The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 259, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 15, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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son of the
in the city of lCsa^ \ theassad
iv of vto earfe fro l« ft*hs CMIdreai In the Booth
£ ihs North, ! haa! taocMow* and gmettta| fight
for three hoars ev*r the question of Demoofcaoy-- tjto jpntjine *s.
the spurious brand.
Myopp<feent «u Judge John Davis, for twenty years a prac-
ticing attorney it DaUas, and candidate before the <>«-« "*>
primaries tor the highest office in tfco gift of $e P*Pft *
that of United States Senator. Ike Judge is W jt
physically, in Teaaa, standing six foe^lfre in his stoekinf feejt, as
lean as a panther, *el|hs WODOtods, is 88yeara old, and while he is
a giant pfay«My,i*fr equally as big ffltatafly, compared with any
iiuwito As "Damocratie Party that I stfsr met H* is an £**
Tessa prodnet, Von in the pine woods of Angelina county, and
com* t*m the oldest 8authem sto*. ~
Wh0e ire fstght W wild cats, I am glad to say, after I have
partieipatsd in a hsH hundred d*atsa in Jtas, (eerettoga pari<A
Of t***e y«kre,) the Judge is thedeanest Democrat I over defeated
witT*. flttts «t V^egre^tfty' «* 'D*r-
^lieOhareh' Mea that have been told about m And no* only that,
fcs, „ v,'
After onr battle, both thoroughly exhausted; we climbed into
sn auto and weie dileen 96 miles ta ChiUaothe. In the oool of the
evening, While our i&jm, htfrning up the ground, we tamed pleas-
antly M in the rest Mat and it was there and then that I had this
HIMSELF ON THE VJTAL ISSUE.
'How thaisa we have gotten to understand one another, af-
ter four ~)|lat discussions, I want to «s into some questions that we
*ve had not time to develop on the platform, because, of the va,
amount of ground eowr in o r Itawr
that you an frank to th, WrhMt Agree, and now Out we have
leisure I want you to to* ■* Iran the depth f( j-our
heart to haJhe A.gia—iStwb Texha>olttl* today."
Quick aa a flash, the Judge replied:
"The dominant issue Ss of a two-fold character, two great
issues in one, two pence that you can scarcelly separate} but you
might bracket them together, and call them Land and Currency!
"The land must be freed from the vise-like grip of the specu-
lator, to the end that the quarter of a million families, who fce land
renter* in Texas, a number, by the way, which is increasing all the
time, can secure title subject to real homes, and thus
build homes for themselves and loved ones, on the land which is the
gift of God to all mankind. "When they secure this land, they should
receive governmental aid through a system of credits. This is some
thing that is recognized by the Danish, German and Australian na-
tions. Why then should we Texans not see to it that our people re
oeive fejjifri aid to raise their roof tree, secye their stock, buy the
, necessary seeds and all the up to date implements that go with
modern farming. Should we be wise enough in our day and gen
eration to put through such ah enlightened program, then Texas,
that him the richest body'of land within its borders of the entire civ
ilized world, would develop a state that would be the wonder and ad-
miration of all mankind. The rays of the Lone Star would penetrate
to the uttermost ends of the earft. Inside of twenty years we would
have twenty million peopfo, and build sn empire beside, which the
empires of ancient Rdine with all its splendor would sink into in-
significance in comparison.''
PROHIBITION NOT THE ISSUE.
"Thig is the broadest and most statesman like statement I
have ever heard from a Democrat," I said, "but will you explain to
me now if you hold, as I do, although we may differ in detail, that
Land and Currency is the issue in Texas, what is the reason that you
ive placed Prohibition in the platform and mention it in every de-
bate that I have had with you so far."
•'.j The Judge's mind works with the rapidity of a Corliss engine,
so without a second's hesitation he answered:
"I placed prohibition in my platform for the reason that I
am a prohibitionist in principle and practice. I am 38 years old, born
down in East Te^s, where turnip-greens and clabber were my daily
billof fare in my father's house; and up to this good hour, (while I
■know' you will not question my word), my pastor, my wife's kinfolks,
[ partners and friends will vouch for the fact that a drop of intoncat
ing liquor has never passed my lips. I am a prohibitionist. That is
why I placed a prohibitionist plank in my platform, and I want it
from an inch square to world-wide.
"However, Mr.Hickey, you will notice that, ARDENT PRO-
HIBITIONIST THAT I AM, I CONTENT MYSELF IN MY AD-
DRESS TO THE PEOPLE WITH A SIMPLE STATEMENT
THAT IS COMPRISED IN A SENTENCE AND TAKES TWHN-
IT SECONDS TO STATE IT. TttE REASON FOB THIS IS
TEA* I'DO NOT REGARD THE'PROHIBITION QUESTION
A$ JkjNfTpNG BUT OF MINOR IMPORTANCE, AND IS SO
tftJLt OVERSHADOWED IN MY klND BY THE
QUESTION OF LAND AND ClMfeNCY^THAT I WILL NOT
WAST* A MOMENT IN ADVOCATING tT IN THIS CAlfr
pAION. WHETHER THE PROHIBITION QUESTION WILL
SETTLE OR NOT, I DO NOT E&OW; ALTHOUGH I FEAR IT
WW NOT; BUT THIS MUCH t DO KNOW,- THAT WITH
AIAMY LOVE FOR THE PROHIBITION CAUSE, I BELIEVE
IN 'RELEGATING IT TO THE BACKGROUND UNTIL SUCH
^IK® AS EVERY RENTER IN TEXAS SITS UNDER HIS OWN
VlNjE AND FIG TREE, AND TBS POVERTY, PENURY AND
ILLITERACY THAT FLOWS FRtflC THE HOLDING OF FOUR-
FIFTHS OF OUR STATE OUT OF CULTIVATION FOR SPE-
CULATIVE PURPOSES 18 SBT&BD. I WOULD TO GOD
THAT BVERY SALOON IN'AMERICA WAS OUT OF EXIST-
CJE TOMORROW, AND I BEWBVE THAT EVENTUALLY
flr pift ^B, BtJt IT IS THE GREAT ECONOMIC QUE8TION,
THE QUESTION TjHAlT GQfes TO THE ROOTS OF THE HU
MAN HEART, TO THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOME AND
FAMILY, THAT IS THE QUESTION THAT WISDOM DICTA-
TES SHOULD BE SETTLED FWgf, AND IT IS PRECISELY
FOR THAT REASON THAT I FUTURE LAUD AND CUR
RENCY-INSTEAD OF PROHIBITION ''
DANGER TO REPUBLIC.
oeat of the people with but two per
cent of the people with sixty per cent
I seem to be the only opponent, Judge, you have that also fea-
tures land and cnrrency, I remarked. ;
"Yon are right, sir. My other opponents are running on the;
question of PRO and ANT I, the endorsement of President Wilson's
Administration, which administration, by the way, i heartily endorse*,
they do not go to bed rock on the eesnomie problems. They do not
seek to ameliorate a condition that has resalted in placing sixty per
of the wealth and two per
wealth. Yr^eat k five
of my opponents deal with PRO and A NT I and similar trivialities,
while you and I are struggling to remove the economic injustice that
afflicts our people today, and renders our republic in a condition as
precarius as ancient Rome before her downfall.
"When will the Democratic politicians get away from this
I'RO and ANTI fight, and come down to the real economic questions
of the day!"
The Judge straightened himself in the swinging auto, his
hteely gray eyes flashod, and laying a lean sinewy hand on ray knee
he said:
"I am a Democrat by birth and training and tradition. I am
going to stay in the Democratic party apd make a fight for land and
currency. I am so determined that the Democratic party must take
up this issue that if some thoroughly representative Democrat doe* not
take it up, I will announce for Governor in the next primaries on
this issue, and by the God of my fathers, I will, with the assistance
of ray friends, canvass every nook and corner of this State ami spill
out what resources of finance and health,that I possess to swing the
rank and file of the Texas Democracy into s recognition of the eco
nomic question instead of the paltry, picayune measures that have
distracted from the paramount fundamental questions of land and
finance."
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WHY HE IS INTERESTED.
My final question was: "How has it happened that you tako
such a tremendous interest in landf"
"Partly through reading Henry George and everything on
the land question that I jpould get hold o$ since I saw the land ques
tion loom large on our economic? and political horizon some years ago,
Partly through observations that I have made while traveling through
the State in the practice of my profession, hut principally because
of the fact that I was born the son of an actual farmer, in an old log
cabin, down in our glorious old piny woods, and I had learned in e
dim way, whep a boy. that tenantry vyis an evil. And now that I am
a mature man, I am going to grapple with the evil in the hope that
before the Angel of Death closes my eves tenantry will have been
abolished from our State forever-more.'' * .
• • •
Just then the lightg of dhillicothe loomed up out of the dark
ness, and I passed the next few minutes in silence, thinking of the
man beside me 4nd hoping that the day was not far distant when hip
will join that political party that has placed the land question in
first place in Texas, and is beating down all side issues, such as PRO
and ANTI, while we are marching with unfurle^ banners to
goal — THE FREEDOM OF THE LAND.
Keep one political gang in
power for 60 years hand-fanning
and you wHft have what yon hare
in the solid (hose) Donk Booth
and in the Dontenatie state of
Texas. TV Democratic party is so
rotten and a few corrupt insiders
have such1 4 stranglehold over ft
that a decent man might vote for
the aggregation bnt that is slL ffcr
oept by aacident he osanot obtain
a high office from tfiat party.
Should he happen to be elected to
anything above a ooanty cohunia
sionership he ^oes not stay unless,
he becomes properly putrid. He
is either knocked sOt by the riag-
steri ot he just resigns in disgust.
Senator Hugh Hsfris has rSpre
sented Bstt, Coryell and Hamilton
counties Jb the ||ata senate of
Tsaak Hs is ans of 04 fceat men
that we btf* heart 4 in a high
place of the Dembkatle fcaity. Be
did not stand the flirty aeas lohg,
uH is evidenced b^ '
letter of rpstgaalfon r published &]
the Hsrailtott>(flfe) Beetrdeoms
12 i&mths^^ ago! WeK^Wnf the
letter *o that it d(fty be added to
the reeord of evre* ||tiS who
wishes not only to sfepw beyond q
eavil who the free'ftbvan'im,'>dt<
to prove the nttftMHy^af w
CLEAN SWEEP of the Augean
Donk stables of Texas and the
South: -•*,!<
•tsattng for ««* firing ud tke Mi
(!) wotk k tin gsNrtes, sat? gsM«
wwss, *Mt sfttasstAeia fe e ilis^jili
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"MEXICO NOT THEIR COUN-
TRY."
them three day„ to get Washing-
ton Artillery of New Orleans, 140
men and then the Acting Mayor
had to take the soapbox and they
to work every scheme and tell
every lie imaginable to make good.
The following extract is taken
om a letter to Covington Hall by
a friend writing from Washing-
ton, D. C.:
'You say the Texan* are not
rushing to the colors and, I may
1 add, that this is the case the coun-
try over. Here in Washington,
they have opened recruiting offi-
ces all . over town, and the boys
and men come and look in at the
windows at the display, 8pd move
on. If you ask the average man
today, as Mac is always doing,
'Why don't you go to Mexico and
figfct for your country?' they tell
you that Mexico is not their coun-
try, or that they have nothing to
fight for, which shows that They
are waking up a little and thut
there, are yet hopes of something
doing. There is going to be hell
popping when things do start and
the Plutes are getting scared and
worried."
And so runs all the news com-
ing into The Rebel office. It took
Mr Tenant P. Wage Slave: Did
you ever see a Landlord or Capi-
talist with bothjfcps shot off!
Texas Seaau, "TMs Howe af Loras."
*a«ti«, fitL, Ifairshifts.
Hon. L. 0. Peek, Hamilton, Ttt.-
Mj Dear Sir and Prfcmd: Tour Jotter
ot the 15th iaataat juat releired and
your every 'expreosion of confidence
and friendahip carefully noted.
My renignation wu tendered March
18, juat two day before the clone of
the regular atteeion. No ono will ovar
know the pain I have undergone tine*
I entered upon my duties as atata eon
ator for the beet people of Ood'a gretfh
earth. Except my own blood relation,
I have naver loved, nor will I aver
lova, any poople as well aa I do the
people of the twenty-seventh tentor-
ial district, who honored no as men
are seldom honored.' Yon, of course,
well*1 know the pMt veto given ate,
especially in Haihftton and Ball eoan-
ties. My frietods sWSptoay home eoaa-
ty from 800 to l^QQ fesetei majority
than wsa received by ay yw •a^^-
dat* in Bell cowrty. fmv-
thing
every box but one.
I write these great expreaaiaaa of
frleaashlp, not to. boast, but merely
to let you understand that I save sot
for^sa thasMaal
sckaowledge y obligation to >tbeSS fl
Save aot
faialy weU. 1
some
of
then^
1
nobla men, my
I know, s|y
at least, will tWpk, Sis a«*
would as soon ,ba co nsidejed a horse
thief aa. an ingrata. But .tiio die I*
Cast. After care^nl consideration foir
sixty six days and for nights,
the only thing left for aui to do, as SS
honest man, was to resign ■and resign
I did. For verily I ssy asto.yoa, asj
good friend, the Texaa state senate ip
no place for the troa gentlqman. The
man who has titatk and bonasty as a
heritage, and who has the y Golden*
Rule" aa kia guiding star, has but lit-
tle Shaw in the Texas state sonata.
To bo an ideal, op to-date state sen
ator, one must have lota :ef jail, very
little braiaa, fog horn voice and
plenty of hot air? and laat, bat not
least, HE MUST BE A LADIKS1
MAN.
Now, Brother Peek, I will tall yon a
few of tke things that compelled me
to resign. In our caucus, January 12,
a motion was made to allow each sen-
ator a stenographer for his own indi-
vidual use. My vote waa the only n#
gative vote. Wa needed only ten,
heaeo wo hired twaaflv-oae toe away.
i wtn j
Jan as
plated, f bet
year friaad,.*,
Senator Harris
cHssNje^ that'1
ators voted afanesi unanimously 10
establish at STATU BXPRNSE
condition aiming at pr^stithtifo
with the senate chamber, not, to
speak of the fact every senator
gets a steno when one ateno cenld
serve six senators with ease.
The senator said many more
thingH about this rotten state •>*
affairs that hive not appeared in
print. Among . these are two
storice: '''V m';\
L After every senator was pro-
vided with a female stenogrspher.
Senator — resdved word
that' a woman relative waa eomtog
to Austin to vtsHf hiM. He prompt
ly swapped " ldi J^isHy tos^s
stenographer Jar a at4!e stonogra-
phar fh^the Sasploy «f one pf the
senate tjUifludHwa; When his visi
tor #ss go«f*lfe trapped baek."
2. sUtoagra-
phers that aw &^t, hf
of uitosua te^Utbns, -m
TumaJiy Ufcy do-nol stay long.
inkt^co, sh« ?tly:'aft e^h se«a
tor • was alidad #' 'female stebog
rapher, Se^afer Harris in the h>"
noeenee of h?s t srt employed s
nice voting lady lrotm his distriet.
Hpwey^ftp Sbon siw that it woald
not do to l-ftain'Tier sa he had to
stand guard eontinusJly to keep
her
senatorial liAJDlRS MEN.
Ahd the hstf' Wui not been told.
The Rebel tbe balance to
the imagination of the bonheaded
worker who; vote the Donk ticket
because he has been told by these
same' 'cattle "'that the Socialists
will "destroy the home."
or, in other words, wa took $10« out another armed P«ace 1,
"In England only one horror
exceeds the horror of this war—
it is the fear of another anned
peace. If we get back to armed
peace all its evils will be increas-
ed. And we shall not have peace
but more war. 'Deliver us from
- Lord
of the treasury every day for help
that we did aot Mod.
This "olip" Was kept up until we
had over SO empolyes to wait on 31
eenatom Tke house has only about
40 employee. la other words, we are
James Bryce of England.
"Jesus wept".—Must have had
a vision of Billy Sunday goddam-
Ing everybody.^— Don't blame
him. *Tr.
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Hickey, T. A. The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [6], No. 259, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 15, 1916, newspaper, July 15, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth394569/m1/1/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.