Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-19
A THOUSAND PEOPLE
HEARD JUDGE WOODS SPEECH At
ELkS' THEATER REGARDLESS
OF BAD WEATHER.
Many Ladies Hearc Him and TheY
Were as Euthus astc in Their Aq
piause as Were the Men.
Many Ladies Heard Him and Trey
MADE VERY FoRcEFUL SPEECH

Notwithstanding the vory. disagree
able weather fully one asaad peo-=
pie greeted JHdga Carroll D-N9s3,
candidate for governor. a the Eiit7'
tBeatr1 TAI might and The reeep' Loa
accorded him va enthusiastic. Ja!7e
Wood ves listened 10 with close al
tat.en aud poke tvo Fours an f.
teen miaWesz
Ia=J before the speaker Ct the eFea-
ne was introduced President s NJ.
Taylar announced that the enrolment
in the Jefferson county Carroll D.
Wood club had now reached 1,iie.
Judge " T. Woodbridge introduced
Judge Wool in neat speech I;e
had known Judge Wo7fl since bGYAood
and had watched him rise from a poor
boy to one of the highest positions
within the gift Of the people.
AS Judge Wood stepped 10 In" front
he was greeted with loud and prc!@
ed applause He warmly greeted his
old friends in jefferson county and
said he felt at home in south Ark.
ansas.
eve ar ongaga in remarkable
campaign, continued Judge Wood.
"Ncvcr before has a campaign been
so entirely based upon personal issues.
Jeff Davis has no other platform than
that he has been faithful in the dis
other state officer is corrupt. He de-
clares all others unworthy save his
own immaculate self. II is unreason-
able to start with and not worthy OF
eonsideraten by the honest peop.e.
jeff DAVIS says he has net ha tine
enough 30 show that he was q states,
man and wants the office for a laird
torn. If he had thousand years he
could not prove that ne had one iota
Of statemanship in his makeup
He then took UP some Of Jef's plat.
form in which the governor had said
he had dcne much for the state. He
told Of the -four carloads Of coal which
Davis clainJad he had given to the
poor widows and orphans C. little
Rock and showed thai the coal had
been contributed by he cal mpanies
themselves and didn't cost Davis a
cent.
This was the same with the money
contfibuted by the merchants and
business men of Little Rock for which
Davis claimed the credit whom the
governor acknowledged he hadnt
given a cent. These are the two char
ties tnat Davis claims he has d re.
Governor Davis claimed he had rails
ed the taxes on the railroads to $4,000
per mile. The truth about it is Da.
Wis had nothing to do with the raise
Of the lex CT 81 000 per mile, but left
it all to Messrs Crockett Murphy and
Monroe
".Teff Davis has not only done little
for the state, but he has stood in the
way of several enterprises for the
good Of the state said the speaker
For several years the need cf
new state capitol, building that shall
be commensurate with the demands,
and in keeping with the dignity and
advancement of our state, has been
recognized by the people, and they
have in the most emphatic manner pos.
sible voiced their will in this particu.
lar by resolution in the Democratic
state convention and by acts of the
legislature declaring and providing for
the building of new statehcuse.
sThe work has been delayed On ac.
count Of obstacles thrown in the way
by the present chief executive Of the
state, while he was attorney general
and since he has been governor. While
attorney general he opposed the erec-
ton Of a new state capitol under the
act o. 1899, because he claimed that