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

tries are absorbed by rich corpor-
ations and trusts, and individualism
is forced to the wall.
How The Beast is Served.
That trust beast of the Apocalypse
has Briarian arms and Argus eyes
for in every state 1t employs the
ablest men to serve it; it terrorizes
it's servants with hints of displea-
sure when they vote against It's
methods, and woe to the unhappy
laborer who displeases it. Oh, gentle
men, the hope of this country is not
in the political rounder, or in the
rich and venal politician, but in the
silent voter. Our silent voters at
Austin had been watching Joseph
Bailey at short range, and they re-
pudiated him by an overwhelming
vote. -t
! digress for moment to correct
a statement made at Austin last
week by Mr.. Bailey, which was with
out a vestige of truth and which he
knows was not true, as all of you do.
He said he did not; speak in Travis
county when we held the primary
that condemned him until the day
before the election. He spoke there
once in the Opera House, once in
the Skating Rink and once at Tay-
lor. His henchmen came down from
the Panhandle to work. A sleeping
car of workers came up from Hous-
ton, and senator was brought here
from Eastern Texas to speak. | only
mention this that you might have a
proper value of his veracity.
More than twelve years ago the
Attorney General of Texas sued the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company, and as
an oil trust which by unlawful me-
thods mad monopolized the sale of
Oil in Texas. 1t had crushed all
competition by underselling and
then sold its oil at twice the amount
charged in other states. On capital
of 100000 it made 700 per
cent. Over seven millions of money
were thus mulcted from the people
of Texas. 1t plundered the rich and
the poor alike. While it gave light
to the yotaries of fashion, it levied
its tribute on the oil of the poor
mother who in the stiffness of the
night watched her sick babe.
Both the Supreme Court of Texas
and OF the United States decided
that it was trust and should be
expelled ON the state. When
Piece applied to Bailey for help in
st. Louis on the 25 of April. 1900,
Bailey knew that the Supreme Court
of the United States had decided
that the Pierce Company was vio-
lator of the trust laws of Texas and
must leave the state. Everybody
knew it, and yet he said to Pierce,
IF you can convince Meme, Joe
Bailey that you are not a trust, |
will see that you have no difficulty
in doing business in Texas" ] pass
this disgusting egotism and ask you
to be patient while | trail him with
facts, solomnly sworn to, facts that
he can neither contradict nor an
swer.
The Grand Jury at Waco indicted
. II. Clay Pierce, and evidence was al
hand to make him pay S105, 900 for
his oil trust methods, and the evil
dence was clear that John d. Rookie
Teller was co-defendant with Pierce
and other oil people.
How Pierce Got Influence.
Pierce was alarmed, and, as Mr.
Johnson, the WatersPierce attorn-
ey swore, he needed political in
fiuence," for his company had been
branded as a trust by the highest
court in the Union--and every true
man in Texas knew and rejoiced at
the decision. He found his influential
man in Joseph Bailey, who had been
a schoolmate of our then attorney
General. Tom Smith.
Bailey came first to Waco with II
Clay Pierce and JOHN on, his attorn-
ey, May ., 1890, and was closeted
for two hours with Cullen Thomas
the states attorney, Stribling, his
assistant. and H. Clay Pierce. Cullen
Thomas swore before the Legislature
that investigated Bailey in 1901 that
Bailey was the first man to propose
: what Bailey called a compromise,
/ by which the suit against Pierce
; should be dismissed. and as an N
: ducement to compromise Bailey
said that Stribling, the lawyer fol
, the state, should be paid a ''libera
fee" Thomas swore that Bailey said
: liberal fee" but Bailey swore he
proposed it was to be reasonable
: fee. Just think of it, my friends; tc
: what depths of servility have we
: plunged when without rebuke a sen
: ator from Texas can thus pollute the
: stream of justice by proposing to the
prosecuting ofncer OF the state ina
= the very man charged with a felon,
should pay a liberal fee" to the at
torney for the state, as an induce
} ment to dismiss a suit against him
Bailey Approaches Sayers.
Unable to shake Cullen Thoma:
from the oath of duty (for he told
them he thought it wrong to do wha'
Bailey wanted) We find Pierce, Bal
! ley and Johnson, their attorney onl,
t a few days afterwards, in Austin
5 registered together in the Driskil
2 Hotel. Bailey went up to the CAPT
t tai; he called on Gov Joe Sayer'
: and told him that ne thought tina
= if WaterS-Pierce Oil Company OF
5 any other useful business wanted tC
, come 10 the state to continue in it
they ought to be permitted to do Sc
= as long as they obeyed the laws
s He got no comfort. for honest Joe
= told him that he intended to SET
S that everybody and every business
did obey the law
r Bailey and Attorney General Smith
Bailey then went from the Cover
! nOr's Office TO that of his old school
> mate Tom Smith Smith the AttOT