The log cabin Democrat., 1912-02-03
ROBINSON MANAGER
 RAILROAD LOBBYIST OPPOSITION ORGANIZED
RAILROAD, BOOK TRUST, WHIS- KEY INTERESTS AND cor
 TON DEALERS COMBINED.

That d IdlIfOau loDOSlSt IS no" managing Joe T. Robinsons cam paign; that representatives of the whiskey interests, the railroads. the school book trusts and the big cotton buying concerns have combined n an effort to accomplish his defeat, were new issues brought out by Governor Donaghey in speech at De Queen Thursday. The governors speech, which appeared in the Texarkana TeXarkanian of the following day, is in part, as follows:
 Il charge that those who are most active to bring about my defeat are the worst enemies the state has ever had and the worst 1t has today. l charge that the whiskey machine. the school Look trust, the large cotton compan es, the old Caldwell X Drake crowd, and the railroad combinations of the state are in league and are all working systematically hand in hand and side by side to defeat the princi- ples for which I stand, and to com pIetely demolish the form of govern ment that l have and do now advo- cate. As proof of this statement, l wish to submit to you the following:
 Tt is motor ous fact that the whis- key machine IS fighting me and have recently exposed to light their black handed methods in the last legiSla- ture. Everyone can verify this truth by visit to our capital city and by conferring with the whiskey boss, who is we'll known to the polit clans of the state. But if further proof is wanted you might take a run over to the city of Pine Bluff and see for yourself the large placards posted in the saloons there with the instructions printed in bold letters to vote for Joe T. Robin son for governor.
 MT. Robinson's political headquar- ters are located in a hotel in Little Rock recently acquired by an old en- ploye of the school book trust, and for years well-known lobbyist in the Arkansas legislature This man is doing everything in his power to bring about the election of Mir. Rob inson, as are all the other employees of the school book trust. It is said they have organized the voting teach CTS of the state for Mir. Robinson. Whether this is wholly true, I am not sure, but it is true that at the recent teachers association convention held in the city of Little Rock this well known lobbyist and his friends were posted about the city to steer the teachers to MT. Robinson's headquar- ters, that they might meet him.
 "Ad Hamburg, representative of the LesserGoldman Cotton Company is one of my best active political enc mics. He is now engaged writing letters to his friends throughout the state, asking them to support Mr Robinson, and is walking the streets of Little Rock offering to make bets that Mir. Robinson will be nominated. It is we'll known fact that 1 advised the farmers to hold their cotton for a better price and thereby incurred the enmity of the large cotton companies of the state because they wanted to buy it at a lower price. am not surprised that they wish to accom- plish my downfall.
 Tn the construction of the state capitol Mir. Robinson says have torn out better work than have put back Caldwell & Drake make the same charge. For the people of the state to endorse MT Robinson in this prop osition would amount to a confession i of judgment against the state for about s150,00 as Caldwell & Drake have been claiming something like amount for damages and they will go before the next legislature with a claim for this sum of money.
 "The legislature of 1909 employed corps of architects and engineers from the war department of the Unit ed States to examine the Caldwell & Drake construction of the capitol. These engineers and architects re- ported to the lepislature that the