Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-15

real conditions eXpldlHed Il they "eie not. He said the railways were making an honest effort to encourage truck farming but the traffic depart- ment made such exhorbitant charges that they were killing the goose that laid the golden egg, discouraging the farmer and retarding the develop ment of the state.
 He said he had been deceived by the shippers conference at Little Rock and made some charges of bad faith against it and Dr. Cald- we'll. He said his ambition was to
 improve his opportunities, be a use ful citizen and leave record of be- ing the best railway commissioner the state ever had.
 Gene Lake followed MT. Felsenthal. He said he was successful farmer, shipper, miEe operator and banker. that he knew the railroad game from the ground up and that he and Eel senthal were the only safe and ex- perienced men in the race, but that the former had no show of election and that his remaining in the race only improved the chances of Pete Robinson, whom, he accused, virtu- ally, of being a candidate for the Missouri Pacific railway.
 He called attention to the fact that through his knowledge of railway af- fairs he had been able to collect s. 596 from the Frisco railway for loss on peach shipments while Crawford county growers who had suffered loss and had fought the cases through the courts with the best of legal talent had recovered only $1,200. He said he had been superintendent of mines at Huntington with 1,20O to 1,50O men under him, during very troublesome times and yet every one of the 1,500 miners of Huntington were supporting him solid.
 He stated that within the last week he had addressed more than 300 employees of the Cotton Belt shops, told them how the people of his home town stood by him, that he eX- pected the majority of them were for Dr. Caldwell, but would like to know how great a percent were, and asked every one supporting their home candidate to hold up his hand and not a hand went up. Lake de- clared the in and out tonnage of Se- bastian county was greater than any ten counties combined of the thirty in the Southern district and that this fact gave the county a right to claim the commissionership.
 P. H. Dickerson entertained the au- dience for half an hour with one Of his characteristic speeches, telling them some things they did not know before He was frequently interrupt ed by vociferous applause. He said that if the election had been held on the day of the shippers conference he would have won in walk, but after that, he realized it would be a hot and expensive campaign.
 T told Lake that with his money and my cussing he'd be cure to win, and I got out of the race for him, he said in explaining his withdrawal.
 Dr. Caldwell made only short re- joinder for the hour was becoming g late and calmly and dignifiedly clear ed the atmosphere that had become rather heavily charged with friction. He said he had tried to conduct a clean canvass, free from personali- ties, that the interests of the state demanded the selection of the best and most capable man, that the ship pers had weighed the qualifications of the various candidates and select ed him, which showed by evidence that he possessed the qualifications for ha Cffioo