always two sides to every
question. Let us keep this in mind as
we pass down the line.
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In after years the 31st Texas legis-
lature will be remembered as the
judMttS*. bill killing mud invertig»t-
ing
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Money invested in Hopkins county
farm lands will be one of the best in-
vestments you can make, now while
land to cheap.
Qnite a number of oar farmers say
they will have plenty of seedling fruit
Oar business fronts are being much
improved. Many awnings are being
taken down and new ones substituted
which adds to the appearance very
mneh. May the good work go on.
If yon have anything to do or say
that will promote better feelings
among yonr neighbors don’t fail to
say and do it now. Thoughts and
acts unexpressed .are worthless and
unexecuted.
Mineola is following suit of the
Commercial Club of Sulphur Springs
by offering handsome prizes for the
best' products grown this season.
This is a good move and encouraging
to the man who is behind the plow.
Dallas people are having quite an
interesting time over their commiss-
ion form of government as to which
faction shall do the administration act.
Three tickets are now in the field,
one of these being a socialist ticket.
In the management of railroads in
Europe such a thing as a head on col-
lision is a pyhsical impossibility, as all
trains going in the same direction are
required to ran on the same track.
As a farther precaution against danger
no train is allowed to depart from a
station until the one ahead of it has
left the next station. Comparatively
speaking bat few persons are killed
by trains in the old world. The roads
are doable tracked and every pre
caution is taken to insure safety and
protect life. In America, thousands
meet death and serious accidents on
railways. Thirteen thousand persons
were killed in the United States last
year as compared to thirteen hundred
in Europe.
Among Onr Exchanges
♦ ♦ ♦
In the contest for speakership in
the National Congress between Joseph
Cannon and Champ Clark, one of the
indications of a let np among the
republicans was, that 31 republicans
bolted from the L. O. P. and lined np
for Clark.
If yon are looking for a home on
easy terms, where yon oan make a
sore competence and give yonr chil-
dren the advantages of good schools
and the communion of good peopld.
Yon don’t have to pass Hopkins
county by. Come and see.
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for all home purposes. Some say
they will make a third of a crop.
Eight more days and the special
eearion of the legislature will expire.
They will have to hurry up if anything
to dons in the interest of the people.
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This pleasant weather is very tempt-
ing to the farmers and gives promise
of cotton being planted soon. It is
p!; said the early planting gets the start
of the boll weevil.
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the men behind the plow are utilizing
it. With fair seasons in. the fntnre
the signs point to a hamper crop for
old Hopkins county.
The Osnnon Cracker mast go. Last
Saturday Governor Campbell signed
the bill that places an embargo of 3100
per annnm on those who would sell
or offer them for sale.
The members of the 31st legislature
has had a good time junketing over
the country and being wined and
dined and passing bat little legislation.
Governor Campbell is importuning
them to enact or pass on the platform
demands to which they are paying
hot little attention; the popular sen-
timent being to pass the appropriation
bill and go home. Nevertheless, the
state treasury will be required to pay
$1,200 daily, service or no service.
E. P. GREENWOOD
Hon. Cone Johnson reoently gave
oat that be has not authorised his
friends to launch his boom for gover-
nor. However, he saye he to not do-
ing anything to dissuade them from
their kindly efforts, which to equival-
ent to say at least that he to in a re-
oeptive mood concerning the govern-
orship. '
' It to given on good authority that
700,000 hogs were received at the Ft.
Worth markets in 1908, of this num-
ber only 20 per cent were of Texas
product. There to no excuse or justi-
fication in this shortage of Texas.
Seeing she has many advantages over
other sections for the productions of
hogs her outpnt should be proportion-
ately greater. The fatal cholera, which
sweeps whole districts in other
countries is practically unknown in
Texas.
Generally speaking, the law pro-
vides to pay those who hold elections
and render jury service, and this id as
it shonld be. No citizen Should be
required or expected to leave his
home and business, at a busy time of
the year to render a public service
without due compensation. However,
in the matter of electing school trus-
tees there is no provision for the pay-
ment of the holders of snch elections.
This is wrong, and the result is, that
many districts fail to hold any elec-
tion for that purpose, in snch event
the county judge must appoint trus-
tees; this is often unsatisfactory and
gives room for conmlaint against the
county judge. We believe if the hold-
ers of school elections were allowed a
reasonable compensation for their
services the elections would be prompt
ly held and the people of the respec-
tive districts would get their choice
of trustees and then if the school did
not prosper there should be no com-
plaint as to how the trustees were
secured.
JNO. W. FOSCUE
GREENWOOD & FOSCUE
UFE, HUE, TORNADO AND LIVE STOCK
INSURANCE
OFFICE: THORNTON BUILDING, SULPHUR SPRINQS, TEXAS
The proper time to cultivate land is
before the crop is planted. Then
there is nothing in the way to prevent
yon from doing good work, and he
who farms in this manner is, as a rale,
always up with his work, is prompt in
meeting bis obligations and is pros-
perous, habits of care are conductive
to prosperity.—Texas Citizen.
There is much truth in the above,
thorough preparation of the soil is
more than half the work and when it
is palverized the matter of cultivation
is a small matter. It is a noticable
fact, the most snccessfal on the farm
are those who prepare well their land
In advance of planting.
Texas is going to grow more corn
and better corn this year. Indeed,
the demand for selected seed has tax-
ed the stocks of grain and still orders
come in. That sort of response to the
work of the Texas Corn Grower’s As-
sociation, and the solid backing of the
Texas Press, is decidedly encouraging.
Meanwhile don’t forget the 7cent hog
as a money making side line to the
corn field cultivated intelligently and
strenaoasly. Keep Texas growing.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
More corn and better corn ought to
mean more hogs, for there is more
money in it to the farmer to feed his
corn to the hogs than to sell it direct.
—Denison Herald.
And more hogs and more 6Srn
means more prosperity.
It to the policy of this paper to boost
the town and to knock not. We wknt
to tell everything to the world what
we thing will help the town or bring
business this way. If you don’t think
enough of the paper to give it your
patronage or even your subscription
you need not be surprised if we fail to
put ourselves to extra trouble to place
you or your business prominently be-
fore the public. If it to a cold blooded
business proposition with you and you
don’t think enough of your home paper
to boost its business you certainly
ought not to expect it to boost yoqrs.
—White wright San.
It to the old story of <(the boy and
the echo,” the returns come back to
ns commensurate with what is given
oat. If we are in line with the boos-
ters and always laying a predicate for
the good of home and country, good
results will follow as a natural conse-
quence. _
Bob Purdy, representing a whole-
sale whiskey house, spent a night in
Paris last week. Mr. Pardy has many
friends here who always welcome him.
He says he expects to engage in sell-
ing undertakers furniture next year, if
conditions continue to advance in this
section as they have the past few
years.—Paris Advocate.
It will be very appropriate for the
gentleman to sell whiskey and under-
takers furniture. It will be a good
business arrangement. Whiskey sel-
lers do more to create a demand for
undertakers goods than anybody else,
and they ought to be wise enough to
reap the profit going and coming.—
Petty Enterprise.
Intemperance is one of the greatest
evils of the human family, and the
constant and excessive nse of whiskey
destroys the constitution and invites
early decay. _
As we see it, the trouble with ns is
that we send too much money oat of
Texas for things that ought to be pro-
duced in Texas. Prosperity is not to
be restored by abasing the political
demagogue nor by building more rail-
roads. If we would become prosper-
ous, we mast sell more and bay less.
This is the truth of the situation, told
in a few words.—Bowie Blade.
Not only do we send too much mon-
ey oat of Texas for things that should
be produced in Texas, bat we send too
much money away for things that are
produced in Texas. We bay Kansas
hnttejr; we bay Indiana wagons; we
setts shoe
ratter; we bay Indiana wagons; wc
ray Chicago lard; we bay Massacbn-
lefcts sheetings; we bay California can-
ned fruits and vegetables; we bay
Iowa pottery; we send millions of dol-
lars out of Texas for life insurance;
we spend onr money for scores of
things from other States when we
oould procure as good articles made
at home. The best way to encourage
home enterprise to to buy the stuff
home enterprises make. It to also the
beet way to make ourselves prosper-
ous.—Bonham News.
Austin, March 27.— (Special.)—
Having obtained the floor on a ques-
tion of personal privilege, Mr. Sen-
ter, in the senate today delivered the
the following, which was ordered
printed in the journal:
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Senate: In reply to several requests
that I should make some futher state-
ment in reference to the facts and
circumstances connected with the ex-
pulsion of Mr. Thomas, I have stated
that I regarded my duties here as of
paramount importance, and that I
had no desire whatever to interfere in
the contest now pending in the Sec-
ond senatorial district. My attitude
with respect to this, as with respect
to every matter connected with the
proceedings of tnis body, has been
that it was sufficient for me to per-
form my duty as I understand it, and
to leave the consequences to take care
of themselves. Inasmuch as, how-
ever, Mr. Thomas has issued a circu-
lar, which has jnst been brought to
my attention, in which he has seen fit
to connect my name with his divers
and sundry attacks upon the mem-
bers of this body, and to inject into
his campaign a statement wholly
without foundation touching upon my
course with reference to his expul-
sion. I deem it to be my daty in the
interest of truth and decency, as well
as a duty of candor that I owe to the
people of my own district of whom
I am bat the representative, to make
a plain and permanent record of the
facts touching this particular state-
ment of Mr. Thomas.
I quote from a circular addressed
“To the Voters of the Second Sena-
torial District.” and signed “Yonrs
for Honesty in Pnblic Office, H. Bas-
oom Thomas.” The particular mat-
ter which I shall call to the attention
of the senate reads as follows:
“The day I was expelled we reached
that point in onr deliberations when
I was asked for these names. A few
minutes before Senator Gofer had
asked the president that I should
name these men if they would he al-
lowed to vote upon my expulsion, to
which, he answered in the affirma-
tive. A recess of a few minntes was
taken and a statement was drawn up
setting ont the charges heretofore
mentioned and which could have been
proven satisfactorily to the citizens
of Texas, bat which Senator Gofer
thought would not be accepted by the
senators. My friends advised me to
go no farther, and there we rested
the case, being convinced that if these
names were given, these senators and
their friends would vote for my ex-
pulsion should I attempt to prove
them guilty of corruption. A few
minutes before my' expulsion, Sena-
tor Senter asked if I would promise not
to refer to any of these charges after
the legislature adjourned. I refused
to make such a promise.”
MENDACIOUS IMAGINATION.
It would be impossible for the most
mendacious imagination that ever af-
flicted human frame to conceive a
statement which contains as little of
truth as this. The facts are not
wholly a matter of record, and,
hepce/ltis proper that they should
now be put on record.
Up almost to the vbry minute of his
last senatorial exploit, I was endeav-
oring, with snch little influence as I
could command, to protect the sena-
tor from Hopkins connty from the
jnst consequences of his own folly, to
use the very lightest term by which
his conduct could properly be charac-
terized. When he made his sweep-
ing charges of corruption against the
members of this body I confess that
I was startled, and supposed that he
had some proof to offer against some-
body, for it did not enter my mind
that any person coaid be so reckless
as to stand np in the legislative as-
sembly composed of representatives
from the wnole body of the people of
Texas and declare that he had knowl-
of corruption upon the part of some
members of that body, without hav-
ing a single fact at his command to
supports snch charges. As eVery
member of this body knows, I not
only stood ready to back Mr. Thomas
in his effort to prove up his charges,
bat I was ready to stand upon the
floor and assist in the punishment of
the guilty man if he could addnee
proof of guilt. A committee of in-
vestigation was appointed, one mem-
ber of which was named by Mr.
Thomas, and as I understood the mat-
ter, the proceedings were condncted
with a desir e to afford him every op-
portunity to offer evidence. It is a
matter of record here that he tender-
ed no evidence whatever which would
have supported any charge which re-
flected npon any member of this body.
When Mr. Thomas was first called
to book in this body on account of
his constant reiterated unsupported
charges against its members, and af-
ter he had rushed from time to time
into print with declarations for which
he might have been properly arraign-
ed before the bar of the senate in a
contempt proceedings, it became
manifest that the patience of the
membership of the senate was well
nigh exhausted, and as is a matter
of publio record, notion was taken
which at one time threatened to
result in bis expulsion.
SOUGHT TO SAVE HIM.
Believing at the time that he was
to some extent the victim ofr a dis-
ordered imagination and was pos-
sibly not responsible for his own acts,
and accepting the assurances of bis
avowed friends that he did not under-
stand the meaning of words and
terms and did not know what he was
doing, I joined in a movement to
prevent his expulsion. A conference
was held jnst before the senate then
acted, in which several senators par.
ticipated, among them Senator Braoh-
fleld, Senator Stnrgeon and' myself.
As a result of onr efforts, and of oth-
ers. every man, a nimated by a spirit
of kindness toward Mr. Thomas, he
signed what was proposed and rep-
resented by him to be, and represen-
ted by ns, acting his friends to be, a
retraction of his charges against the
membership of this body. It is a
matter of record that^the senate ac-
cepted that retraction in a spirit of
cordiality, and it was the general un-
derstanding, voiced on’ the floor of
the senate in proceedings in which
Mr. Thomas participated with great
unction, that we were to hear no
more of charges against the mem-
bership of this body, which Mr.
Thomas then publicly admitted to be
without support, and touching which,
as everyone knows, he had offered
not a single scintilla of evidence.
Every man who has any sense of
honor will comprehend my own
amazement when bat a day or two
after this proceeding I read a state-
ment in the press signed by H. Bas-
com Thomas, declaring that he had
made no retraction, and renewing the
oharges for which he had heretofore
been arraigned in the senate. Then
and there I parted company with Mr.
Thomas, and I desire to make a rec-
ord here of the declaration that under
such circumstances I part company
with any man.
I tookrao interest thereafter in Mr.
Thomas or in any of his preformances,
because I found quite enongh of pub-
lic matters of an argent natare de-
manding my attention here to con-
sume all of my time. I should have
remained indifferent to these perfor-
mances if he had confined himself to
the crusade in the pnblic press to
which the principal part of his time
and attention was given as .far . as I
could see, and if he had hot persisted
in blocking the proceedings of this
body with his interminable charges
and insinuations.
PABTING OF THE WAYS.
When this onlminated in the reso-
lution to expel him, I was present in
one of the committee rooms where
most of the members of the senate
gathered and talked over this matter.
Among those who were these was the
senator from Navarro, Mr. Holsey,
who opposed the expulsion of Mr.
Thomas, and who deolared he had no
doubt that Thomas would sign a fall
and complete retraction of all charges
of corruption he had continuously re-
peated against the membership of this
body, and that as a matter of exped-
iency it was best to accept such a re-
traction. After my own experience,
as a volunteer champion of Mr. Thom-
as, I was somewhat wearied of accept-
ing at their face value his retractions.
I then suggested that he had signed
one retraction, in order to avoid the
penalty for his misconduct, and had
immediately retracted his retraotions.
I shall not undertake to qnote the
language of the senator from Navarro,
bat the sabstance of it was that he
was confident that Mr. Thomas wonld
tender fall and ample apologies for
his unfounded reflections npon the
membership of this body. Bearing iii
mind all of these facts,, which I have
related, it will be understood why I
thought it proper after having been
chosen‘'by the senate to interrogate
Mr. Thomas, to inquire of him the real
purport of the last document which he
signed and tendered as a retraction of
his repeated cMhrges. In a commu-
nication to the press, which had been
published bat a day or two before, he
nsed this language:
Every .honest man in Texas, includ-
ing members of the senate, know my
charges to be true, and in a short time
I will publish in pamphlet form a de-
tailed report of the investigation, so
that the people will know something
of the graft, rottenness and corrup-
tion that prevails among the so-called
representatives of the people. The
senate this afternoon wonld not have
permitted me to discuss that report
and the facts disclosed before the in-
vestigation, for my remarks wonld
have forever sent to their political
graves several men of prominence in
the senate.
THOMAS’ SECOND RETRACTION.
In the statement sent up by Mr.
Thomas and incorporated in the jour-
nal as a second retraction, he used
this language:
Some time back I arose to a point of
personal privilege and called the at-
tention of the senate to what I thought
to be a violation of the anti-lobby law
and since which time I have given ont
interviews to the press and made other
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statements on the floorittf
—some of which interviews and state-
ments made by me the members think
reflect upon their honesty and in-
tegrity; and such not being my in-
tention, I think it proper and fair to
all concerned to make the following
statement: I wish to state that I
absolutely know of no member of
this senate engaging in anything with-
in this capitol that is dishonest or dis-
reputable in any particular, and when
I said in an interview given ont by me
that there was a scandal in which some
members of the legislature were con-
nected, I did not mean to convey the
idea that there had been any scandal
of any kind in the capitol so far as the
senate is concerned, bat had refer-
ence to some unlawful gambling, to-
wit: Poker playing in certain places
in Austin in which some members of
the legislature were engaged. ,
It will at once appear to every can-
did mind that these two statements,
the last of which closely followed the
first, are irreconciliable. My final
question to Mr. Thomas was in effect
to ask whether he stood npon the first
or npon the last of snch statements.
In the investigation which was con-
ducted npon the floor of the senate,
every opportunity was offered Mr. %
Thomas to prefer charges and offer
testimony. He was invited and nrged
to make any charge which he could
offer any evidenoe npon, tending to
incriminate any member of this body,
and all of the machinery of the senate
was pat at his command to collect tes-
timony. Every member of the senate
who was present concurred in a re-
quest evidenced by a vote, that he
should present to the senate any fact
or circumstance which he might know
tending to show corruption npon the
part of any member of this body. Af-
ter he had stated that he had nothing
more to say, no facts to disclose, no
charges to make and no testimony to
offer, he was asked if the investiga-
tion had been fair and complete, and
he declared npon the floor of the sen-
ate in the affirmative. In the pres-
ence of this body, he declared that he
coaid not offer a single witness or pre-
sent a single fact to corroborate either
of the many declarations he had madA
against the membership of this body
as a whole. I then pat to him an in-
quiry, the object of which was to as-
certain whether he intended to do as
he had done before and again retract
his retraction? He had declared here
in the presence of the senate at toe
conclusion,'of.4his first’fperformance
that he had no proof, no witnesses*
that he was without a single prop for
his protracted cruise of slander, and
in the face of these admissions he had
rdshed ont before the pnblic and re-
newed the declaration that this body
was honeycombed with intrigue and
scandal. I believed then, and I be-
lieye now, that It was proper for the
senate and thegpnbHc to know wheth-
er Mr. Thomas was sincerely seeking
to bring about the disclosure of graft
and corruption or whether he woe en-
gaged in a sensational fanfaronade,
having no other purpose than to raise
a dust and keep his name before toe
public.
Willful, deliberate falsehood.
I deem it proper to make this full
explanation as a predicate to toe dec-
laration that I now make in the pres-
ence of the senate, as one which I de-
sire to go into the records, which is
that the suggestion that I sought to
exact a promise from Mr. Thomas
that he wonld agitato no farther his
charges against the (members of this
body in return for the implied prom-
ise to shield him from punishment by.
this body is a willful and deliberate
falsehood by whomsoever made, and
conld only bf made' by one incapable
of telling the truth, unless he hacL-
some personal or financial end to gdui
by telling it. This much I deem it my
duty to say in justice to all the mem-
bership "here, whether they joined'in
the resolntion of expulsion or whether &
they merely voted to censure the sen-
ator from Hopkins county for his
misconduct.
Having said this much, it may be
admissible to indulge in one reflection <
concerning this episode. It will be a
sad day for Texas whenever graft and
corruption shall exist in one of its leg-
islative assemblies and no member
can be found there strong and brbve
enough to declare the truth. It will
be a sadder day for Texas whenever
an irresponsible mischief-maker and
scandal-monger can, without a scin-
tilla of truth at his hack, sow the Btate
with (charges of .(corruption, refuse
when called npon to produce one wit-
ness, one circumstance or one fact to
support his charges, back away from
the trial of his charges and then meet
the approval of any considerable num-
ber of our people. We should be ad-
monished’by that suggestive story in
the old blue-back spelling book:
“That constant iteration of vain and
false imaginings soon bring abont a
condition of the public mind akin (to
disgust,” and that it is as important
that the people’s confldense in faith-
ful officers should not be shaken as it
is tha| the unfaithful should be stern-
ly punished. If there be a greater
offender against the public welfare
then the public servant who filches
the dollar which belongs to the pub-
lic, it is that creeping, crawling thing
which insults God’s sunshine with its
slime and Casts a trail of poisonous
soandal wherever it crawls. There Is
no fit place but toe penitentiary for
the public servant who is corrupt.
There is no place tinder the canopy
of God’s heaven where a reckless and
mischievous scandal - monger shook!
Had room and welcome.”
( Advertisement.)
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1909, newspaper, April 2, 1909; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth817621/m1/2/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.