The Green Forest tribune., 1906-08-04

l JN'NS SNo Do SaNh POiililS pldNC oIu one of the clerks, but as the party casting the next highest vote in the state and really the only other party in the state, we think we ought to have the other com missioner in each county and one of the election judges and one clerk at each polling place, and that they ought to be men of our own selection, and not such Re- publicans as the party ir power might see fit to give us: but hon. est, capable and active Repubi- cans. We certainly could do no wrong with only one- third of the election machinery in OUT hands"
 Judge Warrington also dis cussed alleged corruption in matters of state legislation.
 "It has been charged and abundantly proven, he said, "that boodling, bribery and per- ; jury ran rampant during the last few legislatures, more especially the last, where every interest in the stkass. tks.Eb has 2! been !s blaekmaileas and robbed by these boodlers, who in turn have boodled and corrupted the politics of our state until it is almost disgrace to be a me mber of the Arkansas legis- lature. Even the peoples own money which they had apportion- ed to pay for building the new state capitol, has been used to bribe and corrupt the members of the legislature to loot the state of more money. It has even been said that the last legislature was so corrupt that there was such sickening stench arising from it that the man in the moon was forced to hold his nose as he sailed over the city of Little Rock.
 'sIt has been repeatedly charged by George w. Donaghey of Conway, and the proof fur nised and not denied, that the material that is being used in the construction of the new state house is not of the character that the specifications call for, but a much cheaper grade; that the workmanship is not what the pecifications call for, and that steals amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars in connec- tion with that structure have been perpetrated, and no one has been called to account for it. Ii these facts exist, and I believe they do, why doesn't this Demo- cratic administration do some thing to remedy it? Perhaps you expect greater things of the next Democratic administration than you have received from the pres- | '. "A
 ent one. If so, on what do you base your hopes? Is not the same machine in more absolute control today than it ever was before? If it has done nothing to remedy these great evils in the past when it had full control of every branch of the state govern ment, why do you, or how can you, expect it to do any better in the future?'
 The speaker denounced what he termed "the miserable con- tract system, whereby convicts are hired out to contrac tors for small sum-" He said that if he were governor and could not find a way to put stop to them he would resign. He asserted that "outrages'' were still being perpetrated in the treatment of convicts.
 Judge Worthington's speech consisted of 7,500 words. In concluding he said:
 "It is to you, fellow citizens, who, love liberty, honesty and fair play that we appeal. You who believe that these great wrongs have gone on long enough and ought to be stopped; you who believe that every man whom the constitution and law