The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-11-20
TEXAS POLITICS.
THE ISSUE THAT WILL Be FOUGHT
OUT IN THE PENDING
CAMPAIGN.
A Contest Without a Parallel in the
Political History Of the United
States.
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The Potential and Subtle Standard Oil
Influence Back Of Bailey inHis
Fight for Supremacy.
Special to the Houston Chronicle.

Dallas, Texas, Nov. 8.-Here in
Dallas leading anti Bailey men
declare that if the junior senator,
in conjunction with Ell. Clay
Pierce, is permitted to name the
next attorney general of the state
of Texas-and that now seems to
be the prize for which the
Standard Oil is striving-the
judgment secured by the state
against the Waters. Pierce Oil
Company will not be worth the
paper it is written on. There is
more than mere method in Bal
ley's madness there is a yelled
conspiracy to.cheat the state out
of it's victory in the Waters Pierce
Oil suit and to make a creature
of the Standard Oil attorney
general of Texas.
As Governor Campbell SAYS.
the trust manipulation is crafty
mortal and as smooth as glass.
just when you think you have
him to rights, he slips through
your fingers with the ease of a
fresh water eel.
The purpose of the attack upon
r. V. Davidson being to oust him
from control of the legal affairs of
the state, and to place in charge
thereof some member of the Bailey
machine, will compel the attorney
general to submit his name to the
electors for third nomination
and election, not only as a vindi-
cation of his own course in the
Waters Pierce suit, bat as the
means of protecting the people of
Texas against the most gigantic
conspiracy that was ever conceiv-
ed against free people.
Attorney General Davidson
will be asked to submit his name
to the people for reelection and
Endorsement of his course as at
torney general, and, whether be
is at present willing to make the
race or not, his friends over the
state are determined that he shall
be a candidate and will force him
into the contest. This news was
vouchsafed this correspondent at
the anti Bailey headquarters in
this city yesterday. The fight
next which, it is predicted,
will be a knock down aud drag
out affair-wilI determine for
quarter of a century to come
whether the people of Texas shall
be free people or a people boss
ridden and trust-ridden, as are the
people of Pennsylvania. And it
is needless to say that the contest
is looked forward to with zest by
the men who are making a fight
for more wholesome political con-
ditions in Texas.
Since the publication of Pierce's
letter to Governor Cambpell, and
Bailey's attack upon the attorney
general at the Dallas banquet and
the senator's subsequent retreat,
former friends and supporters of
Bailey are falling away from his
standard by the thousands, and
hundreds of letters are received
at the anti Bailey headquarters in
this city daily, all commendatory
of the course of Senator Senter
and all deprecating the attacks
made by Senator Bailey upon the
states constituted legal authori-
ties.
Here in Texas campaign is on
that can not be paralleled in the
political history of the United
States. Never before in the his
tory of this country has cam
paign been waged by the people
of state to compel an unworthy
United States senator to relin-
'quish his high Office. And the
campaign will succeed, must sue
ceed. Texas must be redeemed
from Standard Oil control. Her
sons and representatives must en-
ter the councils of the nation with
spotless characters as their Gre
dentials. The grafters and noun
tebanks must be sent to the politi-
cal boneyard, where riddled repu
tations are treated for the political
blues. But the foe to be fought
is willy as well as oily, and most
powerful withal. Its business
and political ramifications extend
afar.
The Standards monopoly of the
oil industry is Of itself an evil Of
gigantic proportions, but a graver
menace turks in the fact that the
money extorted from the people
T by this monopoly is used to fur
Ither exploit the people through
the banking, railroad and public
service corporations of which the
Standard Oil coterie has gained
control. Thus:
or the directors Of tile Standard
Oil, John d. Rockefeller is con-
tent To remain the president oi
/ that one corparatiOn. William
Rockefeller is director Of Anal
Igamated Copper, the United
Metals Selling Company, and The
Anaconda Mining Company lie
lis director of the Brooklyn and
Consolidated gas trusts. He is
laIso on the boards Of the follow.