The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-06-27

own, he then paid tribute to
his former school mate and now
warm friend, j, Lea Cannon. =
In beginning his speech Mr.
sheppard ridlculed the misuse of
FUNDS spent layishly in making a
campaign. He said some cardi-
dates accept end spend AMI bender
more money in conducting their
campaign than they could ever
make back from the salary they
receive while in office. this being
the case there is undoubtedly some
graft in sight that makes the sit
uatlon look good. 81 am manag-
ing my own campaign, spending nv
own money and going to win the
office, if possible, on my own mer-
us, he said. The Bailey issue
has not entered my campaign and
l Win not allow it to. There is
no press agent with me, no monon-
oEes financing my campaign. and
am bitterly opposed to the Law
ism use of money in making race
Tor a public office. Would be glad
to see the time come when everv
man making race for office would
be compelled by law to publish
every cent contributed to cam
pa1gn funds and the donor there
with. Or ! would be glad to see the
time come when each candidate be
compelled to make a race on his
own reliability and furnish his
own funds for making the race
He said some of the candidates
thought that religious and moral is
sues should not be permitted to
enter politics. hut he thinks SO be-
cause when you wipe out the re-
Egious and moral issues the issue
itself is killed. A man that is
afraid of the people Is a man that
the people should be afraid of.
The powerful are the ones that
lend assistance to the immoral, and
help tear down all that is for the
betterment of mankind. The, great
conflicts in politics is the masses
of people on one side with the
money powers and corporations on
the other.
Mr.. Sheppard said that the first
party to oppose democracy was the
socialists, next the whig party, then
came the republicans who had been
kept in power by the monopolies.
But the masses are winning demo-
cracy back and when it is accom-
plshed republican ideas Will be
buried forever. The republican
party has been showing its loyalty
to protective tariff laws, and high
protective tariff rates carry hell
and damnation to the poor masses.
while it makes money for the
trusts and combinations. 1t tears
down and dooms to destruction
every concern outside the trust
Ninety-nine small and independent
business concerns could be put out
OF business and be made to die at
the command of the great and
mighty trust,
Since the trusts have controlled
the situation living has increased
300 per cent the farmer gets 40
to so cents for products that ten
years ago brought him 81 to s1.2o-
Il would help institute a law,
he said, that would govern and
control prices Young men and
women can not find safe and mon
ey making investments for the mo-
nopoly question, Time is rapidly
coming when a public servant can
not get an office unless he pledges
to help enact laws that will tear
down the monopoly. Men who hang
around the legislative halls should
be run out and laws passed not al
lowing lobbyists to enter during
the session. The earnings of cor
porations should be published so
the people could see and keep up
with the vast amount they gobble
in. Earnings of lots of the cor
porations are so large the stock
holders are just given dividends in
order that their undivided profits
will not look so large
He said that Jake Wolters had
been in the service of the monopo-