Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-05-02
Claim That Large Sums Of Money
Are Being Used, Supposed to Be
Supplied by OIL Trust.

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Houston. Tex, May Whether
United States Senator J.<W. Bailey
shall be sent to Denver as one of the
delegates at large from Texas is the
: question to be determined at prim-
aries to be held throughout the state.
Baileyites and the anti-Baileyites has
been the most momentous political
struggle since the republic of Texas
entered the Union, and has been con-
tested with unprecedented bitterness
by both sides. Senator Bailey has
been speaking almost constantly for
weeks and has made an almost super
human effort to maintain his threat
-ened political supremacy In Texas
The fight against Bailey began with
the airing of the charges that he had
been in the employ and had received
large sums of money from the Wa
ters-Pierce Oil Company. branch of
the Standard Oil Company, which the
state officials were attempting to GUST
from Texas on the ground that it had
violated the antitrust laws.
Tomorrow's primaries will be life
and death fight for Bailey, politically
peaking. While he was elected to
the Senate for another six-year term
only a. year ago, it is admitted by his
closest friends that his defeat in the
present contest would be equivalent to
a demand for his resignation. In his
public address at the time his re-
election to the Senate was pending
he said that II majority of the Dem
ocrats of the state> should declare
themselves as opposed to him in pri-
mary, he would resign his seat. The
men who are leading the present fight
against him say he win have an OPP
portunity to fulfil that pledge.
Both sides are already claiming vic
tory. The campaign managers for Mr..
Bailey say that he will be chosen a
delegate-at-large to the national con-
vention by majority of $4,000. The
anti-Bailey managers claim that Cone
johnson, who heads the ticket as Mr..
Bailey's opponent, will be named by a
majority of 10000 to $4,000. There is
no way Of arriving at a reliable esti-
mate OF how the vote will stand.
Bailey and anti-Bailey clubs have
been organized in almost every town
and village in the state. In some
localities the campaign has been at
white heat. In the larger cities, such
as Dallas. Waco, Houston, Galveston.
and Austin, the sentiment of the
Democrats is overwhelmingly anti
Bailey. 1t is said that in San Antonio
and Fort Worth the Bailey support
ers are probably in small majority.
The more thickly populated counties
are said to be strongly opposed to
Bailey, while in the ranch terrintory
of western and southwestern Texas.
. where the voting population is prin-
cipally stockmen, Bailey is the ia
vorite.
1t is claimed by the managers of the
anti-Balley campaign that an enorm-
GUS amount of money is being expend-
ed on behalf of Mr.. Bailey. and that
the trust interests which they say Mr.
Bailey has represented for several
years, are putting up the funds. AT
the recent rally of Bailey's supporters
at Fort Worth $4,000 was subscribed
by those present for the expenses Of
the campaign. The anti-Bailey people
have raised about $1,000 for the same
purpose.
Some of the leading Democrats OF
Texas are on the side that is fight
ing Bailey Among these men are ex
Attorney General G. X. Bell, Judge
A. w. Terrell, ex-Minister to Turkey;
Horace Chiffon, ex-United States Sen
ator; ex-Attorney General M. M
Crane, Roger @. Mills, former United
States Senator; Representative Albert
> Burleson. of Austin; Attorney Gen
eral R. " Davidson, and many Others
of less prominence in the political al
Z fairs OF the state. Gov. IT. M. Camp
bell is on the fence. but he. is general
ly classed as an anti-Bailey sympa
thizer.