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

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
TO personalities as charges and
claims and denials we're broadcast.
Speaking at Cleburne yesterday,
Earle B. Mayfield attacked Ross
S. Sterling for the latter's asSer-
ton that MI. Mayfield would be
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
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 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 Gre
dit was a dangerous business" He
said that before the voters knew
what was happening they would be
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
few exceptions the big newspaper
support OF the state had been given
10 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 S~tephenville,
Mr.. Young said all three members
OF the highway commission were
now IN politics and would be the
'Sickest bunch IN Texas when the
votes were counted next Saturday.
Presenting himself at Dallas as a
conservative, Mr.. Small urged the
necessity OF a conservative admins
tration at Austin and a e 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
ne had fought for prohibition in
the days of the legalized liquor
traffic and done all he could ITO
strengthen its enforcement and pre-
vent its notification or repeal"
insisting that he would lead in four
fifths Of the counties in Saturdays
primary and would be overwhelm-
ingly elected In the ruroff. 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 Sl.50
on the 500 for road bonds as
against 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
times as much 70 Dallas and Hous-
ton. Most Of his opponents. he said.
we're trying to climb on the band
wagon OF refunding county road
bond Indebtedness TO the counties.