The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-08
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CAMPAIGN ENs AT MALVERN WITH PY- RoTEcHNlcAL DISPLAY.
Wood Is Center of Fire from Rough Artillery of Means and shrapnel from Others Who Are
 Candidates.

ation, cross-fire or charges relative to motives and action, pure and impure, calm Argument. pleas for opportunity, plfas for Hot Springs and her future, that have ever entered into a unity 10 SSompose the political maelstrom of the post in this volcanic section of the Ozarks, and you have in brief the story of the opening of the campaign yesterday at Malvern, when the four candidates for prosecuting attorney of this district opened their campaign.
 The molten lava of all this political vesuvus covered candidate J. B. Wood in it's first outpouring, when Prosecuting Attorney Henry Means op. cned the debate. Later J. B. Wood < hurled back the tide to Means, and as a grand finale to the oratorical sky rockets, Egbert Rutherford and M. $. Gobb settled down to cool. calm, de- iiberaHe campaigning, forceful both in the merit of it's appeal and the ex- 
 tremeness of it's variance with what dad preceded it.
 The audience that filled the Malvern court house yesterday and furnished a Background for this clash of forces was very uniemonstrative. It might have been because of the seriousness 0f the charges that were heralded Broadcast that the audience, spell Mound, withheld its approval or dis Approval until the whole had been well weighed. But regardless Of tne reason why. that audience kept its Expression for later days, except when the tension was relieved by moment of wit or thrust Of humor in lieu Of d stroke of the sword.
 Prosecuting Attorney Means opened the fireworks. During the morning hour | B. Wood had circulated new pamphlet among the court attendants. The new pamphlet was the breeze that famed to flame the latent forces that had been reserved in former cam paigning. Mir. Means only undertook to make reply to that portion of crit icism applied directly to him. but the other speakers answered later for Themselves in characteristic fashion.
 MT. Means opened his remarks by paying his respects 10 the bitter crit icism that had been heralded over his district by the reform element of Hot Springs. He characterized the Hot Springs gang" as being deter mined on scalping him as the scape- goat of all it's vices and corruption. He paid his respects to Umbrella Bill McGuigan, whom he referred to as having worlds record in that he had been ruled off both the running and trotting turf by authorities of these sports.
 He anticipated that Wood would charge that Hot Springs gambling was wide open and that he tMeans) was respt 1sible for it, yet he recalled that while Wood claimed gaming was wide open, and the c. l. U. that fought him claimed it also, Scott Wood, son of his opponent, had sworn before the last grand jury that he knew nothing 0f It
 Mi Means stated that the C. l. u- or Performers had control of the last -four grand juries in this county, and 8<.cured nine indictments in that time fof law violations in this respect, while as district attorney he had se- cured more than 500 convictions He also pictured gambling conditions in Hot Springs years ago when Wood 4eAs prosecuting attorney, declared Rambling was conducted On first floors Z vim open front doors. and that when 1Ster the city council passed an ordi' nance prohibiting first floor gam bling the operators merely built small