The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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Friday, September 2, 1904
House Furnishing Company
K composed of Charles Halsell, T. R. Caldwell, Ed Weathersby and Howard Fewell
keep the biggest line of Furniture and House Furnishing Goods in Fannin County.
B}* enlarging' our business we are able now to buy all
classes of goods in car-load lots, thus enabling us to bur
cheaper than others who purchase in smaller quantities. We
propose to give our customers the Aenefit of this saving,-
which will be no small item.
We now occupy a building 50x150 feet, double decked all
round, and have it full of goods. We *are building a ware-
house 40x100 feet, which we will also fill with goods. Our
object is to be able to completely furnish a home from cellar
to garret. Whatever you want, we will have.
\\ e want the patronage of the people of Fannin County,
and we are going to merit it by carrying the line of goods
they want and selling it to them at as reasonable prices as
any legitimate business house can make. On these grounds
we ask your business. *
We cordially invite you to come and see us. We shall always take pleasure in showing you over our house
The Halsell & Caldwell Company
NORTH MAIN STREET
BONHAM, TEXAS
Bonham Jpetus.
ESTABLISHED 1866. _
Entered at the Postoffice, at Bonham. Texas,
as second-class mail matter.
.SUBSCRIPTION ------SI.00 PER YEAR
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CLUBBING RATES.
The News and Dallas News...............$1.75
The News and St. Louis Republic........ L75
The News and Globe-Democrat..........1.75
The News and Ft. Worth Record.........1.75
The News add Bryan's Commoner....... 1.60
The News and Atlanta Constitution..... 1.75
EVANS & EVANS, PROPRIETORS.
A SHLEV EVANS, EDITOR.
could say nothing good of Dem-
ocracy or see nothing good to
come out of it. These men and
these journals without exception
wilfully violate one law because
it does not suit him, or because
it is against his financial interest
to observe it, -/ill violate any
CAN THE PRESIDENCY BE BOUGHT?
In a recent article contributed
to one of the leading literary
journals of the country, Walter
Wellman discusses in a most en-
tertaining way, “What It Costs
to Electa President.” Mr. Well-
man is a newspaper writer of
more than ordinary ability, and
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one who has had extraordinary
opportunities to learn many
things in politics that are hidden
from the masses of the people.!
Mr. Wellman estimates that,
counting all expenses, the cost of
the convention that nominated
Parker at St. Louis was not less
than $2,500,000. This expense
was borne by the party and the'
friends of the candidate nominat-
the ton, by threatening the busi-
ness interests, by actually paying,
through their workers, for the
votes delivered. Who believed
then, and who believes now, that; represent great amounts of capi-J other law on the statute books
Mr. Hanna, with no larger cam-1 tal* The standard oil magnate, j foti the same reason. No good
paign fund than that used by- Jno. D. Rockefeller, is said to citizen, no matter what his views,
Chairman Jones, could have be friendly to Roosevelt,'but his
secured McKinley’s election? Not friendship can end suddenly if he
a man who knows anything of
the contest. Mr. Hanna’s millions
bought the presidency for Wm.
_.i j j forced for the next two years,
McKinley.' In 1892, when Wm.
C. Whitney and the interests be-
hind him, wanted the election of
Grover Cleveland, they raised a
bigger campaign fund than the
Republicans did, and the)- elected
Mr. Cleveland. In no other cam-
paign since the war did the Dem-
ocrats have more money to use
than the Republicans had. ’
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will encourage violations of the
law. If the Advocate and its
finds it to his interest to end it. j friends, who fought so valiantly
It looks now as if the Democratic [ for the open saloon, will strive
party can be of service to the' as earnestly to have the law en-
men whose money and influence j forced for the next two
decide elections, and if these in- they will have the blessings of
dications be true, when election the good people of Lamar and
day comes Alton B. Parker will,the approval of their own con-
defeat Theodore Roosevelt, a sciences, which is the m6st eom-
thing to be desired, no matter fortlng thing a man ever carried
who is instrumental in doing it.
COMMENDABLE COURSE.
During the contest that had
Mr. Wellmatl^mav be right in : been £°‘ntf on in Lamar county
his conclusion that no rich and and whlch c,osed Saturday night,
ambitious man can purchase the!the Pans Advocate editorially
nomination and election to the
presidency, but that does not
prove that enough rich and sel-
fish men who seek to further
their own ends can not or do not
purchase the presidency- for the
party of tl\eir choice.
Only once in forty years has
the party- with the least money-
ed. The writer does not take in- to- use in
to account the immense amount
of money that was used in many
states to secure instructions for
Parker.
One of the most interesting,
and at the same time, most ques-
tionable conclusions that Mr.
Wellman draws from his own
statements, is that the presidency tion.
c*n not be bought. To sustain doubt
tfcis conclusion, he cites the fact
that W. R. Hearst in the recent
campaign spent as much as $1,-
500,000, and then succeeded in
securing only about one-fourth
pi the electoral vote. From this
he argues that a rich and ambi-
tious man can not buy his way
to the presidency.
a campaign elected a }
president, and that once was
when Cleveland m^s first elected.
Following his election he was de-
feated for a second term. In his
the Paris Advocate
opposed prohibition in many
strong articles, and used all its
i influence to induce the people to.
vote against the law. But when
1 the votes were counted and the
Advocate learned that it had
made a losing fight, it contrib-
uted another article to what it
conceives to be the public good,
and for which it is to be com-
mended. We take the following
extracts:
It remains now for the prohibit ion-
ists to make good their claims that
around with him. Moreover, they
will find that tht evil conse-
quences to their town that they
fear will follow the enforcement
of the law will prove to be en-
tirely- unfounded, and they will
see Paris a more sober, more con-
tented, more prosperous town
than it ever was before.
Don't complain about the
times. Better spend ttye time in
the cotton fields.
If Port Arthurvkeeps on fall-
ing, some of these days it will
get to the bottom.
Brick
Lime
Cement
- Lumber
Paint
Coal
P)ON T buy any building
material only from
STEGER. It is the only
yard in Bonham that keeps
your money in Fannin
County.
WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS
STEGER & CO.
shop. The
his way-._
gentleman went on
What a pity that Elbertas don’t; and an
last all the year round!—Denison
Herald.
Not so. The Herald
would
third race the men who wished a j cocinty, and it devolves upon the good
change made in the 'standard I 'iti?en?h“!. °.f thf. even ,he
money of the county contributed
prohibition is the best policy for the ttalk itself to death about them.
a great fund and secured hiselec-
There is small room to
that the monied interests
of the country contribute the
money for the campaigns and se-
cure the election of the man most
desired. Many- of the great cor-
porate interests frequently con-
tribute to the fund of both par-
ties, expecting thereby <o secure
favors from the successful one.
Thus they seek to insure success
In strong contrast w-ith this is f°r themselves,
the statement he makes that in Mr. Hearst may have attempt-
1899 the Republicans were com- ed to purchase the presidency,
pelled to raise a campaign fund, | but that he failed wa^ not be-
estimated by Mr. Wellman at not! cause of the effort, but because
less than six million dollars, other monied men representing
while Bourke Cockran, who was | great financial interests did not
in the employ of the Republican want him to r^reive the Demo-
party during that campaign, |cratic nomination or be elected.
antis, to aid to their utmost In this
realization. All laws are made to be
enforced and every loyal, law abiding
citizen of the county, however he may
disapprove of a law, must uphold its
enforcement as long as it is on the
statute book. This is the essence of
Democracy. ******
The pros have carried the election
and they are entitled to the oppor-
tunity, without hindrance or obstruc-
tion to show that their policies are
the best for the city and the country.
It is the part of the antis as their
duty to the city and country tdaid
them honestly and zealously in this
work. If the operation of the law jus-
tifies the claims made for it neither
the city nor the country will be hurt,
and if not, just as certain as time rolls
around, the
The glory of Arkansaw is fad-
ing. Only this week a sheriff
ex-sheriff at Marion en-
gaged in a duel, and neither of
them got a bullet lodged in his
anatomy. Arkansaw will soon be
no better than France.
other candidate for office, but we
didn’t know before that the loss
of a leg would be any advantage
to a man in a swimming match.
Xo farmer who raises a good
variety of cotton this year ought
to sell his best seed, but ought
to save enough of ihem to plant
next season. 1
David B. Hill announces his
intention to retire from politics
after January- 1st. This reminds
us of the sixth farewell tour of
Madame Patti.
Every farmer who has planted
the improved early cotton ought urban line is now
to save enough seed out of the
early- picking for himself and
neighbors to plant next year.
The Chicago press looks upon
the mobbing of a negro for rape
as an unparalleled outrage, but
seem to think mob law justifiable
in Chicago when a negro at-
tempts to do honest work that
another man wont do. The
Chicago press has high ideals o
life.
Puck and the New York World
rectify any ■££ b°th f°r P"ker for »"»id«‘-
made the statement on the floor
of the House of Representatives,
that it was fifteen million dollars,
Mr. Hanna used to encompass
Mr. Bryan’s defeat. To offset
this enormous sum, Chairman
There is a man who suited
them better, and that man is
Parker. Just whv, we can not
say. Perhaps they believe they-
cag use him to serve their ends;
perhaps they desire to prove that
Jones used scarcely a million and if the Democratic party will do
a half in his campaign for Bryan.1 as they command, it can elect the
A large part of tfiis was contrib- president and have the offices,
uted by over 100,000 men in sums j but if it follows real leaders of
of from 25 cents to $10.00, while' the people, who believe as Bryan
the bulk of Mr. Hanna’s million's | did, that this government is for
came from the heads of great the whole people and not the few,
corporations in New York, Penn- that the party must meet-defeat,
sylvania and Ohio. Half the
enormous fund with which to de-
bauch the nation came from New
York City. In that memorable
campaign the Republicans won
by using enough money to carry
the doubtful states. They won
the votes by hiring speakers and
workers, by using literature by
However that may be, the indi-
cations are that the majority of
the monied men are going to con-
tribute liberally to the Demo-
cratic campaign fund this year,
and help to secure the election of
Parker. Many valiant Republi-
cans and Republican journals are
for Parker, who four years ago
been, or may be made. The Advocate
is for law and order, and for the en-
forcement of all laws made by the
people.
We commend the Advocate for
these utterances. We have never
had any sympathy for that class
of people, on either side of a ques-
tion, who will seek to injure or
hinder a town or community be-
cause the majority of the people
have done something that it
does not indorse. Unfortunately,
there is always a class in a good
town that would willingly see it
suffer in a business way because
the people have voted out the sa-
loons, and who will aid in every
way they can to cause it to suffer.
Bonham has a few men of this
class, and so has Paris, but we
are glad that they are so few-.
We have still less respect for
that other class who violate the
law, and for those who secretly-
sympathize with and abet them
in their efforts. We have ob-
served that the man who will
Now if he can be elected, we
shall know that he is a winner
in any- kind of' a handicap race.
T he people of Borham will
have some sympathy for the In-
diana hoosiers when they learn
that the Hon. A. W. Calhoun has
gone there to carry- the state for
Roosevelt.
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And now comes the man who
predicts an immense'cotton crop
in Texas. Here is a prophet who
will soon be without hotior, not
in his own county- alone, but in
every other one.
Mr. Woodson, the promoter
of the Bonham-McKinney inter-
believed to be
at least a first cousin to Alton B.
Parker. This judgment is form-
ed on the way- he has been talk-
ing for the past ten days. Like
Alton B. he will get there at thp
proper time.
At an election in Lamar coun-
ty- last Saturday the local option-
ists won by a majority between
300-and 400. Two y-ears ago the
county went wet by- over 500 ma-
jority. There is talk of contest-
ing the election on several
grounds. As the anti leaders
rarely ever fail to contest an
election, it will not be surprising
if they contest this one. Perhaps
the election in no county in the
State has excited greater interest
among the liquor dealers of the
State than this one did.
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The farmer who has “raised a
good corn crop ought not to rush
it on the market now. * At least
not much of it, for the prospects
arc that a little later on he wijl
get a better price for it.
An automobile ran over a Tex-
as Republican in Chicago the
other day, and when the thing
was over they had to lift the ma-
chine off and cary it to a repair
The merchants o f Bonham
ji
must keep in mind the fact that
they- can’t get rich selling goods
to each other. The men on the
farms and in the fields must be
induced to spend their money
here. One of the best ways to
get them to do it is to use the pa-
pers they- read in which to offer
them the goods they have to sell
The hardest thing we will have to
show homeseekers will be our roads to
the country homes. Here’s room for
agitation.—Paris Advocate,
i The Advocate has put the best
side to view. The other side is
that this winter the softest thing
we’will have to show our home-
seekers will be our roads, and
when they are softest they are
hardest.
A man with one leg won the
race in an endurance swimming
match between Brooklyn and
Coney island. We have known
numerous instances where a one-
legged man could outrun any
Menominee, Mich., has a girT
hero to whom the admiring citi-
zens are to give a medal for her
bravery. One day last week a
party of five children were out
on Green Bay in an open row
boat, when a terrific storm came
up. The storm was so severe
that the waves ran thirty feet
high, and large steamships re-
fused to leave the# port. Out in
all that storm, and in the dark-
ness of night, this girl heroine ^
rowed the little boat and the five
children across the bay to safety.
The winds and the waves buffet-
ed them about as it would a
straw, but wilh: all the heroism
a human will and body are capa-
ble of Gertrude Sawyer handled
her oars and fought for the lives
there was none other to save—
fought till the flesh was bleed-
ing and raw on her hands, and
never for one moment relaxed
her efforts until her precious crew
was safe on land. Oh! the world
is full of heroes and heroines—
and perchance the latter far out-
number the former.
Cotton has been
good price this week,
bringing a
price this week, and has
been advancing. The average
price for the week has been more
than ten cents.
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1904, newspaper, September 2, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982232/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.