The Green Forest tribune., 1903-08-01
GOV. DAVIS NEW THUNDER.
Platform Upon Which He will
 Again be Elected Governor.

e WIllCC i1CcbG' NAON' D1N NIo Ae"o once more got his ire aroused .and the way he is splitting strong tobacco juice at his opposition is a plenty. His speech at Trask- wood on July 23 was a character istic "speel" and presumably out lines the platform upon which the governor will succeed himself as the chief executive of the great state of Arkansas.
 He said he was glad of the opportunity to speak to the good people of Saline county; that he was here to give an account of his stewardship and of his con- duct in office. That the last legislature had undertaken to impeach him; that they had had him charged with every known crime and that while they failed completely to prove any of the charges they did Dot have back bone to come out and acquit him, and just referred the matter back to the people, and that he is now or trial before the people. If the old guard of Saline would rally to him as they had in the past they would help him whip the biggest crowd of rascals in the world, He said that he had promised the people that they should have an antitrust law and that he intended that they should have 1t before he quit politics. He jumped on the supreme court and declared Judge Wood had construed the trust law out of ex- istence; that of course he could not hope to make a case against the trust stick when the members of the supreme court were mem- bers of a trust themselves. He said he instituted suit against the ice trust in Little Rock but later learned Judge Battle was president of it and then he dis missed it. He declared the last legislature was rotten and that they did not know what to do with the King bill until G. l.. Meyers and Adams & Boyle and the other big insurance represen- tatiyes went to New York and Chicago and came back. Then a great change came over them, that they said it would ruin the business of the state. He said that when the senate committee had the King bill under consider ation and was bringing witness before it, they did not call for any farmers or the horny handed sons of toll, but called for the light finger ed, high coIlared fel- low that can only see the sun at high noontide. He said, ''your man, Whitthorne, representative from Saline county, was as busy in the legislature as a cranberry merchant" /" He advised the people to not send any one to represent them that did not de- clare himself on these important questions. He declares the pur- chase of the Cummins place was one of the worst things that could have happened for the state. The onl y thing that can be raised on 1t is bullfrogs snd mosquitoes; that it's so sickly convicts can't live on 1t; that he is informed that they are falling between the blow handles, sick and unable to work, on account of this filthy, nasty place. Said that he was told that his life was in danger every night he attended the in vestigation; that if he had re- sented anything at one of those meetings he would nave been shot down like Goebel of Ken lucky. He said that the mana ger of the penitentiary had too much latitude; that there were not enough restrictions thrown around him; that Hogan just took the states money and spent 1t going and coming. He then told how he had tried to get the management in the hands of more than one man, so there would not be so much of d show to steal. Made his same charge against the press prosecuting him.
 Mysterious Circumstances.