The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-04
BAILEY is REPUDIATED

vote, the Democrats Of Texas, il
the precinct conventions Satur
day, sent Joseph Weldon Bailey tC
the benches. Joseph brayely
went to bat but he failed to con.
meet with the ball. He never
came within hailing distance OF
first base in the final show
down.
After being absent from the
state for a number Of years Jo-
seph assumed the role If savior
Of the Democratic party and
went back to Pezas 10 convince
the folks down thcrc that every
thug the national administration
has done during the Iast seven
years was al wrong but, alas for
Joe. he "came unto bis own and
his own eceiyed him not.
Mr.. Bailey got out his sonorous
triumpeting arrangement and
blew loud and long but it was all
in vain. Texas Democrats, who
in days gone by were won't to
come at his beck and call and
eat of his hand were deaf to his
passionate pleas.
Speaking to a large crowd a
few days before thc precinct con
ventions, with his characteristic
vigor and aIoquence, Mr.. Bailey
said, "My fellow-citizens, ! an
standing for the things | have
always stood for, III ara wrong
now | have always been wrong
and if | was ever right am
right now" it was clinching
bit of logic, tho maior premise.
which was moi stated. beng that
ne was Away ght and the ir-
resistible conclusion being that
tie is right now, but the Texas
voters failed to follow the argu-
ment and fall for it. To Joseph |
astute mind, it never seems to |
have occurred that he could ever |
have been wrong but this possi-
bllity doesn t seem to have been
overlooked by the Texans. Judg- /
ing by the returns, the Lone Star
voters came to the conclusion
that Mr.. Bailey had always been
wrong and probably they were
more than right about it.
One thing that initiated
against Mr. Bailey was his neu-
tral attitude during the war In
the course of one of his speeches
during the campaign recently
waged in Texas he didn't hest
ta'e to admit that he had refused
to speak during the war in be-
half of the sale of Liberty
bonds. He declared that in this
course he was perfectly conscien-
iious and he defended his atti-
tude by saying that he knew the
bonds would fall below par after
The war and hence he couldn t
lrge his countrymen to buy
hem. If the whole country had
AIKEN Bailey's view, no bonds l'
would have been sold and Kaiser
Bill would have won the war in
europe and would then have
tepped over 10 levy tribute on :
America And Mr.. Bailey 5 con :.
cientiOus Scruples would have
'ermitted that calamity to come .
o pass. The American people :,
ave long since progressed be- i.
ond the point where hey can !.
orgive man who permitted his :
onscience to cause HIM to fail
is country IN its hour Of trial.
he conscientious ohiector is |
verywhere held Ia just con Il 4
,mpt. 1
Mr. Bailey's campaign Z Tx
was designed ostensibly to re- "A
ore the old Bourbon brand of
which has been in Y
sfavor during the leadership of f'
oodrow Wilson Bailey is op-
sed to everything that smacks
progressivism and his pet
ersions are prohibition and ga
man suffrage. both of which
We come about during the ad-
listration of Wilson. There Wi
those who believe that the wi
ect of Bailey fight was to H
ore the sale of beer and other cel
4 beverages and that IN his
ipagin he wa backed by the '
very interest," Doubtless this sha