Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-01-10

] anywhere i'll the State, and want to
 say that 1 superintended the work of i taylng the pipes over the city for i,
 Dr. Caldwell said he gave relief Q
 the East End fire sufferers. would
 like to ask Dr. Caldwell if he gave any more to that fund than | did. Df. Caldwell has been candidate for mayor for two years. Mamie Bloom. cashier Of the Citizens Bank. spent I week getting 5S signers to
 call, asking Dr. Caldwell to get into the Mayors race Fifty eight slgners. and others. don't know who the others were" Here Mayor 'foney ridiculed the wording of the call!
 Mayor Toney declared that the papers of Pine Bluff were lighting him. Ele said a little bunch of cav. atal1sts", who held meetings at the Citizens Bank, were also against him.
 1 "W'hy Is the Pine Bluff Commercial
 lighting me. he asked. 'This is the reason. The City Council ordered an ordinance published. They directed that the finance committee give the
 ordinance to two papers, weekly
 and a daily. The ordinance was giv- en to The Commercial and The Press-
 Eagle. The papers published 1t the
 same number of times. The Press- Eagle said they made money by pub . fishing 1t and that paper charged
 $4.5O for the notice. The Commercial sent a bill to the Council for Ae, for the very same notice. would i not approve 1t. I ordered it sent . back to the finance committee for correction. declaring that 1t was an exorbitant charge. It was finally re- duced to twenty-some-odd dollars and paid. What was the Commercial
 trying to do? Do you blame the Commercial for lighting me-"
 Mayor Toney reviewed improvement
 work Of the city for the past year. He said there were building permits, az.
 gregating s442,000 in the face of a panic: that East Second avenue. the alleys downtown and Martin avenue
 were paved: that there were five miles Of concrete walks built during that year. The city now owes s10S,~. coo of which $22,o0o is to be sub tracted in a few days
 When Dr. Caldwell was Mayor he was at the Board of Trade office all day. They say he is financier. Why don't they make him president of the Merchants and Planters Bank, whose president is now fighting me, or the Citizens Bank? They know he hasn't got the ability. No newspaper is espousing my cause. I want yon boys to be kind to me on Tuesday as you have been in the past.
 I've been honest. I bought my own stamps while Mayor. I thank you He was literally applauded.
 City Treasurcrs @ Heard.
 Veo B. Alexander, one of the can didates for city treasurer was intro- duced. He. said he was no orator. but he was a bookkeeper and he wanted to be city treasurer. He is serving as deputy treasurer, and would give the best service within his power, if elected. He told a funny story and the crowd yelled He then thanked his hearers and jumped from the platform
 Although the chairman called for Hardy Kilgore. the crowd yelled for 8eaure Hut, the other candidate for treasurer. The chairman called the meeting to order and Mir. Kilgore was introduced. He said he, too, was candidate for treasurer. "There is only s22.50 a month in it," he said. "but every little bit, added to what you got makes little bit more" And the crowd laughed again. MT. Kill gore said he was at the Bank of Pine Bluff 360 days in the year, but he didn't know where MT. Alexander's office was. "I am at Gillespie & Brother Company's office" yelled MT. i Alexander. Thank you, I didn't | know it.. was MT. Kilgores reply.
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