Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 251, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1909 Page: 2 of 7
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THE DAILY BULLETIN.
Tin'RSDAV AUGUST 5 m'J.
To Do Business with
The Brownwood National Bank
Is to appreciate conservative methods careful service and
the untiring efforts of the management to serve the best inter-
ests of their customers tinder all circumstances.
If yotf have not an account with us we invite you to open
one.
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CAPITAL ASD SUHPLUS
The Daily Bulletin
MATES PRIXTIXG CO. Props.
WILL II. MATES Managing Editor.
C A. TU7fELL City Editor.
H. P. MATES Business Manager.
E. C. SEITZ City Circulator.
TV. B. DULA Foreman Mech. Dept.
Entered at the Browimood Fostoffice
as Second Class Mall Matter.
THURSDAY AUGUST 190!).
Every Brownwood citizen should lie
a Brownwood booster.
On to Wao. and let's do something
more than merely "sing the slogan.
Keep in mind tie fact that this town
can do anything its people really want
done.
We- must interest ourselves as a
people -firi enlarging the local bucket
"brigade. "
"We'.rau.St-turn our attention to manu-
facturing W we -would build a great
city here.
The poorest man can break into
politics but he usually breaks out
much poorer-
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Empire Furniture Co.
Clearance Sale :
S All porch settees rockers chairs swings and everything else in
S" stock will be sold at a great reduction for the next twenty day s. Hav-
Z ing just returned from the markets we have several cars of fine furni-
"5 ture that will be on hand in the next few week-i. In the mean time we .
S are determined to clear out some lines and to reduce others. We -need
S money and room. Come and see us.
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JENNINGS
$5.00 Skirts
$3.50
and $11.00
$6.95
$12.50 Skirts
$7.95
$10.00
$15-00 Skirts $9.95
301-3-5 West
$200.01)0.
Brownwod has some good hustling
qualities but we are sadly deficient
along manufacturing lines.
Brownwood is to invest $100000 in
road building and the roads will be
worth a million to the community
Governor Campbell went to Pales-
tine to vote on the constitutional
amendment. " That -was a pretty safe
thing to. do.
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Brownwood can assume the propor-
tions of a city within the next five
years or return to village life just-as inmrcssion upon-the commissioii-
the people will. - ers who wilHocate the normal fn West
Brownwood has some good hustling
tjtis fleJli believed to exist here. Natu
ral gas iii commercial quantities would
make a jsxent city here. - . -1
Titere -is nothing too good ' for
Brownwood If we only could be mndelpf llg
to think St) and nothing so. good but
that the town can -.get -It" if- only the i
town will go after it.
Jt would be a -pity for the compress
that is being built at Coleman byj
Brownwood people to have to haul its
water from Brownwood even though
it is found to be just as cheap as to
buy it in -Coleman It would create
the impression that Coleman hasn"
water to even wet a whistle.!
enough
and that would be bad on uoieman.
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Skirts
Broadway
The editorial writer on the Bulletin
js back at his desk again after an ab-
sence of three weeks. The" people
who have been enjoying his vacation
are up against the real thing again.
If. Abilene really wants to builtl a
railroad towards Brownwood that
town will find Brownwood willing and
the quicker it gets at it the willinger
It will find this town.
Tlie . two schools already enjoying
marked prosperity in "Brownwood "will
have much to do with making a favor-
Texas
'what- If the. crops ai:0 not all you
would iinve-.thejn? There is no iise to
mope about the -'Matter.-: Get ready
j for another crop. After all an . oc-.
casiohal partial. failure is best for all
..There wouldn't be much quarreling
and bickering In this old world fn
these days if the people of one de-
nominational faith couldn't find some
I opportunity to ngnt those or .-.other
'churches
It is hoped that the San .Antonio
editor who is on. his way to Washing-
ton on horseback to invite Taft to
. visit. Snn
Antonio may not get' the
horse laugh from the President when
he presents the invitation!
; The Waco Times-Herald Is aiifuzed
that a nnniber of Texas editors were
I able to. get away to the. Pacific coast
this summer. Having started with
round trip tickets they are .one" by
one returning to grand-old-Texas.
The business men and fanners
should he on hand; on the 11th to hear
CapL F. S. White of the rriRfo. road
discus the necessity for planting a
' larger whtsu crop and the advantages
to be derived i from securing the right
kind of. SQC'd r". - '
We - "are iWerety playing - at' town
j buirdlng.in Brownwood. .This town cm!
as well as not havo twenty-five thou-
sand people In five yfar or oven in a
shorter :tiw but it' will not be. .done-
without the. co-Operation of the- pep-
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Brownwood is one town that is not
urging a clean-up in anticipation of
the coming of. the commissioners to
locate the State Normal School.
Brownwood stays clean enough to re-
ceive the President of the United
States almost any day.
The sooner the Frisco fills in the
gaj) to San-Antonio the bettor it will
please this section of conutry. We
fairly dote on San Antonio even at
long range and to nestle right up In
her arms would be bliss beyond ex-
pression. .Those are sensible topics the Com-
Lmercial Secretaries are discussing at
Fort Worth and if they will only let
alone political matters throughout the
meeting the people of Texas will think
more of them. They have plenty to do
outside of the game of politics and
but for a few leaders would probably
never have undertaken to shape the
political destiny of Texas.
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Alamo Ice Cream Is Pure and Clean
It is more economical and less trouble than home made. Packed in ice and deliv-
ered at your home ready to serve. If you don't get Alamo you don't ge the best.
ALAMO 9EFCL 0.
The continued dry weather has
shown the wisdom of the city fathers
of- Brown wood in furnishing the town
with an abundant supply of water.
While other towns are complaining of
a scarcity of water Brownwod has the
greatest 'abundance. Water Is requir-
ed to carry "forward great enterprises
in a town"
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.Judging from Colquitt's speeches. he
not only appears to lie running for
Governor" but is attempting ;U run
pretty much nil the other politics of
the state. Colquitt will do well to
paddle his own canoe In this . fight for
he might lose his bearing' If he mixes
up -too . much with the other crafts on
the political seas.. . j
Two' Bnllinger banks are to consoli
date. That probably a sensible
thing for the Baflinger banks to do.
The people of this country pay too
much attention to banking and mer-
cantile business and too little to manu-
facturing. With orie-hiilf the capital
invested in banks put Into factories
Texas would prosper beyond nhy
prosperity "It has ever had:
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; ""' POLITICAL OLTJSSSINGi
. . Hon Arch Orliman is at Corpus.
Christ! rating and incidentally doing
some political gneas work stunts as
v';dtiuV4 by --tlie follbw'rns from the
(;or m$ Qu.ln UtnM:
tr... Ami rS-liiMiin f !lt ' tirespnt
enjoying Ufe:- at the seaside. .Mrv
Grlnn.au co.m. from Brownwood and
for ' many ' ars he . represented his
district in tho StHtJ sennte . I Dough
not fn ucthe politics; jnst now Mr.
Grinnan keeps up With the times and
has . the reputation .of being a good
guesser. He thinks' that ..if the pri-
maries were held just now that At-
torney General Davidson .would be the
strongest moil J" '.the gubernatorial
race. Wheat the light conies on next
year however he thinks It will nar-
row down to Hon. O. B. Colquitt and
Fresh Fish
Melons on Ice
Hot Coffee
always on call and
a splendid line of
Home-made
Pies Cakes
together with the
best of everything
the market affords
in the eating line.
The Dulei
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Hon. Cone Johnson with prohibition
the main issue and each side falling
In all along the line. He says there
is no way to switch off prohibition
and that nothing can keep It from be-
ing Such a-big issue that other issues
will be practically forgotten." . '
GREEK MEETS GREEK.
The report that the Fanners' Union
of Texas has perfected arrangements
to ship all its cotton seed to mills be-
yond the state will likely cause the
cotton seed mill men to sit up and
take notice. For some time past it
has been charged that he cotton seed
manufacturers of Texas have at least
tactily been bound together in a way
that practically destroyed all compe
tition. The Bulletin is not prepared
i to say- that this charge is true but
indications have clearly pointed that
way. Naturally the fanners hate felt
outraged that they could not go into a
competitive market to sell- their seed
and such action' as they .have taken is
merely prompted by a spirit of self-
preservation. They have felt that the
profits made out of the cotton seed
business have' been too great and that
they have paid for these . profits be -
yond a reasonable proportion. If the
selling organization In the Farmers'
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Cnion is able to do what it has under-
taken it will work a revolution fn tne
Cotton seed industry in the state and
will force the mill owners to sup-
pliantly beg f.or mercy. If they have
done all or even a part of -what they
liave been charged with doing in the
wny of combining- and have thereby
procured seed as charged "at from
MxOO to' 10.00 a ton less than they were
really worth under prevailing prices
for Cotton seed product then the mill
owners cannot justly complain that
they have rim up against a company of
G reeks.
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' JOHNSON ON COLQVlTT.
There may be stronger statements
as to a situation than those made by-
Cone Johnson at. Cameron the other
day but if what Johnson said does not
cover the case like a bhwket then the
Bulletin's reasoning faculties ire out
of gear. But listen to Cone Jdhnson:
"Mr. Colnuitt joins the ranks of
those who do not believe Iir obeying
instructions. He says the platform is
to be Ignored because of the manner
In which the platforms are construct-
ed that the work of committees fre-
quently contains demands on issues
that have never been discussed before
Ihe people and which do not voice the
wishes or demands ofgthe people. This
Is an indictment on the old conven-
tion plan to which Mr. Colquitt must
desire to return ' but he Is logical
enough to see that this is no answer
to the demand for .submission which!
comes 'directly from the people
through the medium of a state primary
held in accordance with the demo-
cratic 'Jaw. He. must find an answer
to this primary platform demand.
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"What do you suppose his answer Is?
-He says that It Is the old pofHiIlstkr
Idea of. the initiative and ceferendnm
and that: he is opposed to It.
"No wonder he winds up his argu
tment by . boldly declaring that if he
i were in congress and the. democratic
t national platform should declare for a
tariff policy which did not agree .with
his views he would repudiate the
democratic platform and follow his
own nose. That is the trouble with
all of these folks who attempt to de-
fend the recreancy of the legislature
in defeating the will of the people as
'expressed at the ballot box. They are
driven to a complete repudiation of all
kind of instructions from the people
to their servants.
"According to him a platform de
mand without a primary election has
no binding force because It is not the
will of the people and the will of the
people as expressed in a primary elec-
tion is of no force because it Is pppu
listic. What part in the affairs of
government does he propose for the
ordinary citizen to play? He has told
us. he says that the "test of democracy
is in voting the ticket. He still. leaves
to the people the right to vote to elect
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somebody to ofhee. but denies to them
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i all possible opportunity or privilege to
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have any voice in the policies of the
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government or to direct or . control
. . .
their own affai
rs tms is tne cry or
the man long In "office who has come
to the conclusion that the only busi-
ness which the voter has to meddle
with in public affairs is to elect the
officials give them full power and a
free hand and go home and-be quiet
"Jefferson warned us against this
weakness of man hence his idea of
frequent elections at which the public
officials could be called to account.
There Is a deliberate attempt on the
part of certain interests and certain
people from Washington to our legis-
lature to take the government out of
the hands of the hundreds. or the peo-
ple and place it in the hands of a
smaller class the so-called arte-
tocracyv education and wealth whoni
they believe are more capable of makj
ing laws for the people than are th
the
people capable of making laws
themselves."
Sherman and Stephenville laundries.
D. B. Tombaugh agent phone 273. dtf
Mr. and Mrs Percy Scott and chil-
dren left last night for Mineral Wells
where they will spend a few days
pleasure-seeking.
INFORMATION BUREAU
By C. J. Kimbtough
Tell me your wants and I will supply
them.
FOR SALE
34 acres of good land two miles
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from town. Well watered nnu con-
veniently located. If sold within the
sext 15 days a reduction of $500 will
be made from original price.
A Bargain for Somebt
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Mayes, Will H. Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 251, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1909, newspaper, August 5, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth346109/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.