The Sentinel=record., 1912-02-11

ptobin WlO knew me. and W GOm had served l know that to be trae hecauao they told me so honest cG
 zenship Of all the couuues whom l
 served IT there is any man who entitled 10 credit anywhere. who wiN
 say one word against my integrity as
 an officer or as a citizen then ] say
 that have lived those 37 years in
 that county in that community. and served the people in that circuit for l2 years in vain. You can't find it \ man who comes before you or any other audience and says anything that would reflect in the least on my ia. | terity as an officer or as a citizen
 if you win trace back yoa wal find out that he Is a man who is in leagT9 with thieves and gqmblers, e man ir
 that class Hmt t np and find H it is uot true
 There are men in This audience who
 bHow inc and have known me uti- matey 1t was referred to here
 Judge I.aKenau. who has been an of ficer of Garland county and citizen af Garland county long time Evan. der r Housley E Tn this audience Charley Webb. a candidate now fo
 sheriff of Garland county. is in this audience. or was here today Ynu have a distneuished officer who comes here to hold his court. be. lieye once a month, and chat Is the Hon IT, F. Henderson. now chancel- Tor of this dhancery district. He was prosecuting attorney under me as cir. cuit judge for six years He served under me as prosecuting attorney while | was C.n the bench for six years When retired from the bench Judge Henderson and I went into part nership, and we were partners for 20 years, only dissoyng that parl- uershlp when he was elected to the office of chancellor You know him
 he knows me. We have associated together for 26 years at least int
 mately; he as prosecuting attorney while was the judge of the bench and that brings men in close rela- tionship 10 each other, and then we were partners for 20 years in the practice of law at Ho3 Springs There is no more honorable man that tfeads the ealth today than ]. P Henderson honorable and truthful, he Is an Uf right just judge and is Q true, pafri- otie, honest citizen. If I P Hen derson will say that J B. Wood isn1 an honorable man. true man in ey- cry sense of the word in all the re- lations- and he knows if he will moi without the aeking, if it is even minated hurl the insinuation back to any man that says 1 am in the least dishonest or rnfalthful in any. thing ! have undertaken to-dn- tl.4.s4 fellow citizens, I say have assoclat- ed with him for these 26 years in vain. He will not do 1t. Ask him or go to anybody that knows me
 Why the gentlemen who have pre- eeded me, all except Mir Whiting ton say that am honest have been sincere. am faithful. but there
 a lack of common sense in me (Laughterl That ] do not go about trying 10 enforce the law in com mon sense way Mir. Cobb says thar. believe, MT Farmer intimated it. something along that line, and these gentiemen if | understand their ar gument Cobb and Farmer they wan to adopt some middle ground sofhf compromise ground on the proposi ton. Judge Farmer tells you, q am in favor or these innocent amuse ments at Hot Springs playing of baseball for instance on Sunday. q am in favor of the picture shows on Sunday. he tells you that And Judge Cobb said that he is in favot of closing the dives and the saloons where samblins goes on, conducted In q low class, and he didn't say bu, intimated that he wanted the higher class gambler to regulate 1t accord ing to the way they want 1t regulated at Hot Springs let high class gam bling go on but drive ont these dives If Judge Cobb didn't mean that he must come back again and state vha he does mean
 Two years ago when I was elected prosecuting attorney in the old dis trict accused him of being strad dler Now then it looks to me like he is doing a little straddlins about this let him tell what he meats They say I am in favor of enforcing the law and that is what I am. am in favor of enforcing the law l didn't make the law. Every law upon this statute book is based directly, every