PROPOSED HEW CONSIITUTION
Synopsis and Comments on Improvements Made Over the
Constitution of 1874.
My' LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
Art. VI, Sec. 1, provides for the creation of the office o? Lieutenant Gov
ernor, to be elected quadrennially as' are other state officers, to possess qual
ifications similar to those required for the Governor, to be ex-officio President
of the Senate, and to serve as Governor when that official is disqualified for
nny reason. When acting as Govej-nor he shall receive equal compensation.
The wisdom of this provision is evident to all. During recent
years the greatest confusion has frequently resulted because of
the unsatisfactory method of succession to the Governor's office.
There have been numerous “accidental” Governors in whose selec
tion the people had no choice. This will be prevented by the elec
tion of a Lieutenant Governor by the people, corresponding in
duties and position to the Vice President of the United States. It
is a simple expedient which obviates confusion and insures the
orderly administration of government by an officer elected by
the people as an alternate for the office. He is to be paid as a
member of the Senate when acting as President of the body, and
in case of a vacancy in the office of Governor its duties and emol
uments shall automatically devolve upon him until the disability
be removed. As President of the Senate, he shall have no vote
except in case of a tie.
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EQUALITY OF SUFFRAGE.
Art. Ill, Sec. 1, provides that "the right to vote or hold office shall not be
denied or abridged on account of sex,” and that “male and female citizens
shall enjoy equally all civil, political and religious rights and privileges."
The Allies are expending billions of treasure, hundreds of
thousands of lives, and drenching the world in blood to establish
firmly the very principle here briefly enunciated. It means noth
ing more nor less than the extension of the doctrine of equality
of rights and privileges to one-half of our tax-paying, home-making
citizens who have been unenfranchised from the foundation of our
ration. It is one of the principles of enlightened government that
no people are truly free when half are denied an exercise of the
rights of citizenship. The women of Arkansas, as of the whole
nation, demand this concession, not on account of sentiment, or
political ambition, or as a passing fad, but because it is a right that
should never have been alienated, an act of simple justice that
should never have been denied. It does not rob woman of her
womanhood, but recognizes, her as an equal partner in the man
agement of the government under which she must live and rear
coming generations of citizens. It is advocated by President Wil
son as a necessary war measure.
BOARD OF PARDONS.
Art. VI, Sec. 13, provides for a Board of Pardons, to consist of the Attorney
General, Secretary of State, and Auditor, to meet on the call of the Governor,
and io consider all petitions for pardons, reprieves, paroles, or commutations
In felony cases; the Governor may act upon the recommendation of the Board,
or after 60 days following reference if the Board makes no recommendation,
but he shall have no power to grant clemency in felony cases except after
conviction ana reference to the Board.
The State has long demanded a Board of Pardons. It is a
reform of recognized importance. It places a salutary restraint
upon the exercise of the pardoning power, which all admit has at
times been grossly abused. It is a curb upon the political trading
of an unscrupulous chief executive, should such a one ever be
elected, and a protection to the honest, big-hearted Governor whose
sympathies sometimes outweigh his calmer judgment as an im
partial conservator of the law. The power of pardon, inherent in
the chief executive, is probably the most unwelcome of his duties,
since upon his individual decision often rest questions of life and
death and the upholding or setting aside of the judgments of the
courts. The Board will sit as a court of review to advise the Gov
ernor and relieve him of the responsibility of making an unaided
decision. The Board serves without extra compensation.
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LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Art.. V, Secs. 23-24-25, prohibits local or special legislation except undei
,.certain well-defined restrictions. Twenty-one specific items of local legisla
tion are prohibited. It is further provided that “In all cases where a genera
law Is or can be made applicable, no local or special law shall be enacted.’
No general law shall be suspended l'or the benefit of any individual or corpo
ration, nor shall any general law be changed by exemption into a special law
Publication of notice is required of all special acts permitted, and the court!
f shall pronounce void all special, local or private acts which the journals d<
not affirmatively show were published as provided.
No other single reform has been so generally demanded a;
this. The growing abuse of local legislation has caused more ad
verse criticism of the General Assembly than anything else, anc
has wasted more time, and been the source of more “trading.'
, Dui’ing recent years thousands of pages of Acts have been of this
character, exceeding in volume the general Acts five or six times
The framers of the Constitution of 1874 attempted to remedy the
evil, but the provision adopted by them has proven ineffectual
So glaring has this evil become in recent years that it has passec
into a joke that the “General Assembly spends most of its time ir
legislating Johnson grass out of Greene county, and green gras;
out of Johnson county.” It has been a recognized fact that fre
quently members are elected to the Legislature for the sole pur
pose of securing some local laws they were unable to secure throng!
tether channels. Practically the whole volume of local legislatioi
can lx; handled through other established agencies—as the count}
courts, the Corporation Commission, the school authorities, oi
boards and commissions charged with jurisdiction over such mat
lei’s. There is no more fertile field for the defeat of the people’s
wishes than the-local legislation calendar of the General Assembly
There is seldom any opposition to bills of this character, as othei
legislators know nothing of their merits or local conditions, anc
blindly vote for the other fellow’s bill so that the other fellow wil
F -- vote for his.
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ELECTIONS AND FRANCHISE.
Art. Ill follows in 1ho main the text of the Constitution of 1874. It!
changes include equal suffrage; quadrennial elections; the creation of a non
partisan State Board of Election Commissioners; and provision for non
resident voting l»y electors in military or naval service.
The time-honored principles of equality and freedom of eleo
tions are restated and emphasized and completely safeguarded. Ii
addition to the positive and expressed changes, the new proposa
is notable for omissions that strengthen it. For instance, the nev
Constitution provides hat “no election officer shall be eligible tc
any civil office to be filled at the election at which he shall serve.’
The old Constitution exempted “such subordinate municipal 01
local offices, below the grade of city or county officers, as shal
be designated by general law.” This exemption is omitted, plac
ing an absolute restriction upon all grades of officers, thereby
removing a possible source of corruption. Many have advocated
registration of voters, but this is prohibited under the present
nstitution. In the new draft the provision is omitted, “Noi
1 any law be enacted whereby the right to vote at any election
1 be made to depend upon any previous registration of the
or's name.” The. old (institution provides that the franchise
be exercised by every “male person who has declared his
tion of becoming a citizen” of the United States. This lets
the bars to aliens, but the new Constitution restricts the
ge to citizens of the United States by omitting the quoted
Casualty List
The following casualties are re
ported by the commanding general
of the American Expeditionary
Forces:
Killed in action-717
j Died of wounds-289
Died of accident and other causes 7
| Died of • airplane accident-5
j Died of disease-727
Wounded severely_54
Wounded (degree undetermined) 102
Wounded slightly -251
Missing in action_ 877
Total _ 3,029
Arkansans in the casualty list to
! day are as follows:
Died of wounds, John C. Smith,
Beedeville; Thomas E. Land, Por
tia; Robert Geisler, De Vail’s Bluff;
Merkley Green, Garfield,
j Missing in action, Frank James,
I Amagon; Marley Bright, Monette;
i Erwin Bradford, Morrilton; Bert
Hamilton, Ponca; Clarence Burton,
Jonesboro; Harry Plummer, Hope;
James A. Davidson, Rosie; Erwin
Smith, Greenbrier.
Died of disease, Roy E. Elevens,
Hanover; Joseph T. Cross, Mountain
| View.
Killed in action, Captain Ben W.
; Mathewson, Big Springs,
j Total number of casualties to date,
including those reoprted above:
Killed in action (including 496
J at sea) ---20,936_
Died of wounds -7,886
Died of disease-10,648
Died of accident and other
causes -1,734
Wounded in action-48,949
Missing in action (including
prisoners) -11,419
Total to date-101,481
J UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Batesville, Ark., Nov. 18, 1918.
The District Court of the United
States for the Northern Division of
the Eastern District of Arkansas,
will meet in Batesville, Ark., on
January 7, 1919, instead of Decem
ber 10, 1918. No Court will be held
in December, 1918. All Jurors, Wit
nesses and others having business
before said Court should appear
January 7, 1919.
Sid B. Redding, Clerk,
By Joseph W. Parse.
I ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
A _
i I, J. M. Ivy, Sheriff of Jackson
county, Arkansas, do hereby pro
claim and make known that there will
; be a special election held in the sev
| eral voting precincts of each town
! ship in Jackson county, Arkansas, on
| SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918.
j for the purpose of adopting or reject
ing the State Constitution proposed
by the Constitutional Convention of
'. 1918.
| j The said special election will be
i held at the following places in each
township, to-wit:
Glass Township—at Swifton.
Bird Township—at Tuckerman.
Bird Township—at James’ Store.
> Bird Township—at Kenyon.
, Bird Township—at East Tucker
man.
, | Jefferson Township—at Jackson
port.
j Jefferson Township—at Hickory
( Grove School House.
Bateman Township—at Surround
' ed Hill.
Bateman Township—at the School
House at Bridge.
1 j Glaize Township—at Old Grand
, i Glaize.
, i Glaize Township—at Glaize Sta
j tion.
Barren Township—at McDougal’s
School House.
Barren Township—at Denmark.
Breckenridge Township—at Au
. vergne.
j Breckenridge Township—at Wel
| don.
Breckenridge Township —at Tupelo
Bryan Township—at Ing’eside.
1 Bryan Township—at Horseshoe
School House.
j Cache Township—at McCall School
House.
| Cache Township—at Martin’s Hall.
! i Cache Township—at Burton’s
, j Store.
i Cache Township—at Algoa.
i Mi’e.
j Cow Lake Township—at Eight
! Neck.
; Cow Lake Township—at Gourd
I Nack.
Cow Lake Township—at Proctor
j School House.
Richwoods Township—at Balch’s
| Store.
Richwoods Township—at Fori
School House.
Grubbs Township—at Grubbs.
Grubbs Township—at Stegall Sch.
House.
Village Township—at Harper’s
School House.
Viilaee Township—at Greenhaw’s
School House.
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“Spokes”—
and the Swift
“Wheel”
What would you consumers think
of a wheel without spokes ?
W'hat would you think ot a man
who would take any or all of the spokes
out of a wheel to make it run better?
Swift & Company’s business of
getting fresh meat to you is a wheel,
of which the packing plant is only the
hub. Retail dealers are the rim—and
Swift & Company Branch Houses are
the spokes.
The hub wouldn’t do the wheel
much good and you wouldn’t have
much use for hub or rim if it weren’t
for the spokes that fit them ail together
to make a wheel of it.
Swift & Company Branch Houses
are placed, after thorough investiga
tion, in centers where they can be
successfully operated and do the most
good for tils most people at the least
possible cost.
Each “spoke” is in charge of a man who
knows that he is there to keep you supplied
at all times with meat, sweet and fresh; and
who knows that if he doesn’t do it, his com
petitor will.
How much good would the hub and the
rim of the Swift “wheel” do } ou if the spokes
were done away with ?
Keep Your Pledge
PI Make Good for Our
' M Fighting Men
111 BUY WAR-SAVINGS
STAitiPS
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
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Union Township—at McLain’s
Office.
Union Township—at Diaz.
Union Township—First Ward—at
City Hall. i
Union Township—Second Ward—
at Court House.
Given under my hand, this, the 14th
day of November, 1918.
J. M. IVY,
Sheriff of Jackson County, Ark.
COMMITTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LIST.
At a recent meeting of the “Fair
Price Committee,” appointed by the
County Food Administrator, the fol
lowing were agreed upon as being
'air prices:
Wheat flour, 24-lb sacks_?1.58
Wheat flour, 48-lb. sacks_$3.11
Flour less 24-lb. lot_614 c
25-lb sack country meal-$1.28
25-lb. sack cream meal_$1.43
10-lb. sack cream meal_60c
Rolled oats, 22-oz. pks.-:-15c
Rolled oats, 55-oz. pkg. -35c
Bread, 16-oz. loaves _10c
Corn starch, 1-ib. pkg-10c
Rice, 1-lb - 14c
Navy beans, 1-lb_17^c
Lima beans, 1-lb. _20c
Pinto beans, 1-lb. _13c
Bulk lard, compound _30c
Bulk lard, pure_35c
1^4-lb. net wt. lard substitute—50c
2- lb. net wt. lard substitute -65c
3- lb. net wt. lard substitute_$1.00
4- lb. net wt. lard substitute-$1.20
5- lb. net wt. lard substitute-$1.60
6- lb. net wt. lard substitute_$2.00
8-lb. net wt. lard substitute-$2.54
10-lb. net wt. lard substitute —$3.B
No. 10, pure lard, 1-lb-36i
No. 5-lb. pure lard, 1-lb-36c
Canned corn, per can -20c
No. 2 tomatoes _18c
No. 3 tomatoes _10
(Evaporated apples -21
| Evaporated peaches -22*4f
Corn syrup, blue Karo -80c
Corn syrup, 5-ib. blue Karo-40c
Potatoes, 314c per lb. over peck lots.
Less peck lots, per lb.-4c
i These prices must be rigidly ob
served and are in effect immediately
after publication.
These prices will be changed from
time to time as condition warrant.
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson County.
PROTECT THE CHILDREN.
Children are as likely to get the
grip and influenza as grown-ups.
Foley’s Honey and Tar gives quick
relief from all kinds of coughs, colds,
croup and whooping cough; covers
raw. inflamed surfaces with a healing
soothing coating; clears air pas
sages, checks strangling, choking,
coughing. Contains no opiates.—
Walker’s Pharmacy. (Adv.)
DON’T INVITE A COLD OR THE
GRIP.
| If you feel “stuffed up,” bloated,
bilious, languid or have sick headache,
sour stomache, coated tongue, bad
i breath or other condition caused by
slowed up digestion, a Foley Cathar
tic Tablet will give prompt relief. It
I is a gentle, wholesome, thoroughly
| cleansing physic that leaves no bad
after-effects.'—Walker’s Pharmacy.
CUT THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH
MONEY.
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Don’t Miss This. Cut this slip,
enclose with 5c to Foley & Co., 2835
Sheffield Ave., Chicago, 111., writing
SMOKE
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Twelve Popular SLes, 6 e**nts to 3 for 50 cents
Also Put up in Christmas Poxes
SOLD EVERYWHERE
T! cmpscn Bros. Cigar Co. Ir.oLittle Rock, Ark.
ydur name and address clearly. You M
will receive in return a trial pack- ^
age containing Foley’s Honey and J
Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and "
croup, Foley Kidney Pills and Foley
Cathartic Tablets.—Walker’s Phar
I macy (Adv.)
i FULL OF COLD; HAD THE GRIP.
Many will be pleased to read how
| Lewis Newman, 506 Northrand St.,
Charleston, W. Va., was restored to
health. He writes: “I was down
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good. I was full of cold. Had the
grip until I got two 50c bottles of
Foley’s Honey and Tar. It is the best
remedy for grip and colds I ever
used.” —Walker’s Pharmacy. (Adv.)
THAT TERRIBLE PACIIACHE.
Mrs. G. Hyde, Homestead, Mich.,
writes: “I had that terrible backache
and tired out feeling, scarcely able
to do my work, but find by using Fo
ley Kidney Pills that I soon feel like
a new person.” Foley Kidney Pills
help the kidneys throw out poisons
that cause backache, rheumatic pains
and aching joints.—Walker’s Pharma
cy. (Adv.)
HOW A SALESMAN SUFFERED.
—
R. J. Porter, Sterling, Col., writes:
j “I suffered with a painful, weak
back. As a traveling salesman I
to stoop frequently to^ pick up my
grips, and the pain when I straighten
ed up was awful. 1 was induced Uy
try Foley Kidney Pills. Relief wit's
immediate. Say, they are great.”
Prompt and tonic.—Walker’s Phar
macy. (Adv.)
CATARRHAL DEAFNiSBS CAN
NOT BE CURED.
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure ca
tarrhal deafness, and thai is by a
constitutional remedy. Catarrhal
deafness is caused by an inflamed
condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is
inflamed you have a rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is the re
sult. Unless the inflammation car.
be reduced and this tube restored to
its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which
is an inflamed condition of the mu
cous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Medi
cine acts through the blood on the
mucous surfaces of the system.
We will give One Hundred Dollars_
for any case of Catarrhal Deafness"
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Ca
tarrh Medicine. Circulars free. All
Druggists, 75c.
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