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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, March 22, 1912
Vol. 11, No. 50
THE TRUTH ABOUT GOVERNOR
DONAGHEY AS A TAX DODGER
Circuit Clerk of His Home
County Gives Facts
Shown by Records
Conway, Ark. .March 9ih., 1912.
Geo. L. Bevens, Circuit Clerk.
Batesville, Arkansas.
Dear Sir:- Your letter of the 6th,
inst. addressed to J. H. Bailey was
referred to me and 1 will say in re
ply that I believe Donaghey will
carry this, his home county, by a
vote of 15 to 1.
I am going to give you some in
teresting facts, and these are facts
that are not misrepresented and
can be easily substantiated by the
records of Faulkner County.
Judge P. H. Prince, the author
of several unsubstantiated charges
against the Governor, owns a piece
of residence property in the city of
Conway that would easily bring
$3500.00 at a force sale. This pro
perty is assessed at $1200.00 or
practically onethirdits actual value
Governor Donagl>ey owns 60 acres
of land near the City of Conway,
forty acres of which is in the cor
porate limits of the City. This for
ty acres was taken in last summer
when we organized a water works
system here because we needed all
the availabe property on which to
levy taxes in order to meet the ad
ditional expense.
The sixty acres owned by Dona
ghey is assessed at SIX {THOUS
AND FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS. Our Post Master, 0. J.
Owens, offered the Governor Ten
Thousand Dollars for this property
last spring but the Governor re
fused and said that he would take
Twelvve Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars and was unable to get a
purchaser at that price. You can
readily see that our Governor is
hewing to the line along the 50
per cent basis on which taxes were
assessed for the year 1911. This
land is farm land and is being cul
tivated each year. There would be
no sale for the property if it were
cut up into city lots. The town has
not grown enough to make such a
distribution profitable.
One Mrs. Sarnie Little, wife of
the wealthiest planter of Faulkner
county, is the owner of sixty-eight
acres joining and laying broad-side
to the Donaghey sixty referred to
above; it is the same class of land,
with better improvments and is as
sessed at THIRTY SIX HUN
DRED DOLLARS.
The Governor owns several busi
ness lots in the city of Conway
which a re-assessed from TWO TO
EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS
MORE than those adjoining. The
Governor owns considerable river
bottom land. This land is wild, un
cleared and undrained, but it is as
sessed from ONE HUNDRED TO
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
DOLLARS fjer the eighty acres
more than the adjoing land. This
is the way our Governor is dodg
ing his taxes.
In regard to Judge Prince’s ar
ticle in the Gazette of recent date
in which he accuses the Governor
of erasing his name and personal
assessment from the Collector’s
Tax Book, I have this to say: to
my own certain knowledge the
Governor has not beenin the Court
House of Faulkner County for
three years and if he had have
come to the Court House he w'ould
have had no right to have chang
ed the records. This you well
know’. The assessor’s book for
the year 1910 does not show that
the Governor wras assessed any
thing for personal property, all of
his personal property was assessed
in Pulaski County. On that Cele
brated Page No. 72 of the Collect
or’s Assessment Book an erasure
is shown, but the explanation is
simple, so simple that I am sur
prised that the Judge had the
nerve to try to fool the wise con
stituency who support our Gover
nor. During the tax paying time
for the year 1911 one Mr. G. L.
Bahner, a business representative
of Governor Donaghey, told the
Sheriff to make out a list of the
Governor’s taxes and that he
would be around to pay them in a
day or so. The Sheriff asked Mr.
Bahner what the Governor had to
pay taxes on in this County and
Mr. Bahner replied that it would
be the same as last year. The
Sheriff proceed to list the Gover
nor’s taxes but unable to lind any
thing against the Governor on the
Assessor’s Personal Book, and he
(the Sheriff) entered the Gov
ernor's name on the Collector’s
Personal Book but when Mr.
Bahner came around to pay the
Governor’s taxes he discovered the
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GOV. GEO. W. DONAGHEY
W ho Spoke in Newark Last Saturday in the Interest of His Campaign
For Re-election
mistakeandtold the sheriff that the
Governor had no personal proper
ty in this County. Then the Sheriff
immediately erased the Governors
name from the Book.
Judge Prince’s antagonism and
fierce opposition to the Governor
began to develop some twenty
five years ago when the good peo
ple were trying to drive whiskey
from Faulkner County. Judge
Prince represented the liquor in
terest and Governor was fighting
for prohibition. Judge Prince was
defeated, his defeat cankered on
his brain and he has been sore
every since. Soon after the liquor
tight, a cousin of the Governor’s
was mixed up in a very unfortun
ate street fight in which a brother
in-law of Judge Prince was killed.
The Governor’s kinsman was in
dicted and tried for murder but
was acquitted. The Governor
naturally aided his kinsman in
every legitimate way. The oppo
sition of Judge Prince is purely aj
personal one and any one that!
knows the facts as they really are;
would never take the advice of the |
Judge when it comes to casting a 1
vote for Governor of Arkansas.
The statements made above are
made with great care and preci
sion and can be easily substantiat
ed by the records of the County.
Respectfully,
J. II. HaktJE, Circuit Clerk
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We beleive the statements set
out above are true and not over
drawn. R.K. Wilkerson.Co. 1 teas.
J. S. Johnson Sheriff.
MIVELY ST-t.L LEA')S
Rev. C F. Hively of Sulphur
Rock was in town Saturday secur
ing signatures to his state-wide
prohibition petition. He secured a
number of signatures, and among
those who signed the petition was
Governor Geo. W. Donaghey. The
governor has been so busy cam
paigning throughout the state
that he had previously had no op
portunity to sign the petition.
Rev. Hively is leading all the
workers in the number'’ of sig
natures secured, and added to this
distinction he now has the futher
honor of having secured the gov
ernor’s signature.
ABE YOU SATISFIED?
With rianner in Which the Law
has Been Enforced in This
Judicial District?
To The Voters of Independence
County
I take this method of soliciting
your support for the important of
fice of Prosecuting Attorney.
I am now engaged and will be
until the primary election, in the
circuit court at Walnut Ridge.
I consider this an office that will
require the voter to only under
stand the answer to a few ques
tions before making up his mind
for whom he should cast his vote
in this contest:
One of which is, has the present
Prosecuting Attorney demonstrat
ed tiie ability as a lawyer and ad
vocate to fully discharge the duties
incumbent upon him?
If he has failed to fulfill the ex
pectancy of the voters and tax
payers of the district, will my
election make it any better? If
you answer yes to the last ques
tion then why adhere to the SEC
OND TERM PROPOSITION?
In order to determine the above
J. R. Alexander is Clean,
Honest, Abie, Conservative
J. R. Alexander always commands respect of friend and foe n the
court room. On the stump he has conducted a high grade statesman
like campaign, running on his own merits and not the demerits of his
opponents and at all times commanding and holding the respect and
good will of his opponents. If he can do this in the court room and
on the stump, he can command respect in the Legislature.
He has devoted his time to issues and not to rangling with his op
ponents. Likewise if he is elected he will devote his time in repeal
ing drastic and offensive laws and making good ones for the people
and not take up the time in useless wrangles.
LARGE CROWD OUT TO HEAR
GOV. DONAGHEY IN NEWARK
matters look at the records reflect
ing the acquitals and nole-preses
in the different circuit courts of
the district, as well as the lack of
prosecution of a single corporation,
and it is for the voters to say
whether or not any of the corpor
ations of the circuit have violated
the statute during the administra
tion of my distinguished oppo
nent.
And as to whether or not I
would better serve the interest of
the people in the enforcement of
the law against all alike both small
and great, individual and collect
ive, you may consult those ac
quainted with me as a man and
my ability as a criminal lawyer,
andthestrong endoresement given
me by the Lawrence County Dem
ocratic Central Committee.
Trusting that you will give my
candidacy a reasonable consider
ation before casting your ballot on
the 27 of March, 1 remain yours
with a promise to use my very
best effort to please every one ex
cept the violator of the law.
W. P. Smith.
REPLY TO J. 1. MARTIN
In last weeKS Journal, Rev. J. I.
Martin states that Judge Pearce
“was in the comhine to keep a cer
tain candidate from getting his
name on the ticket, so 1 am inform
ed, and this simply because he
could not use him;” and in speak
ing of a bridge in Black River, he
says, “Read what Judge Craigsays
about it.”
Mr. Martin is a good man, and
wants to be fair and impartial, but
his judgement is easily prejudiced
along certain lines.
I WAS NOT in such a combine,
and some politician has put that
under his hat, knowing that it
would peculiarly appeal to his pre
judices.
As to the bridges I am sure that
has been thoroughly discssed over
the county.
Personally, I have profound re
spect for Rev. J. I. Martin as a man
and a minister, and I regret to
know that he feels it his duty to
tell the good people of Indepen
dence county how to vote. More
over, it is better, for all concerned,
to simply give all candidates a
square deal and let the people de
cide for themselves. Yours truly,
Cul. L. Pearce.
Candidate for County Judge.
in Characteristic Speech
Me Tells of Progress
During his Term
In order to get the full state
mentof Gov. Donaghey’scandidacy
for re-election, one must hear the
cheif executive make his speech,
for the Little Rock papers give
only the portions which will not
hurt the interests of the heaviest
advertisers in their papers. These
are the very interests that Gov.
Donaghey raps so hard in his
speech. When he spoke here last
Saturday Gov. Donaghey declined
the offer of the Auditorium and
climbed on a cotton bale on the
depot platform from where he ad
dressed at least 800 people, and
during the discourse of an hour
and a half, scarcely a person de
parted.
1 beleive that the State of Ark
ansas should stay sober,” stated
Gov. Donaghey when discussing
the liquor question. “Individuals
take their liquor without great in
jury to anyone but themselves,
but not so with the representatives
of the state. We must have sober
representatives in our Senate be
fore they can soberly consider laws
which mean much to the state.
You all know what the liquor
machine has done to Arkansas. I
am against any machine holding
its hands about the throat of the
state, and when I am renominated
I will bend my energies to put
this machineout of existence. This
machine is mad with me because I
caused the Initiative and Referen
dum, by which the people can go
around the legislature and vote on
the liquor question, to become a
law. They know that if I am elect
ed and the people vote for the
banishment of liquor from the
state that it will be a dry state.
They have stated that I would not
sign the three mile petition in Lit
tle Rock, to put liquor out there. I
could not legally sign this petition
as my home is in Conway. I have
to day signed the petition to refer
the state-wide proposition to the
people and the circulator of it will
show my signature if you do not
feel inclined to take my word.
Speaking on the State Capitol
matter, Gov. Donaghay defied any
one in the audience to say he had
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