The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-24

10 come 10 rot springs sunday morn ing. He summoned Adjutant General Green, head of the Arkansas State Guard, to come with hila. Adjutant Green represented the State Militia and Donaslhey represented the direc- tor of the State Militia. A fine action. this, from the Chief Executive of a commonwealth, taking his head of the State Militia and tearing into city as if there were ri0ting and outlawry that demanded prompt action to pre- serve the lives of the people
 No sense of clear judgment ever prompted such an action. No dicta- tion of a sense of positive duty sug gested an insult to the people here and to the Arkansas State Fair Asso- ciation or through implication threat ening them with the State Guards. Calm unprejudiced action would have been to investigate first through the State Fair Directors, and through the Local Officials and if he found it nec- essary. then declare that the contest should be called off. But Hot Springs did not get an unbiased deal from Geo. w. Donaghey in this instance any more than it did when he twice refused to grace the State Fair with his official presence after accepting formal invitations to do so.
 The action of Donaghey in coming here with the head of his State guards was resented through the press of Hot Springs. That resentment, whether justified or not. was not suffi- cient to bring about the later out burst from Gov. Donaghey against the State Fair because the State Fair could not be expected to bridle the press. The bias and prejudice of the chief executive of the state in all open letter given to the press was an unpardonable insult unless actuated by the State Fair and justified by t as might have been expected from a newly appointed policeman rather than from the governor of a com monwealth.
 In a conference with State Fair of flcals and local officers held on his arrival Governor Donaghey half apol- ogized for his coming and indicated that it had only been tine result of a demand from the Baptist Convention of this state which in his later open letter he refers to as being 100000 strong in Arkansas" He left at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon after an un- derstanding that there would be no admission charged at the gate where | the races were held, therefore the auto contest being no infraction oi the law he did not understand nor could have understood that the auto contest was called off.
 This recites only too briefly to be well told, the relations between Gov l ernor Donaghey and the Arkansas State Fair Association up to the time he handed to the State press an open | letter from which this excerpt is 1 taken:
 "The State Fair v such only in name. If the State Fair had made money local interests get the benefit of it. If it has lost, they lose. Tht governor is officially under no more obligation to attend the opening oi I this institution than he is to attend the annual opening of the Southern Kentucky or the Arkansaw Club, al l of which are supposed to be higf
 classed gambling houses Certainly il l tuCy COulQ lnuuNC lHC 6OfCi HUI to ehe
 tend their opening it would lend dig
 nifty to their standings and bring
 many lambs to the shearing pen" l No greater insult was ever offered an institution than this. Governor Donaghey could not be ignorant oi
 the fact that as much as $25000 was
 donated for the fair in the last twc years for which no stock certificates were issued. Do people give theil
 money to support private corpora | iiOn when dividends to the stock holders is the only end sought? Stase Fair certificates of stock are worth less in so far as money goes but they are testimonials of advancement rich in heritage to be handed dowI as a legacy to generations that hay
 ing outlived the period of pTejudica control of affairs by self seeking poll
 ticians will recall through their hay. ing been preserved something of th' | genuine difficulties that had to 0s
 overcome before progress and pros.
 perity blessed their great common Lwealth.
 Recognized by representatives O
 the national government as the equa
 of any State Fair in the country an(
 the superior of many giving to Ar
 kansas an advantage never before
 possessed backed and supported il exhibits by sixty counties in the State
 featured by educational work the likt
 of which had never before been showr
 in Arkansas; graced by the presence
 of it's most notable women and en couraged by the interests of it's rep resentative young citizens, in whose hands the destiny of Arkansas vii
 some day rest. such was the Arkan sas State Fair. And it was this mag nificent exhibition of those things thai make the state one or the bulwarks of the nation that Geo. w. Donaghey | governor, said he was under no more | obligation to attend than he was te be present at the opening of the gam
 bling house. Oh, pity the smallness
 of such man.
 The directors of the Arkansas State Fair regard the acuon of Governor
 Donaghey as a political scheme. Tn
 review of the past it is made cleas | that his election as Governor was I h fu otf ntNArc