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Show I All Texas Aflame I Over Bailey's Fight Ex-Senator in Governorship Race Makes Open Shop and League of Nations Issues, Frightening Administration Forces By STANLEY WALKER. f I HS success of former Senator Joseph H I W. Bailey in his race for Governor of i Texas is a direct slap In the face of the Administration: for In the first Demo-ciatlc Demo-ciatlc primary the Administration was made Uie chief Issue and Bailey, bitter and un compromising ir. his criticism of the men V who have shaped the policies of the party tor the last eight years, led Pat M. Neff. hi I nearest opponent, by about 10.000 votes l The run off primary between Bailey and NofT will be held on August 2. The fight is now between them lor the division of the approximately 160.000 votes which were cast ir. the July primary for Robert E. Thomason and B F. Uoonev . the third anil fourth can-oidate can-oidate Whoever can swing the votes of the Thomason supporters will win. and it is declared on good authority that the majority cf those who voted for Thonason will turn to the former Senator. I Thomason's managers have already an nounced their preference for Betlej and though Neff ha9 the approval of the friends o. the Administration, who control the prs-.nt prs-.nt political machinery of the St it . Bailey is picked to win Neff cannot lool with any jreat amount of confidence upon the task nf winning even one-half of those 160.000 vote Irom the magnetic Bailcv. Will Show Drifi of Democrat. Of all the political rontrov ersk-s born it Txas during the last few years, the present campaign carries with it a deeper Intensity. K is of more interest to the people pf that Stale and has a greater significance in lis relation to national affairs It will go a IdtiK way toward showing what I- the real attitude of Democrats toward the Wilson Administration. There Is a touch of the dramatic in the 1 fipht Any affair becomes a drama of som- I sor: hIot the ever colorful personality ot Joe"' Bailey is injected into it It Is doubtful doubt-ful if 'here ever has been a man who could arouse the people of the Southwest as much ss Bail v. It was a long time ago that he first became a power In TVxas. and he was only a lankv youngster cf 28 when he entered Congress in all his picturesque And during all t!iose years there have been just two classes of people In Texas j those who believed he was the greatest 1 statesman In the world and those who ha'ed Mm with on unforgiving venom. To-day I These factions am set squarely against each j! other, and the bitterness of the campaign recalls the strenuous days of 190S when Bailey men threatened to run the anti-I anti-I Eailev men into the Gulf of Mexico, and ; vice versa He Is picked to win now by just about the same majority that ho won foj then. Views on Bailey are hereditary in Texas: the young voters to-day are agitated J over the same man who worked '.heir fathers i to a frenzv twenty years ago il Stages a Personal Comeback. Bailey's success during the last 3 ear has tten both a personal and a political conn -back When he delivered his valedictory in the United States Senate on January 2. 1913. ha announced that he Intended to retire forever for-ever from political life. Until last nummer Yt remained firm in that decision, spending his time in the gonial .ttmosphe-e. cf his Washington home, though he maintained 1 legal residence In Texas, His life in Wasfc- I Irgton could not have been unpleasant. He had built a beautiful new home, and his acknowledged ac-knowledged standing and ability as a lawyer on subjects affecting the Constitution insured in-sured him a leisurely, but profitable practice. prac-tice. Now and then he made trips to his stock farm at Ix?xlngton, Ky., where he 1 patched his trotters. I But there must have been something iacw-ing iacw-ing in Washington Baliej had boon a long time in the public oye. first as a Represents- t ye and later as a Senator from Texas There was a well dellned belief in Texas U.at. though Bailey had been successfully v ndlcatrd of certain old charges of a'leged improper connections with the Standard Oil Ccmpany while serving in the Senate, his vindication had not been glorious Up until Ust summer it was openly declared that '.)oe" Bailey could never be elected to office again; that his old supporters had deserted l im. and that he knew he wax through so lav as ever wielding political Influence was concerned. Much of this talk must have rri'.hed Baile He stood it until last sum-rir, sum-rir, and then he went back to the place of his former triumphs and caused a sen i ti.")i the first day he arrlcd In the State : He issued a statement in which he told the people that Woodrow Wilson was not the Messiah; that the League of Nations in which they had believed with such unanimity unanim-ity was based upon an un American doctrine ' internationalism, that "Doctor" Wilson. ' r.M he called him, had shown alarming ten- I'cTrics towr,rd a species of socialism; that the Administration had granted dangerous concessions to the labor unions; that the ! Democratic party had strayed a long way from the. principles of Jefferson, find that he was returning to Texas to restore a veneration ven-eration for tho Constitution and to scourge the money changers out of the temple of Democracy. Perhaps the majority of those who read that statement believed that Bailey was vast ins his time But It made them gasp, so startling did It seem to a people who had followed Wilson without question In fact. Bailey was characterized by some as a sort of traitor. However great was the oppot-.: tion to him then, tho fact remains that today to-day he has made himself heard and he has tho people with him He may lot win the raco for Governor, but even though he should lose, the figures will be so close that they will be significant In showing the cttl-tude cttl-tude of the Southwest toward Wilson and I the League of Nations. Bailey first made a pre-conventlon tight j for delegate to San Francisco. This attempt J was a failure because It was Impossible for j him to overcome the old party machinery In i a few weeks; so he was overwhelmingly de feated when the delegates to the Nntlonac Democratic Convention were chosen. That fact cannot bp taken as showing the real sentiment sen-timent nf tho state toward Bailey. At thr Baltimore convention m 13 J 2 tho forty Democrats from Texas stood solidly from beginning to end for the nomination of WoodroW Wilson. This was their first taste In many years of ieal political power, and since that convention th" hove referred to tlumselvos with a peculiar vanity as the "Immortal Forty." Their share of the Administration Ad-ministration patronage has been generous indeed. They thought they could nominate McAdoo at San Francisco, and they voted for him stubbornly to the end. However, they are not foolish, and when Cox was nominated they were among the first to plcdee him their support, suddenly forgottlng that a few hours before they had been bitter bit-ter aiMinst him. The patronage hung In th balance but r.o matter whether Harding or Cox goes Into the White House on next M irch 4 the now famous ''deserving Demo-erats Demo-erats from Texas probably will be left without with-out political office The Texas crop of Immortals" Im-mortals" hs suffered a withering blight. Thomas B Love, Democrats National Committeeman from Texas and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury' under McAdoo is leading the fight against Bailey and Bailey's principles. Love is a bald-headed man with a brown face, a brown mustache, brown clothes and a decidedly D1 own-tinted outlook upon his political future He beat Bailey before the convention, but to-day inn organization with which he has controlled State politics fcr several years is going to pieces. With Love hi his fight against. Bailey are I ostmastc-- Cencral Albert Sidney Burle son. I nitod PVtea Senator Morris Slicppard of pr-.hlbltlon fame. M H. Wolfe. Democrat ic State chairman, and Cullen Thomas, a Dallas lawVer. They are supporting Neff with their whole strength, us they see in him tholr only hepe for a perpetuation of their power. Campoijn of Hii Life. Bailey is making the campaign of his lif". He has made some spectacular fights tn the United States Senate and in other years he has BWept the Southwest with a depth ot political emotion which only he Is able to arouse, but the fight he Is making now Is the greatest. There is an intensity of feeling about it that breaks tip homes and makes enemies oi lifelong friends A dozen libel suits for amounts as high as 2 C.000 have been filed. For Bailey It Is a fight for personal vindication and for the vindication of his political principles, and he is winning against what looked like impossible impos-sible odds onlj a, few months ago. He Is bringing Into the campaign all the force of Ms logic and his oratory. These gifts are servlnif him better now than they ever did. and there was a time when they wore unsur-I unsur-I avsed in the United States Senate. So far as Bailey personally Is concerned, he has no use for the Governorship of Toxas He makes that plain in his campaign speeches, and there can be no doubt of his sincerity Ho has given up his profitable law practice in Washington, he has sold his Kentucky Stock farm and has made many other personal sacrifices in order to lead the fight. He stands to lose much. If you want to do me a favor " he teils l is hearers, 'jou will not elect me Governor, for when I leave the office I will be an 611 man with most of mv property gone Yoa want to hire me for $4 000 a year, and I am worth more than that. But 1 am Iri this fight Just to give you a chance to vote for a n il man." Open Shop the liuc Bailey is drawing his principal support from tlic farmers and the business men. In the runoff campaign the open shop has overshadowed all other Issues. An open r'.iop association was organized In most cf the Texas cities last year to rombnt the growth of iiniuni:-:m which threatened" to . .. i tui I ;n,,elrlnl T i r n 1 , ' P T S MUI ail OU11U1I1K .HU '"uu-" r - Some of She leafllng newspapers took up the cause of the open shop when the association was formed. Their position has been made to appear ridiculous now. because the have switched their support to Neff. who Is using even means to get the labor vote. There have bem strikes nnd riots and , martial law in Texas during the last six months The line is drawn sharply between the open shop and the closed hop. The (actions are calling each other names that were never thought of in Go Henry J. Allen's fight in Kansas Eatley claims to be the friend of honest labor, but he warns organized labor that It is trying to go too '"The closed shop is a boycott by labor against labor." he say. ' because labor la all that seeks employment there If it is Just nd human to teach laborers that an honest man may be denfcd the opportunity to make z living because he belongs to this church ot that union then the closed shop is a correct cor-rect principle. And I warn you, you union men, that if you make that the issue ibc American people will meet it. The closed si op is not an American shop and I will di l "unce It as long as I lie. "The people of this country have sCnse orongh.to know where that closed shop leads. It leads to a time when ever man who works must Join the union or be deprived de-prived of the opportunity to make a living, a id when all the met. who work are members mem-bers of the union the vadical union laborers Will establish a political party and through that they will establish a union government govern-ment Leads to Class Government. "In other words, and in plain words, the Closed Mhop leads at last to a class government, govern-ment, and there never was and never will be In this world a class government which is a good government." An analysis of the returns from the first I riinury shows that Bailey made a better idiowlng in Dallas, Fort Worth. Houston end San Antonio than ho had ever made in those cities In any race for the United States Senate. In the western part of the Stato and. among the farmers he has nothing to fear. The tanners have always been for l'lm; "Joe" Bailey was the orator of bucolic Joys and the champion of their beliefs and customs In 1003, when Bailey was running i Bjjr -jj N --:'.'-. . : JOSEPH WELDON BrMLy for delegate-at-large against Cone Johnson, a campaign poet sang: When tho Rri-nt prlmnrlfs nro over nrt Prrnrx-rnry has hnd llmr to speak, T. will find our lovenlcnty still In th hands Oi the boys fiom the foii.s ot the creek That as true now as it was In 1908. Tin- boys from the "forks of tho creek" be-ilr'.cd be-ilr'.cd him when he told them that il-sonlsm il-sonlsm had dangerous features. They applauded ap-plauded when ho denounced one-man gov- rnment. They found that despite thefr early enthusiasm for the scheme., the Ieagu? of Nations mighi prove dangerous. As for union labor the farmers were absolutely With him. for they had seen their hired help d"ift away to the cities and leave the un-plouffhed un-plouffhed land and the unharvested crops behint" them. Joseph Weldon Bailey was born In Copiah courty. Mississippi, in 1S63. of Irish parentage parent-age His early years were spent In the romewhat lawless atmosphere of that sec-Uor sec-Uor . His companions were reckless spirits who took certain questionable measures to enlarge a Democratic majority, and. tltough rtliF" was only 20 years old at the tlm i i. boyhood Indiscretions rose to plague him In later campaigns. He went to school at ihe University of Mississippi, where he showed considerable promise He knew that there was not much room for better t hinge In Copiah county. n uncle in Philadelphia, a merchant named Joseph Weldon, sent young Bailey to Texas to 'grow up with the country " "nc day Bailey walked Into Gainesville, a Itttie town In Cooke county, near the banks of the Bed River, and by his very appear-once appear-once startled Ihe native n wu a tall young fellow and thin; his hair hung down nearly to his shoulders very much after the fi.shion of the late Col. William F. Cody, and he wore a large, long coat and a black slouch hat that crowr.ed. the picturesque cflcct. Did Not Laugh for Long. Old timers In Texas will tell how Gainesville Gaines-ville did not laugh at Bailey for long. He was raw and crude and egotistical and eccentric, ec-centric, hut there was something about him III. t compelled attention and respect And 1 retty soon they began to !oc him, a habit Which they will keep until long after the pride of Cooke county is dead. Bailey first sprang into prominence at r deadlocked Congressional convention. Somebody proposed to nominate Baliey to break tho deadlock. In vain he trie.l to III aci :tt the suggestion, because he w is pledged to another candidate, and not ur-til he jumped into a chair and shoutrd that ho was not old enough to be elected did h- persuade per-suade the (onvention to leave his name out. ile was not yet 25 years old. but he would heve been the following year, when he would have taken orllce If elected. It was a generous gen-erous subterfuge to save his own candidate at a price which few young men would have cared to pay Two years later Bailey entered en-tered the field and was elected Bailey was a sensation from the day he look his scat in Congress. His eccentricities were ridiculed without mercy, and all that time he was fighting down his own errors and learning, under the unsympathetic scrutiny of millions of eyea, those bitter lessons which other men learn long before the public knows of them, v, ashinton newspapers printed ins name in small letters, as "Joeballey of texas." It was not long before even his political enemies referred to him as the best spet 1-mert 1-mert of physical and intellectual vior that Congresr had produced in many years. His powers of reasoning, his ability to make a fr)?ech and the solid fact of his ability soon won him recognition. But it appears that iiere has always been something to mark liallcy as a peculiar personage President JlcKlnley invited him to dinner at tho White House, and he waved the court- s away because he would not wear evening clo'.hes. But he got over that, and even achieved a certain sartorial elegance which made him as notable as did the ludicrous effect or his first methods of dress Iator he refused to ride in automobiles; he called tnem "devil wagons." but he got over that, no ii. physical appearance the Bailey of today to-day is vastly different from tho youth of thirty yearn ago He is heavy, full faced and stately, carrying himself with a lusty majesty which seta him always apart. His speeches now are Just as smooth, we'.l rounded and convincing as they were during dur-ing Ms best days In the Senate. And when he has finished speaking there Is nothing pise to say, for he is very thorough and his speeches have an accent of absolute finality He despise the ordinary gifts of the trained orator. He does not storm or indulge In long flights of complicated language and he nevei tries to browbeat an opponent. Thought to Be n S tatesrr.an. One can still start an argument in Washington Wash-ington am' in Texas by calling "Jo'i" Bailey a politiciafi: many Insist that he is a statesman states-man Certalnlv he has a healthv contempt for the ordinury methods of the politician. He pulls no wires and has not the patience to roil a log. He always knows what he wairta an-" goes after It with all the force of his being Th;- principal grievance against Bailey during his terms In the Senate was that he made money. He hnd a few clients and he sei ed them well. Many accusations were I rough I against him , he was attacked by William Randolph Hearst and there was a lengthy investigation h the Texas Legislature. Legis-lature. But the Legislature and the people of the Slate by their vuteis In 100S vindicated vindi-cated him as an honest public servant falsely accused of Influencing legislation as a paid attorney of the Standard Oil Com-pany Com-pany Just about all was forgiven except that he made money, and that fact rankles in many a heart to-day. There was one other little incident that caused Bailey's popularity '.o wane for a time. Once on the floor of the Senate he personally attacked Senator Beverldge of Indiana, In-diana, Many persons could never forglv him for that. They dubbed him The Pugilist Pugi-list of the Senate." and declared that the attack at-tack was unwarranted Beverldge had heckled Bailey all through a speech, and the Texan's temper, none too even at best, gave way. He collared the pride of Indiana and Started to ehoke him, but was pulled away. His lack of restraint in this one instance caused him to lose much of his influence as minority leader. Master it Repartee. Not all of Bailey's power lies In his ability abil-ity to make a speech- he Is al.-o a master at repartee. Last summer he was invited to reception at the home of one of his friends in Dallas. Perhips fifty of hLs friends and admirers w-cro there to bid him welcome. In discussing State politics, and the advent of i.ew figures In recent years, somebody mentioned men-tioned the name of M. II. Wolfe the State chairman. Who i.i this man Wolfe?" asked Bailey, trying to look genuinely puzzled. "What does he do?" A man !n the crowd volunteered the information in-formation that Wolfe was "a cotton nun '' "I see," said' Bailey. "And does he raise cotton"' "No. he Is not a farmer." "Then what manner of cotton man is he?" asked Bailey ' Has ho a cotton mil.''" "He is a cotton broker," was the reply "Ah," said Ballcy. "he toils not, neither does he spin " In that way, better than in two hours of areument. hi explained why he disapprove'! of Wolfe as a political leader There Is no getting back at tint brand of repartee. He has hts owu tricks He has been accused ac-cused of deliberately creating an alleged situation In order to pet a certain effec:. He does this to get close to his hearers. Years ago, btfore he was In the Senate, lie was making a speech to a gathering- of iarmers in Cooke county. He was telling of an incident which was supposed to havo happened to him in Washington. He said; "I arose and started to speak and somebody some-body veiled "Who are you and where do you come from?' Then, my fellow citizens. 1 drew myself up and said: 'Sir. I am Jo-.- pn Weldon Bailey from Cooke county. Texas where theyhave the blackest dirt and the whitest people on the face of God s earth.'" ' Ir. that statement and in statements of Its sort lies the secret of Bailey's power wiih the people of Texas. It explains why I hey lltctally go w ild over him. There is no building In all of that State big enough to hold the crowds who come to hear him -peak. And they arc coming around to his views on everything from the labor question to the balfllng problem of the League of Nations superstate, mrm-i rm i I i, |