The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-09-27
BAILEY STANDS
ON HIS RECORD
No Apology to Offer For Acting as
Counsel For Corporations.
HIS RIGHT TO PRACTICE Law
Spirited Reply to Political Enemies
Made by the Texas Senator, Who
Declares That the Present Furore
ls an Echo Of His Campaign Six
Years Ago.


ls an Echo Of His Campaign Six
Years Ago.
Dallas, Tex, Sept. ga spirited
reply to his critics was issued here
by Senator Joeph w. Bailey. 1t is a
long statement, from which the fol
lowing excerpts are taken:
"The Democrats of Texas have not
forgotten" says Mr.. Bailey, that
this same kind of fight was made
on me when | was first elected to the
senate six years ago After had won
the senatorship in fair contest be-
fore the people, a ooterie of dissatis-
fed politicians made desperate at
tempt to defeat my election by the
legislature. The present agitation was
largely inaugurated by the same men,
with some outside assistance, and Is
predicated on exactly the same trans
actions.
THE first step in this campaign OF
malevolence and detraction was to
have purported interview with
Roger Sullivan of Illinois assailing me
sent broadcast over the country. Mr..
Sullivan promptly denounced that in
terview as a falsehood
The next step was to circulate the
falsehood that the Tennessee railroad
properties, for which | am attorney,
belong to the Standard Oil company.
Some of the men who are circulating
that story know, and all of them could
have learned with very little inquiry,
that the Standard Oil company had
no interest in or connection with
these properties, and that they were
owned by H. C. Pierce, j. G. Van Blar-
com, w. H. Thompson and many other
leading business men of St Louis.
The municipality of Nashville itself,
in order to provide her people addi-
tional and competing railroad facili-
ties, subscribed for $1,000,000 of the
stock of the railroad. The railroad
had passed through one receivership
and was on the verge of another when
| was called into the case. | accepted
the employment and performed exact
ly the same kind of service that would
have been expected of any other rep
utable lawyer. The statement SO in
dustriously circulated by some that
put $13 100000 worth of securities in
my pocket to do with them as |
pleased is little less than ridiculous.
| did not have $13 worth of securities
in my pockets. Every dollars worth
of bonds of that railroad company
were pledged for it's Indebtedness and
1t was my task to prevent those who
held them from enforcing their liens
and sacrificing the securities at
forced sale. That | succeeded in
doing this is a matter of great salts
faction to me, as it was to my clients.
THE third step in the process was
to pretend that the testimony given
by Mr.. Pierce disclosed a secret en-
ployment of me in connection with
those properties. The employment
was perfectly proper, and such as any
reputable lawyer would have accepted
without the slightest hesitation. Not
only that but the newspapers of this
state, together with those of St. Louis
and Nashville, contained repeated ref
erences to those properties and my
connection with them. There was
never the least attempt to conceal my
attorneyship for those properties, nor
was there the least reason why it
should be concealed The objection
to my employment as the attorney of
those properties must proceed upon
the theory that a man in public life
has no right to pursue any private
business, and such a doctrine, If ap-
piled to me and to all Offices, would
reduce the life of this country to
point where only rich men or rascals
could afford to accept an office.
THE Congressional Record will
show that during my Is years-first in
the house and then in the senate
have spoken and voted on every i'm
portant question. and my most malig-
nant enemy can not point to a single
speech or vote in the interest of my
clients and against the interest of my
constituents"