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Tlie Lampasas Leader
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VOTE FOR
Thos. L. Blanton, congressman
from this district, spoke at the court
house here Monday evenuig. He was
introduced by H. F. Lewis and helu
the closest attention of his audience,
while he went into his record and
gave an account of some of, she,
things which he has accomplished
while serving the people.
Congressman Blanton said in part:
“On July 24 you are to, choose one
to represent you in Congress 'for the
next two years. To render service of
any value, he must be trained,
must know how to- perform,
must know what to do, when to do it,
how to do it, and where to do it.
“I am familiar with the business
of every department, bureau and
commission in Washington to the
minutest detail. I know well the
rules. I know the inside workings of
each committee. I know the history
of measures that have been passed,
and of those that have failed. I
know just how and where to look in
bills for waste, extravagance and
graft. I have held my own against
the leaders ever since I have been
there. I know how to block bad ones.
I know each and every congressman
and senator, their hobbies, and their
private business connections. I am
already trained and experienced to
handle your business in Washington.
Any new man would require years of
hard, diligent study to equip himself
as I am now already equipped. The
rules of the House of Representatives
are the tools of a congressman.
Without them, he is helpless. It
takes years to master them. Only
a few members ever know them.
You would not select a man to build
you a house who had no tools and
was not a trained carpenter. It is
just as important to select a con-
gressman who is already trained, and
knows how to perform the work suc-
cessfully.
“I have opposition because I would
not betray my constituents. I dared
to disobey the commands of the
multi-millionaires of the East, most
of whom made their fortunes out of
the war. They induced Florida to
abolish estate taxes. Then they or-
ganized the United States in an ef-
fort to induce the government to re-
peal the federal estate tax. They
wanted to pass their immense for-
tunes on to their children intact, with-
j out contributing anything to the ex-
! pense of government.
“They organized Texas. The Tex-
| as organization made Leon Shield,
| then a banker at Coleman, their sec-
’ retary. They raised a big fund.
| They sent Leon Shield and a bunch
I of other propagandists to Washing-
! ton, and paid for a big banquet at the
! Raleigh Hotel in October 1925. They
; invited senators and congressmen. I
I iyent- They asked me to speak. I
j told them .that we have in the United
; States three men worth a billion dol-
lars each, Secretary Mellon worth
i five hundred million, and a number
! worth one hundred million each; that
they have bought palatial homes in
; Florida, where they spend two win-
ter months, and their families spend
the balance of their time in the fine
hotels of Paris and London, while
they operate on Wall Street, increas-
ing their millions from profits de-
rived from all over the United States,
and that if they were not required to
pay a-fair and reasonable estate tax,
it would be only a question of time
Avhen practically all of the material
wealth of the nation would be in the
hands of a very few..
The Oldest Tax.
“The estate tax is the oldest
known to civilization. It dates back
to Babylonian Kings. It was levied
by the Caesars. Every civilized
country in the world today has an es-
tate tax. Thomas Jefferson, the
father of Democracy, favored it.
William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow
Wilson and William G. McAdoo were
strongly for it. And I told this,
bunch of propagandists at the ban-
quet that I would not vote to repeal
it, and I felt sure that not a member
from Texas would vote to repeal it,
and that they just as well quit spend-
ing their money and time, for they
couldn’t get rid of it. And the chait-
man of the meeting then said: ‘We
“But Leon
threatened to
gress. When
Shield’s organization
put me out of C'on-
Smith announced, he
didn’t do it from Austin, where he
was a deputy fish officer, he an-
nounced from Coleman where Leon
Shield lives. His platform was
mailed out from Coleman. He es.-
tablishecl headquarters at Coleman.
The Coleman Democrat-Voice on
April 9 stated:
‘ “Leon L. Shield has been appoint-
ed Judge Smith’s campaign manager
for Coleman county, and Monday
morning told our reporter that an
active campaign would be waged.
The main thing is to beat Blanton, |
he said.’
“And on April 7 the Browiiwood |
JJe | Bulletin also announced Leon Shield!
' as Smith’s campaign manager. And!
shortly thereafter Leon Shield wrote j
to every bank in this district attack-1
ing me, and boosting Smith. In the
Coleman Democrat-Voice for May 7
appeared a half-page ad for Smith,
signed ‘Campaign Committee,’ and
stating (‘names on request’) I wrote
Editor Williamson for the names.
On May 14 he replied that he went
to Leon Shield for the names, who
said that he would furnish them to
me if I wrote him direct, and adding:
‘ “Mr. Shield, I think, is the head
of the campaign for this county. He
placed the advertisement referred to.’
“But it smoked Leon Shield out,
for on May 21 he placed another half-
page ad in the Democrat-Voice, and
signed it Leon L. Shield. And since
April 7 Shield and Smith have been
organizing the district against me,
when I was working day and much
of the night in Washington.
Letter from Crisp.
“On May 6 Leon Shield wrote his
second letter to the Albany_ National
Bank, stating that I was without in-
fluence in Washington, that ! couldn’t
get an audience at the White House,
and that hardly a man in Congress
would speak to me. I am one of the
very few who can introduce you to
all of the 435 members. I referred
Shield’s statement to Congressman
Chas. R. Crisp of Georgia, one of the
most prominent members, who was
parliamentarian of the house years
ago when his father was speaker of
the house. Here is his answer to
Leon Shield.
“Washington, D. C. June 5, 1926.
“Hon. Thomas L. Blanton,
“House of Representatives,
“My dear Tom:
“Your letter of the 3rd, ihst., ad-
vising me that Mr. Leon Shield is
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writing letters to citizens in your dis-
trict stating that yoii are without in-
fluence in Washington, and cannot
get an audience at the White House,
and that hardly a man in Congress
will speak to you, received.
“I am much surprised at this, for
I don’t see how any one familiar with
your standing in Washington could
make such a mis-statement. You are
universally regarded as the most in-
dustrious man in the house, as fear-
less in the discharge of your public
duty, as voting in accord with your
judgment and sentiments, and as a
very valuable man to the country.
“I know that through your efforts
many vicious bills have been defeat-
ed, and that, by exposing the evils of
these measures to the membership oi
the house, you have saved the Treas-
ury of the United States thousands of
dollars. Your splendid ability is rec-
ognized by your colleagues. Of
course you have many friends, and of
course some enemies as all men of
any strength of character have, but I
entertain for you, as you know, a
warm friendship and cordial regard.
“It is • ridiculous to say that you
cannot see the president, for of course
he is just as accessible to you as he
is to any other Democratic member
of Congress.
“While I recognize that I have no
right to have any voice in whom the
splendid Democrats of your district
shall elect to represent them in Con-
gress, I do hope they will see fit to
return you, for in my judgment, your
defeat would be a distinct public loss.
“With kindest regards and best
wishes, I am, Cordially your friend.
“C. R. Crisp.”
Kills Many Bills.
“Is it right for Leon Shield thus
to misrepresent me and my record ?
I have ardently supported and helped
to pass every good measure, and have
blocked and helped to defeat many
wheat raisers at the expense of our
southern cotton farmers. Besides
wasting the initial sum of 8375,000,-
000 it would have placed an army of
high salaried employes drawing
from 812,000 per year down on the
pay roll for life and would have re-
sulted in each bale of cotton being
taxed at the gin up to the possible
maximum of $15 per bale, which
would have ruined every southern
cotton farmer. Naturally, we Tex-
as members would not agree to it.
“As to my standing in Congress, in
an extensive write-up concerning my
Texas, ought to be proud of Thomas
L. Blanton.
• “With warmest greetings to all of
my Abilene friends, and praying God
to make you and your church an in-
creasing blessing to Abilene, to Tex-
as, and to the world, 1 am, Cordially
yours.
Wm. D. Upshaw.”
“Washington, D. C., May 10, 1926.
“Honorable Thomas L. Blanton,
“House of Representatives,
“Washington, D. C.
“My dear Mr. Blanton:
“I feel impelled to write to you and
to congratulate you most heartily on
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
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work, the Daily Telegraph, at Wheel- to congratulate you most neartuy on
ing, West Virginia, on April 5, 1926, j tne splendid speech which you made
said: ‘Blanton is honest, fearless and j in the-house the other day. You were
oossessed with a tremendous seeming j n°t only the mos. eloquent but I nave
tireless energy. He usually seems I never heard a more powerful defense
to be right. ‘He is one of the best j of the just rights and prerogatives of
parliamentarians in the house. Now j the States against the encroachment
he is treated by his associates with j
uniform consideration. Blanton is an
unrelenting foe of graft and extrava-
“I also take the greatest pleasure
in stating that my associations with
gance, and has won the confidence of j you from the beginning of my service
bis fellow congressmen.’ 1 in congress have been most agreeable
In Burnet County. j to me. Our work together on the
Judge Smith claims Burnet as his j committee on the District of Columbia
home. In 1922 he asked his neigh- ! has given me an opportunity of judg-
bors to re-elect him county judge. I ing of your tireless industry, great
In the primary on July 22, 1922, he range of information, and undaunted
received 556 votes, Zimmerman re-! courage in standing for the rights of
ceived 893 and Gray received 1053 ; the people at all times against selfish !
votes. While in the same primary I j interests. I have found that co-eper
Notice is hereby given that the
Democrats of the several 14 voting
precincts of Lampasas county will
hold a precinct convention on July
24, 1926, at the usual places of hold-
ing Democratic Precinct Conventions
at 2 o’clock p. m. of said day for the
purpose of electing delegates to the
County Democratic Convention to be
■held at Lampasas at the Court House
on July-31, 1926, at 11 o’clock a. m.
The following constitute the four-
teen voting precincts of Lampasas
County, namely:
Lampasas, No. 1; Nix, 2; Bend, 3;
Pecan Grove, 4; Adamsville, 5;
Gholson, 6; Lometa, 7; Kempner, 8;
Rock Church, 9; Fowlers Valley, 10;
Lampasas No. 11; Atherton, 12; Izoro
13; Moline, 14.
The precinct chairmen of the sev-
eral precincts will call the conven-
tions to order.
It is urged that all Democrats take
part in these conventions and send a
may not get rid of the estate tax, but | bad ones. My minority reports have
time comes, we will killed scores oj. bills, and s opp
Thomas S. Christopher
Candidate for
Attorney General
(Political Advertisement,) -
Renew Your Health
by Purification.
when election time ; comes, we
get rid of Blanton.’ And they are
now trying to do it.
“This bunch of propagandists
came back to Texas and through the
press called a mass meeting of the
citizens of my 17th district to meet
in Coleman on November 28th, 1925.
About 30 people, all from Coleman, Buildings, for which 1 Paul |£ou .L,j
light, Leon Shield presid- have printed caused Colonel Sherri!'
resign, it
McMorris,
much waste and extravagance. Dur-
ing the nine months recess last year,
when other members were practicing
law or traveling abroad. I took no va-
cation, but made a minute personal
investigation of many departments.
My report on the Supt. of Public
" for which I paid $260 to
ran against 4 opponents, and Burnet: ation with you .in your work has not j representative to the County Con-
county gave me 1430 votes, Prof. I only been easy but a pleasure for one ; vention who will attend the conven-
Holland 47 votes, Judge Cunningham I who thought and felt as you did. ! £jon j.Q on ^]ie above mention-
>&s&U5r&£ s% H^rsvicd date at the Court House at Lam-
305 votes, thus giving me a clear ma- J resentatives, and one of the greatest I pasas.
jority of 719 votes over my four j usefulness. _ I By order of the Democratic County
prominent opponents. j “I am very confident that the good j Chairman.
“From numerous letters voluntari- people of your district must be aware j j) scott
ly written me by my colleagues in . of the honorrdffe position you ha\e a l-j Lamnasas
congress I quote one from Hon. taiued here, and I am sure that they! Chairmar cm. L. . C .. a.npas
Henry Rathbone, who was president will be not only ready but anxious to j County, Texas,
of the Illinois Bar Association, and a continue you in your present place of j H. F. Lewis, Secretary.
leading Republican and one from usefulness. • n . , j__
— - “With assurances ox mv high re-
gard and esteem,! am,
“Sincerely yours,
Henry R. Rathbone,
one
Congressman Upshaw, a leading
Democrat and known throughout the
United States as a leading Baptist
evangelist.
“Washington, D. Q., June^ 3, 1926.
“Rev. Millard A. Jenkins, -
“Pastor, First Baptist Church,
‘‘Abilene, Texas.
“My dear Jenkins,
“Knowing your natural admiration
for spunky loyalty to things that are
highest and best, I feel like I must, , -
congratulate you in particular, and j oeymour E. J. Cox, seiuonced^tio
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Leavensworth, Kan., July 12.—
Dallas, Texas, July 9.—Another
personal sacrifice to prevent the al-
leged possibility of Dallas becoming
a “wide-open beer center” was an-
nounced Friday.
Sheriff Schuyler B. Marshall, who
tlon.
And from Coleman they sent
me a telegram threatening me with
deadly opposition, if I didn’t obey.
“I have the confidence of the busi-
ness men of my district, and of Tex-
as, and of the United States. They
know that I have no Bolshevik ten-
dencies. No other man in the United
States has made a more unrelenting
Any physician v/ill tell you that I fight against Bolsheviks and radical-
“Perfect Purification of the System I ism than I have waged ever since I
is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect | have been in Congress.. And business
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
ihronic ailments that are undermin-
aig your vitality? Purify your en-
tire system by taking a thorough
course of Calotabs,—once or twice a
week for several weeks—and see how
Nature rewards you with health.
Calotabs are the greatest of all
system purifiers. Get a family pack-
age, containing full directions. Only
35 cts. At any drug store. (Adv.)
R. B. Hester of Snyder spent Mon-
day here in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
O. N. Cornett.
met that night. ^______ ____. _ ^
ed, and the Coleman Democrat-Voice ! to hunt a new job and
in its issue of December 4 quoted him j caused the removal oi
as saying that I ‘would have deadly Supt. of Park Police. My lnvesug*--
opposition,’ and I was also denounced 1 tion and report caused the remova o_
by State Senator Stuart of Fort j Mr. Miller, Supt. of Insurance.
Worth, who admitted before our dele-; first reported Director Forbes c le-
gation in Washington that all of his ; honesty in the Veterans Buieau,
expenses both tc Washington and to ! his friends denounced me, ye, e Wc.
Coleman was paid by this organiza- i convicted, and is now m tie ® ‘
- ' penitentiary. My recent investiga-
tion of Commissioner Fenning is
causing him now to pay back to shell-
shocked veterans much money^ that
im wrongfully took from their es-
tates. I kept my pledge and fought
until the distribution of garden seeds
was stopped, thus saving $360,000
per annum. I have fought continual-
ly against the whole people paying
the civic expense of Washington for
the tax-dodgers living there, and
have caused their tax ra"te to be
gradually increased each year from
90 cents when I went up there to
$1.70 on the $100 this year, thus-sav-
ing the whole people many millions:
My fight stopped members from buy-
ing all kinds of articles from the sta-
tionery room.
“The farmers of my district elected
me. They have kept me in Congress.
I have been their faithful, dependable
friend. I have fought to reduce their
freight rate to provide them a better
market, and to grant them real re-
lief. But the Haugen bill was spec-
ially drawn to help the central corn
producers and the Northwestern
men know that they may always ex-
pect from me a fair, square deal
Refused Appeal.
“All 18 congressmen and both
senators from Texas refused to re-
peal the estate tax. We passed a
splendid tax bill. It reduced ta-xes
25 per cent. We also reduced taxes
25 per cent last year. This was pos-
sible because a few of us there
fought for economy and against
waste and graft. And the estate tax
doesn’t hurt many men in Texas.
With our community laws when the
estate in Texas is not more than
$200,000, no estate tax whatever is
payable to the government.
dil Houston, Texas, in 1924 to the Feta- j > tuning forte-election, said that
-trict in general, on the superb and ; penitentiary on charges of using 1 -*le will pay out ol his own pocket
heroic work which has been done, | ^ majjs defraud, will be paroled i costs of having beer, seized by his
and is now being done, by your hard '
working, plucky and able Congress-
man, Judge Thomas L. Blanton.
“You will remember that when I
spoke several times in Abilene and j pr0val of Justice officials for the pa-
july 20. at the expiration of one-third ! deputies, analyzed for alcoholic con-
of his sentence, it was learned au- | tent, according to a local court rul-
thoritatively here Monday night. Ap- .
District Judge C. A. Pippin, charg-
role has been obtained, it is announc- I ing a new grand” jury not to “waste
ed.
Cox entered the penitentiary Feb-
ruary 11, 1924, under two sentences,
time” on beer cases, pointed out that
the State provides no funds to pay
for having beer analyzed to see
the surrounding county, I paid fre-
quent tribute to Blanton, declaring,
frankly, that while I had not always
agreed" with him on everything, that
I must hand it to him as one of the
most vigilant and useful members of
the house. But since then Blanton
hfsS aSShgniStryfand^hiS u°tTer! rently. He and E. O. Glenn had been j In the discussion that followed, Dr.
abandon to his concept, of public duty j convicted at Houston, Texas, on ; Landon C. Moore, chemist, styling
have become more and more the in- I charges of using the mails to defraud | himself as a “staunch prohibitionist,”
spiration of every member of con- j in connecti0n with the Blue Bird Oil ! offered cut rates for analyzing beer
gress, who believes in the triumph oi ! Com liy
one of from one to five years and the j whether ft has more “kick” than the
other for eight years, running concur- j Dean law allows.
personal and national honesty.
“Blanton’s revelation in the case
of Commissioner Fenning have caus-
ed a succession of sensations in the
nation’s capital and in them he has
practically stopped the method of his
enemies and positively commanded
the respect and admiration of the en-
tire house.
“He has done a work lasting thru
many weary days and weeks and
months, for which some lawyers
would have been paid anywhere from
$10,000 to $50,000, if it had been
handled from that standpoint. But
with unselfish devotion to the cause
of truth and humanity, he has expos-
ed fraud and championed the cause
of unfortunate veterans in a way not
only to force remedial legislation in
Washington, but to act as a whole-
sale deterrent against evil officials
all over America. And your city and
district, and indeed the whole state of
TAPS SOUND FOR EX-
SECRETAPvY JOHN WEEKS
samples, charging $2.50 a sample in-
stead of his usual $10.00. He also of-
fered to give expert testimony in
court free, instead of charging his
usual $100 a day.
Sheriff Marshal said Friday he will
accept Moore’s proposition and stand
the expense himself, in view of the
Lancaster, N. H., July 12.—John W.
Weeks, war secretary under President
Harding and Coolidge, died here at
his summer home, Mount Prospect, at | fact that there are no State funds
3 o’clock Eastern standard time, this j whatever for the purpose,
morning. Death came from angina j — -
pectoris and followed a long fight fori Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Cuny have
health.
Mr. Weeks died without recovering
consciousness from the coma into
which he had lapsed early Sunday
morning. Mrs. Weeks, his son, Sin-
clair, and Mrs. John Washington
Davidge, his daughter, were at the
bedside when the end came.
their guests this week, Mr. and Mrs.
C. S.' Coleman and children of Miles,
Mrs. J. C. Hanks of Wichita Falls,
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Curry and Mrs.-'
H. Moore of Blanket. They are en-'
joying camp life in Anderson park
and are in Baylor lodge. Mr. Curry
is taking his vacation this week also.
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