Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-13
L. [. KAVANAUCh
 ON PROHIBITION He Makes Known What He Would Have Said Be
 fore Meeting.
IS FOR LOCAL OPTION
But Will Sign Statewide Bill, Ii 1t Is Passed By The Arkansas
 Legislature.

Little Rock, Feb. 12.-In state ment made public today Hon. c. C. Kavanaugh sets forth what he would have told the Arkansas Anti-Saloon League had he been permitted to set forth his views on the local option question before that body, at recent meeting here.
 Kayanaugh, state unequivocally that he will, if elected governor, sign q statewide prohibition bill, yet he ayers that statewide prohibition is not in conformity with Democratic principles and American spirit. He, himself, believes in local option be- cause he holds this to be the Demo- cratic doctrine of government; gov ernment for, of and by the people Yet he makes it plain that he, as governor, would not permit personal belief in local option cause him to ve- to or fail to sign a bill for statewide prohibition. that might be passed by the representatives of the people. On the subject of prohibition and local option. Kavanaugh makes the follow ing comment:
 q believe it to be the duty of those leaders who believe in prohibition to go into the communities where there is a majority against prohibition and educate the people there up to their belief
 Tt is the duty of candidate, says Kavanaueh, '"to express his views but it is more his duty to carry out his party's views, even when they are not in harmony with his own. It is the duty of a candidate to express his opinion when running, as a candidate before a primary; but as a candidate of his party, after his party have expressed their views, l regard it as Democratic duty to yield to the will of the majority. l will go further and say that if a pro- hibition law be passed by the legisla- ture I will sign the bill, and use my best ability to enforce such law, should it pass" Kavanaugh then re- iterated charges that Donaghey se- cured his first nomination by gross double-deains with the whiskey and temperance interests. He says:
 q charge here and now that Gov ernor Donaghey received the votes of both the prohibitionists and whiskey interests through deception and mis- representation: that in his message to the legislature he merely called attention to the Democratic party's pledge and said nothing further until all the regular session had expired and the extended session was about to adjourn, when he sent message to the House on the subject after the House had already passed two temperance bills, and for which ac- tion was criticised by Representative who had been his friends. He did not use the same force and activity in trying to redeem his party s pledge on temperance that he did about other legislation.
 Kavanaugh says he wishes no whiskey or other form of intoHicant were manufactured. He condemns free lunches" social drinking and the Sunday saloon. He advocates the removal of screens from the fronts of saloons and the closing of saloons at 10 D. m. Kavanaugh also says:
 T believe it is the duty of the law to fix the environments of the saloon and their regulation. The evolution of man and the evolution of civiliza- tion is going to require the evolution of the saloons, and I say to the sa- loon interests of Arkansas, in the the words of the late Senator Car mack, of Tennessee:
 Sin not away your day and re- fuse to agree to reform for if you do you are going out of business as a lawful business.'"