Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-28

and the salOcn. lie tries TO avoid
this issue. 10 say Il has no bearing,
but everybody In Texas knows that
but for his part in the whiskey fight
he would not have been mel toned
IN this campaign. The fact tina,
men % all parties voted IN the con
test last year aud the narrow mar
gin by which vhiskey and Jake VOL
tors won shows that whiskey and
lake Woltors owe their success 70
anti-DemoCratic votes SO We
have the remarkable spectacle OF a
man who owes his chief success and
prominence TO non-DemoCratiC votes
coming into a Democratic primary
and asking the highest honor In the
slit OF Democracy Mr. Sheppard
charged here tina, II was MIR Vol
,ers' devotion to the whiskey inter.
osts that lei him to violate one OF
the most fundamental Of Democratic
principles. that of the publicity cam.
pairn contributions and eXpcndi-
lures lie said that in giving his
reason Tor this action Mr. Wolters
betrayed a prejudice against certain
prohibition sections of the state that
would ill become n senator repre-
sentine the entire people of Texas
he quoted from Woltors' speech at
Austin, defending his refusal to dis
close the sources of his campaign
fund, as follows:
Let a nan in one of these cour
ties let Il be known that he contrib.
utcd 10 this campaign fund and tho
Intolerance is so strong that he anl
his family would lie socially osira-
Icised-he would be practically driv
en- out Of confidence. his business
would be destroyed by the strun-
arm OF the boycott and life would
be made miserable
Sander at Texans.
Mr. Shepard said that few moy
, N Texas would tolioy. thai M
VOTERS framed this Islander serious
~ that It was plain that this WIG
assertion WAS merely cover fol
some darker reason Before
would make such a charge agails
my fellow citizens Of Texan who ar-
Observation-Disclosures and Who DO no
agree with me on the prohibition
question ! would want my ton que 4,
wiiher and my lips to rot adic,
Mr. Shepaprd
Mr. Sheppard quoted at lensr
from Mr. VOTERS testimony before
the investigating committee of IA,
legislature last year, In which Vol
tcrs refused to state the tota
amount expended by him or th'
source of his funds as Chair.
man OF the Anti-State Wide Com
mlttee 'The Democratic National
platform on the subject was read "a
him" said Mr. Sheppard, and 1
did not influence hin, In the leas'
He said he did not aFree with Ia,
Democratic platform in requiring in.
dvidual contributions 20 be publish.
cd and stated his belief that con
tribution by Rockefeller to a politi
cal campaign fund should not he d.
vulged He even said that he thought
the experience Ci the campaign In
which he had Just engaged demon
stratcd that publicity Of campaign
funds would not rebound 10 sound
public policy but on the contrary
would tend 10 make men coward
aud keep them from giving assist
auce to cause In which they be-
lie,ed lie admitted that the publ
cation of the sheet called 'Facts
cost $4,000 or $4,000. but he de-
clined 10 say what the distribution
of other literature cost lie toll,
OF his headuarters at Dallas an5
Houston, admitting that a. times th'
number OF employees In the laticl
would run up 10 seventy or eighty
lie would state positively that n,
corporations anywhere within o.
without the state. he'd made any ron
tfihut.ons but rs 10 firms and ind.
viduals he would decline TO answer
flo stated that II he gave the name
/ Of individuals IN certain prohibition
lcommunities who contributed 10 III
fund they would be socially ostr1
ciscd and that he believed that NJ
contributions Of individuals shout
be published virtually because at
Individual had a rifht 10 do what h
pleased with his money. u !
evident from VOTERS testimony tina
the sums collected and distribute
nv him for the pcfpotuation OF the 4
puor traffic must have far exceede
one hundred thousand dollars az IN
most modest estimate. II Is cvi
don't from his refusal 10 say wha
individuals contributed. and =
prompt denial that any corporation
eontr 'buied. that rich mtn IN an
cat % Texas. materially interestc
In perpetuatlng the traffic. mus
have put up this enormous amount
II Is evident that they gave on
preconcerted plan as individuals