The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-06-22
TEXAS POLITICS.

The editor OF The Leader enjoy
ed the honor and very great pleas
ure Of being special guest at the
big anti Bailey banquet held at
the Oriental Hotel in Dallas, Tex
as, last Friday night. The ban
quet was given by the Young
Mems Democratic Club, of Dal-
las, complimentary to the fifty or
more Democratic members Of the
Thirtieth Legislature who OPP
posed the reelection of Senator
Joseph w. Bailey after his secret
relations with the Waters-Pierce
and Standard Oil Trust had been
discovered, and refused to vote
for the report of the Legislative
Committee white Washing him..
when it was arbitrarily railroaded
through both branches of the
Legislature before the investiga-
tion of the charges against him
had been completed or the incrim-
mating testimony taken laid be-
fore that body. There we're II
members of the Senate and Al
members of the House who thus
refused to dishonor their State
and prove false to one of the most
fundamental principles of the
Democratic party-honesty and
fidelity to public trust and a ma
iority of these were at Dallas in
acknowledgment of the tribute
paid them by the young Democrats
of that city. The meeting had
for it's further object a prelimi-
nary conference and organization
for wrestling the Democratic
party organization of the State
from the hands of the Bailey ma
chine and improper corporate in
fiuences and restoring it to the
service of the Democratic masses.
The declaration of principles
adopted at the meeting avowing
this purpose and denying the right
of Senators and Representatives In
Congress to accept employment
from trusts and public service
corporations while they are in
the employment of the people "a
privilege Senator Bailey openly
contends for-were published in
The Leader of last Wednesday.
There we're between four and
five hundred guests at the ban
quet, which took place in the
large dining hall of the Oriental.
The toastmaster of the evening,
was Hon. M. M. Crane, of Dallas,
the man who, as Attorney Gener
al of Texas, had driven the Wa
ters-P Pierce Oil Trust from the
State, but little while before SEN
ator Bailey advised its dissolution
and reorganization to escape the
heavy judgment obtained against
it by the State, and secured its
readmission. The principal
speakers of the occasion were
Hon. w. A. Cooke, the coura-
geous and imparturbable young
Representative from Bexar
county, who filed the charges
against Senator Barley before the
Legislative investigating commit
tee and pressed the investigation
until the Senator's oily relations
with the trusts we're clearly ex-
posed; Representative Gaines, of
Comanche; Judge Gerald, of Wa
co; State Senator Veale, of ANA
rilIo; Representative /. Fl. Nc
Gregor, of Harris, aud Col. w.
L. Crawford, of Dallas. Mr..
Cooke was the lion of the occa-
sion, as he we'll deserved to be,
and at the conclusion of his splen-
did speech received three rousing
cheers. 1t was far after midnight
before the feasting and speeches
we're ended. It was the first ban
quet of this characer we ever at
tended where no Intoxicating
beverages we're served, though
held in a big city which licenses
saloons, and not guest was OBJ
served under The influence of
drink, which amply proves that
the anti Bailey leaders of the
Lone Star State are clear-h headed
and sober, as well as courageous
and resolute.
During our visit to Dallas we
were accorded a real Texas vel
come by all we met and made to
feel perfectly at home, though
for the most part among strang-
ers. We are specially indebted to
Hon. Lea Beatty, Hon. w. A.
: Cooke and the officers and mem
bers of the Young Mems Demo
cratic Club, Of Dallas, for appre-
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