The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-14
TO LEAVE
SENATE As FRIEND
OF CORPORATIONS 10
q. - sfa 81,
Texas Senator Under
went Great Change
In Views
HE WAS .lRE7.Ay' RADICAL
When He First Entered Con-
gress lie Wouldn't Wear
a Dress Suit
HE WAS: .l RADICAL

Kansas City, Mo.-Whether
Joseph w. Bailey of Texas, ex-repre-
sentative and cx-enemy of corpora
tions, who now say he is going to
become an ex-senator, jumped or
was pushed is a rather interesting
question. Another possibility, ac-
cording to men who know something
of the Texans standing in his home
state, is that he LAD a premonition
that the popular boot was about to
hit him and jumped before it could
get in its deadly work. OF course,
senator Bailey's announcement that
he will not be a candidate for re-
e4ection shouldHnot be taken't6o SER
ious. lie may change his, mind, as
he did last March, when he resigned
from the SenatcEand inside ofatwelve
hcus let, himself be persuaded to
stay.
But if Bailey really does intend %
quit the Senate, he has some good
reasons. There is Il large amount OF
opposition TO him in Texas, and it
is by no mcan certain that he would
be reelected ty the next legislature
u w IitdG Ia rlaNS.
Hai.cy has beer in the Senate
slrc 1901. In. that time he. las
changed lis mind and IS point OF
view on various subpcoia n.Wh
Rai!cy first went to Washington as a
a rampant man Of the people" that
the emblem of bloated aristocracy,
4Jo Irocc. c,,,.r~ Ii, hn, c;no. booor,o
sufficiently reconciled to this cos
tune to have his photograph taken in
it several times. lnsls01, when Bal
ley went to tle Senate for the first
time, he was n of thai body's' most
active young trust-denolncers. The
mere mention of a soulless corpo-
ration heated the Texans blood TO
the boiling point. Gradually, how
ever, the young senator adopted a
more charitable attitude toward the
octopi of commerce, and inside. of five
years was, on sufficient friendly terms
with them to borrow large sums of
money.
Prior to Bailcy's .e-election in
1907 the Texas Legislature held an
investigation. The attorney general
charged that Bailey, Wine a member
of the u;ited States Senate, had
been paid large sums of money by
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, a
subsidiary o: the Standard, to pro-
cure its readmission to the state, with
permission to do business after it
had been ousted. This assertion was
never proved. but IL was proved that
Bailey had received $4,000 from me
Watcrs-Picrce Company. This mon
'ey the senator SAID, was merely a
loan, and he also asserted that it
had been repa.a, and that he had
papers to prove it. The president of
a large lumber company testified that
Bailey, while a member of the Sen
ate, mad received $4,000 from his
company for services rendered.. Bal
icy, however, was reelected to the
Senate.
In the last regular session of Con-
gress, Bailey, all charity, took up the
defense of that mar of many sorrows
and few friends, Senator Lorimer.
The Texan proved beyond question
that Lorimer did not chew, drink,
swear or beat his, awife,n and that he
lived at the Y NJ NJ, e. 4; in Washing
In the special session of Congress
Just closed bailey made a hard fight
against reciprocity. He let them all
know that he was the farmers cham
pion and that he did not purpose to
let the people of Texas suffer from
the admission of free lumber from
Canada to compete with their ma
tive sage brush. Of course, IT was
getting along toward reelection
time, Now the senator saws ha
won't run. ~