The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-03-30
THOMAS IS HEARD
ELLIS COUNTY CITIZENS LISTEN
TO ABLE DISCUSSION OF
BAILENISM
ON PAYROLL OF TRUSTS
The Speaker Charges That Senator
Bailey Receives Fees From
Corporations While He Is
Serving the People.


Saturday afternoon while the
great Bailey convention was being
held in Fort Worth about FIVE hun
dred representative citizens of Ellis
county sat for more than two hours
and listened to a dispassionate dis
cussion of Baileyism by Hon. Cullen
F. Thomas of Waco. The speaking
took place in the district court room
and among Mr.. Thomas hearers
were men who had quit their plow,
their workshop and their place of
business. Mr.. Thomas address was
along the lines of his former speech
es, and was entirely free from any
bitter invectives or personal refer
ences. That the sympathy of the as
semblage was with him was attested
by the frequent outbursts of applause
which greeted his remarks.
In the beginning of his address he
said there was more at stake in this
contest than who sh-H enjoy the
honor of sitting as a delegate in the
national convention at Denver. Nev-
er before had there been such a
contest in the history of Texas. He
referred to the national convention
held in Kansas City in July, 1900
and said that in a short time the
unterrified democracy of this coun-
try would assemble in a great city
in the west to again choose can
didate for the presidency. In Texas
the great question now agitating the
people is who shall speak for the
democracy of the state. He said that
Senator Bailey would be nominated
at Fort Worth as one of the candi-
dates for delegate at large to the
national convention. but he denied
his fitness to speak for the pure and
patriotic democracy of this great
state.
Reverting to the recent Legislative
investigation Mr.. Thomas said it
was past understanding how men
who have knowledge of the facts
could endorse Baileyism. He wanted
to know who was willing to vote for
a man who was on the secret pay
roll of trusts and corporations.
They say that representative
James and the forty immortals who
repudiated Bailey are embezzlers of
power continued the speaker, but
the United States senator who is on
the secret pay roll of trusts is the
real embezzler of power The speak
er quoted from a statement made by
Senator Bailey at Austin during the
! first Legislative investigation when
he was explaining how he acquired
his title to the Grapevine ranch that
'he hoped by such transactions to
lay up something for old age" AT
that time Bailey was your senator
: elect, and at that time he was load
ed down with debts and in the
courts of his home town judgments
were hanging over him that he
could not pay And yet in six years
time we find the metropolitan press
rating him as a millionaire How did
he get it? From where did the mon
ey come with which he purchased
j business property in Gainesville?
From where did the money come
with which he maintains blue
grass farm in Kentucky? From
where did the money come that is
being used by him in training
blooded horses? From where did the
money come with which he bought
a part interest in the Fort Worth
Record, his organ in Texas today
which is suppressing the facts and
coloring the reports of such meet
ings as these?
The speaker then said that when
the charm of a seat in the United
States senate lay before the late
Governor Hogg the great commoner
preferred to retire to private life
where he might accumulate some
thing for rainy day Nobody, he
said, questioned where Hogg's heart
lay. He was fought by the corporate
powers of Texas, but he conquered
all opposition.
Mr.. Thomas quoted from one of
w. J. Bryan's editorials in the Com
moner in which he said in substance
that no man could serve two mas
ters. Where stands Bryan now?
What are his sentiments, his ideals
and standards? They link Bailey S
name with that of Bryan; just as
well try to mix water with Oil
Which standard will you follow? The
double standard of Bailey or the
high ideals of that great leader who
says no man can serve two masters
at the same time? The Bryan plat
form is the one on which we stand.
Mr.. Thomas then took up Mr
Bailey's connection with the Waters
Pierce Oil company and discussed
that phaze of the controversy at
some length. He said that while H.
Clay Pierce was at the great lakes
in the north he wired his Office that
Bailey ought to quiet all Texas par
ties. The speaker said he was one OF
those parties, but he had never been
quieted.
The press of this morning said