The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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The Crockett Courier
{«sued weekly from tbe Courier Building.
W. W. AIKEN, Editor and Proprietor.
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.
Obituaries, resolutions, cards of thanks
íud other matter not "news" will be
charged for at the rate of 5c per line.
Parties ordering advertising or printing*
for societies, churches, committees or or-
ganizations of any kind will, in all cases,
he held personally responsible for the
payment of the bill.
banking, farming and practicing
law—should so far forget himself
as to give expression to the thought
i attributed to him.
nature with us all,
with morbid appetites for scandal,
to not want to believe those things,
especially in the heat of a campaign.
During campaigns things are said
and done that are regretted by the
conscientious afterwards. So the
Courier did not want to believe Jim
Huerta and could have been kept
out of Mexico if it had been desired
to bottle up the Mexican ports with
It is human ; our battleships. A blockade could
except those have no other construction than
a declaration of war and a desire
to interrupt pending peace ne-
gotiations. But when it became
known to Huerta that arms and
ammunition were to be received by
the Mexican constitutionalists at
Tampico, Huerta gave notice that
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Courier is authorized to make
the following announcements for
office, subject to the action of a
democratic primary:
For Congresman-at-Large
R. B. Humphrey
of Throckmorton County
For District Attorney
J. J. Bishop
of Henderson County
J. E. Rose
of Anderson County
For Representative
Nat Patton
J. R. Hairston
For County Judge
C. M. Ellis
E. Winfree
G. B. Wilson
For County Attorney
B. F. Dent
For District Clerk
John D. Morgan
For County Clerk
O. C. Goodwin
A. S. Moore
For Tax Assessor
John R. Beeson
John H. Ellis
H. P. English
For Tax Collector
Geo. H, Denny
For County Treasurer
Ney Sheridan
For Sheriff
R. J. (Bob) Spence
O. B. (Deb) Hale
A. W. Phillips
For County Superintendent
J. H. Ros8er
Jno. N. Snell
For Commissioner, Prec't No
W. L. Vaught
Oscar Dennis
For Commissioner, Prec't No. 2
Charles Long
J. C. Estes
G. R. Murchison
For Commissioner, Prec't No. 3
J. P. Sanders
J. A. Harrelson
J. H. Jones
For Commissioner, Prec't No. 4
C. B. Isbell
J. W. McHenry
For Justice of Peace, Prec't No. 1
E. M. Callier
C. W.'Ellis
For Justice of Peace, Prec't No. 6
1 T. R. Hester
For Constable, Prec't No. 1
Hal Long
C. C. (Buck) Mortimer
R. E. Hale
Ferguson made any such utterance ¡ he would block the port with his
and was glad to see a denial from battleships and prevent the landing
him, which he made at Gatesville
and Hamilton. At one or both of
those places he denounced the
statement and said that he had a
letter from Rev. Mr. Shuler and
that Mr. Shuler was supporting him.
The Courier thought that* Ferguson
had been treated unfairly and
wrote an editorial to that effect.
But since then the former Temple
pastor has written two letters, one
to Home and State and the other to
Ferguson, reaffirming the state-
ment as attributed to Ferguson and
disclaiming his support of Fergu-
son. He says that he is Ferguson's
personal friend, but that he cannot
support Ferguson for governor; and,
in effect, that Ferguson has pre-
sumed on his personal friendship in
claiming his support. Home and
State has, besides, secured a num-
ber of affidavits at Temple in sub-
stantiation of its charge. In se-
curing the affidavits, Home and
State's representative was seriously
interfered with by Ferguson's assis-
tant campaign manager and a
brewery representative. Now
one regrets more than the
of the shipment. His battleships
left Puerto for Tampico to put into
effect the blockade. But the United
States gave notice again that Mex-
ican ports must be kept open and
began to line up her battleships to
prevent the blockade. Realizing
that his bluff was promptly called
by President Wilson, Huerta got
"cold feet" and announced that he
had decided to not block the port
of Tampico.
A man may vote for Ball and
against submission. Such a vote
will be in the interest of local op-
tion—local self-government—and a
strict regulation of the liquor traf-
fic. A man may vote for Ferguson
—and it does not make any differ-
ence whether he votes for or against
submission, the result will be the
same. Ferguson says that no
liquor traffic regulation will get by
him. Vote for Ball and against
submission.
Don't
to
in your pocket here
in order to pay for
what paint, etc., you
need. In the first
place, our paints,
etc., come in all
sized cans and pails,
so you don't have
to buy more than is
required. Then our
paints go much farther than the ordinary kind and
last twice as long. See the saving?
Gasoline, Lubricating Oils,
Cup and Transmission Greases,
Free Air
King's Drug Store
Townspeople are working roads
no \ and crops in many sections. If you
Courier i have nothing to do in town, go out
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WE MUST BE FAIR TO ALL
that the campaign has sunken to
such a low level. Let it be said to
the credit of Tom Ball that he has
taken no notice of the incident, pre-
ferring to devote himself to a dis-
cussion of more meritorious issues.
The worst feature of the Ferguson
proposition is this: That Ferguson
puts his own financial interests
above all else. But this is not
strange when it is considered that
he has accumulated a fortune in a
few years, banking, farming and
practicing law. That he has done
so may add lustre to his financial
capacity, but it will not add lustre
to his standing as a candidate. It
is not necessary for a manato be a
financial failure to be a good can-
didate; in fact, he should have
made a reasonable success as proof
of his worthiness for public trust.
But a man whose principles center
in his pocketbook is not a good
man for the governor's office. If
these things against Ferguson are
true, as seem to have been proven
beyond a doubt, then to give them
'a political offset It will be necessary
for Ferguson and his, friends to
claim that the Ball people, fearful
of losing ground, have resorted to
slander as their last hope of injuring
Ferguson's candidacy. That may
and help some former out of the
grass, Or, if you have an automo-
bile, you may know of some bad
place in the road that needs fixing.
If so, get some of your friends into
your automobile and go out and fix
it.
Colquitt has not taken the stump
for Ferguson, as he announced he
would do. On the other hand, he
has cancelled his appointments for
speaking. His change of mind is
said to be the result of Ferguson's
charge that Campbell's and Col-
quitt's administrations were both
failures.
An optimistic view in regard to
crops is overspreading towns, vil-
lages and country with two weeks
of sunshine. The sunshine makes
a wonderful difference. With the
showers that usually come in July
in contemplation, crop conditions
&re greatly enhanced.
have a better political effect than a
. simple denial by Ferguson. But, Saturday, June 13, at
The Conner wants to be fair tofwe repeat, Iet it 3aid t0 the
all and deprecates any campaign ; credjt of Tom BaU (hat he has
mud-slinging. We regret that a taken n0 notice of (he XeTO ,e local
previous utterance, made m the ¡ üon jgn inddent aithough
heat of a local campaign, should be I Ferguson ha9 ,03t
no opportunity to
brought into the campaign for gov- slander Ball because of Ball's mem-
emor. But we must be fair to all, ¡ bership in two Houston clubs.
and in justice to Home and State,
published at Dallas, we must say
that it has proven-its case against
Jim Ferguson. -Week before last
Home and State credited the fol-
lowing language to Ferguson, which
it alleged he used during a local
option campaign in Bell county in
1909, giving a Methodist church
bulletin, published in Temple at
that time by Rev. R. P. Shuler, now
pastor at Austin, as its authority:
"If these cigarette-smoking boys
want to go to hell, let them go.
>Our business has to be taken care
•of. My pocketbook is my prin-
ciples." The Courier was slow to
believe thát a man of Ferguson's
capacity—the capacity to accumu-
late a fortune in a lew years of
fluerta's bluff was called by Wil-
son. At the time the United
States made certain demands on
Huerta, which Were refused by
Huerta and which resulted in our
taking Vera Cruz as an act of re-
prisal, or to prove to Huerta that
we meant what we said, the United
States gave notice to the world that
all ports of Mexico would be kept
open to the shipping of the world.
Pursuing this policy Huerta's army,
although this country had soldiers
Local option carried in Walker
county by a majority of seven or
eight hundred.
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Notice to Candidates.
All candidates for county and
precinct offices are hereby called to
meet at the couit house in Crockett
2 o'clock p.
m., for the purpose of arranging for
a campaign of the county, and for
the transaction of such other busi-
ness as may come before said body
at this time. You are hereby re-
quested, each and every one, to be
present in person, and on that date
you will be required to pay your
assessment gnd all candidates are
requested to come prepared to pay
the saríie. %
I. A. Daniel, Chairman.
J. G. Beasley, Sec.
"The Winning of Latane," a
drama, was presented at the Air-
dome theatre Wednesday evening
by local talent for the benefit of
the Methodist church pipe-organ
fund. The cast of characters in-
cluded Misses Ruth Berry, Alice
Foster and Maude McConnell;
Messrs. L. K. Meriwether, Carl Mc-
Gee, Roy Baker, Gail Leediker,
Mark I King Winfree, John Cook,
Lawson Keene, Jim Berry and
Frank Foster. The play was under
the direction of Mrs. J. D. Woodson
and Mrs. A. M. Decuir.. There were
vocal solos by Miss Lenore McCon-
, nell and Mrs. J. P. Hail. Nearly
every seat in the Airdome was
; taken, and all said that it was good
to be there—that they enjoyed the
entertainment.
i Get Rid of the Torment of Rheumatism.
¡ Remember how spry and active
I you were before you had rheuma-
l tism, backache, swollen, aching
1 joints and stiff, painful muscles?
! Want to feel that way again? You
| can—just take Foley Kidney Pills.
For they quickly clear the blood of
! the poisons that cause your pain,
| misery and tormenting rheumatism.
! —W. A. King, successor to I. W.
' Sweet. Adv.
Chamberlain's Colic, Colera and Diarrhoea
Remedy.
Every family without exception
should keep this preparation at
hand during the hot weather of the
summer months. Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem-
in Mexico, was permitted to receive ec|y *s w°rth many times its cost
imported arms and ammunition at
Puerto Mexico, a Mexican seaport,
with the knowledge of, but without
the interference by, this country.
The shipment was much needed by en.
when needed and is almost certain
to be needed before the summer is
over. It has no superior for the
purposes for which it is intended.
Buy it now. For sale by all deal-
Adv.
Everybody Have Their Clothes
Gleaned and Pressed
Special Prices
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Suits cleaned and pressed
$1.00
Suits pressed
50c
Coats scoured and pressed
75c
Coats pressed
35c
Pants pressed
15c
Pants scoured and pressed
35c
All Work Is Guaranteed to Give
Satisfaction
We wash all of our clothes in gasoline be-
fore scouring. This softens the cloth and
brightens the color. Then after the clothes
are dry we wash them in gasoline again.
Then we are sure that every part of the gar-
ment is clean and no duét left in it. This
process is the latest—just from Europe.
Give us a trial and see that you will get the
best work you have ever received. Bring
your clothes by and let me clean^them and
then if they are not first-class in every
spect the loss is our's.
re-
JOHN H0RAN
THE TAILOR
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Aiken, W. W. The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1914, newspaper, June 11, 1914; Crockett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177746/m1/4/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.