The Nevada County picayune., 1908-02-27
se.stor Davis Speech.

blon ana counsel With them as 10 the funuamGn- tai principles of state government for which we have fought hard and earnestly for the past six years in Arkansas.
 The gallant democracy of this country has always been most kind and generous to me. and this magnificent audience of the old guard who have always helped me in every time of need, Is compliment of which any man might we'll be proud. and bears assurance to the fact that the people of this great state are deeply interested in the proper administration of her public affairs.
 I don't come you. my friends in the spirit of dctation-I don't come to you as the metropolitan press of this state would have you believe. ill an effort to control or influence your better judgment, but I feel that it Is always the duty of every public servant 10 counsel and adviss with his friends on all public questions, and for that purpose, and that alone. come to you today.
 great complaint is going up, fellow eit- sens from certain quarters against my having come back home and meeting and speaking to you In this campaign This complaint, how ever is made by the men who said that if Jer Davis were sent to the United States senate. he would disgrace the state. They now insist that l should retain my seat in the senate while they undermine the prinei- ples of government for which we have all contended.
 On the other hand. the who gave me their suffrage and support in my race for the senate, are anxious that should come back and to it that the agents of corporate wealth and syndicate interests should not con trol and dominate politics in Arkansas.
 
 that should not raise my voice in the inter est of Mir. Kirby for governor; they say that this Is intermedding- this is interloping- that the result of his election does not con- cern me. On one hand, gentlemen and fellow citizens they charge MT. Kirby with being the Jef Davis condidate; they brand him with what they consider to be stigma, and oy this they hope to array every antt.Jeh DaVls man in Arkansas against him; then, when raise my voice and ask my friends to rally to his assistance, to his support the subsidized ,;s totn tpplL holy horror and say, You are meddling In state politcs--it is none of your fight
 An, my friends, I hope the day vii never come in Arkansas when the welfare of the people of my native state shall cease to con cern me. when the cause of the people ana good govrnment will not elicit my most earn est endeavor-my very best efforts.
 want to say 10 my friends throughout the state of Arkansas that " F. Kirby Is the only candidate in this race for governor "h" has ever been my personal or pohtieal irienu, % I want to say to my friends. that he Is the only candidate in the who would carry out the policies and principles of government which l have inaugurated, and which yet hope to see succeed, despite the efforts or the despoilers. .,, state that be Is the only candidate Tn the race for governor who is really and truly the friend of the common people of the state.
 want to say to the people of the state that William r. Kirby is an honest, eleah pure courageous man that will make Arkansas one 
 executive chair.
 You say. What has he done since he has been Attorney General?' An! my friehds' ttme will not permit that should give to you each and every important official act or his life but suffice 1t to say that when the state house vampires tried to get thelr lohs' hony fingers into the state treasury and take therefrom the money of the taxpayers or ihis state Kirby said No" and the doors or Ihe vaults were closed, and the money is safe me Supreme Court sustained him.
 ln passed shop law which l had the honor to write, IL was ridieuled and deridcd by the lawyers or Little Rock, and by the opposition m the house nous, and in the senate; the wiseacres Of our capi- tai city said that that law was so deteetNe that they could drive wagon and ueah through it. The great Western uhlon teIe rranh Company attacked this law in the Federal Court of our state, and w. F. hiroy, slngie handed and alone, stood ns our mouthpiece ahu as our advocate, and the hrst decision tne' was ever rendered by the Federal Court III favor of the people of Arkansas on the statutes of our own state rendered in this suit ana w. F Kirby was the only lawyer represent, ing our interests An! my friends. ts mat worth nothing! Does thls not appeAi 'o 'N toiling masses of the people! |.
 He has been faithful to every trust, and II elected to this high office. he Will see 10 It .na. the stock gamblers are kept out of Arkansas' that the antitrust law of our state IS rehap' uitated and properly enforced; he VIII see .o 1t that tho poor convicts on our convict iaiiii, who are now being whipped ana drNeh pu death are kindly and humanely treated, anu last. but not least my fellow citizens, ne will stand as the watch dog at the door ol the treasury and see that the people s iuiuS are not footed and disslpateu
 Let every sober minded, thoughtful man stop and think, and ask himself the question is not the state of public anairs Tn Arkhasas today in a deplorable condition! DO we not need A strong arm, a brave heart and eoo head in charge of the old Ship of statef sueh an official is w. F, Kirby.
 am told that the Farmers Union O,
 Afr Ia the tillers of the soil are against him. oi sll the men on earth that ought to support him. these are the men; they should give hlnn their hearty support, their hearty endorse ment He has done more In one suit for this good order the Farmers Union. more thah any other candidate in this race could do ih thousand years. ,,,
 beg you to preserve the Farmers on,on intact If you have to beat win Kirby, pre- serve the Farmers Union
 If has been said that your state secretary Mir Griffin, is attempting to control this spien did order to promote the candidacy or ueo's' w. Donaghey for governor.
 It is said that he has been hired to deliver the votes of the Farmers Union to this man for governor. Whether that De true or iaisc, I know not, but l do know, my iflenns' tn". Mir Griffin is in close touch with the men tnal compose this Union and l do know that ne publicly says that he, individually IS espous,ns the cause of George w. Donaghey, put tha. he is not doing il officially, as secretary oi the Union. Gentlemen. if you can sepafas' % MT Griffin individually from MT rriinn oin ctal personage then l would be glad 1T som gentleman would give me the distinction.
 If Ben Griffin is permitted to control ana 1ouinste your Union, and turn IL 10 ths po'i ttcal advantage of anyone, or any eanuiuate then l say, gentlemen, the sooner you ept rid of the Union. the better it will De TOT thc country, but l have encouraging news rom rom all parts of the staitc that the Farmers uhioh men are finding out Mir. Donaghey; they are finding out Mir. Grifin and they are hhd'ns ont that m attempt is being made to prost'- tute this great order for political purposes, and like rats descrtng sinking shlp th'. are leaving the camp of Donaghey
 Who is Mir ponaGhey that he should re ceiye the support of the Farmers enionf
 George W. Donaehey is d contractor by pro tession l charge, and it cannot be success fully denied, that he has never yet ih any contract he has ever had, employed union laonr as his workmen. He is not In sympathy Witn nnlop labor His every act has been against organized labor
 He Is trying to make the farmers or t@iis @ .tatc believe that he is the friend of the