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GOVERNOR DAVIS
DRAWS BIG CROWD.
Court Room Crowded to Hear
Governor, Who Was Given
Vigorous Applause—Went
After Wood Bolters and
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ty ever secured in this stare,
he governor was greeted w'th
srs and prefaced his rem^ ks
th the statement that{ he
a nlwnvs crlnrl t,n si . in
wport, for here he f<
me in the bosom of his fr:
ith no spies to trace his st|
The national ticket,
dared, demands our firs;
sideration and then thfe
ticket. Myers was changed with
being unwilling to suhfnit on the
hustings the dirty record of the
Republican party wlien in power
from ’68 to ’74., ■1
r ^Crqckettytnd Murphy were
given his attention and severely
criticized, for never before in the
history of the state, he said, had
the state election board fought
the ticket of their own party, by
k*»“- naming men in most counties for
election commissioners who were
his bitter opponents and had de
clared in many cases that they
^ would support Myers. Even in
■ his home county, the only two
Ijm men who did not speak to him
B would have been named, had not
WM an outsider told tfiem they were
■■going foo far, and in Jackson
■■pbunty, too, the recommendations
■■of the regular committee would
not have stood had not Will Old
field read the riot act to Crockett
. and Murphy.
| He was no enemy of the Con
federate soldier as had been
charged, for as the son of a vet
eran in gray he had learned the
story of that great struggle upon
his father’s knee. He had been
the fi;st governor to ever recom
mend an increase in taxation for
Confederate pensions. While
the ex-Confeds were not paid as j
well as the Yankee soldiers, we
didn’t have as much money or as j
many cripples. The trouble lay
in the fact that the county and
state boards were letting men in
who were not indigent.
He defended his refusal to
pardon Mart Vowel 1 and gave
the history of the case as well as
Vowell’s previous record in crime
and declared that the telegrams
from the different Confederate
camps urging clemency, were in
response to requests made taj
N. F. Lamb, the attorney M
Vo well.
It had been charged that he
>vas an enemy of .the public
schools, yet his administration
showed a big increase in the
amount of taxes raised and spent
for that purpose. He claimed a
portion of the credit for the
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pruspenwy u± cue state, m uaviiig
raised the assessments of rail
roads and other corporations.
Arkansas was the only southern
state out of debt and all this had
been done in the past th^ee :
years.
The banks were paying hardly
10 per cent of what is due from
them, he declared, while the
farmer in Grubbs is assessed for
the full value of his old blind
mule. As a member of the state
board, he had raised the valua
tion of railroad properties $5,500,
000 during his first year as gov
ernor, $12,500,000 the second j
year and $20,000,000 the third
year. The Iron Mountain was j
now assessed at $24,000 a mile,
whereas it was only $6,000 when
he went into office.
He didn’t wonder that the rail
roads were not in love with him,
but as the state debt was paid
he proposed to recommend to
the next legislature a reduction
of one-third the tax levy. He
wanted the people to see that
the next legislature did not try
to impeach him, for he was tired
of running for governor. He
advocated the building of a sep
arate institution for the incura
hlv insane.
The Little Rock ring had it in
for him because he was the only
poor man ever elected governor,
as his worldly riches consisted
of eight children and nine dogs.
He didn’t give dress balls be
cause he couldn’t afford it and
he and his wife didn’t care for
the society of the scissor-coated
aristocracy. And while the Lit
tle Rock crowd was sore he urged
the Democrats of Jackson county
to turn out and support the ticket t
that they might double their rep-1
resentation in the district con
vention, when he said Judge M.
M. Stuckey would be a candidate
for the judicial ermine.
The vital issue of the cam
paign he declared to be the “nig
ger question” raised by Roosevelt
and Lodge, which was an effort
t<? bring about social^ equality. J
The South had been getting along{!
with the negroes all right until h
Roosevelt dined Booker Washing
ton, which brought a blush of
shame to our country. The
speaker declared that Roosevelt’s
re-election may bring on war,
which simply meant some “dead
niggers.” And if the Republi- ]
can platform is carried out an 5
investigation of the disfranchise- 1
rcient of the blacks made and the 1
South’s representation cut down, 1
then will we have a robber (
tariff, the gold standard in all its
deformity, imperialism and at
last a king, which will again in
volve the country in a dark cloud
of war.
The governor was warmly ap
plauded at the close of his
speech.
LETHIA FOWLER
SENT TO PEN.
Judge Hutton Grants a New
Trial After Her Conviction
of Murder in Second
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Degree at Searcy.
Searcy, Aug. 9.—Mrs. Lethia
Fowler was last night convicted
of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary. The jury was
out about two hours when it re
turned the verdict. She was
charged with killing hdr son-in
law, Wesley Middleton.
Shortly after the verdict was
brought in a motion for a new
trial was granted by Judge Hut
ton. The motion was argued by
Attorney Brundidge for the de
fendant and Prosecuting Attor
ney Andrews and J. V. Roberts
ior tne state, a not .argument
followed.
An application for bail was
made and Mrs. Fowler was re
leased on $1,500 bond.
The sensational feature of the
trial was the fact that Mrs. Alice
Middleton, wife of the murdered
man, swore against her mother.
She stated that she believed h§r
husband had been killed by her
mother and hoped she would be
convicted and sentenced.
Judge Hutton’s action in grant
ing the new trial caused a good
deal of comment and came in
the nature of a surprise.
The grand jury returned forty
two indictments. Court ad
journed at 12 o’clock last night
after being in session three
weeks, during which time five
were sentenced to the peniten
tiary. _
MOVING CONVICT CAMP.
Yellville, Aug. 9.—The large
force of convicts laying the track
on the railroad now statione^
at Flippin will be moved to Yell
ville right away, as the track
has practically been laid to town.
Work is being pushed on the
road from the town to the de
pot site and it is proposed to
make this the best driveway to
be had. It is only a distance of
a mile and a half, and already
about $700 has been expended on
the same.
SENATOR VEST DEAD.
Stoeet Springs, Mo., Aug. 9.—
After lingering for weeks be
tween life and death, ex-Senator
George G. Vest passed peacefully
away at 5 o’clock this morning.
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE,
Notice is hereby given that a
reachers’ Institute will be held
Yi the city of Newport on Wed
aesday, Thursday and Friday,
August 17, 18 and 19, 1904. The
srw requires directors to close
schools and all teachers to attend.
J. D. Neal,
County Examiner.
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