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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, October 6, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 41.
SAYS HINDMAN IS OFF
THE TRACK ENTIRELY
Martin Thinks Hindman Should Ac
cept His Challenge and Con
tinue Discussion.
To The Newark Journal:
I see that Mr. Hindman failed
to accept the challenge on the fol
lowing proposition:
“Resolved, That saloons stand
for good citizenship and the foun
dation of good character.”
He undertook to defend the
whiskey business and 1 asked him
to meet me through the columns
of The Journal on the above prop
osition, leaving out all personali
ties, and discuss the issue. I do
not believe the above proposition,
but from his position he seems to
believe it is a good thing, hence 1
asked him to take the whisky side.
But, no, he will not, hence a
-square back-down.
He says 1 had the ‘'cheek"’ to
want him to defend it, but he says,
"“No sir, no mud slinging bouts
for me." Then I suppose he
■could not defend his position with
out mud slinging.
Mr. Hindman what is there in
the proposition that even sug
gests mud slinging? 1 confess 1
•do not see any, unless the whiskey
t business cannot be defended other
wise than to sling mud.
1 need not say more, ns Mr.
Hindman just wants to talk
around, like a boy going through
the graveyard whistling to keep
up courage and saying “I I I
■ ain’t scared.” Mr. 1 lii^Ungn .
\ what do you think the readers of
The JoiirnaJ will think of your
failure to accept of the
above challege and your
backing-down? You had better
not gone into this affair any way.
Don’t you just wish you hadn’t?
You say, referring to me, “He
stops long enough to curry and
groom the editor.” I think the
editor deserves our appreciation
for his fairness and you yourself
thanked him, and the public
should do likewise. You say, “I
would hate to see him deluged in a
shower of mud.*' Mr. Hindman
is that your reason for refusing to
discuss it? Could you not do so
without throwing mud ?
As to your sympathy for those
who do not believe in the whiskey
business, and your casting the
mantle of pity, it is easier just to
talk around than to meet the issue.
I don’t think we need any of your
pity. We are jubilant over the
success of the prohibition cause,
even in this little tilt.
In referrence to viceroys, he
says, “If the shoe pinches, you
can wear it, or go barefooted, as I
don’t intend to buy you another
pair.” What are you talking J
about, I’ncle John, are you out of
your head again? Then he refers!
to the “Gulping down” business,'
and says. “As I said defore, I did
not expect Prohis to believe what
I said, as unfortunately they are;
not built in a way for the storing
of good logic.” Hem! That is a
stunner. “Logic.” Well, it does
look that we who oppose whiskey
are afraid. Look at the challenge.
Who do you think Mr. Hindman,
the public will conclude is
afraid of “logic?” Thou art the
man.
Again, you say that you are
glad 1 reminded you that you was I
once a candidate. Well if I had j
jotten as big a vote as you did,“I
myself and me,” 1 would have re
nembered. And yet you had al
oust let as great an event as thai
dip your wonderful memory. Yoi
tret worse the further you go, bul
that is ‘‘logic" you know. Yoi
say you made the race foi
"health" and other things to ted
ious to mention. Ha! Ha! li
would not have cost you as mucl
worry had you gone to sonn
health resort, and not have so mucl
pain just to think you carried tin
full vote of "I, myself and me." 1
did think you got more votes that
that. Uncle .John says, “If then
is any one thing more than anoth
L*r that 1 stand for, it is certainly
for the very utmost liberty o
man, woman and child." That i>
what 1 claimed in my reply t<
you, but because 1 asserted m.t
right as an American citizen yoi
accuse me of wanting to rule tin
Universe as the viceroy of God
And in this you say "How hi:
ideas smatter of the old Puri tar
Blue Laws," and that my idea:
should be relegated back abou
three or four hundred years, am
that my ideas are dangerous t<
your liberties. It seems from tin
trend of your "logic" that yoi
would not have any restriction:
thrown around mankind. Wouldn'
this be a “grand" country! Ev
ery man his own law maker, witl
no one to answer to but his owi
self! Why Mr. Hindman you as
tonish me more than ever. You
liver certainly is badly out of fi:
and is affecting the seat of thought
We would have a muss worse thai
the savages, for thes do have som
rude laws.
Well you you kinder take bad
what you said about all preacher
being h.vpocrits, then say "then
are some good jolly fellows amonj
them; some who do not hesitate t<
take a few shallows for the stom
ach's sake you know." And righ
here I venture the remark tha
you have less respect for the so
called preacher who does that wa;
than you do for us who are tota
abstainers. Now, honestly, Mr
Hindman, don't you'
i on asK me ror names oi wrecic
in Newark. I do not live in New
ark, but I see them and if you d<
not it is because when they conn
around, you just back up against;
post or wall and close your eyes
You say that there are good am
noble men in the ministry, bu
you doubt the honesty of thosi
who wore the livery of the churcl
and preached politics from tin
pulpit and that it is hard to keei
from accusing such of hypocracy
Mr. Hindman you are a much old
er man than the writer, but 1 con
fess 1 never heard any preacher dt
such. We are not living in ante
bellum times. Have you been t<
church since those times, and die
you know that the war is over
Then write about the present is
sue. 1 am writing on aquestion tha
is not a party issue, but one pure
ly of morrals.
In answer to my question, when
would you prefer to live, in ;
community of preachers ant
churches and their influence, or sa
loonists and saloons and their in
fluence, you say you do not wan
to move. What is your surround
ings? Three church spires poin
heavenward in your own town, be
side others adjacent, with Severn
preachers. Yes I don’t blame yoi
(continued on page 4)
Col. V. Y. Cook of Elmo was in
town Wednesday, en route to
, Batesvilie.
George Price is building him
self a nice residence in the north
part of town.
Monroe Harrelson was visiting
relatives out in Black liiver town
ship Sunday.
Miss Ilettie Brooks who has
. been quite sick for several days, is
( able to be up again.
Walter Grear of Black River
i township, was in town Tuesday,
1 t*n route to Newport.
Rev. J, L. Brown of Charlotte
was in town Tuesday, en route to
points in Izard county.
The young people enjoyed an
I excellent song service at the Meth
, odist church Sunday night.
* Grandma Branson of Charlotte
left Tuesday for Cherokee, Ala.,
< to spend some time visiting rela
t lives.
The new styles of men’s, boy's
and children's hats and caps foi
1 Fall wear are now here. Fred I).
Whiting & Co.
Miss Sarah Harrington of Char
lotte was in the city Tuesday, ei
, route to Little Rock where sht
, will enter school.
" |
j We are agents for the wel
v known Carliss Coon ^ Co.’s best
3 four-ply collars. Two for 25 cts.
' Moore Bros. & Co.
Mrs. R. T. Harrington and Mrs.
’ Mol lie Sorrels of Charlotte, were
in the city Tuesday, the guests ol
1 Mrs. A. 11. Saviors.
t
Lee Herrington of Charlotte,
. was in town Tuesday, en route to
I Tuckerman to spend two or three
weeks visiting relatives.
Prof. W. K. Baker of Cord was
' transacting business in town Wed
- nesday, and reports everything
) j moving along nicely in his neigh
5 borhood.
Mrs. .1. T. Barksdale has pur
j chased four lots from l)r. W. P
Lawton and will build a residence
on the corner of Fourth and Lo
" cust streets.
i
, Miss Owen Harris was in the
, city Tuesday on her way home at
Asher,Okla., after an extended vis
it with relatives and old friends al
! Charlotte and elsewhere.
• I
i Prof. W. J. Harrington of Char
. lotte was in town Tuesday, and
, accompanied his sister, Miss Sar
ah, who was en route to Little
Rock, as far as Newport.
Pearl, the 15-moths-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cald
well died Sunday evening, after a
; prolonged illness. The remain*
“ were buried Monday at Blue
I
1 Springs cemetery.
At the meeting of the city coun
cil Monday night the rcsignatior
of Alderman W. .1. Cooper was
I presented and accepted, aud E. II
^ Williamson was elected to till tin
j vacancy. No other business o
. | importance was transacted, excep
to allow some accounts, and the
• council adjourned to meet Mon
j day night when another meeting
1 will be held to consider fi proposi
1 tion for an electric light fran- j
chise.
Miss Zeno Wilson has been
quite sick for several days with
typhoid fever.
Squire J. T. Tharp has l>een ^t
i fending quorum court at Rates
ville this week.
Allie Owens has been quite sick
at his home near Magness, but is
reported to be improving.
County Surveyor F. M. Ham
came down from Moorefield yes
terday to do some surveying.
The tent gallery will stop only a
short while in Newark. Do’t miss,
this opportunity. Twenty-one
photos, 25 cents. .
A call for a state convention of
the United Confederate Veterans
to be held at Little Rock Novem
ber 1st and 2nd has been issued
by Maj.-Gen. Dan. W. Jones.
You can buy any yard of calico
in our house for five cents, and
line laces at 3, 4 and 5 cents a
i yard that are worth twice the
' price. Fred 1). Whiting & Co.
For Rent-Farm of 220 acres,
: 110 acres in cultivation and 110 to
clear: 2l miles southeast of New
ark: want balance of land cleared.
Write C. A. McKaig, Eldorado,
Kan.
Mrs. Miles Davis died at her
home near Magness Wednesday
night, after an illness of nearly
three years from paralysis. The
burial took place yesterday at
Macedonia.
For Sale—Half block, four lots,
with t>vo good frame houses, one
8-room and one 6-room, two wells,
good barn and nice young or
chard, all improvements up-to
date. Terms reasonable. J. II.
M urphy.
For a superior quality of honey,
see Littlefield. This is superior to
the ordinary honey and the differ
i ence will surprise you. Mr. Lit
! tlefield will gladly explain to you
j how to produce such honey that
! always brings a handsome price;
and would also like to show you
his apiary and method of handling
bees for profit. lie will pay the
highest market price for all your
beeswax.
For Sale—One five room one
story house, one five room two
story house and one eight-room
two-story house, a good well,
smoke house, and barn and one
acre of land with each house.
North of school building. Would
sell one or two of them. I also
have other real estate bargains in
Newark property. If you want
to buy do not fail to see me. T.
J. Raney.
Young man, I would rather
have forty acres of land with a
log cabin on it and the woman I
loved in the cabin with a little
grassy, winding path leading
down to a spring where the water
gurgles from the lips of the earth,
s whistling day and night to the
•white pebbles a perpetual song —
with hollyhocks growing at the
corner of the house, and morning
,1 glories blooming over the new
! latched door with lattice work
! over the window so that the sun
j light would fall checkered on the
dimple babe in the cradle,and birds
; i like songs with wings hovering in
■ the summer air—than be clerk of
•1 any government on earth. Inger
;■ | soil.
COUNTY MEETING OF
THE FARMERS UNION
Interesting Session of the County Uni
on Held at Elmo Last Fri
day and Saturday.
To The Newark Journal:
The third meeting of the Inde
pendence County Union of the
Farmers’ Educational and Co-op
erative Union of American met in
regular session at Adyelotte Chap
el, near Elmo, September 2'-*th and
30th, with all officers present.
After the opening exercises the
following committees were ap
pointed:
On Credentials: W. W. North
ern, \Y. F. Brinkley and W. H.
McGuire.
On Trade: J. K. York and A.
II. Saylors.
On Resolutions: Willis Pate,
jT. J. Holcombe, John Brinkley,
J. N. Black and R. C. Sims.
While the committee on creden
tials was making ready thir re
1 port, State President J. T. Batton
; delivered an able address on the
| good of the order.
The report of the committee on
credentials was then received.
Eighty-nine delegates represent
ing twenty-five local unions were
present.
A recess was taken until 7:30 A.
m. when an open session was.
held.
J. T. Batton, Wm. Baker, Jas.
Marlin and Mr. Liles entertained
! the audience for quite a while,and
the meeting then adjourned until
S:30 a. m. Saturday.
The morning session was opened
' in due form and proceeded to the
election of officers for the follow
year. J. C. Stewart was re-elect
ed president; .las. Marlin was
elected vice-president; W. D, Bul
1 lington secretary-treasurer; C. P.
! Pickens, chaplain; John Magness,
door keeper; W. W. White, con
ductor: .John MeCuistion, county
lecturer: A. II. Saylors, business
agent;.!. K. York, John McCuis
tion, John Magness, executive
j committee.
The following resolution was
adopted:
“Resolved, That we, the mem
bers of the Independence County
(Union, pledge ourselves to stand,
firm on the recommendation of the
| Texas State Union and the Presi
dent of our State Union asking for
a minimum price of 11 cents per
pound for our cotton. That we
1 respectfully ask all non-union men
and members of the Cotton Grow
ers Association to co-operate with
us in maintaining said price.
“Resolved further. That we
hold our cotton seed for $15.00 or
more per ton.”
The delegates and visitors were
royally entertained by the good
people of the community and the
following resolution was unani
j mously adopted:
“Resolved, That we, the mem
bers of Independence County Uni
on, in session at Elmo, tender our
heart-felt and sincere thanks to
the Elmo people for the generous
and hospitible manner in which
i they have entertained us during1
our stay with them.”
The meeting then adjourned to
meet at Newark on the 15th and
! lfith of December.
W. D. Bullington, Sec.
--
Master Lynn Galloway left Sat
urday for Dota to spend a fewr
days visiting relatives.