Newport daily independent., 1913-06-07
BRUND|DGE E
 STRONG AT HOME
FRIENDS RlDlCULE CAMPAIGN A" GUMENT BEING USED BY
 HIS OPPONENTS.
LOST IA VOTES IN SEARCY
Lost County, Davis Stronghold, by small Vote, but Carried Opponents
 County, Town and Ward.

iieHuS Ol Stepnen Brundldge, can. dldate for governor declare that his opponents, like drowning men, floun- oerlng about in the water, grasping at straWs with the frantic hope that it will save their lives, apparently can ma no reason why he should not be governor except that he did not carry ms home county in a race with Jeff DavlS, and that as last resort, the opposition has grasped this political straH
 It is declared that absolutely no other argument is being used in the campaign that is being made against him and that Col Brundidge expIodes this argument by the simple statement that the people apparently never thought less of Senator Davis because he was beaten in his own county, town and ward, by MT. Brundidge
 In a recent speech, Col Brundidge treated the question in the following words:
 You are told that I cannot carry my own county, in this race the statement is untrue. In my race against Senator Davis, he carried White county, but gentlemen, I carried Pulaski county, where Senator Davis had lived for 15 years, and where he voted and had his home. He carried White county by less than 200 ma jority. I carried his home county by 700 majority. I carried the very ward in which he lived, two to one. In the city of Russellville, his old home. received 177 votes. In the town of Searcy, where I was born in 1857, where I have lived every day of my life and still live out of over 600 votes, Senator Davis got 14 votes and I got the rest. In the first and second wards I received all the votes. In the Third lost ten, and in the fourth, four.
 "I was in Congress for 12 years and retired voluntarily During that 12 years did it occur to anybody that there was anything wrong with Brun didge? I was prosecuting attorney for four years, and in all my races, the largest vote ever boiled against me in Searcy was 22. Do you think a man that is unclean, do you think a man who is dishonest, do you think a man who is not reputable, can poll a vote like that in the town where he was born, in the town where he has always lived, and in the town where he expects to die and be buried? Such an assertion is an insult to your in- telligence. It is reflection upon your judgment.
 White county was one of the first to join the ranks of the Populists For more than 12 years not Demo cratic nominee held office in the cOun- ty: The majority over us was from 1,2oo to 1.56o. Yet we always made our nominations and at the instance of the Democratic County Central Com mittee, always went out and made . canvass in behalf of the ticket, be- iieving then. al i do now, in the great principles of the Democratic party. I made some enemies in discharging my duty to my party. There never was a county in Arkansas where senator Da- wis was as strong as in White. He not only could carry it for himself, but for his friends.
 "I have never considered it reason why Sen. Davis should not hold office merely because I carried his county over him, yet they would press such claim against me because Senator Davis defeated me in White county by much less margin than did him in Pulaski.
 q am not running against Sen. Da- wis at this time, and you just watch old White come up with a majority for stephen Brundidge, greater than it ever gave Sen Davis or any other man running for state Office.