The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-07-02
THE PLEA Of COlQNTT
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
SAYS PEOPLE OF TEXAS
NEED POLITICAL REST.
Appeals to the People to Line Up for
Local Self GOvernment-Neul
Veto Statutory Prohi-
bition.

dience here Frida afternoon at .
O'Clock that filled the district coart
room.
A neutrality-suspicious. composed
" Waxahachie citizens net Mr.. Col
Quit at Midlothian Friday morning
a II brought him to Waxabactio
where he received humber Of his
trends at the Rogers botcl during
the day up to the hour of the speak
ing.
Hon. w. II. Fears, assistant county
| attorney, introduced Mr.. Colqutt to
the audience, and as he arose to
speak he was applauded.
"A beginning his address he thank
| ed the audience for it's presence AMI
thanked Mr. Fears for tn. kind re-
| marks in his Introduction. Althou gh
is voice was not in the bay. Of con-
| dition he could be easily heard AMI
understood by the entire audience.
He began by saying the people of
Texas needed political rest and the
passage of more laws should be stop
ped. He said there were so many
laws on our statute books now that a
| farmer cannot sell mule without
consulting lawyer and that when
the farmer goes to consult his law
yer he is sent away and told to come
| another time and give the lawyer an
opportunity to investigate and see II
there has been new law passed.
governing the sale of the mule.
Penitentiary reform was given
| considerable attention by the speak
er. He advocates arranging the pen
itentiary matters so the appointment
of it's officials will not be tangled
up in politics. He wants teachers and
preachers employed by these institu-
tions; preachers and teachers that
will teach and preach the gospel Of
Jesus Christ and have them cut out
politics; industries in connection with
| the penitentiary should be establish
| ed that will allow convicts to learn
useful trade and make them fit to
earn an honest living when they have
| finished service as convict and not
leave them in the condition of be-
lieving that it is necessary for them
| to commit another crime in order to
have a home.
Tho nrnh ihiftn Tho nnvf tonic
discussed by Mr.. Colquitt, and he
compared his position on this ques-
ton with the position taken by John
son and Poindexter. He cited other
| states that had statewide prohibition
| and he said their statewide prohibi-
| ton was not as satisfactory as In
| adopted. He believes In local self
| government and local self control,
that the majority have right to rule
| so long as they come within the con-
stitution and in conformity with It..
He says he is ambitious to be govera-
or of Texas, but he had rather sacri-
flee that ambition than the constitu-
ton. He said statutory prohibition
was unconstitutional and that he
would veto it because it was so.
Mr.. Colquitt devoted some time to
the discussion of the administration
Of Governor Campbell and his calling
| of a special session of the Legislature
for repeating the fire rating bill.
saying that special sessions of the
legislature should not be called for
the purpose Of repeating bad laws
which were made on the recommen-
dation of the governor himself aud
at the expense of the tax payers OF
Texas. The people should stand by
the constitution and insist upon con-
stitutional amendments In the man
ner and form as prescribed by the
constitution. He said the people of
one county should not say what the
people Of another county should do
about a certain matter. That II the
people of one county desired good
roads built they should not try to
force It on another county II it was
not wanted by them; that each coun-
ty, precinct, city or village was COM
petent of local self government and
local self control and let each coun-
ty control themselves. That matters
for taxation should be divided and
taxation derived from certain
source should be applied in Ger
! tain place and for a certain cause
/ that while laws have a general appli'
cation they are enforced locally; thai
. violation OF criminal law is pros
ecuted in the county where the crime
is committed and not elsewhere.
believe in constitutionality because
constitutional liberty is paramount
said Mr.. ColQuitt. "and that II TN