El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-20
FARMERS union
H0N-PARTIsAH.
SAY MEMBERS
Gets Lots of Political Ad-
vice, Which It Does Not
Care to Follow.

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with receiving funds from improper
sources and making improper appli-
cation of the funds" says the state
menL As Col Ball is the authorized
Spokesman of one of the leading po-
utcal factions in this campaign, we
think we should not permit his state
ment TO go uunOticed
we will accept his challenge against
the honesty and integrity of the Farm
ers Union and Will meet him in 20
JOINT debates and defend our Orgaui-
Ions- We will, Of course, expect Col
BAH TO answer a few questions which
We VIII PROFOUND 10 him during the
debates
Aroused At Last.
We want it distinctly understood
that the Farmers union is non-parti-
san, ana this position must be pro-
tecJed IN the proposed debate, as we
Will under no circumstances, be drawn
into "A discussion in which the political
fortunes OF any candidate are involved
we have been receiving with pa
thence and lOng-suffering a large vol
ume of advice from political experts
telling US how to run the Farmers
union. Our constitution fOrbids anyone
belonging to the Farmers union eX-
cept those who follow the plOW and.
certainly, we could not accept coun-
sci from politicians who have been
lodging the pillow handles all their
lives We want to say that the Farm
ers union is an organization Of farm
ers and is being run by farmers in
the interest Of the farmers. and we
viii not wear the brass collar OF the
political bosses.
Why One; Not the Others
why is it Col Ball wants TO keep
the farmers organization out OF poll
tics and the church organization in
politics. II he is as much a stranger
to the cross as he is 10 the plOw han
dies. we do not believe he is competent
TO direct their affairs
THE farmers Of this state are tired
Of listening 10 platitudes and denuu-
Citations Of politicians. and we shall
look to cooperation with the business
I men for relief and let the demaEogs
ply with interest"
Ferguson Has n Kick.
John G. Mckay, campaign manager I
for Ferguson, the anti candidate for
governor. has taken umbrage at the
statement that his candidate objects TO
cigarets and has sent the following to
The Herald correspondent from his
headquarters at Temple:
I'VE note with q great deal Of inter
est the efforts put forth by Nl-. Cobb !
in your paper under the head 'Nub-
bins particularly the quotation from
that great weekly Home and state, [
quoting from a paper published in |
Temple in regard to an alleged state I
ment made by Jim Ferguson about ]
ciraret smoking boys.
MI Ferguson mas denied naklnE /
such q statement. and I am authorized
to now deny il for him In fact. the l
editor Of this church paper that was /
once published here-Rev- r p Shuler, ]
now of Austin-last November in /
letter copy Of which we are enclosing,
gave his real opinion OF Jim ferguson, ]
and as YOU have given space TO This I
give uhI5citv 10 Mr. Shuler's estimate .
OF MI b ferguson as q man
Ferguson Ministers Son.
The minister referred 20 had ap-
pealed to Mr. Ferguson for a donation (
for 500 chairs for q Methodist school /
and. in writing Mr.. Ferguson. said:
could be affected in the least by your 1
making this donation. If YOU should /
give the money for the chairs 7 would /
announce publicly that the request /
was made by me, knowing you TO be a I
preachers bov and liberal 10 the ]
church. 7 viii also say this 10 you: J
Whether You donate these chairs or I
not I shall not in any manner fight /
YOU or oppose your candidacv- I have
already said the most friendly things
concerning YOU TO more than one man I
who has asked me during the past Two [
DAYS concerning YOU And I
yet while 7 might cast my vote for /
another. 7 viii say that there are now ]
more than one prohibiti0nist in the Z
field that 7 would black in your favor,
since would rather have man with
8Iayes or a fool like another candidate (
we have"
Germans for Ban
bunch OF German-American citi-
zens have iumned into the arena for /
Thomas Ball. declaring that drink is
causing many Of the woes OF the coun-
try and calling upon their German I
brethren to forsake their beer and ]
follow the Houston candidate. They 4
quote the German kaiser. who is said /
to have declared that nine-tenths Of ,
the crime that has come TO his notice
was the result Of drink The kaiser is
also quoted as telling his army that
the nation that drinks the least wins
the most battles
"Since the overwhelming majority ]
of our Christian citizenship are Op-
posed 10 the liquor craffic and in favor
of closing the open saloon. is It not
time that the German-American OF this
Christian citizenship make a united
effort to submit to the whole people
the question OF state wide prohibition
asks a communication issued by them