Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1902-03-24
&c ETS THE CAT OUT OF
THE BAG.
.,et Powerful Speech Tells Of
,.,ncs Done Him by Grace
.h.ers Greets the Speaker.

elastic audience at the opera
saturday night. He said:
|nov citizens: 1t was my inten-
- meet Judge Grace here tonight
,i,t debate, having issued circu-
n that effect, inviting him to be
NJ here. | have sent repeatedly
rdge Grace, and while he is in
be is not to be found, and while
not want to be discourteous to
but in this county, where | have
accused of stultifying myself.
corrupt and accepting brides,
Esp and right demands that Judge
. come here and meet me. like
1 IN man, like the honorable and
Itoned gentleman that he pre-
to be, and not stay away, When
Knows as well as you or |, that
here to make this speech and
invited him to be present.
hen a man starts out in politics,
IN has always been so everywhere,
the dry bones Of his ancestors
brought up and ratified in his
have been indicted by the grand
in this county, and have u
to demand the presence OF
p Grace here tonight to explain
d that he. and he alone. can eX-
and that have not been eX-
hed, and he knows it.
. did not enter this campaign be.
i | had tried to get other lawyers
b it, and | even went to Desha
3ty and begged Judge Pindall. a
d man and lawyer, who has been
BIT Judge here before to run. and [
never offered for this Office if
i had been one single word OF
D in the charges made against
say this without disparage,
y to my predecessors, that | have
more men to the penitentiary
more to be hung than any of them
|hie | have made mistakes, this
1T true, and the records show it.
| say word tonight that is not
J do not vote for me. and | will
hex to my humble practice of law,
q can make more out Of it than
b Grace ever did. Gle here read
ftifed copy of statement from
! Robertson, showing that cases
|been dismissed in Lincoln county.
then continued Why is it that
secuting attorney can do such
pie thing with such a great and
Judge on the bench, can it be
WITHOUT HIS CONSENT. and
)ned that the cases which had
dismissed were against persons
we're dead Or had left the coun-
fnd that the clerk, Judge. sheriff
himself as prosecuting attorney
Rgreed to dispose of them to en-
the officers to get their fees, as it
known no convictions could be
II you doul> this ask those men
ncoln county and they will tell
\ Is the truth. Don't you think
wonderful thing that a circuit
lets a prosecuting attorney do
ng wrong right under his very
and never mentions it until he
for office against him?
grand jury got after ne.
The grand jury got after me,
pey didn't get after him. because
rs the appointment of it. and a
Who is up to snuff" can gel
one they want to. and my friend,
Grace is ''up to snuff" They
yea me for offering to ac-
bride, but don't it seem strange
they didn't indict the man who
me the bribe?
aen 1t came out that the grand
lad not voted for the bill of in
eat against me, | went to Judge
It's a wonder he wasn't at
Alens but he was at AltschuPs.
ola him to come, but he said if
pand jury wanted him they would
10 come to him. He said that
IN that cool, arrogant. egotis-
way OF his, when | was demand
Justice! If you had been an
man in that place, would you
rave said, has mistake been
Bring the jury into the court
sit them down, and let me
sDout this wrong. Judge Grace
Roosevelt. fellow citizens,
!. was four years of his life in
4srhal revenue service, and they
Y ne was good sampler of
am sure he did his duty in
aspect If not for me. All that
= MN in the motion | made be-
We court was to permit me to
u Mr.. Shelby, Mr.. w. O. Tag
captain Roberts and other good
- the grand jury, to come in
'ear they had voted against this
lent. Do you blame me for
uiat? But that motion has not
sVlGQ unOn from lock NIonol, IN.