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KIRBV REFUSES
TO MEET CLARKE
Was First To Challenge Senator
Hut Now Declines Joint De
bate.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—Senator i
James P. Clarke today made!
public letters passing between
him and Judge Wm. F. Kirby,
his opponent in the senatorship
i race, in which Judge Kirby re
fuses to meet Senator Clarke
|on the stump. This, following as
jit does, Kirby’s recent chal
! lenge to Senator Clarke to meet
him in joint debate, is pointed
out by Clarke followers with
considerable gusto as a “back-j
down” of the most pronounced ;
kind.
In political circles at Little
Rock Kirby’s sudden reversal
J of attitude created mild aston
ishment. The impression had
prevailed in some quarters that
Judge Kirby could scarcely wait
to meet his opponent for a dis
cussion of the issues of the cam
paign.
One of the reasons assigned
by Kirby for his refusal to meet
Clarke is that the latter is “per
sonally discourteous and unciv
il” and that a joint cam
paign with Senator Clarke would
be to Judge Kirby “most un
pleasant and disagreeable.” Sen
ator Clarke’s adherents openly
admit that the latter expecta
tion of Mr. Kirby’s would prob
ably prove true.
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BY’S PROPOSAL.
The correspondence passing be
tween Senator Clarke and Kir
by follows, Senator Clarke
wrote:
“Recalling the fact that you
announced on the circulars giv
ing notice of the times and plac
es at which you intend to ad
dress the voters of Washington
and Benfon counties that I as
you opponent for the senator
ship, was invited to be present
to participate in a point discus
sion of the issues raised in this
campaign, I take occasion to
say to you now that the condi
tion of public business is such
that I may devote some time
now to the service indicated. I
therefore take this occasion to
ask you to indicate when it will
suit your pleasure to hold con
ference personally or through
your authorized representatives,
for the purpose of fixing the
dates and places where such a
joint discussion may take place.
“I quite agree with your pub
lished statements that this is
the most satisfactory method in
which the real controversies of
this contest may be clearly and
distinctly presented to the vot
ers.
“As I deem this to be a mat
ter of some present importance,
I trust you will make as early
reply to this letter as your con
venience will permit. Very re
spectfully, James. P. Clarke.
KIRBY FEARS UNPLEAS
ANTNESS.
To Senator Clarke’s letter,
Judge Kirby replied as follows:
“Your letter of the 2nd inst.,
suggesting a desire to open ne
gotiations looking to a joint
senatorial campaign, has been
handed me by your manager.
“Having attacked your record,
and made some charges, in
cluding the one that you kept
Chas. L. Watkins manager of
your street car system in Ar
genta, upon the government pay
roll and paid him $1,056 from
the government treasury while
he was on the job as such man
ager in Arkansas, I thought it
fair to have a joint discussion,
and accordingly usked you to
join me in Benton county. You
'declined this saying your pres
jence in Washington wa3 requir
ed, although you have been in
the state for a month past.
“Since then you have admitted
in your statement to the Ark
ansas Gazette, of November 30,
1913, on page 18, that the
charges made against me in my
announcement circulars are true,
and that there are no issues
now between us requiring a
joint campaign.
“In addition, you are person
ally discourteous and uncivil to
me having refused to speak when
I last spoke to you, and under
these circumstances, a joint dis
cussion could not but be most
unpleasant and disagreeagle and
conducive to neither harmony
nor the public interest.
“I, therefore, do not intend
to engage in any such discus
sion at all during the campaign
and leave you to go your way
alone, explaining your record as
seems best to you, and I will go
mine and take care of my inter
ests.”
Cheap Beef In Arkansas.
Notable for its bearing on the
pressing question of the increas
ing price of beef and the rela
tion of the South thereto, is the
recent statement of Mr. George
M. Rommel, chief of the animal
husbandry division of the de
partment of agriculture.
Nowhere in the North or the
West, he declares in a report
submitted to the House commit
tee on agriculture, can beef be
raised at less than five cents a
pound. “If the northern feeder
is raising beef on the farm,” he
adds, “he must get ntore than
five cents a pound. If lie is fat
tening it, it is an open question
as to how much it is going to
cost.” These and related facts
convince this official that “for a
long period to come, the South is
to be the nation’s principal
source of cheap beef.”
Arkansas, once its people
awake to the necessity of tick
eradication from the whole, in
stead of a part of, the state,
stands in a most enviable posi
tion as a potential producer of
beef. There is no explanation,
other than a failure to see and
grasp the opportunity, wfry Ar
kansas, instead of producing all
the beef it needs and more at
cheap prices, should continue to
send to Kansas City, Omaha, St.
(Louis and Chicago for dressed
meats at high prices. Accord
ing to government report, a few
years ago, Fort Smith consum
ers were paying prices that
yielded a profit to the big packer
of over fifty per cent! It is not
at all probable that the rate of
profit has declined as the price
has soared.
Arkansas winters are pecu
liarly adapted to the cheap pro
duction of livestock and the pas
turage and forage available in
wood and canebrake and field all
conspire to the same end. There
would seem no reason at all why
this state should not come well
within the five cents per pound
suggested by Mr. Rommel as the
maximum limit of cost for pro
fitable production. If it costs so
much as that in the cold north
ern states where winter stab
ling as well as stored feed must
be provided for close on to six
months it stands to reason that
we can do much better with our
short open winters and abun
dant forage, partly fresh and
succulent all the winterthrough.
An appreciation of the uses of
the silo is necessary, however,
to a full realization of the state’s
capabilities in the beef produc
tion line, and this appreciation is
growing. The silo makes possi
ble the feeding of green proven
der the whole winter through
and the Arkansas fields furnish
the corn, alfalfa and many oth
er forage crops that will make
the finest ensilage.
Arkansas and other states of
the South can, if they will, leap
to a commanding position in the
nation as the sources of cheap
meat supply.—Fort Smith Times
Record.
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Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.
The regular annual meeting
of the shareholders of the First
National Bank of Newport, Ar
kansas, will be held at the office
of said Dank on the 13th day of
January, 1914 for the purpose
of electing a Board of Directors
to serve for the ensuing year
and for the transaction of such
other business as may come be
fore said meeting.
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