Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-02-12
SENATOR BA|LEYS
OWN STATEMENTS
JUDGE DUNCAN PULLS THE REC
ORD ON THE SENATOR ON THE
$500 DRAFT.

Austin, Texas, Feb. 10.-Judge John
M. Duncan, representative from Smith
county, today furnished newspaper
men with the following extracts from
speeches, statements, ETC., regarding
the $500 transaction, about which
former Governor David R. Francis OF
Missouri gave testimony before the
legislative investigating committee
yesterday:
From Senator Bailey's speech at
Bolton, Texas, on December IA, 1906:
81 say there is no such draft. If
they have 1t, then / have been guilty
of duplicity and falsehood, and l will
relieve my friends from defending me
another day. Under that challenge
ought they not produce the draft or
acknowledge their lie? Could say
anything fairer? Produce what you
say you have and / will give up the
contest. They must do it or stand
convicted before the public. Suppose
/ drew a draft like that, do you sup
pose ! would have denied 1t? / have
never denied anything in my life.
Sometimes l even go further than is
necessary in telling what l have done.
Do you suppose that if imagine that
the Waters Pierce Oil company mat
ter should be covered up in the name
of Pierce l would have stood before
the legislature telling it that / would
not have hesitated to accept fee
from the company for legal services?
That would have been the act of an
idiot and / never have been accused
of being an idiot"
From statement issued at Washing
ton by Senator Bailey when he first
heard of the existence of these vouch-
ers, the statement given out just be-
fore leaving Washington for Texas in
November. 1906:
1.-The statement that ] ever drew a
draft or gave an order on the Waters
Pierce Oil company in favor of any
body for any amount or for any pur-
pose is an absolute and unqualified
lie."
From the Dallas News report of
Senator Bailey's speech at Dublin.
Texas, just after making speeches in
the Comanche county campaign:
Il understand you have a citizen
here who said, Why did Pierce send
that telegram authorizing a draft and
to have me quiet Texas parties?' That
telegram is forgery, just like the
draft is forgery. They don't claim
that the telegram was sent to me, but
to some one else. The telegram was
dated June IL and the draft June Is.
They forged the telegram to lay the
predicate for forging the draft, but
have caught them by calling upon
them to show the bank endorsements
or the bank records. Somehow God
has so created the universe that lie
can not prevail, They simply tried
TO forge too much. A little later c.
G. Faust, a business man OF Dublin.
arose In the rear of the hall and
claimed the senator's attention. 4 am
one of the men you referred to in re-
gard to that telegram from Wisconsin.
Did you say that telegram is a forg.
cry, is that right? Senator Bailey
Yes; well, of course, | can not say
positively, but because that telegram
did not come to me; it does not pur-
port to have come to me. can saw
positively that the draft is a forgery
because IT is said to be signed by me.
! know that the draft which is SUD-
posed to be based on the telegram is
a forgery, hence believe that the tel
egram is a forgery.
Mr.. Faust-Do you know whether
he (Pierce) was at that place in Wis
consin at the time?
Senator Bailey-No, sir; don't
keep up with his movements either in
the summer or the winter time.
Mr.. Faust-Do you know where
you were on June Is, the day this draft
is purported to have been signed?
Senator Bailey-No, but do know
that the man who says signed that
draft is a liar"
After the attorney general issued
his demand for the papers. vouchers.
etc. Senator Bailey replied to him on
December 8. Among other things. this
language is used:
Now, SIR. If you can prove by any
single bank that / ever drew a draft
in favor of Henry & Stribling or either
OF them, or on the Waters Pierce Oil
company or II. c. Pierce or ]. ID.
Johnson or any other Individual. firm
or corporation for $500 or for any
other sum, l will resign my seat in
the senate and retire forever from
public life. will go further than this
III you can produce any order. recent
or memorandum in favor of Henry e.
Stribling or either OF them bearing
my signature, endorsement or approv.
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