Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-02
ELECTION AROUSES
GREAT INTEREST
Bailey Has Cdmpaigned the State
Cursing the Men Who Are Try
ing to Down Him. and His
Opponents Have Been
Equally Active.

Dallas, Texas, May 2.-Democratic
primaries are being held today al
over Texas and the result will be to
show just how much headway has
been made in the long, bitter fight
on Senator Bailey.
The precinct primaries elect dele
gates to county conventions May 3
and these in turn delegates to the FIT.
Worth convention May 26, at which
time delegates to the national Demo-
cratic convention at Denver will be
chosen.
Bailey is battling to lead his states
delegation to Denver. Cone Johnson
heads the opposing delegation. If
Bailey wins his enemies declare the
fight viii go on with unremittent en-
orsy. If Bailey loses, his star, already
clouded in national politics, will be
close to setting in Texas
The campaign which finds its eli
max today has been of unequalled bit
terness Bailey, two years ago the
leading Democrat in the Senate, has
been travelling day and night for
weeks all over the great state, ad-
dressing mass meetings. 1t means vim
dication or condemnation to him.
Baiieys Methods.
Did he argue on the stump? No
Did he plead? No. He bulldozed,
cursed, vilified. He magnified to the
highest degree what he called the
faithlessness of former adherents.
Thieves, liars, poltroons, jury bribers,
suborners Of perjury-these eplthets
fell from the senator's lips not once,
but hundreds of times. And thousands
shrieked With delight when this au-
dacous, self-satisfied, arrogant, un-
yielding, brilliant man Of magnetic
personality stopped to the slime to de-
fend himself from the charges.
Meanwhile his opponents were
equally active. Many of the leading
Democrats OF the state, erstwhile
friends of the Junior senator, flayed
him as never a senator was f1ayed be-
fore. They quoted from the court and
legislative records. They showed he
had borrowed money from H. Clay
Pierce, the standard Oil man. They
elaborated on his rapidly acquired
wealth. They declared no man had
the right TO serve two masters, as
Bailey says he has the right to do.
Through every speech ran the ia
nous insinuation: where did you get
it?''
Fighting For Principle
Their crowds were as enthusiastic f!
as We're Bailey's The applause was
as loud. Their determination was
more grim. Bailey had threatened to !
drive them into the gulf" to turn |
their political pictures to the wall"
They are fighting for the principle |
that the senator is the servant of the |
people and that when he accepts COR |
porate employment he is false to his |
trust. They denied the allegation of |
faithlessness to the Democratic party. |
They said Bailey had bamboozled it. |
The legislative investigation they call
ed a farce, shut off when Bailey |
thought it had gone far enough.
handful of professors led by |
Erasmus q. Senter, state senator from |
Dallas county, has grown into tens of |
thousands. Senter started the whole |
thing. A lawyer, ex-newspap perman, of |
highest political standards and abso-
lutte fearleSsness, Senter headed the |
opposition to Bailey's recollection in
ed there he took the issue home with |
him and began organizing Democratic
clubs to oppose Bailey. Hundreds have
been formed. Unrelenting, Senter be-
lieves the fight on Bailey will continue
until Bailey is eliminated from public
life, a man in Texas who violates the
instructions of bis constituency as
Senter did in voting against Bailey is
brave indeed