Pocahontas star herald., 1910-02-18
Kayanaugh VS. DOnaghey

we're as we'll satisfied with the
present administration IS 1t would
be possible for them to be under
any. We have stated in the past
and we yet believe it to be fact
the Gov. Donaghey will be re'nom
mated in the coming primaries by
one of the largest majorities eye1
given Democratic candidate II
the history of this state. W.
would be content to remain silent
still were it not for the fact that we
are firm believer in honesty in pol
itlcs as well as everything else and
the manner in which the opposition
to Gov. Donaghey is waging un
warranted attacks and heaping
gross misrepresentation upon him
calls for protest from every voter
in the state who wishes to see jus
tice and a fair deal administered to
one and all alike.
This editor has never been a
"Donaghey man We did not
vote for him two years ago because
we thought there was a man in the
race who would make better
governor than he. However a
majority of the Democrats of Ar
kansas did vote for him and he has
been our governor two years, and
we do not believe that those who
voted for him before have ever
regretted the choice made
1t has been charged by some few
Democrats and Democratic news
papers that Gov. Donaghey bought
his way into the Office in the last
election. 1t may be true that Mr..
Donaghey spent great deal of
in the last campaign, but to
say that he "bought" the office from
the people is not only gross ms suit
to the chief executive but to the
honest Democracy of the whole
state of Arkansas as we'll. There are
a few Democrats in Arkansas whom
we would vote for for governor in
preference to Mr.. Donaghey, but
Q. G. Kavanaugh is not one of
them. In the first place the leaders
of the clique that brought Kav-
anaugh into this race are not exactly
The kind of men that the honest
Democracy of Arkansas cares to
follow. While there are number
of good, tried and true Democrats
that honestly differ from Mr.. Don
aghey and are followers of Kav-
anaugh the strength of Mr.. Dona-
ghey has never been broken, nor
will it ever be until some other
means than that now employed is
brought to bear in the contest.
The opposition is not consistent
in its fight against the governor in
that it charges that Mr.. Donaghey
was candidate for governor be-
cause he was an unsuccessful bidder
On the construction of the new
state capitol building and was seek
ing an opportunity to take revenge
On his opponents in this way. That
may or may not be true. Even if
true the leaders of the opposition to
Mr.. Donaghey should be the last
people on earth to bring such accu-
Sations, lest someone might ask
why Kavanaugh is in the race at
this time. 1t would not be nearly
so hard to prove that he was run
ming that someone else might be
revenged aud a little spite work.
praoticed as it would in Mr.. Dona-
ghey's case.
Perhaps Mr.. Donaghey has not
made a model governor in every
sense of the term. Does it follow
that Kavanaugh would be any
better? What assurance have we
that be would be the superior or
even the equal of Mr.. DonagheyP
We certainly could not gather from
his speeches anything that would
tend to show that a better service
would be rendered. About the
only thing he has been able to do is
to attempt to pick flaws in the
present administration without ever