Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-08-17
ROBERTSON'S SPEECH
NOMINATING CAMPBELL
A HIGH TRIBUTE PAID THE PAL,
EsTINE MAN AND TEXAS NEXT
GOVERNOR AT DALLAS.

Judge James H. Robertson, in nomi-
mating Mr.. Campbell for governor at
Dallas. spoke in part as follows:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention: East Texas has furnished
many of our great lawyers, orators,
politicians and statesmen. From the
earliest days of the republic down to
the present time, every page of our
history is emblazoned with the name
of some great East Texan. They have
always proven themselves equal to any
emergency, and have with diligence
and fidelity discharged every trust
confided to them. Sixteen years ago
East Texas presented to the state
Democratic convention the name of
the first native born Texan who ever
aspired to the chief executive. He
was elected and reelected to that of
fee. BY his ability and courage in
the discharge of duty, and vigilant
care for the welfare of the people
rarely. if ever, equaled-he secured
the adoption of such measures for the
public good as will for all time stamp
his administration as an epoch in
shaping the public policy and political
history OF this state.
Since that time North Texas has
furnished two governors and South
Texas one, each distinguished for long
and useful public service and well
worthy of the great honor.
large part of the people, coming
from every section of the state and
from every vocation, present to this
convention as a candidate for COVER
nor another son of East Texas, the
second native born Texan to aspire to
be her chief executive. Born and
reared amid the common people, with
out the advantage of wealth or the in
fiuence of powerful friends, by indus
try, honesty and force of character he
has won for himself an exalted posi-
ton at the bar, achieved success in
business, and secured a place in the
confidence of the people rarely held
by any one He has never before
sought and has never held public Of
fee, but he has always been Demo
crat and a supporter of the platforms
and nominees of the party at any per
sonal sacrifice.
For more than year, as candidate
for governor, he has stood in the
glare of the searchlight of public opin-
ion, and yet no stain has been found
upon his character, no suspicion cast
upon his integrity, and no question
raised as to his ability to discharge
to the full measure the duties of the
great office of governor. He stands
unalterably opposed TO monopolies,
trusts and combinations restricting
the freedom of competition in trade;
to dishonesty and graft, extravaganza
and nepotism in public office; to all
special privileges, including the issu-
ance of free passes by railroad corpo-
troll of legislation by corporate lob
by. He believes that, as the govern
ment is maintained for the equal pro-
lection of all, every character of prop
erty should bear its just part of the
burdens, and the constitutional man.
date that all taxation shall be equal
and uniform should be obeyed: that
the safety of our institutions. as well
as the individual welfare of our people
can alone be secured by the education
of the masses; that the public schools
should be maintained as required by
the constitution for at least six
months in the year in the country as
well as in the cities; that the state
normal schools, the industrial schools.
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege and the university, as the great
capstone of our educational system.
should be literally sustained, to the
end that Texas may have a system of
public education where her youth can
have advantages equal to those afford.
ed in the best institutions of the land:
that the charitable and eleemosynary
institutions of the state should be so
enlarged and maintained as to proper.
ly care for all deserving their protec-
ton.
He knows that large part of the
business Of this state must be con.
Quoted by private corporations But
against them he has no prejudice
with him as governor their property
and their rights would have the same
protection rs those of natural persons:
but, being creatures of the law, he be
lieves that they should obey its man.
dates, and that whenever private cor.
porations undertake to control the pol.
icies, the politics or the legislation of