The log cabin Democrat., 1912-02-19
RURAL VOTERS ARE
 WITH D0NACHEY
ORATORY UNNECESSARY
G o V E R N OR'S BLUNT FLO QUENCE IS WINNING CROWS
 WHO HEAR HIM.

Little Rock, Feb. 19-Gov. George w. Donaghef, apropos of his confess sion to the voters of Arkansas that he IS not an orator, but rather a man of action, says that General Grant never made speech in his life.' In this assertion the governor is entirely wrong. Grant made one of the big gest speeches contained in the Eng fish language, and one of the most el- oquent. Here it is, in full:
 T will fight it out along this line If it takes all summer"
 When Grant delivered that historic speech he was up against a tough proposition. Without using the same words, Donaghey is making the same terse declaration to the people of Ar kansas; and he, too, is up against fought propos:tion-fghting a polit- lcal machine equipped with a hot-air tank and an infinite assortment of slingsticks. But Donaghey has his 1 fighting blood up and his fighting line laid down, and along that line he pro- poses to fight-''if it tabes all sum- mer." That he will win he is thor oughly certain, especially since the commencement of his campaigning trips through the country districts. Big crowds have turned out to hear him-crowds whose attention to his Iutterances points the solid interest that puts thought behind the ballot.
 "l had fondly hoped, at the end of my second term, to retire to private life,' the governor said in a recent speech, "and I should have been able to do so but for the obstruction placed in my way by the whiskey men and their machine. 1 am now, however. confronted with the alternative of either quitting office, leaving them in | the saddle to ride with free rein their course of corruption and public plunder, or putting them out of busi- ness and restoring the people to the saddle. The confidence the people have reposed in me by twice choosing me their governor, the honors they have conferred upon me, and my own sense of patriotism, of integrity, of responsibility, I dare not lightly put aside, all alike impose upon me an obligation which I cannot and will not ignore. l owe it to my state and to myself to do my utmost to put an end to this conspiracy, and I will do it, if the people will stand by me. I know they will stand by me. But, were it otherwise, I would infinitely prefer to go down in defeat rather than betray my obligation to make this fight. l should go to my grave despising myself if I abandoned this state into the hands of a gang such as l have here described When, by your help, I have cleaned th.s foul blot from off the fair escutcheon of Arkansas, I shall, with clean and hon orable memories, turn the office back to the people who intrusted it to me, and be satisfied"
 Of Arkansas antiquated systems of taxation the governor says:
 "The masses are paying too much taxes, the classes too little. Our rev enue laws have been in force for more than a third of a century. They are old, inadequate, unfair, unfit. Under them not less than $300,000 900 worth of property-property possessed by the financially able, not by the finan- cially-crippled-is now not on the tax books at all. Under the workings of new taxation plan, the Turner-Ja- cobson bill, which is one of the things l am fighting for, this property will go on the books and will be fairly taxed. l want ALL PROPERTY AS SESSED, a lower tax rate imposed and thereby the owners of much prop erty required to contribute their just share to the expenses of the state, and the owners of little property re- lieved in proportion of burdens un- just"