The Forrest City times., 1905-09-15

they went to the polls; bitterly as- sailed Mir. Rogers, and asked him direct ;mpertinent questions, charg- ing him with having business re- laiions with certain noted boodlers and further stated that he would be fully prepared to substantiate Lis charges at the Ozark meeting on the 18th. inst how Mir. Rodgers threatened his life, and rehearsed the corn cob rnd lightning bug in- cident, the weapons by which Mir. Rodgers proposed to run him into the Arkansas river.
 He expressed himself as being gratified at the condition of the St. Francis Levee Board affairs and promised 10 do great things for the levee in the event he went to Con- gress, gave Russell and DeRositt a solar pIexus, claiming that these two gentlemen were groping about in sackcloth and ashes, because he did not choose to appoint them to succeed themselves on the Board, but failed to state why he vetoed & S5O0,000 Ievee bond act, by which the hands of the Board were tied till the next legislature came to it's relief, and the subsequent damage to the district by overflow during this period.
 At the conclusion of the Govern OTIS speech dinner was announced.
 After dinner Judge M. P. Remley in brief talk announced his can. didacy for Representative of St. Francis county.
 The next speaker was Attorney General Rogers, who devoted large portion of his allotted time in defense of the charges preferred against him by Gov. Davis, and along this line denied that he had threatened the life of the Governor, but emphasized in the most vehe- ment manner and by pointing his finger directly at the Governor, told him If he ever carried his threat into execution and made a certain statement concerning his private character, that he would kill him.
 This episode was contemplated by the management, and there were secret guardians of the peace to act in the emergency, but be it to the credit of the speakers there was no act of violence attempted.
 Mir. Rogers enumerated the cases he had won and compromised from various trusts, to the number of forty odd, and stated that there were others that we cringing un- der his lash, and in the course of time he would also bring them to justice. He spoke of reform and retrenchments which he would em. body in his message should he be chosen chief executive of the State; was opposed to the present peni- tentiary system of leasing convicts; paid high tribute to the farmers in their struggle to meet and down their enemies through the agency of their Unions and the s. C. A.
 At the conclusion of Mir. Rog. CTS address, Governor Davis. whom he had so bitterly assailed, arose and asked for a five min. utes' rejoinder, and probably for the first time in his political career was met by numerous voices cry ing, "sit down, down, down" 10 which the governor quietly sub. mltted.
 Senator Jno. s. Little was the next to speak; and unlike his pre-. decessors on the stage, had no per sonal grievance to exploit, and from his years of experience in political life, gracefully let fall, in a con. vincing tone of argument, his fit. ness to wear the Governors har- ness of the great State of Arkansas; paid hlgh tribute to the farmers in their successes, through their Unions, in battling for their rights, and to Forrest City as being emil nently the home of industrial de. yelOpment in the ways of wood