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TELEPHONE NUMBER 49-4.
FRIDAY. AUGUST 22, 1902.
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COUNTY CANDIDATES
They Spoke Tuesday and
Drew a Dig Crowd
A Short Sketch of Speeches Made
by Candidates For The
legislature.
A good large eiowd was in town
Tuesday tif hear the candidates,
and everything passed off very
nicely. A lot of seats had been
previously erected under a nice
shade on the south side for the
comfort of those who wished to
hear the speaking and good atten
tion was given the speakers
throughout the entire list. Those
of the candidates who had no op
position merely announced them
selves and asked for the support
of the people at the coming elec
tion.
The candidates without opposi
tion came first and lion. .Jeff I).
Morgan, democratic nominee for
sheriff, opened the speaking and
in a few well chosen words an
nounced himself and asked the
support of the voters. The
others announced in turn until
the candidates for county treasur
er was reached, when Flunk Fer
ric, independent candidate for
this office, unburdened himself of
a little hot air in a labored at
tempt to justify his course in
bolting the party verdict and run
ning independent. T. M. Wul
drip, democratic nomineo for
treasurer, was then introduced
and in a few words showed that
he was the paity’a choice by a
substantial majority and asked
the voters to remember Inm when
they went to cast their ballots.
The “little ti>ho.>” were now
through and John A. Hinkle,:
democratic nominee for state sen
ator, announced, stating that he
had no opposition and would not
take up lime m making a j
speech.
1 ne tug ox war between me
candidates tor I lie legislature now
began and they entertained the
people for about three hours.
lion, John (J. Stiouct, iude
peudeut candidate, was first in
troduced and spoke for fifty min
utes. tie opened in a very pleas
ing manner, reviewed the political
situation in a few words, and
stated that he had won all the!
honors lie wanted and letired
from politics, but alien the pre
sent sit nation arose he was so re
peatedly importuned by the mon
eyed democrats that lie finally
consented to run as an independ
ent. lie was formerly a populist
but his party had performed its
mission and gone out of business
and he was now perfectly inde
pendent, wore the collar of no
parly or clique. The people liuu |
nothing to lose and everything to j
gam by electing hun, so he claim-j
ed. He enlarged upon his reeoidj
and left the impression that he j
entertained a very high opinion!
«>f himself. He was not lighting
the democratic party, but was in
the race in the interest of right
and justice and thought the pres
ent situation would properly ad
just itself by sending Stroud to
‘he legislature. He knew noth
ing about the primary fraud, but
that the cry came from the demo
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*tntic party and said that it used
,o he that the democrats, in order
,o win an election, would swallow
he pops hut now, that the pops
bad all been swallowed, the dem
ocrats were swallowing each
other. lie knew nothing about
Lho supposed re-count but that
Ihe committee had demanded that
fob 1)0 put up to defray the ex
pense of making the re-count,
then the committee fooled around
two or three days, pocketed the
$.">() and said they couldn't tell
who the nominees were ; hut it
was evident that they had all they
wanted when they got Arnold out.
Here he related a good yarn about
two Irishmen and some buffaloes
at the expense of the democratic
central committee, which created
a good deal of laughter, lie appeal
ed to the father to vote for him and
thus set a good example befoie
their children ; said the candidates
needed Scripture and he wanted
the people to pray before they
started to the polls to vote.
There are already too main laws
ami lie would not pledge himself
to enact any more, hut thought
they ought to knock out some al
ready enacted. He favored
knocking out the primary and lot
every man run for an office who
wanted to. and let the longest
pole knock the persimmon. He
opposed trusts and liked the
King bill, which was defeated in
the last legislature, and would
vote for a similar bill ; favors the
proposed amendment to the con
stitution, provided honest men
were elected to the legislature,
but the amendment is a danger
ous one. Wants a guarantee law
and a grain inspector, lie favor
ed taxing franchises, wants a re
form school, and favors amend
ing tiie road law. Wants the of
th e of county road commissioner
abolished and road districts made
small, say four or live miles of
road, and allow the overseer to
work not more than Id hands at
one time, lie favoied a law re
quiring administrators and guard
ians to renew their bonds every
two years. Does not favor a
branch insane asylum but thinks
an addition should bo built to the
old one at Little Rock. Does not
favor building up one section of
the country at the expense of an
other. Is with Jel'f Davis on the
state house question, and favors
a new state house, provided it
can be built fm $1,000,000. He
had no particular choice of which
one of the others the people sent
to the legislature with him anu
would take care of which ever one
they decided to send and try to
keep him out of trouble.
Hon. C. II. Hogan, demo
cratic nominee, was then intro
dueed. He spoke for about 50
minutes and said that he believed
the people would stand by the
democratic nominees. There was
no question as to his claim on the
party vote.l.e being nominated by
a majority of about 700 over
either of his nearest opponents
He touched upon the charges
made through the public press by
an individual signing himself
*‘\V said he knew “W” and
stated that he was a man whom
he had beaten in the prim try by
something like 1400 votes- He
believed the people knew who it
was and it was useless for him to
call names, lie touched upon
the apparent fraud within ttie
party and stated that the ballots
boxes and returns from the recent
primary were only in his office
about one hour and denied in im
phatie language that he telephon
ed to Big Bottom anything in the
interest of Arnold when the re
turns were coming in from other
townships. He favored a new
primary election law; one that
will give us honest primaries and
piohibit fraud in primaries the
same as in general election.
Favors a new road law ; the pre
sent one is very defective and the
hill townships could never make
good roads under the present law,
for they would never have the
funds. The people may some
times he wrong but they are main
ly right and he wanted them to
freely consult with him in regard
| to the road law, and bethought
they could lormulate a plan to
improve the present law. He
favors putting legislators on a
salary not exceeding $500 for the
entire two years and beleived this
would remove the stigma hereto
fore cast upon Arkansas legisla
tures, Favors railroad commission
but wants a better one than the
one we now have, which costs the
taxpayers an enormous sum and
don't benefit them 15 cents; he
wanted the railroad commission
to control tlie tailroads, and not
tho railroads to control the com
mission ; believed the commission
should assess the railroads, and
stated that the raiboad through
independence county was assess
ed at $4,500 per mile ; the new
road that is now being built is as
scsed at $2,000 per mile, when
the actual cost of constructing it
was $30,000 per mile. He favors
a branch insane asylum and would
like to have it it Jiatesville,
would vote for a branch asy lum
at any place outside of Little
Hock, but was opposed to an an
nex to the present asylum. Other
at.ites haJ their charitable insti
tutions away from the capital and
expenses were lighter. Inde
pendence county has plenty of
material to erect the building and
I he favored putting the branch
asylum at liatesville. He was
not lighting Little Hock, was
| proud of the capital city, but did
| n’t want it to have anything. lie
i favored a reduction of the legal
late of interest. Favors a par
doning board; bus heard it
i charged that the present governor
i is using pardoning power for po
litical purposes; does not know
how true the charge is, but con
demns abuse of the pardoning
power, ne enlarged up the state’s j
prosperity and believed the honor j
was due the democratic party. I
Democrats found the state on the !
j verge of bankruptcy, but under
their wise and economical admin
j istrations it was now one of the
most prosperous in the union.
Is a strict party man, wants all
! the votes ho can get, but would
rather go down in defeat than
I sacrifice party principles, and
would stay in the party. He clos
ed by relating a funny yarn on the
proverbial Irishman, which lie
made applicable to Stroud : said
| Stroud had fooled the people be
fore and that he had changed his
tactics but was the same old
Stroud and couldn’t do it any
more.
.Judge M. L. Arnold, the other
democratic nominee, came next,
ably defended his claim to the
nomination and showed that Ma
theny represented nothing but the
little organized clique and was in
the race solely at their dictation.
It was customary, he said, for can
didates to thank the people for
what they had done for them in
the past, but he could put in his
allotted time of 45 minutes and
then not get through thanking the
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people for what they had done for
him. IIo is a democrat, has al
ways been a democrat, and claims
to have done more for the party
than any man in the race. If
wrong has been done the people
should know it, so that they could
properly purge the party and cut
off the offender. The people are
made the jury in this case and he
expected to place the evidence be
fore them that they may come to a
proper decision. The young man
from Sharp county came down here
to show the people a new scheme
in politics and the only evidence
he had that he was a citizen of In
dependence county was a poll tax
receipt. When the judges from
Big Bottom returned the ballots
to Batesville after the primary
Matheny kicked and the judges
asked for a re-count then and there
but no, Matheny did not want a
re-count and would not agree to it:
but after the judges were gone and
Matheny had an opportunity to
get some of his friends to slip the
ballot box out on Tuesday night
and doctor the ballots he was then
ready for a re-count on Wednes
day and tiled a petition for a re
count. He stated that it had been
charged that the judges and clerks
who held the primary in thistown
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denied the charge and exhibited
an affidavit from Squire Tharp
stating that they were sworn. Has
known the judges for years and
believes them to be honest men.
Lane was not his friend, political
ly, and had never supported him
and lie did not believe Lane would
make a false count of the ballots
or swear a lie for the sole benetit
of Arnold. He had asked Mathe
ny to go before the board when
the returns first came in, offered
to waive all irregularities and if
Matheny had one more vote than
himself he would step down and
out and support Matheny, but Ma
theny refused. But after Tuesday
night, when they had doctored the
returns, then Matheny filed a pe
tition and that petition only asked
for a re-count the very thing he
had tried to get Matheny to agree
to the evening before. Matheny
had admitted to him that his onl\
excuse for not going before the
board on Tuesday was that they j
could not get a hearing at that
time, but he (Arnold) went and ex-1
perienced no trouble in getting a
hearing, therefore Matheny"s real
excuse could only have been that !
the ballots were not ready he!
wanted to doctor them that night. ;
Where was the ballot box from!
Tuesday until the re-count was j
made i He had found no man who !
could give a history of the box or ’
knew anything about it during!
that time, but indications pointed
to the fact that the box was in the
hands of Matheny or some of his
friends. Big Bottom had stood
behind ‘Lije when he was a candi
date, but now he wanted her wiped
off the map The committee that
made the last re-count selected
themselves and it was a notorious
fact that they were all Matheny "s
friends. He asked for a new pri
mary, but Matheny's self-appoint
ed eight had decided that Matheny
suited them and refused to allow a
' 1 11P mnftnn
now
itrimfl rv
counted five townships, found si
bear in the hole, as Stroud had1
aptly expressed it, and Matheny V
friends said the count must be
stopped. So they stopped, but ac
cording to their own figures, he
(Arnold) was three votes ahead.
Matheny lost 12 votes in Barren,
6 in Washington, 4 in Union and
4 in Greenbrier, which still gives
| him (Arnold) the nomination by 3
| votes. Matheny and his clique of
8 are responsible for the present
political situation, and would the
people uphold the action of the de
mocracy or the action of the Ma
theny cliqued Some little preju
dice, which exists wholly without
foundation, is apparent in some
, places against Big Bottom, but it
has been caused by men who failed
to carry the township in previous
elections. They say we poll too
many votes; they don't know how
our town is growing. Why, even
Stroud got lost in town today and
said Newark had grown so he
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