BROUGH'S METHODS EXPOSED
ISSUES SQUARELY UP TO
THE PEOPLE.
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Abuse of the Country Press.
Oi. Brough lias not only tried to
cast reflection upon my good name,
,iut he has thrown aspersions at such
Hi' n as Col. George Thornburgh and
Col. W. XV. Folsom of Hope,
D. Freeman of the Pine Bluff
Commercial, Col. W. E. Decker of
tort Smith, Wm. Greenwood of Paris,
r;»Pt. C. C. Colburn of Ozark, W. A.
Moffatt of Monticello, E. C. Funk of
Ungers, I^ovick Pound of Danville,
Geo. W. Mason of El Dorado and
many others engaged In the newspa
per business in Arkansas by stating
tor a pittance the entire country
pm ks of Arkansas has sold out to me.
these men have lived their lives
in Arkansas and have done much to
ward the upbuilding of the state—
tnen who have raised their children
jeTe and who will die and be buried
beneath the soil of Arkansas. The
El Dorado Times said: "We deny tne
charge and resent such Insinuation
against the country press as not only
unjust, but an insult and a travesty
against their honor,”
Books Taken From Old State House.
He Insinuated that I was in some
wav connected with the then of some
books from the state library, in the
old State House, although he makes
no direct charge. He knew full well
that I went before the Pulaski Coun
ty Grand Jury, and that it was upon
my testimony an indictment was re
turned. I have always been willing
to give my testimony at a trial of the
case, hut u the young man has not
been further prosecuted, the fault is
not mine, as the prosecution is in the
hands of the court officers.
Same Auditors in My Office as in
Other State Offices.
When the Legislature of 1915 con
vened. it appointed Senator George
W. Garrett, Representative Monroe
Smith, U. A. Gentry and others, a
committee to audit the books of the
state officials. This committee, or any
member thereof, did not do any per
sonal work in any of the state depart
ments. They made a contract with
Messrs. Pike, Cr< Bon A- Co. of Mem
phis to do tlie expert work in going
over tlie books of the various state
officials.
Had this committee wanted to do
the right thing, they could have em
ployed sufficient accountants to do all
the work when the Legislature was in
session and it would have been much
less expense for the taxpayers of the
state; but forty days after the Legis
lature had adjourned, the three mem
bers of the committee were hanging
around .no state house, receiving data
from the two accountants and giving
out exciting reports and confidential
Information about the various state of
ficers, in an effort to kick up enough
dust to justify them remaining on tlie
job at $6.00 per day until Christmas
or possibly until after the next Leg
islature convened.
At the end of the forty days, the
Supremo Court decided that this com
mittee had no further authority to con
tinue their work, as tiiey had stayed
the time provided by the constitu
tion. After this Supreme Court deel
sion, they aid not nave any more au
thority to audit anyone’s books.
Senator Garrett’s Prophecies.
All the time while Senator Garrett
was endeavoring to stay on the pay
roll at $6.00 per day, he w'as using ail
the efforts in his power to assist in
the sale of a certain convict farm in
South Arkansas. If he wants his va
rious offers to secure assistance made
pttbiic, I will gladly give the informa
tion. I did not object to anyone audit
ing my books; nor would I have ob
jected to this committee auditing my
books had they not stated publicly
several times, that they would put me
out of the governor’s race. I there
fore refused to permit them to con
tinue their work in my office.
My Books Opened and Audited.
I at once offered to turn my books
over to the Arkansas Hankers' Asso
ciation to audit, and had I had any
thing in my office to cover up, I cer
tainly would not have proposed that
the Bankers' Association make the
audit. The Bankers’ Association re
fused to do the work, and I asked the
Hon. George W. Thornburgh to audit
my office, whose. Integrity no man
will question, as he is a very promi
nent member of the church; a promi
nent member of the Masonic frater
nity. a prominent member of tiie An
ti-Saloon League, and a man whose
honesty and integrity is as good or
better than any member of the com
mittee which was appointed by the
Legislature, and which had said that
they would put me out of the gov
ernor’s race!
Had I wanted to cover up anything
that might have been wrong in my
affice, 1 certainly would nclf have se
lected an honorable man like Col.
Thornburgh to audit same. He agreed
to do the work, and as a matter of
fairness to all concerned, and that no
juustion might be raised, he employ
ed the same accountants to audit my
books that had audited the other
:> dices. I attach hereto his letter,
which shows for itself:
•’Messrs. Pike, Crofton & Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.
"Gentlemen: -This will authorize
you to audit the books and accounts
of the office of Hon. Earle W. Hodges.
Secretary of State, with the under
standing that the work is to be done
by Messrs. I. H. Beebe and ('. A.
Russell, the accountants who have re
cently been auditing the books at
the State Capitol, under the direction
of the legislative committee.
"We slia.11 expect a thorough* in ves
iigation made, without partiality or
prejudice, and report made to the un
dersigned.
"The matter of terms has been
agreed upon with Messrs. Beebe and
Russell, and I shall expect you to go
to work at once and complete same at
tfie earliest possible moment.
"Yours very truly,
"GEO. l’HORNBURGH.
It will he observed that he em
ployed Messrs. Beebe and Russell to
audit my office, and they were the
ones that were in the employ of this
legislative committee. If they did
hone-st work for the legislative com
mittee, who can say that they would
not do honest work for the Hon.
George Thornburgh? And what right
has this committee to question their
report when working under Mr. Thorn
burgh, when they, themselves, tiad
the same committee employed?
Col. Thornburgh's Report.
Messrs. Beebe and Russell took
up the work In my office immediately
and made the report to the Hon.
George Thornburgh on the 5th of Oc
tober. The substance of this report
was published In the daily papers
soon thereafter. Mr. Thornburgh, in
commenting on this reDorL made the
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every t’*ne she lays an
egg she cackles forth
the fact.
A rooster hasn’t got
a lot of intellect to
show, l>ui nonetheless
most r> testers have
enough good sense to
crow.
The mule, the most
despised of beasts, has
a persistent way of
letting people know
he’s around "by his in
insistent bray.
The bees they buzz,
the pclly swears, the
bulls bellow and cows
moo, and watch-dogs
bark, and ganders
quack, and doves and
pigeons coo.
The peacockspreads
his tail and squawks;
pigs squeal and robins
sing, an d even serpents
know enough to hiss
before tney sting.
But man, the great
est masterpiece that
nature could devise
will often stop and
hesitate before he’ll
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following statement:
“I Uiink 1 am justified in saying
that this report is indeed creditable
to Mr. Hodges, as it covers a period
of about throe and one-half years, and
an amount of over two hundred and
seventeen thouv.: d dollars, with
every cent accounted for, and accord
ing to Mr. Hodges' receipts, $21.6b
over, which was paid in two or three
years ago. The a countants in Hie
discharge of tin1 r duties call attention
to the fact that certain amounts
should have been received by the sec
retary of state, bu they cannot say
they were ever roe ived It. him. Mr.
Hodges explains this in a statement
which is hereto attached.
“In regard to the system of book
keeping, which th accountants eritl
cised, it is proper to say that they
found the same system in vogue in ah
the state offices, and in order to
c-h; gt it in one office, it will be pro
per to change it in all. The system
was not ado; d by any of the prev
ent s'ate olk< -s and they are not re
sponsible for it.
"Yours truly,
“GKO. THORNBURGH
nr. Brough, in his effort to p: u
dice the people t me, does not
hesitate io r : ■ r.p- kind of a c!
r-rgardless of the kind of a charge.
Ho states that 1 had on d
ttie banks of Little Rook, in my own
n; . ... which should ham
been in the state treasury. The -e-il
fi'rts are that ! r« oe ved checks tn
most every mail every day, and these
checks could not ho turned over to
the state treasurer himself. I would
deposit them in the bank daily and at
fh ' end of the month I would ttl >
with the st.a?i treasurer for all of the
money received by me during the
month. 1 have his receipts for over
SUIT.000.00. When the accountants
completed tile work in my ol'lee, t
was clearly shown that the 5217,000.00
received by me during the tlire- and
a half years’ time cod been turned
over to the stat t- usurer and 1 had
his receipts for the same.
Me leaves ' i -p ession that I h id
deposited on. no over $200,000
i; a ban’; when he well knew (or he
could easily have found out with slight
investigation) that such a sta unent
was wholly without foundation and
absolutely false
Now, he claims to be a lawyer, yet
he misconstrued the law of Section
1991 of Kirby's Dig t when he made
the charge that I had violated that
section by depositing the funds men
tioned above in a hunk
The last Legislature passed a law
requiring that settlements he made
daily with the state treasurer. 1 am
complying with that law to the lette.r,
and with all other laws of the state.
This could also be ascertained by the
profound doctor of philosophy if ue
were at all inclined to search for and
state the truth.
Conclusion.
If Dr. Borugh is so pressed for
issues in this campaign that he will
stoop to such tactics as the above,
how can the people of Arkansas put
faith in any statement that he makes?
He seems to have gone wild in his
efforts to splatter mud at ine and to
create a false impression tn the minds
of the people. Gradually the voters
of the state are learning the true
character oi this man Brough—this
imported, poetical, tax-dodging, hign
browed college professor; and if I
read the signs of the times correctly
they will resent witu their votes the
tactics he lias employed in this cam
paign by burying him beneath an
avalanche of honest votes.
EARLE W. HODGES.
The Uses and AIkic
of Ferti! zers
1 of SI* Arficlr* Which
Should Be of \ nluuhlt* AstUom «•
to AKrknhurlNtN and liorticiilitir
intn of ArkannnM—ll> Prof. It. .1.
II. Ilo l.oaolt. Ulrfftor of firor^ia
Experiment Station.
3. ROTHAMSTE.O tXREf'.i 1 E NT
STATION AND FERTILIZERS.
The Rothamsted Experiment sta
tion is in England, and is noted for
the great work is has done along all
lines of agricultural work, it has
gone into the laws of soil fertility, has
been the first to discover many of
these laws, and has in all its history
been especially interested in working
out a plan of farm management by
which soil fertility could be maintain
ed at a minimum cost to the farmers.
The Rothamsted experiments began
in the year 1837. when Sir John lien
nett Lawes began experiments on his
private estate. lie was a man who
loved the soil and to experiment with
it. Strange to say, he was a fertil
izer manufacturer in a certain sense,
as he early discovered a process for
transforming bone into superphos
phate by the use of sulphuric acid,
took out a patent for this in 1842,
and built an extensive business, which
he managed for about thirty years.
In 1843 he associated with him J. II.
Gilbert, and these two men for more
than fifty years conducted extensive
agricultural investigations in regard
to soils and fertilizers, and feeds and
feeding of domestic animals. In 1889
Sir John turned over his large estate,
which had now grown so important,
and had become so well known in all
parts of the civilized world, to a
board of directors, and endowed it
with half a million dollars.
Among many other things that
were done, experiments were conduct
ed with fertilizers, mineral salts, and
many forms of ammoniates, also with
animal manures, to determine just
what the soils needed to grow tIn
most crops. For this work plots of
ground were set aside, marked off
and carefully measured, and then
planted to the crop with which the
investigator wished to work. Small
plots would he used for the different
kinds of mineral and animal manures,
and in each series one plot would he
left unfertilized throughout the entire
experiments, while the others would'
have applied the different combina
tions of fertilizers, etc. Careful re
ports were taken from each end of
these plots, and with interesting re
sults. The same experiments were
continued for twenty years and more.
Many experiments were conducted
with hay, and some of these with the
following results: The plots that had
l no manure of any kind averaged in
twenty years, 2,383 pounds of hay: the
plots which had mineral manure alone
3,598 pounds; the plots with mineral
manure and 400 pounds of ammonia
salts, 5,711 pounds of hay; those with
mineral manure and 800 pounds ol
ammonia salts, 6.726 pounds of hay:
the plots which received the mineral
manure and nitrate of soda, 6,407
pounds of hay. Considering the very
low cost of the fertilizers in compar
ison to the increased yields brought
about by their use, one could not fail
to see the value of the manure salts
The Rothamsted station was inter
ested in the permanent improvement
of land and the part played in this
by the use of fertilizing materials.
From the many experiments carried
out, there was never a doubt of the
wisdom of applying plant food to the
soil. Larger yields were always ob
tained, other things being equal, and
the fertilization of the soils through
out England and her possessions rec
ommended. It was decided to ascer
tain the effects of fertilizers on corn.
Seven plots were treated as follows:
Plot 1. Unmanured.
Plot 2. Mixed mineral manure, 300
pounds sulphate of potash, 200 pounds
sulphate soda, 100 pounds sulphate
magnesia, 350 pounds superphosphate
lime.
Plot 3. Ammonia-salts, comprising
200 pounds sulphate ammonia and 200
pounds muriate of ammonia.
Plot 4. Ammonia salts and mixed
mineral manures, as Plot 2.
Plot 5. Five hundred and forty
pounds Peruvian guano.
Plot 6. Two thousand pounds rape
cake.
Plot 7. Fourteen tons farmyard ma
nure.
The results of six years of experi
ments follow: The greatest increase
in yields was obtained with fertilizers
richest in ammonia. The ammonia
salts, the guano and the rape cake
gave the largest increase, which was
about four or five bushels increase
of dressed corn. In Plot 2, where
only the mineral manures were used,
the increase was least, while in Plots
3 and 5 it was greater, and in 4 great
est. It seems that the mineral ma
nures needed the effect of the am
monia salts in order to help them be
come available. There was in every
case a substantial increase where fer
tilizers were used over the plots that
remained unmanured.
The great object in giving the
above information is to bring to the
attention of farmers and business men
that the question of fertilizers for the
average farm crops is a subject as
old as any form of agricultural edu
cation, and Rothamsted did much fun
damental work on it. In no case was
it found that ammonia salts and other
mineral manures, when applied to
gether, were not valuable. Farmyard
manure was somewhat valuable by it
self, but far more so when ammonia
salts were applied with it.
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4. FERTILIZERS AND FIELDCROPS
David Dickson, after a life of use
ful service to his fellow man ami a
life of success as a farmer, had the
following to say about, the use of
guano: “I say that farmers can make
every acre of their lands rich if they
will. Providence intended the earth
should increase in fertility as rapidly
as it does in population. Every man
that assists in removing this dormant
guano, lying idle and useless on the
Chineha Islands, and puts it in cir
culation, creating therewith food and
clothing, is a benefactor to his kind.
The country suffers for want of a
share of the surplus fertilizing mate
rial. Remove the deposit and apply
to crops, and it will enrich the land.
"I commenced to use guano in 1846,
and gradually increased the use of it
until the present time, never having
omitted to use it. on my crops ex
cepting the last year of the war, when
I could not obtain it. With the proper
system of rotation of crops, and re
turning all the erops to the land, ex
cept the lint of the cotton, land may
be improved with Peruvian guano
alone, but not so fast as when you
combine with the soil all the ele
ments of the plants to be grown. Am
monia being necessary for all plants,
I know' of no crop that it would not
benefit. It will pay the best, upor
those crops that bring the most ruon
ey—cotton being that crop in this sec
tion, and tobacco in other sections.’
it will be seen from the above that
Mr. Dickson profited greatly by tin
use of guano. He knew well the valin
of ammonia to grow ing crops, but you
will observe that he knew quite as
well the value of other plant foods to
the crop. He got better yields when
he applied all the elements of plant
food than when he applied ammonia
alone. Also observe that he consid
ered it good business to apply fertil
izer. He was a business man as well
as a farmer, and knew all the keen
points in the business world.
The Hon. Janies M Smith, anothei
millionaire farmer of Georgia, whe
died only a few days ago, has the fol
lowing to say with reference to tin
use of fertilizers on farm crops:
"The use of fertilizers has become
one of the most important factors ir
Southern agriculture. It is a power
ful agency in producing an inereasec
yield a thing we should desire am:
work for. We certainly believe in tin
use of commercial fertilizers, hut wi
also believe in the turning under ol
vegetable matter, the sowing ol
legumes and the saving of all barn
yard manure. The up-to-date farmei
will not oensider one of these, hut ali
four of them, in trying tc increast
his farm crons.”
TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I
will attend in person or by de
puty, in the differenttownships
throughout the County for the
purpose of collecting the State,
County and Special Taxes for
the year 1915 on the days and
dates specified below. Each
taxpayer is requested to bring
his last year’s tax receipt. I
would suggest that as many as
can do so meet me the day lam
in their township and therefore
avoid the rush which comes la
ter.
fice in the Court House until
the 10th of April, 191G, taxes
can be paid without penalty,
and after the said 10th day of
April, 1916. the law requires a
penalty of 25 per cent to be im
posed for non-payment.
BURTON ARNOLD,
Collector of Taxes for Indepen
dence County.
I reserve Hie right to leave at
noon on the second day where
we collect more than one day
at any one place.
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