El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-21

and have seen men come back after
they had been discharged. There is too
much policy and too much love of goli
nowadays. Across the blue waters men
are killing by the thousands and my
little expedition as an outlaw seems
puny compared to that wholesale muir
der over the seas.
Started square.
after I was released from prison, 7
started to go square. I sought jobs as
a law. clerk. The lawyers told me that
they needed men and were ready to pay
S25 a week for good law clerks Then,
not TO conceal anything, I would tell
them that ] was Al Jennings, the out
law: that / had robbed trains and done
time. Then they would tell me that I
was not wanted; that they could not
afford to have me around. Think of
lawyer afraid to have an eXCOnvict
around. There are some good lawyers
but they usually die young. I started
to practice for myself I defended boot
leggers and made speciality Of per-
sonal injury cases. Why. the president
of the Rock Island railroad said I was
more dangerous as a lawyer than as a
train robber,
Then I received my full pardon and
had my citizenship restored to me by
president Roosevelt. He told me that
1 had right to become n citizen again
that every man had that right and
that I should have mine. And that man
was a true lFlenu OF 1nlne- ne nelUeu
me when / needed help. Some Of you
don't want him again but you are liable
to have to take him (applause)-
Ran For Governor.
"Then 7 ran for governor OF Okla
hOma. Not a paper in the state would
announce me. Then I went to New
York. wrote out a 63-wOrd platform, in
which I said all that Okla homa needed
was an honest dealt cost me Just
$3.50 to go TO New YOrk-and I gave
Press. Every paper In the country
printed it and the Oklahoma papers
had to do il. Ordinarily, it costs $50 to
announce for governor in a little back
woods newspaper. but my announce
ment went into all the papers without
costing me anything more than the fare
to New York.
"Goveruors PerjurerS.-
1t costs money to run for governor
in Oklahoma and not a man has taken
the office OF governor without perjur-
ing himself The present governor
made affidavit that his campaign cost
less than S3000-the law limits the
amount candidate for governor may
spend for election to S30O0-when he
actually spent over $4,000 to get the
job.
Bandit Pictures.
when I was campaigning, Tom Alex
ander, who fought me, used pictures Of
a bandit with a mask over his eyes at
one night a block down the street a
man came and told me that Alexander
was using that bandit banner. ] sent
back word that that was as close as
Tom would ever get to a bandit he was
such a coward / spoke all over the
state. I promised that II I was elected
governor l would send Tom Alexander
and his crowd to the penitentiary. The
next day he met me in the elevator OF
my office building and sneeringly
asked me about my statement. saying
that he wanted to get a little advice
about how to act at the penitentiary, as
he understood 1 had been there three or
four times. That was the kind Of a cam
paign I had been facing. An old
preacher told me that no one but
thieves would vote for me. I told him
that II every thief in Oklahoma would
vote for me I would be elected by 49,
600 majority.
Was Double Crossed.
when the votes commenced 20 come
in on election night 1 was running