El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-22
AMERIGANISN
C0BB'S THEME
Hudspeth's Position on the
Zone Bill Referred to by
Cobb at Midland.
by GEORGE n. CLEMENTS.


Midland Texas. April Each
Lamar Cobb. candidate for congress,
who appeared as one of the speakers
[ at a patriotic meeting in the Baptist /
Ichurch OF this city Friday night, was I
given an opportunity TO discuss poll
/ tics before an audience which filled to I
tovernowing the district courtroom /
Saturday afternoon. The meeting I
had been widely advertised and there /
was in attendance men and women Z
voters. leaders in their respective I
communities. from several counties Of !
the 18th congressional district, ad
joining Midland county upon the east !
south and west. It was a splendid
I audience and gave Mr.. Cobb splendid
/ opportunity TO explain his attitude
/ pOrtauce to the voters Of the district
/ which make the issues Of the present
/ campaign
The meeting was called 20 order by
I T. T.. Garrard. present district attor-
uey. and who is candidate Tor re-
I election and Mr.. Cobb was introduced
3 TO the people assembled by E. r.
] Bryan. representative from this dis
I trict I'm the state legislature and who
! has been frequently referred to by Alr.
.
paign opened. as man who has been
/ consistently right on the public QueS-
! tons which have been submitted to
/ him for action since he has been in
] the legislature
"I was attracted TO Mr.. Cobb" said
/ 3ir. Bryan. when in his announce
Z menr for congress. he stated his atti-
! tude upon the vital questions Of the
] hour and found him TO be so nearly in
! accordance with what have believed
I for years 20 be right.
since making that discovery, I
have been studying him as he has IN
I folded himself politically in his
speeches and other public utterauces.
and the more I have studied him, the
more firmly convinced I have become
that the people Of this district viii
make no mistake if they send him TO |
would Make No Mistake.
"The time has arrived IN American !
politics when only men who are right ]
upon questions affecting the homes /
and hearts Of the people OF the cOun- I
3 try. should be sent to congress Mr.. /
Cobb's record upon so many. in fact
I all Of those questions Is such that 7 I
I am fully convinced that We will make |
! no mistake iu sending him TO wash I
( inEtou as our representative, and II j
we do send him I am sure we viii
not be disan pOinted In him. We viii ]
I feel safe that Mr.. Cobb VIII stand 7
{ behind that great genius who has been
raised I'D by the hand OF Providence
[ 10 guide the American ship Of state ]
through the troubled seas 90 Is at this /
critical period IN our history attempt
! ing 70 navigate
Puts Question To Audience.
Mr.. Cobb. after acknowledging the ]
complementary introduction given him
ny Mr.. BRYAN. referred to the charge
made by the friends OF Mr.. Hudspeth.
{ ~ &c.
/ issue of the Americanism OF citizens
who were candidates for office. when
in fact no question should or could he
raised as TO the percentage OF Amer
icanism which could be found IN tho
makeup Of any man of American
birth who aspired 20 office.
"I have declared since took the
stump in this campaign that all citi-
zens OF this country are not 100 per
cent American" said Mr.. Cobb "And ]
am going 70 submit 20 You the ques-
ton and ask YOU to say whether or
not a man who refused TO vote for g
hill calculated 20 preserve our SOL
der boys from being proved upon by
vendors Of LIQUOR. when that bill was
asked for by the secretary Of war and
the governor OF the state, was 100
percent American"
Hudspeth on Zone BIZ.
To prove that Mr.. Hudspeth was
paired against the zone bin upon. its
11esage through the senate. his de-
NAL in his Fl Paso speech to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. Mr.. Cobb read
from the Senate Journal OF March ..
mage 142. a copy OF which he took
from his pocket
TT should have been bad enough for
Mr. HudspeCh 90 have voted against
OF paired against the zone bill which
is the same thing, without attempting
to deceive the voters whose suffra yes
ha Sc Ia in flH nHH1 Hn g. nj
NOTED from the state senator 20 con-
gress as a reward for having done
wrong" said Mr. Cobb.
Not In Accord.
"And that was not the only OnpOr-
tunity taken by Mr. Hudspeth TO show
that he was not I'm accord with the
best thought not only In the country
but in his own state and his own SEN
atorial district" Mr.. Cobb continued
1.-THE record shows that he not only
opposed the zone bin. calculated 70
protect the soldier boy. your boy. per
haps. but that he opposed the state
wide bill. calculated TO protect the
homes Of Texas and that he was 'uu-
alterably opposed to giving the ballot
20 the intelligent women Of the state.
and Judging from his votes on the
Thomson literacy bill. I am war
rauted I'm supposinC that he was just
as unalterably opposed TO taking the
ballot from the vicious element in ]
politics. which was so long the bull
wark of the vicious liquor machine.
"I ask you men and women OF Mid
land IL the man whose legislative ]
record I have just read 10 you. is 100 /
percent American and III ne Is the
man 20 be placed on guard in this
critical hour in the history Of this I
nation Am not warranted and are
YOU not warranted in face OF his
record in doubling his sincerity. when I
he says that the Americauism Of q /
candidate for office IS not an issue in I
this campaign. and viii the voters Of I
this district be warranted I'm with
holding from him the promotion to I
congress which he seeks2"
Mr.. Cobb repeated what he had said \
at Odessa regarding his challenge to \
Mr.. Hudspeth TO meet him in Joint
debate. and dared his hackers to in
a.