The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 31, 1920 Page: 2 of 4
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SATURDAY. JULY 31. 1920.
BAILLY AND THE OPEN SHOP.
Of all the campaign bunk that Jos
•ph Weldon Bailey has thrown out t<
the people his open shop stuff is th»
bunkest sort of bunk.
Hi* anti-administration stand hi:
Woman suffrage opinion. hi4 anti
prohibtion ideas his anti-child laboi
law's all unpopular with the people ol
Texas Mr. Bailey struck suddenly
upon a new idea in the middle of th«
TUcent primary election campaign
and quite without cause he pouncoc
before the public with his open sho|
campaign thunder.
Can there really be voters in Tex
as* who will be fooled into voting foi
Mr. Bailey simply because he is ar
advocate of the open shop idea?
Apparently this is an appeal on tht
part of Mr. Bailey to the business am
employing element among the voters
and particularly this class of voters it
the larger cities where the unions art
strongly entrenched.
Well Mr. Bailey has his idea out
Now even though he were success
ful in securing the nomination and
the governorship what does he pro
pose to do about it? What solutior
has he to offer’ Has he offered onel
What are his plans to establish tht
open shop? Surely he cannot mear
that he proposes to secure the pass-
age of laws to force the open shop
upon us. or laws to do away w’ilh the
closed shop? That would be non-
.k**isu.al and besides it wouldn’t hold
un.
Th'-n what is it that the Bailey
open shop eaniuaign idea is trying to
tell us ’ Which way is it leading us
and to where? Frankly isn’t it just
an out and uu* rather funny attempt
to pul! the wool over the people’s
• eyes >
Bailey's open shop talk is nothing
in the world but lampaign bunk:
purely that and absolutely nothing
else.
The right to conduct a business
along open -hop lines or along closed
shop) line- ;s r problem that the in-
dividual employer will have to solve
for himself and one that the indi-
vidual employer is solving for himself
every day. No laws can be passed
that would approve one and condemn
an4 make illegal the other. There
are plenty of law* in existence today
to deal with extraordinary situations
such as that which occurred recently
at Galveston and Governor Hobby
had ample authority to deal with that
one or is dealing with it.
MR. GOMPERS SAYS ITS “SOP.”
President Gompers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is quoted as
saying that the $600000000 increase
granted railway employes is nothing
but “sop.” The American people will
Ctptribute $6 per capita to grant that
bi|.of “sou” to the railway employes.
T*> '•onht deserve it. At the same
Iknae the-American people who are
it up probably would much
prefer that the railway workers con-
aider it as an increase in appreciation
of. their Services and as a recognition
of.the higher cost of living rather
than just “sop.” We’ll say. since some
pf that $6 will come out of our pock-
ets that we don’t think it’s “sop" and
furthermore we don’t like that way of
putting it.
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THE LIGHT VOTE IN TEXAS
(Galveston News.)
'.With the potential vote about the
'game this > &?.r that it was two years
•go the number of voters entering
the densociftic primary seems to
hive be*n only about.65- per cent of
the number participating two years
•go. for example forty-five counties
which returned 116.704 votes in the
primary fwo yeais ago have returned
only 75632 th*s year. These forty-
five cjsantif?. it i5 stated are not in
•by one single section of the state hut
distributed over the entire state
heavy falling off is sure to ex-
curiosity of the democratic
chipftians. and as they inquire into
the "causes of" it. possibly some dis-
quietude as well. .What it obviously
Suggests is that there will be a much
^Scarier opposition >ote inNovember
lbi& ygat.t^an int)ie general election
of tw’o years ago or perhaps in that
of any year within recent time3. It
would require a very close inquiry and
analysis to lletermine the validity of
that suggestion hut a superficial
analysis shows it to be at least plaus-
ible. The fact lands out con- ]
rpicuously for instance that th« re
has been a particularly heavy decrease i
in the primary vote in South Texas
and more especially in those counties i
where there is a considerable German;
population. The Germans as is well
known have always had more affinity i
for the republican than for the demo-!
cratic party. What has chiefly in-!
duced them to affiliate with the dem-l
ocratic party is that only through that]
party could they make their opposi- j
tion to prohibition effective. They
are no longer under that inducement
while their lack of sympathy with this
country’s participation in the war puts
them under a positive incentive for
yielding to their natural impulse to
vote against the democratic party.
The outlook will be clearer after
the second primary next month. W’ith
Mr. Bailey as the possible nominee of
the democratic party for governor it
is at least conceivable that a large
number of those who held aloof from
the first primary because of their re-
publican predilection will participate
in the second and decisive contest. To
| the ordinary Texas republican and
] particularly if he be also a German
Mr. Bailey is the least obnoxious dem-'
oerat in the state. Only the election
[of a republican as governor could give
much more satisfaction than would
the nomination and election of Mr.
Bailey on the democratic ticket. That
would be more than a half loaf to
most of them and the much larger
chance of getting that half loaf or(
more than of getting the whole loaf
of a republican governor^ may easily
tu»n out to be an irresistible tempta-
tion to thousands who abstained from
using their ballots in the first demo-
cratic primary. But if this possibility
should not materialise if all those]
who stayed out of the first primary
should stay out of the second the]
democratic nominees would confront a
volume of potential opposition in No- ]
vember much greater than ever be-
fore. _
TAXES PAID SHOW INCREASE
(Fort Worth Star-Telegram.)
An increase of seventy-five per
1 cent in the amount of taxes paid to
the federal government means that
the income and profits of the country
during J919 were that much greater
than in 1918 for there has been no
increase in the rate. The difficulty
about it is that to a great degree it
is paid out of^earnings of the current
I year and there can be little doubt
• that generally speaking the income
'and profits of the country during the
(current year will show a falling off.
!When added to this is the fact that
at least $U000000UUO of the taxes
[collected might ordinarily be expected
ito be returned into industry in the
form of capital were it not paid to
the government it will be seen what
la great check this great volume of
taxes is to industry. The situation
would be much better ami the outlook
blighter if the republican congress
|had given some of its attention to the i
'problem of simplifying those taxes so
as to make them less complicated and
: lessen the burden.
S. BENITO QUITS LEAGUE
TO PLAY INDEPENDENTLY
<Special In 'I'lie Herald I
SAN BENITO Tex. July .** 1.—Sa:i j
Benito leaves Valley League to play
independently. The league has proven
J disintersting to San Benito due to the
fact that Harlinjren and Mercedes are
i not in its class. Edinburg and San
■ Benito are well matched teams and
. play some fine ball but it is not
j worth while to continue with just
'these two teams. It is the intention
of the barkers of the San Benito team
to challenge up-state towns such as
j Kingsville Corpus Christi etc. and
jit is expected that the fans of San
1 Benito during the next two months
| will see some good base ball games.
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THE CHANGEFUL SEA.
One day the sea’s a brilliant blue
and gayly it goes skidding! the next
it lias a sombre hue it’s motion slow
forbidding. One day I camp upon the
shore and watch it as it surges and
there’s such pathes in its roar I feel
like crooning dirges. Next day it*
message is so glad it asks no mortal’s
pity and 1 produce a pen and pad I
and spring a buoyant ditty. One day
the waters run like wrine in froth
and foam they’re boiling; the next
they have a dismal whine as though
they needed oiling. One day they’re
green and everywhere the note of
mirth’s prevailing; the next they’re
darker than despair and every wave
is wailing. Old Neptune has a won-
drous lyre that touches all emotions
and on it. like a house afire he plays
among his oceans. Nmv sweeter than
the lullabys of mothers in the gloam-
ing; and now the notes like thunder
rise along the octaves roaming. Old
Neptune in his solitudes his mighty
harp is thrashin’; he has a song for al’
our moods a note for every passion.
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GLADYS
Though popular in the chorus and
frequently in use as the heroine . of
popular fiction where Gladys de
Montmorency was considered the
heighth of feminine elegance. Gladys
comes from a dignified old Roman
family the Claudiangens. The
Claudii gave much fame in early
Rome and figure in most of the
tragedies of the city and the Em-
peror Claudis through his conquest in
Britain spread his name throughout
Europe.
The first feminine Claudia was the
daughter of a British prince who sent
her greetings to St. Timothy in St.
Paul’s epistle. The masculine form
Cladus of Gladus as it was sometimes
spelled became popular in England
and was taken over by the Welsh who
arc responsible • for the feminine
Gladys.
Gladys came to bo considered the
equivalent for Claudia and as such
was reverenced but her name never
achieved the popularity of its equiva-
lent because of its harsh sound.
Though recognized as Gladys it was
more often given in baptism as
Claudia or Clr.udic as the French
call it.
France rejected Gladys completely
preferring the softer Claudine and
Claudie while Italy and Spain chose
Claudia leaving Gladys completely to
English use whence it was brought]
to America and allowed to flourish
unmolested and non-confuscd by
Claudia.
Agate is the talismanic gem as-'
signed to Gladys. It is said to avert.
peril from its wearer to give her
courage and a large degree of charm.'
One old legend contends that her
every wish will come true when sha
wears this gem. Tuesday is her
lucky day and 7 her lucky number.
Will Ropers the Goldwyn star is
scheduled to bepin work the latter
part of this week ont “Old Hutch” a
story by Garreth Smith which ran
in the Saturday Eveninp Post. Tin-
cast has not been completed but it is ‘
decided that Mary Alden. who recent-
ly finished work in “Milestones” will
play the part of “Mrs. Hutch.
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The Netherlands povernment is e\-
perimentinp with wooden soled shoes
for its soldiers.
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General Crane Out With Letter
In Behalf of Pat M. Neff
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The Houston Post prints the follow-
ing letter from General M. M. Cran?
of Dallas:
j DALLAS Texas.—There are mary
reasons why Pat Neff and not Mr.
Bailey should he nominated in the sec-
ond primary for the office of gov-
:ernor. These are some of them:
1. The constitution requires the
governor to have been a resident of
the state for at least five years. M-.
Bailey has not resided in Texas for
nine years or more
j 2. The law contemplates that any
man nominated by the democratic
party to be governor snould be a dem-
ocrat. As to whether Mr. Bailev is a
democrat must depend on definitions.
1 understand a democrat to be one
who believes in the party creed and
who pledges himself to vote the party
ticket. If Mr. Bailey’s utterances are
to be credited and I am assuming
they are. he does not believe in the
demociatic platform adopted at San
Frs ntisco. but utterly repudiates it
in this. That he does not believe in
the federal reserve bank system; the
land and loan bank; woman suffrage;
he does not believe that we should
have entered the war with Germany;
and he does not believe that we should
have prosecuted it so vigorously but
that we should only have sent over
about a million of men. I know that
there are those who insist that a man
m»y he a democrat and repudiate its
J platform. It is as impossible for a
man to be a democrat and repudiate
the platfoim as it is to be a Christian
and repudiate the Nazarene.
Recurring again to Mr. Bailey’s
public utterances and 1 quote from
no others he does not fill the second
requirement; that is he is not pledg-
ed to support the nominee of the
party. On the contrary he has pub-
licly pledged himself not to support
the nomination of the party if he hap-
pens to he in accord with Woodrow
Wilson and others named. On his
pilgrimage to Texas last year when
he had it in his mind to organize a
new party he announced that he
never would vote for any man who
agreed with Woodrow Wilson Morris
Sheppard and Cyclone Davis assum-
ing that the three believed in the
same general propositions. I’at Neff
believes with Wilson. Mr. Bailey
therefore stands pledged to the propo-
sition that he can not and will not
vote for him in the event that he
should be successful. That prevents
his being a democrat because he;
neither has the democratic faith nor
will he indulge in the democratic prac-
tice of voting the ticket. He should
have no place in a democratic pri-
mary. In addition to all this he just
closed a campaign in which he was
most gloriously defeated in which he
sought to repudiate national dem-
ocracy and announced in a public
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speech if the newspapers are to he
credited that “if he lost that fight
the democracy of Texas was dead.”
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3. If the democrats shall nominate
Bailey they will be embarrassed by
the fact that during the war struggle
he did nothing to help the cause along.
He made no Red Cro|s speeches; he
made no appeal to the citizens to buy
Liberty bonds; ami if the Austin pa-
per reputed to he owned by John H.
Kirby is to be believed he gave as the
reason why he did not buy Liberty
bonds was because hecould not af-
ford to sell them to his people and
have them lose money on them. Pat
Neff was not afflicted with that kind
of scruples. He jooked across the
ocean into France and Flanders and
saw the new made graves into which!
the mangled forms of our brave boys
were laid and he thought that if they
could give their lives for the salva-
tion of the world the man#with mon-
ey could afford to give up a few pal-
try dollars for the same great and
holy cause. The democrats will not
have to apologize if Pat Neff is nom-
inated for going into the war to main-
tain the freedom of the seas. Bailey
will be embarrassed in his position
that we had no right to go into the
war; that it was all wrong. Once in
the war the democrats approve the
course of Woodrow Wilson in putting
all of the American energy behind it
to win it. Bailey thought we ought to
have limited ourselves to one million
of men even after we found it neces-
sary to go in. His position will be
roundly approved by all those who
were disloyal to their country anil
their flag—but the red-blooded dem-
ocrats—yea the red-blooded re-
publicans—will agree that when
Uncle Sam went in*o the war he
should have gone with his full power
as he did. to make success certain.
Would it not be a monstrous thing
to do after having nominated Cox
and Roosevelt who believe in the
same things that Wilson believes in.
who are fighting for the same things j
for which Wilson is fighting now to
nominate a candidate for governor
who believes just the opposit ?
It would bring joy to the hearts of
the republicans when the read that
Texas the Gibraltai of democracyI
has repudiated Cox and Roosevelt and!
has planter! itself upon the platform!
of the republicans. The republican?'
in every doubtful state will take re-j
newed courage and victory if not en-
tirely prevented will be made very
much more difficult. The democ-
racy can not even consider voting for
Bailey unless they alfco vote for
Harding. The question of open shop
or closed shop is not involved. Neither
Neff nor Bailey can help or hinder
that proposition by any offir'a! a:d < f
theirs. Hobby dealt with that at (»al-
ve-ton. All other executives can do
the same now their powers are ample.
M. M. CRANE.
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