Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-22

wet blanket and was driving men from the Democratic party. In con sequence of Clark's attacks, he said, he was comp' lied to devote much of his time to his record. Barker then explained his whipping-post bill. He said that at that time the peniten- tiary of the State was under the lease system, and men were being whipped to death and murdered behind the prison walls, and he thought it was much better to give them little whipping al home than to be mur- dercd in the penitentiary. He there fore claimed that he introduced the bill in the inter st of humanity, and recited the fact that there were W hip ping posts in Virginia and Dela ware. He then took up bis $4-poll-tax amendment. which he said he intro duced by request, but that he would not have voted for it. In referring to the charge that he has not paid his poll-tax. he said that he had paid every tax of all classes and descriP- tions that he had ever owed the State. He then referred to the pub lishcd accounts of the differences said to exist between Clark and lief ferson county, after which he devoted a short time to the Woodruff and other defalcations. Then he gave a I T a h itAIa c follows:
 He favored uniform system of text books; a reformarory institu- tion for boys; an amendment to the vagrant laws: favored theconsolida- tiOn of cleo 1ions; denounced the St. Francis levy law enacted at the last session of the Legislature, and de- clared that amendment No ? to the Constitution had never been legally adopted.
 HON. JERRY SOUTH.
 The Hon. Jerry South, the wild and woody mountain Democrat of Baxter county, who was in the city, was &alled upon by the Democrats to respond in Gen. Clark's absence. The young statesman from the mountains took the stand amid hearty round of applanse, and for an hour and a halt he refuted the argu- ments and pounded Remmel and Barker in turn unmercifully. Throughout the delivery ofhis speech he was cheered by the audience, the Republicans frequently joining in the appla, SC when a happy hit was made In reply to Remmel's claim that during reconstruction the Re publicans had built roc miles of rail- way in this State, he said that as a matter of fact only twelve miles were built. He said that bonds were issued for every five miles built, but that whenever five miles of track was laid they would collect the $60,000 worth of bonds. and then tear up the track build it oter again and collect another $60,000, and in this manner they had built the 70J miles of railway boasted of by Mir. Rem mel He then reviewed Barker s record and his denunciation of Bar ker's whipping-post bill was dra- matic, thrilling and severe. Mr. South then answered all the charges in connection with the Woodruff de- falcation, with all the details of which he is familiar because of the fact that he is the leading witness in the case, and said that if Mr. Wood ruff had not h n convicted the Demo- lcratic party was not alone respon- sible for it, because there were eight Populit. and four Republicans on the jury In reply to Mir. Remmell's question why Clayton had never been prosecuted, Mfr. South said that 1 it was because the last act Of the r. construction government was to pass general amnesty act to pre- vent their prosecution.
 Mir. South's effort was exceedingly