Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-01
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
Foreign Advertising Representatives.


Dallas boasts Of having the greatest rumber Of
PEOPLE of any Texas city and the greatest wealth per
kapita. ian election for municipal servants was held
tuesday. II was a knockout for the big business men
Moulding the bankers who have been all powerful IN
kunicipal politics for many years. J. waddy Tate
sas elected mayor and he carried with him to VIC
2pry four independent candidates for the city COM
hission.
I Mayor-Elect Tate and all four commissioners
{ected are residents Of Oak Cliff. the 10000 popula-
ion suburb OF Dallas on the south side Of the Trinity
kser. Lieut.. Gov. Barry Miller lives on the southern
nee OF Oak Cliff, away out In the country, ana
bve Ridge, the home place Of Sen. Thomas 3. Love-
4 located away south Of the Oak Cliff suburb. Miner
lad Love are rural voters. They stick to the country
Erecinct. Less than 10000 votes were cast OF a ptai
<tgistered vote Of 5000.
Tate Is q native Texan. He first saw the light IN
be county OF Fayette. He never held office- ne mas
keen in the drug business and real estate business tor
i number of wears. IT. was a complete smashing OF
he old guard-including big business and big bankers
nd big city addition builders in the Highland PARK
ND Southern Methodist University annexes just De-
|cad the boundary line of Dallas to the west
Temple Houston Morrow is the defeated candidate
$ate's majority was upwards Of 1000. Morro" : q
prmer citizen Of Waco. a native Texan q very
aunch churchman and some Of his opponents said
II MIN Tnab II eleCJSu IuayOi, AZ "o~NN
sI irto "a PRAYER meeting house" There Is a spend
he program Of $4,000. 900 on for three years. A part
the program calls for the Strengthening OF the
rinity river and the reclamation OF river bottom
nd living between Dallas and Oak Cliff which will
made q great industrial center and have a value
many millions to the owners after the gigantic
kheme OF construction has been consummated.
Highland Park Is a princely residential section.
has a population Of from 5000 to 10000. IL has us
n CITY government. 1t is not an integral part OF
allas but thousands OF Dallasites in the southern
elton OF the city and the Oak Cliff section have
cen declaring for years that the lordly Highland
arkers. who make their living in Dallas, refuse %
kermit themselves to be annexed to the city proper
nd vet they are ever tellin 9Th peopl Of Dallas how
city shall be run; they assist IN the naming OF
4 ates for municipal servants and their voice Is just
great as II they were bona fide citizens Of the big
community.
well. South Dallas and Oak Cliff revolted and
ecied a ticket all their own.
There Is to be q census taken in 1880. Highland
ark and other fashionable residence districts IN the
estern section Of Dallas will not be counted in the
bpuIation Of Dallas. They refused 70 be annexed
hen the Oak Cliff and South Dallas landslide came
Id the man running on a hot dog platform swept
political platter and carried with him into office
II r Of his fellow Oak Cliffites. 1t is said there is
NJ In the hearts Of the proletarians OF Dallas. but
Il is gall and wormwood for the patricians and the
patricians who have ruled the city municipality
taking. for decades.