Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1910-06-30
DENOUNcE ISLANDERS OF OPPOSITION
In Address to Democracy of Texas
Charge that Mr.. colqultts Campaign
Is Being Financed by Saloons and
Breweries Is Branded as False In
Every Particular.


tative citizens from every walk Of life
in Texas met at the Oriental hotel
here today to perfect arrangements for
a vigorous promotion of o. B. Col
quits candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for governor and take
steps to assure his now practically
certain nomination. They came from
every part of the state, and glance
at the personnel of the assembly was
sufficient to satisfy any one of the
character OF Mr.. Cloquitt's following.
His opponents, notably Judge Poln-
dexter, go about repeating that he is
the candidate of the saloons and is
backed by the wealth and influence
of the liquor interests, but today
demonstration in his favor served to
establish the fallacy of such an asser-
ton.
Business men, farmers, laboring
men, newspaper men and attorneys,
some of whom have heretofore taken
little, If any active interest in political
campaigns, composed the crowd that
gathered here in his interest and a
reading of the names of those present
will be sure to satisfy the impartial
reader that Mr.. Colquitt's support is
made up of the conservative progress
loving-development-bent citizenship of
Texas, and that the liquor interests are
in no sense responsible for his cand-
idacy.
Furthermore, the tenor of the ad.
dress to the voters of Texas issued
by the conference makes 1t plain that
he stands for Democratic principals
pure and indebted as opposed to the
theories of the hysterical political
transformers who are trying to com
unit -tha.. marty = tQ-.all. sorts. Of new
tangled ideas, regardless of the peril
to representative government lurking
therein.
This address emphasizes the fact
that Mr.. Colquitt is committed to the
preservation of the existing provision
of the constitution for prohibition by
local option and to the enforcement of
the statute for the regulation of sa-
looms in wet counties, which statute
is unquestionably the most efficient OF
its kind in existence. 1t also makes
plain that Mr.. Colquitt stands for the
development If the states resources
the protection of the rights of its cit
liens of all classes and the suppress
sion OF political agitation designed
mainly to excite the predjudices of the
people for the benefit OF office hunters
In other words, this address, signed
as 1t is by men of known concern for
the welfare of the state, furnishes q
complete answer to the allegation that
has been recklessly made on the stump
that Mr.. Cloquitt is the candidate OF
certain special interests and is against
everything save the unregulated liquor
traffic.
During the meeting reports of politi-
cal conditions throughout the state
were received indicating that Mr.. Col
quit is in the lead in at least 100
counties and will get his share of the
votes in the others. These reports
came from everywhere and those from
the northern and eastern portions OF
the state were as encouraging as
those from South Texas where Mr.
Colquitt will admittedly have every
thing practically his own way.
The conference was in every respect
harmonious in all of its deliberations
which were conducted in most bust
nesslike and earnest manner, as was
to have been expected of an assem-
blage of men of the character of those
composing it. The governing idea
was that the Democratic party must
be saved from the pitfalls that have
been dug for 1t by certain elements
whose thirst for political power would
lead them to any extremity to satisfy
their ambitions, and that the state
must be freed from the political agi
tation which is retarding its growth
In all respects this Colquitt confer
ence was the most significant and i'm
pressive gathering of its kind ever
held in this state, and will serve tc
put a quietus upon the campaign o.
misrepresentation upon which Mr.. Col
quits opponents are relying to over
come his very apparent lead.
The following was tonight furnished
TO the press by the committee on ad
dress:
TO the Democracy of Texas: With
out rejecting upon the personal char
acter or questioning the ability Of any