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ANNOUNCEHENTS !
CONGRESSMAN.
We are authorized to announce HON. EU
r'.'TE PARB1SH. of Jonesboro, Arkansas, as
.’ADdidate for comrress. subject to the action
the Democratic party.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
We arc authorized to announce Hon. P. R !
■' ndrews of Auirusta ;ts candidate for prosecu- |
•.nit attorney of the First Circuit, subject to I
‘.e action of the Democratic party.
NOR REPRESENTATIVE.
The News is authorized to announce ATTY. j
H. C. KRAMER of McCrory, as candidate for ;
Representative from Woodruff county in the !
Thjry-fouth General Assembly f Arkansas I
object to the action of the Democratic party j
The News Is authorized to aunounee J. D. I
. Idridke, of Augusta, as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination to repesent Woodruff j
county in the next General Assembly; subject ;
.o the action of the Democrat party.
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK,
We are authorized to announce Kelt Simp-1
:a of Cotton Piant as a candidate for the of-!
ice of Circuit Clerk, subject to the Demo-1
..•ratio Party.
We are authorized to announce Mr. Hamblet ■
Dale, of Augusta. as candidate for Circuit ■
clerk of Woodruff eounty:subject to the action
of the Democratic Party.
The News is authorized to announce Paul ’
..artin of Howell, as a candidate for the office I
of circuit clerk, subject to the action ot the
Democratic party.
FOR ASSESSOR.
We are authorized to announce John Card
er of Snapps as a candidate for assessor of
■voodruff county, subject to the action of
. re Democratic Party.
We are authorized to announce Thos, A.
■rhtower. of near McCrory, as candidate for
; office of Assessor of Woodruff county, sub
’.t to the action of the Democratic party.
FOR COUNTY JUDGE.
‘ Ye are authorized to announce Maj. T, E.
anie.v. of Auirusta. as candidate for County
.dire of Woodruff county. Subject to the
on of the Democratic party.
FOR STATE SENATOR.
: he NEWS is authorized to announce HON,
' ■*. KjUough of Cross co. its candidate for
- Democratic nomination to represent Cross
Woodruff Counties in the Senate of the
General Assembly; subject to the action
.e Democratic party.
SPEECH
SLIVERED AT COTTON PLANT
HARCH 18, 1902.
uaclies and Fellow Citizens: I
n indeed glad of the opportu
ity to be with the good people
f Cotton Plant once more. I
; ank the good ladies for their
•esence here this afternoon,
four presence reminds me of
qy dear mother at her home at
■Russellville praying every hour
f the day for God ’.s choicest
j.'nedietpms to rest upon her
■ in tiiis campaign. Your
pro&ence brings back fund mem
ies of my childhood. Often,
pain and suffering, has my dear
mother sat by rny bedside anx
iously watching every change
and praying for my recovery.
When rest and slumber should
have been hers, she would sit the
more watchful. Ladies, you are '
ministering angels on earth.
Without you this world would be
a dreary desert and life would
be a failure.
My countrymen, I shall now:
address my attention to matters '
that concern the welfare of our j
state. I am in favor of freedom j
of speech and of the press and as !
long as God Almighty gives me i
breath with which to speak and
a hand with which to write. I in
tend to tell the people the issues
that confront them.
l ravor Me rostering oi me m
sane, Deaf Mute and Blind asy
lums. If there is one duty the
the state owes its citizens more
than another, it is the taking care j
of our unfortunate friends. They
should not be kept in our county
jails as criminals behind the
prison bars, cut off from the sun
shine and flowers, but they ■
should have such favorable sur-,
roundings as are best calculated ;
to restore them to realms of de- j
light.
I favor the better organizing:
and correlating our public school I
system. What would you think j
of a plantation of a thousand i
acres cultivated by 300 hands
and each one did as he pleased?
Would you expect any great re
sults? This is the condition of
our public school system. Near
ly every teacher runs and sj’s
tematizes his school to suit him
self, and many there be who
never think of any system. We
should remember that the state
has one end in view in our school
system and that end is to make
good, lo1 ' citizens out of our
! rising generation. For this pur
pose the state spends much mon
ey. By 1 better organizing our
schools, this money will accom
plish a great deal more. We
should profit by the examples of
other states and make our money
accomplish as much as possible.
I fa\or all lands not earned by
railroads being restored to the
government and then kept for
homesteads for our citizens. In
the infancy of our state thelegis
l lature thought it wise to encour
age railroads to come to our state,
j They promised the roads certain
j land if the roads would carry out
| certain lines of work. The rail
j roads have the land but some of
| these agreements have never
j been completed. If I am your
! choice to the legislature, I shall
S search the records and whatever
! land they possess that stands
ifor the unfulfilled agreement I
I shall labor to place back in the
i hands of the state.
I favor the numbering of coun
ty scrip. In the first place, I am
in favor of doing away with the
scrip system altogether, because
j scrip is only a substitute for
money and the time ought to be
here when the county can use
primary money and not have to
be on the credit system. But
as long as we are in debt, we are ;
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tem, The opposition to my the.
cry says that the bankers and
scrip speculators are in favor of
numbering scrip. Who is the
opposition? Mr. Eld ridge, the
ring candidate of Augusta, was
the first one to mention this and
charged me of working for the
interest of the scrip speculators.
For arguments sake, suppose I
were working for the interest of
the banks and scrip speculators.
Do you suppose I wouhtoadvocate
a thin theory that I knew the
people could not believe? No.
If my heart were as rotten and
my conscience as slimy with hy-'
pocricy as those of my opponents, j
I would make a clean fight before
the people and then in the next
legislature do my dirty work. I
have never allowed environments
of any ring or any clique to dic
tate to me. I simply advocate j
what I know is for the good of;
my people. Missouri has this |
law upon her statute books and :
all the eastern states numbered I
their scrip until they got on a
money basis and abandoned the !
scrip system. This numbering;
of strip is no theory ; it is a bus
iness proposition as old as the
hills. The numbering of scrip
no more changes the use to be
made of scrip than branding a
mule changes the mule’s useful
ness. If you have a hog to sell,
the butcher does not ask you
what kind of a mark your hog
has, but says, “I will give you so
much a pound. ” This is the peo
ple’s law and that is why you
hear so much growling from the
ringsters. Our populist oppo
nent is opposed to it. He is said
to be a brainy man and a philos
opner. ijet us see. ne says i
advance this theory for the in
terest of the speculators. He
goes about his sophistry in a
very plausible manner. He says,
“Suppose now that Kramer is
elected and this $10,000.00 for
the court houses is issued in
numbered scrip, then the wit
ness and juror that serves his
country and obtains his scrip
after the amount is issued will
have to wait perhaps years, at
least until the $40,000 is paid. ”
This looks plausible, but let us
look behind the curtain. If this
$40,000 of scrip is issued at all,
it will be issued during this year.
When does our next legislature
meet? Next year. Then how on
earth could I, as your represen
tative pass this law to affect the
$40,000? No way on earth.
There never was a retrospective
law and never will be. It is un
democratic. Upon our populis
tic Penroe’s theory, we could
pass a law prohibiting Adam and
Eve from eating of the forbidden
fruit and prosecute their ashes.
You at once see our mighty pop
ulist, the philosopher and logi
cian is deceiving the people with
his sophistry.
The reason Mr. Eldridge op
poses it is because it kills some
of the speculations of his bank.
Mr. Penrose opposes it because
he has nothing else upon which
to make an assault. Major Stan
ley who himself declared that he
has belonged to the ring for thir
ty years, also jumped on me.
Why? Because I tell the truth,
and the truth cuts him to the
quick. My countrymen, never
has God Almighty blest man
with greater talents than He has
bestowed upon the “he-ringster
of Augusta.” The choicest lan
guage flows from him like water
from a brook. There is no office
in the gift of the people too im
portant for him to fill. He is ca
pacitated to be U. S. Senator or
as an embassador to foreign
courts. He is a veritable Glad
stone. What do we find? We
find him here running for re
election to the county and pro
bate judge’s office. No not re
election, but for county judge.
A man of his capacity seeking
the little office that pays but $600
a year in county scrip. Does he
want the office for the salary?
jNever. He wants the office to
-further the interests of the Au
gusta ring and nothing else.
YvU.y •iq.yg hq not qpid kqportaiit
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offices? Because he has never |
kept his heart in touch with the
throbbing masses. His heart
has always been with the ring
and not with the people. He
says my scrip proposition is the
most damnable proposition ever
sought to be perpetrated on an
intelligent people. Why does he
howl so? Because the number
ing of scrip touches his pocket
book. The he-ringster is presi
dent of the Bank of Augusta and
the biggest stockholder in it. Is
there any wonder that he oppos
es it? None. That much for my
opposition.
Mankind is toiling for a death
less name. Various are the
schemes devised and the plans
pursued to gain this world
sought end—to rear a monument
that shall not perish, but grow
broader and higher with the roll
of eternal ages. This is the
nucleus of all human endeavor.
At its alter are sacrificed the
smile and tear, the swell of de
light, the revenging throb, the
sweets of duty, the joys of life
and the hopes of heaven. Dream
ing of this, the poor man forgets
his grief and only seeks topiease
his own circle through icicles of
oppression, and tyrany hangs
from his brow and freezes his
heart. From the earliest dawn
of civilization mankind has been
plodding upward and onward.
The race began with its hiero
glyphics and today has the lan
guages; began with the pine torch
and tallow candle and today has
the brilliancy of the electric light;
began with the ox and mule and
today has the steamships that
plow through ten thousand
streams, railroads that go from
continent to continent, automo
biles and electric cars. We can
see me realization or wnat Lama
Tennyson prophesied in Locks
ley Hall—“1 dipped into the fu
ture as far as human eyes could
see, saw a vision of the world and
all the wonder that would be,
saw the heavens filled with com
merce, argosies of magic sails,
pilots in that purple twilight
dropping down with costly bails;
till the war-drum throb no longer
and the battle flag’s unfurled in
the parliament of man the feder
ation of the world.” -You, who
read the papers, Know that Santos
Dumont has practically brought
this prophecy to pass. The race
began with the ten command
ments and today has her codes
of law innumerable. Progress
is the watchword all along the
line. We see the divine right of
kings fade away and individual
sovereignty grow beautiful and
strong in the glorious sunlight of
God’s creation. Out of the
wrecks of kingdoms and empires
is born a flower more beautiful
thap the rose; sweeter than the
enslaved soul, than all the wealth
of Christendom; it is a nation of
freemen—Americans. The his
tory ox our nation has not been
written upon the hard and cruel
hearts of kings, but upon the
broxv of every free and loyal citi
zen of our land. And, fellow
citizens, I would rather be an
humble citizen living in a log-hut
built with my own hands, out in
the pathless wood, “with a grape
vine growing o’er my door and
the grapes growing purple in the
autumn sun;” I would rather
live there and know that the stars
and stripes, old glory, is floating
as proudly over my hoaie as over
the White House. I would rath
er live there than be a millionaire
and live in luxury and ease in
courts of Europe and be subject
to some potentate whose milk of
human kindness soured on the
vine. And so I would ten thous
and times. ’Tis a glorious privi
lege to be Americans. The
founders of our nation laid the
corner stone of our freedom deep
and secure. They anchored our
liberty in the eternal cradle of
our citizenship. They founded a
government of the people, by the
people and for the people. “A
government deriving its just
powers from the consent of the
governed.” No honest democrat
can suppoat a political turn coat
as my gray-haired friend, who
has spent his manhood and vigor
in following after strange gods
and when old age and decrepitude
overtake him, tries to hide his
populistic heart under the cloak
of Democracy and has the gall
to ask you to send him to the leg
islate. Will you doit? Never.
He very forcibly reminds me of a
plantation story I once heard.
There were two large plantations
adjoining. On the one toward
the south lived Mr. Jones and on
to the north lived Mr, Brown.
4j.r. Julies uouciuded tusend. Ivji'i
Brown two fine Berkshire pigs.
So he calls his slave John and tells
him to take two of his best Berk
shires to Mr. Brown’s house.
John gets two and places them in*
a sack and starts for Mr. Brown’s
house. On the road was a gro
cery store run by Mr. Williams.
As John drew near the store Mr.
Williams called him and said:
'‘John, I have just gotten in some
good liquor; come and try some
of it.” John set his sack of pigs
down at the door and proceeded
to the rear to sample the whisky.
While John was thus engaged,
one of the fun-makers took John’s
pigs around the house and took
them out, placing two puppies in
the sack instead. John went on
with his sack to Mr. Brown’s
house. Mr. Brown hearing the
growl of the puppies said: “John,
what is that you have. ” “ M dssa
Brown, deseam some pig's Massa
Jones sent for you. ” “Open the
sack and let me see them. ” There
were the two puppies. John was
amazed and said: “I declare to
the Lord, boss, them air was pigs
when I started.” ‘‘I don’t need
puppies, take them back to Mr.
Jones or kill them; anything, but
take them away from here.
John started for home. On
the way he again stopped at the
store to take on some more booze,
While John was drinking, the
fun maker again took the sack
around the house and placed the
pigs back in the sack. John fi
nally reached home and Mr.
Brown met him and said “John
what are you bringing those pigs
back home for.-”’ “Lordy Massa
deyturndedto puppies as shore
asyouse born. ” Mr. Jones was an
gry and said: “Open the sack.”
John did so and there were the
two little innocent pigs. John
stood back in amazement and fi
nally said: “Massa Jones dat
shore do puzzle me.” Bey wus
pigs wen I started but dey wus
puppies wen I got to Mr. Browns
and now dey am pigs again. I
wish to de Lod dey would be pigs
or puppies one andstay dat wa,y?”
bo it is with Mr. .Penrose i wish
he would either beapopulite or a
democrat and stick to his color.
You can’t afford to vote for him.
Maj. Stanley, the candidate
for county judge, said at May
berry that it well becom es m e to i m
pugn the good motives of the of
ficials of Woodruff county. A
man who has scarcely been in the
county long enough to warm his
seat. Fellow citizens the trouble
with the Major is that I have
been here long enough to warm
liis seat and he sees defeat for
his candidate, consequently he
leaves the judges race and jumps
on me. You my citizens know
him too well.
I am in favor of an unqualified
anti-trust law. The trusts and
combines of our land are becom
ing so numerous and so daring,
so strong and so powerful that
we have a light on our hands—a
continual warfare. It is a con
test where we have arrayed on
the one side the bond-holders,
the bankers, the railaoad mag
nates, the wheat gamblers, the
meat syndicates, the sugar
trusts, the oil trusts and the
devil, Wherever you lind dirty
finger marks in the temple of
justice or a foul odor in the halls
of legislation, you may rest as
sured it is the hobbyist of some
combine. These trusts always
have their hobbyists at every
legislature, bearing in one hand
a boodle sack upon which is in
scribed bribery and in the other
the uplifted hand of slander and
intimidation dripping with the
blood'of struggling mankind and
glistening in the golden sunlight
with the tears wrung from the
sunken eyes of weeping wives
and mothers, who have heard
the mallet of the auctioneer fall
like a hammer upon a coffin as
i their homes were sold to another
because of the magnitudinous
freedom of the trusts.
Now, let us look for a moment
upon the other side of the pic
ture. We see the toiling masses
; rise with the sun and earn their
| bread as God has directed. They
! have no lobbyists to bribe the
i law makers. They are not built
i that way. The laboring man is
! an honest man and an honest
' man is the noblest work of God.
This being the case we should
| be care :ul in selecting our repre
sentatives. We need men who
have manhood enough to stand
j by the people regardless of the
i influence that may be brought to
! bear; men that can feel the
throbbing heart of the masses
and can sympathize with every
citizen high or low.
As my time is up, I wish to
say in conclusion, if you desire
a populist in the legislature, send
Mr. Penrose; if you wish a ring
candidate, a man that believes in
a goverment of a ring, by a ring
and for a ring, send Mr. J. D. El
dridge: but if you wish a man
tjh&.ti wiU iopresent the whole
people and who will stand by the
people no matter what opposition
may come, send Kramer.
I thank you one and all.
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