The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-04-28

I NNNNN. lNN.NN NNN"NHNl ANIifI"N.NNr or NNNN
/ he Wds Do "a position WheW hc could du sn,
| turned tn the Legislature lt goes Wiih-
| nut saying that ihis man nu or anY cir-
|rum,ilucfs would lf buried sn drep with
I your votes ar tho hailu lnN ihlt hf could
[ never lrt nut Yet mY opponent boasts
| u'fIU Ifrf chat hN {, un Che Appropriation
I Committee. Who ever hfarI before nf
/ Chat committee being au Important Com
m.lter iu Congress- DO Fon rither eXufct
Tnlr member In lnngrrss t1 assist in maxi
I Iul such laws tlat fNo Government wiii
allow yuu tn keep what money sou have
anl uoi ip he ciernaily ppkns iis hands
Noumai SAY tlat wc do not pas these
| appropriations. lf you do uut Day
th6m vito d0cs2 Where doe, thc govern
ment geo This mOucy3 Your answer IS.
through ihe tariff duties but yot what
ono sou .u 'uYur ni. high flrIl ur o. low
TARIFF M yuu ar0 Democrat, yOu are in
favor oi low tariff, aud the cOusumcrOf
the article. upon which the tariff Is col-
| .ectcl. paws the appropriations. There
| lore. according in Che Democratic doc
ir.nc. you arc the men paying these ap
pr1priat.uus, Now, do you desire that
theF h' great Or ,mnII9
Again, nos opponent SAYS loo the lctter
| referred to. that 10 be ha, served yuucar
estly. faithfully aud well, that 10 is un-
I iair and unreasonable 10 turn him out
now ON account Of that service. His con-
c'u>iou does not follow the statement he
makes
have made no attackhls record. either
as au officer or as mau. have request
rd my friends not to no so. lhayc always
supported my opponent cheeriully; have
no regrets now on account of H. ! have
Q j. u f...
glad io say that, in my Judgment he has
rcDrcsent. Il us wei. i have no fault tO
/ lind with his public on private actions.
am making this race ON the proposition
that if "a man should De so unmindiul as
to- think the peO De should give him the
office for life. that he has no right 10 eX-
pcct 10, aud that rotation ion Office is right.
Yet. my opponent says III he has served
you earnestly faithfully aud well. that
10 Is unfair and unreasonable TO turn inn
out. What would You think Of man I'm
your county running for Office who would
stand mp before Won and te ] yOuaitcr You
had elected him term after term, thatNf
you would vote against him now You
were acting unfair and unreasonable?
This is the bOldeSt statement ! have ever
heard made in this connection. How can
my opponent say, after the Democracy OF
the Third District has done so much for
him. row il they see fit TO elect another
in his place they are treating him unfair
and unreasonable? This statement Ofmy
opponent is the legitimate outgroHth OF
long terms iu Office. They lead TO life
tenure i'm Office, and life tenure leads nj /
timately to the overthrow of our liberties
and the establishment OF mJnarchial
form of Government. This is the reason
that General JACKSON id that more is TO
nl /. hN Inc Ig.Hor nnnf iunune pf man in
Office than there is to be gained by their
e erience. Suppose the same rule that
my opponent is invoking against me that
the longer man tay> i'm Office the longer
yOu should keep him there had been used
against him when he first aspired to on
greSS. Yet me -epms o forget all these
things and now boldly asserts that the
men who made him are treating him un
fair and unrea able
! want your votes. my fellow citizens,
but do not want them if they cannot
come TO me hOn0rably and in clean hands,
have said, and now say, that if | can
not beelected without casting blot up
on the political or personal e,cutcheon Of
my opponent. ! would not have the office.
| have told my friends to make the can
YJsS for NE on the same grounds; yet /
am sorry to say that some gentlemen who
opposed my candidacy, are not treating
me with The same courtesy.
Before the canvas was over i'm Howard
County. which has just held its primary
certain designing men circulated the re-
port throughout that County just before
that election that ! owned four big
National Banks and the biggest Saw Mill
in the State; and that Mr.. McRea was
going to take the Charters away from the
banks if he was elected; and that / was
running for Congress in order that the
! Banks c0uld'hOld their Charters; and in
I Obder to put a high tariff on lumber; and
all other such kindred inSinuatiOnS as
these, These designing men knew that
the people were prejudiced against Banks
and If these reports could be circulated
and have no opportunity to contradict
them, it would be "alld day" with me at
the election.
Think ofIt A boy raised up here in
the mountains OF Pike County, barefoot
ed and on a farm. now, at an early age in
in life, owning four Bands and the biggest
Saw Mill IN the State. of course these
parties knew these things were all false
when they circulated them. Further,
they said that all the Gold Bugs were sup
ofting me, and thereby insinuating that
was not right on the silver Questson.
One W. y. Foster, of Hope Ark, writing
to gentleman i'm Howard County in be-
half of my opponent, said my wife's
father was president of a National Bank
i'm TeXarkana; and said he thought it time
the Government was giving the National
Banks the shake. This is the language.
/ have the letter in nay possession. Now
who doyou think w. Y.F0ster is? lie is
the President of one Bank at Hope and
Vice Presidnt Of another, and cousin Of
my opponent.
Not only do | think as my opponent
does in his letter, that some of the I'm
menSe powers of these banks should be
taken away from them, but | believe
that their Char ters should be
taken from them As to the Gold
/ Bugs surportaing me, if there is one at it
he has never told me so: but | can say
now ana here that ] want every man who
votes in this Primary election to vote for
me
| advocate the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, at the ratio of l6 to /, long
before certain public men dared to come
out and place themselves on record on the
question did it at a time when our
party had not spoken on the question.
have stood up among the people with
whom associate and who know me best,
and advocated this theory from the be-
ginning until now. | did not wait to see
WIN otep OuI Ddl " was BolHS W udhe,
but 1 used every effort in my power to
make our party take the step it has TAX
en-.
was in our State Convention two years
ago, and worked as hard as any man in it
to have the Arkansas Delegation to the
! National Convention instructed for Mr.
Bland for President. We succeeded in
! doing this, and that too oyer the opposi-
| tiOn OF the wOuld-b be leaders of the Demo-
cratic party in this State. | attended
our National Convention at Chicago two
years ago, and without the honor of being
/ a Delegate did it because OF the in
| terest felt in seeing our party take the
step it did take on the silver question.
attended the Democratic Silver Clubs
| Convention at Little Rock two wears ago.