The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1914-01-08
KIRBY DECLINES A
JOINT CAMP Align
SAYS CLARKE CONFESSES
TO CHARGES HE HAS BROUGHT,
LEAVING NO ISSUE BE-
TWEEN THEM.

Little Rock, Jan. 5.-There will be
no joint campaign of the state by
Judge w. F. Kirby and Senator Jas.
P. Clarke for the senatorial nominal
ton. Judge Kirby early in the cam
paign invited Senator Clarke to meet
him, but Senator Clarke hesitated so
long that now Judge Kirby declines
to meet him on the stump.
This is the latest development in
one of the most interesting contests
for the United States senate Arkan-
.sas has known in several years. Sen
-ator Clarke refuses to speak to Judge
Kirby, declaring that he will have no
personal dealings with one who in
'dulges in such mean and contemplate
things to which Judge Kirby retorts
that if the things he is telling about
his opponent are "mean and contempt
ible" they are the things of which
Senator Clarke has himself been
y guilty.
Last Friday Senator Clarke ad-
q dressed the following letter to Judge
|, Kirby:
q Recalling the fact that you an
nounced on the circulars giving no
/. tice of the times and places at which
you intended to address the voters of
NJ Washington and Benton counties that
j, as your opponent for the senator
chip, was invited to be present to par
ticipate in a joint discussion of the
issues raised in this campaign, l take
Dccasion to say to you now that the
condition of the public business is
4 such that I may devote some time to
IL the service indicated. l therefore take
Nsthis occasion to ask you to indicate
when it will suit your pleasure to hold
"a conference, personally or through
your authorized representatives, for
the purpose of fixing the dates and
places where such a joint discussion
may take place.
.J 81 quite agree with your published
IS Statements that this is the most sat
Il isfactory method in which the real
controversies of this contest may be
!. clearly defined and distinctly present
ed to others.
& GAS | deem this to be matter of
some present Importance, | trust you
will make as early reply to this let
Ter as your convenience will permit. y
l# Saturday afternoon Judge Kirby
NJ sent the following reply:
HI "Your letter of the End inst, ex-
desire to open negotiations
hooking to a joint senatorial campaign,
%has been handed me by your messen-
ger.
II "Having attacked your record, and
made some charges, including the one
that you kept Charles l.. Watkins,
manager of your street car system in
Argenta, upon the government pay
roll and paid him $10,056 from the
&government treasury while he was on
4XLne JOD as SUCH uldHdSei III al h"iioe'''
u thought it fair to have joint dis
cussion, and accordingly invited you
Ito Join me in Benton county. You
lRthen declined this, saying your pres
ence was required in Washington city,
although you had been in the state for
"a month past
"Since then you have admitted, in
your statement in the Arkansas Ga
zette of Sunday, November 30, 1913,
that the charges made against you in
my announcement circular are true,
and there are no issues now between
us requiring a joint campaign.
'In addition, you are personally dis
courteous and uncivil to me, having
\refused to speak when | last spoke to
you and, under the circumstances, a
@:ioint discussion could not but be most
and disagreeable, and con-
ssducive neither to party harmony nor
the public interest.
M 81. therefore, do not now intend to
2|engage in any such discussion at all