Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-07-22
AN OLD ISLANDER BoBs UP.

| AN OLD ISLANDER BoBS UP.
The old SANDER to the effect tina
Cone Johnson in the past advocated
that white women teach negro schools
in the south has been revived again
on the eve of tomorrows primary. Il
was repeated in Palestine last night
| Tbs story has been denied SO often
both by Mr. Johnson and his neigh
bors and friends, that it seems incred
ible that any man would be unfair
enough to repeat it. The people of the
Smith county community, where it
was charged that Mr.. Johnson made
| the speech charged against him, have
declared under oath that he made no
such statement nor any statement in
the least suggesting such thing. The
people of Tyler know Johnson never
made such statement Mr. Johnson
has lived among that people for the
last twenty-five years or more, has
been neighbors in Tyler as you and
your neighbor in Palestine; the people
know him, know his daily life, and yet
he has the solid support of his home
people.
Here's the evidence:
Yesterday Tyler closed her business
houses and went to Dallas on spec
ial train of eight cars to say to Texas
that Tyler and Smith county indorse
and commend their neighbor Every
leading dry goods house, every gro
Gerry store, every bank, both of the
newspapers, hundreds of the working
people and farmers, closed their
places of business and followed John
son to Dallas.
More than this:
Every preached in Tyler, including
all denominations, indorse the private
life of Cone Johnson, and are sup
porting him in this race.
Every member of the Tyler bar, the
men who practice law at the same
bar with Johnson, indorse him and
are supporting him for governor
(The one exception is T. N Jones.)
The Trades and Labor Council, COM
posed of more than a dozen local
unions, Endorsed Johnson by unani-
nous vote and put the official seal of
the council on the Endorsement and
sent it broadcast over the state, say
ing to the laboring men of Texas that
this is our friend and our neighbor, a
man as true as steel and as pure as
gold.
The newspapers of Tyler and of
Smith county, some five or six, are
lined up solidly for Johnson, and de-
clare him to be a citizen of whom
Texas can be proud.
Almost without exception the mer-
chants and bankers of Tyler are for
Johnson, and commend him as a man |
worthy of all trust and confidence.
What more could you demand of a
man than that he has the confidence
and esteem and love of his neighbors |
What better recommendation can he
bring you? 1t is said that prophet
is not without honor save in his own
home. But Johnson is honored at
nome and loved by those who know
him best. He is clean, he is manly,
he is brainy, he is big in many ways.
You know that if johnson had
ever advocated that white women
each negro schools or any other such
hing that his home people would not
tand for him and by him.
But here's the evidence:
On tonight Oscar B. Colquitt goes
o his home people in Kaufman coun-
Y and will plead with them to support
i'm in the primary. II they do it
lill be the first time. He knows it
necessary for him to make the
lea of loyalty to a home man.
Judge Poindexter will go to his
ONE in Johnson county, and tonight i
ill plead with his home people to =
tand by him in this fight, even if +
hey have failed him repeatedly in the
asst. He needs to plead, for his coun-
Y is divided badly.
General Davidson goes to Galveston,