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Galveston LaborDispatch
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GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1914
NUMBER 26
VOLUME III.
JAMES E. FERGUSON ADDRESSES LARGEST CROWD
THAT EVER ATTENDED POLITICAL SPEAKING HERE
$150,000 IS TOTAL AMOUNT
JAS. E. FERGUSON.
J. W. Bland, President Barbers’ miner in the Rockies; I have mined
Union.
Attention to ignate.
follows.:
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right, but he didn’t like it, adding
time with my remarks,” said Mayor timore, that aided in swinging the
of Dallas, Ellie and Kaufman for
Can you beat that?
PAT O’KEEFE,
THIRTY FIVE MEN ARE OUT
Chairman J. E. Quaid of the Gal-
as favoring the Saturday closing
The increased wago that these plan.
t.
Commissioner
the resolution
Refused to Return to Work on Stan-
dard Boiler & Plate Iron Com-
pany at Texas City Monday.
Raise Fifty Cents a Day.
54000,000)
Norman and Kempner with Mayor
Fisher for approval of the bond,
Commissioner Shay against its ap-
proval and Commissioner Sapping-
ton not making an audible vote.
Whoever admits the mistake of
leaving out the clause, we believe
that it was wilfully done, for the at-
tention of the city attorney’s depart-
ment was called to the omission be-
fore the contract was completed.
We have asked the opinion of an
attorney who has always been fair
to organized labor and careful in his
H O. Stein
Gm. Sealy
f Galveston?
“Go it, Jim!
(Signed)
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tral Trades Council.
J. B. Griffith, Secretary Central
Trades Council.
Robert Newman, President Prin-
ters’ Union.
J. W. Snyder, President Bartend-
ers’ Union.
entertain the visitor during his stay
here.
CITY COMMISSION OMITS UNION LABOR
CLAUSE IN LIGHTING CONTRACT, DOES
NOT CORRECT ERROR WHEN DISCOVERED
to ing
COMMISSIONERS ON
ROAD MATTERS NOW
ne
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TOM CAMPBELL TO SPEAK
HERE SATURDAY NIGHT
the bond until said clause was
P. J. VAUTRIN AWARDED THE
CONTRACT FOR PAVING
MANY STREETS.
STREET PAVING
CONTRACT MADE
it in the scenario of the same name.
Bell County Candidate Made Admirers Out of His Three Thousand Hearers
When He Used Plain Terms—Told His Reasons for Asking Their Vote,
and Explains His Attitude on Important Issues of the Day.
Work and Contracts Now
Being Completed.
LOCAL UNION 132 IS DEMAND-
ING THE OKLAHOMA, OR
UNIFORM SCALE.
in Colorado and Nevada. After wan-
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inserted in the contract.
Mayor Fisher stated that he had
received a letter from C. D. Hill of
Dallas this week in which the archi-
tect said that he would prepare two
sets of plans for the new city hall
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He said that he was a
Streets are to be paved as
Avenue B, 23rd aed 24th,
Official Organ of the State Federation of Labor, Galveston Labor Council,
Galveston Building Trades Council and Affiliated Unions
HUTOHINCS,
men are asking is what they term
the Oklahoma scale, or the average
wage scale for workmen of their
craft. Under the old scale they were
Mr. Ferguson here explained that
now he is paying annually more than
$7000 for farm labor, and that his
laborers are receiving an average
of $7.50 per month more than the
average farm laborer of the state.
J. A. McCalmont, President Cen- i those days men loved their neigh-
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riveters $4.25 per day, and boilerma-
kers $4.50 per day. They are asking
for 50 cents per day raise, making
them receive for helpers $4.50 per
day, riveters $4.75 per day, and boil-
ermakers $5.00 per day. This scale
is paid by plants now operating at
Dallas, Fort Worth, Henrietta and
many other places over the state.
President T. O. Reiley of Port
Arthur is at Texas City conferring
with the strikers this week and aid-
ing them in their fight for the high-
Monday morning Boilermakers to
the number of 35 who were engaged
at the plant of the Standard Boiler
and Plate Iron Company at Texas
City went on a strike for a raise of
wages amounting to 50 cents per
day per man for the Boilermakers,
Riveters and Helpers. The Carpen-
ters employed at this plant have
gone out with the striking Boiler- J
makers. The Boilermakes who are
striking are members of Local Un-
ion 132 of Galveston.
While there was quite a lengthy
session of the board of city com-
missioners Thursday evening, there
were not very many matters given
consideration. The principle matter
was the awarding of contract for
paving various down-town streets of
he city, decision as to what kind of
paving should be used and whch
streets should first be paved, occu-
County Board Gives
convention for Wilson. It read:
“Jim Ferguson, Galveston: Read
out in clarion notes in the Galveston
meeting. North Texas sends greet-
Philadelphia, June 20.—Beginning
the first Saturday in July, more than
half the stores on Walnut street will
close all day Saturday for July and
August. The Walnut Street Busi-
BOILERMAKERS ARE
UN STRIKE
Arrangements have been made so
that the Labor Dispatch carries a
chapter of this story each Saturday
and the Queen Theater carries that
story on the screen the next day,
Sunday. The theater has selected
Sunday for showing this film be-
cause that is the day of recreation
for the workingmen and they and
their families can attend the theater
at that time better than at any other
part of the week.
There is a $10,000 prize to be
given some reader of this story. It
will pay you to look over the condi-
tions on page 2. The story itself is
at once so true to life, so thrilling
and so good that once you begin it
you will want to read every install-
ment until it is finished.
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ly this afternoon, according
but he seconded Mr. Norman’s mo-
worker, all tion. The vote was Commisioner
receiving for helpers $4.00 per day, and assurances were given that the
work would be done as soon as pos-
Numerous matters pertaining to
he roads of the county were given
consideration at the Monday morn-
.ng meeting of the board of county
ommissioners. Action on several ot
these matters was deferred until
Tuesday morning’s meeting of the
board, when- they would have on
hand more information concerning
the various projects.
The board allowed and ordered
paid a claim of 1,767.32 to W. D.
Haden, this being the final payment
on tract for the Caplen-Gulf View
road on Bolivar Peninsula. A pay
roll claim for shell inspectors,
amounting to $67.50 was also allow-
ed, the work of these men being-
completed.
Franchises given the right to con-
struct, operate and maintain street
railways, light and power lines, wa-
terworks and sewer systems in the
suburbs of Texas City known as
Texas City Heights, were granted by
the board of county commissioners
at their Tuesday session to the Tex-
as City Street Railway Company,
Texas City Light & Power Com-
pany and Texas City Sewerage
Company, these franchises being ad-
ditional to ones already held by
these companies.
Commissioner Boddeker objected
the granting the franchises till
shown exactly where the compan-
ies would construct lines, also hav-
ing their assurance that work would
be done immediately. A map was
shown by a representative present,
veston county Ball club. Mr. Camp-
bell will speak at the Bill high
school square at 8 o’clock this even-
Paving Work Is to Be Done Grad-
ually as Ordered—Inspector
Ordinance Passed—Bond of
Max Levy Is Approved.
Thos. M, Campbell, former gover-
nor, will be here Saturday, June
27th, in the interest of the candidacy
of Tom Ball for governor of the
state.
Mr. Campbell will arrive here ear-
our Jim. What say you, Freemen
being in every way worthy of their
confidence and support, and we
know if he is elected governor we
will receive a square deal in tne se-
curing of legislation beneficial to the
working men and women of Texas.
er wage. In speaking of the strike
| he said that other plants are now
[and have been for some time paying
j this scale and that the members of
[ the Galveston local should have been
enjoying this rate some time back.
He added that the union will remain
firm in its demand for the increase
and secure the proper standard wage
scale for workmen of their craft be-
fore they return to work.
pying all of an hour, while the
• Democratic principle. The people
rule and not the bosses. We are
Commisioner Shay deserves high
est commendation for his earnest
endeavors to protect the rights u
organized labor. We are greatly
surprised at the attitude of Commis-
sioner Kempner, who is usually so
clear sighted and fair in his decis-
ions, for he must realize that it was
morally wrong to let this contract
go through after the error had been
discovered. Those members of the
board who did not try to stand by
their original resolution have wil-
fully violated their agreement with
organized labor, for they had the
chance of correcting the evil by
withholding approval of the bond.
Speaking of Levy’s unfair meth-
ods here, a prominent memer of the
local said:
“Max Levy is not only not fair to
the Electrical Workers here, but he
employs a system of low wages that
amount almost to peonage. On pre-
vious city contracts he has used the
cheapest labor he could possibly
find, going to the extent of obtain-
ing release of city prisoners and us-
ing them on the work at wages low-
er than a living rate.
“Once this unfair contractor said
‘One of the drawbakes to the up
building of Galveston is the high
cost of labor here,’ He never misses
an opportunity to advocate low wa-
ges, His arguments are positively
absurd for experience has shown us
that in the communities where the
laboring men are well pa.a al
classes are more prosperous.”
If we had not asked Mayor Fish-
er and members of the commission
about this matter Thursday there is
no doubt it would have gone
through without a word said. When
union men asked us for an explana-
tion, we in turn asked the officials to
furnish the explanation demanded.
When a representative of the Labor
Dispatch called on Mayor Fisher
that official apparently resented the
union men asking us to furnish them
the information, saying he and the
commissioners were able to be seen
by the individuals,
We are representatives of organ-
ized labor here and are paid by labor
to keep tab on these matters, look
out for their interests and publish
those things of interest and organ-
ized labor wished to know about
this, As a representative of this ma-
jority of the citizens we had a right
to the information we were asking.
Individual members look to us for
such information and it would be
ridiculous for them to take the time
that would be required to individual-
ly call upon the mayor and commis-
sioners to find out about such mat-
ters.
that he was not a political turkey
trotter. “Nobody petted me and
begged me to make this race for
governor,*’ declared the speaker.
“I believe that friends advising a
man to run for office would embar-
rass him.”
About this time two individuals
.in the crowd near the platform got
pledging the three great counties into a hot argument and drew some
Broadway were advertised for. Max
Levy was the only bidder and two
weeks ago when his bid was tabu-
lated its acceptance was voted by the
commission. City Attorney Roys-
ton drew up the contract that was
awarded to Mr. Levy and it was
properly signed, but the city attor-
ney left out the clause calling for
none but union labor where skilled
labor was involved. City Superin-
tendent of Electricity Masterson
called attention of the city attor-
ney’s department to this omission
and was informed that it was not
deemed necessary in the Levy con-
tract, as most of the work was com-
mon labor, not skilled.
Thursday night at the commission
meeting the bond of Mr. Levy was
up for approval of the board. At-
tention of the board was called-to
the omission of the clause and Mr.
Royston admitted the fault, stating
his reasons. Commissioner Shay
promptly said that the bond should
not be approved until the clause was
inserted in the contract.
Commisioner Norman saw his op-
portunity to take a slap at organized
labor and promptly moved that the
bond be approved.
Mayor Fisher asked if the con-
tractor could mandamus the city
and force the contract now. He was
assured it could not but Mr. Roys-
ton gave it as his opinion that the
contractor could sue for damages to
the amount of profit he expected
from the work.
Commisioner Kempner said the
clause should not have been omitted,
Fisher, “but will leave that to the
distinguished gentleman whom I
will introduce to you in a few min-
utes . The people of Galveston have
tonight their first opportunity of ings to staunch South Texas for
i mother was in Ursuline Academy
I here fifty years ago.
i “I feel that I also have a financial
interest in Galveston, although I get
; no receipts from this investment,
■ for when I was working as a rail-
[ road man for my good friend, Cap-
tain Owens, I spent my pay check
i here regularly. I feel that Galves-
ton owes me something on that ac-
count, for I cannot recall ever hav-
ing gotten a receipt.
“It gies me pleasure to see so
many ladies present, for the candi-
date that cannot advocate his cam-
paign in the presence of ladies is
not one for the votes and trust of
the people.
“I appreciate the fact that many of
you are possibly here out of curios-
ity. You want to know what man-
ner of man is this Ferguson. I am
a plain citizen of Texas, and for the
past twenty years have been satis-
fied in assisting to elect good men to
the offices of the state. You can
tell them all that this man was born
43 years ago in Bell county, no, not
43 years, it will be 43 when I take
the governor’s office.
! “I was raised by a good old Meth-
odist minister, my father, and in
quest be adopted.
Shay seconded and
was adopted.
Shortly afterward
tional ornamental
bids for addi-
lighting on
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ness Association went upon record ing. The local club will receive and
many years I came back to Texas,
as do all who have ever lived in this
great state, and worked for my old
friend, Captain Joe A. Owens. At
one time I even tried to go on a
.whaling expedition, but the captain
of a vessel, a friend to me, advised
me, against it.
“In 1897 I was admitted to the bar
in Belton and tried to practice law,
but while I was at t I found plenty
of time togfarm, and, finding that
growing wheat was more profitable
than practicing law, I quit the law.
For the last twelve years I have
been a practical farmer and country
banker. There are more city farm-
ers running for office in Central
Texas today than anywhere else on
God’s green earth. I am not that
class of farmer.”
sible.
County Auditor Murch was in-
structed to advertise for bids on
1000 cubic yards of mudshell for
use on the road at the High Island
school house.
The boulevard committee was
authorized to have constructed a
flight of stairs leading down from
the seawall at Thirteenth street, this
being done on petition of the citi-
zens of that section.
Regular claims and accounts were
allowed.
ask that you will embody in your
specifications for all contemplated
। work involving skilled labor that
none but union labor be employed
in construction of same.” Commis-
sioner Sappington moved that a
resolution complying with this re-
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J. W. McCalmont, Secretary Bar- dering about in that fashion for
I bors and preachers preached for the
love of God, not for money. I have
never been a very bad fellow. I
have worked in the vineyards of
California, and I have been a rousta-
bout laborer in a wire factory in
! San Francisco. I have been a placer
Galveston’s board of city commis-
sioners as a whole, acting over the
protests of Commissioner Shay, has
violated its agreement with the Gal-
veston Labor Council and has made
a joke of its resolution calling for
the use of organized labor in city
contracts by awarding a contract
for installation of ornamental lights
on Broadway to Max Levy, an un-
fair contractor, without inserting in
his contract the clause demanding
union labor where skilled labor is
required.
Tersely stated, the whole situation
is this:' At its regular meeting on
February 5th the board was present-
ed w 1 the following request from
the Galveston Labor Council: "We
bers’ Union.
B. A. Baker, trustee Carpenters’
Union.
W. F. Sanders, President Tailors’
Union.
Harvey Shanklin, Secretary Tail-
ors’ Union.
W. D. Queed, President Stage
Hands’ Union.
W. M. McDonough, Stage Hands’
Union.
W. F. Whessenand, President
Plumbers’ Union.
W. W. White, Secretary Printers’
Union.
Ed Hollingsworth, Secretary
Plumbers’ Union.
J. D. Griffith, Secretary Tinners’
Union.
Bill Holden, Vice President Bar-
tenders’ Union.
“We believe in you and are for
you first, last and all the time.
“J. A. McCALMONT,
“President Trades Council, Temple.”
One from Pat O’Keefe.
The next telegram was from Pat
O’Keefe, the sergeant at arms of
the Texas delegation of forty at Bal-
decisions in legal matters. He said:
“The commission has not only
done a moral wrong but it has acted
illegally in awarding this contract
without tQe clause inserted. It
would have been entirely within its
rights under all common law If 1.
had refused to approve the bond of
this contractor until the clause was
inserted. If these gentlemen fail to
stand by their resolution the first
time they may as easily forget it
again and thus make' a joke of the
whole affair. Had they been se-
rious when they adopted the resolu-
tion they would have been bound
by their honor as gentlemen to in-
sist on the insertion of this clause
before approving the bond.”
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Galvestonians heard their first
speech in this year’s gubernatorial
campaign last Saturday evening
when James E. Ferguson of Temple
was here. In a two-hour talk Mr.
Ferguson described political condi-
ti ns in this state, showed the logic
of his candidacy, and, not with tne
oratorical brilliance of the practised
office seeker, but rather with the
foreeful plainness of a man of the
people, he won his way to the
nearts of thousands of his hearers.
The crowd that heard Ferguson
talk that evening was the largest
that has attended a political meeting
or speaking in this city within the
last six years. In anticipation of a
good attendance 2680 chairs had
been placed on the Ball High school
campus, but long before the hour of
speaking had arrived the seats were
all taken and men were standing in
rows ten deep all around the large
circle, for these voters of Galveston
were eager to hear this plain man
advocate his plain and honest can-
didacy.
From the moment that he began
talking until he had carried his hear-
ers through a brief history of the
race, told them of the fight that is
being made upon him and concluded
with a presentation of his claims for
their votes there was not a minute
that the speaker did not have the
closest attention of his audience.
Applause and cheering was frequent
and at times quite prolonged. At
conclusion of the speech hnudreds
of voters who heard him crowded
around the platform to shake hands
with “Farmer Jim.”
Shortly after 7 o’clock a band
that had been engaged for the occa-
sion began a concert on the school
campus, rendering several selections
before the speech ’ making began. A
little after 8' Mr. Ferguson and the
local men accompanying him gath-.
ered on the platform. In the party
seated around this were Mayor
Lewis Fisher, President E. W. Bock
of the Galveston Labor Council;
Captain E. K. Marrast, Captain Joe
A. Owens, Dr. A. W. Fly, Dr. I. L.
McGlasson, County Attorney C. H.
Theobald, Commissioner H. O. Sap-
pington and half a score of other
prominent business and professional
men of the city.
Mr. Bock first addressed the aud-
ience, stating the purposes of the
gathering and calling on Mayor
Lewis Fisher to introduce the speak-
er. In doing this Mayor Fisher took
occasion to give the hearers some
important information concerning
the candidate before them, telling
them of his past life, his records, his
work and his ideals and ambitions.
“P will not take up much ot your
greater part of another hour was
spent in considering whether the
contract for all the work should be
awarded at one time.
P. J. Vautrin was the lowest bid-
der on all of the work and the ar-
guments were finally settled by
awarding the full contract to Mr.
Vautrin, but the commission will
have the work done on the various
streets from time to time as it sees
fit, not rushing the entire matter
through to completion. The total
contract price for this work is ap-
proximately $147,710. The bid for
the entire work was as follows: For
brick on a sand base, $38,835.98;
brick on concrete base, $51,225.98;
wooden blocks on concrete base,
$54,690.98. For the experimental
block of wooden blocks to be laid
between Twenty-third and Twenty-
fourth streets, on Strand, the bid is
$2960.
The work will be done gradually
as the city commissioners shall des-
wood blocks: Avenue B, 16th to
18th Streets; Postoffice, 25th to 29th
Streets, brick on concrete base;
Avenue E, 19th to 20th Streets, and
24th to 25th Streets; Church Street,
21st to 22nd and 23rd to 24th;
21st Streets, Avenue A to B, and
24th Street, Avenue A to B, brick on
sand base. The city, in all these
cases where brick on a sand base
was specified, reserves the right to
substitute wooden blocks on a con-
crete base, should the property won-
ers desire the change.
The bond of Max. Levy was up
for approval. Mr. Levy had pre-
viously been awarded contract for
the installation of additional orna-
mental poles and lights on Broad-
way, he having been the only bidder
when this work was advertised
When'his bond was placed berore
the board there arose quite a little
discussion among the commission-
ers. Levy is an unfair electrical
contractor and the board of com-
missioners some time back adopted
an ordinance requiring that the “un-
ion labor clause” be inserted in all
city contracts, that is, that contracis
should call for the use of organized
labor wherever possible. It devel-
oped that in making out this con-
tract the clause had been omitted.
Commissioner Kempner declared
this should not have been omitted,
but that since the contract had al-
ready been awarded he saw no way
out of it except to approve the bond
and the board go on record as urg-
ing Mr. Levy to use organized la-
bor wherever skilled labor was re-
quired. Commissioner Norman said
the board could urge it, but not de-
mand it.
City superintendent of electrical
work, Mr. Masterson, stated that he
has asked City Attorney Royston
about this clause being omitted in
the contract and that the city attor-
ney had told him in reply that most
of' the work was common labor and
he saw no necessity of inserting it.
The city attorney said that he had
told Mr. Masterson this, but denied
that he had said the same to Con-
tractor Levy.
The argument was settled when
the bond was approved with Com-
misioners Norman and Kempner
and Mayor Fisher voting in the af-
firmative. Commissioner Shay vo-
ted no and Commissioner Sapping-
ton did not audibly vote either way.
Commissioner Shay took the
stand that it was an error in leaving
out the clause and that the error
should be corrected by not approv-
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A certain amount of fiction is nec-
essary in every publication. In or-
der to give its readers the amount of
fiction that it believes necessary the
Labor Dispatch has arranged for a
new serial story to follow “The Ad-
ventures of Kathlyn."
“The Milion Dollar Mystery,”
which begins this week, will run se-
rially for 22 weeks. It is not just
plain fiction; it is extraordinary fic-
tion in which Harold MacGrath has
used all of his wonderful descriptive
powers to tell the story as he saw
Sergeant at arms, Texas 40 at Bal-
timore.
Another from Dallas.
Still another message was read.
This one was also from Dallas and
said: "Ten thousand voters con-
gratulate the citizens of Galveston
for having Jim Ferguson with them
tonight; the man for men; the Jim
Hogg of today.”
“Friends,” continued Judge Fish-
er, “if he had ever done anything to
labor that was not right they would
know about it. He has acted well
for the whole population and if he
is elected governor there is no more
chance for him to do wrong than
for a bug to fly without wings.
“I will now introduce to you a
man that will promise you a busi-
ness administration and it is time
that we had a business administra-
tion.”
Ferguson Cheered.
As Mr. Ferguson was introduced
there was prolonged cheering.
Throughout the crowd were shouts
of “We are for you, Jim!”
“Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gen-
tlemen,” began the speaker. “It is
with pride and pleasure that I ac-
cept this opportunity to address you
this evening upon the issues of the
State government and my part in
this campaign.
“In this historic city of Galveston,
the home of fathers, I feel that I
am in the hands of friends, for my
hearing a candidate for the office of
governor in this year’s contest. The
opening gun in the gubernatorial
race is being frel in Galveston coun-
ty this evening.
“Perhaps some of you have al-
ready made a choice in the race, but
it is a duty that we owe, not only to
ourselves but to our families as well,
to closely study the character and
ability of the candidates before us.
“James E. Ferguson I have known
personally for a number of years,
but I will not tell you whether he
is an orator or not. However, I do
know that as a young man he was a
day laborer and later a teamster.
Further on he was a farm tenant,
then a farm owner, lawyer and now
he is a farmer and banker. Fie has
done a little of all these things and
next year when the governor is
sworn in at Austin he will begin to
do a little governing.”
Here Mayor Fisher paused, saying
he had a few telegrams that he
would like to read before introduc-
ing the speaker. The first was from
the Temple Central Trades Council,
addresed to President E. W. Bock
of the Galveston Labor Cuoncil, and
read as follows: ,
“I take pleasure in wiring you the
following: We, the undersignea or
ficers and members of several or-
ganized labor unions of Temple,
having noticed the malicious and un-
just attack that is being made on
Jim Ferguson, candidate for gover-
nor, charging that he is unfriendly
to organized labor, take this method
of going on record as witnesses and
testify that Mr. Ferguson has al-
ways been in sympathy with our or-
ganization and we commend him to
our friends throughout the state as
attention away from the speaker by
the violence of their remarks. No-
ticing hem, Mr. Ferguson quietly
said: “Now, friends, listen to me a
few minutes, and I’ll guarantee I’ll
make a better speech than that fel-
low over there.” The discussion on
the side stopped.
Here the speaker went into detail
regarding his qualifications for the
office of governor of Texas.
“I believe that no “pro” and no
“anti” candidate can qualify for that
office,” he said. “If I am elected I
will veto anything that pertains to
liquor legislation, whether pro or
anti, for I believe that this question
has no proper place with us now. I
do not think we ought to try to
override the will of the people and
promise that I will carry out the
will of the people.
“Although I am an anti myself, I
side you choose and you should re-
respect your right to be on either
septc my right to the side I choose.
We need a business administration
now and I intend to give you that.
It must either be business or agita-
tion. Which do you choose?
Some of our friends have spent
so much time quarreling over
whether you shall take the last drink
at 9:29 or 9:31 that they have not
had time to look after the eleemosi-
nary institutions of the state, have
not had time to appropriate money
for the maintenance of the schools
of’ the land. The agitators have
spent more time deciding whether
you must take a pint of bad whiskey
into a prohibition territory in your
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Young, J. W. Galveston Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 27, 1914, newspaper, June 27, 1914; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447642/m1/1/: accessed June 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.