The Conway log cabin., 1900-07-31
CAMPAIGN OPENING.
The Candidates for Governor Lock Horns at Conway. Hundreds of Peo-
 pie Present.

county and many political friends of the candidates came from Little Rock, Russellvil1e and Morrilton.
 The speaking began at II a. Ill. at Rev. Mir Pickett's gospel tent i'll the Court House yard. Hon. E. A. Bolton was Chairman and introduced the speakers.
 MT. H. l.. Remmel was the first speaker. He makes a good im- pression. He is regarded as an excellent business man and gen- tleman of integrity. His speech was intended to prove to the people that under the administration of Mark and Mack the country was unusually prosperous. After he had said a great deal about pros perity and after many pyrotechnic eulogies of our army and how our brave soldiers ascended the hill of San Juan, he came down to his claims upon the people for the of flee of governor. He stated that he had received letters from prom inent Democrats all over the state urging him to make the race for this office and pledging him sup port. He said it would be a great advertisment for Arkansas if Re publican could be elected gover nor. Capital would flow in here from the East and from Europe. Mills and factories would be es tablished and prosperity would stalk abroad at monday. He be- lieved that many of those men who were wearing Jeff Davis badges would vote for him at the election. If elected and vacancy occurred ill the office of sheriff or county judge i'll any county, he would ap- point a Democrat if it was Demo cratic county or a Republican if it was Republican county.
 MT. Renmel got somewhat tangled up and confused when he was about two-thirds through his speech. He seemed to have for gotten it. He then said that he had speech, but that it was in his grip. He had evidently lost his grip on it.
 There was not much enthusiasm over MT. Reminel's address. It did not seem to catch on. The Republicans seemed to be disap- pointed with the outcome. There was kind of flatness that must have been painful to the coterie of friends who came with him from Little Rock.
 Hon. Jeff Davis was introduced by MT. Bolton with few eulogis tic remarks, which were heartily applauded. The speaker began by recounting that about twelve months ago he began his canvass for the democratic nomination for governor in this city.
 He defined the position of the democratic party on imperialism, expansion and finance and con trasted it with the policy and plat form of the republican party. He showed i'll a lucid manner the meaning of the policy of the re- publicans, depicting it i'll all its hideousness and said that MT. Remmel stood for all of these things Remmel stood for the trusts, be- cause his party had fostered them and had never done anything to suppress them, although they had been in possession of all branches of the government. He charged MT. Remmel with being the repre- sentative i'll Arkansas of one of the largest trusts in the United States, the Mutual Life Insurance Go. He exhibited a telegram from Richard McCurdy, of New York, president of that company granting his consent and urging MT. Rem mel to accept the Republican nom ination for governor. Mir. Davis denied that Mir. Remmel had re- ceived any letters from prominent democrats urging him to run for governor and challenged him to show even one letter. As MT. Remmel did not exhibit any of these letters, Mir. Davis asked if any democrat in the audience had