The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-06-26

1t having been made known 10
us that some person unfriendly 10
the candidacy of Hon. Jno. w.
Veale, of this city, for the office OF
State Senator, has been and is now
circulating a newspaper called the
"Childress Post" containing what
purports TO be an excerpt from a
speech delivered by Judge Veale at
Giles, Texas, on May goth, 1906,
and in which said newspaper, the
fact is attempted to be conveyed
that although Judge Veale claims
to be in favor of local option on the
liquor question and has been all
along, that still in 1901, after pro-
hibition was adopted in Potter coun-
ty, Judge Veale, voluntarily and
for money consideration, engaged
himself as an attorney of the saloon
element of our town, for the pur-
pose of defeating the operation OF
the law.
We, who have known Judge
Veale for the past fourteen years in
his daily walk and life in our city,
take pleasure in saying publicly
that we were in Amarillo at the
time of the prohibition election in
1901, and were for the most part on
the side of prohibition in that cleo
ton; that Judge Veale was active
on the side of prohibition in said
election; that at the time he was
associated professionally with the
late Judge w. B. Plemons, who
was not in sympathy with the local
option movement then on, but was
on the anti side of the question;
that on the day before the election,
Judge Plemons died from a stroke
of apoplexy; that the liquor dealers
of Amarillo, after prohibition was
adopted, claimed Judge Veales serv'
ices as the surviving member of the
firm of Plemons & Veale, in their
efforts to make void said election,
on the ground that through the pay
ment to Judge Plemons of retain
ing fee, they were entitled to the
services of his surviving partner;
under this status of affairs, Judge
Veale, together with Mr.. Brown
of Cleburne, Texas, became the at
torneys for the liquor deal
ers of this city, and represented
them faithfully as attorneys until
the litigation was ended. Judge
Veale was not censured by the good
people of this town and county, but
was and is commended for his adj
herence and loyalty to his duty, as
an honorable and conscientious law
yer. AS an evidence of the conf
dence and esteem in which he is
held by the good people of this
city and county, he was, after the
local option law went into effect,
employed by the best citizenship Of
our town who desired to see said
law enforced, to prosecute in the
courts Of our county offenders
against said law, and, as is charac.
teristic of the man, conducted an
able land vigorous prosecution o.
such cases; again, and as a further
evidence of the confidence and es.
TEEN in which Judge Veale is, ant
ever has been held by the law abid
ing element Of Amarillo, he, togeth
or with his then partner in law, thu
Hon. H. G. Hendricks, now Of Mi
ami, Texas, was employed by tn,
prohibition element of our city il
an action TO remove the then sheriff
OF Potter county from Office on var
ious charges Of ALLEGED incompe
tency and misconduct, among 9th
ers being his alleged failure and re
fusal to enforce the local option Law
then in force in Potter county; tina
through the efforts of Judge Veal
and his then associate, an order wa
procured suspending said sherii
temporarily from his Office; tina
throughout this litigation, lastinI
over year, and through two har'
fought trials, in which was engages
the best legal talent Of this sectio
Of Texas, Judge Veale stood as tn
advocate and representative of tn