The Mena weekly star., 1907-11-07
HAL |. NORWOOD
 AT FAYETTEVILLE
,,..,,. Candidate for Attorney General "'' Makes a Strong Speech Says Federal Power Should Be
 Restricted.

uou. Hal l.. Nol Woous VI oih anrtv. candidate for attorney .,sral of Arkansas, delivered an D sdress to a crowded court room Monday afternoon. Many ladies ladies graced the audience with their audience. Dr. Yates, cnair- n.r of the County Central Com. r;ttee. called the house to order and Former Senator Bob Wilson ;,,roduced Mir. Norwood in most complimentary mauner.
 Senator Wilson spoke of having ..,ved in the General Assent ply nth Mir. Norwood, and of Mir. Norwood's faithful service to his constituents and especially re- tered to the fact that his legis- ,.tive record showed that he had et all times been a good frieud to
 
 Northwest Arkansas.
 After his introduction Mir. Nor wood plunged rightinto an hours discussiou of the issues before the people. His speech was full of sound political doctrine, humor
 
 and pathos. He told the audience who his opponents were and spoke of them in the most pleas ant and gentlemanly manuer.
 MT. Norwood said that the tendency of the Federal courts to assume jurisdiction of every issue oresented was alarming, that the Federal courts were appealed to daily to construe and aunul various acts passed by the States for the regulation of corporate interests.
 He said that when the coustitu- tion was adopted, two theories of government were represented, that Hamilton believed iu a central ized national government absorb ing all power and granting 10 the people certain privileges; that Jefferson believed in the capacity of man for self government in his local affairs and that only those powers should be conferred on the Federal government .which were especially granted in written constitution; that upon these doctrines the political parties had divided and the speaker insisted that the issue was as vital aud important today as it was when fr,t advocated by the respective champions. After referring to many state laws that had been annulled by the uuwarrauted interference of Federal authority, Mr. Norwood sad:
 'I believe in the strict enforce meut of all laws, simply because they are laws, entities them obe respected and obeyed. Laws for the regulation of the collec- ton ot taxes, the regulation of Railroads and other corporate interests, should be as rigidly en- forced as any of the laws known as the criminal laws of the state and any effort to evade them should be looked upon by law. abiding people as being criminal. :"
 MT. Norwood paid a beautiful and eloquent tribute to Washing ton county and it's people. Among other things he said:
 "l congratulate you people of Washington county upon your prosperity and progress, evil deuces of which are seen every  where. In passing through your county l saw in every direction, orchards and meadows, the red rocts oi spacious barns and :he wnlle columns of magnifcient country homes, showing that in. uuslrlous mau has taken advan lage of natures gifts so bounti- 'ully bestowed. Your beautiful cnurches show that Gods people uSel here. The great Univers. ny toward which the county of washington and the city of Fay e1'eville donated $13D,000 away pack in 1871, when people were OuSy rehabilitating an impover- sned country, and the almost 0ue'halt million dollars paid by your people in interest since that une, show that your people