Potential Candidates Pay Attention!
If you want to win a political race, here's a little known, sure-fire campaign secret from a previous winner, Sam Porter. Sam successfully ran nine campaigns for three offices, then helped his friend Thomas Campbell win the Texas Governor's office. Here's how to do it...
The photo above shows former Titus County Sheriff Sam Porter apparently helping a friend campaign for governor. Porter was elected Titus County Sheriff on November 6, 1900. He was re-elected in the next two elections and served until November 6, 1906 (a fact).
Next, Sam was twice elected and served as Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 from January 1, 1909 until December 31, 1911 (a second fact).
Then Sam ran for Mayor of Mt. Pleasant in the April, 1917 election. He was elected, served his term, and ran again in the next election. He was re-elected and served as Mt. Pleasant's Mayor until April, 1921. (a third fact).
He was again twice elected as Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 on November 2, 1920 and November 7, 1922 (a fourth fact).
Sam is pictured on the dressed-up donkey above. The handwritten sign around his neck reads "Squire Porter, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1. I am for Tom Campbell for Governor."
Thomas Mitchell Campbell was elected and served as Texas governor from January 15, 1907 to January 17, 1911 (a fifth fact). Campbell, the second native Texan to become governor, was born in Cherokee County in 1856, and was a boyhood friend of Governor Jim Hogg (a sixth fact).
Sam Porter won nine local political races, and Thomas Campbell won his race for governor (a seventh fact).
That makes these photos a proven campaign tactic (I think).
Nowdays, I bet if you just put on a sombrereo and sit on a donkey with bows on its head on the court house square, carrying a rifle with a sign around your neck like in the photo below, in no time everyone will be talking about you and your campaign! Your election will be assured.
Then again, maybe not...
