The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-24
ARKANSAS STATE FAIR DiFEc. TORS RESENT THE INSULTS
 HEATED ON INSTITUTION.
APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF STATE
Declared the Stand Taken by Cover nor Is For no Less Purpose Than to Further His Political Am
 bition in Prejudice Plea.

Directors of the Arkansas State Fair Association, which had been at lacked in the public press by Cover nor George w. Donaghey, after first having been ignored by that official on two different occasions, made it's answer yesterday, when it adopted the report of a special committee se- lected to draft an article for the press of the state setting forth a resume of the whole of the incidents which led to this open rupture. The local side of the issue is covered in the following:
 To the People of Arkansas
 Astonnded if not surprised at the inaignities, the contumely, the m. civility and the injury that Geo. w. Donaghey as Governor of the State of Arkansas has heaped upon the Ar kansas State Fair Association through the past two years. which eliminated recently when the Gov ernor in his official capacity sum- moned the head of the State Militia and with the suggestion of force that this action implies. openly insulted an institution tihat has no object fur she- than the unselfish development of the resources Of a great state--a state rich in natural wealth and hin dered only because of the persistence of politicians appealing to prejudices < rather than turning their efforts to its upbuilding Arkansas State Fair Association through it's Direc- tors offers this resume of incidents 10 correct a misstatement which the Governor has uttered in broad gener- aities and implications against our institution and our people.
 The Arkansas Slate Fair had it's inspiration in broad purposes. It was cradled in the hope of a speedy de- Yelopmnt of the resources of the State It was nurtured in the fiTme. belief that Arkansas would be the only benefactor. It was matured this month in a realization Of ali the su1- : cesses which had been dreamed of had stimulated the feeble- moments of its career. It Is a great instita- tim. destined to de more for the de yelopment of Arkansas to bring rich es to the people of Arkansas, than all other institutions of our present day
 Unselfshly our people of. Hot Springs paid the price of this work The Arkansas State Fair has cost our people S75.000.00 There are $l0. 0O000 in notes now outstanding. Ths financial burden of an institution de voted Go Arkansas is borne by the people of Hot Springs and borne cheeriully because of our abiding faith in The institution and in the appreciation that N.. knew would come from the hearts of the people of Arkansas when they fully realized what this work meant.
 Those thousands of loyal Arkan' sans who passed through the gates of our State Fair this month were astonished at it's rapid growth. From an uncertain founding it had stepped into ihe statue of manhood. Many of those thousands had visited for mer State Fairs and they had eX- pressed misgivings. Within thelt hearts they lauded our work but they wtre uncertain as to results. Those
 
 lelt their hearts swell with patriotic pride not alone for the development mat was portrayed in that panorama of Arkansas resources, but becausl 'hey had witnessed the crowning sue cess of seven years of what they had considered doubtful toll.
 So impressive was this fact thai n the formal speech opening this AFkansas State Fair to the people oi Arkansas assembled. Hon. Joe T. ROD ihson, goyernoT-elect for the next two wars, declared in unstinted praise mat the glories spread before hlm oil that occasion were glories for which me people of Hot Springs should De honored and should be given due credit. He referred on that occasion 10 the fact that unselfish Hot Springs rltlzens had brought the Arkansas Ssale Fair to where it demanded