The Newark Journal
Vol. 4, No. 11.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday Harch 11, 1904.
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GROVER AND COON
Difference in Treatment Accorded
the Negro by Cleveland
and Roosevelt.
An incident that has caused great
annoyance to Grover Cleveland is
valuable and instructive in show
ing the difference in the attitude
of the president of the United
States and that of this ex-president
toward the negro.
In an effort to break the adverse
force of the Hooker Washington
dinner incident Congressman Scott
of Kansas said in the house a few
days ago that President Cleveland
had dined at the executive mansion
a negro, C.II.J.Taylor, whom he
appointed recorder of deeds of the
District of Columbia. Congress
man Webb of North Carolina wrote
to Mr. Cleveland asking whether
Mr. Scott’s words were true and
received in reply a letter from Mr.
Cleveland in which he said that
the statement of the Kansas con
gressman was a “deliberate fabri
cation out of whole cloth.”
After he had been thus vexed
and annoyed, remark how Mr.
Cleveland refers to the negro of
V ficeholder himself.
as rut* as Mr. jay lor is con
cerned,” says Mr. Cleveland, “I
understand that prior to his ap
pointment as register of deeds, he
had served as an assistant in the
office of the city attorney at Kan
sas City. IIis nomination as reg
ister was continued by tlw senate
and he served in that place with
intelligence and efficiency. He has
since died. Some jieople restrain
themselves from abusing the dead.
My inquiries concerning Mr. Tay
lor before Ujs appointment, my
observation of him during his in
cumbency and the little I have
known of him since, satisfied me
that his character is very unjustly
attacked by Mr. Scott.’’
So, here is the difference be
tween Grover Cleveland and The
odore Roosevelt so far as the ne
gro is concerned. Mr. Cleveland,
of Northern birth and family, ap
points a worthy negro to an office
in Washington, where negro office
holders are taken as a matter of
course, and treats negroes with
courtesy and respect, without do
ing anything that savors of social
equality. Mr. Roosevelt, who
says he is “half Southern,” rams
a negro down the throat of the
commercial circles of Charleston,
S. C., in his appointment of Crum
as collector of the port of that City
despite protests and entreaties to
the contrary, abolishes tlie postof
fice at Indianola, Miss., because
certain people there had objected
to a negro woman as postmaster,
and then invites another negro to
his table at the White House. Ev
en though Mr. Roosevelt did not
mean such a thing, the instant im
plication was: If the negro is
good enough to dine with the pres
ident of the United Stated he is
good enough to dine with any and
all white people. As a general
proposition the person that you
ask to eat at your table is the per
son that is your social equal and is
entitled to meet your family and
your friends and enter your house
and call upon those living there.
Indeed, if you have invited a man
to dine with you it is downright
bad behavior for him to neglect to
call upon you and your family soon
afterward. Thus can be explained
'the commotion that was raised ov
er the meal that Booker Washing
ton took at the White House.
But the idea should not be per
mitted to go abroad that the South
ern white people hate the negro.
They don’t. They know that the
negro will be in the South always
and therefore realize that the best
tiling they can do is to live in this
land of plenty in peace and amity
with the black race.
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/lore Riots.
Disturbances of Strikers are not
nearly as grave as an individual
disorder of the system. Overwork,
i loss of sleep, nervous tension will
I be followed by utter collapse, un
| less a reliable remedy is immedi
ately employed. There’s nothing
so efficient to cure disorders of the
liver or kidneys as Electric Bitters.
It’s a wonderful tonic, and effec
tive nervine and the greatest all
around medicine for run down
systems. It dispels nervousness,
! rheumatism and neuralgia and ex
‘ pels malaria germs. Only 50c,
I and satisfaction guaranteed by J.
I. Sturdivant. Druggist.
Jno. N. Arnold Dead.
Jno. N. Arnold died at his home
near town Thursday night of last
week about 10:30 from lung troub
le. Mr. Arnold was 62 years old
and had been a resident of this
| community since his early boy
hood. At the beginning of the
civil war he enlisted in the Eight
Arkansas Regiment and was in
many of the bloodiest battles of
the war. The, remains were hur
ried Friday afternoon af the Ak
ron cemetery.
Tragedy Averted.
“Just in the nick: of time our
little boy was saved” writes Mrs.
W. Watkins of Pleasant City, Oh
io. “Pneumonia had played sad
havoc with him and a terrible
cough set in besides. Doctors
treated him, but he grew worse
every day. At length we tried
I)r. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, and our darling was
saved. He’s now sound, and well.”
Everybody ought to know, it's
Hie only sure cure for coughs,
colds and all lung diseases. Guar
anteed byJ. 1. Sturdivant. Drug
gist. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial
bottles free.
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Snakes in Drain Pipe.
The following snake story is
from the Wynne Blade-Democrat:
“For some time past the kitchen
drain pipe attached to the sink in
the kitchen at the home of J. S.
Calhoon refused to carry off the
water. Tuesday, Mr. Calhoon de
cided he would take up a few
joints in an endeavor to locate the
cause. When he came to the last
joint he found that a half dozen
big black snakes had crawled into
the pii>e to hibernate for the wint
er. Not being able to extricate
themselves, they had died, leaving
the pipe completely full for a dis
tance of ten feet.
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Cured Consumption.
Mrs. B. W. Evans, Char water,
Kan., writes: “My husband lay
sick for three months. The doc
tors said he had quick consump
tion. We procured a bottle of Bal
lard's llorehound Syrup, and it
cured him. That was six years
ago and since then we have always
kept a bottle in the house. We
cannot do without it. For coughs
and colds it has no equal.” k2oc,
5(fc and $1.00. Sold by J.I.Sturdi
vant.
DAVIS AND WOOD
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A Few of the Reasons Why The
Journal is Not Supporting
Wood Nor Davis.
The Sharp County Record, one
of the worst anti-Davis papers in
the stale, has always accused The
Journal of supporting Davis, and
the Beebe News, one of the hottest
Davis papers in the state accuses
us of supporting Wood. With
these two brilliant squirrel-heads
firing at us like this how are we
going to find out where we are
k‘at,?4
ihe truth of the matter is, we
have tried to meddle with this gu
bernatorial dispute just as little as
possible,for we have learned long
ago that you can’t handle the po
ker without getting black. This
is especially true of the black end
of it,and at the present time we
! consider that both ends of the pol
itical poker in Arkansas is black.
In fact, for the past four or live
years Arkansas has been cursed
with the vilest set of rotten demo
■ gogues in office that ever walked
upon the earth. And we can’t see
i how the situation will be improved
: one particle by the election or de
feat of either one of the present
j candidates for governor. It is a
j disgrace to the state o' Arkansas
j that there is not a good man in the
race for governor. Take .Judge
Wood, for instance; he is a chron
ic office-seeker and has been in of
fice continously for 28 years.What
has he ever ascomplished in this
time that has benefitted the peo
ple? Me has been a member of
the supreme court for years; the
supreme court is now two years
behind with its work and a mem
ber of the supreme court is con
nected with the ice trust in Little
Rock; yet Judge Wood and his
friends would have us believe that
his election as governor would ele
vate the good name of the state
and purify politics! Why, then
! has he never done anything for
the good of the people, elevated
the supreme court and helped to
push its business? Then how can
we expect so much from him as
governor* kaet of the business is,
lie is not fit for governor, and if
there is a man in the whole state
of Arkansas who is less fit to fill
the governor’s office than Judge
Wood, that man is Jeff Davis.
A close research of all the histo
rical works at our command fails
to show where the name Davis or
iginated or what animal the origi
nal daddy of the family sprang
from, but if the most putrid depths
of hades itself were raked with a
fine tooth comb and the dross of
the matter so collected worked off
and embodied in compact form it
would be impossible to get more
corruption to the square inch than
is embodied in Jeff Davis, the man
who has done more to disgrace
Arkansas than any man who ever
lived within her borders, Powell
Clayton not excepted. He has
pardoned rape fiends, blind tigers,
1 and murderers, misused the state’s
money, tried to defraud the state
out of $12,500 in the purchase of
a convict farm, signed the Dickin
son convict contract and then lied
about it, turned old ex-Confeder
ate soldiers out of work and put
negroes in their places, and kept
the state in a constant slate of
turmoil ever since he came into of
, fiee. Such a man would disgrace
the scavengers office of the sorrest
town in the state.
May the Lord deliver Arkansas
from any more such men as Jeff
Davis and Carroll D. Wood.
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Gives Health, Vigor and Tone
Her bine is a boon for sufferers
from aneamia. By its use the blood
is quickly regenerated and the col
or becomes normal. The drooping
strength is revived. The languar
is diminished. Health, vigor and
tone predominate. New life and
happy activity results. Mrs. Belle
II. Shirel, Middlesborough, Ills.,
writes: “I have been troubled with
liver complaint and poor blood,
and have found nothing to benefit
me like Herbine. 1 hope never to
be without it. I have wished that
I had known of it in my husband’s
lifetime.” 50c. Sold by J. I.
Sturdivant. Druggist.
Don’t Be a Knocker.
Do you think to speak a good
word for your state to strangers
who happen in our midst? Sure
ly you do not regale them with
stories of hard times, poor crops,
the scarcity of money, the wet sea
son,the dry seasons, the chills, in
fact turn the whole battery of your
torpid liver upon them? If you
do, for the sake of truth and de
cency, sell what you have, if you
have anything, and go where your
imagination pictures the “honey
pond and the pancake-tree.” If
you have the gumption of a ten
year-old mountain boy, you know
that Arkansas is one of the grand
est states in the Union, and that
if you are not prosperous, ten
chances to one, you are to blame.
If you can’t say a good word for
the state, go crawl in a hole, and
stay away from people who come
here to better their own condition,
and build up the commonwealth.
The Best Cough Syrup.
S. L. Apple, ex-Probate Judge,
Ottawa Co., Kansas, writes:
“This is to say that L have used
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup for
years, and that I do not hesitate to
recommend it as the best cough
syrup I have ever used.” 25c. 50c
and $1.00. Sold by J. I. Sturdi
vant. Druggist.
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She Would Meander.
In an essay on the pleasure of
country life, a city girl takes the
readers of the woman's page into
her confidence and declares, “It is
a fond dream of mine to become a
farmer’s wife and meander down
life’s pathway.”
Whereupon a country editor,
who professes to know something
of the realities as well as the
dreams of a rural existence, re
marks:
“Oh, yes, that is a nice thing,
but when your husband meanders
off and leaves you without wood
and you have to meander up and
down the lane pulling splinters off
the fence to cook dinner, and you
meander around in the wet clover
in search of the cows until your
shoes are the color of the setting
sun; and each stocking absorbs a
pint of water, and when you mean
der out across twenty acres of
plowed ground to drive the cows
out of the buckwheat and tear
your dress on a wire fence, and
when you meander back to the
house and find that the goat has
butted your child until it resemb
les a pumpkin, at I find the old
hen and sixteen chickens in the
parlor, the cat in the cupb^rd and
the dog in the milk, you vfftl real
{ize, dear girl, that the meander
, business is not what it is cracked
up to be.”—Ex.
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WRONG DIAGNOSIS
Man Suffering From a Chill Re
sents Accusation That he is
a Jeff Davis Man.
An incident occurred over at
Texarkana a few days ago that
adds a spice of humor to the uni
versal interest manifest in the gu
bernatorial contest.
At the depot while a number
were awaiting their trains, a drum
mer claimed that he could pick out
every Davis man in the crowd,
though he was not personally ac
quainted with any of them A bet
of $5 was arranged that he could
nnt
The drummer approached a mui.
who had a quart bottle in hi* coat
pocket about half full of booze and
apparently about twice that much
inside of him, and said: “This is a
Dav’is man.” “Betcher life,” said
the fellow pointed out, “I’m jest
that an’ I don’t keer a-who
knows it.”
The drummer then passed on to
a little dried up, weazon-vizaged,
weak, squint-eyed, dirt-pale man,
and said: “He’s a Davis man.”
The man admitted it.
Next the drummer approached a
man half reclining on the corner
seat of the waiting-room. His
clothes were respectable looking
and the man, outside of his attitude
and the expression of his face,
seemed intelligent and well to-do.
But he was all hunkered down with
his coat collar turned up around
his face, his head drawn down be
lt, ween his shoulders, his legs cross
| ed and his hands thrust between
them and his whole attitude and
expression was expressive of de
jection if not misery. The drum
mer in atone of assurance pointed
to him and said: “Another Davis
man.”
“You’re a liar,” said the man,
“I’m having chills is what’s the
matter with me.”
It Saved His Leg.
P. A. Danforth of LaGrm
Ga., suffered for six months with
a frightful running sore on his leg;
but writes that Bucklen’s Arnica
Salve wholly cured it in five days.
For ulcers, wounds, piles, it’s the
best salve in the world. Cure
guaranteed. Only 25 ets. Sold
by J. 1. Sturdivant. Druggist.
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Remanded to Jail.
Cotton Plant, March 5.—Circuit
court, which has been in session
here since Monday, adjourned this
morning. T. A. Smith, who kill
ed E. F. Koch here last Novem
ber, made application before Judge
Hutton for bail, but was remand
ed to jail without bond to await
the action of the grand jury.
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Public Speaking.
The county candidates will ad
dress the voters at the follow
places on the dates mentioned and
respectfully invite the people to
come out and hear them.
Salado, Saturday, March 12.
Sulphur Rock, Monday, ” 14.
Newark, Tuesday, ” 15.
Logan’s, Wednesday, ” 16.
Charlotte, Thursday. ” 17.
Ham’s School House, Friday,
March 18.
Bethesda, Monday, March 21.
Cushman, Tuesday, ” 22.
Hickory Valley, Wednesday,
March 23.
Brewers’ School House, Thurs
j day, March 24.
! Batesville. Friday, ” iJo.