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The Hertford Brand, Friday, April 29, 1910
JACKSBORO
TAKES SHOT
fmRiilmd Passss Scares Editor
•f Jack County Paper.
Tbb following effusion clipped
irom the Jacksboro Newt by a num-
ber of paper* in the 29th Senatorial
District seems to have set many of
them to saying "Me Too." While
The Brand is not acting as campaign
manager for any candidate nor is it
interested in the "Anti Pass Lav,"
yet there i s a n earnest desire
that the record be kept straight.
The Jackeboro News man is clearly
off in several things and the sur-
prise is that the other half dozen
papers who saw fit to publish the
article acted as badly by not read-
ing either the circular of Mr. Slaton's
or at least putting the Jacksboro
article under their thinking caps be-
fore adding their ME TOO to the
aforesaid clipping. Read the article
and then read the straight of it.
a candidate for senate.
One day last week a railroad man
came to Jacksboro and distributed
a great many fine circulars, printed
on heavy book paper and having the
picture of a man on it and the man
announces for senator of our district,
the 29th. His name is Slaton but
does not tell where he is from. If
he has distributed the fine circulars
all over the district as he has Jacks-
boro the man must be a millionaire
or has some powerful influence back-
ing him.
He makes some fair promises and
seems to be striking at all the popu-
lar policiss and seems to be anything
to get votes. But is he straight?
One item indicates that he is not. On
the subject of "Anti Pass Law" he
says: • 'I notice with some degree of
astonishment that a few newspapers
ot the district are demanding that
the anti pass law be so amended as
to pernit the editors to carry a pass
in their vest pockets." He has not
noticed any such thing and this state-
ment is absolutely false and he knew
it when he said it.
The newspapers kept jabbing the
representatives to pass an anti pass
law for a number of years and it
was in the platform for four years
before the representatives and sen-
ators would jar looee from their
pasaes. The people rose up and de-
manded this lav so strongly that
they had to pass it. A number rep-
resentatives and senators spent more
time riding on their pastes than they
did in doing their duty.
When popular clamor made them
pass the lav, they, for spite, took
the passes frotn preachers, charity
institutions, firemen, sheriff, and
not only took the passes from nevs-
papers, but vent so far as to pass
in the lav a provision preventing
the railroads and nevspapers con-
tracting advertising. There vere
but fev editors vho carried annual
passes in their vest pockets, and
vhile some fev might have felt
grieved at loosing them thev knew
it was right and never murmured,
and these papers which had the an-
passes were the big city papers and
they were able to pay their way.
But the country papers were hit by
the spite provisions. Most of the
couutry papers exchanged advertis-
ing space for mileage tickets. That
is, a mileage ticket worth so many
dollars was paid the editor for so
much advertising space worth so
many dollars, just like a farmer
would trade a cord of wood at the
mill for a hundred pounds of flour,
or a ton of cotton seed to the oil mill
for a ton of meal, for these are cor-
porations as well as the railroads.
An editor who would be unduly
influenced by patronage from a rail-
road would be unduly influenced by
patronage from a bank, mill, elec-
tric light company or any other
corporation.
He might remain an editor a long
time but would have to keep moving
from town to town.
An editor who swerves from the
right to catch patronage is as bad as
a candidate who swerves from the
right to catch votes, as this man
doing.—Jacksboro News.
is
the straight of it.
In the first place The News tries
to throw an aspersion upon the can-
didate by telling that a railroad man
distributed his fine circulars, that
the candidate's picture was printed
along with his platform, and that
because of the quality of the paper
and the good job of printing that he
must be a "millionaire or had some
powerful influence backing him."
(That word "powerful" is a big
word in the mouths of may country
savers.) Evidently the News man
did not read the circular or he would
have learned both the candidate's
and his address as both vera
PROMINENTLY printed on the
circular, and for the vould-be-blind
man of Jacksboro, The Brand vi l
give him the information. Hie name
is, vas and has alvays been John P.
Slaton and he lives at Hereford,
Texas. He came from Wise County
vhere he vas county attorney.
(Wise county adjoins Jack county.)
Hov about this statement ? ' 'There
vere but fev editors vho carried
annual passes in their vest pockets."
Keep the record straighht. It
vas of common knowledge among all
the people that nearly all newspaper
men carried passes and mileage
books in their pockets before the
Anti-Pass Law. The Brand has per-
sonal knowledge of country editors,
their wives and children going on
summer tours traveling on the roads
whose names never appeared in their
papers. The space exchanged for
mileage was in many cases (and in
most cases) worthless to the railroad
for the very reason that now you see
but few weekly papers carrying paid-
for-in-cash ads for these same rail-
roads who formerly dished out books
and passes. The railroad men ad-
mitted before the legislative com-
mute that the mileage and passes
were given to the weekly newspapers
editors to soften and smooth their
rugged road—"To whom favors are
extended favors may be expected"
is a streak of human nature of which
the Jacksboro News man has a good
wide swath. If the newspapers of
the district think that they can make
the people believe that the editors
never rode on passes, (or mileage
books which is the same thing under
another name), they are badly fool-
ed. The people know a few things.
The Brand announced Mr. John-
son's candidacy as any decent news-
papper would do and also published a
short letter from him without mak-
ing any charges, but when Hereford
offers a candidate or two, some
(a few only) take it upon themselves
to lambast her candidates and to fly
up in the air before they know either
the men or their platform. Fair
play, boys, fair play. "Let him
who is without sin (riding on books
or passes) cast the first stone."
THAT JOHN DEERE
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 10, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1910, newspaper, April 29, 1910; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253551/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.