The Forrest City times., 1902-06-13

| l always right to me, and their gentle Kind solicitude has plucked out all the l thorns and healed up all my wounds | and today I am the happiest. most grateful man in all the confines of this state.
 l have but one aspiration. gentlemen, | in accepting this nomination, and that | is that I may serve my people well and l faithfully Whether or not I shall do | this depends not only upon my official conduct. but of another coordinate de- partment of the government. viz the leg | Is lative department When I shall have | passed away from this earth I want no man to write my epitaph upon tab lets of stone. but rather would I leave | Ii in a more enduring form, upon the | tablets Of the hearts of my countrymen, and upon the statute books of my state | for having done something beneficial to my people. The chief ambition of my | life and future administration shall be this: First to more perfectly place upon | a basis of humanity and kindness the | charitable institutions of our state. Sec l ond to put our penitentiary upon that basis which shall reflect credit not only l upon my administration. but upon the | state at large.
 My countrymen. come of stock
 that never left the field under fire; that | never left while shot and shell were | whistling, and while the battle ragged, and fearing lest some of my people may l have voted for me in the last political | contest under a false impression, and without knowing fully the charges that | have recently been preferred against me by the Second Baptist church of this 1 eity-ah gentlemen, when 1 come to 1 this 1t almost moves me to tears, but
 l thank God that my home church has 1 remedied this wrong as far as it lies within their power. I love the Baptist church of Arkansas, and few canting | hypocrites of this church cannot drive
 me from its blessed folds This last | thrust of the dying men of the late senatorial campaign is indeed the "most
 unklndest cut of al1.'' and I say, fear 1 ing lest some of my people may not have correctly judged me, and that pos l sibly some may think that this church
 charge has something of a foundation
 and being ready and willing at all times | for free, fair and full discussion before
 a jury not packed, not prejudiced. I here and now declare myself a candidate for 1 the United States senate to succeed Hon
 James H. Berry. I prefer to have my l trial before the people of my native state, rather than before these canting i hypoerftes, and l warn them now to do 1 their worst, select their best man. put upon him full armor. breast plate and helmet, and let him meet me upon the public hustings before the people of this
 Sldlt, upon lHelT ndtlVe nedth, and there We will settle fully, finally and forever
 the dirty, vile calumny that has been
 hurled against me.
 Judge Battle was nominated on the
 first ballot for associate justice of the
 supreme court, the vote standing:
 Battle PTS, Martin 125, Wallace 91.
 Hon. T. B. Parks of Lafayette nom
 mated Hon. T. E. Conway of Pulaski
 for land commissioner.
 Hon. T. B. Padgett was placed in
 nomination by Hon. C. H. Hogins.
 The vote stood: Conway 32O, Pad
 gett 90.
 J. w. Phillips of Jackson, B. B. i Hudgins of Boone and J. F. Hampton
 of Dallas were declared the nominees
 for railroad commissioners.
 Nominations for commissioner of
 mines, manufacture and agriculture
 being the next order Hon. T. c. Trim i ble, Jr., presented the name of Hon.
 H. T. Bradford, of Lonoke. Hon. c. l T. Coffman withdrew the name of 1 Hon. P. H. McHenry, and Judge Brad
 ford was nominated by exclamation.
 The following nominations were de-
 clared on uncontested state offices:
 J. w. Crockett, secretary of state: H.
 c. Tipton, state treasurer: T. c. Mon
 roe, state auditor; J. H. Hinemon,
 superintendent of education; G. w.
 Murphy, attorney general
 Chairman M. J. Manning of the com
 mittee appointed to recommend chair
 man and secretary of the state cen
 tral committee, reported as folows
 Chairman. Hon. Carroll Armstrong
 of Morrilton.
 Secretary, Hon. Gray Carroll of Lit tie Rock.
 Members state central committee by congressional districts First, w. w.
 Cate; second, Horace E. Ruff of Poca-
 hontas; third, W. D. Mauch of Ben tonville; fourth. E. L. McCracken of
 Russellville; fifth, Sam Frauenthal of | Conway; sixth, John M. Elliott of
 Pine Bluff; seventh, o. B Gordon of
 Prescott.
 Members by judicial circuts-J. c.
 Rembert of Helena, O. N. Killough of Vanndale, H. l.. Ponder of Walnut iSiu5C, W. VT. NlACtuHtlltI Dl FdyeLte-
 vile, G. s. Falls of Pottsville, H. NJ. 1 Armistead, Little Rock, N. P. Rich | mond of Malvern, C. c. Hamby of
 Prescott, H. l.. Norwood of Mena, F..
 A. Bolton of Lake Village, Frank Pace ! of Harrison, J. V. Bourland of Ozark.
 J. l.. Short of Salem, John F. Park of Dewitt
 The report was adopted. Hon. J. N. Tillman. chairman of the
 committee on platform, submitted the following platform, which was unani-
 mously adopted;
 The Platform.
 The Democratic party of Arkansas, in convention assembled. renews its allegi- ance to the time-honored principles of the party and declares as follows: We recognize the Kansas City plat | form as the declaration of the national democracy upon national questions un- til supplanted by action of succeeding | f.@x.. t.1..