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...past few months, Jackson has been crisscrossing the country conducting voter-registration revival meetings to bring blacks into the political process. He will cry: "We need 10,000 blacks running for office from Virginia around to Texas???county clerks, supervisors, sheriffs, judges, legislators, Governors?Just run! Run! Run!" His audience will interrupt: Run, Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run! "When you run, the masses register...
Bishop Henry Reimer, the Mennonites' spiritual leader, visited farm land in Missouri and Oklahoma before deciding on west Texas???in part because someone in Texas apparently assured him that his people would automatically receive U.S. citizenship if they bought land there. Settlers from both Canada and Mexico then sold their homes, pooled their savings and paid $455,000 down ($264 an acre, about $70 more per acre than the going price) on the $1.7 million, 6,400-acre Seven-O Ranch outside of Seminole, a town that calls itself "the city with a future." They drew lots for the land...
Mysteriously, after the polls had closed 203 votes were added to the returns from Alice, Texas???202 of them for Johnson, who won the seat by 87 votes out of about one million cast...
...Houston lives a ponderous, genial, whitehaired personage, know to Houstonians as a timber magnate who moved down from Dallas 20 years ago to open banks & bond houses, build hotels, publish the Houston Chronicle, etc., etc. He looks, acts and is one of the richest men in all rich Texas???Jesse Holman Jones. In Who's Who, Mr. Jones calls himself, "builder, financier." Among nationally experienced Democrats, he has come to be known as a politician, almost as well known as that other Texan, Col. Edward Mandell House of the Wilson regime...
Announcement was made, last week, that Texas???with exports worth $731593,000?had shipped more merchandise abroad last year than any other state. Statisticians enumerated other Texas glories: is largest state in the Union; has more miles of railway than any other state; has farm products of greater value than any other state; has 5,000,000 and more citizens?more than President George Washington ruled? reigned over by a woman...