Oscar Callaway
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Oscar Callaway (October 2, 1872 - January 31, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
Born in Harmony Hill (Nip-and-Tuck), Rusk County, Texas, Callaway moved with his parents to Comanche County in 1876. He attended the public schools, and was graduated from the Comanche High School in 1894. He taught school 1894-1897. He attended the University of Texas at Austin 1897-1899, and was graduated from the law department of that university in 1900. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Comanche, Texas. He served as prosecuting attorney of Comanche County 1900-1902. He served as delegate to Democratic State conventions in 1896, 1898 from 1900 to 1916, and 1920-1926.
Callaway was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1916. He returned to his ranch near Comanche, Texas, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising, and also in the practice of law in Comanche. He died in Comanche, Texas, January 31, 1947. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
Said, "In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press...
...They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers...An agreement was reached. The policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month, an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." [citation needed]
