Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-21
D0NACHEY AS
 A TAX DODGER
CONWAY CITIZEN EXPOSES THE GOVERNORS RECORD ON
 THAT LINE.
FACTS AND FIGURES GIVEN
Judge Prince Is Lawyer ana Citizen of Honor and Respect
 at Home.

Tn the first place the public have right to know what kind of man Judge Prince. of Conway, is: He IS a brother-in-law of Bishop Hoss, of Nash vile. Tenn, and while Bishop Hoss, unlike some of the ministers Of hls faith in Arkansas, is taking no part ln the election of a governor by the Democratic voters of Arkansas, he has always stood for prohibition ana political purity. Judge Prince is re- garded as a truthful, honest man, ol considerable ability as a lawyer. lie has never been accused of lying, nor deception, nor fraud or wrong acts of any kind. He has stood out ln the open at all times for the best inter- ests of Faulkner county. He is honest, plain and outspoken, and no man yet has ever questioned his absolute hon. esty and his unflinching courage. Judge Prince never was a tax dodger' and he knows what a tax dodger IS after he has seen the records in sucn matters. As a candidate for county judge he always told the people where he stood upon every issue touching county affairs, and after election, he carried out every promise made to the people. The only time Judge Prince was ever defeated in Faulkner county was when combination was formed, as Judge Prince says. between Donaghey, a contractor, and some of his close personal friends, with the Republican party. Later MT. Dona- ghev got the contract to build the court house, perhaps as reward for his defeat of Democratic county judge. at a cost of s25,00o. and the county still owes some on that same old court house, and Judge Prince says the county scrip is owned by MT. Donaghey.
 While a member of the legislature Judge Prince was true to the inter- ests of the people of Arkansas and no boodling charges were brought against the members of that body while Judge Prince was a member. He passed one of the first good roads bills ever passed by the legislature.
 In reply to Judge Prince. MT. Dona- shey says personal enmity' inspired Judge Prince to expose Donagneys record as tax dodger." It does not matter what inspired Judge Prince to write the article, it has hit the gov ernor forcible blow. If it is the truth, it shows Mir. Donaghey is tax-dodger of the worst type. If it is not true, why does not MT. Donaghey procure the evidence to show it is substantially false?" AS long as he does not do so, then the inference will be in the public mind that all Of Judge Princes statements are sub- stantially true.
 The fact is. if anybody opposes MT. Donaghey he is immediately dubbed either a booodler, an enemy of the governor, g. representative of the school book trust, thief. thug, gambler, or something else the gov ernor regards as foul and unworthy of belief or endorsement. In his opinion all the good men in the state are supporting Honest George.
 The governor says he holds no grudge against Judge Prince. No, of course not The governor is dying with love for the man he helped to defeat for county judge of Faulkner county with Republican.
 Below Judge Prince gives state ment of Mir. Donaghey's record as a tax dodger in Faulkner county:
 Editor of Arkansas Farmer:
 ssDonaghey, the Tax Dodger"-His agent assessed his personal property for 1910 at s1000o. He had the sl0,- 900 taken off, leaving only poll tax, { tha, he paid in Faulkner county in 1911: and paid taxes on sl.520 in per sonal property in Pulaski county. While he had sIo,5l911 in Faulkner county warrants and other personal property at that time in Faulkner county, amounting in all to at least $50, ,000
 ! He has his real estate in Faulkner county now assessed unknown at about ! 20 per cent of it's value. He has failed ! to put his name, as the law requires, opposite each tract of his land. Par ! ties not knowing his land can't find 1 how his lands are assessed.
 He has GO acres in Conway, adjoin- 1 ing me on the west, with a sl0,000 ! house thereon, that has just been | burned-all assessed at only s5,000. The property was worth at least s25.. i oa0
 He had the law passed in 1909 ere.
 ating the Arkansas Tax Commission. and under the law he appointed three
 commissioners to hold their positions ] for six years each at . salary of g.. i 400 each per annum, with their ex.
 penses and the trimmings" and
 under that jaw he can remove those | commissioners at his pleasure. Now, after the board Of equalization of Faulkner county had raised our as.