The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-26

q lawyer related lHc ECflOtCSL ut-
gree to the legislation of Con-
gress or to the action of any depart
ment of the Government.
Their whole argument is that, be-
cause / am in public service I shall not
be permitted to pursue my honorable
profession in a perfectly legitimate
way. shall continue to give-as for
and undivided attention to my public
duties when they require attention;
and shall continue to give-as ] have
given-ry time to private business
when my time is not required by my
public duties.
1 have never had client in my life
who has attempted to influence my Of
me about their important affairs have
too much confidence In my integrity
to suppose for one moment that they
could control or influence me as SEN
ator. OF course I know there are men
of low character and intellect who
would slavishly do the bidding of any
man or corporation who might employ
such men seldom obtain important en-
p1oyment as lawyers. and such men
can never secure election as Senator
from the State of Texas
The upright and high-minded law
yer gives to his clients the best of his
legal learning and ability, but no more
than that and he would drive from his
presence any client who presumed to
think that in retaining him as a law
yer he had secured the right to COM
mand him In respect to any matter out
side of the legal controversy.
Since the foundation OF this repub-
lie the greatest Senators whose repu-
tations as lawyers could command eli
ents have practiced their profession
with Nv xEyf~
Some great lawyers nave not prac-
ticed law while in the public service
because they have been men of indie
pendent means and did not feel under
the necessity of providing for their
family and their old ase by pursuing
still their profession, out the wisest
and best of them have not thought IL
Improper or unpatriotic 10 attend to
their private business IN their own
time.
Houson Good Government Club.
/ have carefully read the circular is
sued by the good government club OF
Houston and / was impressed when
reading 1t with the striking similarity
between 1t and the Cosmopolitan Mag
azine article. 7In, fact II appears to be
a special effort to justify that scurril-
Gus and Infamous attack upon me.
It would seem that when men set
themselves up as exampiars of good
government anu 4tNthky tHCy WOulu 10
scrupulously careful to tell the truth
and to do no injustice IN any way;
but l have seldom seen a formal doc
ument which contained more gross
Misrepresentation than are in that
circular. In the first pTace, extracts
from 1t were telegrapned over the
country with a false statement of the
membership of the club.
In the communication sent from
Houston to The ST. Louis Republic and
printed in that paper of September 81,
the organization is DESCRIBED as The
Harris County Good Government Club
of which H. F. Ring is the President,
with 1000 members.
OF course it might be that the state
ment as to the membership of that
club was a falsehood of The St. Louis
Republic reporter. bat as exactly the
same misstatement appeared in The
New York American. those who under
stand how such articles are circulated
have a right TO believe that the men
tion are also responsible for that false
hood
After stating the membership of the
club as 1000 The st. Louis Republic or
Friday. it was stated in The Dallas
News the next day as SO and in Sun
days News very accurate and tai
ented staff correspondent declares that
the officers of that organization de-
cline to give either the number or the
names of it's members.
Ny own Judgment is that its MEM
bership is very small. because l do not
believe there are many people in Hous-
ton who would become parties to the
falsehoods which 1t is attempting to
disseminate.
The first criticism against my bust
ness dealings is with reference to my
attorn eyshfp for the Hon. John H. Kir-
by, and the Kirby Lumber Company
which is in substance merely a re-
statement of the same matter from the
Cosmopolitan Magazine. The Cosmo-
politan Magazine article did not, how
ever. as l now recall It, include the
statement now made for the first time
in this circular that I helped Mr.. Kir-
by sell an least Texas railroad to the
Santa Fe system"
So far from having helped Mr. Kirby
sell anything to the Santa Fe System
no employment of mine has ever
brought ME in contact with the Of
ficers of that railroad I do not even
know the president of 1t, and I have
never discussed a business PROPOSE
tion of any kind with any officer.
agent or attorney of 1t.
The next statement is that Mr.. Kir-
by, instead of going himself to Har-
riman or Ryan or to any other rail-.
road operator" employed me to do
so. That is a falsehood, pure and sim
pie. 1 never saw Mr.. Hartman in my
life, and have never discussed a busi-
meas proposition with Mr. Ryan. 1
did not go to any other Wall street
financier.
1t is, however unnecessary to oc-
cupy space in pointing out the various
falsehoods of this circular. because
the attack is based entirely upon my
speech delivered in the Senate on the
9th of June. AS that speech was
printed in full by some. and in ex-
tended synopsis by all of the daily
papers in Texas. thirty days before
the democratic primaries and the vot
ers of this state were fully advised
of what l had said and done when they
renominated me II would seen waste
of time to enter into an argument with
these creatures on that point.
Not only was that speech before the
voters when they nominated me at
their primaries. hat 1t was before the
delegates to the state convention, who
repeated the peoples endorsement, and
to contend that it disqualified me for
a seat in the senate is to insult thu
intelligence and integrity
of the voters of Texas. There Is how
ever, one other part of the circular to
which will make reply and most
conclusive one.
They insinuate that when the Wa
ters-Pierce Oil Company was granted
hVa In