Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-04-11
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their country, from their infirmitjes and the
proud recollection Of a lost cause, most en-
titled 10 respect and consideration, is the
There had been passed an act Of the legis-
lature. effective June p, 1903, providing that
the CoIl missioner OF pensions should De sp-
Of Office should be for two years. As soon "a
IN obedience TO its provisions. appointed as
q Follower Of the white soSIed lee !" as tie
governor refers TO these old veterans in his
Confederate soldier can't e A Roiues We
sion clerk in the controllers department and
who had been by common consent continued
appointed. as 1 advised, upon the praC-
ucally unanimous request, expressed in reso-
state. because OF his peculiar fitness for the
duties Of the place. 1t was wholly non
mediately upon Governor Colquitt's Inaugural
ton. Notwithstanding that this old Confed-
Confederate Veterans organization. holding
commission under the great seal Of the state
than seven months, was forced out and his
successor young man under thirty years.
with little knowledge and no special quaIifi-
] am informed, been an applicant for It, a
young man in the bloom Of youth. who had
after the legislature had, upon the governors
for this department, ousted the old Confed-
crate veteran threw him over among the ruins
office the fair-haired boy and appointed as
his chief clerk a third-rate saIoonkeeper
not solder in Gur FTeaf ca Sasoo not nan.
lower Of the white-souled Lee" but a knight
q .ue Thlle apron Ihere are many good
men In Texas who at one time were in the
saloon business, but who long ago quit and
are now engaged IN useful occupations
mere are many men, who are naturally
generous hearted. now In the business who
ought to be in other lines of activity. But
certain it IS that the saloons should not be
the recruiting stations for positions in the
pension department created for the Confed-
crate soldiers and which could we'll or bet
ter be filled by one of them.
Governor Against Old Soldiers
Let me tell you my friends, that I have
now and have had all the days of my life the
proioundest respect and regard for the man
who wore the gray. Every lighting man OF
my name. and every man Of fghtng age a
the Confederate army. My father went out
with the brave men of Gonzales county in al
most the first company raised in your county.
as ] have learned, that the IS over: that
we are indeed in our fathers house. and that
been guilty of what to me is the unpardon-
able offense of ousting a competent man
grown gray I'm the service of his country, to
make room for one of my own cavalrymen.
1t is in keeping, however, with the govern
or's record in respect to pensioning Confed-
crate soldiers, against which he voted a
member of the senate. It is such an afront
TO them and such arront to the self-re-
specting people of this state ought not to
be. and will not be, overlooked or forgiven
If Captain Bolmes. who had trod the sunlit
heights of more than martial glory, was not
himself fit for the responsible duties of the
position to which he had been appointed,
surely, on; surely somewhere in Texas
there could have been found a Confederate
veteran who competent And If 1 am
elected governor I will find one.
Call the roll of the great in Texas VIII o
are serving her today in exalted stations.
The great chief justice of Texas. Thomas
Jefferson Brown, was Confederate soldier
and a good one. The presiding judge Of the
court of criminal appeals in Texas. Judge VIM
L. Davidson. one Of your DISTINGUISHED fellow
citizens, was Confederate soldier. and a
good one And yet the governor Of Texas
must pick from the firing line Of his cam
paign troopers to find a to fill this office
and must go into the Budweiser bar in tn e
city OF Dallas to find assistant.
1t seems that the people Of the state can
find Confederate soldiers 10 fill the high est
Offices. but the governor can not find one to
fill even the position in which the Confed-
crate veteran is most concerned and the adj
mintStration Of which most nearly and d.
recty affects him.
All honor TO the Confederate soldier. It IS
now indeed a thin gray lire. In a few years
the last Of the tribe viii pass over the river
and rest under the shade Of the trees with
Lee and Jackson. We should do something
for him while we can, and as for me and my
house I viii not only not discriminate
against and insult him, but Will aid and com