The Green Forest tribune., 1904-07-30

v, ioio' oi our courts lie thinks the suspicion of boodling too fre- quently rests against men in public positions and that it is tune for the voter, when he ,goes to the ballot box, to consider the men from a standpoint of honor.
 MT. Fuller was then introduced. lie took occasion to return his thanks to the good people of Liberty for the support they had given him in the past, and in- dulged in a sublime peroation describing the beautiful Osage valley and her rock ribbed de- mocracy.
 lie said he came not as an in dividual but as the chosen stand- ard bearer of the democratic par- ty of Carroll county, that he came not in his own interest but in the interest of the entire demo- cratic ticket. He said the eyes of the whole world are on Arkansas watching the result of the Sep- tember electi on which occurs just before the presidential election. When it goes abroad that Arkan- sas has elected the democratic ticket with majorities ranging from 50,000 to 10000 it would en- courage the national democracy to exert every power possible to land a great victory for that matchless statesman, Alton B. Parker.
 He reviewed the history of the republican party under Powell Clayton during the days of recon- struction and declared that it had footed and plundered the state treasury, and then told the voters if they supported Russell it would indicate that they were inviting this same party back into power. He declared, however, that if elected Russell could do nothing but draw his pay, that being a republican he would have no recognition whatever in the Ark ansas legislature, which would be overwhelmingly democratic.
 He then discussed national isues saying that the repuh- lican party had always been party in favor of a high pro- tective tariff, that under such a policy one percent of the people had been enabled to gain more of the wealth of the United States than the other 99 per cent alto gether. He denied that times were really better. He said that while prices were a little better, yet everything we have to buy costs much more than in the past. Good crops at home aud famine abroad had caused all the pros perity that did exist and none Of it was due from an administration standpoint.
 He declared the paramount issue of the present national cam paign to be imperialism, whether or not we will give the Filipino his independence or govern nj m against his will. He demanded that Russell take the stump and declare to the people how he stood on these questions. MT. Fuller was literally applauded at the close'of his address. .,
 In a short rejoinder Russell stated that he had not regarded this occasion as the formal open inc of the campaign. as might be understood from tho speech ot MT. Fuller. In fact, he dld not know that he would engage at all in a joint canvass, none had been arranged; in any event he pro- poses to engage in discussion ot only such questions as relate to the duties of a representative ana tell the voters his views on ques- lions of legislative concern.
 He said there was nothing to be gained by rehashing the hls- tory of the dead past save to arouse the predjudices of the neople. He said he was not un, familiar with the contentious or the dark days of reconstruction n from a historical standpoint, ana that in the same way he had learned something of tho evils or the last legislature, but he did not propose to discuss either as thev had nothing to do with his eioJ ,.c. n corvant of