THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Weekly
O. F. CRAIG
Editor and Publisher
Ben Says He Will
Sue The Journal
In a speech at Little Rock
last Sunday, Ben. L. Griffin
roundly denounced the news
papers of the state in general
and The Newark Journal in
particular because of their ex
posure of the radical unfairness
of the so-called local option
law which Ben and his Liars’
League are attempting to foist
upon the people of Arkansas.
Ben became very caustic in
his attack upon the newspa
pers and the preachers because
of their opposition to his pet
bill. lie became personal in his
attack upon The Newark
Journal and deelaredthatwhen
the campaign is over he will
bring suit against this paper
for damages, declaring that
we had injured his character
in charging that he is the paid
tool of the liquor interests.
Every thinking man in the
state who knows anything
about Ben Griffin, knows that
Ben is not giving his time and
attention to this mattter with
no hope of reward. Ben is not
so foolish as to permit the li
quor interests to make a goat
of him for nothing.
The Journal believes, and
the intelligent, thinking peo
ple of Arkansas believe that
Ren is the paid hireling of the
liquor interests of Arkansas. If
this charge is not true, and is
damaging to Ben’s character,
why wait until after the close
of the campaign to bring suit
for damages?
The people believe the
charge is true, and they do not
hesitate to say so, and if Ben
can get a court judgment
against every man who has
expressed this belief and as
sisted to circulate this charge,
and can realize on the judg
ments, Ben can resign as “Act
ing President” of the Liars
League, retire to private life
and live like a respectable citi
zen.
The Journal has no desire
or intention to be unfair with
Ben, and if he will furnish us
with a list of the names of
those who were present when
his “Local Self Government
League” was organized, we
will gladly publish the same,
together with a full list of the
officers of the League. If Ben
will furnish us with this infor
mation, we promise to give his
League a free write-up in the
columns of The Journal and
send a marked copy to every
newspaper in the state.
Ren poses as the champion
of local self-government, and
yet if his pet bill is adopted,
and a county votes “wet” by
only one vote, there is no way
under the sun of keeping sa
loons out of every town of 500
population, no matter how
strong the local sentiment may
be against the saloon; and if
the county judge refuses to is
sue license he must forfeit his
office and go to the peniten
tiary.
And yet Ben has the gall to
say this is local option and lo
cal selfgovernment.
The man who tells you he
favors Act No. 2 because it
provides for local option and
local self government, is either
ignorant of the provisions of
the bill or is a fluent and con
scienceless liar who expects to
profit by the passage of the
bill.
Ben can’t plead ignorance of
its contents, because he admits
that he helped frame the bill.
If he is such a real champion
of local self-government, why
did he “forget” to include in
the bill some provision for
keeping the saloon OUT of a
community that might notwant
it, and why did he make it so
easy to put the saloon IN?
A local self-government thai
is real, provides means for an
expression of local sentiment,
both for and against any issue
that may be raised in a com
munity. Rut Ren’s kind of local
self-government takes cogniz
ance of only one side of the
question—the saloon side—and
no rights whatever are con
ceded to the people who may
oppose the saloon.
And yet Ren works himself
into a frenzy and declares this
paper injures his character in
charging him with being the
paid tool of the liquor interests.
Why did Ben frame his “lo
cal option” bill so as to permit
[ten per cent of the voters of
any county to force a special
election in the county every 60
days until the county votes
“wet,” and then provide that
when the county votes “wet”
another election cannot be
held for two years? Is this
Ben’s idea of fairness?
If, by some hook or crook,
Independence county should
happen to vote “wet” by just
even one majority, under Ben’s
“local option” bill, Newark
would have its full quota of sa
loons, even though every vote
in Newark and this township
were against saloons. This is
another fair specimen of Ben’s
idea of“local self-government.”
A skunk might as well deny
that it stinks as for Ren Griffin
to deny that he is the paid tool
of the liquor interests.
Ben denounces the preachers
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For Governor—
CHAS. H. BROUGH
For Congressman—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Circuit Judge—
DENE H. COLEMAN
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARLE CASEY
For Representative—
JAS. K. YORK
S. A. MOORE
For County Judge—
For Sheriff—
LAWRENCE RUDDELL
For Circuit Clerk—
B. F. ADAMS
For County Clerk—
E. R. HOOPER
For Tax Collector—
S. D. LINDSEY
For Tax Assessor-^—
GEORGE W. WYATT
For County Treasurer—
W. R. WESTBROOK
For Surveyor—
J. P. MILES
For Coroner
A. R. TUNSTALL
and newspapers of Arkansas
for opposing his bill, but he
thinks it perfectly legitimate
and in line with his ideas of
“local self government” for
the brewers and wholesale li
quor dealers located OUTSIDE
OF THE STATE to send mon
ey into Arkansas to aid him in
his effort to re-establish the li
quor traffic in Arkansas.
Arkansas people who op
pose the saloon must keep
their mouth shut, but it is per
fectly proper and in line with
Ben’s idea of “local self-gov
ernment” for brewers and
wholesale liquor dealers in
Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin
and other states to send mon
ey into Arkansas and use their
influence in this state to help
repeal the prohibition law in
Arkansas.
Oh, yes, that’s LOCAL SELF
GOVERNMENT—so Ben says.
Oh, no, no, Ben is not work
ing for the liquor interests—so
Ben says.
He’s just a big-hearted pa
triot, so full of patriotism and
the love for a square deal that
he can’t pass by where a saloon
once stood without weeping
great gobs of briny tears be
cause the saloon has been clos
ed up and a grocery, dry goods
or hardware store opened
where the saloon once loaded
up its victims with the stuff
that blights manhood, under
mines integrity and reduces
man to the level of an animal.
Oh, yes, Ben is a great pa
triot, who believes in absolute
fairness, and who scorns the*
idea that he is the paid tool of
the liquor interests—so Ben
says.
But talk like that from Ben
doesn’t fool anybody.
Because cotton is a good
price, let’s not neglect to plant
wheat. Foodstuffs of all kinds
will be high for at least anoth
er year, and the farmer wh.
grows food crops is assured of
a good price, while there is no
certainty about cotton being a
good price next year. Another
thing for the farmer to consid
er is the fa>’t that he can raise
his wheat crop in addition to
his other erops. He can grow
his usual acreage of other
crops and raise wheat in addi
tion. Don’t fail to plant some
wheat.
Candidate Hughes declared
in a public rpeech a few days
ago that, “It is wrong to fire
an experienced man and put a
greenhorn in his place.” That’s
just about what the whole
country thinks and that’s why
everybody wants to keep Wil
son.
Though Thomas A. Edison
has been a lifelong Republican,
he has determined to support
Woodrow Wilson for re-elec
tion. In a letter he says he
would have preferred to vote
for Theodore Roosevelt for
president, but that failing his
opportunity he will cast his
ballot for Mr. Wilson, who, he
believes, has acted “justly,
wisely and courageously” in
respect to Mexico.
The good loads fever has
certainly taken hold of the
state of Arkansas with a firm
grip. That is a fever that does
not hurt anybody and every
body ought to have an attack
of it for the good of the coun
try.—Sharp County Record.
As soon as Roumania got in
to the great European war she
enacted a national prohibition
law. The European nations
seem to be acting on the the
ory that an army cannot fight
John Barleycorn and the enemy
at the same time.
One of the queer things of
today is that an article whose
profits have now passed a mil
lion dollars a week should be
nicknamed a “flivver.”
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