Show BAILEY REPLIES TO 10 DETRACTORS i 4 Texas Senator Has Never Been Employed to dard Oil Interests SLANDERED ONCE BEFORE POINTS TO HIS RECORD IN CON CONGRESS CONGRESS CONGRESS GRESS I Dallas Tox Sopt Sept 25 A long statement vax aR ai tonight by Senator Jo Joaeph 3 o AV W V Bailey In reply to criticisms of him and his record which have been cir clr circulated Nl tad during the past tow few days dYS is The statement begins The Democrats of ot Texas have not for Kotten n that exactly this same amo kind of ot a fight fl ht was made on mo me When I was first to the senate six years ears ago Af At te I had won the In hi n a u fair before the people e a coterie of ot dissatisfied politicians made a desperate attempt to defeat my election by the tho th leg ture Tho The present agitation was large lv l Inaugurated by the tho same Bame men mem with outside assistance and Is predicated upon exactly the same game transactions Fako Interview I First The first stop step In this campaign of mal and detraction was to have a purported Interview with Roger Sullivan of or It Illinois assailing me sent broadcast over ever the th country r Mr Sullivan promptly Denounced that Interview as a falsehood Tha 1 he no t top stop was to circulate the false hood that the tle t e Tennessee railroad proper properties properties ties t H for which I am the attorney belongs t the Standard Oil company compan Some Somo of or lh men who are circulating that story know now mid find all of ot them could have learned rt th very ery little Inquiry that the tho Stand ar fI Oil OH company compan had no Interest In or con conn n t lion with these properties and that 11 I Py PV were owned by H C Pierce J C Van Yan Blarcom W H Thompson and many t leading business men of St Louis Employed as a Lawyer I oncoming his connection rail rall r rad ad Mr Ir Bailey 1 J accepted edthe the employment and per performed performed formed exactly the same kind of service that would have been expected of any other reputable lawyer The objection to t my employment as the attorney of ot those properties must pro proc c 4 1 upon the theory that a man In public office has ha no right to pursue any private business and nd such sueh a doctrine If It applied to to 1 all an men man and all officers would reduce th public life UCe of or this country to a point ihn only rich men or rascals could at af fprd f rd to accept an office If Ir I had found that my time and strength str would not per ver permit mit thit me to serve servo as a n senator and to 11 Jp law at the same samo time I would have havo abandoned the law without tho slightest h hf because I have always believed find nd acted a ted upon the belief that tho the public por ice hold ho the th highest claim upon every overy nar who undertakes It or If i I had found that there hor was any conflict between my m duty to my clients and my duty dut to my constituents I have declined all ull employ employment ment as a lawyer Attends to His H Is Duties Tho The Congressional Record ecord will show that I have been as constant in my at attendance upon th sessions or of tho the house and of or the senate during my mr fifteen years yean ears earsIn In congress as any man who has served with me mo n through that period Certainly that hat t establishes beyond bc ond the shadow badow of a n doubt that th t I t have not neglected my m pub public public lic lie duties in the pursuit of or my private business The Congressional Record wilt wll also ulso show that during Juring my m fifteen years first tir t In tile the t o house and aid then In the senate 3 i have spoken and voted on every ever im important Important important question and und my most malignant cannot point to a n single speech speecher or er vote In the interest of my ray clients am and against the interests of my constituents The Tho statement nt defends the senators conduct n attorney for John H Kirby Kilb end the Kirby Lumber company compan and closes as follows Letter From Pierce They hor Insinuate that when the Waters Vaters Pierce PI Oil on company compan Was iVas granted a per por permit permit mit to transact its business in Texas I w that it was not an independent eon con f I I t stated ted on oath before the lest latty committee what had been blen said TO TOmo tome tome me mo on that subject and ard I do not deem It necessary Rry to call all any an witness to prove the truth of what I havo said sal 1 But in order t prove the tho falsity of what these men mennow now JIOW say sa T I win print this letter from Mr 11 Pierce which I found In my mall mail when I r retched reached Gainesville Saturday night 1 I St Louis Sept 3 20 1906 1006 Joseph W V Bailey Gainesville Tex Dear Sir of the attacks be beInS lug InS made upon uon you ou with reference to the ther r of or the Oil company In Texas I think it due you OU that I 3 should say sa that when I sought your our in that matter I represented to ipu that If It permitted to continue continuo in busi busl business ness hess In your state tho the now naw Oil company compan would be he an sn independent m n and absolutely free tree from the own ownership ownership or control of the Standard Oil com cornS comI I pan lany ny Yours very VOr truly II H C PIERCE |