The Green Forest tribune., 1914-07-31
Senatorial Campaign Opened.

Rock House by A. J. Russell, the Re- publican nominee, and Lem Kendall, the Democratic nominee.
 Judging from the start made Sat urday this is to be spirited campaign, but conducted on high plane, and the people are to be well entertained by these gentlemen.
 MT. Russell made the opening address. He said he had never been candidate in the real sense of the word before his party for any nomination; that his nominations had all come to him with out his asking for them, or making any scramble for them. In this particular race he thanked the people of Madison county for having taken the lead in asking Carroll county man to make the race on the Republican ticket, not withstanding, according to Democratic precedent, this was Madison county's time. He said, however, that the order could be changed and that Madison county could have the senator the next time.
 He discussed the state revenue laws and declared that the present deficit of over 800, ,000.00 in the state treasury is due largely to laxity of our assess ment laws; that the Federal census of 1910 showed that Arkansas had property values of nearly two billion dollars, while the state assessment was only three and quarter million dollars, or barely twenty per cent; the speaker de- clared that this great difference was caused by one and half billion dollars or 80 per cents of the entire wealth of the state failing to find it's way onto the tax books.
 MT. Russell discussed his stand on many of the questions coming before the session of 1911. He declared that he would continue, if elected, to wage a fight for the revision of our election laws. so that the minority party could have one official of it's own choice on all the election boards. He said it was not fair for the governor, the secretary of state and the attorney general who were all of the same political party many times were candidates themselves, as they are at this time, to name the county election boards; that while they had this time allowed the Republicans of Carroll and Madison to name their members of the boards, he said in many of the other counties the Re publican organization had been turned down.
 As to the senatorial race the speaker predicted that he and MT. Kendall would get along admirably and that he believed that this would really be con- test as to their fitness, experience and qualification.
 MT Kendall was then introduced and made very pleasing address which was attentivsly listened to-. He spoke in high terms of hisopponent and pre- dicted also that they would remain the same personal friends that they had been for years.
 He said he was not going to deal with theories but would deal with real live issues of the day; that he being a farmer he was acquainted with and knew the needs of people.
 The Democratic state convention he said he had gone on record in favor of new constitution; that the constitution 1874 was good in its day but that it was not now equal to the rapid growth, development and progress of the state, and that he himself favored new con- stitution. He also said that perhaps the election laws should be amended; that it did not look exactly right for state officials, who sometimes were candi- dates, to be on the state election boards.
 MT. Kendall declared that he did not and would not ask men to vote for him simply because he was Democrat; that he asked the vote of no man who thought him dishonest or incompe- tent He said Russell's name was placed before the Republican state con- vention two years ago for governor and that the negroes defeated him and now he is running for state senator. He said he sent for copy of the Journal of 1911 when Russell was a member of the legislature and that he was going to study his record and that he might late CT on in this campaign see fit to criticize MT. Russel's record,
 He urged his friends to stand with him in this race; that he was real, sure- enough candidate; that the office was an honorable one, if honorably filled, but that there was but very little money in it. He closed by thanking the people of his own county for their sup port in the past and particularly thanked the people of Carroll county for the splendid support given him in the late primary, notwithstanding the fact that two other able and very elegant gen tlemen were in the race against him.
 Joint dates for these candidates will likely be arranged for both Madison and Carroll counties. .-Berryvile Pro- gress.