Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-22
STATE RACE
GROWS WARM
TOWARD END
p n a lities Show
Fever Heat Of
Speakers
By The Associated Press

Seeking TO reach a. many voters
as possible in the three remaining
DAYS before the first Democratic
primary election Saturday. candi-
daes for the party's gubernatorial
nomination today continued with in
creased activities their campaigns.
While speeches Of the candidates
adhered closely to the general out
lines advanced in past weeks, there
was noticeable an increased resort
10 personalities as charges and
claims and denialS were broadcast.
Speaking at Cleburne yesterday,
Earle B. Mayfield attacked Ross
S. Sterling for the latter's asSer-
ton that Mr.. Mayfield would oe
controlled by special interests II
elected governor. He declared he
never had been controlled by any
man or group Of men, and never
would be, and added that as gov
ernor, one OF his first official acts
would be TO demand the resigna-
ton Of Mr.. Sterling as chairman OF
the highway commission.
All Fire at Sterling
Lieutenant governor Barry Miller
warned a Fort Worth audience not
to be lulled into a false sense Of
security by the sponsors OF the
proposed state highway bond issue,
saying that lending the states cre-
dit was q dangerous business he
said that before the voters knew
what was happening they would DC
showed under with bond issues.
Former congressman James Young
at Mineral Wells excoriated what ne
said were attempts to buy the
governors chair, asserting that with
lew exceptions the big newspaper
support OF the state had been given
to Sterling and that newspapers
always followed corporation inter-
ests. He charged that Clint Small
was the candidate OF special in
terests and always had voted with
the special interests against the
people"
Love Defends Record
Speaking later at Stephenville,
Mr.. Young said all three members
OF the highway commission we're
now in politics and would be the
'sickest bunch in Texas" when the
votes were counted next Saturday.
Presenting himself at Dallas as q
conservative. Mr.. Small urged the
necessity OF a conservative admins
tratiOn at Austin and a new polite
al deal there. denying at the same
time that he was a sectional can
didate. He urged induStrialization
OF the state as a means Of curing
many Of its ills and asserted that a
conservative governor alive to the
economic needs Of the hour" was
needed.
In speeches at Gainesville and
Paris, Thomas B. Love discussed his
prohibition record, declaring that
he had fought for prohibition in
the days Of the legalized liquor
traffic and done all he could TO
strengthen it's enforcement and pre-
vent its notification or repeal"
insisting that he woul dead in four
fifths Of the counties In Saturdays
primary and would be overwhelm-
elected in the runoff. Mr.. Love
said the "anti-Tammany forces are
united, and the Tammany votes are
split in 10 other parts six big parts
and four little ones"
Sterling Defends Plan
Mr.. Sterling said at San Antonio
that the state should build state
roads and compared tax rates in
various counties. Citing taxes in
poorer" counties as high as $3.50
on the 500 for road bonds as
20 cents and % cents in
Houston and Dallas for bonds on
the same road. despite the fact, he
said. that this road is worth twenty
lines as much to Dallas and Hous-
.on. Most Of his opponents. he said.
trying 10 climb on the band
wagon Of refunding county road
bond Indebtedness to the counties.