The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-11-11
EDITOR KENDRICk
SAYS A few WORDS,
Replies to Shotgun Letter Sent by
Governor Davis to Prosecuting
Attorney at Fort Smith.

A. ]. Kendrick, editor Of the News-Re
ora. Fort Smith, Ark, is in st. Louis on
business After reading yesterday a Little
| Rock dispatch In The Republic, which gave
tne language used by Governor JEFF Davis
of Arkansas in a letter TO the Prosecuting
| Attorney at Fort Smith. suggesting the al
| ternatives OF an Indictment against the Fort
smith editor or a shotgun, Mr. Kendrick
| mace statement. which he also sent to
| ms paper last night, to appear as a signed
| editorial in the News-Record to-day. Mr.
| hehdrick returns TO Arkansas Tomorrow
| ihe statement, In effect, Is as follows:
ms mghiy remarkable statement coming from
- Ner MAGISTRATE OF one OF the great States
OF the new south. is such an outrage upon the
-, element of Arkansas-nay, Ct the
eh'ire south-that It deserves more than mass
ing concentration. His words ought to be kent
n+iore the people of Arkansas every moment of
the time that this man Is allowed to remain In
pubhc Life-which thank heaven will not he
Ions present appearances are not deceptive
10 take up Governor Davis's statement in
Saxon: 'u <"e'o-
The executive says he will accept no apology
rom the editor who has hurt his feelings Most
eeruiihiy ne viii not, principally for the reason
that he Will never get such an apoloyv-if he
waits until the Rocky Mountains are broken
INTO molehlIls on the resurrection morn. The
Undersigned stands by everything he has ever
written about this man Davis and has moth
that -A A''
The worthy Governor before noted prac-
ucahy threatens TO use shotgun law on the
editor Of the News-Record unless he can bull ioze
an Indictment out of the Sebastian County
Courts-after the Prosecuting Attorney has said
mere was nothing in the charge OF criminal
libel.
IN, rms Is. OF certainty. a superb. a most awe
. soe ueoiaraton. coming from the chief execu-
tive OF a great State. and it shows the truth Of
the old saying: Give a man enough rome and
ne VIII hang himself Let IT be said right here
mat paviss sentiments do not reflect the senti-
Hents In regard to methods OF enforcing law
that prevail IN the South. and the south 10 no,
10 be blamed for producing such a being
Again II You VIII get the Indictment TO /
quote the language OF this DISTINGUISHED letter
writer. Il will do the rest" From which ora
might infer that Davis was the proprietor of a
patent. back-action, duplex, automatic Jury
ssanst s the butpn Of which he place his /
iorehnser and watch the machine roll out YER |
diets order "
a., II Davis viii keep on writing letters like his
last Two specimens until he more offers him
sen for popular suffrage-whether as Governor
Tor Tor second term or for United States Senator
ne ne VIII pring down upon himself such an Ossa
on feIion of votes that 1t Will take ten regiments
01 laDorers with erowbars. pickaxes and dyns-
pry him out of the wreck.
AZ me SAYING OF Lincoln Is as true to-day as 1t
people H ,s all 1.-The the time Davis. practically speak
his talking his writing and his ofrciai acts '
The News Record. here and now. predicts that
ma
per proposes TO reach every of them with |
the facts before primary day-will give an ever |
lasting coup de grace to this individual who. /
over his own signature the chief executive OF |
a great commonwealth. practically indorses and |
kansas; no room in the South: any |
kind. /
The United States Senate is this mans destina-
ton IL his awe-nsptring ambition is to be graft \
ned. shades of Webster, clay. Calhoun and |
fSentoni One can hear the bones of those old |
time statesmen rattng like castanets under the
grass and the dew kissed daisies this rumor J
S waited to them-assuming that bones hear. |
With her magnificent wealth of nature and her |
ooundiess resources to be exhibited at /
he Louisiana Purchase Centennial in St Louis |
here never time when the State of Arkan- |
ias had brighter prospects than she has to-daS |
-apital Is ready TO pour in upon her-this bright |
lister in the Southland cluster-the flowers and |
ruit Will pour in a deuge from her cornucopia |
" plenty
The eyes Of the country focused upon her l
With her boundless wealth of minerals coal, i
timber. cotton and fruit. But from the picture |
which those eyes must be obliterated as /
POLITICAL entities every vestige every shadow OF
his man Davis and the shotgun of which he l
alks This is the day Of the New South. No
'ody sees the handwriting the wall any plain
II than Governor Davis Of Little Rock. Ark.
Meme. meme. tekel upharsin'' is printed there l
n box-car letters.