Daily Independent.
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1913. NU.MRKR 8.3
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EfCTION CROOKS
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M Advocacy of P»°
W°c,., party Pnnci
Me, W. Murphy,
W Democrat, Confederate
■ and ex-attorney general
■n«as,but now the Pro
■ nominee for governor
Mate, delivered a charac
■ speech to a fair crowd at,
M house Monday night
Murphy is <lulte ad',
M in years and his nervous
■ infirmity of body and
■e evident to his audience,
■ mind of this eminent
■ is as bright as ever. He
Moses the thread of his ar
■ and strikes with the old
Migor. Neither in charac
■ he suffered, for he is no
M man of policy now than
M in bygone years. He re
Kand esteems the truth
■o hear this venerable man,
■s impressed that he utters
Rwn convictions and would
■r lack the courage to cham
i|fc the speaker aevoieu ms
jon largely to the princi
f the Progressive party, he
the element of any party,
would corrupt our elec
ind primaries and prevent
J] of the majority. If
1 governor, Colonel Mur-!
ated that he would recom- J
the holding of elections
ire often than every four
in order that the light
d gentry who manipulat
:ht not be kept so well in
e and to keep an official
it and attentive to duty,
give the people the right
ill, for which they had
n the last election. The
lew officers and commis
vho were barnacles of ex
iastened upon the state,
Id seek to knock out.
ipeaker stated that at the
! was nominated, present
>ns did not exist in the
atic party or he would j
e consented to make the j
le admitted that he was j
'low in asking a man for J
said he would rather '
i for a quarter. He
more of a man who1
teal a horse than an:
and paid a high tribute ;
tatesmanship and integ-1
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•v ^ iur me man i
fho became the beneficiary of:
rooked politics either was a j
nember of the gang or could be j
ised by the dishonest machine
rhich elected him. Colonel!
Murphy said it was not enough,!
^J^riest^Democrats should
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sit idly by and let the crooked
work be consummated, but that
they now had the opportunity to
chastise this element through
trusting and supporting the Bull
Moose candidate.
Colonel Murphy was introduc
ed to his audience containing a
number of ladies by Mr. Ira J.
Mack and his main address was
devoted to Progressive platform
pledges. From a country of
three and one-half million peo
ple when our constitution was
adopted, new conditions through
our great industrial development
faced the country and the na
tional jurisdiction should be
broadened to cover and eliminate
evils that could not be reached
by state laws. As an example
of this, he cited the employment
of child labor in the factories of
the country, when if a state
would be humane and give its
poor children a chance in life,
the factories would move to
states that had no restrictions.
Most authorities had charged
the high cost of living to the
trusts and the tariff said the
speaker and “busting the trusts”
had not reduced the price of
trust products. The Progres
sive party’s theory was brought
out that the trusts should be
regulated, requiring uniformity
oi price oasea upon tne cost oi
production and a reasonable re
turn upon the investment.
Tariff tinkering had been done
by both the old parties for twen
ty years and yet the people
grew poorer, jumping from one
party to another in these politi
cal manipulations of the tariff,
the solution of the question be
ing found by the speaker in a
tariff commission that should
adjust its schedules on scientific
lines based upon knowledge of
the subject,
Colonel Murphy spent Wednes
day morning in the city meeting
friends and the citizens and left
upon No. 4 for Walnut Ridge,
his next appointment.
Pioneers To New Fields.
Batesville, July 6.—Two life
long citizens of Batesville are
arranging to leave here and
make their home in other
places. Dr. E. R. Long, who has
spent all his life in Batesville,
and who has been president of
Arkansas College here for a lit
tle more than a score of years,
has just returned from Sherman,
Texas, where he is to have a
chair in the Presbyterian col
lege, and has arranged to move
his family to that place in the
near future. Dr. Long has a
fine home in Batesville and
some other interests which he
will not dispose of for the pres
ent.
N. Smylie, who has been con
nected with Arkansas College
almost as long as Dr. Long, will
leave shortly with his family for
Summerfield, Alabama, where
he goes to acept a chair in Sel
ma-Summerfield College.
First Sheriff To Settle.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 8.—Sheriff
R. F. Payne of Scott county
Monday afternoon made his final
settlement with the state treas
urer, being the first to make set
tlement for the year. He paid
$2,591.66 into the general rev
enue fund, $6,887.66 into the
common school fund, $3,443.74
into the Confederate Pension
Jtund and $1,147.92 into the
Sltate Capitol fund.
HARRY MYERS
RETURNS HOME
Republican Candidate Says He's
Going To Re Elected
Governor.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 7.—As dapper
as ever, jauntily carrying a cane
of the kind more often seen in
the hands of the college Johnnie
than in the digits of an Arkan
sas politician, Harry H. Myers,
Republican candidate for govern
or, hit Little Rock Monday af
ternoon. Within an hour after
his arrival from Hot Springs,
where he is serving as superin
tendent of the U. S. Reservation,
the candidate announced he
would make a real speech in the
old state house grounds on Tues
day night, and expected all who
were looking for a political Mo
ses to turn out in ones, by twos,
and by dozens.
During the day Col. Myers was
piloted about Little Rock, tak
ing in the highways and the by
ways, button-holing here and
dropping a few honey-coated
morsels into an ear elsewhere.
Always it was a merry chirrup,
“Vote for Myers, your next
governor,” and the candidate,
who thrice was smothered be
neath an avalanche of good,
Democratic votes, really seem
ed to believe it.
*‘I am going to be the next
governor of Arkansas,” was the
line of conversation handed out
by the one who has asked much
of the Republican voters of Ar
kansas, and received so little
there, but so much more at the
government pie counter.
“When I am elected I am go
ing to give the people a real gov
ernor. I am going to have a
carriage, with a negro driver in
livery, and a team of thorough
breds to pull the vehicle down
the avenues of Little Rock. The
people will look at me. with my
high silk hat and gold headed
cane, and say:
“ 'At last we have a real gov
ernor of Arkansas.’ ”
“The negroes are not going to
support me though, for I have
declared publicly that I do not
believe in their holding office in
Arkansas, and that I will ap
point none of them. They are
going to be Bull Moosers in this
eompaign.”
’VTt.i.vo Ti’nnlrl cncnfl a
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month in Little Rock he would
not get all way around among his
friends. His campaigns have al
ways been considered a joke by
them, because the majority are
Democrats, but this time the Re
publican will get a good vote in
the Capitol City, more because
he is a good fellow’, than that he
has any politics at all.
Picnickers Favor Dr. Dillard. <
Glenwood, July 7.—At the pic
nic held here the following reso
lution was adopted by acclama
tion without a dissenting vote:
“Resolved, That this audience,
two thousand strong, sympathize
with Dr. Dillard in the cowardly
attack made on him and pledge
to him our sympathy and sup
port.”
Dr. Dillard is the superintend
ent of the Arkansas Children’s
Home, and is accused of so cruel
ly whipping a two-year old chile
of the home that it died recently
in Conway. Dr. Dillard was con
victed for inhumanely treating
the child recently in Little Rock
I Week Favorable For Cotton.
! The past week was probably
the most favorable of the seas
on on the cotton crop, says the
Commercial Appeal. At least,
the crop made better progress
than during any other similar
period this year. Under the ■
stimulus of good rains, plenty of 1
Sunshine and warm days and
nights the plant giade splendid I
growth, and while a bit late, j
made up much lost time during
1 the week. The plant is strong
and stockily built, is beginning
j to branch out and is blooming
! and fruiting heavily.
Rains fell in all sections all
| over the belt during the week.
: They were the heaviest and
more nearly general in Texas
and Oklahoma, where practical
ly the entire area of both states
received good rains.
In the central valley the
drouth was relieved except in a
few scattered localities that
comprise a very small total area.
In the east no great need of
moisture had been felt, but good
rains were falling at the end of
the week.
| The high state of cultivation
that has characterized the crop
from the start was in no whit
abated during the week. Fields
are almost universally clean
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i nearly perfect than ever before
; known. This feature of the crop
| places the plant in the best
| shape to withstand either drouth
or rain with the least possible
damage.
There is still complaint of boll
weevil in infested districts. They
are very numerous in sections
of Mississippi and Lousiana, but
'the damage to date is hardly
worth mentioning. Farmers are
continuing a relentless war a
gainst the past and in some sec
tions they seem to have won
their fight.
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Cow Lake District Bids.
The commissioners in Cow
Lake Drainage district have
been in session two days consid
ering the bids received for bonds
and construction work. Five
bids were made for the proposed
j $100,000 bond issue and 15 bids
were received on the different
classes of construction work,
but all these have to be tabulat
ed and compared, before the
lowest bidder can be determined.
SHERIFF OWENS
SHOT BY YEGGS
Who Had Blown Pom office Safe
At Pocahontas and Made
Their Escape to ( ache
River.
Special to Independent.
Walnut Ridge. July s.—About
4 o'clock this morning at the
"Pocahontas depot,” whicr. is
the Frisco station on the Poplar
Bluff branch. Sheriff John E.
Owens of Lawrence county ac-;
companied by Constable James
Easley tried to arrest two yeggs,
who had earlier in the morning
robbed the postoffice safe at Po
cahontas. The outlaws resisted
when intercepted by the officers
and a running fire of probably
fifteen shots occurred, during
which the nervy little sheriff
had his left arm broken at the
elbow by one bullet and another
ball pierced his right leg above
the knee, but did not break any
bones. While seriously injured,
the wounds of the sheriff are not
considered dangerous.
The two "yeggs” made their
escape in the semi-darkness and
going to the home of Harry Pon
rJov moarhv stole his fine SnClO
horse and both mounting the an
imal rode away. One of the des
peradoes is thought to have
been hit by one of the officers’
shots.
The postoffice safe at Poca
hontas was blown about 1:30 a.
m. and the robbers are reported
to have secured $200 in cash.
Sheriff J. F. McCuistion of
Jackson County arrived upon
No. 4 and Deputy / Sheriff Sol
Wormser of Little Rock came in
on No. 8 with two blood hounds.
The sheriff of Randolph county
also arrived this morning. The
officers and a large posse are re
ported to have brought the two
men to bay in a farm house
near Cache River, three or four
miles from town, but this can
not be verified.
With sentiment against the
crooks running high and their
knowledge of this fact, it is ex
pected that they will make a
last desperate stand and refuse
to surrender until shot down.
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Discovers Tempering Process.
Special to independent.
Little Rock. July 5.—Will ('lay
ton. a well known machinist of
Little Rock, who recently discov
ered a process for tempering
to make it so hard that it will
nit glass,has gone the other di
rection in tempering and be
lieves he has discovered the
process by which the Toledo
blades, which were extremely
flexible, were manufactured.
The young inventor uses a
gum preparation, which he ap
plies at different temperatures.
As a result he has made over
sword blades which can be doub
led without breaking. Clayton
has recently accepted a position
with the Dalton Adding Machine
Company, of Poplar Bluff, Mo.,
as a designer, and he expects ty
apply a number of his new
methods in that large factory.
. Eagles May Have Sanitarium.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 7.—Realiz
ing the strenuous work which is
being done by the Eagles of Ar
kansas to have the national san
itarium of this organization lo
cated in Hot Springs, and what
such a course will mean to that
+ on/1 4 Ito cloio flmtprnnr .1
M. Futrell has written a strong
letter to Walter Ebel of Hot
Springs, who will attend the na
tional convention and lead the
fight for the institution, re
questing the head officials to
come to Arkansas and look the
ground over. He is confident
that if they do, that Hot Springs
will get the sanitarium.
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Boy Scouts For Batesville.
Batesville, July 7.— Prof. Sid
ney Pickens, superintendent of
the Batesville schools, has been
appointed scout masterforBates
ville and will organize a company
of scouts here. The first meet
ing for the organization will be
held at his home this week, and
it is said that about fifty of the
boys in Batesville will join. Prof
essor Pickens is enthusiastic in
the boys’ work, and he will ar
range hikes and other activities
for them during the remainder
of the vacation period and for
the Saturdays during the early
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