El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-12

=, combat the principles Of the Bailey
resolutions. but to keep ialth with
the people and the principles OF De
mocracy- RMS IS no P.1S IT, Ia me ms, %
bring up these questions Ihey should
be brought up in 1916, when they can
DC bailey Not Consistent.
aTn 1906 Bailey changed MS views
and decided that statewide prohibition
was wrong. In 1908 Bailey switched
and stood on the other side, for sub
mission In 1910 he stood for the
prohibition candllale anu SUBMISSION
In 1911 BailsE did not come TO Ou-
rescue In 1912. one of the most heat.
81 contests Bailey stood against COL
0uitt and for the prohibition candi-
$50 I ask YOU. why this sudden in
+arest in prohibitiOn2 Why does Bailey
come now to stir up strife when a
great victory has been won and eight
years Of political STRIFE are % oi De Re
placed by peaceE we are Soins 70
have peace II we have to send Bailey
hack 10 Washington to get It.
Calls IL Trouble Resolution
What use is his resolution other
than to stir up row among tne Iol-
Lowers of FerguSOn2 7 am not AFRAID
to vote down the resolutions OF BAILEY
and then go before my constituents
@li "a -eesrds his resolution that mon
ev should not he cOrruptly used IN
campaign, we are, OF course, an IN
favor Of that But we nave Jaws mat
will send the officers OF corporations
10 iaiI If il is shown they nave con-
tributed 10 campaign 1unus- IL was
shock to many ana some pI oIhIIleHt
politicians were IN the HuinpSI, mat
, \ plain man. unheard OF. could take
an honest platform. run on II and win
II the limit of campaign expenses was
$4,000 Ferguson never Wouid nave
beaten the politicians headed by Joe
/ Bailey and many OF the great news
papers OF the state.
Makes Charge; Takes II Back
WHY Bailey on the floor OF the
| United States senate voted 70 seat
Stevenson, who had campaign eX-
pense of s2OO, 900. No. gentlemen, !
retract that" the speaker added after
: a whispered conference, but DO say
that at that time he made no protest
How about LOrrimer-' came calls
| from the delegates.
Wolters ignored these requests
IF Bailey wants TO run for the sen
! ate the waters fine. let him jump IN,
but we will not permit him to intrude
( his candidacy on Ferguson conVen-
ton" the speaker continued
Calls Bailey DemOcracy's Enemy.
Gov. elect Ferguson followed Col
/ VOTERS reply to Bailey and received
: an ovation as he mounted the platform
/ 7 am proud Of this opportunity TO
/ defend the policies that I claim as my
/ own against the greatest enemy OF
Q 4Elll0NA dAF Oh A E-AeA1 no NO. an
/ looking squarely at Bailey
81 do not fear Bas-ey- I throw down
( the gauntlet to him and If he wants a
4 conflict ] am ready for him. But /
am sorry that he has introduced nun nun
I self at this eleventh hour when peace
I was near US after eight years OF strife.
stop the Agitation
/ Il ask no man TO surrender MS views
on prohibition, for I do not intend TO
! surrender mine. I told them in the
/ campaign that any man could vote for
| me and retain his views told the
peC-3le that every man knew how ne
/ stood on prohibition I only appealed
I TO them To decide whether or not We
I hibitiOn question Bailey says that
Z this is un-DemOcratic- That might be
! his personal view on II, but il IS not
{ the view Of the Democracy Of Texas
He supported Tom Ball yet Ball wrote
the Democratic platform in 1898, which
Z saws that prohibition is not a test OF
I a mans democracy Shall prohibition
I be the test of a mans democracy W e
I have said that il is not test and i
! was elected on that platform come
! before YOU asking you TO stand by me
I to keep our promise TO the people ana
TO give the state a business admins
/ tratiOn-
says Bailey Not sincere.
The Democrats Of Texas never de-
cided whether IL was a test Of Democ-
Z racy. II Bailey was sincere IN Inls
] issue. II he wanted TO raise an ISSUE
/ instead Of a row, why did he not come
TO Texas during the campaign BAILEY
saws he doesn't want the national gov
eminent TO tell Texas how 70 vote on
prohibition. I say a Washington law
yer shall not come TO Texas and die
tate to US what we shall do he may
be a citizen Of Texas. but when ne
has a $4,000 house in Washington and
/ advertises as Bailey * Bailey. LAWYERS,
in Washington, L say that he should
go way back and sit down
/ The governor elect reiterated tnaiI
I Bailey should have come 10 Texas al
! the proper time" to have made his
fight
Bailey in rebuttal said: IN my first
/ speech I expressed the hope that James
{ T. Ferguson would make a great gov
Z ernOr. I still hope so. but after hear
! ing that speech. I cannot expect II
I No man who is capable Of making that
/ speech is capable Of making good
governor"
vote VIII Not Bind the Party.
Barry Miller. of Dallas, read the mo-
ton to table the minority report fol-
I lowing Bailey's rebuttal, said;
we do not consider. nor do We IN
tend that a vote upon this motion shall
| bind the party. nor any delegate IN MS
/ future course upon the questions IN
volved. nor as expressive Of his views
/ upon the merits Of the issues our
sole purpose is TO keep the record
straight, TO keep the faith Of our can
! didate without wavering or shadow OF
! turning. with the thousands Of Proht-
/ bitionists who were lead to support him
! because Of his repeated assertion that
I prohibition was not an issue in this
/ campaign"
BY the overwhelming vote Of 645 TO