San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-12
DAVIDSON WINS
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ADDRESS HERE
Houston Mans Business
Platform Makes Hit and
Gains Applause.
is AGAINST BLOCS
Has Concrete Plan to
Conserve Resources and
Better Government.
is AGAINST BL0CS

Launching a vigorous attack upon
his political opponents and the
especial interests" which are oppos-
ing him, and speaking frankly and
earnestly of the things he expects to
do, when he becomes governor, Lynch
Davidson of Houston made a decided
hit with an audience which comfort
ably filled the Majestic Theater Fri
day night. Mr.. Davidson's platform
was loudly applauded and his plea for
penitentiary reform particularly well
received.
Describing himself as an "independ-
ent, rock-ribbed Democrat" descend
ed from many generations of Demo-
Gratis. a man of 80 years business
training. and a man who expects to
nut business into the government,
Mr.. Davidson made his plea for votes
10 the people at large declining to
be the candidate of "groups or spe-
cial interests" and refusing to be a
"populist or socialist" candidate.
Attacks Political Conference.
Mr.. Davidson made his principal
attack upon the Farm Labor Politi-
cal Conference which he described rs
composed of "sunflower, soda-crack-
or politicians" This organization
has endorsed T. w. Davidson, his
opponent. Mr.. Davidson declared en-
pbatically that the organization is
not representative of either farmers
or laborers that it is a misnomer,
nothing more or less than the Nom
Partisan League which ruined and
wrecked North Dakota"
The candidate was at times facetl-
Gus and at other times but half way
serious in dealing with what he
termed "the ouintette battery which
has been trained upon me in this
race He referred to attacks of the
five candidates for governor who are
now, he said. actively expanding most
of their energy campaigning. against
him in various sections of the state.
do you know, my friends" he
exclaimed, mot one of those five are
firing a salvo at anybody but me:"
Need Business i'm Government.
Explaining his version of their CEN
tralized attack, he said:
I'm tell YOU the reason they're
doing tits because I'm the man
the politician fears in this race for
the management of your vast corpor-
alton. And no wonder. For years
and years and years and years they've
been coming down the line, these
same politicians, piling up a bureau
here, a commission there, tax over
yonder and another expense up hither.
Now they're flabbergasted. Their
backs are TO the wall against SWELL
ing cry from the citizenship of Texas
for a government managed OH sound
business principles. The voters of
Texas, appalled, at the 800 per cent
increase in their taxes during the
past ten years, as compared with a
% per cent increase in population.
are looking for business man of
proven ability and integrity TO, run
The affairs of their state, and my op-
'ponents who are concentrating their
attacks upon me know it. / remind
YOU that it was the petty politician,
the political grabber, the muck swing
ging politicinized character and bf-
ce-holder of our national government
that put this country in the tea
kettle.
"Give us little more business mdn
of ability and integrity in government
and on the government side Of its
business affairs, whose spines shimmy
when q politician contaminates their
presence-then there would have been
no Teapot Dome. Let's go way back
yonder for our proof of all this
those wise forefathers of ours framed
a constitution for US, didn't they:
Established our magnificent form jof
government. didn't they: Initiated
the steps that forecasted the greatest
country on Gods green earth. didn't
they? But what did they do next,
/ ask you? What did they do next,
] ask every one of this quintette bat
berry which is assailing business in
Texas government? Why. they went
out and got George Washington, the
best business man Virginia colony
knew and hired him to run their en-
terprise. We didn't have a Teapot
Dome in 1876, did WEI"
Warns Against Bloc"
Mr.. Davidson, in paying a high
tribute to the farmer and laborer.
declared II speak their language.
He said he was in hearty accord with
their organization for defensive and
progressive purposes, "a right con
ceivable TO any man or class of men. .
The years of my minority and
most of those of my majority were
spent in the sweat of my brow" be
declared. lis there any wonder then
that ] am in the deepest understand
ing with the farmer and the laborer
] am from their ranks, but their ranks
as | knew them did not keep step tc
progress as they do now in co-opera