The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-29
BROOKS IN RACE
To THE FINISH
WILL RUN FOR SENATE WHILE
Campbell AND COLQUITT
EXPLAIN ACTS.
SPENDS DAY HERE
Greets Many Friends and Admirers
During Morning and Speaks
to Trinity Students During
Chapel Hours.

Hon. ). L. Brooks, candidate Iof
the Senate of the United States, was
the guest of friends in the city last
night, and today yielded to a weak
ness and accepted an invitation to
address the students of Trinity uni
versity. Or. Brooks is not on a
political speech-making tour because
he will not open his campaign until
early spring when he will speak at
Marshal. but he paying q visit
to friends and incidentally organ
ICES his forces for the campaign he
expects to wage during the spring
and summer. When asked what eff
feet the announcement of Hon. c.
A. Culberson would have on his race
he said the present senator has had
an illustrious career but he
hoped to succeed him in the
senate. In reference to Col
quit and Campbell he said he would
be running for the senate while they
we're explaining official acts as gov
ernor of Texas
My enemies are saying Brooks
has no political machcine and no
money. to which l am going to plead
guilty. | am not going to buy my
way into office. because | haven't
the money TO do it with. | do not
owe allegiance to any political ma
chine therefore if elected | viii have
no political debts TO pay. ! will de-
pend on the voters who pay their
own poll taxes. | will employ no
agent | will employ no speakers.
/ II elected | will be the servant Of
all the people, whether friend or
foe" said Dr. Brooks in a brief in
terview
! Briefly outlining his platform DIR.
Brooks said there should be a quick
ening sense of the members of the
United States congress to much
shameful pension legislation and
and other expenditures. like public
| buildings, urged more for political
purpose than for service to the peo-
pie he also will advocate the cut
ting down of the mileage allowance
of members of congress, curtail-
ment of the ranking privileges. He
| would also advocate the sending out
| of all garden seed by the secretary
of agriculture on request, rather
than by congressman. He favors
child labor laws, a federal warehouse
law whereby non-perishable products
could be sampled and graded by
/ experts with a view Of standardiz-
| ing the receipts among the bankers
at home and abroad He would en-
large the parcels post business to
take care of all express through the
purchase of express properties
Foremost of all he fayors the con-
stitutional prohibition of the liquor
traffic without limit to geographical
| bounds in the United States. lie
says his is not single plank plat
form by any means He favors ru-
raj credits. such as proposed by
President Wilson
The doctor fayors a neutral con-
vention out of which may come u
doctrine having to do with the fu-
ture of neutrals in time of war. In
this connection he favors prepared
ness from attacks from the inside
as we'll as from the outside lie
believes in the worth of the aero
plane and the submarine and would
have many of each ready and mann
cd for service ON shortest notice
He would also vote for enlargements
of the army and navy to meet every
emergency.
Or, Brooks has been at the head
OF Baylor university for thirteen
Years and it is tribute TO him t
know that he counts among his best
friends and supporters the hundreds
who have gone out from that insti
tuition. He is today in the hands q
a number Of his local friends and adj
mirers.