The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-17
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Innocence Abroad's Graphic Dee
scraytisn a the Hill coanty
Campaisn.

Tt Is all over and we finally did
win the Congressman IN Hill coun-
lty. 1t, however, was hard fought
battle. When Wooten refused to
meet Beall on the stump then IL be-
came a wild scramble for that high
and honorable position. In each
and every other congressional dis
trict In Texas or anywhere else In
the United States, so far SIS / have
any knowledge, candidates for con-
gress canvass their districts togeth-
er in joint debates. Some time IN
the beginning of their campaign In
Bosaue county Jack got Wooten up
to toe the mark In a joint debate at
Iredell, and those who heard 1t say
| that Jack made him so nervous be-
fore he got through with him in the
tussle Wooten could not sit still and
| to show that he had enough of Jack,
he never would get up to the lick
log again, and Iredell, which was
conceded to be a strong Wooten box
before their joint debate, went about
two to one for Beall in the primary
election. ] think, and i SO heard,
great many of Beall's friends who
went to Bosque and Hill counties to
work for him say that this kind OF
business for this high position was
all wrong, but as we Ellis county
citizens looked at it there was moth
ing else left for us to do after Woo
ten refused further to meet our man
Jack is fully able to take care OF
himself and If Wooten had given
him fair division of time in both
counties there would have been no
necessity for the leg pulling and
house to house canvass that was
made by the friends IF both Wooten
and Beall in Bosque and Hill coun-
ties. / thought / had enough OF
politics when / got back from Bos-
que county, but when the Hill coun-
/ ty campaign opened the committee
said / must GO, and Col. Jim Davis
raised his big walking stick he car
ries over my defenseless head and
ordered me home one morning week
before last to get myself ready to go
with him to Hillsboro right away.
/ was not disposed to go back on my
friends, especially when such argu-
ments as confronted me right then
were being used, and home / went
in Col. Jim's buggy and related TO
nv better half what / was up to and
her remark was that the first thing
I knew there would be tolerabiy
good newspaper man spoiled and a
Ipoor politician made.
/ Arriving at Hillsboro at 10 O'Clock
I found Jacks friends assembled IN
a lawyers Office named Spell. Up
to this hour very few Ellis county
men we're in Hill county. Mr..
Strickland, a brother-in-law to Beal
and his campaign manager, had JUS
arrived at Hillsboro the evening
before and was moving into ana
opening up his headquarters up
stairs on prominent corner OF the
uublic square. Mr.. Strickland at
once advised Mr.. Wear, a prominent
attorney, and myself to start to the
: western part of the county where
apnointments had already been pub
Ilished for him to speak, and In
Itwo-horse buggy in two hours after
II had hit the town we were on the
: road to Whitney, distance OF SIX
teen miles. Here Mr.. Wear spoke
8 to large crowd and / scotched for
: him as best / knew how. A great
many of the business men OF whit
:. new were for Wooten and politics In
b this nice little town were already
g warming up. Mr.. Wear is a
9 speaker something after the style OF
M.B. Templeton, smooth, nice
: talker. and like Templeton, every
g lbody liked him and listened atten'
;. lively to him. He spoke at tive
Q O'Clock and that night we went &c
FIT. Graham. in the extreme western
:. lpart of Hill county, on the Brazos
lriver. Here about fifty years age
1.-The United States government KEEP
a garrison of soldiers who fough
3 the wild Indians and drove them n
n nally out of these mountains which
! surround FIT. Graham. Elias Hol
:. and his father are old settlers her
70 and own a fine farm on the river
'e We spent the night with them AM
e they pointed out the spot wher
y stood the old rock fort. Mr.. Wea
spoke to a good crowd and l seotchet
again for him. The fact is a big
Jolly, red faced farmer caught m