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IN TEXAS
ON which line is located nearly all the large cities and
many prosperous towns; likewise fertile farming
lands unequaled for diversification of crops.
East Texas, the great truck and fruit belt (the home of the
famous Elberta peach).
South Texas, the rice, sugar, tobacco, oil and timber lands.
Southwest Texas, the cattle and stock country, and the
Laredo Section, where fortunes are made raising Bermuda
onions, cabbage, melons, etc.
TLa ¥ Jfc, €\ "W also traverses the fertile Brazos
™ *■ bottoms and black waxy belt of
Central Texas, the richest cotton lands known. No other
section of the country offers as cheap lands with such rare
opportunities for thrifty farmers.
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the Iron Mountain Route and Texas & Pacific Railway
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reeded In bulk and number those present-
ed by any oth«r candidate, and Included
a utronic Indorsement from President Nelll
ft! the Farmers' ur.lon and commendatory
t> iolutlons from fifty or more separate
branches of the union, several protests
at alnst his nomination were laid before
the committee. These were from Individ-
ual*. members of the union In Hastrop,
Washington nnd Lee counties. They -.vera
based on a matter which came up In the
farmers' Union Warehouse company last
y«r \s Mr. Calvin explained the mat-
ter, lunie of the members of the union
vented the holding c -mpany to hold their
cotton for 15 cents, 'lowever, when the
j, • ic came on nnd t'10 market broke. It
win found Impractical to hold the cot-
tow und some of It was sold for less
1 order to meet the demands made by
the banks which had advanced money on
tho cotton and refuHcd to carry the hold-
1'ifr company any le nder. Mr. Calvin was
prclUent of th« holding company. Tho
insider was brought up In the union, and
after a thorough going into. Mr. Caivln's
course was sustained.
CALVIN MEETS PROTESTS FRANKLY,
The protests today were from sotne of
the Individuals, but they were met frank-
ly by Mr. .Calvin, nnd It was Bald by
a number of the committeemen a/ter-
x rds tl'.at the protests were flimsy and
that Calvin's answer satisfactorily dls-
jh «od of them. It was also claimed by
supporters of Calvin as well as those
who voted against him, that the protests
tfld him no injury; that they had. In
fact, solidified his friends in his support.
Others prominent In politics noted In
and ground the meeting today were Rep-
resentative A. M. Kennedy, candidate
tor speaker; K. B. Perkins of Greenville,
Bob Stafford of Mincola, Jake Wolters
of Houston. Jeff Montgomery of Mineral
Wells. B. F. McNulty of San Antonio,
W. E. tipell of illllsboro. Don A. Bliss
of Ban Antonio, Senator Harbison. John
W. llornshy and James A. Brady of Aus-
tin, former Comptroller Wat Flnley,
Judge Hamby and others of the Austin
local committee of entertainment.
GARNER SEES COMMITTEE.
Congressman John N. Garner of Uvalde
was also In attendance and at the request
of Chairman Storey appeared before the
committee while it was in executive ses-
sion and gave an account of the political
conditions In the Ffteenth congressonal
district. As the republicans are always
active In Mr. Garner's district, the State
committee will render such assistance to
Concessional Chairman Wells in that
district as the latter may call for.
Chairman Archie Parr of San Diego
told the committee it wasn't speakers
that they needed, but that Chairman
Wells could use to advantage any money
that might be sent him.
COMMITTEE MBETS AT NOON.
The committee In the ladles' parlor of
the Drlskill at noon, with the State chair-
man, Hon. A. B. Storey of L<ockhart, pre-
siding. He announced the reappointment
of J. C. McNealus of Dallas as socretary
Of the committee, and Mr. McNealus con-
tinued his duties. Committeemen were
present as follows, by districts:
First.—W. M. Imboden, proxy for H. F.
O'Neal of Cass county.
Second.—J. M. Nelson, Hopkins county.
Third.—F. M. Gibson, proxy for F. S.
Dudley, Lamar county.
Fourth.—J. C. Murrell, Cooke county.
Fifth.—J. S. Sherrell, proxy for Wil-
liam Beacon, Hunt county.
.Sixth.—John L. Wortham, proxy for
A B. Allen, Dallas.
Seventh.—J. M. Edwards, Smith county.
Eighth.—R. G. Brown, Gregg county.
Ninth.—R. B. Watklns, proxy for J. M.
Murchlson, Henderson county.
Tenth.—A. B. Honeycutt, Johnson coun-
ty-
Eleventh.—J. W. Dudley, McLennan
county.
Twelfth.—N. P. Houx, Limestone Coun-
ty-
Thirteenth.—A. M. Barton, prOlfcy for J.
C. Box, Cherokee county. Mr. Barton de-
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clined to act because of being an office-
holder, the governor's private secretary.
Fourteenth.—W. J. Crawford, Jefferson
county.
Fifteenth.—J. Llellwyn, Montgomery
county.
Sixteenth.—William Masterson, Harris
county.
Seventeenth.-—J. B. Stubbs, Galveston
county.
Eighteenth.—C. E. Lane, Fayette coun-
ty.
Nineteenth.—A. Wangermann, Washing-
ton county.
Twentieth.—J. Gregg Hill, Travis coun-
ty.
Twenty-flrsrt.—F. J. Maier, Comal (•un-
to'.
Twenty-second.—F. G. Moffett, Jackson
county.
Twenty-third.—A Parr, Duval county.
Twenty-fourth.—R. H. Ward, proxy for
W. A. Morris, Bexar county.
Twenty-fifth.—G. B. Fenley, Uvalde
county.
Twenty-sixth.—W. A. McChrlsty, Brown
county.
Twenty-seventh.—A. E. Masterson,
proxy for J. D. Brown, Jr., of Coryell
county.
Twenty-ninth.—Nat Henderson, Wichita
county.
Thirtieth.—W. R. Parker, Tarrant
county.
Tho Thirteenth, Twenty-eighth and
Thirty-first districts were unrepresented.
After an executive session. In which
campaign matters were gone over and
collections of money by the various com-
mitteemen were turned over for head-
quarters expense, open session was re-
sumed to receive nominations for com-
missioner of agriculture.
CANDIDATES ARE NOMINATED.
F. N. Gibson of Fannin nominated
Charles B. White of Fannin.
Jesse. C. Murrell nominated J. L. Wil-
son of Grayson.
J. 8. Sherrell named V. W. Grubbs of
Hunt and dwelt on his fitness and claims
as the author of the bill which estab-
lished the State college of industrial arts.
D. W. Odell put in nomination Thomas
S. Wade of Johnson county.
R. H. Ward nominaed E. R. Kone of
Hays county, calling attention to the
fact that Southwest Texas could only
share in the State offices through the
grace of other sections of the State, and
was now behind in her quota. He char-
acterized Kone as a democrat without
stain, who would capably fill the office
in the interest of the great agricultural
Industry.
W*. J. Crawford of Beaumont nominated
E. A. Calvin of Lamar county as a suc-
cessful farmer who had shown remark-
able ability in high offices.
Others put in nomination by petition
were Eugene Irvin of Callahan county, J.
H. Surla of Putnam and J. S. Kerr of
Grayson.
An executive session was held before
the vote was taken.
The chair appointed William Masterson
Crawford and Watkins as tellers.
First Ballot.—Calvin 9. Kone 7, Wade 3
Grubbs 5. White 2, Wilson 1.
Second Ballot —Calvin 9. Kone 10, Wade
2, Grubbs 4, White 1, Wilson 2.
Third Ballot.—Under the rule White was
dropped as the low man. The vote result-
ed: Calvin 9, Kone 11, Wade 2, Grubbs 4,
Wilson 2.
Fourth Ballot.—Calvin 10, Kone 11
Grubbs 4, Wilson 3. Grubbs and Wilson
were then withdrawn.
Fifth Ballot (and last hallot).—Kone
19. Calvin 10. Kone's friends broke into
cheers as the result became apparent, and
the old gentleman was soon besieged with
handshakers.
KONE THANKS COMMITTEE.
Mr. Calvin appeared and asked that
Kone's nomination be made unanimous,
which was done, after which Kone was
brought forward for a speech. With deep
feeling he expressed his gratitude to his
friends, but declared he had no words for
tho occasion. He said he was grateful
on his own account and for his section of
the State. The office in his hands would
be discharged in the interest of all the
people.
Chairman Storey then addressed the
committee and impressed upon the mem-
bers that they were expected to prove
themselves useful as well as ornamental,
and outlined the work he expected each
to perform in his district. He insisted
upon regular reports from them as to
tho exact status of the democratic and
republican campaigns in every part of
the State. There Is to be something doing
from this time on in the circles of the
militant democracy. Until further notice
Chairman Storey will maintain democratic
State headquarters in his home town
Lockhart.
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FOR 1909.
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A J0LL,Pir ATI0N
Streets of Mc
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SEVERAL
Crush Is Sc
tion Thai
Many Hurt—Banquet to
the Officers,
(Associated Press Report.)
MELBOURNE, Augusut 31. — The
streets of Melbourne late tonight were
filled with surging, good humored
crowds, numbering hundreds of thou-
sands, all out to do honor to the visiting
Americans who arrived here on Saturday
aboard the sixteen great battleships, and
the scene challenged comparison with
that of an election night in New York
though happily the ear ticklers and
blasts from the tin trumphets were dis-
pensed with. The crush In the principal
thoroughfares was so great that many
vtomen fainted and several persons were
injured.
The entire day was set apart to Jolli-
fication and the day will ever live in
the memory of the inhabitants of Vic-
toria. The federal government tonight
tendered a banquet to the admirals and
senior officers of the visiting warships
at the parliament house, at which Lord
Northcote, governor general of the com-
monwealth, and Prime Minister Deakin
made brilliant speeches, throughout
which prominence was given to the
friendliness that exists between the com-
monwealth and the United States.
Rear Admiral Sperry, commander in
chief of the fleet, in reply on behalf of
the American navy declared that a rup-
ture between the English speaking peo-
pe would not only be a loss, but a
crime. Admiral Sperry was presented
with an address by the commonwealth
parliament.
Tonight the city is a spectacle of mag-
nificence and splendor. All the public
buildings are ablaze with electric lights,
notable in this respect being the common-
wealth state buildings and Princess
bridge of the Centra! railway, where a
striking illuminated picture of the bat-
tleships was displayed. The illumina-
tions on shore were supplemented with
an electric and searchlight display on
board the warships in the harbor.
Early in the evening a picturesque
torchlight procession was held, in which
the metropolitan and county fire bri-
gades, numbering about 2000 men, took
part. The parade started at the head-
quarters of the metropolitan fire brigade
and was disbanded over Princess bridge
Rain commenced to fall at a late hour!
causing a precitate race homewards!
The dense crowds converging toward the
railway station forced the women and
children into perilous positions, and
many were extricated with difficulty
after being considerably bruised. Two
persons were seriously and several others
slightly injured.
All records for passenger traffic on the
railroads have been shattered since the
arrival of the fleet. In the race today
for the Battenburg cup, which is held
by the battleship Louisiana, the defend-
ing crew easily defeated the challenging
crew.
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Home at Phelps.
(Houston Post Special.)
PHELPS, Texas, August 30.—The resi-
dence occupied by John Daniels, colored,
burned today. He lost all of his house-
hold goods. Loss of house and contents
amounts to about $800.
for loss of appetite
Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Its use is especially recommended for reato-
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TAFT'S HELPERS
Something of Republican Guardians
of Reform.
MEN FOR THE FAT FRYING
List Shows They Have Trust Con-
nections and They Will Get
Funds From the Corpora-
tions of the Country.
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(Houston Post Special.)
(BT THOMAS J. PENCE.)
CHICAGO, August 21.—"Republican
Guardians of Reform" is tho subject of a
chapter in the forthcoming democratic
campaign text book, advance sheets of
which were received today at democratic
headquarters from the publishers. This
particular chapter, which Will be read
with interest, is devoted to the personnel
of the men whom Mr. Taft has selected
to conduct his campaign, and who are
his chief advisors in an executive, advis-
ory, and financial way. William Nelson
Cronywell, the personal and legal repres-
entative of E. H. Harrlman, and probably
the most conspicuous trust lawyer in
this country, is the central figure of these
"Republican Guardians of Reform." The
others who share honors with him in this
chapter in the text book are the nine
members of the executive committee
whom the republican presidential candi-
date selected immediately following his
nomination at the Chicago convention.
HOW CROMWELL GOT IT.
The story of how William Nelson Crom-
well succeeded to the mantle of his em-
ployer, E. H. Harrlman, as official "fat
fryer" for the republican party in this
presidential contest Is told in detail. It
begins with a telegram Mr. Cromwell sent
from New York to Judge Taft at Hot
Springs, Va„ in which the request was
made that the selection of a treasurer of
the republican National committee be de-
ferred until the arrival of the New York
trust promoter at the Virginia resort.
This telegram is a matter of historic
record, having been published generally in
the press at the time. Tho following
day the press associations chronicled the
arrival of Mr. Cromwell at Hot Springs
according to schedule. He immediately
went into executive session with Presi-
dential Candidate Taft. For several days
it had been the general understanding
throughout the country that Congressman
McKinley of Illinois was to be chosen
treasurer of the republican National com-
mittee. As the result of William Nelson
Cromwell's visit, tse original slate was
broken and his candidate, George R. Shel-
don, was named as the treasurer of the
National committee.
This was only the beginning of the po-
tent Influence that William Nelson Crom-
well has exercised in high-up republican
circles, following the adjournment of the
•republican National convention. After
naming the treasurer of the republican
National committee Mr. Cromwell was
made a member of the executi\-e commit-
tee cf nine, which has immediate direc-
tion of the campaign, and later a mem-
ber of the executive committee of nine,
whirh has immediate direction of the
carcpaign, and later a member of the
advisory committee, which means that
his services and talents will be utilized
in every way possible by Presidential
Candidate Taft.
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The personnel of these Guar-
dians of Reform" becomes still more im-
portant. when the failure of the republi-
can National convention to enact a
publicity law and the defeat of a publicity
plank by an overwhelming majority in
that convention, is taken into considera-
tion.
The campaign text book gives some-
thing of the personnel of the finance and
executive committee with which Mr. Taft
has surrounded himself in this campaign.
Some of these "Republican Guardians of
Reform" are thus identified for the benefit
of the voting public.
LIST OF THE GUARDIANS.
William Nelson Cromwell of New York,
the great Wall street lawyer, attorney
for the Panama Canal combine, Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., the Harriman interests, the
sugar trust. Standard oil trust, et al.
George Rumsey Sheldon of No. 2 Wall
street, multi-millionaire and officer and
director In more than twenty corpora-
tions.
Frederick W. Upham of Chicago, a
millionaire several times over, member
of the State board of review, which passes
upon the amount of taxes which corpora-
tions and large estates should pay in
illinois, and a director in several cor-
porations.
Charles F. Brooker of Connecticut, mil-
lionaire, engaged in the banking and rail-
way business, and vice president of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company, against which a gov-
ernment suit is now pending.
Frank C. Lowden of Illinois, multi-mil-
lionaire, son-in-law of the late George M.
Pullman and now vice president of and
heavily interested in that widely known
monopoly, the Pullman Palace Car com-
pany.
T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware, best
known as a member of the Du Pont Pow-
der company, controlling factor in the
powder trust whose milking of the Feder-
al treasury in powder contracts has been
thoroughly exposed in congress and
against which a suit is now pending,
brought by the department of justice, for
its dissolution.
BOIES PENROSE. HEIR OF BOSS
QUAY.
And last, but by no means least, the
great political reformer of Pennsylvania.
Boies Penrose, the political heir of Boss
Quay and, since the latter's death, boss
of the corrupt political machine in Phila-
delphia and Pennsylvania, a machine
which has not been equalled in political
turpitude since the days of Boss T\»eed
in New York.
Do these facts, which cannot be dis-
puted, furnish some of the reasons Why
no publication of campaign subscriptions
are to be made until after the election,
ask the compilers of the democratic text
book.
Messrs. Cromwell and Sheldon, and their
associates detailed above, whom Mr. Taft
has selected to run the republican cam-
paign in a financial, executive and ad-
visory capacity, have a list of trust con-
nections probably unsurpassed by any
other set of men of like number within
the bounds of this country. They should
be able to do equally as good work in a
National way as is being done by Mr.
Fred W. Upham in Chicago. Mr. Upham.
who is the assistant treasurer of the re-
publican National committee is a mem-
ber of the Board of Review which passes
on the amount of taxes corporations and
large estates shall pay in the city of
Chicago and the State of Illinois. Mr.
Upham has been busy during the past
few days addressing letters to corpora-
tions whose property he will assess, In
which he makes urgent appeals for cam-
paign contributions to the republican Na-
tional committee. Several copies of these
letters, which Mr. Upham addressed to
Chicago corporations, at least one of
which is a quasi public enterprise, are
now in possession of officials at' demo-
cratic National headquarters.
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Laxative in Larger Doses
Sufficient.
Children and delicate women should
never be given strong physic, for It not
only weakens tho bowels but the entire
system.
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin serves as
a tonic and an aid to digestion as well
as a laxative that is certain in its effect
upon the most obstinate old cases and
yet safe and pleasant for a baby. With
the first few doses the ill effects of con-
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Mrs. J. C. Cooper. Chicago, 111., writes:
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We are glad to send a free sample to
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it a fair trial. Write today to Pepsin
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