Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-07-30


the towering oaks and once again
be able to sit down on fresh, green
grass without encountering sand
burr or vicious prickly pear. Our
great country presents wide var
iety of climate, atmosphere and
living conditions-but only in poll
tics does Nueces county, Texas,
resemble Montgomery county,
Maryland.
Corpus Christi, the county seat,
is coming port and resort. It's
population has jumped from 10000
to near 100000 in four years.
Nearby is the University of The
Air, the worlds largest Naval Air
Station. The city lies on Nueces
and Corpus Christi Bay and it is
but Ia miles to the Pass leading
out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Sixty per cent of the population
is of Mexican and Spanish origin
and the new Latin American
brotherhood is undergoing a real
test there. Not so many miles be-
low the city the great King Ranch
sprawls over a million and a half
acres. It's a big country, big
hearted country-and it takes it's
politics just as seriously as the
more densely populated East.
You have all heard of W. Lee
O'Daniel, of "Pappy-P ass-the-Bis-
cults" fame. Since Lee came to
Texas from Kansas and went into
the -four business he has been
throwing cloud of pollen into the
nostrils of intelligent Texan vot-
ers and many an old veteran war
horse has been ridden down by this
upstart who was elected governor
of Texas without ever bothering to
first become a voter. Now he lives
in Washington as the junior U. S.
Senator and it looks like he will
be reelected although forced to a
run-off in the August election. Of
course, his nomination in the run
off is tantamount to election in this
land where it costs $3.50 to vote
after enduring weeks and weeks
of hill-billy music and 10th CEN
tury oratory.
I was interested in the election
of Sheriff in Nueces County this
summer and handled his publicity
this spring. / believe I will be
more fortunate than I was in my
and my colleagues attempts to
beat O'Daniel. O'Daniel is an
astute politician, but inwardly he
is just a high pressure salesman
whose intelligence quotient rates
below the average. He has almost
as much nerve as had the late
Huey Long and can get as many
women votes as our own capable
Lacy Shaw.
Things are just like old times
here in Montgomery. Col. Lee is
still in the saddle and Dick Lans-
dale is after new county job. The
girls in the courthouse are as cute
as ever and Uncle Charlie Maddox
is thinking of joining the Army if
he can convince the recruiting
sergeant he is 81.
Whatever became of the Fusion
lists? We have armadillos, javel-
mas and vinegaroons in Southwest
Texas, but no Fusionists. Maybe
they are rationed, too. Anyway,
any ticket that has Carey Quinn,
Lawson King and Lit Griffith as
stablemates couldn't be stopped
even with a combination of o.
Daniel, La Guardia, Lana Turner
and the CLIO. Even my old friend,
Buell. Gardner, who never gives up
on the COP, is beginning to fear
that after all he will never get
farther in politics than an election
Judge.
hear the boys talking about
1 something called a charter" The
only charters l ever heard of
were the magma and the ones
belonging to the Rotary and Lions
Clubs. Anyhow, I saw Harry Mar
tin over at the Mt. Carmel chicken
supper and he said the Republicans
and the ants were tired of the
way Brooke Lee ran things "a con-
dition which l, recall existed even
before the New Deal or when
knighthood was in fiower) and so,
said Harry, some of our refugees
from the Middle West want a slick
lawyer to incorporate the county
under the laws Of Delaware.
My personal opinion is that we
better leave good enough alone
the country is running out of Ha--