THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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Couldn't Stand the Fire.
A number of our local citizens
-who attended the speaking ai
Walnut Ridge Saturday hav<
practically lost their respect foi
Judge Hays in sofar as they con
cider him gubernatorial timber
Mr. Brundidge at the opening ol
the campaign challenged his op
ponent to meet him in joint dis
cussion of the issues of the com
ypaign before the voters of th<
state, but the Camden judg<
very wisely answered “Nay
may.”
At Ashdown and DeQueen
ihe two candidates spoke upoi
the same day. Judge Hays say:
he printer betrayed him am
gave out his dates. At any rate
he continued to shy at any man
ner of a joint discussion, regard
less of appearances and upoi
each occasion managed to male
a hurried get-t-way, pleadinj
that his departure then an<
there was necessary in order t<
reach his next appointment.
The full expose of his dread o
his opponent and self-recognize<
inability to cope with and an
ewer so vigorous and keen ;
'.campaigner as Mr. Brundidg*
took place at Walnut Ridge Sat
nrday. Both candidates wen
scheduled to speak in the earl)
afternoon. Judge Hays spoke a
2 p. m., refusing to give his op
ponent a division of time an<
left as soon as he had conclude*
in order to fill an appoint men
that night at 8 o'clock at Hoxie
only one mile away. Some of hi
followers undertook to stamped'
the crowd, but only about 25 foi
lowed the forlorn candidate, wh<
hasn’t the moral and menta
courage to face his opponent’;
indictment of his method o
■campaigning and expose of hi;
-machine supporters.
What service does the Walnu
Ridge-Hoxie interurban line af
ford, that four hours must b<
‘consumed by a candidate foi
.-governor to cover one mile o
distance? What must be th*
condition of Lawrence countj
roads that the Camden juris
rhould need all these long hour*
to run a mile in the last tw<
weeks of the campaign? Th*
“Jeffersonian candidate” miglv
as well have been frank with hi:
Audience and the people am
have stated that the Robinsoi
machine was responsible foi
him being in the race today am
that his lieutenants in Litth
j Rock were sending over the
[state tiie scurrilous attacks of
I the Kensett Keynote and waging
ja campaign that was not clean,
but vicious and certainly not in
j line with his public pledges of
fair treatment and square deal
' ing with his opponent.
‘j He knew that Mr. Brundidge
, i would in righteous indignation
I place the blame where it belong
ed, that he would establish the
Robinson machine's fine hand in
the support of Hays and explode
the “Jeffersonian” attitude as
sumed by the gentleman from
Camden. For these reasons, he
ran away, content to orate upon
another day, with Brundidge far
away.
But if the unexpected were to
I happen and this same candidate
| receive the Democratic nomina
| tion upon June 21, would our
Democratic standard bearer
■ meet the Hon. George W. Mur
, phv or the Republican nominee
upon the stump. Murphy is
, known as one of the ablest ora
i tors in the state; he fights from
; the shoulder mincing not words
I nor fearing to expose records.
, The issue thus presents itself:
■ Are the Democrats of Arkansas
- to nominate a candidate for gov
i ernor, who feels and has practi
! cally admitted his inability to
f cope with and answer his oppon
1 ents upon the stump?
Judge Hays’ followers have
through this campaign been
I very insistent in showing that
1! Brundidge failed to carry White
' county over Senator Davis,
1 though he fell short only a hun
dred odd votes and lost only
' votes in his home city of Searcy,
! They know that White county's
allegiance to the late senator
• was so strong that probably no
‘ man in the state could have car
1 ried White county over Davis,
1 White county gave Kavanaugb
1 a majority as the result of a few
’ letters from Senator Davis tc
' ‘ friends in that county in behalf
Hof Kavanaugh, though Dona
Hghey in that election carried 73
• j of the 75 counties of the state.
1 j Such was the strength of Sena
' I tor Davis in White county and
: no citizen of that county or of
? the state could probably have
secured the vote which White
1 county gave Mr. Brundidge.
> But public attention is now
• focused upon the vote of Judge
? Hays’ home county, Ouachita.
> which gave Republican majori
’ ties to every candidate except
; one upon the state ticket in the
; last general election. Where
> was Judge Hays when this hap
■ | pened has been most pertinent
ly asked and in the event that
; he should be nominated for gov
1 ernor and continues unable tc
i meet his opponents upon the
•1 stump, will not many more eoun
I ties of Arkansas be found fol
lowing the example set by Judge
S New Furmturel
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If! a full line of new and second hand ®
it ^
MS furniture and rugs, and can make you ^
jus we
m prices that will interest and save you g
money. ^
lHayden & Co. jjj
212 FIRST ST. Next Door to Bert Snetxer PHONE No. 31
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Hays’ county and in the Repub
lican or Progressive column.
The Democrats of Arkansas
should consider this fact in de
termining their choice for gov
ernor upon June 21.
_■
How to spend money to best
advantage on roads has been left
to a committee ot three by the
Jackson County Good Roads As-1
| sociation. Whether such a com
mittee should have more than ■
lone member remains to be seen, j
but the multiplicity of ideas on
this subject gives one reason to
believe that three can never a
gree.
t At the sale the other day of
'the collection of autographs and
manuscripts belonging to the
late John Mills Hale of Pitts
burg, Penn., what is said to be
the original copy of Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee’s farewell address to
his army sold for $425. Accord
I ing to what has appeared in the
; Confederate Veteran and other
southern prints, the original
copy of the great commander’s
last address is in the hands of a
man to whom its author gave it
the day of the surrender.—Fort
Smith Times-Record.
The governor of Kansas sug
gested that the commission
form of government would be a
good thing for the state, but it
remained for the Florida legisla
ture to try to put the idea into
effect. A resolution . is before
that body for an amendment to
the constitution which contem
plates abolishing both the house
and senate, and which provides,
also, for sixteen commissioners,
each to receive a salary of $3,
000 annually, the commissioners
to elect the governor.—Fort
Smith Tintes-Record.
Senator Clarke is coming home
for a ten days’ conference with
friends, and no further appoint
ments for Arkansas will be an
nounced until his return says a
Washington dispatch. One of
the cockle burs that is bother
ing our Senators is the appoint
ment of a district attorney for
Eastern Arkansas. Little Rock
of course wants all the plums,
but if Senator Clarke seeks a so
lution of this appointment that
will be satisfactory to the bar
and people of this district, he
couldn’t do better than recom
mend our townsman. Mr. S. D.
Campbell.
The Gazette finds a good mor
al in the vindication of Colonel
Roosevelt, whose accusor, after
convincing proof to the contra
ry. retracted his charges that
the ex-president drank to excess.
The moral is “When you have an
evil report about anybody, re
member, how error can grow
and thrive simply on the atmos
phere in which it floats and
spreads.” And these groundless
charges and suspicions are
kept buzzing by busy-bodies in
a community, until manv believe
; simply because they have heard
the charge so many times. How
often, in our own limited exper
ience, we find that another’s act
or words were misjudged and
that great wrong has been done
an individual. Scandal travels
entirely too fast and is about as
unreliable as irresponsible, as
regardless of the heartaches it
brings as the permanent injur
ies it accomplishes.
Unwritten Law.
There is no such thing as un
written law. There is the law
of God. There is the law of man.
Both are published. One is
found in the Book of Books, the
j other in codes and constitutions.
The plea of unwritten law is a
I subterfuge employed by men to
| evade the punishment for mur
der exacted by the statutes of 1
the land. I
Vengeance is mine, sayeth the '
. t
Lord. Vengeance is mine, says
the law.
It is not given to man to take
human life, and the laws of God
demand punishment for. murder.
It is not given to man to take the
life of another, in wanton pre
meditation, and the laws of the
land demand summary punish
ment.
The unwritten law is a myth.
It is a common excuse offered
by men with blood on their
hands to excuse the crime they
have committed.
There is a just law which will
protect the innocent. The courts
must be appealed to first. The
tribunal of justice may be free
ly called upon by all who are
guiltless. The court records
of many states, especially the
South, are stained with records
of the unwritten law.
There is but one code of laws
respected by the United States
supreme court, and those laws
are the laws of the land, found
in the statute books of the dif
ferent states and in the records
of the federal government.
No man can place himself a
bove the courts. No man can
ruthlessly put aside the laws of
n^A
When the traditional laws re
garding murder are ignored by
the courts the ends of the coun
try will soon be afflicted.
Cain killed Abel in the garden
of Eden and an angel with darn
ing sword appeared to vindicate
the law of God. The will of the
Almighty was shown-then and it
has been manifest since in sund
ry ways.
Let the courts settle the trou
bles that disorganize the affairs
of men. Let the courts say
when a human life shall be tak
en. Let the courts weigh the
evidence which threatens to re
sult in bloodshed and let thf
virtue of right stand supreme
over the power of might.
The unwritten law will always
be unwritten, for no body of
legislators will ever have the
moral nerve to assign to man
the obligations which rightfully
belong to the courts of the coun
try, and not to the individual.—
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
A. A. Crabtree and wife of
Tupelo were here Wednesday
en route to Ravenden Springs in
the interest of the latter’s
health.
■ESIUED TO NEED A DOCTOR
<ari«d Vi'rrsents of tin Somewhat
Afflicted Family as Catalogued
by the Moth«“\
"Vr>r. Doc," said the mother of <
a in;• of nine to the young doctoi
ini i-nd ridden 1*1 miles into the
; „,,,is [n (h« oead of night, “we
no -omewliat afflicted fam’ly, an\
.< heme doctorin' don’t seem to d«
o good. 1 thought I’d send for you
o' £•>.• if >011 could straighten us out
ancy litre, she’s got something
' :or" with her bronical tubes so she
on’t breathe like she should. I been
cej,'m’ a rag spread with goose
.lease an’ sprinkled with red peppei
a* mustard on her front chist, bul
t seems to add to her ag’nv. Jake
•ie s got a mia’ry all up un’ down hit
"Mnal bone, an’ I been usin’ ker-sene
<o;h srtenial an’ internal; but It ain*1
i«n<» him no good. Lizzie Belie, she’*
about ready to give up with plum
)tgo, an’ her alater Nancy has bee!
’ee’in’ meaa for a week. I think thai
it’s aklatlc roomatia that alia Nancy
tut ahe’a afraid it's the new disease
they calls appendeshetus The oU
man baa been turrtbte allmay for hbi
faya, an* Rube, ear oldest boy, la at
broke out with a rash that shows hit
blood ain’t all right He had a tur
rlble spell laa* might, an’ I thought
ae was la for aholery fnfantnm. He’i
had It elf as* ea erer since he was II
rears old. 1 reckoned he’d entgrowi
R, but it grabs him as hard now thal
he’s >4 a a it did when he was young
er. Wtsht, Doc, that you’d just turi
yourself loose an* see if you kin son
*’ straighten us or/.”—Judge.
Orootloally Immune.
Cnracoa. the moat Important of the
>itch West Indies, la without fire h*
luranoe and a fire department though
the island has a population of over
(0.000. The buildings In the town aiw
ill of stone, hence thia happy ooi>
lltlon of affairs. Reoendy the first
law mill was Installed, being furnished
)y an American firm. “It la hoped.”
lays a consular report, “that thia w©
lot increase the erection Qf woodoa
wildings aad necessitate tneangi|jj
lid a fire department"_. _
IWHAT WE OWE TC WOMEN
Ev«r They Have Beer che Make.*
of the Home and Provider*
of Com'ort.
! °octal progress with primitive worn
\ en was stimulated and encouraged b7
their relatl°'n to borne If*. t0 dr®8*
»nd to manners. We nave already
alluded to the women as the author.
Uf the home or shelter, rt fs the
j -nale bird that, makes the nest the
'female mammal that digs the burrow
I lor her young and the ^alo bee that
J makes the honeycomb as a *»“* f°
! hers. The human female more t/an
til the rest created her home. But
not only Is this true, but she dlff®re“'
dated the home, and all parts of the
*ost elaborate establishment were
mstituted by her or on her account
The first homes were cheerlej*
»aves. Fire conld not he made «
them because of the sm<.fce. so wom
en sought out a cav* witu aaopcnlnj
the rear, or a rock setter withis
high eurvea roof. When she becamj
t dweller In a tent she searched tot
.be oldest wood, learned the myste
’•es 0f the fuel problem and even In
/pnted the coral to Induce the wind
.j draw a little of the smoke there
_j iti/»rp-wo h&v comfort.
:At thenos^oYSi*
kesoirCEs
Loans and Di.-yr,'
Overdrafts, see " ’
unsecured
U. S. Bonds t.-.
1 circulation
U. S. Bonds to
Postal Savings
Other Bonds to secure "
1 Postal Saving
Bonds, Securities Etc
Banking house, Furnitu*
and Fixtures...
Due from National BankV
(not reserve agents)
Due from State and Priv'-t'
Banks and Bankers lY
Companies and Savir* '
Banks . nga
Due from approved Reserv,
Agents . •
Checks and other Cash
Items .
Notes of other National
Banks .
Fractional Paper Currency
Nickels, and Cents...'
Lawful Money Reserve info,
Specie.*18.965.45 *
I Legal-tender
i notes . 25,000.00
i Redemption fund with U, S
i Treasurer (.j ner rer-.tV; _
To the women of the household w«
(ro Indebted for the oven, the chira
.y and the chimney corner, th*
i Mtchen, the din'ng room, the famHj
| oom. the separate bed chamber H
! j boon a wonderful evolution, ie
j , "j.1ns m comfort, taste and morality
j . otis T. Mason, “Woman's Part if
I * baiitive Civilization “
Bunting Thoroughly Tested.
In very truth a modern battltshl
I does In modern phrasing, carry som
punting- About $150,000 is spent b
the United States navy for flags eac
i year. Every case of bunting costs th
I government $560; every roll cost
*11.25. The bunting comes from Mas
sachusetts. Every piece is subjected
to the most severe test. It mus
weigh five pounds to every forty yard
and stand the weight test of sevent
pounds to two square inches. It 1
steeped in salt water for six hour
and then exposed to the sun for th
same period of time. If after thl
treatment it continues to be buntin
of a distinguishable color it is p*c
nounced fit for service.
Dr. Ray A. WhippU
OSTEOPATH
STAYTON BUILDING
210 HAZEL STREET ,
OFFICE OPEN JUNE 11. 1913.
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Capital stock paid ir..>:^Brr
Surplus fund .
Undivided Profits, less '^B
Expenses and Taxes HtE
National P>ank out
! Due to State and Private ^B
? Banks and Bankers. j^B.
J Dividends Unpaid. B|Q
■ j Individual ■ it- -object BS'
j; to check .B
► Demand certi:.f de- BS
t Certified checks. B
8! Cashier’s check.- o :t-tsrd- B
^ Postal Savings De- ~^b1l
posits .35.371.53 iHV
s Total .
| State of Arkansas, County oB
11' j’ W. T. Parish, Cashier B
■ : above-named bark, do soiemnlj^fc]
that the above statement isiH
■ the best of my knowledge ariH
W. T. PARISH, CaS.
» CORRECT—Attest:
W. A. BILLINGSLEY, ■
N. C. WOLFF, B
H. C. SANDERS. B|
Directors. ^E.
Subscribed and sworn to belH)
this 10th day of Jur.eN913^J_
' Commission expires 'septem^B
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