The log cabin Democrat., 1912-11-21
.FUFD BECOMES
 MORE Y|RULENT
GOV. RAPS HOT SPRINGS
AS RESULT OF CENSUPE FROM HOT SPRINGS PRESS ON RE-
 CENT ACTION.


 become virulent. Hot Springs hasn't liked the governor for some time. and there has been no love lost. It came to an issue when Governor Donaghey notified the sheriff of Garland county that the state fair must not be run ir violation of the law on Sunday. Since that he has been severely censured by the Hot Springs press, and the Senti- nel-Record declared, in the course of a severe editorial castigation, that had the governor remained much lcnger ir the city his body guard would have from blows"
 In the course of lengthy interview given out Wednesday evening, the governor literally hays the govern ment of Hot Springs, end declared that the tsate fair is such in name only, and that it is conducted only fol private interests. He says:
 SbACIltlOll DStS bttH NetllSb bb q severe castigation given me by Hot Springs correspondent, and by edito- rials in the Hot Springs papers These complaints state in part:
 " Feeling was intense against the governor. The effect of the official visit of Governor Donaghey tc Hot Springs was that the Arkansas State Fair Association was approXi- mately deprived of revenue of $6,- 000.-The governor should be thank. ful that he got away unscarred, etc There were many who believed that had the governor remained much longer in the city his body guard would have been powerless to have saved him from blows
 The cruX of the complaint is that the fair association lost $6,000.
 Any action that costs the powers that be now in Hot Springs money that they have planned to get infuri ates them. It matters not what the objections of society to the methods employed by them to get this money may be.
 "They complain that I have beer negligent in my attendance at the State Fair. The State Fair iS such in name only. The state, as 2 state, has no interest in it, has promis ed it nothing, owes it nothing now, nol will it ever appropriate anything to- wards maintaining the State Fair now in Hot Springs, so long as it i, run as it is. The enterprise is han dled by private interests and, like any other business matter, must stand or fall on its own merits Ii the State Fair has made money, To- cal interests get the benefit of it; il it has lost, they lose,
 "The governor, officially, is under no more obligation to attend the opening of this institution than he is to attend the annual opening of the Southern Club, the Kentucky Club, or the Arkansas Club, all of which are supposed to be high-class gambling houses. Certainly, if they could in duce the governor to attend their openings and sessions, it would lend dignity to their standing and bring many lambs to the shearing pen.
 If there could be a state fair pro noted, real state fair, which could be supported by the state at any time that the state has sufficient revenue to give it, I would be glad myself not only to give it encouragement by my presence as governor or citizen, but would individually be glad to contrib. ute towards its maintenance.
 But what have done to bring down the condemnation of these Hot Springs officials? What have l done to cause them to threaten violence tC me?-you say that it was well for me that left the city when l did-tC warn me not to come back again Why it is this: They are not satis fled with all the wool they could clir from the lambs on the whole six working days of the week, but they wanted to continue the shearing pro. cess on Sunday. The State Baptist Association in convention there found that this was going to be done, anc petitioned me, as chief executive ot the state, to prevent it, if possible ordered the municipal and fair off cials not to violate the state laws and told them what would happen il