The Daily Texarkanian. [volume] (Texarkana, Ark.) 1894-1906, 1894-08-29
THE STANDARD BEARER OF AR
KANSAS DEMOCRACY PLANTS
ITS BANNERS ON THE
OUTER WALL.
The Gubernatorial Canvass Reaches
this City Today As Usual, Q
Both Opposition Candidates
Go Down Under the Sledge-
Hammer Blows Of the
Democratic Cham
MON.
pion

snow-capped with promise of over
whelming Democratic victory,
reached this city today. At an
early hour in the morning local
Democrats we're actively engaged
in preparation for a suitable den,-
onstration in honor of their distin-
guished leader, Gen. J. p. Clarke.
At $3.50 o'clock a. M, members of
the Cleveland & Thurman Demo
cratic club began to assemble at
the East side city hall, and one
hour later the members of that
body and visiting Democrats, to the
number of several hundred, formed
into columns by twos and took up
the line Of march, headed by
Texarkana Cornet Band, as an
escort of honor for Gen. Clarke, and
proceeded, in the order named, fol
lowed by Gen. Clarke, and. escort
of citizens in carriages, to the Mil
Ter county court house, under COM
mand of Grand Marshall c. e.
Dixon, and his aides,
On arrival at the court house
it was found that large audience,
containing many ladies, had already
assembled. Proceedings were open
ed by a brief Introductory an
nouncement from chairman W. H.
Arnold, of the county Democratic
Central Committee, who stated the
order of speaking, for the several
Gubernatorial candidates, time al
lowed etc. The time allotted for
speaking to begin having then ar
rived, the debate, proper, was OPP
ened by ex-senator D. e. Barker,
Populist candidate for Governor,
who was introduced by j. j. Vogle,
of county Populist Central com
mittee.
The address Of Mr.. Barker con-
sumed just one hour, and was a
typical effort, Of the would be Pop
ulist reformer That he handled a
very poor subject, with less dis
credit to himself than might have
been expected may be accorded him.
His attempted arraignment of both
Democracy and its standard bearer
in Arkansas, although introduced
with a great flourish of oratorical
trumpets, fell to earth, and lay at
the feet of the speaker, ere the SUI
perstructure was half complete, a
mass Of rhetorical ruins, without
foundation in either force, logic or
fact.
In his attempted arraignment of
Democracy Mr., Barker harps upon
the silver question and what he
chooses to terms its recreancy to
party pledges, in this regard He
refuses to refute Republican SLAM
ders because he does not, he claims,
believe them to be SANDERS. He
rakes up dead and buried Republican
campaign devices, as to defalcations
under Democratic administrations,
and, altogether, makes a charac-
teristic 'Populistic-Republican" eff
fort to foster prejudice, awaken
sympathy and bury facts. He is at
this hour hearing his attempted ar
gument, for Populism and against
Democracy torn into shreds by the
trenchant wit, irresistible force, and
irrefutable logic of his Democratic
adversary, Hon. Jas. p. Clarke, who
opened his address shortly after the
time appointed, 1880, and who is at
this hour, 200 p. M, as we go to
press, delivering one of the
ablest and most eloquent speech
es of the campaign.
We regret sincerely that hours
allotted different speakers does not
permit us to give resume OF Gen,
Clarke's address, in todays issue
as the native fire and eloquence
therein contained could not fail to
arouse universal interest and en-
thusiasm in the breasts OF Miller
county Democracy, We shall, how
ever, conclude today's report in to-
morrow's paper Following Gen.
Clarke will come Messrs. II. i. Rem
mel and M. L. Curl, Repub-
licap and Prohibition candidates
for Governor, Of Ark's, respectively.
The event, as whole, promises to
be long remembered as the crown
ing triumph of a victorious State
Democratic campaign, as well as a
cred letter day for our city and
county Democracy.