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' PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION
Synopsis and Comments on Improvements Made Over the
Constitution of 1874.
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0 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
Art. VI, Sec. 1, provides for the creation of the office o? Lieutenant Gov
ifT?0/-’ *° e^ected quadrennially as are other state officers, to possess qual
u,at ions similar to those required for the Governor, to be ex-officio President
o the Senate, and to serve as Governor when that official is disqualified for
apy reason. When acting as Governor 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 a^nd 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
-~vDf rights and privileges to one-half of our tax-paying, home-making
citizens who have been unenfranchised from the foundation of our
nation. It is one of the principles of enlightened government that
'o people are truly free when half are denied an exercise of the
ights 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 eqiial 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 to 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 and 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 review7 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, Sees. 23-24-25, prohibits local or special legislation except under
certain well-defined restrictions. Twenty-one specific items of local legtsla
'**r lion 'are prohibited. It is further provided that "in all cases where a general
law is or can be made applicable, no local or special law shall be enacted.”
No g neral law shall be suspended for the benefit of any individual or corpo
ration, uor shall any general law be changed by exemption into a special law.
Publication of notice is required of ail special acts permitted, and the courts
shall pronounce void all special, local or private acts which the journals do
hot affirmatively show were published as provided.
No other single reform has-been so generally demanded as
this. The growing abuse of local legislation has caused more ad
verse criticism of the General Assembly than anything else, and
has wasted more time, and been the source of more “trading.”
During 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 passed
into a joke that the “General'Assembly spends most of its time in
legislating Johnson grass out of Greene county, and green grass
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 through
■'"'other channels. Practically the whole volume of local legislation
v can be handled through other established agencies—as the county
courts, the Corporation Commission, the school authorities, or
boards’ and commissions charged with jurisdiction over such mat
ters. 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 other
legislators know nothing of their merits or local conditions, and
blindly vote for the other fellow’s bill so that.the other fellow will
vote for his.
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ELECTIONS AND FRANCHISE.
Art. Ill follows in the main the text of the Constitution of 1874. Its
• Changes include equal suffrage; quadrennial elections; the creation of a non
partisan State Board of Election Commissioners; and provision for non
resident voting by electors in militaij 01 naval seivice.
The time-honored principles of equality and freedom of elec
tions are restated and emphasized and completely safeguarded. In
addition to the positive and expressed changes, the new proposal
is notable for omissions that strengthen it. For instance, the new
Constitution provides hat “no election officer shall be eligible to
ally civil office to be filled at the election at which he shall serve.”
The old Constitution exempted “such subordinate municipal or
local offices, below the grade of city or county officers, as shall
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
institution. In the new draft the provision is omitted, “Nor
l any law be enacted whereby the right to vote at any election
Ibe made to depend upon any previous registration of the
r’& name.” The old Constitution provides that the franchise
l)e exercised by every “male person who has declared his
[ion of becoming a citizen” of the United Stales. This lets
the bars to aliens, but the new Constitution restricts the
ge to citizens of the United States by omitting the quoted
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TIME CARD.
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Change in time Missouri Pacific
I trains, effective 12:01 a .m., 'Sunday,
November 17th, 1918.
North Bound
No. 2 Fast Pass, (no stop)Ar. 3:55am
No. 34 Local passenger, Ar. 10:35am.
No. 4,Fast passenger, Ar. 11:59 am.
No. 92 Local freight, Lv. 11:00 am.
No. 30 Local passenger, Ar. 8:25 pm.
No. 6 Fast Passenger, Ar. 9:30 pm.
No. 18 Fast Pass. (Hot Sgs.
Spl.) Ar. 10:05 pm.
; South Bound,
j No. 1 Fast Pas. (no stop)Ar. 1:52 am.
i No. 17 Fast PaS. (Hot Spgs.
j Spl.) Ar. 4:55 am.
No. 5 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:55 am.
No. 7 Mail train (no passen
gers) Ar. 9:10 am.
No. 93 Local freight, Lv. 8:00 am.
No. 3 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:43 jpi.
No. 33 Local Pas. Ar. 7:20 pm.
Leaves 7:45 pm.
White River Division.
No 210 Passenger, Lv. 6:lo ana.
No. 254 Mixed Pas. and freight
Leaves 12:10 pm.
No 251 Mixed Pas. and freight
Arrives 11:00 am.
No. 205 Passenger, Ar,. 7:30 pm.
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WARNING ORDER.
In Chancery Court,
i Sarah B. Land, Plaintiff,
vs.
j Mortan Land, Defendant.
| The defendant, Morton Land, is
j hereby warned to appear in this
' Court within thirty days, and answer
the complaint of the plaintiff, Sarah
B. Land.
R. W. Bandy, Clerk.
Jas. H. Johnston, appointed attorney
for noti-Resident Defendant.
November 30th, 1918. 185d3t 34w4
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned as administrator of the
estate of John L. McElrath, de
ceased will on
MONDAY THE 9TH, DAY OF
DECEMBER, 1918
between the hours of 9 o’clock a. m.
and 3 o’clock p. m., offer for sale
at public auction to the highest bid
der on a credit of three months the
i following personal property belong
; ing to said estate, to-wit:
10 head of cattle: approximately
3 00 bushels of corn; 3 head of cattle;
ere lot of farming imn'eme^its; one
half interest in the Grubbs Opera
Company and one half interest in the
Grubbs Realty Company and other
personalty.
j Sale will take place at the farm of
; the deceased one mile and a quarter
' northeast of Grubbs, and the pur
chaser will be required to give note
with approved security.
W. A. Odglen,
Administrator of the Estate of John
L. McElrath, deceased. 31w4
There is more Catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and for years it
was supposed to be incurable. Doctors
prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable,
latarrh is a local disease, greatly in
fluenced by constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, manufactur
ed by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is ta
ken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Sudfaces of the
I System. One Hundred Dollars re
I ward is offered for any case that
i Hall’s Catarrh Medicine fails to cure,
j Send for circulars and testimonials.
|f. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
| Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
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; I, J. M. Ivy, Sheriff of Jackson
I county, Arkansas, do hereby pro
i 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
for the purpose of adopting or reject
ing the State Constitution proposed
by the Constitutional Convention of
1918.
The said special election will be
held at the following places in each
township, to-wit:
Glass Township—at Swifton.
.Bird Township—at Tuckerman.
Bird Township—at James’ Store,
j Bird Township—at Kenyon,
j Bird Township—at East Tucker
j man.
| JefFerson Township—at Jackson
port.
JefFerson Township—at Hickory
Grove School House.
Bateman Township—at Surround
ed Hill.
Bateman Township—at the School
House at Bridge.
. Glaize Township—at Old Grand
Glaize.
Glaize Township—at Glaize Sta
tion.
Barren Township—at McDougal’s
School House.
*• Barren Township—at Denmark.
Breckenridge Township—at Au
vergne.
, Breckenridge Township—at Wel
don.
j Breckenridge Township —at Tupelo.
Bryan Township—at Ing’eside.
Bryan Township—at Horseshoe
School House.
e Township—at McCall School
Cache Township—at Martin’s Hall.
Cache Township—at Bui ton’s
Store.
Cache Township—at Algoa.
Mile.
Cow Lake Township—at Eight I
Neck.
Cow Lake Township—at Gourd
; Nack.
Cow Lake Township—at Proctor
School House.
Richwoods Township—at Balch’s
Store.
Richwoods Township—at Ford j
School House.
Grubbs Township—at Grubbs.
Grubbs Township—at Stegall Sch.
House.
Village Township—at Harper’s
School House.
Village Township—at Greenhaw’s
School House.
Union Township—at McLain’s
Office.
Union Township—at Diaz.
Union Townships—First Ward—at
City Hall.
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.
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EAIK 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
fair prices:
Wheat flour, 21-lb sacks_71.58
Wheat flour, 48-lb. sacks_$3.11
Flour less 21-lb. lot_GVzC
25-lb sack country meal_$1.28
25-lb. sack cream meal_$1.43
10-lb. sack cream meal_GOc
Rolled oats, 22-oz. pks._15c
Rolled oats, 55-oz. pkg. _35c
Bread, lG-oz. loaves _10c
Corn starch, 1 -lb. pkg_10c
Rice, 1-lb _14c
Navy beans, 1-lb-17!4c
Lima beans, 1-lb. _20c
Pinto beans, 1-lb. _13c
Bulk lard, compound _30c
Bulk lard, pure_35c
lVz-lb. net wt. lard substitute_50c
J 2-lb. net wt. lard substitute_65c
3- lb. net wt. lard substitute_$1.00
4- lb. net wt. lard substitute_$1.29
5- lb. net wt. lard substitute_$1.60
6- lb. net wt. lard substitute-$2.00
S-lb. net wt. lard substitute-$2.54
10-lb. net wt. lard substitute_$3.13
No. 10, pure lard, 1-lb_36c
No. 5-lb. pure lard, 1-lb_36c
Canned corn, per can -20c
No. 2 tomatoes -18c
No. 3 tomatoes _19c
Evaporated apples -21c
Evaporated peaches _22%c
Corn syrup, blue Karo _80c
v. uni syrup, j-iu. u.ue ivaiu
Potatoes, 3Vic per lb. over peck lots.
Less peck lots, per lb._4c
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 Jac.kson County.
PROTECT THE CHI LOREN.
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 j
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
'reath or other condition caused by
flowed up digestion, a Foley Cathar
tic Tablet will give VromPt relief. It
is a gentle, wholesome, thoroughly |
cleansing physic that leaves no bad
after-effects.—Walker’s Eifcarmacy.
CUT THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH
MONEY.
Don’t Miss This. Cut this slip,
enclose with' 5c to Foley & Co., 2835
Sheffield Ave., Chicago, 111., writing
your name and address clearly. You
will receive in return a trial pack
age containing Foley’s Honey and )
Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and
croup, Foley Kidney Pills and Foley
Cathartic Tablets.—Walker's Phar
macy (Adv.)
FULL OF COLD; HAD THE GRIP.
Many will be pleased to read how j
Lewis Newman, 506 Northrand St., ^1
Charleston, W. Va., was restored to
health. He writes: “I was down
sick and nothin^ would do me any
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 BACH ACHE.
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., writ .
“I suffered with a painful, weak
back. As a traveling salesman I had
to stoop frequently to pick up my
grips, and the pain when I straighten
ed up was awful. I was induced to
try Foley Kidney Pills. Relief was^
immediate. Say, they are great."
Prompt and tonic.— Walker’s Phar
macy. (Adv.)
CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the scat of the dis
ease. Catarrh is a local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional
conditions, and. in order to cure it you
must take an internal remedy. Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally"''* <•''
and acts through the blood on the mu
cous surfaces of the system. Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by
one of the best physicians in this
country for years. It is composed of
some of the best tonics known, com
bined with some of the best blood pu
ifiers. The perfect combination of
the ingredients in Hall’s Catarrh Med
icine is what produces such wonder
ful results in catarrhal conditions.
Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo,
Ohio.
All Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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