The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 22, 1912 Page: 3 of 16
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: The Home and State and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I
1-
3
June 22, 1912
M
'4
... .
the lines,
publicans
>
I
}
f
N
Beaumont, Texas.
10 voters
25 voters
50 voters
100 voters
250 voters
500 voters
$1.00 will send Home and State to
$2.50 will send Home and State to
$5.00 will send Home and State to
$10.00 will send Home and State to
$25.00 will send Home and State to
$50.00 will send Home and State to
$100.00 will send Home and State to 1000 voters
Now, friends of clean government, let’s get busy
and sow the seed which wil enroll 100,000 majority
for candidates who stand for clean politics.
Everywhere Colquitt is saying throughout our
prohibition territory that "prohibition is not an
issue,” but the "German-Texas League” tells a differ-
ent tale. And not only this, but the Colquitt boost-
ers held a pow-wow in San Antonio a few nights
ago, and their leading speaker was B. H. Ward,
one of the anti lawyers and one of their campaign
speakers in local option elections, and got off the
following, which was cheered to the echo:
"There is but one issue in this gubernatorial
campaign and it is that of prohibition. The trouble
with the bulk of the people in this State is they
do not realize this and some of the ‘antis,’ I fear,
will sulk in their tents, thus jeopardizing the very
principles for which they claim to stand.”
MEMORANDA.
Editor Home and State:
can you see any connection between
Governor Colquitt’s friendship for leading Re-
A vote for Randell in the July primary will, in
the final test in the next Legislature which elects
the United States Senator from Texas, be a vote
for Jake Wolters. Mark that and remember the
prophecy. No matter how the anti and saloon vote
may split between Randell and Jake on July 27,
it will be controlled by the one fundamental issue
when the Legislature comes to elect, and will be
a unit when the word is passed. Vote for Shep-
pard or you will vote for Jake Wolters.
Read in another column what Judge Grogan of
Abilene says about Wolters as a candidate for the
United States Senate and you will find the repre-
sentative of the brewers and the whisky combine
shown up in his true light. The Judge quotes the
record on the man with a big jaw who is spouting
his gas to small crowds over Texas.
The Houston Post sends two of its little popinjay
reporters round over the State with Colquitt and
Wolters to write up their performances; and every
issue of this South Texas whiskey organ has under
exaggerated headlines reports of their speaking.
The reports of the little thimble rigger of Wolters’
speeches in East Texas were caricatures of the
truth. But Wolters and Colquitt have the liquor
and brewer forces back of them and money is no
item when it comes to paying the expenses of these
two peckerwood reporters. But Ramsey and Shep-
pard are not supported by the whiskey and the
brewer combine and hence no hired small-bore
reporters are following them about the State. •
“There is a fellow over here (Bronson) in the
soda water business, who is runing for the Legisla-
ture against Minton. When it was reported last
year that prohibition had carried, he shouted like
he would split his throat, and when the report
came that the antis had won, he shouted with the
anti crowd.” That fellow is a supplejack, and there
is no seat fixed for him in the Legislature. Elect
Minton and don’t bother him in his soda water
business. Such business needs constant attention
to do well.
HOME AND STATE
The Fort Worth Record has linked its political
fortunes on to Colquitt and Wolters. It’s big “Me,
Too” chief down at Houston gave the Record the
wink and the North Texas shadow hastened to
jump into line. When the Post takes ’snuff the
Record sneezes a snooze that is easily recognizable!
The Record came very nearly petering out on the
prohibition question and its attitude on the Norris
matter, and it will about finish the job on Colquitt
and Wolters. The Record has a perfect genius for
putting itself on the unpopular side of all North
Texas questions!
So Mrs. Hudson of Granbury, who introduced
Governor Colquitt to his audience when he spoke
there, and who was paraded in the daily papers
as a prominent W. C. T. U. worker, now turns
out not to have been even a member of the W. C.
T. U. at Granbury at the time of the Colquit;
speaking. And again it is said that she is a kins-
woman of Colquitt’s. Ah, out jumps the cat from
the bag! Meaw, meaw! Scat!
R. Pazdral, a candidate for Congress at
large, says in his circular letter, he “is a
Democrat of the old school, being an orig-
“Yake” says prohibition is not a part of this
campaign; but his “German-Texas League” says
“prohibition is the MAIN issue” in the approach-
ing primary election, and “Yake”- is their candi-
date. Randell says that “prohibition is no part
of this campaign,” yet he is nobody’s candidate.
Colquitt says: “Prohibition is not to be consid-
ered in this campaign,” but his “German-Texas
League” says: “Prohibition is the MAIN issue,” and
Colquitt is their candidate. “Yake” and Colquitt
are lying about this thing; but the “German
League” is too honest to lie about it—or they have
no better sense than to tell the truth.
Comptroller Lane has made one of the best offi-
cials who have ever filled that office. He has made
it a businesslike office, reduced it to system, and
he is prompt and punctual in the discharge of
his duties. He tracks the law and gives equal jus-
tice to all, regardless of their views on any ques-
tion. Yet the liquor combine is trying to oust
him and put beautiful, five-dollar-a-day-handshaking
and horse-race-betting Bob Barker in his place!
Bob is a perpetual motion candidate, always run-
ning for something. Lane is a first-class business
man, honorable and high-toned, a credit to the
State, and a first-class public official.
The “Hon.” Cute C. McDonald, Colquitt’s small-
bore Secretary of State, has his ears laid back on
his warlike mane and he is galloping over the State
braying like a wild ass of the sticks in his frantic
effort to save his political saviour and master from
engulfment. Cannot somebody put a halter on
him and lead him back to his stall at the Capitol,
where he can feed out of his own trough and try
to render the State some service for the money
it is throwing away on him?
inal Colquitt supporter; he is a friend of Senator
Bailey and Col. Jake Wolters; is an uncompromis-
ing anti-prohibitionist from principle, and rendered
valiant service in the memorable prohibition cam-
paign of last year.”
Such rot for one who aspires so high. Would
not one who relies on such stuff for election look
little even in Congress? Yet they say these mat-
ters are not issues.
The Democratic Executive Committee failed to
adopt any test for Democratic primaries. The law
requires this to be done. The same authority
could find no law to have presidential preferential
primaries and had none. The Republicans will
likely make no nomination for Governor. If they
do it will be a mere blind. Now, reading between
Emancipation Day by freeing from the penitentiary
a lot of negroes sent there by the juries of the
country? Why he did the same for a lot of Mexi-
cans on their Independence day? Without this
test they- can vote in the Democratic primaries.
Did not this committee learn anything from the
last Houston convention? The people sometimes
get tired. Talk about reformation of the courts.
Colquitt says he is being fought for the same
leason that Hogg was: Because he did his duty.
Yet the very same men that fought Hogg and
bolted the party (even the chairman, Jonathan
Lane) are now fighting for him. How odd that
looks. What a miraculous transformation.
There is a mighty heap of demagoguery loose
in Texas now. B. W. FOSTER.
Sulphur Springs, Texas.
and Mexicans? Why he recognized
“Yake’s” jaws have enlarged considerably since
he began his campaign and his gall has grown
to abnormal proportions! But his chances for
success have continued to degenerate until it is
nip and tuck between him and Randell. When the
vote is counted his jaw will shrink and his gall
will be exploded. Oh, Yake, you are a dandy! You
smell like Anheuser’s sour mash and you look like
a twisted twin brother to Sam Levey! How much
of Sam’s money did you use in paying your fine
when you were nabbed by the Austin officer at the
poker games? Yet you think the people of Texas
are going to put a blind bridle on you and send
you to Congress. Not on your life, Yake! Blind
bridle animals in Texas never go to Congress.
The antis are very anxious to defeat Judge Pren-
dergast for the Court of Criminal Appeals with
Judge J. C. Muse of this city. They know that
1 as long as Judge Prendergast is on the bench the
local option laws and other restrictive laws touch-
ing the liquor business will stay on the statute
books and remain intact. The “Texas-German
League” is very anxious for Judge Prendergast’s de-
, feat.
NEED OF MORE AGGRESSIVE WORK.
XT 7 OLTERS and Colquitt are circularizing every
V v voter under a 2-c stamp and it behooves the
supporters of Sheppard and Ramsey and
good government to do something to offset this
work. Hundreds of voters who have not seen the
other side of the question will suport Wolters and
Colquitt unless something is done to offset this
work.
We must sow our State down solid with litera-
ture to offset the delusions of the whiskey ring. In
order to do this we are offering Home and State
to be used as campaign literature in clubs of 10
or more for 10c per subscription until the close of
the campaign—in other words:
When Colquitt goes to San Antonio, Houston,
Bellville and New Braunsfel to make his speeches
suppose he engage the wives of saloonkeepers to
introduce him to his audience. It would be the
most consistent and appropriate thing for him to
do. Will he do it? No, siree, Bob! Not on your
tin type would the Governor do such a thing.
But when he goes to Gilmer how would it do for
him to get the negro Dixon to introduce him? Dixon
is said to be anxious to organize negro Democratic
clubs to vote in the primaries for Colquitt. Will
he get Dixon to introduce him? Whoope! No,
siree, bob-a-linktum!
A SPLENDID OUTLOOK.
Editor Home and State:
T N regard to the political situation, I just want
A to shake hands all around with the prohibi-
tionists of Texas and celebrate because of the
splendid outlook. Some fourteen months ago I
could not have thought, from the prospects then,
that our condition today would be near so advan-
tageous as it is. I was one of the three stenog-
raphers who labored constantly under the direction
of Col. Ball, Tom C. Swope and O. P. Basford in
the Scanlan building at Houston last summer, and
when I first went there and beheld the crowd of
. directors, secretaries, stenographers and others
who swarmed to the fourteenth floor of the Cartel
building (Anti headquarters) it appeared that the
odds were too heavy to be overcome.
On every hand we were confronted with the evi-
dence of their financial strength. At night, when
going and coming from the prohibition office, we
saw them at work with their picture machines on
the streets, showing the people pictures of Sena-
tors, Governors, Congressmen and editors who fa-
vored liquor. We knew that for each piece of
literature we sent out they perhaps sent out
a thousand pieces. But the people rallied to Col.
Ball’s leadership remarkably well, and we all know
that we “licked” ’em fairly—they having to con-
tent themselves with a so-called victory secured in
such way as to amount to a defeat.
Today it is different. On every hand we are con
fronted with evidence of Judge Ramsey’s strength.
I regard it as certain, beyond shadow of doubt,
that he will be our next Governor. I regard it as
equally certain that W. P. Lane will be renomi-
nated for Comptroller, and will continue to give
us as efficient service as it is possible to render
in that office. Morris Sheppard can beat Jake Wol-
ters, too. With these men elected we will have
them on. the run properly.
Over in this Second Congressional District the
chances are bright for the success of Senator V.
A. Collins in his campaign for Congress. His serv-
ices for prohibition are well known. Col. Ball said
of him last summer: “There is a man whom I
am not afraid to put up against them,” and so we
will be wvell pleased to send him to Congress.
Yes, I am really happy over the outlook. Let’s
keep busy and poll our entire strength July 27.
MATT WILLSON.
1
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View 16 places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 22, 1912, newspaper, June 22, 1912; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569510/m1/3/?q=a+message+about+food+from+the+president: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.