Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-12-11
NEVER DREW DRAFT.
" This Can BE Proved. Bailey says He
VIII Resiqn.

Dallas. Dec. Ex-senator Bailey. re-
plying TO Attorney General Davidson
denies that he ever drew a draft In
favos Henry & Stribling for any sum
upoI'Sther the Waters Pierce oil com
pany. II. c. Pierce. J. d. Johnson or
any other individual. and says that he
never heard OF the purported telegram
relating to that matter. and that
neither Henry nor Stribling ever spoke
10 him about the loan In question:
and that he never heard Of IL.
The senator further asserts that II
the attorney general can prove by
single bank that he ever drew draft
In favor Of the parties mentioned or
any other individual. he viii resign
his senatorial seat and retire forever
from public life.
Says Senator Bailey 20 the attorney
general: Nothing In your much-her-
aided documents. some Of them stolen
some OF them forged and still others
irrelavent. confused and confusing,
disproves anything ! have said. They
only tend 20 show that ! had business
relations with II. G. Pierce, fact that
| had frequently asserted, and that
had borrowed money from him, which
money ! repaid 10 the last dollar
Senator Bailey says that this last
letter OF Mr. Davidson. which contains
copies of the vouchers and other doc
uments In the possession Of the attor-
ney general. eliminates much from the
discussion. and In fact. confirms what
he tSenator Bailey has all along de-
clared.
He concludes: You have talked
much about your sense OF duty TO your
state, but YOU do not seem To appre-
ciate the duty which In common fair
ness you owe TO every citizen OF the
state. The meanest criminal. when ar
raigned before our courts upon any
charge, Is entitled as a matter OF legal
right TO inspect any paper which the
state attempts TO offer in evidence
against him. He Is entitled To exam.
inc Il for erasures and interlineations
and TO challenge It's genuineness. You
seem TO think, however, that you can
properly arraign me before the world
and call on me as you did In your first
open letter To answer questions with
respect To papers which you denied me
the right to see before | answered.
believed when asked you for permits
sion 10 examine those papers that they
had been forged In whole or in part
for the purpose Of connecting me with
a transaction OF which had no knowl-
edge; and since reading the docu-
ments in print, am certain that some
of them are forgeries. Even II In the
beginning you believed those papers
truthfully reflected business transac'
ton between me and the waters
Pierce oil company. you knew that
you had received them from a man
who had stolen them from the Tiles
OF his employer. and out OF an album
dant caution against doing me an in
Justice. YOU ought 10 have submitted
them 20 my examination.
surely your experience as a Grim
inal lawyer. and as a man. must make
you know that any man who will steal
a paper would alter Il or forge new
one n the one he had stolen did not
suit his purpose II ,yon had no sus-
picion that sou had been imposed up
on by forgeries, you still had knowi
edge that YOU we're dealing with
thief. and that the information fur
nished by such a man is seldom used
by men In your position. and should
never he used without giving 10 those
affected. access 10 II.
Not only must YOU have known
that the man from whom You obtained
those papers had stolen them, but you
must have also believed that same man
TO be a perjurer. | understand tina.
YOU instigated. or at least approved.
an indictment against one officer OF
the Waters-Pierce oil company for
having made an affidavit which is pre-
cisely the same as the one made aft
erward by the man who supplied you
with this document.
Il willingly leave for the decent and
fair.minded me OF Texas TO say how
much weight they will attach 10 docu- |
ments furnished by man who either
robbed the files Of his employers Of |
flee or forged the papers which you
are using and the evidence OF whose
false swearing. in order 20 deceive the
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