Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-31
Little Rock Men Provide Funds for Arkansas Rep
 resentation at Frisco.
ENT THWART REPUBLICANS
Democratic Campaign Committee De- cline Invitation for Joint Debate, Seeing in Bid Trick t0 Get Crowds
 for Rep. SpeII-BinderS.

Little Rock, July Arkansas is going to have it's building at the PanamaPacific exposition. There is no longer any doubt concerning that, but it will be long. uphill campaign to raise the money by private sub scription necessary to maintain it | during the nine months of the San Francisco fair. To the business men of Little Rock must be given credit i for the raising of funds sufficient to insure the erection of the building ill | order. that the site selected by Gov. Hays and his party be retained.
 In order to secure a final deed to | the site the contract for the building must be let by August 9. Before the contract could be let it was absolute ly necessary that the money to pay 1 for the building when completed be in the hands of Commissioner Gener- al F. B. r. Hollenberg. The plans call for a $25,000 building. and in order to raise this money in hurry notes for $500 each, payable next March, were prepared and a committee was sent out among the business men of Little INOCh tO PldSC tIlCIl. IHC III ol udS resulted in $12,50O being placed, and since that time the balance has been raised. This sum is an absolute do nation by Little Rock business men, and it is not loan. Local banks ac- cept the notes and will advance the money to pay for the building as the work progresses.
 The plans for the building, as pre- pared by George R. Mann, have been approved and specifications are now being drawn so they can be rushed to San Francisco and the contract awarded.
 Gov. Hays will this week complete the list of commissioners, but the work of raising the funds will fall on Commissioner General Hollenberg and Publicity Manager R. P. Allen, with the general committee which will have its headquarters in Little Rock. !
 The moving picture proposition for advertising the various sections of the state, thus raising about $20,000, has not been abandoned, and the Pathe concern has sent its operators back to the state to begin this work.
 The campaign for funds will be waged in all sections of the satte and will be as thorough as a canvas for donations for the erection of a com munity church. Every one will have a chance to give, no matter how small may be the widows mite"
 Must Assemble Own Crowds.
 The poor, old Republican party will l,., A,l,, this year, for there will be no Demo- cratic ringmaster to drum up a crowd for the decadent party which would fasten it's tentacles on the Arkansas voter. The state Democratic central committee has opened it's campaign offices in the Southern Trust build ing, and about the first announcement was the body blow to the Republicans that no Democrat would meet the Republican wind tanners in joint de- bate.
 The Republicans, in a perfumed and beautifully worded note, invited the Democrats to tour the state and inl joint debate discuss the party issues. The missive fairly bulged with broth erly love. but it did not take the keen CS co OL tuC DCIuOCl dlIC we'll WGLHCIo long to see the Republicans had al brick in the hand they kept concealed behind their backs. The Republicans desired a joint debate in order tol get crowd to speak to. Not that the Democrats fear that the Republi- cans will be able to Wean party mem bers, and cause chem to stray from the straight and narrow parth, is the debate refused, but just to prevent the Republicans from making a willing tool out of the party.
 The Democrats, will send for spell binders of the Bryan, Jefferson and Wilson brand of speakers. Every country picnic will have man on the stump expounding the Democratic principles and calling upon the rank and file to stand together and in crease the always growing majority l over the Republicans.
 Gov. c. w. Hays will make several speeches during the campaign. but it is the purpose of the committee to relieve him of this labor. He is need ed more in his office than in the field. for with him on the stump there would be no one to attend to the dut- ies of the executive office. It is for this reason that the committee is pre- pairing an extra large list of speak CTS for all counties of the state.
 Capital's Water PrOblcn Serious.
 The most serious question in Little Rock today is the water supply, and the frequent recurrence of the 0cca- siOns on which contaminated water is offered to the citizens by the pub lie service corporation controlling the privilege. indicates that some action will soon be taken by the city which will result in a change of water sup ply from the Arkansas river to deep wells or some mountain stream in this vicinity.
 Little Rock is just now the haven for the dealer in water. He is mak- ing coin while the water is bad. Most wells of Little Rock have been con demned because of typhoid germs. but there are many springs aud deep wells and tha distilled water n1antS