Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-07-21
TEXAS CONFRONTED
WITH PERIL GREATER
THAN EVER KNOWN
Con,Irucd from Page onc'

Francisco to register the vot" of the
Texas citizens iu the nomination of u
candidate for president and the adup.
lion OF q national platform.
Attacks Cone johnson.
,Opcning broad sides upon COM lunn.
son. Mr. od,ll denounced him Js being
zone OF the cheapest ,f zoo 90, political
holy rollers challenging t1, ,iudidID
~ Bailey ~, referred directly q. Oh"
action Of johnson and tho l,I'v die.
gates from Texas iitDndiuu inr son
Francisco convention iu voting against
Bryan's try plank saving ublt Cau
years ago when Woodrow Wilson v.s
nominated a, tho Baltimore ,"rt,ruuI
there was q pllub boz a., '"u,T .t,.
platform that was written hN iINHu
lie referred Co the dem, ra;iy .ui.
'Vcnticn held four years age when il
plank was written into the platform COL
submit woman Suffrage 90 The iudN
dual states jus, as surely as YOU
ard liy, today h, added. the uHcI
win same when the dark clouds again
hovsr over the land as they did 90 'bi
You can no more ohlttcritc the race
question than YOU can make black
man white" he said declaring that the
tights u the states have been run over
In making suffrage national issue.
Prohibition Question.
Taking M the question II prohibit
ton. Mr.. Odell asked whether or NOT
the Anusaloun League shall control
the Democratic party and the national
government saying that they sought
TO control u OF destroy H. making q
ssimilai appcllaiion io organized labor
lie expressed himself as mo-, being In
favor OF organized labor controlling tho
party and the government any more
than the bankers. or ne AMI Saloun
League or the preachers In brief he
charged that the Anu-Siloun League
r. now undertaking to defeat the Demo.
cratic candidate for presidefr
Refers 10 Ncirs Platform.
Mr.. odell said tina; Ncifs land plank
had been explained as many Ways a.
the nun,er % mon that had tried IN
explain u. lie compared the plank with
socialism. saying 1t carried the prln
ciple Of taking away FROM a few aud
giving TO many
Attacks Thomson.
lie attacked Thomssnn az l.ing "onc
81 the same old crowd nGn ono ~ ,hc
cheapest sinners II the TEXAS Lcgisll
ture." declaring that that candidate
when speaker - the house. brought
upon the state government ono - 'hs
most expsnsiye measures ever intro
duced In T-vas aui charged that hc
never attempted h. teduc. cVpndituro-
when he held that EXALTED pueliior. say
ing that that power lay aln"Si directly
In 1homasUn's hanls ~ speaker ~ On,
house.
Mr.. Odcll concluded ~ address O.,
defending Bailey from IA, many Sian
derous charges that he slid hiii be,r
brought against him lie referred q
The ex-senator a. bclng Zone 90 az
most generous hearted men trt si1ffs
men thai has ever walked this earth b.
'ne hundred years" saving ~ WIS 20
turning 10 his native state tn serve an,
To defend the caus' ~ the people,
He explained Mr. Bail,y's pofiioi
relative 10 organized i,l,0r and a. $40
nlan suffrage and denied the oharg"
That MIR. Bailey was no. IN favor y
schools and Eopd reads. saving tina
schools and good roads are two thing
vhai the people certainly would b.
taxed for " BAILEY IL elected Governor
MIR. odell's spcch was more than a.
hour and a half IN length H. was IN
troduced By Attorney Abe Cule q
Clarendon.