The log cabin Democrat., 1912-03-19
FROM JUDGE SMITH
CANDIDATE FOR ASSOCIATE
JUSTICE OF THE SU-
PREME COURT.
Marion, Ark, March IS, 1912.


10th to be printed in your paper, with
the request that the bill therefor be
sent to him and that check would be
returned after the Goth. If you are
printing campaign matter on a can
didate's mere promise to pay, | will
ask you to print this article, and you
need not delay sending in your bill
until the day before the election. Mr..
Grahams letter, which | saw, leaves
the inference that his campaign du-
ties would keep him away from home
until that date, when the Arkansas
Gazette on last Sunday, in an inter
view with him, stated that he would
make no campaign, as he regarded it
an improper thing for a candidate
for this office to do. OF course, |
recognize your right to publish such
advertising matter as you please, on
such terms as you think proper, but,
as matter of simple justice, will ask
that you publish my article If YOU
publish his.
You know that my candidacy has
been announced for more than seven
months and for five months of that
time | was unopposed for this nom
inaticD, and it is not improper for me
to say, Lnoer the circumstances, that
the bar of this state would not permit
an unworthy candidate fol. this Office
70 be unopposed until practically the
close of the campaign. So far as |
am advised, there is not a lawyer in
the state supporting Mr.. Graham for
this nomination; yet, the article in
question, which he is sending out,
might mislead a great many people
|
his candidacy was announced on next
to the last possible day, many people
might be influenced by such a publ
cation as he is now sending out at
this late date. The article itself re-
fleets the character of the man as he
advertises himself as a grandson of
the Democratic nominee for vce-pres-
ident of the United States on the
Democratic ticket with General Scott.
He evidently does not know that Cen
elal Scott was not the Democratic
nominee
The protestations contained in his
interview in the Arkansas Gazette
last Sunday to the contrary notwith-
standing, he is evidently attempting
to get the largest possible amount of
newspaper notoriety. To give you
an Illustration of his methods, there
was printed in the Gazette on the sec
ond column of the fifth page of the is
sue of March 18th, an article referring
to him as a candidate for Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, which
suggested him for president of the
State University, and referred to him
in the most fulsome terms as an A.
NJ, Ph.D. LII. D., and a graduate of
| of no nf
the east, without stating the number.
This article was reprinted in the Sen
tinel-Record at Hot Springs, as if it
were an editorial utterance of the Ga
Zette, and you may have noticed the
editorial in the Gazette in the issue
of March 18th, under the caption GAS
ITO A CERTAIN COMMUNICA-
TION," in which the Gazette express
ly stated that the article was sent in
as an advertisement and paid for as
such, and in order that no one might
be mistaken, it was so marked. and
that there was no authority for its
publication as an article having the
sanction of the Gazette.
! In the article which he is now send !
| ing out, he makes such extravagant
claims in regard to the support that
he is receiving that | fear some per-
sons who do not know either of us
may be misled If there is a lawyer |
in the state supporting him, am not /
advised of the facts, and | trust that
| persons who do not know ether of us
will make some inquiry of some law
| yer who knows both of us and what |
our relative qualifications for this po-
sition are.
! am a native of this state and have
resided in it all my life, and since my
admission to the practice IN 1898,
have given my attention continuously
and exclusively to the law, and am
now serving my second term as Judge
of the Second Circuit, the largest in
the state, for which office | was twice
nominated and elected without an OPP
ponent.
Since coming to this state from
Memphis, and since entering the
practice of the law here, after a. brief
experience in the management of
little school called the Jamestown
Institute which went defunct under
his management, he removed to Hot
Springs and entered the practice
there and took upon himself, or had
bestowed upon him, the sobriquet of
Cyclone jim" | do not know wheth-
er this title is suggestive of his run
ming proclivities or not, but | under
stand that he has been a candidate
there for practically every office with
in the gift of the people, and has had
himself mentioned in connection with
any office where there was an oppor-
tunity to get a little newspaper ad-
vertisement. After an active cam
paign for mayor Of Hot Springs, he
received 81 votes out of a total of
1910, and at the beginning of this
campaign he had the announcement
made that he would be candidate
for governor, and for a number of
months in this present campaign he
was an active candidate for Circuit
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