The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE, MAY 8, 1908.
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Monday was an April day of sunshine and
showers.
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About as silly a thing as you will meet is an old
man trying to appear young.
If you want to build up your town demonstrate
your faith by good works in that direction.
The Gautemalian government is complaining of
too much government, the same might be said of
countries^)earer home.
,' Secretary Taft has gone to Panama to look after
the interest of the big canal. Somehow we don’t
hear much as to how it is progressing.
It is generally accepted that the fruit and berry
crop in Hopkins county will be a good one, and
this will bring considerable money to the pro-
pagators. -
If we can have some good sunshine for a
few days everything will come out wonderfully
aad it won’t be long before the crop prospects will
brighten up. _
The use of eyeglasses is thought by some to
impart wisdom, others indulge in the habit in the
beHef that it gives distinction while others wear
them because they have to.
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There will not be so much politics as there has
been. The Bailrfy issue has been set aside, and
and the common people can now have more time
to talk about and look after their local matters.
Evangelist Sid Williams began a protracted
meeting at Mt. Vernon on Saturday night. He is
conducting the services under a large tent and
the people are looking forward to a great revival.
Alton B. Parker, who failed to make connection
with the democratic nomination for the presi-
dency, has given notice that h* has forgiven
Bryan for all past offenses and that he will ca*)
the vote of New York for him. We would rather
see it. '
Oklahoma is crowding her educational oppor-
tunities jn preparing her sons for the real issues
of Ufa. Recently they issued from her university
fifty graduates and nearly every one of them
fully equipped with the rudiments of political
.warfare. -\v'
Senator Charles A. Culberson is acredited with
having aaid.recently that he is in no sense a can-
didate for the democratic nomination for the
presidency. He further announces that he
believes Mr. Bryan is the choice of a large ma-
jority of the democrats of the country.
The election has passed off quietly and we are all
still here. There has been no one moved out or
changed their line of business so far as known.
The best of it all, there is no bitterness and every
one appears to be in fine humor. This is as it
should be; there is no reason for anything else.
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The Atlanta Georgian says that a mayor in an
isolated and small town in Ohio is enjoying life
in the satisfaction of keeping in his home a
wooden woman. The good feature of this unique
possession is that he can exhaust his vocabulary
on her and still be immune from any back talk.
Business men often fail and frequently have to
go into bankruptcy. The farmer who has his
original capital, though bad crops may come to
Mm and other misfortunes he rarely makes a
complete failure. In some line he comes out
ahead and his assignment from doing business is
very rare.
The last issue of the Mt. Pleasant Times Review
was its 36th anniversary of continuous publica-
tion. For all these years it has stood for the
st of its patronage and on all questions of
or measures it has always spoken out and
given a reason for the faith it entertained. It is
no fence setter.
Mexico is now arranging to pull off a big bull
fight which is billed to come off on the 17th. It
is a foregone conclusion that thousands of Texans
along the border will attend this exhibition of
this beastly brutality and relic of barbarism. We
believe the country that is so lost to civilization
should be restricted to furnishing her own wit-
nesses to such inhuman and brutal outrages, and
that those who would cross the border from a
of civilisation should be barred from such
NO ISSUE, NO FIGHT.
The election of Senator Bailey by twenty or
twenty five thousand majority in Saturday’s con-
test, as we see it, leaves the Gazette with no is-
sue on which to continue a fight on Senator Bai-
ley, and our part of the fight has come to an
abrupt end.
We have done our best to be fair through this
heated campaign and have studiously avoided
any misrepresentation of the facts. We put up
the hardest and cleanest fight we could for what
we believed to be right. In giving our Bailey
friends space to defend their cause, we were
forced to make a harder fight than we would
have felt justified in making otherwise, and we
believe that most of the Bailey supporters appre-
ciate this fact fully, but we have suffered some
severe criticisms from both sides; some antis
didn’t think we were hard enough on Senator
Bailey and some pros thought we were too hard.
However, the editor who takes a positive stand
on any question may expect to be criticised, and
the editor who does not take a stand on such
questions of vital interest is righteously denounc-
ed as a political nonenity, lacking sufficient moral
courage to express his honest convictions, and
between the two, we had a thousand times rather
suffer the former.
The Gazette is democratic and expects to con-
tinue to be. We have been defeated at the polls
and we accept the arbitrament of the ballot as
final. We believe the time has come for demo-
crats to quit the fight on Senator Bailey, and we
have sheathed our sword. Should Senator Bailey
again become a candidate before the Texas de-
mocracy, we exp'ect to exercise our democratic
privilege of opposing or endorsing his candidacy,
just as the dictates of our heart prompts.
.Among Our Exchanges.
It is now in order to look after the crops, es-
pecially since the packing rains have almost ce-
mented the soil. The land will have to be stirred
and that soon, thfe trouble is, it will all want airing
at once. The farmers will now be engaged with
double diligence in circumventing the effects of
the heavy rains.
The next matter now in order will be to elect
our local officers in the July primary, this will be
a matter of employment for the people for the
next three months. Next year will come the
prohibition struggle and will engage the public
mind for some time. It looks as though elections
are becoming epidemic.
We have not heard to what extent the farmers
of Hopkins county are growing peanuts. In the
early winter many talked of planting considerable
acreage, but we do not know whether this reso-
lution has been carried out. Peanuts are easily
grown, will do fairly well on thin land and usually
bring from 76c to 61 per bushel.
We have often wondered why it was that peo-
ple on the sandy land didn’t raise more sweet
potatoes for the market. Years ago all that oould
be handled was in a local way. Now we have
transportation and can ship them anywhere.
Thousands of dollars could be realized from every
sandy land county on potatoes alone.
In view of the present unfavorable weather
conditions for the past three weeks rendering the
crop prospects, so far as corn is concerned a little
uncertain; it would be well to give more attention
to the sweet potato crop. There is yet plenty of
time to make potatoes and there is no sort’ of
question that much profit can be made.
It is announced that an estate is lying now in
the city of Boston of more than a half million
dollars waiting for the return of the heir who was
last seen on the streets of Waco. It has been
suggested that after this heir apparent had seen
the ways of the city by the Brazos he would not
return to the city of beans for a million of dollars.
The past six weeks has been so occupied with
the Bailey matter pro and con that little attention
has been given to the local candidate.. Now that
the Bailey question is settled the candidates will
proceed to see the people, and from now ’till the
25th of July there will be shelling of the woods
and a general and personal conference of the indi-
vidual voter.
Congress is making a move for the relief of the
sufferers in the recent cyclones in Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. The resolu-
tion provides for a donation of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. It is a vastly fine thing
to have a national treasury that will respond in
these destructive public calamities, and what is
more gratifying, that Uncle Sam is not only able
but is always willing.
In nosing around recently State Revenue Agent,
BUI McDonald has unearthed something of inter-
est. His investigations have been rewarded with
the knowledge of the fact that a number of dry
counties have secured Federal license to operate
the retail liquor business. So soon as he finishes
his work he wlU make known to the authorities
the result of his finding, then there wiU be some-
thing doing in the affected parts.
The patriots did not turn out well to the election
last Saturday, notwithstanding a great principle
was involved, only about % of the voting strength
of the state voted, what the other third would
have done is an unknown quantity, in many
counties not half of their strength voted. The
light vote may be accounted from the fact that
many farmers by reason of the heavy rains were
behind with their work and as Saturday was f
fair day they put it in at home.
A dispatch from Washington says that in the
event those who oppose Bryan control enough
votes in the democratic convention at Denver to
prevent the nomination of the Nebraskan, it is
believed that both sides will unite on Senator
Culberson. No cleaner man can be found in the
country than Charley Culberson, and as the demo-
cratic nominee for president, he would give the
republicans a lot of worry.—Mt. Pleasant Times
Review.
If by any accident Bryan should fail to make
connection with the nomination, no man would
meet the endorsement of Texas so cheerfully as
Charles ^ Culberson, not only so, but all the
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south would gather to the standard of one who
has proven himself a statesman and patriot.
There’s a lot of difference between living on a
farm and being a farmer. The real farmer reads,
thinks and keeps abreast with the spirit of pro-
gress.—Campbell Enterprise.
It is this reading business and practical applica-
tion of what is read that has put the farmer next
to a comfortable competence and an independent
life. Some years ago “farming on paper” was
the subject of much ridicule by the old agricul-
tural nestors/but the wholesome and profitable
lessons taught by diversification which had its
origin onvpaper, has brought to the practical far
mer and those who would better their condition,
the importance of taking all the advantages and
near cuts possible, the result of which, is to make
sure enough farmers, living at home, diversifying
their products and planting and cultivating in
their own chosen time and way, and selling in
the market of their own election. Such is the
true farmer of today.
Think of it. Nearly one-half of the children of
scholastic age did not attend school this year.
This is a problem that is a problem and one that
has to be solved if the state of Texas is ever to
come into her own. It is up to the educators of
the state and the friends of education. Conditions
in this respect must be improved, or the state will
suffer materially.—Terrell Transcript.
That is a strong argument for compulsory edu-
cation. When children are given the opportu-
nities there is in this country and won’t take ad-
vantage of them they should be made to do so.—
Denison Herald.
As a rule, compulsion does not bring good re-
sults and enforced compliance under a penalty
has a bad effect. However, in the matter of com-
pelling an attendance on the schools of the coantry
to the extent that ever; boy and girl should be
taught to read and write, would evidently meet
with favor as even this meager attainment would
fit them for the ordinary business of life. It is a
deplorable thing to meet a handsome young lady
or fine looking man who can neither read nor
write and there is no excuse for such a condition
in this country.
If Navarro county people liked good roads as
much as they do politics, Navarro county’s public
thoroughfares would be gems of excellence and
the airl1frfr"C drag wonld adorn every home in dry
weather ana be put to work following every rain.
Corsicana Sun.
, In Fort Worth there are a lot of people who are
not shouting their heads off over politics. For
instance: The board of commissioners at nearly
every meeting orders some new street paved or
sidewalks built. And next Saturday we vote on a
paving bond proposition and also a new school
proposition. The front pages of political organs,
however, wouldn’t indicate it.—Ftr. Worth Tele-
gram.
A necessary amount of politics is essential in
every coantry and are incident of self government.
Every man should take sufficient interest in the
selection of competent officials. If one has an
opinion on a man or measure, he should have the
courage to say so, not only that, but give a reason
why. However, there are many things which
claim the attention and prompt action of every
citizen, to the end of building up and promoting
the best interests of his local surroundings, and
we might say, none are more pressing in bringing
about this condition than good roads and the im-
provement of our streets and sidewalks.
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The editor of the Monitor is offered an oppor-
tunity to get his biography printed in a book
along with his picture, and is given the option of
writing the biography himself, all free of charge
and entirely complimentary. The only thing he
Is asked to do is to put up ten dollars for one of
the books when it is printed. That last condition
killed the deal and spoiled the same. If the fel-
low who made that proposition knew how much
money ten dollars is; if he ever had to set type,
one by one, put them in their proper plaoes and
all justified; if he ever had to kick a job press
to make ten dollars he would know better than
to expect a fellow whose only method of owing
ten dollars is by this laborious plan to give it up
for a book, no difference how many pictures and
biographies and things were in it. Not us.—
Mineola Monitor.
The above proposition to write up one’s record
in eulogistic colors is a grafting fad the people
have caught up with. The human structure is
frail and one of its weaknesses is vanity. Hence,
an appeal to one’s good qualities and reference
to his high standard of “good citizenship” and
the “noble ancestry” from which he came to-
gether with a picture of the victim has been the
bait that many suckers have taken for a cheap
grade of public notoriety and in return therefor
surrendered many valuable and hard earned
sheckles that they could now better appropriate.
Notwithstanding the excessive rainfall of the
country and the apparent poor prospect of crops,
we have reason to be thankful that it is no worse
with us than it is. In other lands and sections of
Texas crops have been washed away and great
damage has resulted. In contrast to this, we of
Hopkins county have still our lands in fair con-
dition, and while the crop is not what we would
like to have it, yet there is a strong hope that it
will pan out all right in the end. The farmers
are hopeful, and so long as they keep persistently
at their business chances are that they will suc-
ceed in a fair measure.
Wail of One of the Big Grafters.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew, in
a recent birthday speech, declared
that the people “have lost respect
for their legislative bodies.” There
is much truth in the assertion of this
spider-legged old grafter of the Sen-
ate, who has been abusing the con-
fidence of the people who elected
him while serving the special interests
even in the Senate chamber of the
Natioh. He it is whose name was
placed in the directory of almost
every large corporation that needed
special favors at Albany or in Wash-
ington. His connection with the
numerous concerns engaged in the
exploitation of his own people in the
interest of the “interests,” his notor-
ious habit of practicing influence, of
delivering the people over to his var-
ious companies, has been well known
for years, but the enormous iniquity
of the Depew scheme of “serving
two masters” came out very fully in
the insurance investigation, which
made known his lucrative connections
and the salaries he received solely for
his influence. He has lost the confi-
dence of the people. More than that,
he has lost the respect of the people.
The Albany Argus insists that
respect for legislative bodies has been
lost on account of causes entirely
impersonal. For one thing, it is to be
found in the fact that the House of
Representatives has not only ceased
to be a deliberative body, bnt is today
unable even to consider measures of
the greatest and gravest public im-
portance, to which the Speaker of
the House and one or two of his little
coterie may chance to be opposed.
Take the bill to relieve the publishers
of the exactions levied upon them by
the paper trust. Many Republicans
in the House say that they would re
joice at an opportunity to vote as the
publishers desire, and that they
believe it to be a matter of Bimple
justice; but Mr. Cannon has deter
mined that there shall be> no item
touched which squints toward the
long needed revision of the tariff]
and all these men who say that they
want to pass a bill to help the publish-
ers thiow up their hands and dare
not attempt to disobey Mr. Cannon
and his Rule Committee. The Argus
might have added that Speaker Can-
non’s plan is merely another method
of serving the “interests” while
pretending to be serving the people
The Argus adds that if there is any
one thing which has been made clear
by the course of events, and by all the
news sources it is that sentiment in
Congress, and especially in the House,
is almost a unit against the Aldrich
currency bill or any similar legislation
at this session it being agreed that
any such measure would be worse
than to do nothing. Yet it is perfect-
ly clear that the bosses of the House,
the agents of the “interests,” in spite
of these concede faots, and in the
face of the almost unanimous action
of the House Committee on Banking
and Currency in tabling the Aldrich
bill, intend, and still hope to force the
Aldrich bill, or the Vreelaud substitute
through that body before final ad-
journment. And in order to have
their way, it is said that they are
holding back the 623,000,000 public
buildings bill, the understanding be-
ing that they will n^t let it pass un-
less and until they get their currency
bill. In other words, the members
are virtually offered 623,000,000 to
stultify themselves and vote against
their honest convictions for a curren
cy patchwork. As for the President,
he is said to have threatened to veto
the buildings bill unless they give him
his four battleships.
Who can wonder that the people
should have lost respect for their
legislative bodies? Have they not
had cause? But is it not wise or even
fair to permit the repeated and costly
blunders and failures of legislative
bodies to obscure the main cause of
that discredit from which Senator
Depew and his kind are now suffer-
ing. He has betrayed the people who
have honored him. He has been ex-
posed as one of the “big grafters,” as
the hired servant of the enemies of
the people—and he deserves even
less popular confidence and respect
than he is able to command.—Dallas
News.
Cleveland Still Improving.
Lakewood, N. J., May 3.—The
condition of former President Grover
Cleveland, who is said by his physi-
cians to be suffering from acute indi-
gestion, continues to show daily
improvement, according to Mrs.
Cleveland, who expresses the hope
that the progress of her husband’s
recovery may permit an early return to
Princeton. The patient spent a quiet
Sunday at Lakewood today, and Mrs.
Cleveland expressed herself as pleas-
ed tonight with the progress made.
Mrs. Cleveland is keenly cognizant
of the deep interest that the public
holds in the state of Mr. Cleveland’s
health and she stated tonight that if
any change developed in the condi-
tion of Mr. Cleveland it would be
made public. It was stated authorit-
atively tonight that the reports that
Mr. Cleveland is suffering from cancer
are unfounded.
Georgians Want Roosevelt.
Atlanta, Ga., April 29-—Two hun-
dred citizens of Roswell, Ga., the
home of President Roosevelt’s mother,
have signed a petition asking the
republican convention to nominate
the President for a third term.
This petition will be circulated over
the state. The Roswell signers are
nearly all democrats and populists, as
there are only a few white republi-
cans in the village. Only two or three
permitted party affiliation to keep
them from signing.
The first name on the petition is
that of G. W. Wing, the Mayor*
B. F. Yoakum, the great railroad
promoter says that Texas needs ten
thousand miles more of railroads.
Mr. Yoakum’s estimate no doubt is
good. The transportation question
is a serious one and Texas has felt
the want of it seriously in the last
year. Her demand for more facili-
ties to bear her ever increasing pro-
ducts to* the markets of the world
are increasing as the years come on.
Her population has advanced in the
last twelve months, especially in that
class of producers who furnish fuel
for the railroads. More land is being
put under the plow in Texas than
ever before. The great panhandle
country heretofore the home of the
cattle barons are now being cut up
in small farms and sold to the man
who tills the soil. This fact alone
will bring a still greater demand for
common carriers to place this new
out put in the desired market. We
trust Mr. Yoakum will push his plans
for a greater railroad service in Tex-
as, believing that her great territorial
area of diversified interests will never
be effectively servdd until she has a
more extended railroad service.
Yoakum and his party have the
money to put his purposes in effect
and certainly the state of Texas and
her law-making power will not be
wanting in lending and commending
that aid necessary in the furtherance
of the work of transportation so
essential to the universal prosperity
of any country.
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Grayson County’s jail facilities
seem to be a little faulty jadging
from the number of prisoners that
escape from that bastile. And yet
the Grayson County jail is regarded
as one of the best in the state, and
cost nearly one huadred thousand
dollars. Three prisoners escape#
from that jail this week.—Honey
Grove Citizen.—Denison Herald. ills
It certainly does look as if some-
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A candidate should bear in
that every one who treats him nicely *J§|i
in his own home is not going to vote
for him, and he should not overeat!- ^ggg
mate his strength on this line. When ' ,
you put up with the man in the
country you are his guest, and though
he may be against you yet he
treat you nice as a matter of self re-
spect.
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A cyclone struck the town of Ambia
in Lamer county on Sunday morning
and destroyed three tennant houses,
two barns and a smoke house. Ben
Hedder, a blacksmith, was injured.
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A negro house containing 11 persons
was blown to pieces and oq6 person
was injured. The cyolone was in a
narrow strip but where it struck it
took everything clean.
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In an open Btreet meeting of the
editors of the leading papers of the
city, resolutions were passed to the
effect that after this date no more
free honey advertisements would go
without sweetning and no more free
puffing up of big clips without just a
little “mohair” for the editor’s easy
chair.—Uvalde Press.
From what we understand a large
acreage of Irish potatoes has been
put in in Hopkins county. The heavy
and continuous rains bavd seriously
damaged the crop. In some sections
the vines have turned yellow and
many are falling down. It is agreed
the crop will be light.
Fannin oounty has two lady candi-
dates, Mrs. Mary Cope, the present
district clerk and candidate for re-
election, and Miss Virgie Milstead has
plaoed her announcement for county
treasurer.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Chamley who lives in the Neola com-
munity in Hunt oounty drank some
fly poison that had been left on the
table and died in a few hours.
While 618,000 was being conveyed
from Welch to Gary to pay off the
employees of a coal company the
party was held up by four armed men
and the money taken.
The fe deral grand jury has indicted
Oscar Kondert, cashier of the First
National b%nk at Baton Rouge for
embezzling $67,000 of bank funds. He
is under arrest.
On Monday morning though it look-
I threatning and some rain was fall-
ing a number of candidates assumed
their work of seeing the people.
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1908, newspaper, May 8, 1908; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816293/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.