The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1912-11-28

that be now in Hot Springs money
that they have planned to get infuri-
ates them. 1t matters not what the
objections of society to the methods
employed by them to get this money
may be.
.They complain that / have been
negligent in my attendance at the
State Fair The State Fair is
such in name only. The state, as a
state, has no interest in it, has promis-
ed it nothing, owes it nothing now, nor
will it ever appropriate anything to-
wards maintaining the State Fair
now in Hot Springs, so long as it is
run as it is. The enterprise is ham
died by private interests and, like
any other business matter, must
stand or fall on its own merits. III
the State Fair has made money, To-
cal interests get the benefit of it; If
! it has lost, they lose.
1.-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, 1 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 it's maintenance.
but what have I done to bring
down the condemnation of these Hot
Springs officials? What have | done
to cause them to threaten violence to
me?-you say that it was well for me
that I left the city when | did-to
warn me not to come back again?
Why, it is this: They are not salts
fed with all the wool they could clip
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, and
petitioned me, as chief executive OF
, the state, to prevent it, if possible. l
ordered the municipal and fair Off
Gals not to violate the state laws,
and told them what would happen If
they did. This prevented them from
making $4,000 on Sunday, and this is
their complaint.
! "Hot Springs has thousands of
good people within her limits. Hot
Springs is undoubtedly the greatest
health resort in the world. The cur
alive powers possessed by her waters
are unsurpassed on the face OF the
earth. She has the best hotels in the
south. Her natural scenery and sur
roundings are sublimely beautiful.
But her municipal management has
for years been the greatest travesty
on law and order known in the Unit
ed States Hot Springs has given
this state more trouble than all the
other towns in it. 1t is one OF the
greatest harborers of the biggest
crooks in the United States, and her
local system of government, in many
cases, they have been immune from
the rule of law and permitted to prey
at will on the public.
Sin the past the persistence Of the
city administration in setting aside
the laws of the state and running the
town, not only in open violation of the
laws of the state, but contrary to the
principles and rules of well-regulated
society in any other state, is well
known to every one who has kept up
with public events. When Senator
Clarke was governor of Arkansas,
Hot Springs then became a spot
light to the nation. She openly adj
vertised a prize-fght by the two big
gest stars in the world, made great
preparation, and brought the fighters
10 the state. Then the governor an
nounced that there might be a fight in
Hot Springs on the appointed day,
but it would not be prize-tight. That
settled the question for the time. But
the same thing was attempted with
TWO other later administrations, with
shout the same result. During the
term of another governor there was
for two wears nothing but continual