The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 74, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1906 Page: 2 of 4
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THE BONHAM NEWS
ESTABLISH CD 1866
Entered at. t.he Postofflce, at Bonham, Texas, as
second-class mail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE
J CLUBBING RATES:
The News and St. Louis Republic...........11.75
The News and Dallas News.................. 1.75
The News and Ft. Worth Record............ 1.75
The News and Bryan’s Commoner........... 1.60
The News and Atlanta Constitution......... 1.75
EVANS St EVANS, Proprietor*
AS M L.E V EVANS, Editor
LET THE BUTTLE BEGIN.
Some time ago it was rumored that the
antis of Fannin county were going to peti-
tion the Commissioners Court for a prohi-
bition election. We did what we could to
discoutage the movement, being pleased
with the way local option had worked dur-
ing the past three years, believing that the
majority of the people af the county were
also pleased, and hence that it would be
sheer folly for the antis to attempt to again
force the open saloon upon the people.
Jbut the movement coatinued, and anti pe-
d*orrs were soon being circulated indifferent
^parts of the county. Word came to us that
^the antis were telling the people in the
country that a majority of the business
men of Bonham were displeased with local
option, and that they were in favor of the
open saloon. To ascertain the truth of the
matter, this writer, as a representative of
The News, drafted a little statement which
read about like this: “We, the under-
signed business men are strictly op*
posed to again having the open saloon
in Bonham, and view with distavor
the effort now being made to have an elec-
tion on the local option question.” We
took that paper to the business men of
^•Bonham, and the number that gladly sign-
ed it was really surprising to us. Instead
of the majority of the business men of Bon-
ham being in favor of the open saloon, as
‘ b'nr anti friends had asserted (and thye is
no doubt but that many signatures were
gotten to their petition on the strength of
• that assertion), we found the truth to be
^ just to the contrary: More than two-thirds
of the leading business men of Bonham—
5J“among the very best citizens to be found V
-here or anywhere—were and are un-
alterably opposed to ever again having the
^^>peni»loon in old Fannin.
When publication was made of the true
sentiment of the business men of Bonham,
.we had hoped that the antis would see
• haw foolish it would be to go any further
in their efforts to get the saloons back,
and that perhaps they would not file their
petition. Instead, they seemed to become
. more desperate, and one of their gang here
in Bfnhaip. in speaking of the matter,
said: “Yes, we’re going to file that peti-
tion *nd have that election, if we can’t
can:* the county! The prohibitionists have
given us trouble, and damn ’em, we’re go-
in’ togive them a little!” So, the petition
fi was filed, and the election has been ordered.
Now—what are you going to do about
it?
So far as we are concerned, we are ready
for the battle. As the old lady said, if we
could have had our “druthers,” we would
not have gone into a prohibition fight this
year, but if we must we can, and do it
without flinching or batting an eye.
. Decency, law and order, the best class of
the people, the schools, the churches, the
rigbt, God Almighty—all those things are
on our side, and why should we be ashamed
or afraid to take a stand and stay on the fir-
ing line until victory perches upon our
banner?
The first lie of the antis has already been
nailed—the business men of Bonham did
the work, and they did it manfully and
well. *=^Ve shall do our best to nail them as
they come, for eotne they will; they always
do.
The antis cannot base their claims upon
the grounds that saloons make more legiti-
mate business for a town, and keep it alive
even in the dullest times, for our neighbor,
lair Paris, who has more than thirty sa-
loons and two wholesale liquor houses,
throws up her hands and cries: “Hold,
hold, brother! Pray t«U me why I got such
a black eve? If saloons bring business to a
town and keep it alive in dull times, pray
tell me why there are so many vacant
houses on the square; why so many of my
best business men have gone to the wall
during the reign of the saloon?”
They^annot base their claims on the
groutrolhat saloons increase the number
of desirable citizens, for every school toy
in the land knows that the saloon, gamblers
and houses of ill fame go in the same
bunch. It only increases the number of
thugs, bums, deadbeats and pimps—the
verv scrapines of humanity.
What about the political phase of the
question—do saloons better conditions po-
litically? Not on your life! Saloons are
considered such a dangerous element in
politics that the statutes of Texas provide
that they shall be closed on election days.
The? have contributed more, perhaps, to
corrupting the ballot box than any other
one thing. They are as poison to the
body politic.
Whaf about the moral phase of the ques-
tion? Surely no<one will be so idiotic and
so debased in their nature that that will
attempt to argue that saloons better the
morals of any community. The idea is
preposterous.
The antis havea bsolutely no sane grounds
upon which to base their claims. They
know they have been getting the worst of
of the deal during the last three years—
especially the last two—and they want to
scrap somebody.
Well, brethren, you’ll find The News do-
ing business at the same old stand, and in
the same uncompromising way. Entrenched
behind the impregnable breastworks of
Right, we’re going to turn on the enemy
the best guns we have, and as sure as God
reigns and “the truth is mighty and will
prevail,” we believe that yictory will be
ours—a victory of which we will be proud,
and one which the antis will remember to
their dying day.
Let the battle begin! We are ready for
the fight! Or as that familiar character in
Shakespeare would say, “Lay on, McDuff,
and damned be he who cries, ‘Hold,
enough!’ ”
John A. MrCall is at death’s door.
Twenty-three days from now and the
tale will be told.
Which is the worst, a drunken son or a
drunken son-in-law?
Do you you want a government run by
the brewers and distillers?
The battle will soon be on in earnest.
Are you ready for the fight?
Do you want Fannin County turned over
to the saloon keepers, gamblers and thugs?
The campaigh is on, and every man in
Fannin county is expected to do his Whole
duty.
“If every new convert would a sinner go
after, Let him screw up his courage and go
after the grafter.”
Armed with the truth and the right, the
prohioitionists of old Fannin must go forth |
to conquer or die.
Don’t you owe your children something
in the wav of keeping evil temptations from
them? Don’t you think prohibition is the
moral side of the question?
Do you honestly believe that prohibition
has been the cause of the excessive rains
and poor crops in Fannin county for past
four years? Or has it been the cause of
the high price cotton?
Now’ for some good, honest work. The
prohibitionists of Fannin county must first
organize and then go after the enemy in a
cool, deliberate, determined way, and yic-
tory is sure to crown their efforts.
March 10th is the day set by the Com-
missioners’ Court for holding the prohibi-
tion election. That will be only 23 days
from today. Let every prohibitionist in
the county get busy. Let that lie as a cor-
onation day.
W hich side of the list is your name go-
ing to be on in the coming election? Are
you for prohibition or for whisky? Are
you going to get into the crowd with the
saloon keepers, the gamblers, the thugs
and lewd women? They all cry for whisky
and a wide open law. They all run in the
same bunch.
If prohibition does not prohibit, why do
the antis Wknt it voted out? If they can
sell more whisky and make more money
selling whisky now than they could before
prohibition went into effect, why repeal it?
We know they don’t mind violating the
law; they have no regard for the law and
are trying to bring it into disrepute.
Japan is threatened with a famine. The
people in the northern portion of the “Land
of the Rising Sun” are on the verge of
starvation. The Japanese people have ap-
pealed to the people of the United States
for aid, and in response to that appeal
President Roosevelt has asked the people
of this country to come to the relief of their
friends across the sea.
was sold at every cross-roads? Don’t you
believe that a sober boy will come nearer
succeeding in life than one who drinks, and Q .
make a better husband for your daughter?
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Bar Association Remember
the Late Chas. D. Grace.
Judge Bradley, in his speech on whole- Following are the resolutions
sale graft recently delivered before the Qf respect adopted by the Bon-
County Judges’ Convention at Dallas, made ham Bar Assocition to the mem-
see ms
say another word, but I do
to enter one more word of
some quite serious charges. As a result,
the papers of the State are clamoring to be
‘cited,” and they are right. If the Judge
‘knows whereof he speaks” he owes it to
himself, to Fannin county, to the State of
Texas and to the cause of good government
everywhere to give the facts corroborating
his statements. The fact is, the place in
which lie should speak is the grand jury
rocm.
‘Blind Tigers” may get a black eye
from the national congress. The Ways and
Means committee has reported favorably on
a bill requiring Internal Revenue Collectors,
on application, to furnish state officials
with certified copies of license issued in any
given territory. A companion bill to the
above prohibiting the shipment of liquor
from other states into local option districts
will also be reported in a few days. It is
certainly to be hoped that these measurers
will be passed. Under the present regime
the people have quite a difficult task to per-
form in order that they may enjoy the
blessings of local self-government. The
people express themselves as being opposed
to the sale of intoxicating liquors in any
«giyen precinct or county, and then the gov-
ernment ignores that expressed will of the
majority of the people by licensing men to
go into that prohibited territory and tram-
ple under foot the laws of the soverign peo-
ple. It permits wholesale liquor houses
out side of the state to ship liquor into lo-
cal option districts contrary to the will ol
the people residing there. This is not
right! It is contrary to the purpose and
intent of the great founders of our govern-
ment, and it should not be countenanced
any longer. If our representatives in con-
gress do their duty they will e^cert every
effort possible to bring about these changes.
If those in congress from Texas fail or re-
fuse to so exert themselves, the people
should see to it that they are retired, and
that more desirable men are sent there in-
stead. Let these changes be made—the
quicker the better for Fannin county, for
Texas and for the cause of local self-gov-
ernment.
ory of the late Chas. D. Grace:
To the Hon., W. A. Evans, Presi-
dent of the Bonham Bar As-
sociation:
Your committee appointed to
prepare suitable resolutions in
memory of our late friend and
associate, Major Charles D.
Grace, submit the following re-
port:
Major Grace wTas born in Troup
county, Georgia in 1841, and com-
ing to manhood enlisted in the
Confederate Army, and made a
gallant soldier; came te Bonham
in 18G7, formed a partnership
with Col. R. H. Taylor in the
practice of law, this partnership
continuing until about 1872, after
which he continued the practice
until failing health forbade.
As a private citizen, soldier, as
road overseer, as mayor of the
city of Bonham, as State Senator
and as an attorney of this bar, he
always performed his duties
fearlessly and with credit and
honor to himself and those he
represented. .
In his religious belief he was a
member of the Methodist church
i be r of
all his/ttfe. a constant attendant same mud hole, is why they got
and p liberal contributor to his j so bad, and the roads are so nar-
chqrch at Bonham. row that there is no other place
Asa friend and associate he to go. Many of them not over
was always kind and agreeable. 15 or 20 feet, taking out the ditch
quick to resent^an insult and al- on either side,
ways forgiving and bearing mal-’ The surface dirt in our sandy
ice towards not one. While he country makes a good road when
was human and necessarily had j the water is kept off of it. and if
his- faults, his virtues were so | the roads were wider and then
bright? as to make his whole life | drained they would never get so
shine in undimmed splendor. He { bad as they have been this win- *01 RePresentatlve No. l
was noble, he was brave, he was ter. This would greatly remedy
chivalrous. He would not brook the matter and would be better
an insult and for his unsullied
honor he ever stood ready to of-
fer, if need be. his life as a sac-
rifice. And yet his heart was as
as tender as a woman’s, and for'
More Good Roads’ Talk.
Ravenna Tex. Feb. 13, 1906.—
Dear News:—So much has al-
ready been said, and so little
done for the betterimn of our
roads, that it seems useless to
want
___ _. pro-
test against that $150,000 bond
proposition. I think The News
is right. First, settle on some
plan, then estimate the cost and
then it will be time enough to
consider the bond quetion.
To carry out some of the plans
that have been suggested it
would take the revenue of about
three counties to fix the roads in
one, and then probably not have
any roads. We want something
that is practicable and won t
bankrupt the county to get it.
We ought to see the- defects in
the present system and profit
thereby.
In the first place the roads are
all too narrow. Our law says a
first-class road shall be 60 feet
wide, and many of them are not
more than 30 feet wide. This is
one great cause of the present
distress. If these roads were 100
feet wide, it would give plenty
of room on either side for a good
drain and then have room to
dodge the bad places, as they be-
gin to get bad, then these places
would never get so bad, because
all the wagons following in the
same rut and dipping into the
Beautiful
Teeth!
IIow often we hear the re-
mark, "Oh, what beauti-
'ful teeth she has!” Bad
teeth destroy what would
otherwise liea beautifully
curved lip a handsome face
Smiles
l>erray the condition qf
your teeth—if they are ir-
regular you need not dis-
pair. They can be staight-
ened by means of artificial
methods. Call and see me.
All mv work is guaranteed
and the tilling is done
without pain,
DR.F. C. ALLEN
OVER HUB CLOTHING STORE.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
COUNTY OFFICES
For County Judge—
T. J. Self
Henry Cunningham
Rosser Thomas
Will Harkins
For County Attorney—
E. L. Agnew
For Sheriff—
Philip Wise
For Tax Collector—
M. B. Crowson
Tom Lovelace
Jeff Davis
For Tax Assessor—
Chas. B. White
For County Clerk —
W. A. Thomas, Jr.
Jno. T. Fitzgerald
Pat Heury
For District Clerk—
Fannin county must go through the
throes of another prohibition election. The
antis have brought on the trouble them-
selves, and now it is up to the good citizens
of the county who believe in decency and
law and order to see to it that they get
such a lickin’ that they won’t have the
heart nor the gall to bring on another elec-
tion for many, many years to come.
If education doesn’t put a person on an
t Ip
upward road intellectually, socially and
morally, why expend so much time and
money in educating the children of today?
The word education is derived from the
Latin word, “duco,” meaning to “lead” or
‘draw,” and with the prefix “e,” (which is
an abbreviation of “ex,” meaning “out”
‘from”) it means to “draw out,” “lead
out.” So education means the drawing or
leading out of one’s natural abilities. To
draw out the natural powers of the child
until it becomes a well-rounded character,
its triple nature, physical, mental and mor-
al, must be developed -that is what a real,
genuine education does for one. If educa-
tion does this, the person educated is not
only led out of the darkness of ignorance
into the sunshine of knowledge, but there
should be implanted in the breast a desire
to be with the very best people—people who
are educated and refined, arid more espec-
ially should this be true when the young,
educated person begins to think about
choosing a companion for life. We believe
that this one thing does as much, if not
more, than anything else to cause unhappy
homes, and fill the dockets of our courts
with divorce cases—the failure to keep the
right company. A beautiful, educated and
refined young lady comes back from college,
where she was recently among “the sweet
girl graduates,” and prettv soon she
shocks her friends and brings sorrow and
disappointment to the hearts of her parents
by marrying a fellow several rungs on the
ladder below her, who doesn’t know B from
bull’s foot, and who will take her to a home,
if a home at all, where she will have to
live a life tar beneath one of her dignity
and deserts, and she will be tied to a man
who cannot possibly ever be a real com-
panion. Now we don’t mean that because
a fellow isn’t educated he should be looked
down on by those who are—no, not that.
Some of the very best people in the world
are uneducated, in the sense in which we
use that word today. Nor do we mean that
because a fellow isn’t educated he shouldn’t
marry—no. not that. He, if he is a gen
tleman and an upright man,
to a wife. But what we do mean is this:
For a man and woman to really live happi-
S. P. Smith
M. A. Bridges
Frank Blair
R. B. Alderson
For Treasurer—
W. E. Newton
J. A. Thomas
For Representative No. 2-
and cheaper than experimenting • Sam FLt’artner
at a cost of $130,000, for most of For County School Snptarlntehdwt
the land owners would give the1
land.
Another defect in the
present
the sick, the dying and the dead system is the inefficiency of the
his . services were ever ready, law. The road hands under the
Neither man nor devil did he present law ought not to work
J. L. Gragg
E. F. King
W. F. Keeton
fear but to his God with pro-
foundest reverence and in meek-
est submission he always bowed.
the roads, because they are not
any more liable to road duty than
the overseers* and the overseers
As members of the Bonham do just as they please, and they
Bar, who have been associated generally please not to work
with him for a number of years, them in this part of the country,
we desire to place on record our and if you say anything to them
testimony to his industry and about it, they either iaugh at
ability as a lawyer and his worth you or give you a “cussin.”
and meritjas a citizen and friend; I know one man who never
and therefore recommend the warned out a single hand for a
following resolutions: i single day and didn’t even make
First. That in the death of a report at the end of the year.
Major Charles D. Grace this bar Then why should the hands be
has lost one of its oldest, ablest made to work? Citizen.
For ('ot ton Weigher at Bonham—
A. J. Crittenden
For J ustice of Peace Precinct No. 1-
Geo. H? Stephenson
For Commissioner Precinct No. 1—
O. W. McLennan
E. Wise Adams
O; M. Biggerstaff
James A. Agnew
J. S. Wolfe
For Commissioner Precinct No. *—
W. W. Slagle
O. R. Mitchell
For Constable, Precinct No. 1— J
Bob Allen
O. B. Fincher
and mo§t distinguished mem-
bers. The city and community
one of its most useful and highly
esteemed citizens and his wife
a kind, loving and faithful pro-
tector.
Second. That by reason of
New Justice of the Peace.
Justice Jno. T. Fitzgerald has
set an example that some people
think Judge Brooks and Com-
missioner Colquitt should follow.
Having announced as a candidate
CANDIDATE CARDS
of all kinds. When in need of
anything in this line, call and
see us, or ’phone 106.
THE BONHAM NEWS
the intimate association of each for another office, he has resigned
member of this bar with our de- the one he held,
ceased brother, and the esteem Though the Hon. C. A. Wheel-
in which he was held, his loss er was not an applicant tor the
falls most heavily upon us as wp place, the Commissioners’ Court
have sustained the loss of a val- unanimously elected him to serve
ued personal friend. out the unexpired term of Mr.
Third. That we tender the he-1 Fitzgerald. Being a lawyer of
reaved wife our sincere syrnpa-j several years’ experience aud
thy in this hour of affliction and i practice in the different courts of ‘
direct that a copy of these res the county, Mr. Wheeler will be
olutions be transmitted to her. able to take up the duties of his
Fourth. That a copy of these | office and perform them faith-
resolutions be presented to the fully and well. lie will not move
District Court of Fannin County his law office, but will remain
and placed upon the minute.*? of over the First National Bank as
a member of the firm of Wheeler
and Cunningham, and will con-
tinue to give special attention to
notary work, pension
and probate matters.
A NEW FIRM
J. M. Bennett
John Clark
same.
Respectfully submitted,
R. B. Semple.
H. E. Taylor,
P. C. Thurmond,
H. G. Evans.
T. A. Barron,
A. P Barrett,
Travis Lipscomb.
Bennett & Clark
Mr Clark has purchased Tom Cole-
man’s Interest in the Blacksmith
and Woodshop of Coleman & Ben-
nett, and new firm will continue
the busidess in all its brancees,
and asks a continuation of the
patronage of the many who luive
work to do in our line. >->
We l*ive a first-class hors^shoer
and blacksmith and all work is
guaranteed at reasonable pi ices.
Shop at old stand of Coleman A
Lee.
BRHIIETM CLARE
Petition Withdrawn.
Yesterday afternoon a gentle-
he is entitled j man from Dodd City*, who has
been quite active in the good
roads’ movement as regards the
, . issuance of S150.000 bends, went
ly together, they must be companions; thev4. , ..
. . . . ... , ' before the commissioners court
business j ° ? ^
and the!,tors unceremoniously departed.
firm will continue their general ** hunters from any part of the
practice as. heretofore. Mr. countJr come down and bring
Wheeler will only use the office their dogs’ they’n ** treated roy-
' at the court house to transact his the McGradv home, be-
business as Justice ot the Peace. s‘des having sport in chasing
— -— wolves. The people in this coni-
Wolfe Hunters Wanted. munity are anxious for these
Special to The News. prowling, mischievous animals to
Telephone, Tex. Feb. 15, ’On. ^ l>ut ou* c°tnmision.
Wolves are getting so plentiful! tome on. hunters, with your
horns and dogs!
getting so
in this community that
they are
are
His First Drink.
Paducah, Ky., February
Really now. be honest: Isn’t the moral
tone of your neighborhood better than it
was when whisky was sold over the counter
in Fannin county? Do you have as much
anxiety about your boy or girl when they
go away from home as you did when whisky
. , , uciuic me LuuiimsMuncrs court J
must be on xometh.ne I,ke the same pl»ne. and wUhdrew the pet,tion a eetti„K very bold. They ...
“ ::de \ t'Tni sstrtsfcsit, «*-
tirne and money in ^ an educauon, j ^ ^ I " IMS
Therefore, it follows that an educated and So the bond issue question is Last ni*ht some of these sly of what is said to be his first
an uneducated person cannot really live |seltle<1 animals visited the chicken fami- dnnk‘ Ivery, ’ with a crowd of
happily together. We believe that one of — -— * ——- . ly at the home of Perl .McGradv [°utl8: men> went. to .Metropolis
the chief causes of unhappy homes and! The John Ingram Place and proceeded to make them- thereto?ourchlsld a^l.v1 of
hence one of the principal causesof the m- On Center Street opposite the selves at borne by slaying some whisky. Young I very drank from
stitution of so many suits lor divorce, is > opera house at $2500 is a big bar- of the fowls. , . , , Irum
the failure of the young people of today to gain. The lot fronts 129 feet and | The sound of the dog and the pissing fromTstete of ^lcofoHc
recognize and act upon the truths above
stated. Young lady, better be very, very
careful. You, too, young gent.
has a deoth of 147 feet. 9-room
house. Fine cistern and well,
Evans & McKinney.
wolves lighting arroused the
young planter, but before he
could get any scalps, the sly vis-
coma to death.
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