The Newark journal.
One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY AUGUST 15, 1002.
Voi. 2 No. 33.
SOME FACTS g INTEREST CONCERNING THE PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION.
“DELIBERATE FRAUD”
How The Batesville Guard Was
Going Wipe Big Bottom
Off the Earth.
The face of the returns from Big
B attorn township gave Arnold 301 votes
and Matheny 29. Matheny was not
satisfied with this and went before
the canvassing board and asked that
they re-count the votes cast in that
township. This was done and the re
count gave Matheny 4."> and Arnold
262. Just how such an important dif
ference occurred has not been ex
plained in a manner that we can place
it properly before our readers, but we
will spare no pains in getting at the
facts and promise that tlie people of
Independence county shall know them,
regardless of whom this matter may
involve. There was a grave mistake
made or a deliberate wrong attempt
ed, and it is due to honesty and the
purity of the democratic party that
the matter be exposed, and if fraud
has been attempted the perpetrator
should be prosecuted to the full extent
of tlie law.—Batesville Guard April 4.
Nmv wouldn't that jar you?
The editor of the Guard, stinging
under the humiliating defeat of
Senator Jones, at whose feet lie
hows down and worships, and
gicen with chagrin at the trium
phant victory of Governoi Davis,
on whom the Guard has wa<red a
relentless, unju.'t and acrimonious
warfare, must find something up
on which to vent his spleen, and,
like a drown ng man grasping at a j
straw, he falls broad-ide upon j
this ‘•attempted ileld)crate wtong”
which exists ouly in the mind of
the ed tor of the Guard and a few
friends of a defeated and disgrun-1
tied candidate, and emits sicken
ing guests of hot air in a vain at- ’
tempt to ease himself.
To luing the matter down to a
plain statement of facts and to 1
get a (dear insight into this“de-J
liberate fraud,” which the Guard
would have the people believe!
was commit*cd in this township,
just stack t he editor of the Guard,
the defeated candidate or any one
who presists in circulating this
c ry of “fraud,” up alongside of j
Tom Magncss, Tom Hearing or i
“Due” Lane, who were the judges j
ot election for this township, and
compare their record for honesty,
integrity and uprightness. Whic h
way dues the balance fall. Verily,
nut in favor of the editor of the
Guard or llie defeated candidate.
No, not bv a d—n sight !
Tom Magnus, Tom Hearing and
“Doc” L ine have been citizens of
Independence county for years.
They, each, have made a repu
tat ion for honesty that any man
might well feel proud of, and
W.D\
Too much constant
men’s nerves. and right, is
care of children, . ft strong
face tolls live
I woroant overworked hpusewife
story of th - 1)erangcd menses,
\ and ro°^er‘and falling of the
\ lenoorrhmn overwork.
womb result a remedy
1 Every h^SC"^cr mcnscs and to
W rGtcr ensitivc female organs
r^ect conditio.,
UiME0F CARW*
if doing tmerto-tn-nvel'
VrCnjoancs°and that is why
| writes this frank letter
their past lives is an open book.
Their reputation 18 at stake, and
the man who intimates that the>
would deliberately defraud any
man out of something that was
honestly and justly due him.
either does so untboughtedly or
has a vacant spot in his head at
the place occupied by brains in a
sensible person.—.lournal-4-11.
The Guard’s Consistency.
It seems a little strange to most
people that the Batesvilie Guard,
which raised such a howl at the
supposed fraud in nig Bottom,
should close up as silent as a dead
clam and never mention fraud any
more after it became known that
fraud had been committed and the
ballots tampered with right in it's
own town, and almost within the
righteuos shaddow of the Guard
office.
When it was first reported that
fraud had been committed in nig
Bottom, the Guard didn’t even
wait for a verification
of the report, but got hot
with righteous (0 indignation, in
it’s fury ground a hole through a
stone pavement with it’s heel and
swore, with blood in its eye, that
it would “spare no pains to uncov
er the fraud and bring the guilty
The big '‘first'’ editor of that
sheet being some sort of a g-r-e-a-t I
b-i-g official at Washington, the 1
first assistant editor being a rising
(0 attorney, and the second assis
tant editor having, some time in
the dim and misty past, been a
road overseer, moderator in a de
bating society, or something of I
that kind, we little common, ordi
nary country folks down in this
end of the county naturally quak
ed and trembled with fear, and
prayed for the mountains to fall
on us.
However, as the mountains re
fused to fall, the little country- j
raised editor of the Journal fired a
few shots into the Guard, and has,
at different times, tried to draw an
expression from it on the question
at issue, but not a word has it j
said.
While the supposed fraud was
all in Big Bottom the Guard fairly
boiled over with indignation that j
fraud should be perpetrated in the
fair name of democarcy, but when
fraud is actually found to have \
been committed right in it’s own
town, it says never a word.
This is a lair sample or tire
Guard's consistency.—From The
Journal, June 13.
To My Friends.
It is with joy 1 tell you what
Kodol did forme. I was troubled
with my stomach for several
months. Upon being advised to
use Ivodol, I did so, and words
cannot tell the good it has done
me. A neighbor had dyspepsia so
that he had tried most every
thing. I told him to use Kodol.
Words ot gratitude have come to
me from him because 1 recom
mended it.—Geo. IV. Fry, Viola,
Iowa. Health and strength, of
mind and body, depends on the
stomach, and normal activity of
the digestive organs. Kodol, the
great reconstructive tonic, cures
all stomach and bowel troubles,
indigestion, dyspepsia. Kodol di
gests any good food you eat.
Take a dose after meals. J, I.
Sturdivant.
-4.»
Patents at Cut Prices.
In or^erto Keep buisy during the
summer, Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site U. S. Patent Office, Wash
ington, D. C., have made a big
cut in the price for obtaining
patents. Inventors who desire
to save money ami get the best
work-should write them while the
cut prices prevails.
All kinds of produce, hides and
furs bought at Murphy &' Moore’s.
Give them a call when in town.
WILL THE PARTY INDORSE IT?
The county central committee met Saturday (May 24) and did ex
actly what the little organized clique desired that it should do, and
saddled all the supposed fraud in the recent primary upon Big Bottom
township. i
There is no doubt but that a certain clique was organized for the i
express purpose of seeing that this was done. Ihit, how did they do
itf Ah! thereby hangs a tale, and upon this subject there will be pre- i
sented to the I)emocracy of Independence county some interesting i
facts before this campaign comes to a close. i
A majority of the members of the central committee voted in fa- i
vor of adopting the re-count, as made and declared by the board at I
Hatesville, which board was never sworn, and which ignored the ap- I
peals and demands of the judges from this township to re-count the 1
ballots from this township in their presence, and which board, as soon 1
as the judges were gone, immediately opened the ballot box and pro
ceeded to pull out great wads of fraud.
Hut let's see what part of the Democracy of Independence county 1
this majority of the committee represents, which has- deliberately at- *
tempted to defeat the party and proclaim to the world that the judges 1
for this township—Tom Magness, Tom Dearing and “Doc” Lane
are a set of thieves and ballot box stutters.
Upon investigation, here is what we lind: That Liberty, White 1
ltiver, Logan, Kig Bottom and Ruddell townships voted to take the ’
count as turned in by the judges and clerks of the primary. We find (
then that Washington, Stubbs, Union, .Jefferson, Ashley, Barren,
Gainsboro, Salado and Black liiver townships’ committeemen voted
down that proposition, and voted in favor of a proposition to accept .
the count as returned by the judges and clerks of all other townships, '
but, tnke the hoard‘s snnnosed re-count of nis’1 Bottom, thus irointr on I
record b.y their vote as saying that they believed all the judges were 1 j
honest men except the nig Bottom judges.
It remains to be seen whether or not they can establish the truth
fulness of this charge. And we want to say right here, and in capital
letters, they will never do it. Never! And if it were in our pow- ,
er we would paint it on the very heavens, in letters so large that the (
entire world could read it, that Tom Magness, Torn Deal ing and
“Doc” Lane are as honest men as Independence county affords, and
the man, or set of men, who attempts to besmirch their reputation for ,
honesty and fairness has a job of herculean proportions on hand. ! |
But let's see what part of the Democracy of Independence county I
these township committeemen, which have attempted to prevert the
will of the party and saddle a fraud upon the, voters, represent.
Take Washington township, and upon investigation, we iind that:
it. is largely populist and when there is an opposition ticket in the
lield, it does not return a democratic majority. Then we take Stubbs,
and tind it is republican. Union township is republican, as is also
Jefferson. Ashley is populist. Barren republican, Gainsboro populist,
Salado populist and Black River republican.
Now, take Liberty, White River, Logan, Big Bottom and Rud
dell and you will find that these townships roll up a democratic major
ity of something like 700. And, as a rule, as goes these townships,
so goes the county.
It is simply a case of a majority of the members of the central
committee, representing a minority of the party voters, over-riding a
minority of the members of the committee who represent a majority
of the party voters. These tilings show how the scheme was concoct
ed, and are unimpeachable evidence that the party will sit down, good (
and hard, on such tactics and speak out in unmistakable language in j
the coming election.
Mark what we say, nig Bottom will be vindicated, and this vindi
cation will come from the good, honest, stalwart democracy of all
parts of Independence county.- From The Journal, May 30.
THE JUDGES’ COUNT THE ONLY CORRECT ONE
The election returns from nig Bottom township were made out|
and certified to by five as good men as can be found in Independence J
county. These men found, upon making out the count, that Ira J.
Matheny had received 21* votes and M. L. Arnold 301. They accord
ingly made out the returns and certified to them under oath.
The ballot box and returns were taken to Batesville, and some lit
tle kick was raised by Matheny. Tom Bearing, who was one of the |
judges, was the first man to suggest that a re-count lx? made. In fact j
all three of the judges and Judge Arnold insisted on a re-count, then
and there. But no, Matheny didn’t want a re-count and wouldn't
agree to it.
Things went on thus until the township judges left for home. !
After they were gone, the ballot box from this precinct was opened - j
when none of the judges were present, mind you—a re-count made j
and this discrepancy found. Just why the box was not opened in the
presence of the judges has never been explained. But the probability
is that some of the clique wanted to try his pencil on the Arnold bal
lots before they were re-counted.
We have interviewed the judges who held the election at this pre
cinct, and they stoutly maintain that the returns, as made out and cer
tified to by them, are absolutely correct. As one proof of this, they
point to their willingness to have the box opened and a re-count made
and contend that if there had been any fraud committed they certainly
would not have courted investigation in the manner they did.
Another thing that makes it plain that there was no fraud com
mitted is the fact that all five of the men—both clerks and judges—
are, to say the least, men of good common sense. Nobody disputes
that. Then, isn't it reasonable to suppose that, if they had intended
to commit fraud, they certainly would have had the common sense and
forethought to have marked the ballots to correspond with the count i
From any point of view, everything is in favor of the judges'
count being the correct one, and we will never believe any other way
than that the judges’ count was correct, and that the returns were
tampered with at Batesville before the re-count was made.
ABOUT THE RECORDS.
It seems that the records of the
present county central committee
have gotten into the same coudi
lion that our friend Windbag as-!
serfs they were in 1898. He
claims that the recotd for 1898
shows that uo ballots were return-1
?d from Big Bottom. It has been
idmitted by the entire board who
tvcnt over the returns that year
hat the ballots from Ibg Bottom
,vere not only there, but were
strictly straight, and even the
•hronic kickers could find nulli
ng to raise a disturbance over,
this proves one of two things,
umicly: That the records are
ibsolutely false or Windbag has
ied. It is a hard matter, of
ourse, to persuade oneself to be
ieve that a man of Windbag’s
losition can lie. And then it has
leen said that figures don't lie,
md, from all indications, friend
A’mdbag is a genuine figure (0
vitli the ring removed ) So, as
hat dispells all doubt about the
ruthfuluess of his assertion we,
mist assume that the records are
'also.
That brings to mind the fact
hat the records of the present
;ounty central committee do not
,how that a motion was made by
Jommitteenmn W. CJ. Sanders,
>t While River township, at a
ncetingof *he committee on May
I, to accept llie report of the tits!
ainvassing board and declare the
lommces according to the hnd
nga of that hoard, which would
lavc given tlie nomination to
tlathc n y.
Further, tlie records do not
ihow that this motion was voted
{own by the friends of Malhcny.
tut such was the case.
ltut they were hell hen}, then
in driving the spear into Itig liot
om and nothing hut a re-count
ivould do. So they voted down
he motion, appointed a coinmil
ee to make a re-count of the co
ire county and went at it with a
ietermination to wipe ltig bot
tom off t he map.
ltut how did if tesult? Why,
they counted a little ways, found
>ther townships in ii wot sc condi
tion than the object of their spleen
md that their pet candidate was
oeaten if they carried out instruc
tions.
And, light there, the meanest,
lirtiest and most dishonest act
that was ever perpetrated in the
lame of democracy was emtet
jd.
Instead of completing the re
count and making an honest re
port, or recommending a new pri
mary between the disputants,
they, to cover up their own infa
mous acts, and defraud the man
out of the nomination who was
honestly entitled to it, dropped
the re-count and recommended
iii.it mu u Miimuitf uuuiuru mu
result as found by the tiist can
vassing board—the very thing they
had voted down. And a majority
of tlie central committee, the
very same ones who had at the
meeting before voted down this
proposition, boldly changed front
and vot< d for it.
That is the kind of democracy
they want to force upon the de
mocrats of Independence coun
ty’.
Will the democrats blindly fall
in and swallow the pill ?
--
It Needs a Tonic.
There arc times when youi liver
needs a tonic. Don’t give purga
tives that gripe and weaken. De
Witt’s Little Early Kisers expel
ill poison from the system and
ids as tonic to the liver. W.
Scott, 531 Highland ave., Milton,
Pa., says: “l have carried De
Witt's Little Early Risers with
me for several years and would
not lie without them.” Small and
easy to take. Purely vegetable.
They never giipe 01 distress. J,
I. Sturdivant.
Pine Bluff’s First Bale.
Pine Bluff, Aug 9—Arkansas
first cotton bale of this season wa;
brought here today to the Ilam
rnett Grocer Company from Ash
ley county, where it was raised,
It will be sold at public auctior
Monday.
REMAINS UNANSWERED
Pertinent Queries Hade by Squire
Tharp Have Not Been
Given Attention.
Editok JouuNAL:-The undersign
ed, a citizen, taxpayer and democrat,
of Iiig Bottom township, Indepen
dence county, Arkansas, would re
spectfully ask any one,more especially
the majority of the democratic county
central committee, as rendered at it’s
meeting of May 21, 1!)02, to explain to
the satisfaction of all true democrats,
tiie grounds for their action in regard
to the primary of March 2if, 1002,
I notice from the report of the can
vassing committee, consisting of J. B.
Gray, G. II. Thompson, L. J. Bracy
and .1. A. Kaneaster, that, at their
meeting to re-count the votes of the
county, the returns from the following
townships had been tampered with, to
wit: Ashley, Barren, Big Bottom,
Greenbrier, Union and Washington.
Now, I would like to know, upon
what grounds this majority of the cen
tral committee base their action. This
canvassing committee allowed by their
report that the returns from six town
ships counted out different from tho
first returns, still, this majority, by
their actions of May 24, exonerated
five of these townships and said that.
Big Bottom township (the only one ii>
the county in the days of need that
never failed to return a safe democrat
ic majority) was alone responsible for
fraud.
I have conversed with numerous,
democrats in various townships of the
county, and 1 believe from the general
sent iment of all true democrats, that
an explanation is necessary from the
parties who are responsible for tills
undemocratic act.
1 have always voted the democratic
ticket since 1 attained my majority
and have advocated democratic prin
ciples, but if the action of the majori
ty of our democratic county central
committee of May 24 is democratic, L
leave been wrongfully taught.
Hoping that this will not be offen
sive to any one,' but that it may bring
fort lithe necessary explanation, and
without this explanation I (and, I be
lieve, all true democrats) will believe
there has been a wrong done.
Fraternally submitted,
John T. Tharp.
[First published June G,and remains
unanswered. Kd.J
Tragedy at Ice Cream Supper.
Cominto, Aug. 9.—Fay Spencer
a young man about 18 years old
was shot, and instantly killed last
night at an iee cream supper at
the home of R. C. Rash, who lives
in the country near here. Spen
cer and Robt. Erwin, a young man
of about the same age, laid quar
reled before and a few words were
exchanged last night when Erwin
drew a pistol and shot Spencer.
They and some others were on the
porch when the shooting occurred.
I Mark Twain’s
Cousin,
(J. C. Clemens, of Topeka,
Kan., the no
ted constitu
tional lawyer,
who bears so
striking a re
semblance t o
Mark Twain,
( Samuel B.
Clemens) that
he is frequent
ly taken for the
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