Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-25
and the laboring man.

II you send me to the United States senate | promise you I will go after the notorious ring men and gangsters that are now operating there. I will go after the stock gamblers. and the men who gamble in the products of the soil. This gambling is the prime evil of the age, and should be stopped here is not law on the statute- books of the United States that bears Berry's name, and he has been there twenty years.
 The governor also spoke of the statehouse contracts, which he said are being manipulated so that they Will cost the state of Arkansas at least $3,000,000, while the contract price of the new bu lding is only one third of that amount. As soon as the first gang gets it's million they will drop the contract, and the contract VIII have to be taken by someone else, and half of the work done over probably. You have broken a prece- dent to put me into office three sue cessive times. and I have left the office as unsullied as when I took the chair
 The governor referred to the three candidates for hs office in part of his address. The first two he passed over lightly, recommending them both as good men, but he showered heaps of bitter invective and abuse upon the head of Bob" Rogers. He said: Bob Rogers never voted for me in his whole life, and hope to God he never will. Nobody knows where he comes from, nor where he goes. He is the willing tool of the dirt est gang of tb1eves that eyer footed a state treas nfv bought up a note for nearly sooo that was signed by him and en- Gofsed by some of his friends, and I have never been able to collect a i cent, although I have secured a iudg- ment upon it in the courts. The mon- eE has been brought into court and deposited with the clerk, and he re- fuses to give it to me. The gang pa d the expenses of Bob Rogers when he ran for attorney general. and fhey are paying them now in his cap- palgn for governor. The gang has seen all this money piled LID in the state treasury. and they want to cet thel arms into it. If you elect Bob Rogers governor you will have to have the state militia in front of the door of the treasury all the t'me to Keep Rogers and the gang out of it.
 have been charged with pardon 1rg too many prisoners. Who is in char@e of the state penitentiarv? Bob Rogers. Here the governor told soma horrible tales of how the prisoners were treated in the penitentiarv. of how white men were beaten by bur1v i re@roes. how they were starved and Whlpped to death. would rather par. den all the conv cts than have them remain in that hell-hole of filth and i corruption. I am proud to be called Inc pardon governor. as I know I am receiving the blessing of every child ana every woman in Arkansas to whom have sent home a father or a i husband.
 me governor concluded his address win remarks on various of the minor subjects of the campaign. He sa; hat if Senator Berry rece yed q ma. 1Nrity of the popular vote he would see that he was given a fair count by the legislature, and that if Berry was elected. he should have the Office Ar. '9i' the address the governor shook hands with a number of his admirers who crowded to the platform to speak with him, and large amount of cam. palgn literature was distributed
 w. F. Kirby, candidate for attor ney-general, and his opponent, X. o. Pindall. spoke before the governor took the floor. Kirby spoke first. gave a short account of his record, telling of the digest he had made of the Ar kansas state laws, which was declar- cd by lawyers to be the best ever written. He also told of how he had fo"eht the railroads. and how he was defeated for president of the senate through the influence of the railroads. He was answered by Mr. Pindall. who said that neither cand date should he here on the platform tonight talk ing LID the time which belonged to the governor. but he said he had tc he there because his onnonant would