The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-24
BAILEY'S VOTE BLOW
TO WILSON REGIME
FORMER TEXAS SENATOR WIN
MING SUCCESS BY ATTACK
ING THE PRESIDENT.

AUSTIN, Texas.-The success at
tanned by former Sepator Joseph w.
Bailey III his race for governor of
Texas is considered direct slap at
the Wilson administration. In the
first state primary the administra-
ton was made the chief issue, and
Bailey, bitter and uncompromising in
his criticism of the men who have
shaped the national policies of the
party for the last eight years, led
Pat NJ. Neff, his nearest opponent,
by about 10000 votes. Bailey is
making his campaign on the dual
platform of wisconsin and an
open shop labor policy in Texas.
Final Test in Week.
August 20 the run-off primary be-
tween Bailey and Neff will be held.
The fight is now between them for
the division of the approximately
100000 votes which were cast in
the July primary for Robert B..
Thomson and B. F. Looney, the
third and fourth candidates. Who
ever can swing the votes of the
Thomson supporters will win. 1t is
predicted that the majority of those
who voted, for Thomson will turn
to the Bailey ranks.
The colorful personality of "Joe"
Bailey injects touch of the dra--
matte into the fight. 1t is doubtful
if there ever has been a man who
could arouse the people Of the south
west as much as Bailey. 1t was a
long time ago that he first became
power in Texas, and he was only
lanky youngster of % when he
entered congress in all his pictur-
esque glory.
Bailey Has Many Enemies.
There have been just two classes
of people in Texas since Bailey be-
came a power: those who believed
he was the greatest statesman IN
the world and those who hated HIM
with an unforgivable venom. With
these two factions opposing one an
other the strenuous days of 1908
when Bailey men threatened to rur
the anti-Bailey men into the Gull
of Mexico, and vice versa, is recall
ed.
The success won by Bailey dur
ing the last year has been both q
personal and political comeback
When he left the United States SEN
ate Jan. 2, 1918, he announced that
he intended to retire forever from
political life. He built a beautiful
new home in Washington, but main
tanned a legal residence in Texas.
His acknowledged standing and
ability as a lawyer on subjects af-
fecting the constitution insured him
a leisurely but profitable practice.
Caused Sensation on Return.
Until last summer it was openly
declared that "Joe" Bailey could
never be elected to Office again, that
his old supporters had deserted him,
and that he knew he was through so
far as ever welding political influ-
ence was concerned. Much of this
talk must have reached Bailey. He
stood it until last summer, and then
he went back to the place of his
former triumphs and caused SEN
sation the first day he arrived in the
state.
He issued a statement in which
he told the people that Woodrow
Wilson was not the Messiah; that
the league of nations in which they
had believed with such unanimity
was based upon a non-American
doctrine of internationalism that
doctor" Wilson. as he called him,
had shown alarming tendencies to-
ward a species of socialism: that the
administration had granted danger
Gus concessions to the labor unions;
that the democratic party had
strayed a long way from the prin-
ciples of Jefferson, and that he had
returned to restore a veneration for
the constitution.