The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
"FORGERIES"
 SAYS BAILEY Replies to Attorney
 General. DOCUMENTS PROVE NOTHING Never Denied That He Borrowed
 From Pierce. Declares that Otherwise Statement Was False and omciaI is simply Try-
 ing to FOment Trouble
 fer Senator.
PROVE NOTHING

tonight United States Senator Joseph w. Bailey gave out an open letter ad' dressed to Attorney-G General Davidson and answering tho letter of the Attor- ney-Genera1 issued last night setting out copies of papers of the Waters Pierce oil Company, which the Attor- ney-General says are in his possession.
 Senator Bailey at the outset says that the Attorney General. in his let- ter of yesteruay, has eliminated very much from the discussion by confirm ing what had said in my open letter to you" The documents, he says, d0 not support the inferepces which the Attorney General previously made; in- deed. he says, tho voucher for S2,301 and the notations upon 1t show conclu- sively that this sum was loaned to him by H. c. Pierce and not by the Waters Pierce Oil Company, and the notation of bills receivable upon 1t shows that Pierce borrowed money upon it from the oil company, and that 1t was not treated as an item of expenditure.
 AS to the alleged voucher purport- ing to show that the oil company had paid S1.500 to Henry & Sstribbling. and tho mmeorandum that 1t had been paid upon draft of Senator Bailey, he says, that if he had ever drawn such a draft it must have passed through at least two banks. leaving a record be- hind. He suggests that the Attorney General could easily apply to the banks and ascertain if there was such trans- action.
 Throws Down Gauntlet.
 Now, sir. if you can prove by any single bank that I ever drew 8 draft in favor of Henry & StrlbbIing. or either of them, on the Waters-Pierce oil Com- pany, or Fl. c. Pierce, of J. D. John- son. or any other individual, firm or corporation for si,500, or for any other sum, will resign my seat In the Sem ate and retire forever from public life" declares Senator Bailey.
 "I will go further than this; If you can produce any order, receipt or mem
 orandum in favor of Henry & Strib- hling. or either of them, bearing my | signAture endorsement or approval
 will resign my seat in the Senate rHd9 retire forever from public Iite He declares that he never heard of 3 l loan to Henry and stribbling by tho | oil copany Pierce or Johnson, and | that the alleged telegram published by l the Attorney General was never men toned to him remotely, at any time or ! by any man.
 ! Quoting the voucher purporting 70 1 show loan of $1,750 to Linn by H. C. l Pierce, and the letter of Pierce re- l auesting the secretary of the company | to send Bailey exchange for the | amount, Senator Bailey draws atten7 | tion to what he terms a curious feat
 ure of said letter. namely, the state
 ment that tho writer (Pierce), had ad- | vanced the amount to Bailey. but that
 Bailey had repaid it. followed by ths request that exchange should bs sent ! to Bailey for the amount, and that
 same should be charged upon the
 books of the company.
 Mir. Bailey says this statement is
 preposterous. He declares that he only hat tfA gaTFF ! ported letter would show that ha had
 received it twice.
 Has Proved Nothing.
 Senator Bailey declares that the At | torney General has wholly failed to | produce a shred Of evidence that he
 assisted in returning the Waters Pierce | Company to the State, or thnt he had l acted as attorney for or received com | pensation from 1t. He declares that he | had represented Pierce publicly in 1 many matters.
 | Nothing in your much heralded doc uments some of them stolen, some of | them forged, and stun others irrele- want, confused and confusing dtsproves | anything I have said" he continues.
 They only tend to show that l have l had business relations with Fl. c. 1 Pierce, a fact that I had frequently myself asserted, and that had borrow | ed money from him, which money re- | paid to the last dollar"
 | Remarking that the attorney gener- al has talked much about his sense of duty" Senator Bailey complains that he has not been treated fairly fin be- ing denied an opportunity to examine the papers in the possession of the att 1 Itorney general and concerning which ha made public statements. q beiiev- ed that when I asked you for permis- sion to examine the papers that they | had been forged in whole or part in connection with the transaction of which I had no knowledge" he con- tinued, "and since reading the doen- ments. in print, I am certaIn that some of them are forgeries." | He says the attorney general must have known that the man from whom he received the papers had stolen them from the files of h 8 employer. and ba should have known that thief would mot hesitate to commit forgery. q willingly leave for the decent and fair minded men of Texas to say how much weight they will attach to doeu- ments furnished by a man who either robbed the files of his employers office or forged the papers which you are use ing and the evidence of whose false swearing In order to deceIve the officers of the state is a part Of 'rhe ease which
 YOU have in charge" senator Bailey | rlnHan