The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-14
KINNEY ADDRESS
 WELL RECEIVED
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOB GOVERNOR REVIEWS SOME OF
 HIS LIFE HISTORY.
While Serving as Mayor lie Had An. piled a Novel Method to Punish Man for Being Drunk on the Streets on the Sabbath Day.

Hon. A. L. Kinney, of Green For rest, Ark, republican candidate for governor. spoke last night to a fair sized audience at the city hall He spoke for an hour and a quarter and his remarks were well received. He paid tribute to the past history of the republican party and pointed out that the greatest glory of this republic had been under the guiding hand of the republican party and that the his tory of the United States for the mast 60 years was the history of the repub- lican party.
 Speaking on state issues he referred to the platform of the republicans and gave special stress to the plank in which they advocated women suf. frage, He gave q full account of his past history stating that he was born il the state of Michigan right in the hot bed of republicanism and only a few miles from where the first as sembly of republicans gathered
 He came to Arkansas about five
 
 town of Green Forrest and when he had been there only about IS montlN he was nominated by a mass meeting of citizens for the office of mayor and has held that office for three successive terms.
 He explained his method of hand ling his police court Soon after he was elected mayor he saw a man on the street on Sunday drunk. He knew the man and knew that he had nine children to live off his wages of sl5 per week He was worried, and then wished that he was not mayor as his duty was plain. Before morning he worked out his plan. On Monday morning ne sent out and had the fel- low arrested He was brought into court and told that he had been seen on the street drunk by tke mayor him. self and that it was his duty to fine him The poor. fellow begged for mer- cy. To fiae him meant to starye his wife and children. To send him to jail was worse. So MT Kinney fined
 
 10 work it out on Sunday, He allowed him Sl25 credit on his fine for every sermon he heard on Sunday, and the man paid the fine in that way, and has been a good lawabiding citizen since. lie has had some forty or fifty before him and handled them in the same way. and says that Ae has not had but two the second time.
 MT. Mckinney criticised Governor Hays for his pardon record. He re- viewed the Arthur Tillman case and in no uncertain terms denounced him for refusing petition of one thousand women, and all of the ministers of the city of Little Rock, asking that exc cution be stayed for six weeks to give the boy a chance to bring before him evidence of his innocence. And inas- much as the supreme court in sus- taining the lower court in this case had decided it upon the law strictly, yet had stated that the eliment of doubt had not been removed. He be- Heved that human life was too sacred for man with the power of the gov ernor to refuse to give that boy chance if possible to prove lis inno- cence.
 The audience was not an e1thusias- tic one, yet there was quite q little applause and as a whole his remarks were well received Jas, s. McCon- nell, in the absence of the chairman of the republican county central com mittee. presided.