The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-22
GETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

GETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
In view of the fact that Senator
Bailey has said so many things in
different ways, has been placed in
| so many different attitudes by his
friends and opponents, the work of
getting the record straight is not an
easy task But the Waco Times-Her
aid is making progress. This chap
| ter deals with Senator Bailey's play
at cross purposes on the prohibition
question and his shrewd evasion of
| the question as to his position to-
| ward Bryan and the democratic plat
! form to be written at Denver, The
Times-H erald says:
] further told him (Pierce} that
unless he did intend to obey our
laws. it would be better for him not
| to come back at all; because he
, would be driven out and | would
| help to do it. w. Bailey to legis-
lative investigating committee, jan
uary 81, 1901.
Pierce is being driven out and
Mr.. Bailey isn't helping to do it.
In the secretary of states office,
Mr. Pierce has filed the very COM
prehensive oath required by our an
THRUST act; and if his company is
a trust, he has subjected himself to
a conviction and Imprisonment for
perjury. 1t is not reasonable to sup
pose that a man of his wealth would
perjure himself and take the chance
of the penitentiary for the sake of
adding a little more to what he al
ready has. w. Bailey to legisla-
tive investigating committee, Janu-
airy 81, 1901.
Mr. Pierce is under Indictment for
that very comprehensive oath" and
is resisting a return to Texas to an
swer to that indictment. ]. w. Bal
| ley, a senator from Texas, is in the
employ of this man Pierce.
| | said on another occasion that |
am one of the few senators in this
| body who when one question was
submitted to his people at home,
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amendment to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors, and I am by
that action precisely as a friend of
mine was about leaving North Caro-
| lina-if it was to do over | would do
the same thing. w. Bailey in
senate, June 10, 1906.
A. Haxthausen, publisher of the
Texas Deutsche Zeitung, of Houston,
says he waited on Mr.. Bailey in the
rotunda of the Rice hotel last No
vember and requested an open dec
laration of his views on this matter.
| The publisher deemed it his duty to
| state that he desired to discuss the
matter only if it was entirely agree
able to Mr.. Bailey. In the presence
of a number of gentlemen, Mr., Bal
ley declared, with great frankness,
that he was opposed to state prohi-
bition that he is of the opinion that
the local option laws are entirely
sufficient to solve the question. He
could not see with what right, for
instance. the citizens OF Cooke coun-
ty had to interfere with the condi-
lions of Harris county. Local option
he declared, gives each locality the
right to vote upon the question of
whether intoxicating liquors shall be
sold or not. He, declared freely and
iopenly, so Mr.. HaXthausen states,
that he is not only against state pro-
hibition, but that he would oppose
iany movement in that direction. Mr.
Bailey made these declarations in the
presence of a number of witnesses
and authorized the publisher of the
Zeitung to give his readers the bene-
fit of the substance of this interview.
| Would YOU draft or assist in
drafting a platform that would be
wholly in harmony with Mr.. Bryan's
wishes and views John S. Gibson
to j. w. Bailey.
Not only shall l support his nomi-
nation, but | shall likewise aid to the
best of my ability in making plat
form which shall be democratic in
eyerv respect and upon which Mr..
Bryan will have the best chance of
an election. w. Bailey to John
S. Gibson.
Il understand that Thomas stated
in a speech here that while Aldrlch
was making his speech on the imam
/ cial bill, | was seated in the senate
gallery. between Belmont and j. 2.
Morgan" said Bailey.
! Voices-That's what he said,
! Bailey-Well, may God have mer-
| cy on his soul
Mr.. Bailey then went on to say
that when Aldrich was making his
speech, he Bailey was on the floor
of the senate where he ought to have
been. as the democrats of the senate
had placed him in charge of the min
ority fight on the bill and he was on
the floor of the senate from tpe nrst
to the last of Aldrich' s speech.
He declared that he had not only
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