Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-05

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 party is big. Straw shows the way wind blows and I say, gentlemen, we did good to get what we did.
 Was it just that the committee re- fused us the right to get evidence that we could. Ain't it ridiculous. Senator Clarke said he wanted to do the right thing, but when the time came he refused us everything. We stand for what we think is right, and will, whether you grant it to us or not. If we, are to be the kind of Democrats we should, God pity the man who brings contest before the party to which he belongs. Are you going to say that?"
 MT. Powell closed his remarks by saying '.Gentlemen, l am before you as young Democrat and am asking for only what is right by the Dem- ocratic party. I now leave it with you." At the conclusion of his speech IO Wdo dCNOIuOu ACdl ey dpplouoOs Contest a Falsity, Says Clarke. When Senator Clarke reached the center of the stage he was greeted with round of applause, and yells from all parts of the house, which lasted for several minutes. After quiet had been restored and Senator Clarke attempted to make his ad- dress. the Clarke yells again forced
 him to halt, and fully five minutes l elapsed before he was able to re- sume.
 "The whole contest is falsity, a fabric substantiated on a newspaper ! report" said Senator Clarke. 'I do
 not admit the. majority was but PIP. though the returns show it. Kirby
 was surprised with coming within PIP votes of being, elected, and was
 at him coming within 21,000. Kirby
 received 125 votes in Harrisburgh
 and you can't go there now and find twenty-five who voted for him. "In regard to Poinsett county" continued Senator Clarke, "I have al- way carried the counties on the Mis-
 sissippi river and there was noth-
 ing unusual in the vote there. If the I NONSo "SiC AOl Pul III CIC UOA lOT IIlt l do not want them, but if they were, | want every one that was placed there. Defends Clyde Going.
 l Il want to say that some of the
 best people in Arkansas live in Poin- ! sett county, and among them Mir. Clyde Going, whom 1 now publicly | acknowledge as one of my best friends. At this point there was an
 uproar of applause and yells for Going and Poinsett county which l lasted several minutes At every | instance during his speech, that the
 name of Going was mentioned, the
 same applause was given the speaker
 and in many instances quiet could
 not be restored for some time. l Fl want to say to you gentlemen
 that some of the best men ia the state
 are on the state central committee
 among them Honorable w. F. Cole
 man of Pine Bluff. Mir. Coleman was
 Kirby man from the start. and in
 ms good Judgment was among the
 1lrst to find me the nominee by the
 vote or 22 to at the state central
 commltte meeting held in Little 1 Rock
 Senator Clarke then read tele-
 gram from E. c. Blanton of Little
 hlver county in answer to the tele-
 gram which Judge Kirby used in his
 statement which was published in
 The Graphic Wednesday morning. Po1nsett County Again.
 1 senator Clarke said that at Pitts.
 PolAsett county, Oodson township
 out of majority of "A votes cast
 Judge Kirby had received 19 and o1Iv
 i've were accredited to him. "As vol,
 Know township which polls only 24 votes. said Senator Clarke "is not
 nara to canvass. I had it done. and
 rlght here in my hand at this time
 l nave afidavits from 19 votes in that
 township who casted their votes for
 me. The vote should have been re- versed." io-
 At Cleburne the press showed me
 -al majority, yet the official count
 showed 251 for Kirby later. I did not cry fraud or contest. It is pettino
 to De state scandal that the govar.
 nor offlce demands of state election
 oni,ilssiohers t fraud and it has got
 o s,op. | wrote that election law to
 nlo.ect white people and not to serve
 as tooi TOT men to blackmail them 1 selves into office"
 eiafke Answers and Makes Charges. 1 Al the time Senator Clarke was at
 .is point Of his speech, voice from
 .ne audience yelled "how about Rem
 meil. Senator Clarke said che will
 uo when his time comes, but as vet
 u mas failed to reach him. I wonld
 mucn rather live under honest l government by Remmell than hv
 Democratic election thieves. I never
 s.u1fed ballot box or allowed one l .o pc stuffed for me-" Senator Clarke sald III this kind of blackmailing con
 mnues Remmells time will soon senator Clarke said that ia 1912 If42 poll taxes were paid in Poinsett county. He said that any minor. was