JEFF'S LAST APPEAL.
Canting Hypocrites and Puri
tans Who Would Uphold
Law Must be Downed.
RALLY, OLD GUARD !
Jeffie, Old Boy, Hard Pressed
and Up Against Defeat,
Issues Final Orders.
HOPE FOR CHEAP PARDONS.
For Love of Graft and Continuance in
Their Business His Henchmen Are
Bidden “Lie as They Have
Never Lied Before.”
This being the last week in
which we can work to retain the
power over the state government
and as future benefits can come
to us only through victory at the
primary next Saturday, the 26th
day of March, 1904, while it
should not be necessary for your
governor to recount the many
advantages that may accrue to
you, my good friends, if we suc
ceed and win an overwhelming
victory over the canting hypo
crites that are everlastingly prat
ing about the observance of the
law, yet my good friends your
governor wants to advise you
how we may possibly succeed
and wrest victory from apparent
defeat.
You know as well as I do that
the law-abiding element, the true
Christian element, the element
that desires future progress and
improvement are all against us.
You must at all times lay stress
upon the assured fact that your
governor is the greatest and best
governor the state of Arkansas
ever had; that he is the best
■frinn rl nf thp nnnrpssprl • that thp
criminals of the state, both in
and out of the penitentiary,
never before had such a kind,
large-hearted friend in the gov
ernor’s chair. Tell them your
governor has a warm heart and
he felt that he owed it to his
friends to provide a fare at the
penitentiary that would make
easier the lot of any of his friends
who might be so unfortunate as
to fall under the ban of the law
and be tried and convicted in a
court that is not dominated by
your governor and be sent to the
penitentiary during a time when
an election was pending, making
it impossible for your governor
to grant a pardon for love or
mnn pv.
During the past week your
governor himself has been virtu
ally in the enemy’s country. At
^ Searcy your governor, accompan
ied by his rubicund slave, Bour
land, made a grand stand play
and its telling will convince you,
my friends, that your adored
governor has not lost his cun
ning. The day before, my de
termined opponent was at Searcy
with that puritan, ex-Governor
Eagle. You will recall the fact
that his stubbornness in refus
ing to follow my dictation two
years ago, forced me to put roll
ers under him to remove him
from the capitol commission.
Some people are so inconsiderate
that they berate your governor
for this act, calling it petty and
spiteful. They forget that the
fiat went forth, “Put none but
Davis men on guard.” The cute
trick turned at Searcy must not
be overlooked, for its telling af
fords you a striking example of
deceit and substerfuge, which,
if you will imitate, may enable
you to fool some one. That med
dling cuss, Tompkins, was at
Searcy the same day that your
governor, with his slaves, was
there. A committee of the “bet
ter element” had the gall to ask
for a joint discussion and a divis
ion of time. (The speaking was
to be held in the court room.) I
was on the eve of cussin’ out the
ranting puritans, but a little
thought suggested a different
course, and I actually spoke po
litely to the committee, and told
them I did not want a debate;
that I had come with my servile
slave, Bourland, who desired,
arter I had spoken, to tell the
people publicly what a kind mas
ter he had, and what great re
wards awaited those who sacri
ficed their feelings of honesty
and truthfulness and enlisted in
his cause for better or worse—
mostly worse. Your governor
told the committee further that
while his hand-bills said that 1 is
hour was 1 o’clock he would, in
deference'to Mr. Tompkins, and
to oblige the Wood’s people, put
off his speaking until 2 o’clock,
and allow Mr. Tompkins to speak
first, who was to commence at
half past twelve o’clock, which
he did, and a lot of people went
to hear him. Your governor felt
proud when he scored this trick,
for no sooner had Tompkins be
gun than your own Jeff, attended
by his deputy-governor and
slave, with others (“of the same
stripe,” one impudent cuss said,
and he added, if we Jiad our dues,
we would all wear stripes), went
to the court house and demanded
the right to speak at 1 o’clock
as before advertised. The com
mittee before spoken of urged
that the previous arrangement
be adhered to, was shoved aside
by your governor and his retinue.
The assurance that Mr. Tompkins
should conclude his remarks be
fore the agreed time cut no ice.
Demand for the court room
was again made and when re
fused your governor spoke from
a platform previously arranged
for and told the people present,
of whom there were at least 400,
that their governor, the poor
man’s only friend, was refused
the right to speak in the court
room. My friends, your gov
ernor has told in other places
how some people at Searcy, im
bued with enmity, injured you
by injuring your friend and gov
ernor, and he has thereby misled,
he hopes, many men who do not
read nor hear the cry of warn
ing so loudly sounded by the
goody-good.
Your governor suggests that
you be wary and see that none
of the enemy who have the
temerity to question the truthful
ness of our assertions are present
when we make an assertion that
is untrue. We can only hope for
success if we succeed in telling
lies with little or no foundation
and perverting and distorting the
truth of past actions with no
one present to contradict and
; prove .(he falsity of the state
^ ments.
Your governor wants to sug
gest (a suggestion from him
should not be questioned by his
'real true-blue supporters,) you
must work more this the last
week among the ignorant. While
it is readily conceded by us, as
claimed by our enemies, our suc
cess depends upon the solidity of
■ the union of the ignorant and
the venal. But our organization
i really now has a larger elemei t
| of the venal in it than will be
profitable, I fear, and for that
j reason I urge that you work
among the ignorant and the
thoughtless. Show them that
their only hope for cheap pardons
is the re-election of the only gov
ernor who has shown by his ac
tions that those who violate the
laws are better citizens than
those who don’t. Prove to them
that felonies even may be con
doned if they will learn to play
“Home, Sweet Home.” If any
express disapproval of the Dr.
Lee Johnson pardon, the Pomp
Brown pardon or the Collins par
don, tell them that this is the
crucial test of loyalty, that we
must stand together or all is lost.
Who can contemplate the disas
ter to your governor and his loyal
henchmen if you allow the cavil
ous enemy to succeed ! it must
be known to you that many of
my henchmen depend upon the
success of your governor in this
election. If you allow me to be
defeated you virtually put them
out of business. My continua
tion as governor is their entire
; stock in trade.
My friends, I beseech you to be
! up and doing. You must lie this
; week as you never lied before.
I Do not, for the love of graft,
I allow it to be said that Jeff, your
! own friend and governor, never
| busted but one trust, and that
! was the trust the people had in
I him before they found him out.
Your Own Jeff.
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Note: The above article was
| contributed to the Independent
by a friend. It is an imaginary
address upon the part of the gov
ernar, and were he to give ex
pression to his views in this can
did manner it is safe to assert
there would be little difference
between his own product and that
of the author of the above.
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