Pocahontas star herald., 1916-05-26
[. Newton Ellis Answers
Manson, Ark, May 20, 1919,
Mr., l.. f. Blankenship,
Editor Star Herald,

oHlV Tow lines in your columns in
Which TO defend the good citizens
Of Randolph county and Pooahon.
IAs, aud to refute some false aud
splsenful statements made in your
last Issue by J. ]. Lewis about them
aud myselfS
| am now on my little farm at
work a. d have been ever since the
primary, as thought free, at least
for awhile, frcm the dirty filings and
stabs OF a little measley bunch OF
self coneeited political cut-throals,
professional fratrioldes, aud domes.
TIC assassins, there IN Pocahontas,
who II seems set out several months
ago, 10 destroy me before the people
OF my county, aud who have so ig.
continuously failed, that it has almost
killed them. ] believe aud feel
almost sure that the people care
very little for what he said, neither
do care, so long as it is directed
solely at me, but when he waits so
long that perhaps some Of the peo.
pie may have forgotten the facts,
aud comes out and makes such 3
stab as he has and includes my
home people, among whom we both
live, | feel that 1t is my duty TO
refresh your minds very briefly.
thought that when the people
spoke their verdict and a msjorlty
Of over $500 democrats had chosen
one Of us rs their standard bearer,
that II was over, bat TO my great
surprise, when | picked up the Star
Herald yesterday, more than so days
after the primary, find that one
Ot those Pooahontas Yellow Stone
Geysers (GeesOrs) was in violent
eruption again, and up went and
down came blue mud and black
mad and briney hot water, bespat-
tering me and everybody else IN
reach Of me and especially the good
people Of Pocahontas aud Demun
township.
Now this Yellow Stone Geyser
(Ceeser) proceeds TO uncork the
phIals (yIles) of his wrath upon me
and branded me as a ialsilier aud a
man unworthy his support, and
particularly attributes his defeat
aud my nomination to the people
Of Poeahontas IN the following
words: 81 carried the county as
you observed and was defeated at
Poclhontas."
Shades OF Ananias, "Guard we'll
thy sepulchral treasure" for a
greater than he has risen IN this
modern day, who will rob him of
the laurels ascribed TO him in Holy
Writ as the arch falsifier of all the
ages.
Why, my fellow citizens, Lewis
knows that | defeated HIM 1873
votes in the whole county; defeated
him l07 votes IN Pocahontas, to
which place we both came about lc
years ago, he as one CT your county
officials and | as a teacher in the
Pocahontas public schools; the place
where we have both lived our lives
before our tellowmen; the place
where Lewis told you good people
Of Randolph county during the
campaign, to come and you could
find what manner of man was op.
posing him for the legislature. My
answer back to you good people is
2sl votes to his ia, right at home.
Lewis knows that / defeated him
26 votes in she county leaving out
Pooahontas entirely; defeated HIM
nearly 2 to III Brlstow, my home
township, where he told all over
the county he would beat me; de-
featsd him over to IN O'kean;
over to l in Noland; 3 to l InRey-
no, which JOINS his home township,
the good township Of Richardson;
9 to | and II votes to spare in Ra-
Nenden Springs, where the road
question is a live matter; tied HIM
IN Columbia, and tied him in Wiley;
and in the good township, Little
Black, which has always been a
political GIbralter for Lewis and
which joins right up against his
home township, he received only o
more votes than / and yet at this
late date he comes out in the effort
to make 1t appear to all these good
townships that Pocahontas was the
only place against him and for me.
What do you think of 1t? | do
most sincerely appreciate the good
vote you honored me with all over
this county, and l as equally appre
cate the magnificent rally of both
my home townships, Bristow and
Demun.
"a good name at home is
monument abroad" and | feel sure
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