Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-25
|.IEFF DAVIS SPEAKS
Usual. Roasts Bob Rogers, the News. ,auers and Everybody Else Not For
 navis. and ExtoIs His Own Merits. Kirby and PindaII Speak.

pays taxes on their full valuation. Everybody knows he has them and he can not hide them The rich man has his stocks, his bonds, all his other valuable holdings, and when the as sessor comes around he has his stocks Watered, his bonds hidden, and his property can not be found and he pays no taxes on it. The cor porat ons escape with payment on but small proportion of their property, the banks, the street railway com- Fanies, and the railroads have but little property when the assessor comes around. He comes to the poor mans door, he sees the same old. mule, the same old COW, the same old clock, the same old bedstead, the same old table, and the same old baby-cradle and the same old assess ment is made. Some of the assessors
 
 often that they are ashamed to look those old mules in the face any more.
 went after the. railroads, the cor poratlons, and all other tax-dodgers and have increased the tax valuation or thelr property over s1O0 OOO 900 nave raised the "a .lrcads alone s55=. ooo,ooo, and have collected s1.OOO GOO more than any other governor. This gees to the school districts and other heeav causes. And yet they say that Jen Davis is ruining Arkansas. lief. lefson county alone received moro than s56'ooo in the last five years more than any other governor ever save them. Oh, yes, the railroads want 4ne elected. They are losino sleep for fear I won't be elected nave been slandered more than any other man who ever ran for office in ms state. Anybody can slander JefY Davis.
 hefore l got into. office. when vou went to Little Rock to seq fbe oo,,- elNof' you Were met at the deor by hlSser, He took your card. if vou had one, and if you didn't you couldn.t see the governor He laid the card OH silver tray, and came back in a ie" hlnutes and said that the eoyer. hor was busy. and you miebt see him II you called the next day. Now any. eooy can see the governor can come 2ht into his office and sit down and .i'ik to him and tell him their troubles he crowd that are out of power now are trying to pull me down. The onv- ernor in this connection paid his ro. spects to Arthur Murray. editor of ina Press Eagle. of Pine Bluff. in bitter terms
 love the poor people. Thare has alWays been a rich man and a poor man, D yes and a Lazarus am SC constructed that have always 9sen on the side of Lazarus I had to borfoW S2.5O to get my marriage li- cense; l didn't have the money. and neither did my wife. She brought ma no fortune, but she brought me soma- thing better. My daughter works io my office at Little Rock. Do,1ndino the Keys of a type writer and vet peo Ele say that there is an instance of graft.
 l have got down to the people and discarded the go-between politicians and the latter are mad, mad as wet hens. The papers wouldn't publish my true record for fifteen cents line. They will publish lies for noth- ing, but they wouldn't publish tho truth for pay
 want to read to you some of Sen ator Berry's record I won't say any thing here now that I wouldn't S. If Senator Berry were present. want to read some of his record whila he was governor The governor hero presented statistics showing how Der ry had reduced the tax assessment os the Iron Mountain railroad wh le ho was in office and showing how h ! had increased it while in of- flee
 He then went on with an address 10 the farmers. exhorted them to or 1 ganize for their own protection. and control the price of their products. He said: We can not get along with put the farmer. We can do without awyers. bankers. doctors and minis l ore hui r,n ,,,,c4a l,o..o 4l,a.. eo nm, e,,