Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-08-21
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Joe Bailey is one OF the world 5
hest known sidesteppcrS.

Joe Bailey is one OF the world !
best known sidesteppcrS.
Like most people in Texas. h
has grown ashamed OF his war rec.
ord.
IL was great stuff 10 tell th,
people. in the beginning. that h.
refused 10 make four minute
speech TO press the sale of Liberty
Bonds and to couple il with thu
statement that he did not approve
Of the war.
II was a display of "magniii.
cent courage" ON the part of the
former senator 10 appeal TO the
disgruntled element in Texas at
The beginning Of his campaign by
boldly declaring that h. did not
approve of the war and that the
iusitania should have kept away
from danger.
But the truth of the matter il
that Mr.. Bailey has gained all he
gan hope 10 gain by these particu-
lar campaign maneuvers and h.
now begins 10 realize that there
are not enough people who believe
IS he does about these matters 90
elect him governor of Texas. He
now begins TO side-step those flat
statements 10 which he has ad-
lscred 50 long. proving conclusive
~ that he has not been sincere
even in his SHINING.
He tells why h. did not make
four minute speeches to further
the sale of Liberty Bonds. He
says he didn = think they were
good investments. be- thought his
friends would lose money on them,
that he couldn't get up before an
audienee and recommend them las
the other speakers were doing
as the best sort of investments.
and therefore he thought the com.
mitiees would sell more bonds if
he did not speak.
OF course Mr.. Bailey didn't re-.
member that If his heart was with
he's country he could tell the people
with absolute truth that no better
investments than Liberty Bonds
could he found. in view of the fact
that they. in reality. simply under.
wrote, as it were. the liberties Of
the American people, which liber.
ties II was worth while that Amer.
leans retain.
He forgot that most OF the
speakers were not advising people
to purchase Liberty Bonds as q
gilt-edged. revenue producing 80.
curly, the same 10 h. marketed ai
once. but that on the other hand
they were urging the people n
purhase and keep these bonds until
well after the war.
He forgot that the bonds were
being sold in order 10 properly
~quip and feed the American sol.
diers who were on the firing line in
France and Belgium: TO give them
weapons with which 10 defend
themselves and food and clothing
10 keep their bodies in good con.
diti0n.
There arr just 50 many things
that Mr.. Bailey forgot ut the tim,
he refused TO make that four min.
ute Liberty Bond speech that !;
now seems likely he may also have
forgotten exactly what reason M
the time be- gave for his refusal.
He hasn't forgotten. however
that during the war Federal oper.
atives dogged his steps and caused
him considerable ANNOYANCE.
Pat Neff saws Federal operatives
didn't dog his steps during III,
war. and be- Ssys that be- doeSn'i
think they dogged the steps Of any
man who was Behaving him, n a.
a patriotic American citizen.
He says. too. that II everybody
had behaved ~ Bailev did during
The war. these United States would
now constitute a province 81 Cor.
many.
Germans in America-;he un.
patriotic Germans-wanted JUS
that thing 20 happen.
The Germans in Texas. in the
inst primary. marched right NJ "a
The polls for Mr.. Bailey.
My did they DO il.