Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-09

i contractors. He also paid his re-
spects to railroad legislation and when
the chairman told him his time had
,eXpired, he declared that he was sorry
that he did not have the chance to dis
cuss wealth and its productions, pools,
trusts and combinations and inciden-
tally remarked that he Was an ardent
supporter Of the State University and
good schools.
In his rejoinder Mr.. Kirby toasted"
Prosecuting Attorney Rhoton, Of Lit
tie Rock, declaring that he did offer
assistance to him during the Doodle
trials there, but admitted that he told
the prosecutor that he could not give
his time to the trials then and there
The assistance, he said was declined
when proffered He said Donaghey
was i'll the city today, but that he
didn't stay here to meet the other
tire candidates in joint debate because
he didn't have sense enough to mem
orize a speech. Donaghey is a rich
man. he said. He charged the Con-
way man with trying to buy the Farm
ers' Union vote. Money howls,' ex~
claimed Mr. Kirby. and Donaghey
is making it howl with some of the
newspapers over the State. Why he
has even bought the paper in my own
town and a dirty little scoundrel he
had purchased at that" Mr.. Kirby
said some people We're opposed to hin,
because certain men whom they did
not like were supporting him. "Ill
be the governor if I'm elected want
to tell you that right now" He was
given rounds of applause.
Mr.. Hinemon's Ovation.
J. Il. ninemon was the next
speaker to be heard He formerly
lived in Pine Bluff and has many
friends here. His ovation last night
was a testimonial of that fact. He
began by saying that he had taken
no part in the dirty personalities
during the campaign, except when
an attack was made on his charac-
ter. He said the people had heard
enough about that statehouse and
convict farm squabble. If he is
elected, and the people send the
right kind of legislators to Little
Rock, he declared that he would
build the statehouse and stop all
the noise and wrangling. He re-
ferred to Donaghey as candidate
No. /, who was in the race, he sale,
because he couldn't get the con-
tract to build the statehouse and
now wanted to occupy it: Mr.. Kir-
by. as candidate No. 2. who was in
ions, and Mr. McFarlane, as candi-
date No. 3, who was to follow him
and would probably explain why he
is in the race.
Mr.. Hinemon advocated working
the convicts on the public roads. He
said his views on good schools were
too we'll known to need any fur
Their comment from him. He favor
ed the adjustment of the convict
lease system and urges liberal pro-
vision for the ex-Confederate sold
iers, their wives and children. The
speaker said the oaher candidates
might talk all about the resources
of Arkansas, but in his opinion the
greatest resources in this State we're
the brains CT the little boys and
girls. He expressed himself as pe-
ing a believer in an agricultural
school, one in every Congressional
district, and further said he was in
hearty sympathy with labor of all
kinds. Being former farmers boy
himself. he said he was naturally in
sympathy with the Farmers Union
and their reasonable demands. He
urged the farmers to hold their cot
ton for Is cents and denounced the
national government for sending
money to Eastern speculautors and
not assisting the financially Grip
pied" farmers of the South to mar
ket their cotton during the recent
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