The Green Forest tribune., 1906-08-11

5 The following is, in part, the s address of Hon. John s. Little at
 Russellville last week:
 My fellow citizens, we are en .
 $ tering today upon campaign
 5 that,- in my opinion, means more s to our people than any campaign we have had for years, and upon it's results depend the continued
 peaceful development of the
 , state and the happiness and con-
 tentment of our people. And the
 question to be settled by you at the polls is whether we shall con- } tinue cur development and our , efforts for the people, and main- tain the purity of our elections, or whether we shall be untrue to our state and our homes and turn back to embrace the per- nicious doctrine and practices of , the Republican party in this state. The issue is, shall we open the ballot boxes in Arkansas to the go, ,OOO negroes of voting age, and through their numerical strength,
 guided and directed by lot of political freebooters, turn over
 our splendid state, our peaceful and prosperous government, to them. The Republican party, , in their platform, after denounc- ing most bitterly the just election laws of this state, let the cat out of the wallet in the following
 declaration: We favor the
 } policy of equal and exact justice
 } to all men, without regard to race
 } or color, insisting that all should ; enjoy equal rights, privileges and immunities, and that all men
 S should be allowed to run the race S of life without the handicap
 SI SIof distinction not founded in nature, reason and right. Sj What does this dclaration mean: !:
 { Who is it that does not believe in
 =1justice and right? It must mean
 } then, if it means anything, the turning down of the distinctions between the whites and the negroes, the plotting out of the color line, in industrial and
 political life, in office holding, in
 politics, in all industrial pursuits, in our mines: shops and factories, in all lines of employment-no distinction must be made, but the ) white man and the negro must } touch elbows, according to the ) Republican theories. This is , neither right nor just; it is not necessary. There is room } enough in Arkansas and in this 2 country for all to work, without
 2 forcing this character of personal
 , association upon our laboring people, and in their name pro
 test against it. What does all this mean? Two years ago this sanae. party declared in theil national and state platforms in favor of reducing the representa- : tion in Congress and the electoraI college of Arkansas and the other
 Southern states, because of the negro vote. .
 Powell Clayton in. making g \ speech seconding the nomination z of.Judge Warrington for gover. nor, declares that fair elections
 constitutes one issue in Arkan.
 { sas, and on the 17th of July, in z
 < personal interview, declared tha z he was out of politics, and or z July 19 at the Republican con. \ gressional convention at Eureks \ Springs, in d key note speech \ he advised his hearers to ''give the lj Democrats hell"-that s'the angels could do no more." Yes
 ! we know what it means. You ole
 s fathers and mothers know wha it means. Clayton gave you.hel
 once in Arkansas, and all tn, { angels and agen sies of the devi \ could do no more than lie did. H,
 A is today the life and spirit of tn,