The Mena weekly star., 1911-11-02
.NORWOOD SPEAKS
 AT FAYETTEVILLE
Candidate for Governor Pays His Respects to Donaghey's An nouncement to Large Crowd
 Was Not Surprised.

Fayetteville, Oct. 23.-A large audience greeted Attorney General
 Hal L. NOrwood here this afternoon on his first appearance here since announcing for governor. It was his
 first address since the announce ment of Governor Donaghey for a third term, and MT. Norwood dis cussed at length the announcement of the governor, using extracts from the Arkansas Gazette. He said that the governors announce
 ment was no surprise to him, and
 that he had been telling the people all the time that the governor would be candidate.
 Governor Donaghey," he said, stated that he has been waiting for some one to announce on a plat form broad enough to take in things of pressing importance to the state. In fact, he has been try ing to get some one ill the race as an administration candidate. His failure to get some one to stand sponsor to his revenue bill and his administration is a credit to the good judgment of those he ap- preached. His lengthy article on the whisky machine is amusing. For some time he has been trying to find an escape broad enough for the failure of his administration.
 He has finally reached the con- clusion that he can prejudice the people in his favor by charging 1t all up to the whisky machine. He says the methods of this machine have almost put the state out of the running. It is certainly no credit to him that during his ad- that machine has been built up. Such humiiating con- fession has never been made by one of his predecessors"
 MT. Norwood then discussed Gov ernor Donaghey's attitude in re- gard to the insane asylum and the state charitable institutions. In 1909, he said, $200,000 was appro- priated for the construction of an- other insane asylum. He wanted to know how did the whisky machine prevent it being built. During the last session of the legislature he said he assisted representatives to draw up a bill providing Si0O,O0O for an annex to the present asylum. The bill provided for this amount to be available August 1, and to be used for this exclusive purpose.
 This was to prevent, he said, the money being spent for other things, as it was two years previous. Gov ernor Donaghey vetoed this bill, he said. The last legislature made ad- equate appropriations for state schools and charitable institutions, and if they have not sufficient ap- propriation for all purposes, he said, it was because the governor vetoed the appropriations.
 The governors defense, he said, is not sufficient funds. If he had been as much interested in schools and charity institutions as he was in the state capitol said MT. Nor wood, he would have asked the legislature to authorize him to bor- row enough money to tide the state over the present stringency.
 He used all the power" said MT. Norwood, "of his administration to get the legislature to authorize him to borrow $675,000, all to be spent on the capitol, when much of the work to be done can well be post .pOned for several years yet. If re-
 ports be true, his limited number
 of visits to charitable institutions
 will indicate the interest he has in the states unfortunate wards. He
 says that more money has been placed on the common school fund than before There was an increase
 per capita of the states common
 school fund last year. But it was due to no effort on the part of the governor"
 Mir. Norwood will leave in the morning for Ft. Smith, and stated to the newspaper representative
 that he would be back in Little Rock "Wednesday morning, and
 that he will request Governor Don
 aghey and Congressman Robinson to meet him as soon as convenient
 and arrange for joint campaign.