The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-18


key. said;
Fellow Citizens: For more than
fifty-fve years ! have represented
you or your fathers as lawyer, Judge
and senator, and there is not one
man among you who will declare
that / ever willfully wronged him
or lied to him. ] am here on your
invitation and will speak to your
understanding with the language of
truth.
The times are out OF joint when a
United States Senator leaves his post
in congress every year to canvass his
state in order to prove his own hon
esty. Joseph Bailey, who should now
begin Washington to protect our ma
tional interests, has projected him
self into this canvass for delegate to
a national conventional thing I'M
heard of until now in this or any
other state.
All political power Is inherent in
the people, the senator is their SER
want and common decency should
prompt him to initiate the examples
of Culberson, Campbell and all the
senators in all the states, which
should restrain him from wanting to
go to Denver to write platforms for
the people who are his masters.
Answers Bailey's Abuse.
| am told that last Saturday Mr..
Bailey here INDUCED in abusing sew
eral gentlemen-myself among the
number-after refusing to meet in
discussion those who believe that he
betrayed the interests of the people.
To abuse the witnesses is the old,
old dodge whenever man Is on
trial, but it never diverts the exper-
fenced prosecutor from presenting
the evidence of prisoners guilt. |
can not find it in my heart to hate
Bailey. I pity him, for when | con-
slider heredity and the environments
of his youth, | am amazed that he. is
not altogether depraved.
l have no answer to his abuse ex
cept to say that even as a boy when
] hunted in the wilderness, if the
slime of e venomenous reptile was
across my path | looked and stepped
beyond it. The snow of eighty win
tiers have whitened these locks, and
l have neither time nor inclination
to answer the billingsgate of Mr. Bal
ley.
Presidential Elector with Bailey.
Twenty years ago Joseph Bailey
and myself were electors for the
state at large. | then admired his in
tellect, and predicted for him a ca
Teer of usefulness. He has to a large
degree that magnetism and hypnotic
gift that often captivates the multi
tude-for he can hypnotic the weak
bulldoze the timid and deceive the
credulous. Thus equipped he now
hopes to succeed through what he be-
lieves to be the ignorance of the
people.
Hero Worship.
Hero worship is not in the nature
of any self-respecting free born citi-
zen. The man who shouts with ano-
Their mans collar around his neck
whenever his hero pulls the string
is only initiating the red-Shirted
monkey who dances to the music OF
the Italian organ grinder Some men
can never be converted by reason
The ward heller, the man who is the
servant of corporate power, the fool
and the corrupt editor who never
commits himself on a great issue I'M
til he is paid, are all blind to reason
but the silent voter who, wanting to
do right, who loves his country and
hates corruption in high places, to
him and to him only | address my
self
What Bryan Thinks.
| have been made a candidate fol-
elector at large over my protest and
hope to vote for that pure statesman
and friend of the people, William
Jennings Bryan. ! admire the genius
and the honesty of that great man
Just nine days ago Mr. Bryan il
Richmond. Va, said: Il believe the
time will come when a man turns q
public Office to private advantage
he will be whipped from society
along with the embezzler of money.
Our Law puts stripes on those who
embeZZle money.
Again Mr.. Bryan said; Every
senator can become rich if he will
only sell his soul and the opportun-
ties of the congressman are but little
less"-and again; "A man is lacking
in either intelligence, or honesty, oil
both. who defends the acceptance
by public servants of employment
from those whose interests are ad
verse to the interest of the public
| propose to show you that if Mr.
Bryan is right, Joseph Bailey has Nc
right to be in a convention to nomi
nate William j. Bryan.
Discusses Bailey's Wealth.
1t has been often stated and moi
denied that when Bailey was elected
to congress. executions against hin
were returned unsatistied, and tina
his paper was not worth thirty cent
on the dollar. He is now rated as ont
of the senators worth one million o
money. His rapid success in maxim!
money was a mystery to his col
leagues from Texas. No one hai
heard of his large fees as lawyer
and so the mystery deepened.
Every man knows that no law
maker if he attends TO his dutie
can make a million of money b,
clean methods. None of you farmer
who strike the yielding bosom o
the earth for food and raiment, no
YOU lawyers who represent them
none of you merchants who sci
them goods, or you doctors wh'
nurse them, can make million o
money by honest methods.
Predatory Wealth.
We must not censure men o.
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