The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 22, 1912 Page: 4 of 4
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Cf^ji i PrkMr the iMAtd officer fojf thi# juriidictlon. I received a
reply from him, TRYING to explain tho eonUat. of> thM W r. In^dw
tn hi fmir with ron. I am enclosing yon hi* letter. Now just one rwjaeet, tr
rJSVSm^-^ UP tt. m^.pH.g, j. .p tl. j.{ to
m.4 iksve d 1 "111 got tke hide in your I p«r. You an waking them
fpu tfcis part of the country with your little paper and
large they simply eouldn't stand It.
""Please don't use my name in the operation.
>Vour friend d evwx <le,
if it wer# twice m
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ears, and Pullman diners,
: db«y legitimately—except
Mioo. -ff l__ __ JBB-. ML . UN
'J But say it con ^asrel $W eaclxwajbetwsen Texas
ter; and lay he drew down $15 per day for his days in
m VhjihmdS'he wk the etate o t A t W hrn S#
eating and drinking and sleeping and railroad riding dunng the
same period of tim# . * . ,
Why, when he was getting all his legitimate expenses paid by
the "Woodman, and on a magnificent scale at that, did he want the
state of Texas to put up for it all« second time. - ,
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ELZKG EXPENSES DURING THAT THREE WEEM JATJ]
ester at sioners,
is telling the
Fraser Writes
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tune fine*,
1 This is the letter from Fraser to our Dublin comrade:
"Office of W. A. Fraaer, Sovereign A4v«eiy Woodmen of the World-
No trouble to Answer Correspondence. Suite 618, Wijson Bl<lg., Dallas, Tex,
May 29th 1912 Dublinj Texas, Esteemed Sovereign: Beply*
in/to your* of the 27th will say I enclose herewith copy of letter written to
® - - w Tavuy wtl toh nnftWOTfl fcllft
Sri, between Fraeer and the three *rte S r M ^
end we leave «,r rrtden, aga.a U, gSea.whoi, j
w.o. w. mo poLmoB.ipH
like this Rebel rot waq going ]
Randall and Sheppard, andn!«]
V&to this fight
w..w a . ... I WeTOdyf as going te.print the tmthl
about wrong doing;by the high officials of W. 0. W T 1
Why, he knew it was there, and he was scared. That's why Hel
knew Mich things couldn't be kept hidden always, and he feared if
Morris Sheppard, with his fat graft on the W. 0, W.tghoul4 run for
congress, some opponent of Sheppard would pretty certainly uncovcr
thp moon :
ou'ettions propounded by you. I don't think there is any fair-minded man
in the country would believe the statements contained in The Bebel, or the
man that wrote them. , . , ,,
"Trusting this will be satisfactory, I am, truly and fraternally yours,
W. A. Fraser, Sovereign Adviser."
FRASER'S LETTER TO CRAWFORD.*
Thin is the letter to Crawford of Beaumont, copy of which was
enclosed by Praser in his letter to the Dublin comrade:
"W. J. Crawford, Atty. at Law, Beaumont, Texas. Esteemed Sover-
eign: Replying to your favor of the 21st, will say that I have read the
dirty, lying, pusilanimous statements contained In The Rebel, and whil^ I
intended replying to same, I believed it best to let it go by. All Those peo-
ple want is to be dignified by someone replying to them.
'.'As far as the attorney general is concerned, there is absolutely no „
trvfb in the statement that he charged his expenses while attending the
Sovereign Camp to the State and to the W. 0. W. HE OHAKOBD iITE
STATE JUS EXPENSES FROM AUSTIN TO ROCHESTER, AND
CHARGED THE W. 0. W. HIS EXPENSES FROM ROCHESTER BACK
TO AUSTIN—WHICH IS FAIR ANH IN ACCORDANCE Willi OUR
LAWS. The fact, that he did work fpr the state while in the East is no
reason why he should not be paid for services rendered to our organization.
"A far as Morris is concerned, we all know that up until last year
he was drawing <2,400 a year from our orpainzatio-n. Every delegate at
tho Sovereign Camp also knew that tht* pettifogging politician holding the
office of insurance commissioner had criticised Sheppard, claiming he did
not eara ihe money paid him as sovereign banker. Be dian't investigate
far enough to know, because he didn't want to investigate for fear he
might find Aw Luformation that Sheppard had traveled all over the U. S.
- w giwechas without charging the order for same. That he
had spent several times the amount of his salary in doing so,and had he been
so disposed, could have collected mileage and per diem for overy <lav he put
in attending to these duties which called him away tfpm home and were
outside of his regular work as sovereign banker.
"In the face of the report made by this politician, styling himself an
insurance commissioner, Sheppard '• salary was raised at the hist convention,
showing the sovereign delegates thought much more of Sheppard, and
treated the libelous and lying reports just as they should have been treated
by raising Sheppard's salary,
> • Now, Walter, I knew some considerable time since that something
Just like this Rebel rot was going to be published against Morris; that was
the reason I wrote the letter to Colquitt, Ramsey, Wolters, Randell and
Sheppard, and warned them not to drag /he W. O. W. into this fight. I am
trying to ascertain who wrote this Rebel rot, and if I do there is going to be
something doing. Of course whr-n you consider the sheet—the very name of
it is repulsive, and the lying statements it is chuck full of, would make
votes for any man among our respectable citizenship, rather than hurting
him. ' . *. , ' .1
"Morris is having splendid meetings, his health is good, his voice is
strong, and I believe he is going to stay right in this campaign becoming
more aggressive every day. It may seem strange to you but I hiive reports
from both Bexar and Harris counties,from reliable men, telling me that Mor-
ris will carry both these counties. The reason given is that the people are
tired being doiniuated by the whiskey and brewery interests in this state,
and are going to support Sheppard as a rebuff to those dominating influ-
ences.
"If you have tiny particulars regarding The Re^eJ ftrtielo,Vould be
glad to have it. •
"Truly and fraternally y^ur*,
W. A. iFrnser, Sovereign Adviser.."
TURNING THE LIGHT ON THEMSELVES.
Little by little these gabby,Ioni; eared, inside high piuckamncks
of the fcoveHtm Cntrm nre turning the ligbt on their own misdoings.
Fraser is t!u> stupidest o_f the lot, so far. although Clod knows
what the next one may lie foolish enough to put on paper, to be for-
warded to The Rebel by an honest rank-and-file Woodman who wants
the truth published.
bet us sum up the ground thftt has been covered so far.
It* No. 45 The Rebel charged that Attorney General Jewel P.
Lightfoot of Texas, who spent about three weeks, in .lune 1011, pre-
tending to investigate the electrical trust, i if Boston, New York and
other eastern cities, and who during that time attended the Sover-
eign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, at Rochester. New York
had filed expense accounts, covering the trip east, with both the state
of Texas and the Woodmen of the World.
We chat'Ctyj that T.i^htlY.ot drew from the state; ns expenses for
that three weeks trip, the sum of $63!).72, and we published an,item-
ized copy of his expense account, filed with the state,- to proveJ it.
That expense account is a state paper, and can be found at Austin, on
file, by any citizen who wants to verify our statement.
We charged that "On page 148 of the official report of proceed-
ings of the Sovereign Camp, W. 0. W,, under the head of mileage and
per diem, Sovereign Camp, convention, 1911, Rochester, N. Y„ June
13 to 24, there is to be found the following entry: Jewel P. Light-
fool: Pullman, $'21; mileage, 1750 (miles); days, 8; amount, $436."
We charged 011 the above showing the Jewel P. Lightfoot^attor-
ney general of Texas, had obviously run in a double expense aSbount
—making both the state and the W. 0. W. pay the expenses of his
eastern trip-rand Mr. Lightfoot has not denied it—and won't, be-
cause the facts are down in black and white, in official reports.
FRASER'S FAKE EXPLANATION.
Now comes Fraser, this bum adviser of the W. 0. W., and says
Lightfoot aimply charged up his expenses going east to the state, and
his expenses coming back to the W. 0. W.
Lightfoot didn't say so in his sworn statement of expenses filed
at Austin, on which he collected from the state of T exas $635.72 for
his three weeks trip. 1
Lightfoot didn't say so, or it'was not so stated, in the official re-
port of the sovereign camp of the W- 0. W., where Ligthfoot is shown
to have been allowed $436 for attending the convention eight days.
His three weeks trip east cost the state of Texas, for railroad and
hotel expenses, cab hire., all personal items, over $200 a week.
His eight days attendance on the W. 0. W. convention cost the
Woodmen over $400 a week.
But wait 11 see he figured his time with the Woodmen from June
13 to June 24. That makes twelve days. Probably he counted two
days going to Rochester from Texas, and two days coming back
from Rochester to Texas, which added to the eight days he seems to
have spent at the convention* would figure out twelve days.
1 atlhy for his expenses from the
convention. Fifteen dolfars a day for
fcaj is,as high aft the iilafeft grafters
foot W_tM them $1$ a day for hj* liviflg ex-
down east (ostensibly to spy out a troft but actually to attei
touch up the W. 0. W. sovereign camp's poekgbook, and to
th« rt tewide «unj)jfeD then_on_[c TexM)—THBK WHY DID _ .
HS DK*W* YTHlHU. r u x«: «. ;j. _ - ~ fci HOW CALL UPON COLONEL JACOB W. WOLTEmI
COLONEL CHOICE B. RANDELL, JUDGE WM. f, RAMSEY
plain .way the cold fact that little jCT" l 80VEBH0B 0 B. COLQUITT AND MOEEI8 SHEPPAED Tf
Tei«, the g«at prohib.Don reformer, the^rtragowhed memto of J||U) projjo the LETTERS THEY GOT FROM FRASER n
tl„. W oodmeo fratermty—just naturally put! WHICH, AS HE SAYS. HE WARNED THEM NOT TO DRAt
count, one to the state, one to the W. 0. W., ana thought be was man THE W 0 W INTO THIS FIGHT '1 -
ing some easy money. „ h^_,t THE WOODMEN OF TEXAS HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOttl
And it HTrfvra TeSHm S! TKI WHOLE TBUTH ABOUT. THIS ROTTEN DEAL, AND THI
pestiferous little B^el POLITIOIAN WHO TEIIiS TO HIDE ANY PART OF IT FRO
per in which the truth about their grafting democratic party omciais ynr.T. GAIN NO FRIENDS BY SO DOING.
can get printed. * In this last paragraph of his letter to Crawford, Fraser gives tv,
FRASER'S LIES NAILED, ONE BY ONE. whole Bnap away, of how the Woodmen are being sold out to th6
Fraser says: "I have read the dirty, lying, pusillanimous state- statewide prohibition gang of political candidates, headed by Shea
ments contained in The Rebel, and while I intended replying to pard. Fraser in that paragraph said:
same I believed it best to lot it go by."
The Rebel says: "Fraser 'let it go by' because he didn t dare to
try to reply to THE COLD FACTS CONTAINED IN OUR ROAST
OF LIGHTFOOT AND SHEBfrARD."
Fraser says: "I am trying to ascertain wlio wrote this Rebel
rot, and if I do there is going t6 be something doing."
The Rebel says: 4' The name of the editor and owner of this pa-
tog'FPraM-Cm«MaBbeI ffife*3Sawh ^2',t rtSft It qniok ^'o'w'into ttt ItoM o^tehaff of°Sh h° ™
enough to nit us. If h. means by • something doing' a personal attack, ' SheI,>>ard' « *-***, al
"Morrip is having splendid meetings, his health is good, his voic
is strong, and I believe he is going to stay right in this campaig
becoming more aggressive every day."
What campaign f
WThy, the senatorial campaign, Of course.
You see Fraser, warning Wolters and Randell and Colouitt and
Ramsey and Sheppard not to "drag the W. 0. W. into this fight
was double-crossing Colquitt,Wolters and Randell, the anti-statewid
he can't start that soon enough either.
Ab a matter of fact, this shallow-brained, silly, gabby, threaten-
ing chap doesn't menu to start anything. His threats are muttered
into a personal letter to a tallow Woodman. He didn t and doesn t
dare come out into the open and repeat them. "
We repeat it: Every word The Rebel has published about
Lightfoot and Sheppard is the tfuth and nothing but the truth—and
Wi, defy either Lightfoot or Sheppard to challenge the facts as we
stated them, or to explain those facts otherwise than as we explained
them. They have no other possible explanation. As for Fraser, why,
as Kalamity Bonner says, "We are not out after minnows." He!
won't get caught in the bucket if he backs off under the shadow of
the high banks and keeps his mouth shut.
*Kut lie has talked too much already—in his letter to-Crawford,
In that letter Fraser says: "The pettifogging politician holding the
office of insurance commissioner had criticised Sheppard, claiming
he did not earn the money paid him as sovereign banker."
The fact is that this official criticism of Sheppard was made
jointly by t>e insurance departments of three states: Nebraska,Min-
nesota and South Carolina.. Sq it was not one-pettifogging politic-
ian" who criticised Morris, but three high state officials—-one in the
West, one in the North, one in the South—-who denounced Morris and
all of his pals in the inside ring that rules the sovereign camp of the
W. 0. W. for grafting on its funds. And in that criticism, which was
published by the insurance departments of the three states named as
„an official document, the dates, places and amount of the grafting
done by the W. 0. W. highmuckaaraucks, including Morris, were set
forth in detail. This official criticism was not general, not vague, not
mere complaining. It was specific, complete, unanswerable—and no
attempt has ever been made, publicly, by the m^p who were criticised
to answer it. • .-if" ""' •
Fraser says to. Crawfordj_V Sheppard had traveled all over the
United States making W. 0. W. speeches without charging the order
for ssne. That he had spent several times the amount of his salary
in doing so, and had he been so disposed, could have collected mileage
and per diem for every day he put iff attending to these matters."
Fraser says Morris „ received no pay—no mileage nor per
diem—for making his W. 0. W. speeches all over the United States.
Just did the work for tbe love of it, and paid his own expenses—sev
era! times the amount of his salary as sovereign banker.
Did he? ,
Hardly.
Sovereign Commander J. C. Root, the highest of all the W. 0. W.
inside hunch, in a letter to 0. Woltuer, Camp Verde, Kerr county,
Texas, (published in The Rebel last week), says:
"During the Interim between sessions of congress, he [Morris
Sheppard, sovereign banker—or sovereign barker] has been making
addresses all over our jurisdiction. FOR WHICH HE RECEIVED NO
COMPENSATION EXCEPT FOR NECESSARY ACTUAL EX-
PANSES." * - :
Fraser says Morris made his speeches free and paid his own ex-
penses. \
Root says Morris got "necessary actual expenses" paid during
his speech-making. y >• ' -
There sure is a lie out somewhere—but it is not The Rebel's lie.
It is between Fraser and Root, and we leave our readers to guess
which one is felling the truth and which is telling the lie.
For our part, we don't believe either one tells the truth. Re-
membering how Morris st^ck the W. 0. W. for $45.96 per day for
attending the ten-dav session of the Sovereign Cdmp at Norfolk in
1907, and how the three insurance commissioners denounced all the
sovereign camp officers for padding their mileage accounts and for
drawing an extortionate per diem at that and later conventions, i^ is
our firm belief that Morris got enough allowed Mm for 'necessary ac-
tual «v«un<a . > n.u:i~ —--1—! TTT n m I . . . .. .
of Ramsey the other statewide*,
This prize jackass of the world winds up his letter to Crawford
saying: ' . _ ■
"If you have any particulars regarding The Rebel article wouU
be glad to have it." ' 1
Why, old Long-Ears, all the particulars about The Rebel articll
were given in the article. ]
We didn't give all the particulars that have come to our know!
edge about the grafting that has been done by the inside ring thai
runs the sovereign c.-mp of the W. 0. W.—not near all—but we ml
enough to make the rank and file members wake up and demand al
investigation, if they have any regard for their own lights and ill
terests. ' 1
The Rebel's interest in the subject is two-fold: First, to expos*
the democratic party politicians who are using the great fraternal in
surance organization for their selfish political and financial ben, "
second to make Socialist votes by giving old-party voters one mon
reminder that as long as they tolerate an organization of societv th il
permits private graft, they will certainly be the victims of it '
We see by the daily papers that Walter eJ. Crawford of Beaumont!
the Woodman to whom Fraser wrote his ridiculously sillv and ij
cTi^£mhoant3USt hdP^ t0 * Sheppaj
™\] :«• Cra.wford>if h« is honest man, to read
52',"n <*>.«>*« «Wd> have
...... „e warns to oe a party to the inside rin l
scheme to use the Woodmen to boost a bunch of professional nulitl]
ana that are trying get into offiee-o. the prohibit^ ™,' *
And we can thelp laughing at the way Root, Sheppard and fri
ser contradict each other, trying to explain the sime sTof fact.
They are a bum lot of plotters, and Fraser
plumb joke.
as an adviser is
All Heading Toward Socialism.
i 4iThr ;,rCUd °f the toward socialism—is well il lust rati
in.hbeeK£rcGhrtidethree erti'Mi'" Pri M "
entire patisfaptSaTth^H '8 vpr-v P°Whir and has f>ivn
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—State Press in Dallas News.
oialism^iAorXn^'w^cnlef ffl11 into an indorsement of M-
Careful n nnf M n , '°°k oat~^re Chronicle.
cialism some of vl'„ nian' you are a11 headed for
lv half onen some with 1 ^°U[ eye® °pent some wit!i eyes
tide-but all going forward dnftin^ lik^ deadwood with
Tomorrow belongs to socialism
anniversary edition.
and never losing a pennrl
alis'm to im-p
Isn't it the darndest go!]
We are in correspondence with
some of the greatest Socialist prit-
dent Socialist for years. Sh(> raas
four in hand, club bows ov stril
ties in black, blue, red, grfen
gray. Send her a dime fo:
^ __ ers America for special articles pie. Address Miss Ada M,
tual expenses,' while making W. 0. W. speeches, to pay him well for *or our anniversary edition which Station B, Kansas City, Mo.
his time, in addition to paying his'necessary actual expenses.' will be published on Julv 6. At
; During the year 1909 Morris drew down for mileage and per the moment of writing we do not PRINTING BARGAINS.
diem, m addition to his salary as sovereign banker, the neat sum of
$1,191.30. Of that amount $665.90 was for "traveling expenses," in T'Z COp'^ w®, TU ^ ^hel Stationery Prin
addition to $314.50 for attending the sovereign executive council and itwiiSJl64!!!. , j quotes special prices on prN
$114 for attending the sovereign camp convention. That $665 was +•„ -ii l , lan® ques" stationery for secretaries a
the money the records say he did get, and that Fraser say* he didn't ! be featured. The Rebel others, as follows, privided or"
get. , mte1 «that are reeeired by Jnly 1:
FRASER'8 ATTACK OH PUBLIC OFFICIALS. „„n°' ™rPM" "ythinc 500 notepads (value $2) and
ne nas written up to date. Comrades envelnrtPH ^vnino *1 7M with
W. A. Fraser, "sovereign adviser" of the W. 0. W., writing to Dehs and.Seidel have been written same name an daddress (with pi
to forartidea; if they cannot sup. emblemand tyniou label if de
ply tiiem notice, will be given in all for the sum *t only $2.75.
Crawford, said:
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insurance commisaioner,
Ib the faee of the report made by. this politician, styling himself an
Sheppard * salary was raised at the last
fa .delegates thought mttsh-
tion, showing thp sovereign Relegates thought xattch ibare of Sheppard, a 4 M ^now 88 80011 88
That statement U mBectfull^'referred to Hon. 8ilaa R. Barton, Hke Johnsbn
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