The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-11
BAILEY COULDN'T
DO COMEBACK
Press Sees Reputation of
Anti-WilSon Policies in
Texas Primary.

1T doesn't pay to throw rocks at
Woodrow Wilson In the south" says
the Roanoke Times (DemD In COM
menting on the defeat OF ex-senator
Bailey in the gubernatorial race in
Texas. This explanation is apparently
accepted by the majority of the press,
although some writer's point to local
issues and some believe that II was
the man and not his platform that
awoke the opposition. Some democratic
papers record Balley's chastisement as
part of the punishment that Is being
melted out to ell democrats who oppose
the Wilson foreign policy
HE was not representative OF real
democracy" says the Newark News
QndD, and the Arizona Republican
(PhoeniN, Ind. Prog expresses the
opinion that he might have defeated
wisconsin or radicalism or both, but
he could not defeat them when he
forced the women and the prohibition
lists into an alliance with wisconsin
and radicalism a reactionary or a
pronounced type. he sought favor OF
the democrats OF perhaps too radical
state" The Norfolk Ledger Dispatch
has always been a liability rather
than an asset to the democratic party
and the Augusta Herald (Dem.) adds;
''Mr. Bailey is a reactionary OF the
reactionaries and should not be allowed
to fool the people by calling himself
democrat when every move he makes
shows him to be republican"
But the San Antonio Light Ond) be-
lieves that the people made their issue
on the man and not ON the things he
stood for. and the voters were divided
just as they were In the early days of
the Bailey controversy" but this time
"the anti Bailey element was prcuom-
inant." The Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram Qnd. Dem). a paper that sup
ported Bailey for governor lays a
great deal of stress on the organized
which made UP the un-
friendly lavor vote as a cause OF his
defeat. The San Antonio Express
lind. Dem). speaking from the scene
of action, says:
1.-THE eviction OF Baileyism from
Texas politics is matter for enthu-
siastic felicitation and celebration. the
people of Texas have put their hands
to the pillow of progress--n all Of nd
and betterment, in every
phase of their business life, that the
word implies-and they shall not look
back"
A similar expression comes from the
Nlpbllt IAtElSltI NlbtIisl anu II MINUS IL
4 matter for satisfaction ito know that
Texas has definitely outgrown Bailey"
The birmingham Age Herald Dem)
believes that 1t was the old exposure
which revealed that while in congress
he took fees from the Standard OIL
that blocked his political
come back. His defeat demonstrated
that Texas voters will not support
a man for office whose integrity has
oeen questioned"
But the majority OF newspapers be-
ieve that reasons for the senator's
downfall may be found outside the |
lordrs OF his own state, either In his |
var record or his opposition to Presi- |
lent Wilson and the league of nations |
The Charlotte IN. C.) Observer Und. |
)em.) has definite convictions:
"Bailcy's appeal to the Texas votes |
vas based solely on his antagonism to |
Wilson and the Wilson administration |
nd the country had not for once sup
osed that under these circumstances |
here had been a possibility of the peo-
lie OF Texas giving him the nomina-
ion."
To the Salt Lake Tribune (Rep) the |
natter was one of state issues, plus the !
act that "Bailey's anti Wilson record |
vas never lost sight Of" his refusal to |
ell liberty bonds during the war and |
ia bitter speeches against the president.
Even the Buffalo Commercial (nd VI
oints out at somo length that II was
he loyalty of Texas to the president
nthcr than the question OF the open
hop, as some have indicated, that end
d Bailey's career.
Under the caption "Joe Bailey has
one the way OF the others" the Char
,ston (S. CO News and Courier Dem)
reduces an editorial which is supposed
D be a warning to democrats who OPP