The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-30
BAILEY IS
ENDORSED
From Every Outlook He May
Not Be So Bad as
Painted
lFrom FrIday,s paIlyl

Joseph w. Bailey. Senator Odell
spoke for nearly three hours and
half. was heard with the closest at
tention and received applause
throughout that assured him Of his
appreciation by the audience.
Introduced by Bowman.
Shortly after o'clock. after sew
eral numbers by the Amarillo band,
the meeting IN the Deandi was called
to order by Hon. ]. r. Bowman, who
In a gracefully worded short talk in
troduced the speaker OF the day, Mr..
Bowman reviewed at some length
the character and achievements OF
the speaker whom he likened by his
toric analogy to Aristides the Just.
Acknowledging the burst OF APP
plause which followed the introduce
ton Mr.. odell expressed his pleas
IRE at being able to address the De-
mocracy in this part OF Texas. Dis
avowing any intention OF paradlng
his own record for his own glorifl-
ctaion, the speaker reviewed as JUS
trying him in appearing now in
the councils OF the Democratic par
ty. the facts that he had never
scratched a ticket OF the party nor
criticized the platform OF the party
after It had been duly adopted by
the people, nor the candidates OF the
party after they had been duly nom
mated and elected. Referring TO his
record as a lawyer which has been
assalled since he has taken his stand
In the present controversy, Mr.. Odell
said that he had never been attacked
ill the present campaign OF vilifca-
tlon began. Taking up the charge
banded about by opposition leaders
that ne was a lawyer for the Stand
ard Oil the speaker stated that his
employfent by the Waters-Plerce OIL
company was on one occasion only
and then only as lawyer on condi-
tons that any lawyer would have ac-
cepted for one-tenth the fee he got.
When tho case was offered him he
spoke OF 1t to Bailey. Bailey ad-
vDed him not to take Il but he said
that he would take It and did take II
and carried II out. His connection
with tine company ended there, and
so far as trust cases were concern
ed, Mr.. 0dell declared, he had more
cases on his books now against the
trust than all the leaders of the fight
against Bailey combined.
Odell Is a Texan.
Abiding to a story that he lived in
a palatlal home in New York in the
neighborhood of the Standard Oil
office, the speaker confessed that he
had never been out OF Texas till he
was grown, that he was never in New
York but once and that he came right
back then. Taking up the fight on
Bailey from another side, the speak
err called attention to the fact that
the blacklist criminal in the land is
free after he has been acquitted but
that Senator Bailey who has been
twice subjected to trial by his enc
mics and found innocent, is still
harassed by implacable foes. or the
same kind Of venom, he declared
were the shafts Of SANDER that were
directed against Attorney General
Tom Smith before his death. Re-
ferring to the statement made by
his enemies that he was a speaker
hired by the Standard Oil to 60 out
and defend Bailey Mr.. odell de-
nounced such reports as malicious
falsehods. He had rendered his SER
vices to Mr. Bailey, he said, for the
good he might do and for such SER
vices he received no compensation
save "the reward that comes to those
who do their duty"
"The Man without Ability
They say in truth he Is man
without ability" quoted the speak
er coming to the personality of the
man in whose behalf he spoke,
when in fact, as mere boy he
showed that ability that has made
him the first man OF the Democracy
OF Texas. In his own state OF Mis-
sissippi, the home OF Davis. and La
mar, W9lthal and George and hun
dred others whose names Democracy
is proudest to remember, before he
had yet reached his majority he was
chosen by his people In convention
to represent them. In 1884 when
not yet twenty-four years of age he
left college to go among his people
to plead for the white mans suprem-
acv. And when words were OF no