Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-26
STATE SENATOR SENTER
is LEADING.0PPOSITION
leulslature viii Be Asked to Pass
a Resolution Asking for the Resig-
nation Of the Brilliant Ex-Missis-
sippian.
Associated Press.

eDallaS, eAaS., OSsoSSt
movement which has for its object
the recall Of Joseph w. Bailey from
the United States senate Will De
launched in Dallas tonight, when
State Senator E. G. Sonter of Dallas,
the leader of the malcontents, Will
address mass meeting in the city
: hall. Senator Sonter has declared
that he will offer in the 31st legisla-
ture a resolution demanding the
resignation of Bailey, because of his
alleged connection with the Standard
sOiI company, and will ask the peo-
pie of Texas to indorse this course,
both by direct expression on their
primary ballots and by the election
of representatives who are not only
in full sympathy with this proposal,
but will inforce the demand for Ball
eys resignation after it receives the
Endorsement of the people of Texas
and the 31st legislature.
State Senator Sonter was one OF
the SIS members of the 30th Texas
legislature to vote against the exon
Grafton Of Bailey when the brilliant
Texas senator was on trial early this
year. He declares that the proceed
1ngs were mere "whitewashing
and that no real investigation oil
Bailey's connection with the Waters
Pierce Oil company, an auxiliary OF
the Standard, was made. In state
ment issued by Mr.. Sonter, address
sed to the people of the state, he ap'
peals for support in his movement
in the following language:
"The members of the 30th legisla
ture who rendered verdict adverse
to Bailey performed most disagree
able duty, and when the full history
Of that proceeding shall be written
it will be known of all men that in
the face of unexpected and extraor
binary obstacles they fought for south
ern honor, as became the descendants
of men whose political traditions were
established by Clay, Calhoun, LANAI
and Gordon. To shrink from the
performance of their duty was tt
earn the gratitude and the unlimited
promises of an unscrupulous politi
clan who professed himself able ant
ready to confer rewards without linn
it upon those who gathered about hin
-4qiitssss.ss proper meekSess,, and heraldet
the wealth quickly bestowed upo1
him by the favor of oil, railroad ant
lumber interstate as a badge of hon
orable distinction.
my own judgement, which woult
: have been voiced in report to th'
Z senate but for the fact that Bale,
decided that his interests requires
that the senate committee should b.
discharged without making report
is that the transactions admitted AM
told by himself constitute the dark
estpage in the political history of tn
South. The generation which we fo
low periled all to preserve it's cor
ceptions of honor. Bailey's transae
tions, as he tells them, touch the bo
tom round of political degenerate
which has been reached in the ma
race for wealth inaugurated by polit
clans through whose veins course n
trace of southern blood. He col
fesses himself to belong to that clas
of political money-getters which ha
heretofore been represented by D.
pew, Platt and, Aldrich on the Repul
: lican side, and by Pat McCarren as
reputed Democrat. will not no
wake to analyze these repute
IONS, but cannot forbear
o people will approve thei
ldards of honesty measui
g which exist in Haiti an
lingo. If any precinct
Iicial in Texas had done II
hat Bailey paraded before Il
I've committees as evidences
financial genius, he would ha'
to instant and overwhelmiI
Ice, and no friend would ha'
found who thought the demand
iepsahip were so obligatory as
. apologize for condu
kpae the hot blood