The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 4, 1922 Page: 1 of 6
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GILMER. UPSHUR COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JU IV 4, 1922.
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Sale price
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values tollfl
■toe Work Skirts, good
pies he represents.
He said yoa pay $1,000
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Crystal Theatre
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forgiven him by kanging his
At this juncture a rain came ed a seabed package law under a
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FERGUSON SPEAKS TO BIG CROWD
IN GILMER MONDAY AFTERNOON
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He said give him the right to
issue the people's money and
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-I could make this deal, and put
myself an Easy Street, if I had
a little money with which to
CoL Roosevelt and Tom Watson.
He told of the unfair treat-
ment he had received. Ho men-
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STRIKERS AND
UNION LABOR
NOW IN FULL SWING
THECHEATESTSNLEEVERKMOWNIIGILMER
co-operate in every practicai prejemzue
ke this a better town in which to Gvea
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tty of such as the little .gir -he
held in his arms.
He thanked the audience for
—To encourage every member ef iie son- 3
munity to take on increased efficiexey. • |
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Nh Views • laber.
He favors union labor and
the chosed shop. He said the
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bargain at this
Ho* many times have you heard the
above remark?
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Talked About What He Would
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Elected to Senate.
“TRAIL1N
1 saw belly and beans without
even a fiddler to play "Sugar in
Jew or’the Gourd."
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with a huge boquet, and with
the little daughter of Mr. Matt
Hin in his arms, he introduced
her as Jimmie Ferguson Hill,
acknowledging the compliment
and thanking them for the
flowers, emblematic of the pur-
were paying employeee the trip, ana if while there ho!~
"ho nexer bal l finds out you have Afty dollars
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By GEO. TUCKER.
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Your home willetandthere a lifetime a MON-
UMENT to your CARE nr CARELESSNESS.
• HOW ’BOUT IT?
Vat ma tell you haw to fix up the old one or
build a new pm. You’l b« surprised how ensily
youcan help makeGilmer a QTY OF HOMES"
He Denounced Federal Reseive Banks,
Favored Closed Shop
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constitutiorl rght.
The Maney Quest tea.
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PATRONIZE IT
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MOUGHON’S Great
SUMMER UNLOADING SALE
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as being s dalnable, heartless '
set of wretches. He said his opr .
ponente favored the Federal,
Reserve banks and thought it '
was a fine law that created it.
He thought it was the worst
eVer written and if eleeted
would do al in his power to re-
DENMAN LUMBER COMPANY
TMB HOME BUILDRRS.
the "high brow" A. M UoNegei
students a thousand each to;
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integrity (9 further financiui adwmes-
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“Where Is My Wandering
Boy Tonight?,'
The picture th* will meke'yoyfer
■mule —lih you happv—mak you
how beautiful is ykur moother'y love
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and told about the one in Kan- E
sas City giving the large num- =
her of employees free lunch at
50 cents each and having a 40
piece orchestra to play sweet
'music fur them, white the farm
ers of Texas were eating the
we were paying interest on.
He dwelt at length on the;thirty-seven and a half milliom.
money question, saying that tea it was a case of their eating
many had too much and many their cuke and having it. He
1 too little. He told of seeing one' said he
FARMERS & MERCHANTS
PUBLISHED DAILY
(Except Sunday)
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the banks in his territory theisse, and woaba
He told how he would set,with sme highbrow wninteligi-
aside the reserve M and issae bie jumble ef big words to evade
money to relieve the situatiom, th, issun
tinned how the politicians had if he coula, and added they
say this is flat money not worth.
their presence, and saia that he menomen.that spend five,
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comp dimen tto, him. 8, thelmodities by withholding eredit. fer the poorer cass that woula
Americn people regarded no He used many illustrat ms tonever be able to see inside the
man other than for the princi-show their power and what they?
pies he represents, the things could do, and denounce I them; • --
hertendortfortanda agnat at thefarapeiroztz baimonaeractxares-ucatine
enthusiasm being manifested,
of Ferguson's name being a
household word now, when a
gg few short years ago he was un-
5 known.
59 Of his rise from the laboring
9 class by his own individual ef-
S forts He said the people were
3 ripe to hear the leading men ex-
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you my view as to their solu-how they squeezed the publie
tion, my public record and pri- ‘until they had to eel their Ute . _____ ______
vate life. erty bonds at • sacritice, and wmioms weeaong mmor
My platform puts every bank-. how after they had bought tham other imdasties that they
ar, railroad corporation and big these non -taabe securities, al had their whom, their or.
business corporations against they went back to par He jug gaminatiens tor their own pro-
me. gled with figures in moillions tectiom. The bankers, the rai-
He explained his desertion of showing how the people had roads, the coal mine wwnerk
the democratic party as a right been robbed of milions, by the and that this coumtry had Ite l
because the party was deserfihg power of seven men to Washing- inceptiomn im a union of thirteen
dime 111 tie principles. He cit-ton that controlled the nances states. He said he was for the
ed many precedents of demo-iofthe United Statea He teld of strikine shep man. ana asked
crate that had strayed off and a New York bank berrowing his hearers to demand of the
returned, from the days of Sam $135,000,000 whom the termer other candidates how they stood
Houston down to CoL Ramsey couldn't get a cent, er any of and saia they
of the federal reserve bank.
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ran for a State office, and that over 50 Well Weodrorw Wsom tor Night wine,
— “ “ “** * I.had rather have a half dollar and beer. That he was against
that I can see and spend than to the opeh saboom, against the {
He said they had partially read about the gold dollar that bootbeggers and that they were
.....* > I can't spend or see. against htm, because he favor-i
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Jas. E. Ferguson spoke here
stnisiterineaonslothins S1-— on o. other side, -v-
Senate, to a crowd estimated all been bountiful, enough for all. pay top dam'much And that
the way from WO to 1.000, his 'and yet there was suffering of is what she thought we were do-
speech being favorably received some -while others rolled in ig payn« feo dam much inter-
wealth. He said it was not est .
Judge Briggs spoke of the overproduction, but under con- , Favered the Ear -an (
strange thing happening of such! sumption caused by lark of He said hefavoredthe Farm '
7° mon.v i Luan bank. but wanted it ex-.
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• Heveterredto the Federal, sn that it would help.He
Reserve Board .< Washingtom wanted them te fourffths
time to years in which to pay.
The government helped the rui-'
roads, why shouldn't it he the
termers? .
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He said that "witch burning"
Lagislatare gave $2.80 ench to
educate the little childre« of the
Catholic, in fact didn't belong te He called them usuers and
any church, but inclined to the said the Rible condemned usur-
Methodist. he 'recognined the ers, and that Christ had to
fact that they were entitled to scourage the money changers
! their own religious views as from the temple. He said there
well as any one else; it was a was on five and half billion do}-
picture in the hall of fame, and, -- - ----« - «-m uuue vu a wane pucnege vaw unaer a
that he held no animosity to up and the crowd, er as many of,bkcense system that woold bring,
them, and had returned to the them as coule get in, weet hack • hip recemae, and not allowing
to the Distriet court room, it to be opened to the dispensa-
He said that he was opposed where he finished his speech to ries wheat it was mH. He said
to the poll tax qualification, for the court house . kR was we longer a question of
if free men were not allowed to He said the Federal Reserve prehibitiom bat where yew camn
vote there never would have bank was wring to principle and get A The goverment has
been any government. He re- corrupt to practice, amt cited, spent three milliom dollars ter
ferred to the fathers of the Re-how they aqueened the pubbe,enforcement, and it was not go-
public who fought ter treadam out of twenty milion inmakdngigtebeenferced,as there was
of religion, firestem of speech, them seh their Liberty bendh ' (Oumtmed em laet pege)
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gIntrodueed by aruydeeos th itoo littie. He told of secine onelsaid ho was like lighting Pob
... ■ man pay $3 for a dinner while, Evans was about the rich mn‛s
south side of the court hou«e, others were going hungry in two pew in a New York church. He*
afteritwa that the. Dis-sblocksof him. With an thewasithepewanatherehman
. . room would-nat-ac-woot of the West, and cotton of ‛ came in and wrete on a card, "I
2 the South there were people saf-’pay ten thousand a year for
• e.-----La— ~ nla --a1 this pew." Bob took the card and
’and while he was not
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he'd contol the country
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were, under the contro of Fed- University students when “v0o
era Ecscrvo banks of them haa acquired the icar
He insisted that it was too ette smoking habit, and paid
much power to vest in a few $40,000 for a footbal field. It
a physician, he
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problemsthatco and the farmer coukdmt borrow a him and he charge jw #3 tor -
we wonder where it will end, cent. as well as the high salaries th, xinit a , a nS. tor
and the solution of these prob- they U-s MM a "oar a "e for
lems is the task to which we Men wu ayexer uman emrtueu manr
are addressing ourselves. 1 such salaries. They ran break
I come to you in confidence (you any time, and they can appemdicitis
and in frankness, to lay before break your children. He’shomred
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Tucker, George. The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 4, 1922, newspaper, July 4, 1922; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1414594/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Upshur County Library.