Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-01
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Political Upheavals In Dallas

Dallas boasts Of having the greatest number Of
people OF any Texas city and the greatest wealth per
ranita. An election for municipal servants was held
Tuesday. It was a knockout for the big business men,
Including the bankers who have been all powerful III
municipal politics for many years. J. Waddy Tate
was elected mayor and he carried with him to vic
,,rv fo,r ,ndenendent candidates for the city COM
mission.
Mayor-Elect Tate and all four commissioners
elected are residents of Oak Cliff. the 10000 popula-
ton suburb Of Dallas on the south side OF the TRINITY
river. Lieut.. Gov. Barry Miller lives on the southern
fringe of Oak Cliff. away out in the country ana
Love Ridge. the home place Of Sen. Thomas B. Love
is located away south OF the Oak Cliff suburb. Miller
and Love are rural voters. They stick to the country
nrecinct. Less than 10000 votes were cast Of a total
registered vote Of $4,000.
Tate Is a native Texan. He first saw the light IN
the county Of Fayette. He never held office he mas
been in the drug business and real estate business iI
a number or years. It was a complete smashing ol
the old guard-incIuding big business and big bankers
and big city addition builders in the Highland PARK
and Southern Methodist University annexes Just be-
vcad the boundary line Of Dallas to the west.
Temnle Houston Morrow is the defeated candidate
Tate's majority was upwards OF 1000 MorroW = 2
former citizen OF Waco. a native Texan. a very
staunch churchman and some Of his opponents SAID
of him that II elected mayor, he would turn the city
NAN MO a DIdNCI AtoAc(
ine program Of 26.OcO.OO0 on for three years. a part
of the program calls for the Strengthening OF the
Trinity river and the reclamation Of river bottom
land living between Dallas and Oak Cliff which viii
be made a great industrial center and have a value
of many millions to the owners after the gigantic
scheme OF construction has been consummated-
Highland Park Is a princely residential section
II has a population of from 5000 to 10000. 1t has its
own city government. 1t is not an integral part Of
Dallas but thousands OF Dallasites in the southern
section OF the city and the Oak Cliff section have
been declaring for years that the lordly Highland
parkers. who make their living in Dallas, refuse TO
hermit themselves 70 be annexed to the city proper
and vet they are ever tellin 9Th peopl of Dallas how
III city shall be run: they assist in the naming q
states for municipal servants and their voice Is Just
as great as II they were bona fide citizens OF the big
community.
Well. South Dallas and Oak Cliff reyolted and
elected a ticket all their own.
There is to be a census taken In 1880. Highland
Park and other fashionable residence districts IN the
western section of Dallas will not be counted in the
population OF Dallas. They refused 10 be annexed.
Then the Oak Cliff and South Dallas landslide came
and the man running on a "hot dog" platform swept
the political platter and carried with him into office
four OF his fellow Oak Cliffites. II is said there Is
10Y In the hearts Of the proletarians Of Dallas. but
It is gall and wormwood for the patricians and the
near patricians who have ruled the city, municipality
speaking. for decades.