The Troup Banner (Troup, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1924 Page: 3 of 10
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MARCH 20, 1924.
THE TROUP BANNER
W. H. PARKER OF TYLER
WRITES ON POUTICS
He Likes The Banner, Tho Disagrees
With Editor Sometimes; Asks
Editor Some Questions.
Tyler, Texas, March 10, 1924.
Mr. Henry Edwards,
Troup, Texas.
Friend Henry:- I am enclosing you
another year’s subscription. So, send
your “old" paper along as usual. You
know, Henry, I can’t well get along
without it now. It is the best edited
and the best all round weekly paper
by far that comes to me. It is the
only weekly paper in East Texas that
contains any editorial writings of any
note. I like to see an editor get up
and write just where he stands or any
and all public issues, as you do. I
dislike a “mushy straddler,” and we
have a world full of them.
While I don't agree with you on all
you say, still that makes no difference
with me.
In last week’s issue, for instance,
you jumped on Judge Felix D. Rob-
inson, candidate for governor. Now
honestly, Henry, didn’t the last Demo-
cratic State Convention embody the
samp plank in its platform that you
are jumping on the Judge about? If
I am wrong, please set me right; and
if I am right, I wish you would tell ’em
through your paper. I believe the
Judge is entitled to that much consid-
eration, 1 am sure you will find some
objectionable planks in most all the
platforms of the various candidates
if they are closely scrutinized, at least
of those who have the nerve to state
just where they stand on all vital is-
sues.
What I would very much like to see
in this campaign for governor would
be for some good old staunch, rug-
ged and honest Democrat who has
never meddled with, nor been con-
taminated by, politics announce for
and be elected governor of our great
state. You remember the old saying,
if a man “lies down with a dog, he is
sure to get fleas on him,” and it is
a difficult matter to get a profession-
al politician in office who is free
from taint in some respects, and I
don’t recall a single candidate just
now who has announced for this of-
fire who is not a professional politi- |
cian. However, there are so many!
avowed candidates, I don’t pretend to
know all of them by any means.
Your friend,
W. IL PARKER,
Box 444, Tyler, Texas.
the people to do, if such things are
to be done at all.
We want to get away from “bloc”
government. We want to see one
administration, one Governor, at least
have a try at the State Government
who can think in terms of all the
people, and not in terms of the bloc,
or clique, or clan, or the particular
fraction to whom he ascribes his nomi-
nation. We admit that it is hard to
tell who a democrat is in Texas nowa-
days. The F. L. U. claims to be demo-
crats. Yet they say they will estab-
lish a party of their own if the com-
ing convention does not adopt into
their plans for the “salvation” of the
State. We understand that the K.
K. K. claims to be the democratic par-
ty in the State—at least it is said
that their political eliminations will
have been made in their own coun-
cils before the State Convention, and
that they will be in that body as demo-
crats. ft may be recalled that Judge
Robertson of Dallas has received their
“blessing,” but it will also be re-
called that one of their big men, Billie
Mayfield, is leading the South Tex-
as contigent in a strenuous effort to
"spit on the slate of prior endorse-
ment, and have the Klan as a whole
pick its man for Governor before it
assembles in the State Democratic
convention.”
And answering our friend Parker
in one other matter: We do not agree
that the State Democratic Convention
of two years ago has any right to
bind the party in its actions this year
—unless that convention two years
ago was in absolute accord with demo-
cratic principles. As well argue that
because the National Democratic con-
vention of 1896 paramounted “Free
Silver” the Democratic party must
forever stand for that; the same log-
ic would require it to stand for hu-
man slavery because in the early de-
'cades of our national history the
democratic party went on record as
not opposed to slavery, if the States
in their own individual discretion be-
lieved slavery to be right.
RUSK COUNTY P. T. A. MEET-
ING POSTPONED TO MARCH 29
Overton, March 17—The County
Council of the- Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciations of Rusk county, which was to
have been held here Saturday, has
been deferred till Saturday, March
29. This,action was taken because of
the very serious illness of Mrs. W.
L. Price of this city who is presi-
dent of the local Parent-Teacher As-
sociation and one of the leading P. T.
A. workers of the entire county.
A WORD TO OUR to liquidate these outstanding loan
SCHOOL TRUSTEES vouchers.
a . . The Banner expects to have more
For a number of years the most to say about this situation later. How-
serious problem that has confronted ever, the thing that The Banner wants
the school board of Troup Independ- to say now, and say with emphasis, is
ent District has been the problem of | that those citizens of the community
financing the school. We have all de-who have paid their school taxes will
manded a 9 month term of school. To stand behind the school board in its
be satisfied with less than a nine efforts to collect these delinquent tax-
months term means that we are satis- les. If all thege delinquent taxes were
fled to withhold from the children of in hand now. the school would be on
the district those educational opportu-
nities to which they are entitled.
The Banner is advised by a number
of the school boards that there are de-
linquent taxes now due to the school
to the amount of between two and
three thousand dollars. We are sure
this announcement will be a surprise
to many of the patrons of the school.
It is no wonder that the financial
problems of the school are and have
been acute. It will be recalled that
last year about this time a number
of private citizens advanced money
to the school to meet its operating
expenses for the school year of 1922-
23. They did this in order that the
school might run nine, months, and
that the -school might retain its high
rating with the Department of Educa-
tion. Vouchers were issued by the
school Board as evidence of this in-
debtedness; and it was understood that
these vouchers would be payable a
in hand now, the school would be on
solvent financial grounds. It is not
right and fair for some to pay their
taxes while others are allowed to let
their taxes go delinquent. Worse than
that, it is not right for certain citizens
having the school’s interest at heart
to make loans for a year without in-
terest, and with no thought of inter-
est, only to find when their loan-
vouchers mature that there is no mon-
ey to pay them, no money to pay them
because so many have “laid down” and
shuffled their just part of the bur-
den on the shoulders by letting their
taxes go delinquent.
The Banner says to the School
Board: Get busy at once and institute
suits to enforce collection of these
taxes which are due to the school, and
which are now so badly needed. If tax
payers have failed, refused or neg-
lected to pay their school taxes, why
should they not be sued for them?
_ It is up to the school board to pro-
year from their date. Not a few of vide the finances; and the law gives
these vouchers are now due—and them power to enforce collection of
there are no funds with which to pay
them. Moreover, those who made
loans to the school board on these ^|||!||||||l||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
vouchers did so without any arrange-
ment to receive interest, in fact, the
loans were made with the express un-
derstanding that those advancing the
money were not to receive interest.
The loans were made by parties will-
ing to forget interest in order that
Troup might have nine month school.
Now then, it appears that they may
have to carry their vouchers on and j
on indefinitely, unless other people
with the interest of the school at
heart will advance money with which!
COTTON SEED
HALF AND HALF BOOKLET
FREE
JOHN M. BLIGH
Decatur, Ala.
Mar 27
taxes by suit in the courts. Crack
Candidates, place your order for
down, Messrs. Trustees; public senti- cards with The Banner
ment will back you up.- We believe
that public sentiment demands that
you enter suits for delinquent taxes.
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ANOTHER
Special Offering
We thank our friend Parker for
this letter. It is refreshing; it shows
him to be broader than some people
we have heard of, broader and more
liberal and tolerant in his views than
even a few we have known in our
editorial experience of nearly 22
years. Mr. Parker says the last demo-
cratit state convention adopted a
plank identical with that in Judge
Robertson’s platform to which we ob-
ject. We are not now looking back
to see the record on that platform.
We are going to say to our friend
that the Democratic Party, when it
lives and acts true to democratic
tenets, always adopts platforms de-
signed to solve the problems of gov-
ernment as such problems arise. But
the democratic party can not afford
to “go off at a tangent” when some
new fangled “ism” comes up for pub-
lic consideration. The democratic par-
ty, traditionally, is the party of the
people, the average of people—not
the blue-stocking bunch, nor the be-
whiskered riff-raff with bolshevism
in their heads. And usually, when the
democratic party has adpoted some
fool thing that does not comport with
the fundamental principles of the old
time democratic doctrines of Jeffer-
son and Jackson, and Houston and
Reagan, it gets licked off the face of
the earth. This, of course, is not al-
ways so in Texas where too many of
the rank and file of the party are
still of the “brass collar” type.
If the platform two years ago (or
at any other time), carried planks
that were undemocratic, were far-
• fetched, and really socialistic, it was
wrong. We object to Judge Robert-
son because he is in favor of the State
undertaking certain kinds of insur-
ance. In this he would have the
State do things that fundamental
democracy can not sanction. As yet
The Banner does not know whom,
among the many gubernatorial candi-
dates it will support with its vote.
Gradually as they express themselves
and elucidate the planks of their plat-
forms, we can reach a decision. Even
then, we may have to swallow some
one who, in all respects, does not suit
our own individual notions. But we
mean to “bet our money” on the race
horse that finally proves to have the
most points to our liking. Since
writing the article that called forth
Mr. Parker’s letter we have been able
to eliminate from our consideration
Hon. T. W. Davidson of Mashall, a
man whom we favored two years ago
for Leiutenant Governor. We elimi-
nate him because he has, by his ac-
ceptance of the endorsement of the
Farm Labor Union, committed his
candidacy to the project among other
objectionable matters, of the social-
istic insurance schemes which Mr.
Robertson favors. The Farm Labor
Union stands for a number of good
things; it may be very strong in Tex-
as this year, nobody can tell now.
However, the Farm Labor Union as
at present constituted is nothing but
a child of the Non Partisan League
which, coming into power a few years
ago in North Dakota, has come near
bursting and bankrupting that State
with its schemes of State Socialism.
Without committing ourselves to
the candidacy of Lynch Davidson, or
to the assuredly ineligible and erratic
Jim Ferguson, we are handing it to
those two men for having the gizzard
to turn down the endorsement of the
F. L. U., when it was proffered to
the candidates under such conditions.
To our way of thinking Mr. T. W.
Davidson has not strengthened his
candidacy by swallowing the bait the
F. L. U. held out.
Here are the reasons: Texas today
is literally crushed with tax burdens.
This is true because Texas has tried
to do too many things as a State
which it ought to have left unattempt-
ed, which should have been left for
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About 200 of those EXTRA HEAVY, blue Army jumpers—the kind we have sold nearly
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A good mineral dyed, HONG KONG shade Khaki work pants at ................................$1.85
A splendid grade blue work shirt—full cut, made of ideal cheviotts, gusset sides and con-
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About 100 good Khaki work shirts to close at
Boys' Blue work shirts, regular price 75c, at.
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Twenty dozen boys’ overalls, good quality at
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About 200 pairs Boss leather-palm canvas gloves, in both gauntlet and knitted wrists, at 30c
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We have an accumulation of about 100 Mens
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The Troup Banner (Troup, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1924, newspaper, March 20, 1924; Troup, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1697321/m1/3/: 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.