The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-15
HUME DEFENDS BAILEY.
Thinks Senator Entitled to the Same
Courtesy as Free Negro.

| Thinks Senator Entitled to the Sam
Courtesy as Free Negro.
Austin, ian. 15.-The Bailey invest
cation matter was called up in TIL
house at l0:40 o'clock Monday morn
ing. Mr. Robertson of Bell county il
the chair
Mr.. Hume claimed that the Spanish
iniqufsitfon times had passed and sal
the legislature was here to do common
| justice to common man. He claimed
tnat the international railway investi
cation embarrassed Campbell in hi:
| last election and it followed Hogg t
his grave. He Gained that a certain
! newspaper in the state was induced
to accept garbled reports of the Inter
national railway Investigation. He as
serted that this paper had taken re-
Gently garbled reports in the Bailey
matter. He asserted that the Interna
tlonal railway matter was still on rec
ord and aroused unpleasant memories
He denied that the former Bailey in
vestigation was whitewash. He de
MED that Duncan was fighting for
Bailey by his methods, and said, II
that be friendship, God deliver us
from that kind Of friendship." Il came
here that | should vote for Mr.. Bailey
and | came here thinking that | was a
legislator. not a clerk. My office is
just as big as Mr. Bailey's, and nv
principles are just the same as his. If
you should want to investigate me
would ask the same things as Senator
Bailey. | will stand for one man
against the world If | think he is be-
ing denied his constitutional rights. -
Continuing, he said it was the
friendship of Damon and Pythias that
inspired him in his defense of his
friends. Your constituents have
nothing to do with you after you get
here on this question, for the party
mas spoken. The people have no right
TO demand an investigation 1t is for
US to decide" He believed that the
legislature has not as much right to
investigate Bailey than it did to Judge
some jack rabbits out in a briar patch.
Mr. Hume of Harris county spoke in
defense of Senator Bailey He divided
the house nto three groups. First,
those against Mr.. Bailey; second, those
who favor a sweeping investigation;
third, those who want fair inquiry
Mr.. Hume objected to rumors that
somebody else told somebody else
about" He said he believed Mr. Bal
ley was entitled to the same courtesy
as free negro who is brought up on
charge.
The speaker claimed the Duncan
resolution was as fair as a rose with
a serpent under it and it's tenor was
like that of the milk of human kind
ness sQured, and that it was not even
in good form and would not stand in
justice court. He said every man who
signed the resolution wi be held re-
sponsible hereafter. He called atten-
ton to Judge Duncan's story about the
man looking for stolen property in the
other mans house and claimed that |
real men would not let an investigator |
In without search warrant He |
claimed thta every man had In the |
house of his soul some room that no |
mortal must enter
Representative Hume said Bailey |
stood with open arms to welcome any
awful investigation. He told the story
1f Caesar and Brutus and said that |
3rutus was the responsible man for
Caesars death. He said that Brutus
vas an honorable maa, but he was led
~ Cassius-a man who was expert
,nced in practical politics. He said
cassius was overcome and driven by
lis own selfish ambitions He said
Bailey had been compared to every
hing from Caesar to Cockrobin. Il do
lot want to go back to my constitu
nts and say | was the sparrow that
TILED Cockrobin." he said Going on
he theory that God only required of
lis people to do what they believed to
re right, he said Bailey had done those
Kings he had admitted because he
onestly believed there was no wrong
4 them.
Mr.. Hume wanted no investigation
I Davidson, and claimed the only
barge brought against him was that
e had forged document and that it
'as not denied. He opposed that part
Duncan resolution regarding the
ommittee going over the country to
ct evidence. He compared it to "Gul-
Ver,s Travels and said the commit /
re had no legal right to go outside the
tate. The resolution, he said, was
sllc and suggestion of barbaric times,
nd said that since the time of King I
ohm he has never heard of any such
roceedings. He predicted that Bal. {
y would rise from the ashes of SIAN
er like the Sphynx, and would go
nth to spread greater fame yet for |
exas
Mr.. Hume closed his address at
80 o'clock. I