The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-27
CONE JOHNSON
MAKES GOOD SPEECH.
PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
VIEWS SALIENT POINTS.
Believes the State Wide Prohibition Question
Should Have Been Settled
This Year.

Hon. Cone Johnson of Tyler
was the principal speaker on the
first day of the celebration which
was being held in this city this
week and an immense audience
from this and surrounding coun-
ties greeted him when he took
his place upon the stand. From
the first he held his audience, an
audience which evidently came
to listen and to learn. He spoke
fervently about various matters
during the nearly two hours that
he spoke and paid a glowing trib-
ute to the Panhandle and west
Texas. We would gladly give
full report of his talk did time
and space permit, but we do de-
sire to give a few of the leading
points which he made.
Speaking relative to the Pan
handle he said: Gentlemen,
during the past month | have
been from San Angelo to Bon
ham and from southeast Texas
to this good little city and | want
to say that my observation since
| came upon the Plains simply
staggers me. The greatness of
the extent of territory, the wide
diversity of commercial and farm
idg industries make me seriously
doubt whether there be a man
within the entire state who could
efficiently serve the whole state
as the governor. 1t certainly
makes me stand and wonder at
the dense ignorance of the. con-
ditions now existing upon the
Plains of Texas among the peo-
pie of the southern and eastern
portion Of the commonwealth
called Texas. A governor should
be a man posted about matters
over the entire state. His indi-
vidual personality is not the
thing, but the things which the
prospective governor advocates
should WELD the influence over
the voters of the state.
West Texas with her broad
acres of fertile lands built miles
and miles of railroads all over
my section Of the state and it
now behooves the other portions
of the state to respond heartily
to the building up of that portion
which helped materially in build
ing other portions in older days.
Personally | would like to see
this fast growing country devote
more time and attention to bring
ing people here from the north
ern and eastern states and leave
our section of the state alone.
We have furnished you many
men of broad minds and thought
full dispositions already and our
section does not longer wish to
see their good people take up
their journey to the west. We
want to keep them and have the
entire state filled with prosper
Gus, hardworking farmers. Since
| have been in your city almost
every man whom have met has
been expounding to me the glo-
ries of this section and endeav-
Orlng to enlist my SympathleS and
secure my residence in the Pan
handle. | want to make an i'm
migration talk for east Texas. "
Here the speaker entered into a
discussion of the conditions in
his section of the state, predict
ing that in a few years theirs
would be a country of stock
farming and dairying interests
and that this would be a farming
land reeking with bountiful har-
vests.
Here the speaker launched into
political matters stating that he
would probably be before the
people of this state as a candidate
for Governor next year and set