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BARBECUE AT SWIFTON.
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Candidates for Governor Arraign
Each Other With Virulent
Invective.
COFFIN TAKES STUMP FOR JUDGE CARROLL D. WOOD.
Governor Davis Again Secures Opening Address and
Largest Crowd—Vandeventer Hakes Vigor
ous and Able Onslaught Upon Gov
ernor’s Record—Several Sensa
tional Incidents Characterize
Speaking.
A crowd conservatively estimated
at 1,000 people attended the barbecue
at Swifton on Thursday, given un
der the auspices of the Swifton cornet
band. The residents of Glass and Bird
townships were out in large numbers
and representatives of many near-by
counties and towns were present.
The speaking of the candidates for
governor was the drawing card,
though a ball game between Alicia
and Sulphur Rock and the barbecue
, contributed toward interesting the
| crowd.
The speaking was held in the wood
ed pasture east of town from a band
stand and platform constructed for
the purpose. The crowd was largely
composed of the supporters of Davis
and the other candidates were hardly
given a fair hearing, as the governor
was not only accorded the opening
address, but was allowed an hour and
a half, which, considering the late
hour the speaking began, precluded
send them.”
He defended his wholesale veto on
the ground that he could not pick out
the good and bad bills in fifty minutes
and pointed to the increased taxation
of railroads, which was sufficient to
build and equip the deaf-mute insti
ftftion. He wanted the asylum en
larged for his opponents.
He pointed out the purchase price
of the Cummings place as #140,000
against an assessed value of #25,000.
The legislature claimed Johnson grass
was a good thing and the Governor
here asked an old gray-headed farmer
about it and wanted to know why he
was “kicking when he wasn’t hurt.”
DEFENDS HIS PARDONING RECORD.
One third of his pardons were to
restore citizenship and he upheld his
pardon of Pomp Brown, a negro con
victed of assault upon a white woman,
because Congressman Reid and the
presiding judge had signed a petition
for same and he here called upon
nis opponents irom a iair uivisiuu ui
time and threw their addresses when
a ball game was in progress to catch
the crowd.
Hon. G. L. Grant delivered a well
prepared address of welcome, voicing
the hospitality of the Swifton people.
He was followed by Hon. John H.
Keel, who thanked his hearers for
their support in past campaigns and
stated hie desire to be brief in order
to give way to the candidates for gov
ernor, whom the people of Glass
township had not heard so often as
him. He announced that he would
not ask for the suffrages of the people
again, as politics afforded an honest
man no chance to better himself
financially and at the end of his pres
ent term he would return to his Jack
son county farm. He lauded Gov
ernor Davis for the enemies he had
made as a faithful public servant
and .introduced him as “the best gov
ernor of Arkansas for twenty years.”
DAVIS DEFENDS HIS RECORD.
Governor Davis defended his record
as attorney general. He was not
from a family of quitters and had not
lain down when the supreme court
had declared the anti-trust law un
constitutional. The state had a sov
ereign right to refuse entrance to
the trust and he bad labored with
the legislature to secure such a law.
o Kit! if iivou nrhinli lie* nlooiul in
juuge xuoose in um auuieuce to verity
his statement. Whoever said he had
pardoned six negroes for assault of
white women was an infamous liar.
He had pardoned the liquor men of
Newport, because they gave bond
they would not longer sell liquor with
out license and he called upon John
Keel and Charley Wilmans to deny
that they had received $600 for the
pardon of Bob O’Neal. These men
did not have to peddle pardons to
make a living.
The speaker said he had the affidavit
of Fuller of Eureka Springs, swearing
that be had never disclosed to the
governor that his Arm was to receive
a fee for the pardon of Dr. Johnson
and that he had gone to Dr. Witt, the
penitentiary physician, to get a cer
tificate of Dr. Johnson’s bad health,
but Witt had declined because Fuller
was voting with the penitentiary
gang. He refused to show the affida
vit to Vandeventer, as his “word was
good enough for any man in this audi
ence.” He had made a mistake in
pardoning Johnson, and when the lat
ter had come to thank him he got
mad and ordered him (Johnson) from
the office, as the pardon had been ob
tained through fraud.
“When I become so cold and cal
lous the tears of the mothers of Israel
will not cause me to pardon their
boys, I want to be put out of the gov
the charge of “Jackson county’s faith
ful representative, John Keel.” The
senate was arraigned for inconsisten
cy in refusing to consider the Keel
bill, a fac-simile of the King bill.
Powell Clayton’s impeachment had
never been attempted with all his ras
! cality, yet his own humiliation had
! been sought by his enemies and the
! chairman of the investigating commit
tee Merriman had been discharged
from the “Yankee army” for immoral
ity, an army in which immorality was
! characteristic. He claimed that his
expenditures from the contingent
fund were less than those of any re
cent governor. During the investi
gation he had neither witnesses nor
; attorneys. His friends had insisted
( that he should refuse to attend the
; meetings, but his wife had said, “Go
and if they murder you, we will wrap
your body in a flag and carry your
body for final rest to the little church
| yard at home.” He reviewed the
I different charges of the investigation
{and called the finding of the com
| mittee a miserable straddle, which
demanded his vindication by the peo
ple. He called to his aid the old
i guard and said George Washington or
t Thomas Jefferson would have run for
j a third'lerm had they ever had the
j Arkansas legislature to deal with,
j Two days ago, the auditor had said
the deaf mute school must be closed,
)
f but he had secured an indemnifying
bond through friends and now “that
| dirty, filthy Arkansas Gazette, says
1 school will still be closed, unless an
appropriation is mS'*
s session of the legit
- pever call it, for if tha
aver get back, the pec*
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ernor's office," sam tne governor.
VANDEVENTER CALLS GOVE RNOR.
Vandeventer, he said, was the can
didate who carried but one county
three years ago, and the people of
Sebastian would have voted for the
devil in preference to him (Davis)
and they came mighty near doing it.
The governor stated that he had just
received a telegram from Morrilton
stating that the sheriff and other
county officers had refused to give
Vandeventer a statement that they
believed he would carry his home
county. The governor wanted to
know if Vandeventer had made such
an attempt and the latter offered to
answer, but demanded the telegram.
Davis refused with a sneer and said
he must be from Missouri, then brist
ling up demanded of Vandeventer
“Who’se afraid of you?” The defy
was hardly out of his mouth when
Vandeventer, who is game to the
bone, answered in a voice that Davis
could not have mistaken, “You are.”
It looked like something was going to
happen just about then, but the gov
ernor turned toward the audience
with the remark, “I spanked you over
the whole state two years ago.”
VANDEVENTER FLAYS DAVIS.
Hon. A. F. Vandeventer succeeded
the governor, declaring the latter to
be rather a fit subject for the peniten
tiary than the asylum, cbarginr the
governor with ignoring all appeq s for
a fair hearing. Davis had said at
Y’jj«en be would not pardon ihitn
w e^and though this ‘
he ever had a pardon to ask .^
would prefer it through one of'bis —
pardon attorneys, of which there was ^
one in every county. He wanted to
know why the governor had sent the <
pardon of Dr. Johnson to attorneys
over 300 miles away. The petition foi r
this pardon was sent up from Eureka %
Springs and contained not a single
name from Ft. Smith, where the crime ■.
was committed. The governor had
violated the pardon law and he called
upon the people to judge of Davis’ 1
connection with such purchased par- '|
dons, which the evidence tended to |
show could now be bought like cattle,
sheep and hogs.
The governor had pardoned negro
burglars for whom no tears were shed
by gray-haired mothers and was not |
to be blamed for seeking vindication, 1
but instead he sank deeper and deep
er. Referring to the Davis banner at
Beebe, ‘‘Davis is hell on carpetbag
gers,” he declared that Davis was a
hell of a governor to revive these
war-time prejudices. He destroyed
the force of the governor’s compari
son of the assessed value with the
purchase price of the Cummings
farm, which was 18 per cent, while the
Altheimer place, wffc 1 purchase Da
vis favored, was astVosed at but 13
per cent of the price D^vis wanted the
state to pay for same.
governor’s record laid bare.
He told of the governor’s otter to
provide for Reese Hoggin’s son in ex
change for appointment of one of his
(Davjs) kinsmen, which would have
ousted Sam Thatch, a deserving ex’
Confederate soldier. Such was his
friendship for the veteran of the
gray.
Davis was denounced as an infa
mous coward, physically and morally,
a charge he would make to his face.
Davis had threatened to slap him at
Warren, but he had dared him to lay
so much as a finger upon his person.
The governor’s worries and troubles
were laughed at and his increased
weight given to show he was not
faring so ill,—“Upon what meat doth
Caesar feed, that he has grown so
great.”
Even if Davis had been the best in
stead of the worst governor Arkansas
ever had, he should not be elected to
a third term. jS
He read from a circular of a Hot
Springs gambling bouse offering big
profits on stock, the name o^ Gov
ernor Davis recommending same.
The speaker favored legislation to
curb the trusts, declared the new
chancery courts a needless expense,
said Davis could have saved other
bills from the-veto as he did this one,
and paid a high tribute to the late
James Mitchell.
He had been raised on a farm and
the three things he hated to do,—
wash a dirty sheep, sort rotten pota
toes and skin a skunk, he had been
called upon to do a little of each. He
was not running in the interest of
Wood and Davis dared not say so
publicly.
The speaker closed quite eloquently
in stating that if chosen governor, he
proposed to be known as the edu
cational governor—the advocate of
good roads a.;d line schools.
COFFIN HAKES GOVERNOR.
Hon. Charles Coffin of Walnut
uiuge, representing juugo w. u.
\ Wood, spoke only for a short time, j
j owing to the lateness of the hour, but j
ne went after the governor’s scalp |
like the brave fearless man he is. 1
lie regretted the personalities that j
had become so frequent in the cam- 1
paign, out laid their responsibility at I
the Governor’s door. 1
Davis had not spoken to him since I
he lied in saying that he (Coffiu) had J
boasted of carrying the vote of Law- 1
rence county in his pocket. Davis I
J was an “automatic” liar and couldn’t 1
I help it. The governor was arraigned I
for his dismissal of the 500 cases I
against the trusts as attorney general, 1
while in Missouri, over $90,000 was ■
collected thus in tines. 1
Speaking of the pardon of Dr. John- ■
son and referring to Fuller, he said ■
he would not believe one of Davis’ I
j creatures on oath. The governor had I
not only pardoned perjurers, but the 9
; testimony of one of the governor’s 9
| intimate friends accused him of trying 9
to encourage perjury in trying to 9
j malign the character of Ex-Gov. 9
| Tne chancery courts were a need- 9
i less expense and only established to 9
build up a Davis dynasty. Judge 9
! Bourland had boasted in Walnut 9
| Ridge that such a machine would be 9
! built up and now he had become one 9
I of the links in same through the gov- 9|
ernor’s appointment to one of the 9
chancery judgeships. 9
He declared Davis to ba a “man9|
without honor, a politiqj^/' withoo*^9
| conscience
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