The St. Louis Republic., 1901-07-21

| EEIE(EEIN Nv
Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey Of Texas.
| WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
1t Is the consensus of opinion among the
able men in the City of Washington. whose
| positions and long service in public lie
qualify them to speak, that the state OIL
| Texas Is to-day the most ably represented
State In the Senate of the United States.
| Some people may take issue with this
| strong statement, but, in my humble 1udg-
\ ment, after q close study ut short range
| for a number of years of the entire per-
| sonnel of the Senate, it IS correct.
Texas certainly has sent two of her
| brainiest and most brilliant men to the
Senate. and in future will have occasion
| to be proud Of them. They Will measure
| up to the full standard Of past senatorial
| greatness. and when the occasion Is great
| enough they will arise to such height as
to make some men now In the senate o,
| the United States look like political and
patriotic pismies.
I Senators Charles A. Culberson and Joseph
W. Bailey are, neither Of them, native
| Texans. Mr.. Culberson Is a native OF Ala
bama; Mr.. Bailey of Mississippi. That, in
the opinion of many people, makes them
better Texans than If they were native. A
native cannot help being a Texan; these
gentlemen became Texans from choice, art
er they had arrived at the age of reason
| Senator Culberson, however, was much
younger than Mr.. Bailey when his parents
moved from Alabama and made Texas their
home. His youth was spent at JEFFERSON,
| Tex, and he graduated at the Virginia MIL
itary Institute, Lexington, Va, and at the
| law department of the University OF Vtr-
glnia. He returned to his home in Texas and
after practicing law awhile in Jefferson he
moved to Dallas In that metropolis OF
North Texas, where reside some OF the old
est members Of the Texas bar, he soon won
his legal spurs and ranked shoulder to
shoulder with the best and biggest.
T. Possessing then, as DOW, disposition
frank, genial and cordial he was an ex-
cellent mixer" and soon had many earnest
frio Ids and sincere admirers. In the sum
mer Of 1889 one Of his friends of the coun-
try press named him as candidate for
Attorney General Of the State. year In
advance OF the nominating convention. Inc
suggestion was taken up by the press all
over the State and hailed as an inspiration
So persstently was his name pushed for the
place that In the spring OF 1880 he was COM
PEELED to announce his candidacy. and other
aspirarts saw the futility Of attempting to
defeat him. He had only one opponent IN the
State Convention that met in San Antonio
in August, 1890, and was nominated prac'
tically by acclamation.
That was the beginning of the most phe'
nomenal political career ever enjoyed D!
| any man in this country.
l Attorney General.
elected Governor. and then United State:
Senator unanimously by the Legislature, al
within eight years, is a record for any mar
to be proud Of.
As Attorney General of Texas, Mr.. Cul
berson was an ideal official. His work wa.
as clean as hounds tooth. and he wor
many legal battles before the highest courts
Of the land. and thereby put thousands o.
, dollars into the Texas Treasury. OF one o.
his arguments before the Supreme Court O.
the United States, Chief Justice Fuller pail
him the great compliment OF saying to MIR
Cubersons father that it was the cleanest
| cut and ablest legal argument he had eve
| heard
, Wouldn't that make fathers hear
l swell with pride?
In 1894 Mr. Culberson became a candidate
for Governor. to succeed Governor Hogg. l
was remarkable campaign that ended ],
t his nomination over such able opponent.
as S. w. T. Lanham and that noble oil,
Roman, the only surviving member OF tht
SonIe1efate Sso,he.. % io.ine .,s Hsa.S % VI .''
r lower Eouse Oh CONFESS anu ioiAs' otIe'
. States oeha.oi ' - "os
I name was houseno'o "olo % nnu .o"ei
| strehstn III every hoHe III
His two administrations as Governo
| touched the high-water mark of states
: manship. When he entered the Governor
! office he found an enormous hole in tn
, | Treasury and State revenues insufficient t
fill It and nay the States honest debt
l also. He went to work to re-estabish an
| reorganize the States revenue system o.
a self-sustaining basis. and when his sec
p ond term expired every State warrant hat
| been paid and there was surplus of owe
half million in the Treasury.
l He also. while Governor, gave an exhi
r bition Of a man with q vertebra as big a
a telegraph pole His veto of q general ap
propriation bill ct the close of a session o
the LEGISLATURE and his immediate call 70
: an extra session before the members coul
9 leave the capital in order to draw Inileag
= ns ,.e ,,ar, ,,ho ms a nrosnective cani,dat
49, Irnitod ct.tes Senate and yvh
sa,,,d denanS for election upon the vote
y a,,, nf tho mon ha was thus antayo
!. ,i,ing He vetoed that appropriation iii
| hecause ne considered that it would bay
5enleted the Treasury and left insufficien
revenues to suuply the deficit. It was III
oh,act lesson in purc patriotism and obli
n cation to the people of the State, Male
:, elictions loud and deep were heaped upo
, him. and a resolution of censure was of