The Forrest City times., 1913-05-30
THEIR FIRST MEETING
tIHb%rrzToriaI Candidates Meet hy
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 g1u@rnz,oEizl candidates a AsLdown on TS4s5ay Bigbt
 AshdoSn. May Z..-Stephe1 BTun didge and Judge George H Hays can didates for governor, mel zt Ashdoxn ! tonight and spoke from thssane plat ] form The speaking took pace at the Grand theatre before large audience Great interest vas shown. xs this was the 6rst meeting Of the candidates ! during the campaign. The meeting was not prearraDged, the dates of the two candidates happening 10 conflict. { They came ID on the sane train, but neither kneT that the o-Eer s2s I aboard until they met. II vas 1n- l cerstood A the botel tonight that Judge Hays would speak from the same platform, b1t sc1ld uot cal it a joint discossion
 ! Judge Hays spoke 1fst, having been escorted 10 The platform wirh his op 1 ponent. EEo listened ro his address Al the clcSe of his address Judge Hays .ett the hal. sayiDg thzc he must eaten tran fer DeQaeen. Faere tae twC have agreed = spezk together = 1nis4 coLorrox
 T-1Ee Hzys devoted JJ or u5-e min -:ss t9 Us opponent He t55E 2 separate t.e charges Ina. have oesn made c-..lE the canpaign Eep.ying tc them. ae said Ee opposed e.ut canvass bsc21se there was = iss-e i1 tle race. and tAzt Es -Lc-EHt that separate spezkile ta-rs Hg15 e.iui- nate bitterness. He declared thzc he was cLe candidate c: IL faction and Asd had 10 part il e-ectlug two United states senators, a cnzyEed. He referred to lie ccrr-pt practice charge and said that the .ite-z. re had been sent oat by nistzke
 He made the following proposition 10 Mir. BruBdidge If yc- vii ct ne name the election judges fo, your home county White l VII allow yo1 to do the same ln the toar ccun- ties that make Gp the judicial district over whose courts l preside Then if l dc not receive more votes in your hone county than you do in ny whole district, l Eill not accept the nonina- tion for governor after have won it.
 He said he did not think Mr. Brun. didge had treated him fairly, and that he believes his opponent had inten- tionaly followed him in number of places. He intimated that he had been betrayed by the printer who printed the list Of both their sIeaking appointments, and that Mr Brundidge had taken advantage of him. causing their conflict Of dates in this part of 1 the state. He outlined the policies ne favored.
 3R. BRUNDIDGE REPLIES
 Judge Hays has spent 45 minutes in criticising ne, with now and then [ statement saying he has never crit icised ne. said NJ Brundidge when his turn to speak cane A 53iut de bate would have eliminated al this tro0ble. -dge Hays is opposing nothing but me in this campaign. His platform extends from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo and from Maine ,o Mexico
 Mr. Bf2ndidge said that Jadge Hays had declared that he favored the act Of the last legislature creating the state penitentiary commission. Well, l oppose Il good and plenty. |" said Mir. Brandidge
 Mir. Brludidge referred 10 the at- tacks that have been made upon him in the Kensett Keynote and scathing- y denounced Judge Hays in connec- tion He said that Judge Hays had com pared himself with Thomas Jefer- SOD to prove that he is the real Jet- i, ferson fellow
 The rest of Nil Brundidge's speech was along the same lines that he has followed n other places.
 Both candidates were giTeu eDtDo. siastic receptions