Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 10, 1914 Page: 1 of 16
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DALLAS, TEXAS, JANUARY 10, 1914
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Waco, Texas, Dec. 10th, 1913.
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Wide Prohibition and will
Antis
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the
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own business.
(Signed)
Thomas Writes Open Letter
________to W. P. Lane and W. H. Mayes
Antis Working Secretly
to Get Poll T axes Paid
Yours very truly,
’ G. H. LUEDDE.
Anti-State-
I vote for
By A. W. Walker.
HE COMMITTEE that has been
appointed to arrange the de-
HE FOLLOWING circular letter, sent out from the headquarters of a
saloon organization, is self-eplanatory. We think every Texan should
read it through:
candidates favorable to
tion, and 220,000 favor
and strongest men that the
had. Still, with these facts
them, and these candidates
various excuses for your
I have made no public criti-
that ques-
Dear Sir:
I am writing you about a very important matter. I want you to re-
gard the same as a confidential and personal message, and I request that
you act upon the same immediately.
As you know our business in Texas is being assailed on all sides and
is threatened to destruction every time there is an election in the State.
The last State-wide election in Texas was won by the Antis by a very
small margin, due, we think, to the fact that the Antis were not aware
of the danger and did not vote, or were unprepared with poll taxes to vote.
If we expect to be in business longer than next year in Texas we
must see that all of our Anti friends pay their poll taxes and to that end
we are starting a poll tax campaign among the Antis of Texas to be car-
ried on from Waco.
We want you to assist, not financially, but by sending at once—and
we mean by return mail—to the writer a list of all parties with their ad-
dresses to whom you have made shipments of beer or whiskey by freight
or express in the past year or eighteen months. Now don’t say this is too
much work—if you haven’t time to do it yourself, have it done. If you only
have a half dozen names send them, if you have a list of three thousand it is
hat much better. With a list of the three thousand retail liquor dealers
in Texas we can reach, or ought to be able to reach over 50,000 voters,
and as Texas only went wet by less than ten thousand votes you can
see how important a work this is.
After we get your list, literature has to be prepared and envelopes
addressed and all of this work done before the middle of next month, and
it is an immense task, so act immediately and let us have this list by
return mail.
We are doing all that we can at this end—we are interested the same
as you, and we ask that you do your part to assist in preserving your
field, they concentrated nearly
their strength upon Governor
will be cast. Of this number let it be
supposed that 280,000 favor State-
wide Prohibition, and will vote for
were Governor Colquitt and General
Davidson, who at that time was At-
torney General, both active Antis,
aspiring for the position of Governor
—General Davidson, one of the ablest
of Prohibition and have received in
return the support of Prohibition
Democrats all over the State. They
must know that, with the Prohibition
forces divided, neither of them can
succeed in his ambition to be Gov-
ernor.
Should they continue in their ob-
jections to every proposed method of
concentrating the Prohibition vote and
decline Mr. Thomas’ eminently fair
proposals they can never again be en-
titled to say without qualification, “I
favor Prohibition,” but must say in-
stead, “I favor Prohibition only in
so far as adherence to that principle
does not interfere with my personal
ambition.”
We earnestly suggest that every
reader of Heme and State write at
once to Mr. Lane and Mr. Mayes, urg-
ing them to accept one or the other
of the suggestions made by Mr. Thom-
as.
It hardly needs to be explained that Mr. Luedde is generally known as a
representative of a St. Louis brewery, which does an extensive business in
Texas. Information reaches us that a Waco multigraph concern is now get-
ting out 180,000 letters for him, the above being one of the forms used, in an
effort to get every possible saloon voter qualified to go to the polls in behalf,
in part at least, of the Texas saloons, but certainly also in behalf of the St
Louis brewers who profit by the Texas beer trade.
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MILITANT—PROGRESSIVE—CONSTRUCTIVE
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quitt, General Davidson receiving less
than 50,000 votes, and it is the opin-
ion of many men that a majority part
of the votes he did receive came from
the Prohibition forces.
May we expect that our Anti
friends have seriously changed their
tactics, and their way of acting in
political matters within the last three
years? If so, we are only fooling
ourselves and not them.
There is but one way open to the
Prohibition forces of this State, in
my judgment, to win in the July
elections, and that is by a concentra-
tion of forces. Mass meetings have
been recommended as the best way
of reaching the will of the majority
of our friends. They are to be held
in March, and the Prohibition forces
of Texas who favor State-wide Pro-
hibition and are Democrats, will in
their own way, in the various pre-
cincts of this State, determine whom
they prefer for Governor.
The question now confronting us
is whether or not ambitious candi-
dates shall be the bosses, and destroy
the chances of success of the moral
forces of this State or whether or
not they shall submit te the will of
the people, who are the true bosses,
as they may express their will in the
mass meetings to be held in March
next. The issue is clearly drawn.
We must act. We must act wisely,
or we will regret our folly as we did
in 1910.
Hon. W. P. Lane and Hon. Will H.
Mayes:
( ENTLEMEN: A grave peril con-
LI fronts the cause of Prohibition
in Texas. That condition arises
not so much from the strength of the
liquor forces as from division of our
own forces. Anticipating this unhap-
py political dilemma, a plan was set
on foot some months ago to harmon-
ize the reform elements within the
party under the leadership of but one
candidate for Governor. I am on rec-
ord in consistent support of such a
plan; you are on record in persistent
opposition to such a plan.
From time to time, both of you have
HE OPEN LET 9 from Cul-
len F. Thoma S Messrs. Lane
and Mayes, f . ig published
in full in this iss' 3 ome and State,
candidates favorable to that issue.
Now, if the votes should be equallly
divided among the three above
named candidates who favor State-
■wide Prohibition, each would receive
a little more than 90,000 votes. But
it is hardly probable that an equal
number of people would vote for
each; therefore let us assume that
the leading candidate wouuld receive
140,000 votes at the polls in July. is
it probable that he would be de-
clared the nominee? I think not, for
under our election laws the party who
receives the plurality of votes would
be declared the nominee for Governor.
Now, of the 220,000 votes to be
polled by the Antis we can safely
assume that at least 180,000 or 190,-
000 of these will be cast for one man,
regardless of the number of men
they may have in the race for Gov-
ernor. Am I justified in this conclu-
sion? I think so. In 1910 there
, cism heretofore, r refrain from any
now. However, formal statements
from both of you in the press and the
State within the last ten days, seek-
ing to justify your action, impel me
to make public reply. Did these state-
ments, emphasized by repetition con-
cern myself alone I might well con-
tinue silent; but, as they affect tue
fortune of a great reform, in which
multiplied thousands have grave con-
cern, I can not longer permit your un-
just charges to go unchallenged. I
hope to write in considerate speech
and generous spirit.
Both of you, in declining to partici-
pate in or be bound by the mass meet-
ings which have been provided for,
seek to create the impression that the
whole movement was a scheme pro-
jected in part in my political interest
by a few would-be leaders. Knowing
both of you as I do, I can not con-
ceive that either would make this
charge unless you so believe. There-
fore, I hope once and for all to set
right and thus, through you, those
who have been misled.
(Continued from Page 1.)
tails for mass meetings to be
held in March, in keeping with the
resolution passed by the mass meet-
ing at Dallas last year, will meet at
my office, in the city of Dallas, at 11
a. m. on Saturdaay, the 10th day of
this month.
The time for organization and an
aggressive campaign is now upon us.
A serious condition confronts the
moral forces of this State who favor
State-wide Prohibition unless we are
able to concentrate our forces upon
one man, and only one man, for
Governor this year. We now have
about fifteen candidates who have
announced subject to the action of
the Democratic primariees to be held
in July. Of this number at least
three are favorable to the cause of
State-wide Prohibition, t o-wit:
Messrs. Lane, Thomas and Mayes.
Now, in the coming primaries for
July we will assume that S0.0,000 votes
presents two j o mt proposals for
concentrating tne strength of Texas
Prohibition Democrats in the July
primary.
Home and State desires only one
thing in connection with the guber-
natorial contest—that the cause of
Prohibition may succeed. Mr. Thom-
as’ letter suggests two entirely feasi-
ble plans by which this may be
brought about, either through the
mass meetings or by agreement of the
candidates now in the field.
These suggestions cannot be ignor-
ed by Mr. Lane and Mr. Mayes. Both
have made long records as supporters
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Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 10, 1914, newspaper, January 10, 1914; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569581/m1/1/?q=%22United+States+-+Texas+-+Dallas+County%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.