El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-22
"Colquitt the Foe of Labor
By Henry NJ Walker Formerly Editor

, TO cure anc prevent them. Yet Col
! quit has said nothing
COlquitt was not governor Of and
/ for the people. His own party in its
/ national Democratic platform many
/ years ago declared for the direct cleo
! tion OF United States senators by the
people, yet ColQuitt dares to oppose
I this doctrine To his class favoritism
he adds the assurance Of despOt He
was DraZen enough TO tell president
Taft face TO face that the president
ought to throttle congress whenever
he wants that body to shut down and
this Sratuitous Information grew out
OF Colquitts own domination of the
Texas Legislature by message. bv in
nueudO and by the veto power. He is
dangerous one-man monarch.
The Cotton FIascO.
That COlquitt is a demosog seek
ing selfish prefermeht rather than the
popular good. I prophesied in 1903
This prophesy mas come true with
such emphasis that even the man who
runs may read the fact. His sudden
flop after vetoing the eight hour law
( 10 re-submittinS il was born out of
F. fear that he would offend laboring men
ard that he would better pacify them.
Ills mock heroic sympathy with con-
NictS each of whom = good peers
have pronounced guilty. and his spec
tacular flourishins Of a bull-bat over
MS mead before his audiences. cannot
but brand him as a charlatan seeking
suffrage under false pretenses.
His call Of a convention OF governors
10 keep up the price of cotton was a
erand-stand play aimed the rural
voters of Texas. At that convention
resolutions were passed to reduce the
cotton acreage and TO adopt ware
house plans <Or storing cotton. What
new or effective gospel does anybody
lind IN these measures Haven't thev
been resoluted upon for many years
by farmers organizations all over the
cotton growing WORLD What good
was accomplished by these resolutions
by governors Can resolutions stop
the reasons or regulate the Law of
supply and demandc II was and Is a
scheme 10 ensnare the unwary farmer
into the COlquitt pOll-boo Il IS a
hiu on the Sulubility of the great farm
ing classes. and they are intelligent
enough and courageous enough TO re-
sent H. To cap the climax on this
cotton business Cofquitt actually prom
ised that If reelected governor We
would have le-cent cotton. ANY such
claim brands its propa gator as 4 poIiti-
cal pretender- II is absolutely impos-
Slble that Colquitt or any other man .
could guarantee l3-cent cotton or any
other price. for there are laws beneath I
TINS question that are beyond the con-
troi OF politics It is another trick to /
decoy rural voters into the CoIquitt |
fold. /,
Colquitt's policies have discoura ged I
the coming Of large capital necessary
TO these enormous industries that de .
Telop our natural resources and Keen
the state in prosperity. Mining stock
raising irrigation. manufacturers. fac
torres, mills and other institutions that 7
WOULD give profitable employment TO
leO,HUp men for lo0 years are TODAY not
IN existence nor starting into organizs-
liOn because of a hostile attitude Of
ieNas laws toward capital The com
ing of capital doesn't imply capitalistic
domination and law defvine rnononoIv
& apital may be controlled just like
my thinS else. and properly controlled /
II becomes blessing to all humanity.
Other Counts Against Him.
Colquitt was never the real choice
~ the people Of Texas for governor !
The plurality rule in the primaries
one OF the others would have defeated !
him in November.
He is opposed TO the extension of
the public school age.
He is not in favor Of a just liability
lcr Tor employers
He has kept silent about a corrupt
practice act and refused to publish
through his campaign manager the
-normOus sum Of money exploited by
special interests TO elect him governor
He has done nothing whatever
oward the liberation of children from
ne grind Of factories
he opposed an amendment pension
ne old soldiers. and discharged IN old
older without cause.
He denounced the teachers Of our
hildren as .pie-eaters~
He has suggested nothing effecrive
or relieving > of our state institu- ! l
IONS from the domino ton Of politics. ! !
lie offers no adequate measures for
forming our court procedure. when !
hat court procedure and all its Incl
entail costs make up the most ex-
ensive item in the whole budget of
appropriations from the peoples tax
loueys TO support the government. n
He was elected governor through the Y
ivish use OF special interest money. j,
nd II Is impossible to believe that
nese special interests are not receiv- L
X profitable returns for their serv-
.e.
In the face Of these facts il is i'm -
ossIble to believe that Colouitt is not
he enemy of the laborinC people. and Il
or these reasons and out Of LOYALTY l.
D the tOilinC thousands of TEXAS I Of
aust stand by time-honored princi- NJ
les Of unionism and against Colquitt
YOU are a union man Won betrav 2
our organization and your home bv
oting for COlquitt 7 shall 90 TO the
oils August &c next Saturday and
ote for Chas- \. Culberson for I. S I o
anator o