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


nesses as liars without febuke, but
actually dictated who should ex-
anime him. Mr.. Cooke, a member
of the House who wrote the charges
against Bailey could not examine him
because Bailey protested. And he
(Bailey) calls this an "investiga-
toni" For five weeks he strutted
back and forth between the Driskill
Hotel and the investigating commit
tee room with his body guard of
corporation employees, book agent
lobbyists and sleeping car attorneys,
and the attorneys of H. Clay Pierce.
And so the miserable farce dragged
on and all the time Mr.. Bailey was
drawing pay as a United States Sem
ator while the congress was in ses-
sion,
Pierce's Attorney on the Committee.
Judge James H. Robertson, the
attorney employed to defend H. Clay
Pierce for false swearing, was on
that committee, but they were mis-
taken in the man, for that clear
headed lawyer voted against white
washing Bailey, but Wolfe, Odell and
Cobb, who are now in the band wag-
on with our spotted senator, were
then active in his service.
But after all the committee of
investigation vas hung jury,
for though majority of the
house, committee acquitted the
senate actually dismissed their
turn a verdict, for it was known that
a majority of them would condemn
Bailey The Legislature thus side
lined hobbled and bulldozed with
the stale cry that Bailey is the
nominee" deliberately acquitted him
over protest of over forty repre-
sentatives who voted against him
and refused to whitewash.
Bailey Furnis! ed Influence.
But that investigation has shown
us how our senator got rich. Give
me for an instant your patient at
tention while you follow me in dates
and facts revealed to that commit
tee which must brand Bailey with
treachery to his people and that
brand will cling to him like the shirt
of Noesus. forever.
On April rs, 1900, the very day
that the mandate of the United
States court was filed in Texas which
declared that the Waters-Pierce Oil
Company should be driven from the
state, Bailey first met Pierce, a
stranger to him, in st. Louis. The
lawyers of Pierce had failed to save
him-he needed political influence.
The man who would soon be a SEN
ator from Texas, and who had been
the schoolboy chum of Attorney Cen
eral Smith, was of all men the very
man that Pierce needed. Bailey was
poor and needed money and Pierce
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told him of his troubles in Texas
and Bailey informed him that he
did not think he would have much
trouble. Then and there Bailey Dor,
rowed from this stranger $4,000
and agreed to return to Texas and
help him. and in eight days is in
Waco trying to compromise" with
the state. Thus in an evil hour Joseph
deliberately placed both of his feet
in the oil trough and was compelled
to go forward, for he was poor and
the charming glitter of gold suggest
ed the road to fortune.
Bailey Borrows From Pierce.
Since the revelations by our pres
ent Attorney General, we now under
stand Mr.. Bailey and the methods
that made him rich. | am about tc
show you how Joseph Bailey in 1901
used his influence as our senator tc
fasten on this state the fangs of the
oil octopus which he helped Pierce
to reintroduce, and that the money
of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
was in his pocket at the very step.
You must not forget that the
Waco Judge held that when that OF
company surrendered its charter M
execution for penal..0s could be sat
isfed from its property, and the
judgement of the state on accoun
: of its illegal acts amounted to moth
ing And so Senators Grinnan ant
Paulus,' on Feb. i, 1901, offered {
|. bill in our state senate to make thu
; property of a defunct corporation
liable for penalties recovered agains
it. and on Feb. 81 1901, Mr.. McFal
offered a resolution that the read
mission of the Waters-Pierce OF
company into Texas was fraudulen
and void. Both bills were reported
favorab bly,. March /, 1901, Pierce wal
5 alarmed and hurried from st. Louis
to Washington, for he again wanted
influence, and so on March /, 1901
he signed the following note withou
interest:
: 100000. Washington, March /
r 1901-Four months after date
promise to pay to the order of II
: Clay Pierce, eight thousand dollar
= at his office in ST. Louis. Value re
ceived.
5 "Signed) J. w. BAILEY"
? That $4,000 figured on the book
? of the Waters-Pierce Oil compan
!. anong bills receivable and to 'lega
t expenses on account of Texas litiga
! ton" until June, 1902, and then wa
: charged off to profit and loss n
payment is shown on the books o
the oil company
March 4, Bailey took tn
oath in open senate as asenator fror
e Texas,
S March Z. 1901-Three days afte
e that, Mr.. McFall's resolution was re
ported favorably in Texas.
March 8, 1901-Ten days after
t ward the Grinnan and Paulus bi
: was made the special order in tn
Texas senate for March 10.
s March 10, 1901-The Washing
- ton correspondent of the Galveston
$ Dallas News telegraphed that Bale
Y would leave for Austin the next day
n And so this man, who only 81
r DAYS before he took his seat as on