The Forrest City times., 1913-07-25
Speaking In Johnson Township,

A Times man had the pleasure of | making a little excursion up into Johnson township on last Saturday afternoon in company with County
 Judge E, A. Rolfe, MT and Mrs.
 Eugene Williams and Attorney John
 W. Wade, of Little Rock, the latter gentleman being one of the speakers sent out by the State Democratic central Committee in the interest of the candidacy of Judge George w. Hays, the democratic nominee for governor. The party made the trip Tn the Williams car and all enjoyed themselves very much. Some of the features of the trip aside from the speech of Judge Wade that brought forth expressions of admiration and commendation from the party was the perfect condition of the crops and the splendid fields of cotton and corn, smiling with the promise of an abund- ant harvest. The roads, too, for the excellent condition of which, Judge Rolfe is entitled to the lions share of the honors, was also the subject of much favorable comment and praise.
 At Lattlmer'S SchoolhouSe Judge
 Wade delivered one of the finest speeches to which we have had the pleasure of listening in many a day. Two of the best points that gentleman made was in reference to the can didacy of Col. George w. Murphy, the bull moose candidate for governor. He said that Col, Murphy became can didate upon the endorsement and sanction of Theodore Roosevelt. He referred to Roosevelt as the man who had insulted Jefferson Davis, the president of the confederacy grossly and without proyocatiOn, as the man who, through spite and in the spirit of anger, had closed the Indianola,
 Mississippi poStotfice, because a negro postmistress of that city saw it to re- sign. Roosevelt, looking through the dark glasses of partisan prejudice and bitterness, and gratifying a natural hatred for the South, said that the negro poStmiStresS of Indianola had been goaded, forced and coerced into giving up the job and, waving the bloody shirt in the faces of the white people of Mississippi, Roosevelt, in rage, abolished the postotfice at Indi- anola. Judge Wade also referred to the dining of Booker T. Washington by Roosevelt, but disposed of that in- cident by saying that it was merely hldIIeI Ol UdSCe. mercy mention these incidents in thelife of Roose welt" gentlemen, that you may know the true character of the man who is now endeavoring to use Col. George w. Murphy to catch and round up the old Confederate soldiers and the sons ot the Confederate soldiers in Arkan- sas, as candidate for governor on the bull moose ticket"
 Judge Wade disposed of the repub- llcans by making a comparison of the enormous extravaganza of the admin iStration of the states affairs under republican rule and by a comprehens- i've list of figures showed how the ex- penses of the state government had been cut down under the succeeding democratic administrations When | the republicans were in power, said l Judge Wade, the people of the state were tax-ridden and when the repub- l licans were finally thrown out, they left only 67 cents in the state treas | ury, with practically nothing to show for the money that had been | collected from the people.
 All those who heard the speech of Judge Wade left the building with an inspiration to work for democratic success and the returns from Johnson show that they did not work in vain