The Forrest City times., 1903-10-16

ble intelligence, fair Character and ap- proved integrity will come to Franklin and investigate this matter properly and do not substantially approve the state ment we made of his declaration, we will withdraw 1t and apologize for making it. And they need not ask us word about it.
 At Bentonville on the day before he spoke at Ozark, he made, in effect, the same declaration. Here's what the Ben tonviile Democrat says:
 "'Gov. Davis in his public speeches at Bentonrille and Ozark in commenting on being turned out Oi the church. used practically the same language. At Ben ton file he said, I acknowledge thEt 1 am not good enough to belong 10 the church and none of you men are. nobody but the good women are good enough to belong to the church. The best man in your town, the one who goes to church the most and prays the longest, If his wife knew where he was and what he was doing last night she would bring suit for divorce this morn
 ng.' Such a statement is a foul islander, not only upon the churches, but upon the citizenship of our state. It is absolutely false to say that no man is true to his wife. How lost to all sense of shame must man be who will be guilty of such immortality and acknowledge it in a pub lie speech and accuse all other men Of being guilty of the same. What can his own wife and childred think of such statements? What kind of all influence will such utteraDces coming from the gov. ernOr of a great state have upon the boys and young men? How can any moral man, either in or2out of the church, vote for man who not only acknowledges himself to be such man but charges them with being the same?'
 ''The above shows conclusively that Gov. Davis had the unblushing impu- hence to make that infamous charge against male church members at Benton vile. Even If we misqu0ted him, he stands convicted of his base islander there. Why doesn't he answer thatf
 Gov. Davis flatters himself that his vile abuse of us al Ozark made US mad No. no-a man of his reputation for un- truthfulness can hardly make Us mad. His base nsinuations against us were re- ceived as praise of us.
 ''When he stated that we had criticised him severely for paGdoning liquor men, he staggered upon the truth. Also he staggered upon the truth when he stated that the editor of this paper signed pc titon asking that Ed Kendrick be par doned for selling liquor in Ozark We never deny anything we do and do not follow his unworthy example of frequent ly denying what he says and does. The editor signed that petition for the sake of the father of Ed Kendrlck, who had re- gently paid out much money for his way ward son, and we believed the old man had suffered enough and there was no prosp pect of punishing the boy. This is the only case of tire kind this editor has ever asked a pardon for. And Gov. Davis knows that the fact that this edi. tor asked for Hendricks pardon had no influence with him. The influence that outweighed all the signers of that peti- tion was the fact that his pardonng attor- ney presented it. We are not opposed to all pardons, but we are opposed to remit ting the fines of liquor men who deliber- ately and habitualIy violate the liquor laws and who are able to pay their fines. We are strongly opposed to Gov. Davis unjust and wrong exercise of the pardon ing power. as demonstrated in hundreds of cases. No, we have never endeavored