Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-07-13
NOT HIS ENEMIES.

| Answering the charge by Senator
Bailey that his enemies seem deter.
mined to draw him into the guberna.
torial fight, Hon. Cone Johnson
makes these comments:
Senator Bailey, since the adjourn
ment of congress, has returned to
Texas, as unquestionably he has the
right to do. He has expressed his
preference amongst the several candi-
dates for governor, which he has the
right to do, and which right none
will deny him. But he has gone fur
Their and has injected himself and his
own personality into this struggle,
thus near its close.
In his speech Saturday at Chico
he said that his enemies would not
let him alone, nor permit him to
come back home and recite what he
had done for his people, but that
they are trying to drag him into the
state campaign But he said, all
their kind this side the grave and out
side the penitentiary cannot make me
do what l don't want to do
"And he INDUCES in much of nm
old time denunciation of those who1
he terms his enemies in Texas. He
criticises the administration of the
offices of attorney general of Texas
under C.. X. Bell and R. V. Davidson
for the fines levied upon the trusts
that operated in Texas and condemns
them for their failure to prosecute
criminally those who operated these
trusts in our state. He condemns the
fine levied upon the Waters Pierce Oil
company, and charges that that con-
Germ turned right around and re-
duced the quality of oil and put up
the price, and the people of Texas are
paying for the music
Speaking of the failure to prose
cute the trusts criminally, he said:
Not one man has been prosecuted
for operating trust in
Texas, and yet the records of the
court at the capital of the state dis
close that more than forty pleas have
been entered thereon guilty of the
charge of operating a trust. Upon |
every plea criminal action could |
have been maintained against the |
owners and officers and agents of
these trusts, and yet not one prosecu-
ion has been instituted and main
aimed
His whole speech is an adroit
move on his part to becloud the is
sues in this campaign and to strike
ire with his flint on this steel. Bal
ey is mistaken in his assumption that
lis enemies have dragged him into
his campaign. 1t was his friends and
He was first brought in
o it by one of his chief legal and po-
itical advisers, T. N. Jones
Il look upon his entrance into this
and the line of his speeches
nd his attack on the prosecution of
he trusts in Texas as intended to
hallenge and provoke Davidson into
0cking horns with him over the old
natter of the Waters Pierce Oil COM
any prosecution, and that his design
) thus to arouse the 'anti-Bailey' peo-l
lie to resentment on the one hand
nd his friends to his defense on the
Their. and thus to widen the breach :,
etween them and hold them from
leir rightful alingnment and true
0sition on the living and crying is
les of this hour
Was it intended to produce fur
Ter division in the ranks of the anti
alley democrats. bring more of them
the support of Davidson and thus
ore equally partition these forces by
flaming them and thus having them n
forget and sacrifice the cause to
hich they are committed? T
will Davidson play to this hand ? W
it intended to throw the apple of tc
scord into the ranks of the prohibit +,
'nists and to cause those who fol- b.
wed Bailey and those who opposed
m who are now supporting my can CT