The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-01

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while he is trying to make his South
Texas friends believe that he is OPP
posed to state prohibition. He said
in a speech in congress a few months
ago that he was one of few senators
who championed a prohibition
amendment to the constitution.
When the state contest begins Bal
ley will play both the pros and ants
false. | have said the prohibition
question ought not to come into this
contest. We ought to settle it on
; Bailey's record. | do not care about
Bailey's position. He can be on which
ever side he pleases, but he can't be
| true to both. The question is will
he turn down DR.. Rankin and pro-
| hibition or will he find it necessary
! to turn down his South Texas
friends. | have my views on this
tquestion and will express them when
| the time comes
Some one in the audience asked
about the Cooke county test.
Il will tell you about that test"
said the speaker. Bailey is scared
of his home county, and he will lose
some of the counties that touch
| Cooke
Mr.. Johnson said the test began
with an oath.
you never heard before of that
in a democratic primary or any
! where else" said the speaker you
| never heard where they had to take
! pledge under oath. Here is the
pledge: i state on oath that | re-
side in Cooke county and that l am
not populist, that | am not a So
cialist, that | am not republican,
but that l am democrat, and do
not hold allegiance to any other par
i ty, and / agree to support the nomi-
nees of this primary held on May 2,
and | further agree to support the
nominees of the democratic primary
! to be held in July from constable to
president, and ! make this oath in
order that | may be entitled to vote
! in this primary.
There are men in Cooke county,
! like there are in this county, who, if
Joe Bailey tells the truth about the
time that he was horn, long before
he ever saw the light of the world
had their muskets on their shoulders
and, to the inspiring music of fife
and drum, were marching to Virgin
ia and Georgia and the Carolinas to
fight for their country.
There are men in this county wh,2
when they got back from the war,
while Joe Bailey was walking
around in the sand in Mississippi
with a little slip on him and bare
| footed, were standing at the polls in
lines 100 yards long from morning
until night to get chance to vote
a democratic ballot for a democratic
government in old Texas.
| But now this young buccaneer
of politician from Mississippi has
come over here into your state and
says to these old men, You can't
vote for me, sir; l am above the
governor. Your legal test and your
/ law isn't good enough for me- | am
too big. You will have to swear
you will have to take an oath before
you can vote for me. -
Mr.. Johnson paused and glanced
slowly over his audience, an express
sion of profound establishment on
bis face. And yet they say there is
nothing wrong in Texas!
! Mr.. Johnson told of how David R.
Francis of Missouri was instrument
tai in bringing Senator Bailey and
H. Clay Pierce together His With
variably received with hearty laugh
ter and enthusiastic applause.
Bailey says" Mr.. johnson re-
marked, that all he did for Pierce
was because of friendship for Fran
els. If that be true, then when Pierce
loaned Bailey $4,000 it was a pure
unauthorized, clean cut, bona fide
business transaction"
Mr. Johnson said tho avidonco
showed this to be most remarkab BILE
transaction. The substance of the
wording and the real meaning of the
due bill which Senator Bailey gave
to H. Clay Pierce, said was that Bal
ley agreed to pay Pierce back if
Pierce ever asked for the money. He
said that in the same conversation
in which Bailey informed Pierce
that he was in need of money, he
promised Pierce that he would come
back to Texas and see what he could
do for him (Pierce).
! Pierce was not in the loaning
business except to United States
senotors," he added, and there were
cheers. He also said: Such men
! have no use for a senator except to
use his personal and political influ-
ence to dodge their way through our
courts. When the applause which
this had elected died away, Mr..
johnson continued:
II can not understand how good
democrats can indorse such conduct
as our junior senator has been shown
to be guilty of. Tell me that the de-
scendants of these great old men Gin
dicating the Confederate veterans
who sat on the PLATFORM, tell me
that the man who has got the blood
OF man like Judge billiard could
indorse the action of United States
senator in Texas that is guilty of any
such conduct! (Cheers). / say that
the man who stands before the peo-
pie and defends Joe Bailey is no bet
ter than Joe Bailey himself"
| Mr.. Johnson told about the ST.
$50 and 500 items in the trans
actions between Senator Bailey and
Mr.. Pierce.
Bailey has been here, hasn't he?"
he asked at this juncture.
! Yes" several answered.
| Well, Bailey didn't tell you
about these things, did he?"
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