The Little River news., 1916-03-22
LARGE CROWDS
 HEAR BR0UCH
Sy'oke at Court House Friday Night Wingo Also Made Campaign
 Speech; We'll Received.

tIi. V. II. bIouSA, cdHuludLe TOT gov ernoT, met with cordial reception t.t his speech in this city Friday night. dltIIe court room was filled, and a Iarge number of ladies were present. Drt Trough spoke at Foreman in the mdrninS and at Winthrop in the af- terhocn of the same day. Good clowds were reported at each ap- rointment. At the Ashdown meeting Judge J, T. Bowling as chairman made the speech introducing the speaker He paid high tribute to the Doctor, going into some length in his very eloquent way.
 p!. Brough is a polished speaker and lived up to his reputation on this occasion. A large part of his address was devoted to attacks upon and to answering charges made by Earle w. Hodges. He said that he was oppos- ed by a political machine with four wheels. One was the St. Francis Le- | vee Boar d. which was supporting Mir Hodges sn this race, and which in previous elections had dominated the politics ip eastern Arkansas, and had dominated every act of Gov Hays l pertaining to eastern Arkansas since he had been governor. He said tha, another wheel in the machine was Earle W. Hodges, and then proceeded to attack M !. Hodges in regard to the auditing matter. He gave as another wheel of the machine a large num- Der of newsp apers of the state, whom he said were subsidized by the state printing patronage, which Dr. Brough said amounted to $S0,0OO every two years. He said that the fourth wheel of the machine was "Woobly Week Kneed Hays He entered into a scathing attack upon Gov. Hays par doning record, his racing bill record, which he said the governor signed, | vetoed, signed and vetoed.
 He defended his own tax paying record and said that he had always paid his taxes. He laughed at the char ges that had been made against him on the negro question and said that his attitude was the same as the other Southern people.
 He devoted little time to l.. C.. Smith. attacking the latter's whiskey platform. Otherwisa he found no [ fault with MT Smith and said he had ratker those who would not vote for him to vote for Smith rather thai Hodges. addin g that eight out of ten o1 the Smith votes came from Flo i.;"s. l Township Assessor
 pr. Brough discussed his township assessor plan. In regard to this he said in part:
 "l gaiE. tur whole scheme of s'li- assessment and equilization is radl- cally wrong. I believe that we should adopt a modified system of township assessment whereby in each town ship or school district deputy asses scrs working with the assessor should make personal inspection Of the property assessed. with view Of get ting larger proportion of the prop erty on the tax books.
 Under this plan the assessor, or his deputy. could arrange to, meet the people in the several townships a; some date to be duly advertised. and every taxpayer in the community 1 could then appear and go into the matter of his assessment All ox tn, owners in any community could have some voice as to what thei lands ant personal property should be assessed at. Under the preseM conditions hill lands are often assessed on the same tasic as swamp Hands; lands in close proSimately to the railroads, on the sam, basis jas those for distant fromr the railrYads; and very little pre-. tense isfmade of reaching and equal 'zins the personal property"
 DE Brough also announced him. self in favor of using state convicts on public roads. Said he:
 li "The Arkansas farmer pays 26.S Events to haul one ton one mile to nr1arket, whereas, in States with good roads, it costs the farmers less than 8 cents to haul one ton one mile. It is r Aafe to say that bad roads mean loss Lot the farmers and business men of | .lslaSSate snaS of Arkansas each year or ' .ot 2o inIty million dollars"
 t 25 in blocR>sh was cheered frequen r the taxes oh course of his address ecuted August oNther shorter than ,,AA Part NJ NWa. secb>ia hav,np. to ,aaI I,e south, range 32 wesS