Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-04-21
Special to the Herald.


Campbelrs speech delivered in this
city today, opening his campaign fol
Governor of Texas:
Fellow Citizens:
am here today, upon the invitation
of the people of Athens and Hender
son County, to formally open my
campaign for the Democratic nomina
ton for the Office of Governor.
With grateful appreciation | ac
copied that invitation and | must now
be permitted to acknowledge the
honor you do me by your presence at
this time. Since announcing my in
tention to become a candidate for
Governor / have been honored with
many invitations to address the peo'
pie on public questions. have &C.
cepted as many of these invitations
as was practicable, and have taken
occasion heretofore TO discuss some
of the questions which will necessar-
lily enter into the contest now opening
before us. With the people | have
been free to express my views. /
have always spoken candidly, frankly
and without any sort of reservation.
shall today, without qualifying any
proposition heretofore laid down, and
without modifying any doctrine here
tofore announced, undertake a faith
full discussion of conditions and Of
issues which | deem most important
and which should, in my opinion, re-
ceive the attention of the people of
Texas in the present campaign.
This is San Jacinto Day, day made
memorable by the triumph of liberty
over tyranny on San Jacinto's bloody
day appropriate for beginning over
again the fight for Texas Indeed, no
man should seek the high office of
Governor of this State without ac-
quainting the people with his position
on all governmental questions with
which he may have to deal. This he
should do in an open and candid way.
He should stand face to face with
the people. He should make known
his plans and policies. This / shall
attempt to do. If | am right, If the
stand | take meets with the approval
,-af my countrymen, then / have just
ground for expecting that my cause
will 1be made their cause. If / am
wrong, Nor if i am actuated by I'M
worthy motives. then deserve de
feat. Upon the sonndnsss OF my
position as to the needs Of my native
State | am willing to stand or fall
The good of Texas and the welfare
of the people should be the supreme
aim of every voter
Those who would debauch popular
government in this country and make
it the instrument of avarice and
greed, who would make our constitu-
tion the toy and the plaything of
monopoly, our laws the hiding places
of trusts and the shield of grafters.
and those who would make Texas
only breeding ground for more mil
lionaires and more paupers" will.
with money and with all the arts of
machine effrontery and corporate
cunning, oppose my candidacy. They
will seek and are now seeking to OBJ
scure important issues. They will, II
they can, divert public attention from
every proposition to checkmate their
schemes of rapacity and plumber. If
they succeed in their efforts TO de-
ceive the people and conceal the
truth they can elect men of their
choice, dominate legislation, control
Texas, defy our laws and continue TO
exploit our people.
citizenship's Rights and Duties.
The people have the right to elect
their public servants without dicta-
ton from either the corporations OF
the political manipulators 1t is the
duty of the citizen to exercise this
right in the interest of good govern.
ment, and with an intelligent regard
for his own interest and for the well
fare Of all the people
Every right enjoyed carries with II
a corresponding obligation. We
should not only perform those duties
in the observance of which happy
homes are made and maintained, we
should not only educate our children
and provide for those dependent upon
us, but we should study our duty TO
our government and to our fellow
man. Every good citizen should take
an interest in politics. We should
perform our political duty that good
government may be secured and per
petuated When the people fail to
support good measures and sound
governmental policies and when they
refues to uphold men who will en-
force them, when they fail to vote
their honest convictions, when they
neglect To have their will registered
at the ballot box, then they cease TO
rule and popular government is a