Conroe Courier (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CONROE COURIER, CONROE, TEXAS
VOTE FOR
M. A. ANDERSON
FOR SHERIFF
He will appreciate your vote, and if re-elected will continue to administer the
affairs of the office fairly and impartially.
If Anderson's record has been satisfactory, why take chances on a change?
! nothing about the race in view ;| things severally and collectively
' in fact, gave no inkling of the, which he knows first hand, will
nature of his visit, and returned not hold water for a minute,
to Huntsville. In a day or two j Not only is he doing this all over
“Mr. Hill's announcement appear-
ed in the Houston Chronicle. In f------- -----
another few days a letter was voters, but that same star cham-
receivril from Mr. Hill addressed ber bunch we referred to over
at Huntsville, are doing the
the district in his speeches and
personal • meetings with the
to Mr. Templeman, in which he
stated that he was glad to heart same thing,
from their mutual friend that
Mr. Templeman would not op-
pose him [Mr. Hill],
he was leaving by
We have the same right to
_ ____ suggest that Mr. Dean is the
Also that1 candidate of the state life insur-
as leaving by the night j ance companies as he has to say
______for New York. When Mr.! that Mr. Templeman is opposed
Templeman received that letter j to the Robertson law, which is a
Mr. Hill was perhaps near the I law of more importance to the
border of Texas headed for New state life insurance companies
York as fast as steam could car- j than any other agency in the
ry him, hence impossible of be-! state. But have we done it l
train
THE CONROE COURIER
Published Every Thursday"
J. S. ENGLAND sad 0. ETHERIDGE
Editors sad Pehlisktrs
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 A YEAR
Official City and Count, Navapapur.
Office: Ferguson Bldg., West ol
Court House. Phone 58
itUnO at tha p«faNk< at Conroa. Ttiu.u
•ccoadclaaa Mil mat tar.
Dobbin Doings
(Special to The Conroe Courier.)
Rev. G. M. Daniel, the Mis-
. sionary pastor of the Dobbin
A Baptist church, preached sever-
■alInteresting sermons Saturday
Kind Sunday to good crowds.
W Mr. and Mrs; Tom Min nock
wand son, of Vinton, La., who
f have been visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. Williams, and
family, returned home Wednes-
t day. Miss Hollie Dove Williams
J went home with them ’ to spend
several weeks.
Quite a number of Dobbinites
went to Conroe Monday to hear
the speaking and political pow-
wow.
Mr. Geo. Den or of Dacus was
transacting business at Dobbin
last week.
The Richards base ball team
played the Dobbin boys here last
Friday. The game was in favor
of Dobbin.
Miss Minnie Lane of Humble
is visiting relatives in Dobbin
this week, guest of Drew Pitts
and family.
Miss Emma Pitts, who has
been visiting relatives at Hum-
ble for several weeks, has return-
to her home in Dobbin.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Welch of
I ''’ton have moved to Dobbin
I i Mr. Welch is doing the bar-
■ ir work at the Beckwith house
I »new town.
I The crops in these parts are
■Petter than for several years and
tmt a storm or Borne other disaster
not happen a fine harvest
be gathered. Only a few
weevils have made their
appearance. Uno.
Hmm Specials .
(8p«<lal to Th« Conro« Oqurler.)
' Mrs. Florence Johnson and
hildren left for Houston Sun-
day, where they will join Mr.
Johnson in their new home.
Geo. Rabun uncf family were
visiting in Honea Sunday even-
ing.
Mrs. C. W. Randal) ,ind grand-
daughter, Mrs. Thelma Skinner,
of Beaumont are visiting Mrs.
T. B. Gilmore.
Grady Johnson got his leg
broken Monday evening by a
horse kicking him. We hope he
will soon be up again.
>. Mr* Roan Johnson is in Ixhjimi
ina visiting relatives.
T. W. Kysls was a business
aller at G. D. Walker’s Mon
Vote for
W. L DEAN
for —
STATE SENATOR
15th District
! be answered in the affirmative NAVASOTA EDITOR REPLIES TO
as respects both my opponent
and myself, the only other quest-
ion for you to determine is,
, which- of the two is better equip-
ped to represent ycu in the State
Senate.
In conclusion, I warn you
| against campaign falsehoods,
' which sometimes are sprung at
NORMANGEE STAR ATTACA
Charges Dean With Distortion if facts
and Defies His Followers to Deny
Statements Hereii.
Navasota, Tex., July 8, 1816.
Mr. A. R. Crawford,
Editor Star,
Normangee, Texas.
at the last moment, and when, ^e.a[ ^,r’. . . , , ,, ,
. . . . . T , I I have just concluded the read-
too late to be answered. I be- ,ng 0f an torial in your es-
lieve that most of the voters of teemed paper in which you take
! the District know me too well to me severely to task for certain
I be deceived by eleventh hour po- references to Lawyer Dean”
To the Democratic Vot-!S'.'h=ln
into your hands.
Adv W.
L. DEAN./
Wahrenberger’s.
29-tf
EVER HAVE IT?
ers of “
to# 9
County:
Now that the campaign is
drawing to a close, I call your
attention to the fact that in my
platform which 1 undertook to
mail to voters of the District, 1
have taken you into my confi-
dence, and have advised you ful-
ly and freely iust where I stand
on all public questions, and I am
hopeful that whetlntt* you agree
with me on every proposition,
stated in my platform, you at
least approve my platform in
the main.
Like almost ul1 political cam-
paigns, mud-slinging and mis-
representations have been in-
dulged in, and appeals to the
prejudice of voters have been
made in the interest of the op-
position. The principal thing
charged against me is that 1 am
a lawyer, and the principal mer-
it claimed for my opponent is
that he is a business man.
It is true thai I am a lawyer; ;from lhe(Vrfn.r Drug store .nd one
but, as nearly every Voter in the box cured the attack.”
all dealers. Don’t
kidney remedy—get
Doan’s kidney Tills—the smite that
Mr. Kvana bad. Foster-Milhurn Co.,
I’ngta., ILulfaio, N. Y.
! , .. 6 ’ ... | my editorial comments on the
j dently committ my candidacy race for State Senator for the
Fifteenth Senatorial District. In-
stead of replying to you in my
paper, I shall answer you through
the medium of a letter, giving
Auto Supplies
U. S. Nobby and plain tread i you my reasons for striking back
auto Tires, filings and Spark rpiaMn,t*r_°5_^e °TPo3'^0n
Plugs and other auto supplies at
If Yon Have, the Statement of thi«
Conroe Citizen Will
Interest You
Km hsve a ‘’low-down” pain in the
back?
In the “small” right over the nips?
That’s the home of backache.
If it’s caused by weak kidneya.
Use Doan’s Ktdney Pills.
Conroe people testify to their worth.
Head a case of it.
G. W. Evans, deputy sheriff, Con-
roe, says: ”1 hurt my hack lifting
when I was eight years old and I have
had attacks of kidney complaint utr
and on ever since. Alxiut a year ago
I had a continual ache in the small of
my back and at times 1 could hardly
get up or down. My kidneys were too
frequent in actios and the kidney se-
cretions were MghVy colored. 1 had
dizzy spells when everything seemed in
of Mr. Templeman.
In the first place, my paper,
together with other publications
over the state, in the beginning
advocated the election of more
business men in both branches
of the Texas Legislature.
For a long time the preponder-
ance of membership, both in the
Senate and House, has been
composed of lawyers, and wheth-
er existing conditions are due
solely to this circumstance or
not, the fact remains that sane
legislation promoting ana safe
guarding the industrial and agri-
cultural development of the re-
sources, of the state are woefully
<r
ra. Onetean of Keenan visit*
ep. Connor Monday.
\ Mary Puryear was in
Monday morning on
i.
V* Mtsa Linnie Gilmore s|>ent last
p V grteik in Conroe visiting Misses
and Muggu- t.iln.wn
Mias Wilma Henderson was in
lofiea Saturday.
veral of the young people
i to Em tor is Dor-day and
a good time
entire District knows 1 was rain- j |>ricc 50^ Ht
ed on afarm, doing the hardest Pimply pnk fur *
kind of farm labor until I was
twenty-two years of age. From
the age of twelve to the age of
twenty-two, I made a crop every I
year in the spring and assisted
in gathering it in the late sum-
mer and early full, and since l
have l>een engaged ill the prac-;
tice of the profession of the law,
I have invested my savings in
farms and am a producer, not a
Middleman.
My opponent never did a single
day's work on the farm, and 1
maintain that from the character
of my ex|H*rience and my present
relations to agricultural interests
I am in a position to !>e, and am in
vital sympathy with the farming
element.
It is doubth
pieman is a b
sense that h«
himself larg
MCCALL CRAWFORD & McCALL
LAWYERS
General Practice in State
and Federal Courts
Notary Public in Office
Office in Hick* Buildin % Conroe, Tex
DR. A. T. TALLEY
Physician and
Surgeon
Office over Corner Drug;
Store
Res., 28
PHONES.
Office, 96 3r
Conroe. T exas
» that Mr. Tem-
iness man in the
I sense that he has gathered to
rge possessions; but
I after all, is that the kind of a
business man that would he cal-
cutated to hiake the best repre-
seniative in thf State Senate of
I Texas *' He w ho spake as nev-1
Jer man spake" raid, ”A man’s
life ccnsisteth not in the ab
snee of the things which he
sesacth.M
truly said
Is Its servii
The true
to represent
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fat If all -these Questions r»i
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the
Hon. H. N. Campbell, of Greenville,
Will address farmers and-voters of Montgomery County at
Conroe, Monday, July 17, in Court House
at 2 p. m , in the interest of
CHAS. H. MORRIS
The Taxpayers’ Candidate for Governor of Texas
Mr. Campbell will tell the farmers why Montgomery
county has paid into the Slate Treasury at Auatin in STATE
TAXES over $88.tux) for 191f*. the first rmr tinder Fergus*us,
whereas, in 1910 the Stale of Texas levies! a tax of only $1.-
000 on this county. #l
Where Has the Farmers’ Money Gone?
He will also give you a remedy for the unequal assess-
ment of taxes. Foreigh corporation asseAsmerits in 1915
were reduced under Ferguson $1*6,871,KM under the previous
year, while the assessments of tenant farmers and home,
owner*increased $280,677,157 in the same year.
Ferguson administration employes paid the railr«sids
and hotels $.'tHO,(NiO for traveling ex itenses during the first
year, $2H0 000 mitre than any previous governor spent, and
t In*v are in.w eatina at the i»tiI>11, crib w hile t heir ta xes have
rguson?
to at-
money
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eating at the iRiolir crib while their ta
percent WHY? WhoM FRIEND is F
1 >mi 04tw|»elied to pay for your chddrv
Is it bersiiw T **igu»«»n spemta all thr
Irrasnry with railniads, high priced ho
or Seoiuar you do not pay enough taxw
Everybody invited Mr. Campbell is a gifted s
and will entertain vou with COLO I AC 1
and Hot Humor
pr#
Ollier
Bring
speakers to entertain you.
the Ramsly to town for the day.
time
( I have just stated that no law
haa intimated any offense the eleventh hout Mr Hill en
jMiUwu at mv poaltfaMB or in thai gaged in no such method Qf 18*
stating of niy position except
Mr. Dean, and 1 should have ad-
lacking. I apprehend, will deny.
If it be conceded that the in-
terests mentioned are in need of
legislation, it would follow, as a
matter of course, that those who
and in direct connection with;
and are actually engaged in,
these pursuits, and know and un-
derstand their particular needs
are best equipped for sane legis
lation along these lines.
It should be understood that
neither this writer nor those en-
tertaining similar views meant
any disparagement to the mem-
bers of the legal profession and
all that I have ever meant to
say and all that I mean to say
now is to raise the question as
to whether the lawyer or the
business man is the better capa-
citated to grapple with and suc-
cessfully solve the issues men-
tioned. If the law’yer has ex-
pert information along his par-
ticular line, is it not reasonable
to supjxise that the business man
also possesse like information
along his line.
The point I make is, Does
Texas need laws that would give
an impetus to our farming, stock
raising and industrial develop-
ment, and, if so, would not those
who are successfully engaged in
these pursuits be more likely to
know and understand their needs
and requirements tian those not
thus engaged, or only incident-
ally so?
just here, let me fttate that I
anti many other people, both in
this senatorial district and out of
it. entertained these views long
before th* candidacy of Mr.
Templeman was qfCer thought of.
In other words, his candidacy
fits an existing condition and
is no making,of a condition to fit
his candidacy*,
Believing, as I did, that, un-
der the existing conditions the
interest of the people of the Fif-
teenth Senatorial District would
be best served by a business
man, I advocated a candidate
and without any particular man
for the ptice in mind. I was
advocating the principle rather
than the man My advocacy of
the principle was couched in
polite tertns and without any
idea of giving offense to any of
the lawyers of the district, many
of whom 1 know personally and
whose friendship 1 greatly cher-
ish ana none of them, so far as
I know, have taken the least
offense at my jHisition except
Mr. Dean, who has seen fit to j not be a candidate against
make some very unconipliment-
ing reached with a letter cor-
recting any such statement at-
tributed to him [Mr. Temple-
man], If that was not a politi-
cal frame-up and unpardonable
advantage, then we fail to know
what term to apply to it. In my
opinion this high-handed act was
directly responsible for Mr. Tem-
pleman's announcement at the
time it was made. He mav have
entered, but in my opinion it
was responsible for his immedi-
ate decision. This act was not
appreciated by mutual friends
and life-time acquaintances at
Huntsville of Mr. Hill and Mr.
Templeman. More than one of
such said so in public. The race
between Mr. Hill and Mr. Tem-
plemau continued for several
weeks and it was very plain to
even the casual observer that
Mr. Templeman's candidacy was
meeting with euthusiastic res-
ponse. Now listen: When Mr.
Hill took advantage of Mr. Tem-
pleman and announced with the
expressed statement that Mr.
Templeman had said he would
not oppose Mr. Hill, several of
the well known Huntsville politi-
cal mampulators volunteered [do
not forget this] the information
that they were extremely sorry
and only the fact Mr. Hill was a
Walker county citizen precluded
their support of Mr. Templeman,
whom they regarded as a most
fortunate selection if Mr. Hill
were out of the way. This can
be proven if you or anyone else
so desires. Now what did this
same crowd do? Realizing that
Mr. Hill was defeated, they
caused his withdrawal and cast
about for several days for an-
other candidate from Walker
county. What became of their
voluntary protestations to Mr.
Templeman that if Mr. Hill was
not a candidate they would give
him their unqualified support?
What \vas the use of.making any
suck statements if they did not
mean what they said?
The fact is very apparent that
they meant no such thing from
the first. They were imbued
with the one idea T*bat of elect-
ing a Walker County man to the
Senate.
Mr. Dean, their final selection,
made an address in Livingstone,
in which he is quoted as charg-
ing Mr. Templeman right off the
reel with being against the Rob-
ertson law being a capitalist, a
cotton buyer, a stockholder in
insurance companies, and wound
up by stating that a man who
occupied the position in the bus-
iness world that Mr. Tetnpleman
does, could not go to the Senate
untrammeled. In oQter words,
that he could not give questions
likely to come up before the leg-
islature an unbiased hearing.
He might as well charge Mr.
Templeman with dishonesty of
purpose and an onfit man to rep-
resent the people. All of this
belled the foWnor protestations
of the Huntsville crowd and the
very person above all others re
sponsible for the statement that
Mr. lempieinan said he would
■■■■ Mr
Hill in the beginning. There
arv remarks about me personally are nunjerous other reasons for
and at the same time raising the knowing beyond peradventure
issue that my paper was attempt-; that the original idea with the
Huntsville crowd was to first
put Mr. Templeman up a tree,
mo to apeak, then build a fence
they thought he could not
or would not attempt to climb
advocating buHiness men for the | to make an announcement
The race has t>een a most un-
fair one from the very incipiency
of the Dean announcement at
ing to arraign the masses against
| the lawyers (class legislation, as
l he calls it). He could juHt a>
easily stated my exact position, j
’giving my published reason for
legislature at this particular
litical warfare and, while he
was In the race, this pmi>er made
dod, w hich I dp now. that quite [ no reference to Mr
Hill either
in fact
was willing for Mr. Templeman
and Mr. Hill to fight It out along
the lines each had pitched,
which, as we understand it, had
nothing to do with the person-
ality of either candidate.
Mr. Dean jumped into the
arena announcing Mr. Temple-
man's unfitness and charged
him with various and sundry po-
sitions which lie cannot sulwtan
Date and which were exceeding in
ly unfair and undlgnifiAl He w
knows that Mr. Templeman IS] ford
NOT op|NSsd in the repeal of
several|the Koitertaon law. He KNOWS
that Ward Templeman is an hon
or able, hightoned gentleman and
would not engage In any sort of
undertaking which had th* least
s numlwr of the mnet prominent | good, bad or indifferent
lawyers of the state agree with
me fully in my |>uettion.
i The reference to 'Huntsville
Ihjrich off star politicians" was
made advisedly. If you do not
know it, Mr. ('rawfora, ask the
well informed on matters point
cal of this district for the i**t
twenty years and they will t
| you the position held by a small
number of astute politicians Mt
Huntsville In this particular
instance, there are. other reasons
for my reference, among which
I do not mind »a>ing this much
fur your benefit. For
week* jtrior to your announce
merit of either Mr. Templeman
or Mr Hill. It was a mooted
question whether these tw
would oppose each other In thr semblance of trickery or queet>
ton a 19* met hods li* has lino wn
Mr rempleman a|l his life and
meantime, and before Mr Hill
finally announced a friend of
Mr. Hill made s trip t > Navasota. his personal side ta an open buok
and remained her* for a day
jj He met Mr. Trmpleman for a
i few minutes but Said absolutely
not only to these people, but Mr
I lean ^inurlf Way then should
he charge AAr Templeman with
Has Mr. Templeman or any of
his friends, made such a charge
against Mr. Dean? Personally,
the writer would hesitate to
make such a charge against any
man who occupies the position
that Mr. Dean does. Mr. Dean
does not bfejieve that Mr. Temple-
man’s business connections will
unfit him for duty as a legislator,
notwithstanding his claims im-
plied and otherwise to that
effect. Judge Dean is permit-
ting his candidacy to be en-
gineered by a few political grad-
uates than whom the state of
Texas holds none more experi-
enced. The Examiner-Review is
simply telling the plain truth
when reference is made is their
methods and Judge Dean is at
least particeps criminis when he
falls in line as he has done. He
is doing himself an injustice in
charging Mr. Templeman with
connections unfitting him for
service in the state senate, and
nobody knows this better than
Judge Dean. If we thought for
a minute that Judge Dean really
believed his charges against Mr.
Templeman we would need no
further evidence of Mr. Dean’s
unfitness to occupy any position
in which the affairs of the people
are to come up for a just and
equitable administration.
Mr. Templeman is a plain busi-
ness man; he is a farmer of years
of experience and absolute
knowledge of the needs of the
farming industry. He has abso-
lutely NO CONNECTION with
ANY corporation which is likely
to be drawn before the Texas
legislature. Mr. Dean knows
this. He knows (we are almost
tempted to say better than any-
body) Mr. Templen^n’s connec-
tion with the local telephone in-
terests. He knows that Mr.
Tempieman’a local company has
NOTHING to do with the acts
or business of the Southwestern
Telegraph and Telephone Com-
pany farther than those pre-
scribed by law and made abso-
lutely inviolable by the acta of
a Texas legislature. Then why
does he charge that Mr. Temple-
man *8 connection with a tele-
phone company unfit him for the
duties of a representative of the
people. To so charge an oppo-
nent is not only unfair, but a re-
flection upon the person making
the charge.
Certain of Judge Dean’s hench-
men have had the audacity to
charge that Mr. Templeman is
an anti, and that he is being run
by antis of a city outside this
district Every man, woman
and child in Grimes county, and
every politician in Walker coun-
tv knows there is not the least
vestige of truth in this charge.
Is this fair politics? What
would Mr. Crawford do under
such circumstances? Would he
sit quietly by and see a friend
knifed in any such manner and
not answtr his accusers in kink?
The writer of this letter and
any one of Mr. Templeman’*
friends agd political advisers,
defy Judge Dean or any one of
his potiticaladvisers to produce
evidence that Mr. Templeman is
connected y^ith any business
which should justly preclude his
being sent is the state senate
or which is permissible of a pre-
ponderance of evidence tending
to substantiate sach a condition.
So long as this writer is on the
job he does not pro(>o*e to sit
quietly by and aec his friend de-
nounced and almost hit personal
character traduced, without en-
tering a protest. * At the same
time we do not deal in personal-
ities to the extent that Judge
Dean is an unfit person to send
to the state senate, We only
charge that IF Judge Dean be-
lieves that Mr. Templeman is
guilty of the charges he has per*
furred, having access to all the
first hand knew ledge Judge Dean
has, then we are ready and more
than willing to denounce JudA*
Dean as a person not safe to
trust momentous oueetiona with,
a* a legislator is fr
ed uiM>n to do.
While this letter has been ad>
drested to Mr. ( rawford im
(editor of the Normangee Star,
are desirous that Mr Draw
publish the same In his
l*iter. We have aheututelv no
U mg to coin Ml..| II.mG C
rhsrgt-s ti .*l we (am.ot sutetsn
list. VN ’ . I. W« nr r f,.rve*t *
It.*’ lu-« 11 , . t r « h s U|«i_
unjust charges sod charges
which are known to be ground-
loss, we shall retire from Mr.
Templefnaii’* steering commit!
tee and adv toe him to retire from
the race
^ ours very truly
Adv tD K H1.A« K.811 EAR
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