The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-30

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avail. when chiyalry was overwhelm-
20 ana negro domination was In the
saddle, when the clouds OF carpet
Dagism oyershadowed the state, Joe
Bailey, with the other young men OF
tho state come nobly 10 tho rescue
Of the crippled and battle-scarred
veterans OF the Confederacy and
made It possible for the white man
To govern In Mississippi. Yet at
this day there are sections OF Texas
where there are meg who dare TO
attack this man for his stand then
made that white men might live
In Mississippi"
Following the young Joe Bailey In
his removal from Mississippi to Tex
a.. the speaker told OF the place at
once given him by the people OF
his district, OF how Bailey was sent
as delegate 10 one OF the old con-
gresional conventions, and how after
the convention had been locked for
three or four days, committee came
to Bailey and said that he had been
decided upon as the man TO be nom
mated, and how then Bailey refused
the nomination saying that he had
been sent instructed to vote for an
other man that he could never take
an office to which the peoples will
did not entitle him. "All the years
OF my manhood" the speaker quoted
from the words OF Bailey on that oc-
oasion, ~ have lived to 30 nj myself
that ! might some Gay become wor-
thy 10 represent my people In con-
gress, But ! will never accept a high
place when II comes as a result OF
the defeat OF the peoples measure"
II sometimes think" continued
Mr.. odell in commenting on the in
cident, that II these men who are
so bitterly assailing him now could
now know and remember the spirit
OF that man as expressed on that oc-
casion that they wouldn't have been
guilty OF voting against the success
OF the Democratic party"
A Memorable Incident.
Taking up Cone Johnson's state
ment that no reputable Democrat In
Texas undertook to defend or excuse
Bailey's conduct at Austin, the speak
er recalled the incident at Gaines
Vile last year at the magnificent
ovation given Bailey by the people
OF his home town after his vlndica-
ton by the legislature, how when
Bailey was on the platform, I saw
totterlng to the PLATFORM, a grand
old man, veteran Of two wars.
Confederate veteran and veteran Of
the Mexican war. That was Silas
Hare who had served his country
we'll in war and honorably in peace,
the man whom Bailey defeated for
congress nearly twenty years ago and
that man said on that occasion.
When as young man you defeated
me, bade you Godspeed. I have
watched you for sixteen years, They
made no mistake when they retired
me and selected Joe Bailey
when I think OF that grand old
man with a heart big enough to for
give and forget the defeat OF seven
ten years ago. l can't take much
OF the words OF this other man who
in 1892 was too busy to support the
nominees OF his party, who tore the
head from his ticket at the election.
who was given gum-drop to chew
on when the GalvestonDa News
mentioned him for governor, so that
he got in the also-ran class. He
chewed the gum-drop till 1896 when
he plead for the privilege of nomi-
mating Bailey. The Galveston-Dallas
News then gave him the same old
gum-drop again by mentioning him
for senator. He's chewed that gum
drop ever since till it's got bitter in
his mouth because he never got the
office That accounts for the opposi-
ton OF Cone Johnson and It accounts
for the opposition OF many others
I'll not discuss"
Objects TO Revenge.
Taking up the opposition he said
that he had no criticism to offer OF
those who differ In opinion and who
do not pretend to be in the party
nor had he any criticism to offer Of
those in the Populist ranks or the
Republican ranks who came with
pure motives and disinterested prin-
ciples to vote with the party but he
did protest against their coming back
into the party to drive him out and
he further protested against their
statements that there we're better
Democrats than he, or that they are