Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-06-13
GONG FRESHMAN GREGG
Makes Formal Announcement as a
Candidate For Reelection.
Some of His Record.

Congressman A. w. Gregg. repre-
senting the Seventh congressional dis
trict, makes his formal announce
ment today as candidate for re-
election. Mr.. Gregg needs no intro
duction and much less any COM
mendat:on at our hands to this people,
among whom he has grown to man
hood and with whom much of his life S
work has been accomplished. His peo-
pie know him as man and a neigh
Dor and citizen, and there are none
who can say aught against him. He
has been in congress long enough, too,
te have record, and it is on this
record that he stands for reelection
and on which he asks for the support
Of the voters. In a statement issued
by Mr.. Gregg to the people of this dis
tr.ct he reviews his record, and the
Herald thinks the record will stand
publicity and investigation.
For river and harbor improvements
Mr.. Gregg makes the claim that he
has secured larger appropriations than
have ever been given to any other dis
trict in the south, and he details the
items to substantiate this claim. This
is a most important work, including
the improvement of the Trinity river
and the great work under way in Gal
weston, and Mr. Gregg has been given
credit for making the rice industry of
Texas
AS to labor legislation Mr.. Gregg
has at all times been active and
friendly. He asks that his record in
this connection be investigated fully.
Mr.. Gregg was very active during
the present session of the congress in
fighting for a bill to prevent gambling
in farm products and was of much
help to the committee of farmers who
interested themselves in this measure.
Mr.. Gregg has also been very active
in his efforts to secure public build
ings for his district, and his latest ac-
complishments in this line are the
postoffice buildings for Palestine and
Crockett.
These are some of the big things
Mr.. Gregg has looked after while in
congress. But he has done other
things. During the present session of
congress he made three speeches;
one upon the naval appropriation bill
against what he termed the extrava-
CANT expenditure of money for battle
ships, one OF an amendment offered
. by him to the railroad rate bill to put
coastwise traffic under the control
|of the 1ntsfstare Commerce commIs=
sion, this traffic being monopoly
with no power vested anywhere to
regulate rates; the other speech was
against the ship subsidy bill, which
the congressman characterizes as a
bill to tax the people to subsidize
ships to carry the U. S. mail. Mr..
Gregg received numerous compliments
on these speeches and. requests for
copies of them came from various
parts of the country, including a re-
quest from the Interstate Commerce
Commission for copies of his speech
on the rate bill
In his address to the voters of the
district Mr.. Gregg makes the follow
ing suggestion, which is deserving of
serious consideration, as the sound
ness of the proposition cannot be con-
troverted:
81 wish especially to explain that
circumstances are such in congress
that the man who attends to his
duties becomes more and more useful |
with length of service; in fact, long |
service is almost a condition prece-
dent to usefulness. To show you how
this is appreciated by others, let me
cite you to the following quotations: |
in a speech make recently to the
Ohio Society here in Washington,
President Taft said:
why is it that the small states OF
the east exercise SO much power in
1t is not because any east
ern man has any more capacity in
the matter of legislation than west
ern man. 1t is because when they
get a good representative they keep
him as long as he lives
"On the floor of the house of rep
April 8, Hon. Champ
Clark. democratic leader, said:
men should not be sent hither
simply to crafty their own personal
ambitions, but because they can be OF
service, and having proved that they
are of service, wisdom dictates that
they should be kept here so long as
.hey continue to be of service; and it
may be confidently asserted that the
value of the services of man of ca
oacity. character, industry, and good