The Pulaskian., 1916-02-25

 manifest. Thomas confessed that he had not checked any vouchers in the office for the period of Dickinson s tenure there. The committee found also that the vouchers during Dickin- son s administration had not been checked by the books in the office.
 Dickinson finally admitted that he had signed a note, oby1ousIy the one referred to in the McAmis affidavit, but said he did not know to whom the note was made payable. Stoddard de- nied having paid Thomas anything for his immunity. Both he and Dickinson denied everything. There was noth- ing else to do. "Bill', has searce1y spoken since, and his friends have come to speak of him as civilian the Si- lent o
 This Second Term Campaign. Dickinson advertises himself as "honest, efficient and courteous" and this is of the same cloth with his ''sec- ond term7 and ''re-electiono dope. It is Imaginable.
 According to the records in the office of auditor, the postage stamp bill for the two years and two months under L.. l.. Coffman was $64230, $24.70 a month. Under two years of John R. lobe s administration the stamp bill was $561.19, only $23.38 a month. Since April l, 1915, under said NJ F. Dickin- son, the stamp bill has aggregated the huge sum of $831.51, for only the nine months up to January l, 1916, an aver age of $92.39 per month.
 Courts Union Labor.
 M. F. Dickinson is posing as a great friend of the Farmers Union and union labor people. He is trying to work the Farmers Union, and the union labor organizations now, but he hash t worked any in so long that he goes about the job rather awkwardly. As an evidence of his love for the union labor cause, his first official act as state auditor was to appoint the Wm. (Silent) Bill" Stoddard as chief deputy auditor of state and "Bill1 is the man who guarded scab labor in Little Rock and Argenta during the machinists strike. This is how the doctor loves union labor.
 Stoddard a Valuable Man.
 On Friday, February Il, I went to the office of state audisor, accompanied by Rev. E. J. A. Mckinney, editor of the Baptist Advance, and Attorney T. D. Crawford, for years reporter for our Supreme Court. asked to see certain records in the office, and was shown the books which had to do with poll taxes. Then I asked to see the books and stubs of poll taxes, but was informed that same were locked in section of a desk used by a clerk, c. M. Coffman. Deputy Auditor Wm. "Billo Stoddard made the bluff of calling on Mir. Coffman for the key to the poll tax blanks and returned stubs, but young Coffman reminded him that he had given Stoddard and Dickinson this key about four months ago in front of the Marion hotel, and "Bill' admitted this was true. He then sud denly remembered that he had given the key to Dickinson, who was out of town. "Bill' invited me to "come back tomorrow and he would let me in and examine the poll taxes, " but told him was going to sit on that desk all night or until it was unlocked. It was plain that Stoddard was only trying to keep me out of that desk. His dis appointment was plainly indicated by an audible grunt when we opened the desk an hour later wits. A key obtained elsewhere in the State House.
 In the presence of Rev. E. J. A. Mo Kinney and T. D. Crawford, Esq, 'tBill' owned up that he had had the key for the last four months, but had recently given it to Dickinson, who was out of town, but Dickinson broke into the morning Gazette before Bill could put him next over the phone, and positively denied that he had ever had the key, or knew anything about it. Why this conflict between Dickin- son and his deputy9
 Thousands of Blank Poll Taxes Gone
 On examination of stubs and other evidences, Rev. E. J. A. Mckinney and Mr. T. D. Crawford and I found sew eral thousand poll tax blanks gone. | called the attention of William Bill , Stoddard to the absence of same and asked him where they went, and he said he didn t know. On the stubs of these missing receipts were found pencil notations indicating where they went, but Bill '' said he did not know what these notations meant. As to what become of them, it is up to Dick inson and his old friend, William s'Bill' Stoddard, to explain. WHAT WENT WITH THOSE BLANK POLL TAX RECEIPTSf They have tried to lay it on the clerk, MT. Coffman, who resigned because he said things were so rotten he could no longer remain. There is at least one sheriff in Arkan- sas who can throw an interesting light as to who was handing out these tax receipts, and I feel it is due to the people, in this connection, to name him. Hon. Tom Edwards, sheriff of Sevier county, was offered 440 blank poll tax receipts for use in his county, but de- clined to accept them, and the offer did not come from Coffman, the clerk, but from William Bill' Stoddard, Mr. Dickinson s chief deputy Call on this sheriff for full particulars. When you hear his answer you can u,,acc fha ba1anae