La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday Morning and Entered at the Post Office as Second-Class Matter
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By B. F. Harigel
Democratic in Principle and a Worker For LaGrange and Fayette County
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Volume 49
LaGrange, Fayette County; Texas, Thursday, November IK 1928
Number 44
THINGS IN GENERAL
Remarks by the Editor
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Next Tuesday, November 6—the first Tues-
day after the first Monday in November—the
voters of the Nation will exercise their right
and privilege—if they are interested—in voting
for their choice for president. In the articles
published prior to this date we have, and so
have other papers, referred to the. voting for
“Hoover or Smith.” The voter should under-
stand, however, that he or she does not vote for
Hoover or for Smith direct, but for the electors
that are named on the ballot, these electors car-
ry the message, because of their names being
on the ballot, to the successful nominee of eith-
er jjarty. We refer to “either party”—meaning
the republican and the democratic party—but
there are other, parties mentioned and printed
on the ballot to be used next Tuesday. The
ticket will contain five columns, the first column
•will have the names of the democratic nominees,
the second will have the name of the republican
nominees, the third will have the names of the
communist party and the fourth the names of
the socialist party. The fifth column will be a
column of blanks.
For the help that it may be to the vojters
in Fayette county and elsewhere, to whom the
Journal is being sent each week, we have caused
- to be printed on page five of this issue, a sample
ballot, this ballot contains the names of the
electors and the names of the candidates on
either ticket, who'have been nominated for the
office they seek. The precinct officers printed
and given on this sample ballot do not apply to
. all precincts, which the reader can understand,
without further explanation, the ticket that is
to be used in the precinct in which the voters
i^rrj- .. ■ cast their ballots, wiK hawe these names proper-
ly printed thereon. The object of reference is
further to explain to the voters, that they have
the right to vote as they please. Our personal
preference cannot prompt us to make the state-
ment that they should vote only the democratic
ticket, and we might say that we hope they
will, but to every man and woman is given the
right to vote for the man they prefer, whether
that name be on the democratic or any othei
ticket.
Study this ballot; for your information,
also, we call attention to the right of voting as
follows: If you prefer to vote a mixed ticket,
be sure and scratch the name of the candidate
appearing on either of the three ballots, other-
wise your vote will not count for that candidate;
if one or more names are left unscratched, and
these names are the names of candidates run-
ning for the same office, that part of your tick-
et will not be counted, as you can only vote for
one candidate for any one office. We hope that
this is plain enough to understand. The manner
of marking a ballot is set forth in Article 2981,
of the Revised Civil Statutes of our State, and
- in this article is included the provision for vot-
ing a mixed ticket. We quote here in full
Article 2981, which should be read and under-
stood by every voter who desires to cast a ballot
on next Tuesday:
“When a voter desires to vote a ticket
straight, he shall run a pencil or pen through
all other tickets on the official ballot, making
a distinct marked line through such ticket not
intended to be voted; and when he shall desire
to vote a mixed ticket he shall do so by running
a line through the names of such candidates as
he shall desire to vote against in the ticket he
is voting, and by writing the name of the can-
didate for whom he desires to vote in the blank
column and in the space provided for such of-
fice; same to be written with black ink or pencil,
unless the names of the candidates for which
he desires to vote appear on the ballot, in which
event he shall leave the same not scratched.”
The next in appeal is the statement we have
so often made in this column: “Go and vote!”
There are ten thousand eligible voters in Fay-
ette county, nine thousand poll tax receipts and
about one thousand exemptions; this county in
the last presidential election cast 5548 votes for
Mrs. Ferguson, and 1414 votes for Geo. Butte,
making a total of 6962 votes cast in that elec-
tion. This was considered a good vote, in view
of the fact that we had strong opposition in the
State to the democratic nominee for governor
ai\d the people were being besieged each day to
go"and vote. And yet we fell short of the total
vote by several thousand. There is today, as
was the case four years ago, an apparent state
OUR WEEKLY POEM
AN OLD KODAK OF MY WIFE
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Your friend has given me this photograph
Of you, my darling, taken long ago,
Before I knew you. Your ’contagious laugh
Smiles on me here with all its girlhood glow.
The pines enlaced behind your tossed-back
head
Entreat of out-of-doors and romping plays,
Until my wakened memories are led
To unremembered, bright, imagined days.
Oh, might some law of Einstein bring me here
To meet you so beneath the swaying pine—
Your girlish laughter rippling fresh and clear!
And might your mood but once to me incline
As does today your radiant womanhood!
For heaven allures us not alone with hope
Of that which is to be that we have willed,
But opens backward vistas, where we grope
With past infinities as unfulfilled.
—William Goddard, in the Forum.
of lethargy or indifference, which should not
exist; the voters who are qualified and do not
go and vote have nothing to gain by remaining
away from the polls. There is also to be con-
sidered, this fact: Your failure to go and vote,
and thereby reducing the vote of the county,
will be a harsh reminder in the next state con-
vention, because your convention vote will be
reduced and you will be at the mercy of the big
city counties who never fail to get the voters
out and thus increase their convention vote.
There is no reason why you should not take
time w*t and go to the pafift to cast
your ballot; for the first time since the mem-
oriable campaign of 100 years ago, when Andrew
Jackson made his campaign, the old methods of
villification and Vituperative abuse is being used
again. Campaign literature has been circulated
that has caused libel suits to be filed against
those circulating the falsehoods, and has ac-
tually besmirched the name of the candidate.
It must be a resourceful politician indeed who
can resort to such despicable methods, when he
knows that which he is causing to be circulated
is without merit or truth; yet it is being done,
and chiefly by those who expect to receive cour-
tesies from the democratic party in the future.
It may be a wise suggestion, that the names of
those now resorting to this calumny, be in-
scribed on the “memory book” for they are com-
ing back again, just as, sure as the pendulum
swings back after its forward movement.
We quote here the expressed and printed
remarks of James M. Cox, former governor of
Ohio who, replying to Senator Borah and others,
said in part: “The present campaign is strik-
ingly similar to Jackson's campaign of 100 years
ago. Mrs. Jackson was killed by the poison of
slander; the same passions are present today,
the sneer, the poison tongue, the violation of
the sacred places,of home.” How very true; we
read such absurd and ridiculous charges as have
been made, and hear men, reputed to be high in
business and in professional life, resorting to
the practices of debased politics, creating the
impression in the minds of other nation’s peo-
ple, that we are offering for the highest office
of the United States, men who are fit subjects
for the prison interiors. And yet we orate ot
our glorious prosperity, our liberty and our
ideals. Even the face of a cynic must become
wreathed in smiles when he sees such vile belch-
ings sent broadcast, in the press of this day
and time.
Therefore, go and vote; on next Tuesday,
whether your station in life is charged in the
book of ethics as the least in prominence, you
stand on equal footing with the man and the
woman whose genius, business knowledge and
frugality, speculations or sheer luck, has placed
their names at the head of the list. On next
Tuesday no barrier exists, and nothing shall
prevent you from casting your ballot if you' have
in your possession a voting permit—a poll tax
receipt. If you have lost that receipt, the judges
will soon be convinced, they have a certified tax
list and poll list, and they will have an affidavit
blank ready for you to sign, in the event you
have lost your tax receipt. Be as big as the
biggest and as humble as the humblest, take
your choice of the candidates and o express that
preference, by voting. It is the man and the
CHANGING WORLD METALS
From The New York World
Carboly, the latest innovation in metals,
belongs to a family which is easily recognized.
Capable, it is claimed, of boring threads in glass
and cutting the hardest steel, it is an addition
to the now considerable list of substitutes for
high-speed cutting steel. Sixty years ago steel
was steel, the mere process of making it in
quantity was something of a miracle, and tool
steel was simply harder steel. Such pioneers as
William Sellers had to be content with rough re-
sults in metal-cutting. But industry has de-
manded constant improvement in machine tools,
and the metallurgist has brought forward com-
pound after compound. First there were tung-
sten stel and alloys of steel with vanadium and
molybdenum. Lately there have been substi-
tutes which have dispensed with steel altogeth-
er. To obtain these, various metals have been
combined in new alloys—nickel, cobalt, tung-
sten, chronium and so on—and the possibility
of fresh combinations is no doubt large. We
are told that carboly is an alloy of tungsten,
carbide artd cobalt. It is evidently a close rel-
ative of “stellite,1’ the constituents of which are
cobalt, chromium and tungsten.
The skill of the chemist and metallurgist
with ores and alloys has rapidly been giving us
a new world of metals. The Zeppelin reminds
as to the importance of duralumin. Every kit-
chen cabinet has its stainless steel, which is
steel with chromium. Lately we have been
promised a new method of electrolytic plating
with aluminum from which tremendous results
are expected. Compounds which resist rust,
like monel metal, are familiar to every one in
spite of their comparative recency. And, to go
back a little farther, 1
1880 would never have heard o:
which came just in the nick of time for the
electrical and automobile industries.
woman who remain indifferent, who stay away
from the polls, who will do the growling, later.
Let us finish the final analysis of the pres-
ent campaign; there has appeared in many of
the dailies, a statement of prophecy or predic-
tion, or forecast, just which ever fits as the
name, of how the vote will go in the banner
democratic state of the union—Texas. To all
appearances, and from the figures submitted for
publication, it can be accepted as true that Tex-
as will give Governor Smith the big end of the
vote, some predicting freely that Smith will get
seventy per cent, some being more generous to
Hoover, and favoring his cause although reti-
cent to so admit, give Hoover forty-five and
Smith fifty-five per cent of the total vote cast.
There may be some truth, and fact—yet to b?
established—attached to all of this, we shall
have to "wait and see. One fact remains, the
vote must be counted and until it is counted the
public will not be correctly informed.
Texas voters have become somewhat di-
vided this year; during the past three weeks the
news—which has been very agreeable to the
Smith following—has been that the trend to-
ward Smith is constantly increasing; further,
the announcement that Senator George Norris,
republican of Nebraska had joined the Smith
forces, and would seek to impress the voters that
Smith was the most logical candidate, has added
to the strength of the New York governor, be-
cause the following of Norris is conceded to be
very effective. This also causes the statement
to be made, that the danger of defeat does not
find lodgement in the statement that the defeat
will come from the republicans, but that what-
ever danger exists, is to be charged directly
against the bolting democrats. In other words,
the new Voter—the Hoover democrat—if, his
tribe increases, will harm the candidacy of the
democratic nominee far more than the regular
republican vote. Which cannot be regarded too
lightly, especially here in Texas, where several
of the largest voting strength counties have sent
out the message that they will give Hoover a
majority vote.
Will that cause a reversal of general re-
sults? We do not believe that it will; always
generous even unto a political foe, we cannot
accept the statement as true, that Texas will be
wrenched from the regular democratic majority
column. We have nothing on which to base a
contention that the state will go for Hoover;
this old bunch of soreheads, politicians claiming
to be democrats, and who seek to assist
TAMMANY BIRTHDAY
From The Southwestern Resources
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On May 12, 1929, the Tammany Society
will celebrate its one hundred and fortieth birth-
day, the Society having been established on
May 12, 1789, and been in contiguous existence
ever since.
Very few thinking people will believe that
society that has been so long in continuous ex-
istence is continued for a bad purpose or that
its long record is one that has not the approval
of the people of the country' who really know
something about the great value this Society
has been to Democratic government in the
United States.
During the troublous days at the close of
the Eighteenth Century when Jefferson and his
adherents fought to establish in this country a
Democratic republic in opposition to Hamilton
(and even Washington himself) to establish an
aristocratic republic with a president for life,
and the control of the Union solely in the hands
of the Senate, the Tammany Society was a great
power and influence in favor of the Jeffersonian
idea of equal rights and opportunities for all
citizens. ,
At this date 128 years after the great poli-
tical battle of the year 1800, when Jefferson
was elected president, it would be a fine idea for
our people generally to “brush up” on the his-
tory of Democratic government in this country.
As Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham said in
her address before the meeting of Democrats at
Austin on August 1, “not one person in Texas
in a thousand who votes the Democratic ticket
knows what Democracy stand for.” That is
true, except it might be changed to read 5,000.
While on the subject of learning something
thft best insight to the Democratic origin and
Democratic beliefs is the book on “Jefferson and
Hamilton” of which Claude G. Bowers is the
author. Mr. Bowers is editor of the New- York
World and is a renowned authority on the early
political history of this country. His book is of
especial interest at this time when there is to
be a real fight to bring the Democratic party
back to Jeffersonian principles of government.
Truth to tell, there has been no Democratic
party in Texas for a number of years, the party
name has been used by an Office Holding and
Office Seeking mob—sans reason, sans principle.
Fven as the Republican party in Texas has been
a Political Office Brokerage institution with a
one man control.
It is time, “high time” that in our polities
we should have some principles to hold our of-
fice seekers to, and demand that government be
along the lines of definite political principles.
muckraker in his efforts at slander, cannot, and
will not control the vote in this free state of
ours. We admire the man who is sincere in his
republican political belief, and will ever seek to
keep his good will and friendship; we give to
every man and to every woman the right to
change his or her affiliation, if he or she wishes
to become republican in belief, and so cast a
ballot, palsied be’the hand that essays to stop
them. But—be honest about it—don’t call your-
self an animal that does not exist. Don’t bellow
like a belated bag of wind, and preach democ
racy, love your neighbor and prince of peace
teachings, while still wearing the cloak of pre-
tending democracy. Take example from your
new associates, the real republican who votes
for his choice because he is the nominee of his
party. _ .
What is Fayette county going to do in this
campaign, which is to close by a ballot casting
next Tuesday? The people of this county can
n'' longer profess ignorance of what is going on,
they have read and they have heard the clarion
call to arms; they must admit that they have
learned to know, and to commit to
names of the nominees, and they have It
about the political machinations that have been
exalted in this campaign. They must know, if
they do not, that this is the hardest fought, the
most appealing and the most offensive as
as defensive campaign that has ever been '
They have read and have learned that
nothing too vile for some of the
to resort to, and that, in the light of
no other course remains, but to meet the
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La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1928, newspaper, November 1, 1928; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998349/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Fayette+County%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.