Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-15

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Now, here is The governors friend.
Hogins. The governor says that he
fell out with Hogins because he fur
nished the brick company with CON
viets But Higgins did not furnish the
company with convicts until the su.
preme court said he must, and that
was some time in June He could prove
by the governor himself that he fell
out with HOgns in March The fact
49, the governor told Hogins that his :
brotherin-aw had sold out at Dan.
Vile and was coming down here, and
| he wanted him appointed as peniten-
| tiary electrician. Hogins said he could
| not do that, but asked if the man knew
| anything about electricity. The gov
ernor said that he did; that he had
| taken course in electricity. Hogins
then came to him tMurphy) with a
| long face and told him what the gov
ernor had promulgated. He asked
| HoglnS If the man knew anything
about electricity. and Hogins said the
governor said he had taken a course
| in it, but he did not know whether
he had or not, and did not believe that
he knew anything about it if he had.
| The governor. Hogins and Judge
Wallace-all old friends-then got to-
gether, and the next thing sprung was
| that the governors relative was to
be the commissary sergeant of tho
penitentiary-a most responsible posi-
tion, by the way, and one requiring
an expert bookkeeper. Hogins told
the governor this, but it did not seem
to matter, and he came back this way:
"You appoint Sam to this place and T.
will create a place on the board for,
your SON." Higgins declined this with
thanks; he said his son should have no
such place; there was no excuse for
such thing, and be would not be
party to It.
Haven't you got a governor whose
moral ideas trickle from a high
place." asked the colonel.
He said that the governor had con-
demned himself by his own statements
when he attacked the brick contract.
for he had signed it. The fact was
that he wanted TO be a dictator that
l 10 in
thing from his imperious desire to
control everything.
Col Murphy then took up the in
terview with the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat, in which the governor said that
the convicts in Arkansas were being
maltreated, were being starved and
acterized the whole as untrue The
governor had tried to appear as q
good and just man and innocent Of
every wrong that he alleged was be-
ing committed against his opposition
by the other members OF the peniten-
tiary board. AS a matter OF fact, No
victs had ever originated with the gov
ernor, but several of the other meur
bers OF the board had proposed I'm
provements which had been carr4m
out, oftentimes with the governo0la
opposition.
He then took up the story Of a ~
ture Of an emaciated convict who had
been sent up from northern Arkansas.
The picture had been taken just be-
fore he died. The governor had II
some way gotten hold OF it and had It
published in Memphis and st. LOUA
papers with a statement that this mk1
had been found to have great scars -
| his body. Col. Murphy said that Dr.
Witt, the penitentiary physician, bad
learned that the governor had had
cut made OF the picture for publioa<
ton and came to him to ask his ad-
vice about it. He said that the man
had no scars on him whatever. as the
governor had stated, but that he had
! been afflicted with disease which pre-
vented him from assimilating his food
and that the sores which appeared On
his body were from lying month after
month in bed. He had told DR.. Witt
that he believed it would do no good
| to go to the governor and tell him the
truth because he wanted to make po-