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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August I I, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 33.
GOVERNOR DAVIS’ SPEECH
Brief Synopsis of Governor’s Address
in Which the Records of Himself
and Berry Were Discussed.
Governor Jeff Davis, candidate
for United States senator; W. F.
Kirby, candidate for attorney gen
eral; David L. King, candidate for
governor; W. A. Oldfield and S.
Brundidge, candidates for Con
gress, addressed the people here
at the picnic Tuesday.
A speakers stand had been erect
ed for the occasion, and a large
crowd gathered around to hear the
speakers, but the incessant din
and noise made it very unpleasant
for both the speakers and those
who wished to hear them.
Governor Davis was introduced
shortly after one o'clock by Sena
tor Jno. A. Ilhikle, and spoke for
two hours and five minutes.
As the senatorial campaign be
tween Governor Davis and Sena
tor Berry scented to be the chief
topic of interest, The Journal
made no effort to get a synopsis
of the other speeches, but presents
below a brief sketch of the gover
nor’s talk.
M d.lm
vjovei iiur i'<i\ i* ut^iui
injjf that lie wa> a candidate for
l uited States senator, and '•aid
that he was not definitely advised
that Senator Berry was a candi
date. but assumed that he was, and
would treat him as such until he
was advised to the contrary. Me
bey an with the finances of t tie
state and showed that there was
now a surplus of over two million
, dollars in the state treasury, with
•oift outstanding indebted
ness. The state owed Stio.OOO
when h«' was eA^ted governor, and
despite the fact ^ \ it was pre
dicted that the stat<‘ *ould be ruin
ed and go to the limv'^ows if he
was elected, the state had prosper
ed as it had never done 1« fore.
Property values had increased. the
states’s indebtedness had been
paid off and the population of the
state had increased 25 per cent.
The condition of the state's charita
ble institutions bad been bettered,
additions built to them, and the
State University well provided for
and its usefulness increased. His
own record as governor was dis
cussed at length, and every official
act of his life, he said, was an op
en book, subject to the inspection
of the people.
Senator Berry's record as gov
ernor was then discussed. Senator
Berry went from the circuit
judge’s bench to the governor’s
office in 1*83, after having served
eight years as circuit judge, and it
must be presumed that Berry was
familiar with the law, yet, as gov
ernor, Berry approved an act pass- {
ed by the legislature to exempt!
from taxation the embankments,
tunnels, cuts, ties, trestles and
bridges of the railoads. In other
words, he said, more than two
thirds of the railroad property in
Arkansas was exempt by this act
but Governor Berry signed and
approved it.
Governor Hughes, who succeed
ed Berry, told the railroad com
panies that the act was uneonsti- j
tutional. and that they must pay
taxes. They went into the courts
and our supreme court sustained:
Governor Hughes.
Governor Berry was chairman j
of the State Railroad Assessment
Board and we find, he said, that |
the secretary of State’s’report for
GOVERNOR JEFFERSON DAVIS,
Who Aspires to Represent Arkansas in the United States Senate.
I4 shows that all the railroads
in Arkansas were valued by Gov
ernor Berry at >Mf.,''i.V2,!»S.‘). ltf. The
same identical property was val
ued by Governor Huy lies, as
shown b,\ the Secretary of
States's report for lss.', *l si +,
7<»-M>Ms. 7s. an increase of over
eiyht million dollars. Not only
that, but we find in the Secretary
of State's report that the second
year Berry was yovernor he re
duced the assessment of tin1 Iron
Mountain more than s:;oo.uoo.
The main line of the Iron Moun
tain was assessed by Governor
Berry at per mile: now it
was assessed under his (Davis) ad
ministration, at per mile,
or nearly five times as much as
Governor Berry had assessed it
Senator Berry had stated in a re
cent letter to him through the
public press that a truthful state
ment of his (Berry's) official record
would be beneficial. He challeng
ed the senator or any of his friends
to dispute one word of the record
he lmd given. i
‘Do .you know, said he, ‘that
since 1 have been your governor
the increased valuation placed up
on railroad property for taxation
amounts to more than fifty million
dollarsAnd do you know that
since I have had the honor to hold
this office 1 have caused to be col
lected and turned into the school
fund, the city treasuries, the coun
ty and state treasury, more than a
million dollars in actual cash in ex
cess, not of Governor Berry \y ad
ministration, but in excess of the
administration of any governor
that ever served the people of Ar
kansas ' When you compare it
with the administration of Gover
nor Berry the result is simply ap
palling."
He was not prejudiced against
the railroads, but it was better to
care for the little fellows, upon
whose shoulders had always rested
the burdens of the government.
Two years after its admission
into the I'nion Arkansas issued
two million dollars in <1 per cent
bonds, and the national govern
ment bought some of these bonds.
The state defaulted in payment of
these bonds, and they continued
in full force and effect as a just
debt which the state owed the gov-!
eminent up to the time ('larke be
came governor. By an act of the
legislature (low Clarke was au
thorized to settle with the govern
ment and went to Washington
City for that purpose, but when
this settlement was proposed in
Congress to be ratified, an amend
ment was offered by Mr. Mickle
john that the claim could not be
settled until a certain controversy
between Arkansas and the Iron
Mountain railroad over the owner
ship of some swamp land should
be settled. In other words, he
sai J, before Arkansas was allowed
to pay an honest debt, she must
surrender 27:5,000 acres of land to
this same railroad company which
Berry had exempted from taxation
while he was governor. But when
this amendment was introduced
Berry was then in the senate, and
speaking upon the amendment
Senator Berry used the following
language (which Davis read from
the Congressional Record.) “Mr.
President, much as 1 desire to have
this settlement made, much as I
should like to see the old controv
ersit.v ended, yet if that should be
brought about and it should put
$.->00,000 into the treasu^rof Ark
ansas, I would not yield to this
insolent railroad company, who
seek by blackmail to interfere
with legislation in the Congress
of the United Statf
Hut Clarke left Washington to
come home and in a few days a
change comes over 1 Jerry, and he
not only consented to this steal,
but took an active part in passing
the amendment. Senator Berry
has been in the senate 22 years
and 1 challenge him to point to
one law or bill that bears his name
which ever became a law. And
if he has not accomplished any
thing in the twenty-two years of
his young manhood, how can lie
expect to accomplish anything in
his declining years( What the
senate needs today is more fresh
young blood, coming direct from
the people.
He then took up the Hatch anti
option bill introduced in Congress
in 1S94, which sought to place a
prohibitive tax on gambling on
the products of the soil, and show
ed from the Congressional Record
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EFFECTS OF PROHIBITION
John Hindman Says Total Prohibition
Would Put Thousands of People
Out of Employment.
To The Newark Journal:
Please have patience and give
me space in your columns to con
tinue my discourse Ixjgan a few
weeks ago, in regard to the ad
vantages derived from spirituous
liquors by the human family. In
the former parts of my discourse
I have had to be as brief as possi
bio, because all that might be said
on the subject would be too volum
inous for the columns of a small
newspaper. What I have written
on this matter, 1 have written
without bias, or the intention of
being biased. 1 have written as 1
see from my standpoint. 1 intend
to try to be reasonable in all
things. We will now proceed to
enumerate a part of the position
that the manufacture of alcoholic
j liquors occupies in the industries
of our country. 1 then leave the
j subject to the minds of my fellow
citizens for them to decide wheth
I er or not we could dispense with
j that amount of labor without det
; riment to our common country.
in rue nrst place, rnere are en
gaged in agricultural persuits, in
the United States, 100,381,765
people. And of farm labores,
4,410,887, making a total of 14,
792,652 people who are actually
engaged in agricultural persuits,
embracing nearly one fifth of al
the inhabitants of the country,
And, according to statistics, then
are something over 28,000,001
women and children depending 01
this persuit for a living. We will
now proceed to enumerate somi
of the farm products that are con
sumed in the manufacture of alco
hol and its products. These fig
ures are based on the census oi
It*00. In that year there were
16,565,804 bushels of corn distill
ed. Of wheat, 17,419 bushels: o!
barley, 109,115 bushels; of rye 3,
952,300 bushels; of malt 2,623,821
bushels and of molasses 2,962,091
gallons. And of malt liquors there
were produced in 1*900, 09,300,841
barrels, consuming 49,160,501
bushels of malt: of hops 39,330,.
849 pounds and 8,420,271 bushels
of corn. Knock the above all out.
Prohi, then talk of ruined homes.
We will now proceed to enumer
ate some of the trades and domes
tic service that would be injurec
by total prohibition. There are
600,000 dray-men and teamsters
whose business would be reducer
one fourth. There are 126,101
glass workers and potters. Re
duce one-third. Coopers, 37,200,
Reduce one half. Copper work
ers, 8,185. Reduce one-eighth. Al
coholic liquor establishments 2,
850, employing 9,826 men anc
paying in wages #28,005,404. Tot
! al annihilation. Bar tenders 88,
I 017. Saloon keepers, 83,746.
1 Both the above would be totally
out of employment. Healers ir
I liquors and wines, 10,205. Total.
Brewers and matters 20,962. Total
Distillers and rectifiers 0,144. Tot
al. In the wine industry then
I were engaged, in 1900, 1,507 per
| sons, whose wages amounted tc
#446,055. Total. All the above
j occupations to which the wore
| “total” is annexed, would be pul
; entirely out of existence by the
■ success of prohibition,
j The above mentioned industries
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RAILROAD RATES RAISED
State Railway Assessment Board In
creases the Rate on All
Main Line Roads.
Little Rock, Aug. 7.—The slate
railway assessment board, consist
ling of Governor Davis, Auditor
A. K. Moore and Secretary of
State (). C. Ludwig, met today
and fixed the annual assessments
on all railroads, telegraph and
sleeping car properties in this
state. Governor Davis introduc
ed a resolution fixing the assess
ments on the main lines of the
railroads in the state as follows:
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern, $22,500 per mile, and
increase of $2,500 per mile over
the compromise recently effected
by the state and the railroad com
panies.
Kansas City Southern, $14,500
per mile, an increase of $2,000 per
mile over the compromise of 1904.
Choctaw district of the Rock
Island, $15,000 per mile, an in
crease of $1,000 per mile over the
compromise.
ou uuuis ouutiiwcsw:! 11,
per mile, an increase of $1,000 ov
er the compromise.
Frisco system, $15,000 per mile,
an increase of $1,000 over the
compromise.
The assessments on sidetracks,
rolling stock and buildings were
fixed at the valuation agreed upon
for 1904. All the other railroads
and all express, telegraph and
| sleeping car companies were as
sessed as in 1904. Representatives
1 of the Iron Mountain, Rock Island,
Frisco and Cotton Belt announce
that they will contest the assess
ments placed on the main lines of
their companies, and would pro
ceed at once to take steps to enjoin
the various counties from collect
ing the taxes on the assessments
made today. Governor Davis and
Auditor Moore voted in favor of
the increase while Secretary of
State (). C. Ludwig voted to main
tain the old assessments.
PLEASANT RIDGE UNION 787.
County Organizer J. A. An
cliultz spent a few days the latter
part of last week among the Uni
ons on the south side of the river,
and says the people in that part of
the county are taking great inter
est in the Farmers’ Union. He
lectured the Pleasant Ridge Union
Thursday night, and says they are
wide awake at that place. They
have quite a number of members,
and the following ladies hold mem
bership in the Union: Mrs. Liza.
Sturdivant, Mrs. Nannie Penning
ton, Mrs. Belle York, Mrs. ZetisL
Pennington, Mrs. Kffie Penning
ton, Miss Mary McCullough and
Mrs. Caroline Pennington. The
officers are .1. M. Pennington,
president; S. II. .lames, secretary;
G. Gatlin, conductor; Will Sturd
ivant, door keeper; .1 II. Burnell,
chaplain. They meet the second
and fourth Wednesday nights in
each month.
For Sale One five room one
story house, one live 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
I sell one or two of them. I also
have other real estate bargains in
Newark property. If you want
i to buy do not fail to see me. T.
jj. Raney.