The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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The Texas Mesquiter.
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One Dollar Per Year.
John E. Davis, Ed. and Pub.
POBUSHkd Every Friday At
Mesquite,
Texas,
Entered In 'the poetofflce at Met-
lutte, Texas, as second class matter,
a s cou^p
Friday, June 26, 1908.
ANNOUNCEMENT RATES.
Por Congress, $10.00
For Dist. and County offices, 7X0
For the Legislature,. 5.00
ForCounty Commissioner,..5.00
For precinct offices, 2.50
^ANNOUNCEMENTS
We are authorized to make the fol-
owing announcements, subject to the
Democratic primary election, July 25,
1908:
For the Legislature, Place No. 1
Merrill W. Johnson.
W. L. Crawford, Jr.
F>r the Legislature. Place No. 3:
E. C. Lively.
M. L. Morris.
For Judge 44th District Court:
Chas. Fred Tucker.
For Judge Criminal Dist. Court:
R. B. Seay.
For CouDty Judge:
John L Young.
Cecil L. Simpson.
For Judge County Court ,At Law:
W. M. Holland.
For County Attorney:
Dwight L. Lewelljng.
Lewis T. Carpenter.
For County Tax Assessor:
James E. Bolton.
For County Tax Collector:
Henry W. Jones.
For Sheriff:
A. L. Ledbetter.
Dave Smith.
Wiley Davis.
For District Clerk:
H. H. Williams.
For County Treasurer:
W. A. Scott.
H. L. Erwin.
Leslie Stewart.
For Commissioner District No.2:
H. H. Bennett.
Matt Hamilton.
Jasper Rupard.
For Justice of the Peace, Prec't 4:
J. E. Russell.
David L. Wright.
Chas. Woodson.
For Constable Precinct No. 4:
E. N. Terry.
Fbr Public Weigher, Precinct 4:
W. B. Stampes.
Please announce me in your
columns as a candidate for Judge
•f the 44th Judicial District
-lourtof Dallas county, subject
othe Democratic Primary, July
?5th 1908. Yours truly,
E. B. Muse.
"Democratic Bob" appears
-r» be going some.
Now it is on to Denver and
hen, let us hope, on to victory.
The man with a poll tax re-
ceipt is very popular just now.
The town will be full of pa
viots tomorrow. Come out and
r;lve them a hearing.
Let us hope that good times
vill be as plentiful this fall as
yjlitics is this year.
The sentiment for Williams
>r governor seems to be grow-
lg throughout the State.
We opine that State candidates
.ill not make such an extended
unpaign as formerly. Reason:
he anti pass law makes them
o down and dig.
Dallas will show the Elks the
time of their lives. "All wool and
a yard wide" is not expressive
enough to describe Dallas.
John H. Kirby is making
speeches against Davidson. Why.
certainly, Kirby is bondsman for
the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. Fur-
ther comment is uneccessary.
Gov. Campbell is swinging
around the circle and doing a
little explaining. Well, he
would have a bigger job if the
primary came after tax-paying
time.
In Mississippi and other
states the Nebraska platform
was endorsed in toto. In Texas
this could not be done for the
reason that one of the planks
would have reflected on our ju-
nior United States senator.
Having noted, no doubt, that
Bob Taylor of Tennessee brought
himself into the limelight by fid-
dling himself into Congress, a
Mr. Payne, a candidate for sher-
iff of Kaufman county, is taking
his fiddle with him in the cam-
paign.
The fight in Tennessee be-
tween Carmack and Patterson,
rival Democratic candidates for
governor, will be settled tomor-
row. All ex-Tennesseeans are
awaiting results with the keen-
est interest because it means
political life or death for ex-Sen-
ator Carmack.
To the Dallas Times Herald:
You come as near giving every-
body a square deal as any paper
in Texas—nearer than most of
them. But the intimation that
Terrell would be an appropriate
place for Williams to open his
campaign for governor because
the asylum was located there
was so unlike the Times Herald
as to invoke comment.
Dave Smith Endorsed.
Political reforms are all
right but what this section ap-
pears to need more than any-
thing else is a continuation of
favorable conditions that will re-
sult in a big cotton crop. The
corn question is done settled
—and has gone Democratic.
Lest some of our republican
friends may not understand, we
explain further that a good corn
crop is already assured.
Well, the ordeal connected
with the nomination of a Re-
publican ticket is over with
and the Mesquiter is glad
of it, and pleased with the
result. The worst danger
to the Democrats, as we saw
it, lay in the possibility of a
stampede resulting in the nomi-
nation of Roosevelt and the next
greatest danger the nomination
of Hughes, which, however, did
not appear at all probable. With
Taft and Sherman on the oppos
ing ticket and Bryan and John-
son or Bryan and Mitchell on
the Democratic ticket we cannot
but take an optimistic view of
the situation.
List of Immortals.
The following have our thanks
for the amount following names,
paid on subscription since our
last report:
E C. Lively, Irving $3.00
W. N. Hustead, Mesquite.. .25
O. E. Griffin, Forney, $1.20
Thank You,
Editor John E. Davis of the
Mesquiter, has accepted an im-
portant position with the Barn-
hart Type Foundry Company of
Dallas, but will continue to own
and direct the paper. R. B.
Shankles is left in charge of the
business end of the paper, while
Joe Routh, an experienced and
versatile newspaper man, well
known here, having worked on
this paper, will do local and edi-
toral work. John Davis is one
of Texas' most popular news-
paper men and we wish him
much success in his new posi-
tion,—McKinney Daily Courier-
Gazette.
County politics is beginning
to warm up and the sheriff's
race is attracting considerable
attention. Referring to the can-
didacy of Dave Smith, the last
issue of the Garland News con-
tained the following:
"The News desires to call
special attention to the candidacy
of Dave Smith for the office of
sheriff. Having known him
personally and intimately for
over twenty years, we have no
hesitation in testifying to his
honesty, morality and fitness
for the position. Did we not
think this, no pressure could be
brought to bear that would in-
duce us to unqualifiedly support
him. His standing in the com-
munities where he has been
known since childhood is as
good as any man in the county,
and those who have known him
best are his staunchest friends.
His qualifications as a peace
officer are unquestioned. He has
a natural tact for tracking and
detecting criminals well known
to many of the officers over the
state, while working in minor
capacities in this line. Over two
hundred of the best citizens of
the Garland voting box testify to
his worthiness and advocate
heartily his election, as is evi-
denced by the club membership,
and he will carry this box by at
least 300 votes out of the 373 polls
paid. This is a recommendation
that should go a long way with
those not personally acquainted
with his reputation. At Rein-
hardt, where he was raised, a
club has been formed with over
80 members out of 90 poll tax
payers. These are Mr. Smith's
life-long neighbors and friends
—men who could not be induced
from any consideration to
support an unworthy candidate
for any office. This recommen-
dation is worthy of careful con-
sideration by those voters who
desire to secure the best mater-
ial for public office.
Mr. Smith is a poor man, and
has no unlimited bank account
on which to draw to create sen-
timent in his behalf—he must
rely solely on the fairness and
justice of the voters and their
willingness to investigate his
fitness. He is not making his
campaign on the "poverty plat-
form," and asks your support
purely upon the basis of being
the best qualified man offering
for the position. His neighbors
who are taking an interest in his
behalf are doing so at their own
expense and without compen-
sation for loss of time because
they think him worthy in every
respect. All over the county
you will find friends to him like
these.
The News earnestly asks the
voters to give him a calm, fair,
unprejudiced consideration, and
if upon investigation they find
the above facts true—which
they are bound to do—we believe
Dave Smith will walk into the
sheriff's office in the July pri-
maries with the largest majority
ever given any man for the place.
And we further believe that no
man who supports him will have
cause to regret his election or
ever have to apologize for any
official misconduct on his part.
These facts are published with-
out Mr. Smith's knowledge, and
merely as an act of justice due
a most worthy and upright citi-
zen, and would cheerfully be
subscribed to by every friend he
has. Even his enemies could not
deny their accuracy."
An Old Coin.
W. N. Hustead has in his pos
session a rare old coin which he
has had for several years and
which he prizes very highly. It
is a Spanish coin, denomination
unknown to the writer, and is of
the mintage of 1807. On one
side is the Spanish coat of arms,
with the words, "Dei Gratios,"
King Carolus 4th, and is valua.
ble as a relic if not from its in-
/trinsic value.
For The Legislature.
Judge M. L. Morris announces
> in this issue as a candidate for
[Copyrifhl 1107 by J. B. Motci]
Side Talk By Burk's Store Boy
Roosevelt said: "Let it be
Taft." And it was Taft. Thos.
W. Lawson, the skinner from
Boston, said in a full page ad in
the Chicago papers: "Let it be
Roosevelt," and gave.his reasons
why Roosevelt should stay in of-
fice for another foui years. His
ad didn't have no effect, and he
got sore because the convention
didn't pay no attention to his
superior opinion. Lawson is the
same guy what jumped on the
trusts, showed up the lhe insur-
ance scoundrels, and told what a
skin game the amalgamated cop-
per concern was. He knew all
about 'em, because he had been
one of them himself, and only
squealed because he could not
rule the majority. He did a
whole lot of good indirectly for
the people, but he couldn't help
it. After he got thru pounding
and villifying, and didn't have no
more to say about the bunch he
came out in an article in Every-
body's Magazine, and called the
American people a gelatine
spine, saffron biooded outfit, just
because he said that they would-
n't help him to tight in their own
interests against the system. He
said he was tired of spending
his millions doing reform work
for the people, who didn't appre-
ciate it. After Jan. 1, 1908, he
was going to devote all his time
and capital in stock gambling in
in his own interest, to get back
the millions he had spent. He
kept his word a few weeks asro,
when he floated that Yukon gold
scheme, and robbed the inno-
cent out of millions of their hard
earned money. And now this
professional again forces himself
into the limelight, by offering to
give a million dollars to the Dem-
ocratic campaign fund, if he can
fix the ticket. What does he care
for the ueople? Didn't he say
himself that he is working for
himself? And so wouldn't it ap-
pear that he's got something
up his sleeve, when he says that
Johnson's the man for president
and that Bryan is the man for
second place. Maybe he wants
to make the Democratic ticket
weak, who can tell anything
about a fellow like Lawson? A
million dollars is a whole lot of
money; but what is a million dol-
lars against the will of the peo-
ple? It's a lot of money when you
take in consideration how tight
money has been here lately. If it
hadn't been so hard to get, you
bet we'd never put on that half
price suit sale, right in the mid-
dle of the season. We had to
raise some quick money, and we
did it. But we want to raise
some more, and we're going to
do it by putting on a shirt sale
tomorrow, what will be remem-
bered as the greatest thing what
was ever done in Dallas. 38 cents
for shirts worth 65 and 75; 54
cents and 69 cents for shirts
worth $1 and $1.25; 97 cents and
$1.09 for shirts worth from $1.50
to $2; $1.43 and $2.43 for shirts
worth from $2.50 to $4.00. We
mean business.
Burk's Store Boy,
Care Burk & Co.. 233, 335. 237 Main. 23« Elm
I the Legislature, place No. 3,
from Dallas county, subject to
the Democratic primaries, July
25, 1908.
Judge Morris is a native of the
state of Georgia and was born
and reared on a farm in Henry
county in that state. He attend-
ed the common schools of his
country and later graduated from
the state University at Athens,
Ga. After leaving college he
taught school two years in his
native state and oue in Wood
county, Texas. He was admit-
ted to the bar as a lawyer at
Pittsburg in November, 1880, and
served as County Attorney and
Country Judge of Camp county.
He moved to Dallas in 1890, and
settled in what was then known
as Oak Cliff, where he still re-
sides, though Oak Cliff is now a
part of the city of Dallas.
He was twice elected mayor of
Oak Cliff and the citizens there
can attest how he conducted him- j
self while holding that office.
Judge Morrip has had a varied
experience as a lawyer and is
recognized as a strong man. His
friends assert that he is espec-
ially fitted and qualified to repre-
sent this county in the Legisla-
ture. From childhood up he has
been a true and loyal Democrat,
attached to Democratic princi-
ples, and he declares that in the
event of his election he has no
pet measures or personal inter-
ests to subserve save to look
after the general welfare of Tex-
as, and Dallas county in particu-
lar, and fight radical and vicious
legislation.
Notice
Professional Cards.
Drs. Cullom and Hudgins
Physicians and Surgeons
Office at Palace Drug Store,
MESQUITE. TEXAS.
Drs. Bryant and Hardy
Physicians and Surgeons
Office at Mesquite Pharmacy.
Private consultation at residence
MESQUITE. TEXAS.
OR. i. O'CALLAGHJW,
Physician and Surgeon*
REINHARDT, - - - TEXAS
Dr. Wilkins,
DENTIST,
20 Years in Dallas.
310 MAIN ST. DALLAS, TEXAS.
r L. CRUMPLEY, V. S.
R F O NO «
MESQUITE. TEXAS.
Is prepared to treat diseases of horses
and cattle; perforin operations when
necessary. Will answer all calls.
Residence near Housley. Phone 36-2-2.
Merrill W. Johnson,
Attorneyafc'Law.
Office and Campaign Headquar-
ters: Up stairs, 312 Main.
Dallas,
Texas.
W. L. CURTIS,
Attorney/at/Law,
509 Scollard Bldg. Dallas, Tex.
HORACE WILLIAMS,
—LAWYER—
405, 406, 407 Trust Building,
dallas, texas.
Swnd your laundry to the Mod-
ern Steam Laundry of Port
Worth. 20 flat pieces—towels,
pillow slips, sheets, etc. for 35c,
counterpanes 10c each. Cloth-
ing cleaned and pressed. All
work guaranteed.
L. L. Brown.
Notice.
All wishing to breed to good
horses and jacks will do well to
oal and see our stock. It has
bee, rumored that we were mov-
ers and only here for the season,
but we are here to stay. For
further particulars call on or ad-
dress. Brown Bros.,
Mesquite Texas.
Goes Dark June 28 th.
An annular eclipse of the sun
will occur on J une 28th.
This form of the eclipse is one
of the most beautiful, because
when the eclipse is at its height
the moon forms a dark body on
face of the sun, with a circle of
light all around it.
The eclipse will be visible in
Mesquite from about 7:40 a. m.
to 10:40 a. m., June 28.
W L. Bibb. H. It. Williams,
BIBB & WILLIAMS,
LAWYERS,
20S Slaughter Building,
dallas. texas.
J. W. Pierson, W. M. Pierson,
Ass't County Att'y
Pierson & Pierson
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Suite 310 Slaughter Bldg., Dallas, Tex.
Phone Main 804.
WHITEHURST &
WHITEHURST,
ATTORNEYS- AT-LA W
Second Floor North Texas Building,
Dallas, Texas.
Will pracitice in all the courts.
John L. Young
Attorney at Law
Slaughter Bldg. Phone No. 1255.
DALLAS. TEXAS.
Charles F Clint,
LA W Y E R.
Special attention given to examina-
tion of titles, wills, estates and insur-
ance policies.
I 508 Main Street. Opp. Post Office,
| dallas. texas.
GET IN LINE
Get in line and secure some of the
choice bargains we are now giving in
Staple Dry Goods and Groceries. We
can save you money on every pur.-
chase and guarantee to give you the
best goods at the lowest prices.
W. M. BROWN
CITY BARBER SHOP
Located in W. M. Brown's store.—North side of square.
Your patronage solicited.
LUTE L. BROWN.
*
K
HARRIS BARBER SHOP
Nice assortment of matting
and lineoleum at L. C. Stewart's.
{ Located on North side Public Square, Mesquite, Texas. ?
? AGENT FOR ORIENTAL STEAM LAUNDRY >
S Wmi F, Harris, Proprietor. < \/
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, June 26, 1908, newspaper, June 26, 1908; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth406885/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.