The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-22

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 he loved the people of Hot Springs,
 how he felt aggTieyed that he had
 not been closer to them. and under
 stood them better, and how he prom
 ised unquali6edly to help this State
 Fair, and in the future to help Hot Springs. He characterized Donaghey
 as a cheap dirty politician, who would stab to death an institution for the upbuilding of Arkansas. like the State
 Fair, with the hope that it would further his selfish political ambition | M A. Eisele read a resolution which
 ne had prepared, which told the peo-
 pie that the threat by Donaghey, to turn us over to federal control, would
 be welcomed, for it would save us rom political pretenders of the Don agbey stripe, and he stated that it
 should be shown to Donaghey and
 to tne people, that the federal con | trol proposition for Hot Springs,
 would be for the betterment of the | city because it would save us from political intervention.
 C. J. Horner presented the point | that the people of Arkansas had re- Dudiated Donaghey, who made a cam. | paign of villifeation against state capitol builders, and then cost the
 state $500,000 himself on the work | He believed the Fair could make no
 mistake in joining the people of Ark
 ansas in the repudiation of George w. Donaghey.
 i Senator Hamp Williams took the | stand that the people of Arkansas are indebted to Hot Springs for this
 Fair, that they do consider they owe 1 us something tor what has been achie- | yed, and that it is the sentiment of the people of Arkansas. despite Don
 aghey, that this Fair should receive recognition and support.
 l Mir. Eisele then called attention to the fact that everywhere it is known
 that Hot Springs does more for Ark ansas than Arkansas for Hot Springs. and that Donaghey himself confessed l this in public speech recently in | discussing the advertising situation. Douglas Hotchkiss called attention
 to the statement Donaghey made that
 this Fair was operated as private 1 corporation for the benefit of it's 1 stockholders, and therefore, not en-. | titled to have state support He did not believe that Donaghey could have l been ignorant of the fact that money | for the past two years was put up here by the people without even talk 1 ing stock for it, and that certainly
 it could not be selfishness that caused
 people to give of their money to a private corporation. He believed that l Donaghey knew this was no selfish corporation, operated for dividends,
 and he believed that the statement 10 this effect from Donaghey was will l fully false.
 Will Vale called attention of the directors to the fact that in agricul i tural hall of the Fair, every booth
 was now reserved for next year, that
 is every exhibitor of this year re- served the same space tor next year,
 which was an evidence of whether
 O. not the people believed in the Ark
 ansas State Fair as an institution.
 ". O. Creason, auditor of the State Fair, stated that he had talked to a
 number of the local members of the l Baptist convention. and that they were not convinced that their resolu-
 tions were overdrawn, and that part
 of their criticism was not justified, | and they were willing to modify their resolution at least to the extent that only the true conditions, objection able 10 them, should have been con demned.
 ] Walter Ebel of the Daily News, also correspondent of the Gazette, ! made a statement of his information of how Donaghey had cTept in at the eleventh hour to interfere here. and
 had actually. sent his messages to
 not Springs through the Gazette cffice for the publicity his action
 would be given there. He believed
 the State Fair ought to issue state
 ment of it's side of the case, and ad
 dress this to the people of Arkansas,
 so they would know and understand
 the truth of the whole affair. Parti-
 cularly he believed that part ought
 to be answered where Donaghey | characterized the State Fair. as a
 medium of bringing lambs here to be shorn by thieves.
 Simon Cooper made motion that
 a committee of five be named to draft the answer to Mir. Donaehey to be published in the press of the state Sunday morning, and Chairman W. | w. Waters named on that commit i tee George R. Belding, Walter Ebel, Douglas Hotchkiss, NJ. A. Eisele. and Il Hamp Williams
 The situation will be thoroughly reviewed and given to the people of
 the slate, Sunday morning.