Prohibition vote fuels party split amid drum-shop clash
The Graham Leader recalls last Monday’s local option vote on prohibition and denounces Mills Sul Ross and allied supporters as expelled from the Democratic party. The column invokes old party alignments and a Georgetown Kentucky anecdote about a soldier kicked by a jackass to mock the current dispute.
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Mills
Sul Ross
Ross
Andrew Jackson
Georgetown
Old Hickory
New Orleans
Kentucky
Tennessee Rifles
John Hancock Promoted by Texas Democratic Press Support
The Victoria Advocate backs John Hancock of Austin as a strong statesman and defender of democracy. It lauds his anti demagogue stance and cites past campaigns against Degner and Davis, noting his refusal to join drum seller influenced alliances.
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Victoria Advocate
John Hancock
Austin
Travis
Advocate
Degner
Hancock
Davis
Congress
U. S. Senate
Thurman
Ohio
Hoadley
Joe Johnstong
Fitzhugh Lee
Virginia
Texas
Mills
Johnston
Cleveland
Marshall Citizens Demand Restore Texas Pacific Shops
Marshall residents accuse the Texas Pacific railroad of violating the Gould system and moving machine shops and car works from Marshall to Dallas after they subscribed 300000 in 7 percent bonds. Tom Scott had contracted to locate the shops here and likely courts will compel performance.
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Herald
Gould
Missouri Pacific
Dallas
Adams and Leonard
Sherman
Dallas Herald
Marshall
Tex
Texas Pacific Railroad Company
Tom Scott
Prohibition Split Keeps McLennan County Whisky Majority Win
Democrats who abandoned reform to back dram shops carried McLennan County for whiskey by a large margin. Mills, once a prohibition advocate, canvassed hard and drew support from Sul Ross ex-pastor Shaw and several Black preachers, delivering a whisky triumph.
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McLennan County
Sul Ross
Parson Shaw
Parson’s Clever Joke About Capital and Water Millions
A North Texan letter recalls paying a pressman and a humorous answer from a parson. He outlines investing his capital with a box of snuff for ten cents, tobacco for another ten, leaving thirty cents to invest in water millions in a witty punchline.
Criticising Mills and Interference in Local Option Fight
The Adilene Reporter notes sharp criticisms of Mills for meddling in McLennan county local option election. It recalls Mills’s 1878 Grimes county stump speech endorsing fiat money via Greenback links and cites his alleged impact on party alignments and the white man campaign against the Negro party.
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Coke
Mills
McLennan County
Grimes County
Greenbackers
Adilene Reporter
Chicken Cholera Cure Claims Rapid Farm Success
B R Hoverstoy of Detroit reports a dramatic turnaround after using Bass and Brother chicken cholera cure. Chickens previously dying at seven to eight daily recovered after dosage, with sick hens returning to laying. Also notes a baby revival story two days later, where a presumed death cried after hours in a coffin.
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Messrs. Bass
B. R. Hoverstoy
Detroit
Charles Sullivan
A Newspaper as a Business Enterprise
A contemporary view argues newspapers shrink in size due to meager support. Towns should fund good reporting. free inserts for organizations burden papers. Newspapers must be paid for each public notice or announcement that benefits individuals or groups.
Anarchist posters urge burning of foreign embassies in Bern
In Bern Switzerland activists posted placards on the walls of the Lousonnet area urging the burning of foreign embassies, creating a sensation in the city. The action sparked police attention and public alarm.
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Switzerland
Lousonnet
Bern
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Graham
L. L. Foster
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Jack County
George B. Loving
J. O. Ford
George Speller
C. E. Lee
Theo. Holt
Telegraph
J. B. Pratt
Cit
J. B. Roberts
J. T. Ginucchio
M. W. Carrico
Democrat
James Loving
Cisco
Weatherford
C. FE. Caubey
J.T. McGraw
N. W. Corner Square
Hawkes
United States
Crozier & Sorrissen
J. S. Reynolds
Albany and Crahawn
Deering’s
Chicago
Dederick Perpetual Bay
Turnbull Farm
Turnbull
Dederick
Buffalo Pitts
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