El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-01

Z centive TO turn loose wnen he takes
/ the stump
The Secretaries Dragged In.
Another kirk has been added to the
suit against the Business Mems organ
ization by an attack upon che Texas
Commercial Secretaries association,
which is affiliated with the Business
Mems organization This attack comes
from Geo W Carroll, Of Beaumont,
vice president, who resigns with the
declaration that he Is fully convinced
that the secretaries are fighting prohi-
bitiOn and. since he has been identified
40 wears with the cold water crowd, he
thinks he has trained long enough with
the secretaries He says he knows
positively that the secretaries are fight
ing the submission question and that
alone is enough TO make him ready 10
surrender his membership.
So it goes. Kink after kink is daily
drawn into the skein Of circumstances
attending the campaign Just when
the vC-er has decided that each candl-
date must have made and answered as
many charges as can possibly be
brought into being, somebody bobs up
with a new charge and then a new an
swer is necessary. Ball and Ferguson
have been fighting along fairly well on
q stable lot OF charges and counter
charges and it was getting so that it
was not necessary to read their speeches
every day to keep up with the news,
but then came this suit and then came
Ball or one Of his friends, with the
query as to where Ferguson is getting
his money for his campaign, and things
opened up again The expectation was
no doubt, that the voter would swallow
the intended inference that the liquor
interests were putting up the capital
Not so, however Mr Ferguson an
doing a handspring and countered
right back with one that made Bali
vince.
Who Puts Up the Cashf
Il am putting up my own money"
said Mr.. Ferguson in substance, and
then he asked in substance if the voJ-
ers think they ought to elect as gov
ernOr a man who Is not enough Of
success in business or in his profession
to accumulate money for his own ex-
penses. The inference, Of course, is
that Col Ball is not paying his own
expenses and inIerentially, a new Ques-
ton arises from the Ferguson side Of
the fence: Is Mr.. Ball, therefore, a
good enough business man TO be
elected2'
Here is the way Ferguson puts it:
I have long made It rule TO have
a little money laid by to meet possible
sold my spring wool clip and that helps
some, and in about two weeks Will
have a carload or two Of fat hogs to
ship to market and that Will help
some more I don't need a slush fund
and wouldn't have one 1 was not
shunted into this campaign by corpO-
rate or any other interests. When I
had made up my mind to run for gov
ernor 1 jumped the fence on my own
initiative / have not worked all my
life to find that 1 have not made and
saved enough money TO meet my legiti-
mate expenses A man who has not
made a success OF his own business
would hardly be expected to be a sue
cess as the states chief executive"
An Answer TO "FerE.y
While Mr. Ferpuson is 5ofr.-- rbf- -
MI Ball. bunch Of the Houston mans
friends up Dallas way, jump out in
'front.' with statement replying for |
their chief TO one OF Mr.. Ferguson's
recent sallies, which shows that it is /
not always ones own harpOon that /
does the happening, and proves that /
II you 80 cunning, you may be ex- |
pected to be shot at.
Mr. Ferguson had been doing such |
grand political sailing on his promo
sitiOn TO fix the price of rents for /
farm lands in Texas that the Ball sup i
Dorters thought 1t was time 10 prick I
the balloon and let it drop back to 4
earth for awhile So they nut their I
heads together and wrote out this:
--lr. Ferguson proposes TO regulate
he rental Of farms To fix the income /
II property is TO fix the value OF prop /
5rty- The right TO fix the value Of
arm property carries the right to fix /
ne value OF city property, and the Fer
5usOn doctrine would commit the state !
% the impairment Of all property ]
lights If the state may fix the value
y farms, the state may fix the value
u farm products, because the farms !
re valuable for what they produce.
There are more consumers Of farm |
'rOQucts than producers. and when ]
.ver We venture upon this sOcialistic
cheme we may depend upon It that the I
majority Of consumers will fix values !
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