The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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The late State Democratic Con-
vention was. in most respects, the
most remarkable ever held in the
State It was the greatest aggre-
gation of disappointed hopes and
crushed political ambitions ever
gathered together under one tent,
and, with one exception, was dom-
inated by men who for years had
been nursing bitter grievances and
who seemed to revel in the thought
that at last they had come into their
own^risen from the tomb, as it were.
The one exception was Col. Tom
Campbell, who alone realized his
ambition, while around him were
those who had for so long had
drunk the dregs of political disap.
pointment that even the glory of
victory,in which they reveled like
drunken men, could not altogether
expel from their faces the look of
gloom which had settled there dur-
the intervening years.
M. M. Crane, whose banner I
followed to defeat in 1898, who
lost the Governorship when he
thought he had it in his grasp, and
who has been out of sorts ever
since, until the late convention
met, was there and strode the stage
like a Colossus, raising his voice for
the dear people who cheered him
to the echo,unmindful of the fact
that the man they cheered was the
attorney for a soulless corpora-
tion—the Insurance trust, which
exacts yearly from the plain people
of Texas a toll so enormous that
totell it would cause many to open
their eyes and stare and doubt
themselves.
And there was Tom Ball, an
other friend of the bleeding masses
whose chances for a seat in the
Governor's office vanished with th<
defeat of prohibition last year; who
latter got in the -'enatorial race
only to get out again and who has
not been observed to cheerfully
smile these long and weary months.
He, too, was cheered bv the plain,
every day people, who overlooked
the fact that Don Thomas is the
general attorney for a big railroad
system, of the Pullman Company
and of other corporations that are
supposed to be grindiug these same
plain, every-day people down into
the earth. They also overlooked,
the fact that four years ago T^in
was just, as busy rolling the steam-
roller over the anti-Baileyites as he
was this year rolling it over the
Baileyites.
Cone Johnson, tall and somewhat
pulled down from recent sickness,
but Cone stilt, was there in all the
flush and pride of victory, the first
it many years.affable, as he always
is. yet, not exulting to any great
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Sunbeam California asparagus tips,
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Sunbeam ground black: Pepper, <4 oz
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Sunbeam ground Cinnamon, 3 oz
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Sunbeam ground Cloves, 3 oz cans,
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Just opened our first barrel of home-made Sauer Kraut. It is fine.
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Special Offering this Week in Silk Ribbons
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degree over his fallen foes, in which
he differed from the others of the
crowd, who seemed lo find their
greatest pleasure in gloating over
those across wl.ose frames they
pushed the steam roller with its
spikes and nails Cone talked to
the people in nis same old way and
and they cheered every word he
hid to say But Cone had aright
t® talk, and even those who felt
the force of the steam roller, said he
talked well. But passed disappoint-
ment occasionally showed that
they were not altogether forgotten,
and evpn present victory could not
keep an occasional shadow from
time antagonist, was sharing his
joy. Hob having come to Cullen's
way of thinking in recent years.
Tom Henderson, who has been
living in the world of gloom ever
since he failed to get what he
wanted in a political way, and who
has been crosswise with the world
these many years, had at last come
into his own and, his old smile
'came back as he threw his portly
form against the steam-roller and
watched it do its deadly work.
Yancey Lewis whom 1 once
wanted to see made president of
the State University; whose warm
friendship for .Joe Bailey once con-
O'Keefe, which got. into the pref- nursing crushed political ambitions
erenlial primaries and carried the dead ducks that had been floating
State for Weodrow Wilson. Of on the Sea of Disappointment and
course there were some live ones in who, were brought back to life by
the convention—Tom Campbell, the prohibition organization and
practically adopted as a plank of
the platform, but whether or not
this will have the effect of putting
Morris Sheppard third in the Sen-
atorial race, remains to be seen.
It ought to help Randell, this
adoption of his "resolution", but
as Randell can only hope to draw
from Sheppard, time alone can de-
termine what the effect will be.
It was indeed a remarkable State
Democratic Convention— a con-
vention in which voices from the
political tomb floated upon the air
and made music to which Sir Pat-
rick O'Keefe danced the can-can;
a convention in which old bosses
were thrown aside and new ones
enthroned; a convention in^ which
there was no rejoicing because of
a triumph of principles, but. rather
exultations because of the defeat
of the other side
And tfcus was held a convention
in which men politically dead were
brought to life f<?r the time being
and robed with the authority to go
to Baltimore and register the vote
of Texas for Wood row Wilson of
New Jersey.—State Topics,
A re the people of Texas going
t-o ratify a platform made by a
convention dominated by a set
of men you have just finished
reading about in the above ar-
ticle? Two to one the people of
Payette do not. We want every
reader of the Sticker to read the
above article and then pass it
on to their neighbor. Let's get
acquainted with whats going on.
DIDN'T ENDORSE HIS
11*8 Kousion Ghroi
says that Texas _
Wilson and for the
illustrious statesman
that be the ease. wh}r was it neces-
sary for the Houston convention
to adopt a compromise platform on
the tariff and other issues? It
true Texas Democracy has endors-
ed Wilson by n large majority, but
would Texas Democrats endorse all
his po'icies?— Lockhart Register.
flitting across his brow, perhaps vinced me that Yancy was a mod-
due to the recollection of gjrne shat- j ern Damon; whose heart has
tsred political hope of bygone days, throbbed and yearned with politic-
M. M Brooks, who thought in
1906 that he ought to be Governor
and who thought |he same thing
in 1910, only to have his ambition
crushed in each instance, found
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consolation in seeing the steam-
j roller do its work, although M.
j M. failed fo realize that he was re-
joing with some of the very crowd
j who helped to put a blight on his
political hopes in the days of auld
lang syne.
K. V. Daviison, whose coon-dog
treed a coon which turned out to
be a wild-cat, felt a swelling pride
as he helped them drive the steam
roller over the postrate forms of
the old Democratic crowd that had
sent him into retirement. What
he failed to say he undoubtly felt,
and he showed it in the glow of his
usually benign countinance.
Cullen Thomas, who tried that
soon for to tree,, but who got lick-
ed by Bob Henry, stood as a tower
of light in the noted gathering,
serenly smiling and seemingly obliv-
v* f* 4- 'ous °* ^ie *n far-away
E Cfl* Baumgarten Washington Bob Henry, his old
al ambitions that were never reali-
zed; Yancy was there wearing a vie
tor,s robe, a look of melancholy on
his face but able to smile whenever
the steam-roller was set in motion.
These are the men who practic-
ally controlled the convention-men
politically dead and who were re
surrected by the prohibition organ-
ization and the influenee of Pat-
Watt Gregory, Marshall Hicks,
etc , but the others were the domi-
nating influence and they made the
most of the time and place.
It was indeed a remarable State
Democratic Presidential Conven-
tion: R. M. Johnson, who had
fought five hundred battles for De-
mocracy. not one against her, was,
theoretically speaking shot as a
traitor. (I quote from and para-
phrase the Historian Napier.) The
name of Joe Bailey was hissed and
that of Cyclone Davis applauded.
Men who had not for years partici-
pated in Democratic primaries,
were there in all the pride and
strength of glorious victory.
It was.indeed a remarable State
Democratic Presidential Conven
tion: Not a United States Senator
Or Congressman was present, while
those who wielded the dominating
influence and shaped the conven-
tion's ends were men who had been
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Automobile Gloves, a new assortment
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Have one of the best line of
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WM. KEUPER, JR.
Sir Patrick O'Keefe, as afore men-
t ioned
It was indeed a remarable State
Democratic Presidential Conven-
tion: A plank was inserted in the
platform that practically turned
the power of the State over to the
Federal Government. (This plank
was afterward elimated through
the influence of one of the wise
ones, who discovered its awfull
meaning and realized what its
effect would be.)
For three years the oid-time
Populists, who came back into the
party, have been promised that, if
the opportunity ever presented it-
self, they would be given a plat-
form containing an Initiative, Ref-
erendum and Hecall plank. I ^id
they get it? Not much, but the
issue] was side stepped on the
ground that it was a State, and
not a National, question.
For some time past the resurrect-
ed leaders have bem s'louting for
free raw material, but the plank
adopted is as complete a straddle
as it possibly could be and really
means nothing Did the resuerrct j
ed leaders get afraH of themselves,!
or was it the ''political watchful- !
ness" of Tom Campbell, one leader 1
who didn't have to be resurrected, j
that framed the so called tariff;
plank, so as to "catch 'em gwine
an' coming," or more properly
speaking, not to catch 'em at ally
Although the State was carried
for Governor Wilson on the pro-
hibition issue, yet the convention
did not refer to prohibition in the
remotest manner.
The Randell "resolution" was
SSHUUNSU36 0BU66IST
OESEHYES PRAISE,
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P Breyman deserves praise from
Schulenburg people for introducing
heie the simp'e buckthorn bark,
and glycerine mixture, known as
Adler-i-ka. This simple German
remedy first became famous by cur-
ing appendicitis and it has now
been discovered that a SINGLK
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on the gtomaeh and constipation
INSTAN I LY. It is the only re.n-
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Winfree, Raymond. The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1912, newspaper, June 21, 1912; Schulenburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth189490/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schulenburg Public Library.