The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 86, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 20, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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Entered at the Postofflce at Bonham,
Texas, aa second-class mail matter
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Tear.............One Dollar
Six Months..............Fifty Cents
Three Months.....Twenty-live Cents
ADVANCE
CLUBBING RATES
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New* and Port Worth Record
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COMSTOCK A OICUS. Proprietors
C. B. COMSTOCK. Editor
L. E. DICUS, Butlnoo* Manager
A MOST IMPORT AMT OFFICE
11 its last issue Thk News
published a summary of the last
artntbly report of the County
Auditor, and also a brief compar-
ison of it with bis first report
made four and a half years ago.
It seems to The Neks that this is
worth more than a casual read*
in? of it may make apparent. It
Is wor:b while to give tin ught
to the significance ot some tilings
in connection therewith.
When the county auditor’s of-
15c: was created to certain coun-
ties in Texas, it was looked on
with much disfavor by many peo
pie and met with misgiving and
complaint on the part of many
county officials. Som^ of them
looked upon it as a reflection on
themselves and an unwarranted
prying into of their official work.
Many officials who were honest
looked upon it in this way. and
if there were ttaoie who didn’t
happen to he honest they op-
posed it for other reasons. It
was claimed that it was a useless
waste of the people’s money to
pay an officer who was not need
ed, and those who were not in a
position to know the necessity of
it were easily mislead by this ar-
gument. The tax payers, as a
rule, know little of the way the
business affairs of a great coun-
ty like Fannin are carried on,and
they have little conception of the
innumerable wavs in which the
county's money can be uselessly
expended under a haphazard sys-
tem, even where the officials are
strictly honest and conscientious.
Much less do they know the op-
portunities for the misapplication
of funds should dishonest men
be elected to office, and the next
to impossibility to detect them
under a system where there is no
. heed and where each man checks
op his own affairs to suit him-
self. No county in the State has
been freer from graft and cor-
ruption than has Fannin, but
even it has suffered some from
dishonest officials, very tew,
though, has been their number.
Had the present efficient business
•▼stem of the county been in ope
ration under an auditor these in-
staec:s of dishonesty would have
been impossible. But it is not
aearlyso much because now and
end then a dishonest man may be
in public office that creates the
necessity for the auditor’s work
as if is that always a great enter-
prise that calls for efficient work-
ers and large expenditures of
mouey to conduct it must have a
head and an effi:ient system for
conducting itsv work. It is just
aa reasonable to expect that a
great mercantile establishment
would be conducted economically
and successfully where each clerk
was empowered to buy what he
pleis:d for his department with-
out any co-operation of the
others and without any manag-
ing bead for the entire business
as it is to expect the business of
s large county to be conducted
nnder the same kind of a system
The practical workings of the
county auditor’s office has dem-
onstrated so clearly the good re-
sults tollowing that the spirit of
opposition manifested a few
years ago is giving wav to one
of approval. Manv of the coun-
ty judges a few years ago were
opposed to the creation of the
office, but so marked has been the
change among those now bolding
this position in the various coun-
ties, that at the meeting of the
County Commissioners and Judg-
es Association in Fort Worth a
lew divs ago a resolution-was
pasted asking for laws to extend
the au litor’s work to all counties.
Those not now having popula-
tion enough to warrant an audi-
tor are to be combined into dis-
tricts to be served by the same
audit >r, as districts are now
served by district judges. None
art m better position to know of
the good results of the work of
the auditor than the commission-
trt and judges, sod the fact that
they so commend the place to the
people i^ proof of its benefits.
So far as this countv is con-
cerned, we teel safe in saying
that that no county official would
have the office abolished, and the
results of the work our auditor
has done speak so powertully for
themselves that we do not be-
lieve any number of our people
would be willing to have us go
back to the old system. While
his efforts alone have not brought
the county from a condition bor-
dering on bankruptcy to one of
affluence in less than five years,
they have contributed much
towards it. Our expenses are
less, our tax rate is little more
than half what it was, and our
cash on hand is greater than ever
before. Besides this the entire
business of the countv is done in
a svstematic manner, tbe con-
dition of every office in tbe coun-
ty and tbe work it is doing is
known to a certainty,and the bus-
iness of ?he county is shown in
detail as perfectly as that of anv
well conducted private corpora-
tion. All these things are made
apparent by the report of the
county auditor when we read it
carefully and thoughtfully.
One thing more—the direct
savings brought about by his
work has far more than paid tbe
salary ot the office, so that the
tax payers have not been called
on to pay one cent additional for
its support.
A DIVERGENCE OF VIEWS
“If I can leave Washington
without neglecting mv public
duties, I shall go home within
the next thirty days to assist in
organizing a campaign against
Gov. Wilson.because he does not,
in mv judgment, fitly represent
Democratic principles.”—Sen. J.
W. Bailev ot Texas.
“I favor Gov. Wilson for no
personal reason, but because I
believe his nomination and elec-
tion will best serve the people ot
tbe entire country. Gov, Wilson
stands for sane progress, for a
square deal, for justice to all, and
at the same time tor a govern-
ment of law under tbe constitu-
tion ’’—Sen. Hoke Smith of
Georgia.
There are two estimates of the
man. They represent the differ^
ences in the sympathies and
alignment to different interests
of the men who uttered them.
They differ as widely as the polls.
What do you think of them?
Which is the sounder and better
view?
The Editor feels verv grateful
to the correspondents for tbe
many newsy and interesting let-
ters, which he has received dur*
the past week.
There’s one thing in Cone
Johnson’s favor in his race for
tbe senate—bis opponents can
not say any meaner things about
him than have already been said.
The editor of The News was
dut of town all last week, and is
not to be held accountable for
what appears in this issue. Tbe
office devil got in his work while
the editor wis gone.
In his announcement for Dis-
trict Clerk, W. J. Swenney if
Hunt County says: Being a pot r
man, mv property consisting of
a wife, five children and a cow,
I am making this race hoping to
better mv conditions.
Martin Dibs of Texas made a
savage assault os Mr. Bryan tbe
other day. But so before him
did Mark Hanna, Wm. Guffev,
Roger Sullivan and others of
their kind. S > will every friend
of the predatory interests in both
parties.
The only surprise that could
come to the people of Texas that
would be greater than that
c *used by the withdrawal of Con-
gressman Sheppard from the ?en*
atorial race would be the sur-
prise that would come should
Jake Wolters be elected fill
J. W. Bailey's plac*.
Hon. Morris Sheppard an
nounced last week his withdraw-
al from the senatorial race on ac-
count of failing health, and stat
ed that when his present term in
Congress expires he will retire to
private life. This was i great
surprise to both his friends and
his enemies- The one de» ply re-
gretted it the other welcomed it
peith pleasure.
Ip there are good reasons why
the Democrats of Texas should
nominate their governor, con-
gressmen, judges and other of-
ficials by direct ?ote, do not the
same reasons apply to the selec-
tion of their nominee tor the
presidency? What good reasons
can be advanced against a presi-
dential primary by a Democrat
who believes that the people and
not the political bosses should
choose their officers? ,
Col Wolters announced that
he was glad be was not going to
have to beat Sheppard for Sena-
tor, for he “knows he is going to
be elected and is going to make
Texas a good Senator.” But since
Cone Johnson . has announced
Col. Wolters may later 'conclude
that being attorney for tbe Pull-
man P.ilace Car Co. is better
than being Senator. The liquor
interests and the Pullman car
monopoly which he has served so
well, will doubtless do all they
can to make him Senator, but the
Democratic voters of Texas may
not see it just the way these
trusts do.
Col. Jake Wolters. in view
of the strenuous work ahead of
him in bis campaign for United
States Senator, has resigned bis
position as attorney for the Pull-
man Car Co. in Texas. However,
he is foresighted enough to have
his law partner appointed in bis
place- The Pullman Palace Car
Co. is one of those “good” trusts,
but still a few friendly senators
and congressmen in office are not
calculated to make it suffer any
Dollars todougnnuts that we can
guess iu one guess who will re-
ceive its secret influence in tbe
Ti xas Senatorial campaign.
The News is in receipt of a
letter from the Harris County
Campaign Committee that is
pushing the candidacy of Judge
R. A. Pleasants for the place on
the supreme bench now occupied
by Judge Ramsey. We know
little of Judge Pleasants, but
since we note that Jonathan
Lane, John Henry Kirby, O. T.
Holt and a lot more of the same
ilk are on his campaign commit-
tee we shall have to have much
strong proof to convince us that
the Judge is the man for the
place. Praise from such men is
enough to damn any man who
seek so important an office.
Senator Bailey has ann< unc-
ed his opposition to Gov. Wilson
tor president, and says that it he
can find time he will come to
Texas to help organize a cam-
paign agaiust him. He gives as
reasms for his opposition to Wil-
son that he lavors the initiative
and referendum and that if nom-
inated he knows that he can not
b: elected. He savs that Wilson
can not carry New York, and
that without New York the dem-
ocrats can not elect the president.
Senator Bailey accuses Wilson of
inc insistency because of changes
in his views. Senator Bailey
fails to state that Governor Wil-
son does not favor applying the
initiative and referendum in Na*
tional affairs, but has simply ex-
pressed his belief in these as ap-
plied to local and state affairs.
The senator accuses Wilson of
seeking to sacrifice democratic
principles for the sake of victory,
and yet in the next breath be as-
serts that Wilson can not be
elected because New York will
not support him. What has New
York always required as the
price for support of the partv?
Simply to let New York name
the candidate and write the plat-
form. Again, if Senator Bailey
complains of tbe inconsistency/o!
Wilson because he mav have
changed some of his views on
questions of state, how can he
claim consistency a necessary
qualification tor a man in public
life, when all Texans remember
his own raidical change on a
question of paramount impor-
tanc in this state only a few
brief months ago? Senator Bailey
has a perf.ct right to oppose
Wilson, but he ought, in justice
to His own intelligence, give bet-
ter reasons than these advanced
for his opposition.
IT* BAKING
POWDER
SEE how much better it
make* the baking
SEE how much more uui-
form in quality
SEE how pure—how good
SEE how economical—and
SEE that you get Calumet
At your
Orooorfa
made by the tR^L
. U*’ efr
BAKING POWD^
his controlled New York for
m ny years, and Senator Bailey
tells us that unless the demo-
cratic partv can select a candi-j
date to suit Tammany that it j
can not carry N -w '.Y 'rk. and if |
it does not carry New York it can
□ot win. Tammany cares for tbe
partv only to perpetuate its own
reign. If Tammany controlled
in Washington as it does in New
York our National debt would
soon be great enough to stagger*
even the Republican party.
The Rogers News proclaims
Editor Will H Mayes of the
Brown wood Bulletin as a winner
for lieutenant-governor. There
is hot a better man in Texas
thau Will Mayes and he would
make a splendid lieutenant-gov*
ei*hor. The Enterprise is for
him, and it the rest of the news-
papers will do a little pushing he
will be elected.—Cameron Enter-
prise.
We understand how Texas will
profit by having Will Mayes in
the lieutenant-governor’s chair,
but we can’t hgure out where
Mayes will profit by being lieu-
tenant-governor.
to get just that much further
away from Clarksville,
New York City alone owes one
billion dollars more than the pub-
lic debt of the Uuited States.
New York has a ooosterclub, no
doubt, ot the most up-to-date
type.—McKinney Examiner.
If accounts be correct the prin-
cipal cause ot this immense in-
debtedness is the fact that many
millions have bgen wasted by the
city government grafters to keep
themselves in power. Tammani
Editor Comstock of the Bonham
News was in the city Tuesday
and spent several hours here
looking at one of the best towns
in North Texas. He was given
a drive over tbe citv in a motor
car, and pronounced it the pret-
tiest town he had seen since com-
ing to Texas, and as pretty as
any he bad seen anywhere. Ed-
itor Comstock is a pleasant gen-
tleman and a goad newspaper
man, and we hope be will favor
Honev Grove with another visit
in the near future—Honey Grove
Citizen.
We were a little uneasy when
we let E litor Comstock get
loose, but we see from the above
that he is a diplomat and can
take care of himself anywhere.
Any man who can go to Honey
Grove and say it is the most
beautiful town he has seen in
Texas is well enough versed in
the art of diplomacy to represent
this government in the court of
St. James or any other country
where it takes lots of polite lying
to get along smoothly. He can
make any explanation he chooses
when he gets back.
If there is a lack of confidence
PAID FOR ITSELF IN ONE YEAR
An Account of One Man Who Bought a tract
of Fannin County, Land and Paid for
It With Profit of One Crop
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• •
l Exchange Comment J
• •
The Clarksville Times says an
aviator flew from Bonham to
Sherman last week and wants to
know wherein he bettered him-
self—a pertinent inquiry indeed.
—Weatherford Herald.
The aviator did not want to
better himself in anv way except
0
We know a man who purchased what is known
as a cheap farm some distance from Honey Grove
last spring, paying $27 an acre therefor. The land
was thickly set in Johnson grass, a grass that has no
doubt been cursed more than any alien plant that
ever found root in Texas soil. This farm has
already paid for itselt, and did it by growing the de-
spi -ed Johnson grkss. Enough hay has been sold
fr m the place to pay for the land, tbe cost of saving
and marketing the hay, and the taxes on the farm.—
Ilonev Grove Signal.
We know of another instanc: of exactly the same
kind, except that in this instance the man paid $35
an acre for his land and his crop of hay netted, him
$4S. These, perhaps, are exceptional’ instances, and
not every man can expect to do so well as this. Cer-
tain it is that not long will ihere be opportunities to
buy land at a price that will enable the purchaser,
under anv conditions, to make one crop pay for the
land. Prices ar,e going beyond that. Manv old--
timers think land is already tdo high, remembering
the dav when they could buv our best land for fiv- or
ten dollars all acre, . but ceitalp it is that our rich
lands have not yet reach, d anything like the prices
they are going to bring in the near future A single
good crop will result in an advance of from ten to
twenty-five oer cent in our lands. We are confident,
from experience acquired in a lifetime residence here,
that we are giving sound advice in saving to every .
man who wants a home, that now is a good time to
buv —better than six months or a vear from mow will
be Ot course we-should like to sell you, but whether
you want to buy from us or anybody el-e, find what 4
you want and buv it now.
We have, one place ot 213 acres, partly rich black
land, and all good land,that we consider very cheap at
$35, the price asked. It has two sets of good im-
provements, one set being extra good both as t<^
house, barn and-i^FTiouses It is in four miles of
Bonham. C in’(t give possession .this year, but we
aie Koing to sell it to some uian who wants a good
home cheap. 1* you are interested, we will drive you
out any day (except Sunday) to see it. *
EVANS & PRITCHETT.
Office in Bonham News Building.
We Are Now Located
in thetold World Building,
southeast corner square.
Bring your prescriptions
to us. Our stock is fresh.
We need your business.
Saunders Drug Company
in the democratic party today
the party, and at least some of
the leaders, have onlv themselves
to blame. To this paoer’s wav
of thinking there is too much
concern as to who’s got the thim-
ble? Or, in other words, who
can win. A certain element in
the party spend their days and
nights in going up and down the
country hunting out tbe man who
can get the votes. This proposi-
tion should be tackled from an-
other viewpoint. The party has
certain principles that differenti-
ate it from ot^er political parties,
and men who best represent these
principles should be chosen as
standard bearer, regardless of
whether the? can carry this state
or that. To be sure votes are
most important, but vou can’t
get votes by chasing them from
one state to another. Stand true
to a principle and trust to people
indorsing the principle.—Ander-
son County Herald.
These leaders (?) are the ones
who look on the Democratic par-
ty simple as an agent to bring
them to the pie counter, or a« the
instrument to be used in further-
ing their private gains. They
care naught for principles. They
are not the ones who can see
that it were better for the party
to suffer defeat with a clean, pa-
triotic man on a clear-cut, honest
platform, than to achieve victory
with a leader who truckles to tbe
special privilege class and runs
on a platform of broad generali-
ties whicht means\anything or
nothing as he chooses to construe
it.
i 2/our
\ TJonffue
^Tells you that that oavl-
* ty in your tooth la grow-
ing day by day.
11 Why do you put off hav-
ing it tilled or the tooth
crowned?
TThrough fear of pain?
There will be no pain if
1 do the work. The work
will be well done—posi-
tively guaranteed to give
you satisfaction.
ICome in some day and I
will cheerfully examine
your teeth freeofoharge.
TMy prices will not pro-
voke.
: 0/, C, jftUn
West Side of Square
Marriage Licease.
H. Cooper and Miss Lizzie Les-
ter.
J. A. Nelson and Mrs.
Smith.
S. M. Blair and Miss
Eva Baldwin.
. R. W. Beard and Miss L'zsie
Moses.
J. A. Griffith and Mrs- O. M.
Douglass. 3
Bell Downing and Miss Helen
Stephens.
Will Fowler and Miss Attic
Peel
W. R. Sebastian and Mrs
Grace Dassey. *
COLORED.
Clide Coleman and Ora Brown.
Willie
Mable
On a “peace footing,” the
American army has cost us $1,-
897,000,000 in the past fourteen
years, and. while we’ve heard no
little of the extravagance of our
rivers and harbors appropriations
charged to the War Department,
only $337,000,000 ot the truly Ladies’ Waists at half price at
enormous sum is accounted for in Graham, Crawford & Co.
that way. If the nearly two bil- < - ■ ■ ■ ■
lion is tbe cost on a peaceful
footing, we can but shudder at
what it would be on a war toot-1
ing, thanking our stars, in the
mean time, that we are a peace-
able nation.—Denton Record and
Chronicle.
We are a peaceable nation all
right, but we have to spend mon-
ey to keep our jingoes read? to
fight, and incidentally to support
the powder monopoly, our gun
manufactures, our armor plate
makers and ship builders. The
army has bad no need for so vast
a sum of money, but our infant
industries have had.
Court News.
Nina McElrath vs. Jack McEl-
rath, divorce. Plaintiff granted
divorce, given custody of minor
children and $325 and costs of
suit,
J. B. Stallings vs- T. J. Cole,
case continued.
Jasper Wst vs. Bonham Elec-
tric & Gas Co. et al, cause contin-
ued till next term.
Ara Stewart vs. Robert Stew-
art. P.aintiff granted divorce.
Josie Turner ys. Wiggens
Turner. Divorce for plaintiff
and custody for children
The Planters National Bank ol
Honey Grove ys. Frank M. Win-
ters debt, foreclosure. Interlo-
cutory by default vs. dtt. F. M.
Day and Ivan B, Irwin, cause
continued as to dtber parties.
Mr. M. J. Hewlett .et al vs, J.
A- Thompson et al. Jury failed
to agree.
Charged With Forgery.
K. D. Steward (col) stepped
into the First National Bank
yesterday morning and presented
D. W. Swennev, the cashier, a
check of which Mr. Sweeney had
doubts as to its genuineness. He
told him to come in, in a little
while after he had collected it.
Upon bis second visit to the bank
he found himself face to face
with the sheriff instead of the
cashier and instead of receiving
cash as he expected, was con-
ducted to the Countv jail.
It is stated that this same
party is wanted at Paris and at
other places on the same charges.
FREE IMHAIIS ,
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fied with the MedieiM We
We are so positive that our
remedy will permanently relieve
constipation, no matter «Jiow-
chronic it may be, that we offer
to furnish the med'cine at our ex-
pense should it tail to produce
satisfactory results. It is worse
than useless to attempt to cure
constipation with catharticdrugs*
Laxatives or cathartics do much
harm. They cause a reaction,
irritate and weaken the bowels
and tend to make constipation
more cbrBhic. Besides their use
becomes a habit that is danger-
ous.
Constipation is caused by a
weakness of tbe nerves and mus-
cles of the large intestine or de-
scending colon. To expect per-
manent relief you must therrfore
tone up and strengthen those or-
gans and restore tbem to health-
ier activity.
We want you to try Retail Or-
derlies on our recommendation.
They are exceedingly pleasaat to
take, being eaten like'candy, and
are ideal lor children, delicate
persons and old. folks, as well as
for the robust. They act direct-
ly on the nerves and muscles of
the bowels. They apparently
have a neutral action on other as-
sociate organs or glands. They
do not purge, cause excessive
looseness, nor create any incon-
venience whatever. They may
be taken at any time, day or
night. They will positively re-
lieve chronic or habitual ccnsti*
pation. if not of surgical variety,
and the myriads of associate or
dependent chronic ailments, if
taken with regularity for a rea-
sonable length of time. 12 tab*
lets, 10 cents; 36 tablets 25 cents;
80 tablets, 50 cents, bold in
Bonham onlv at our afore—-Tbe
Rexall Store The
Drug Co.
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