The Prescott daily news., 1916-02-23
CANDIDATES MAY
 JOIN IN CAMPAIGN
Election Five Weeks Oh-PrO- testant Churches Making Pre- paratiOnS - Eastern Arkan- sans Demand Joint Station.
By Clio Harper.

iSouei Ihdl tue hillu Ol pOllClcS that is being served up to newspaper read CTS in Arkansas SOW is mere child's play in comparison with the kind that engaged the attention of the rough and ready practitioners of those days. To be sure, we are hear ing today the charges, freely made, that this, that or the other candidate is a thief" a "crook," "tax-dodg- CT" a Yankee" or something else equally horrible. But the people re- fuse to become excited about it. In the early days politics was really personal matter, and there was ap- parently no censorship over the things that one candidate or faction might publish about another. If they got too strong there might be a duel and a job for the undertaken, but that was all in the days work.
 The Arkansas campaign is warm ing up with the election only five weeks off, and the chief bitterness has developed in the races for gov ernor and Auditor of State. Charge and counter charge are being passed back and forth between Dr. Brough and Secretary Hodges, and Gov. Hays is figuring in the controversy as proponent of the Secretary. In the Auditors race. the charges of "mis- conduct in the office" made when C. M. Coffman resigned as book-keeper have not yet been cleared up. The missing poll-taX receipts, alleged by Sheriff Oliver, Dr. Dickinson's op- ponent, form the bone of contention that adds interest to what might have otherwise been as devoid of thrills as the races for Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Attorney General.
 The only change in the minor races is the withdrawal of R. P. Allen from the race for Railroad Commissioner of the Northwestern District, and the entrance of F. L. McHoney, young lawyer of Little Rock. The other contestants are Oscar Vim of Little Rock and Walter Brasher of Darda- nelle. Oscar Vim, who has run for the office before, has set a most high standard of qualification for those who would fill that office. He says:
 "To be a Railroad Commissioner re- quires the skill of a stair builder, the art of an engineer, the eye of an artist, the genius of a mathemati- clan, the constructive ability of machinist, the executive vision of a pilot. and the judicial fairness of a Goddess of Justice"
 And yet there are men who are to tackle the job
 The Protestant churches of the city are making great preparations for the Laymen's Missionary Con- vention to be held here the first week in March. The first Sunday the matter was presented to the churches, more than two hundred delegates en- rolled, and this is expected to be in- creased to at least five hundred by the opening of the convention. Some of America's greatest orators and laymen and missionaries will be on the program The rail- roads, with the exception of the M. & N. A., have made a rate of one and one-third fares, and reports from other cities are that there will be a large attendance from outside Little Rock.
 The convention speakers who are coming to Little Rock are holding a convention this week at Lexington, Ky. They will then go to Memphis, after which they come to Little Rock, then to Fort Worth and Okla homa City
 The interest has been very intense in the other Southern cities where the conventions have been held. In Columbia, s. c. there were 2500 regis trations. 1900 in Richmond, Va, and 1000 in Greensboro, N. C., Portland, Ore. reports POGO enrolled.
 The travelling public in Eastern Arkansas are demanding that a joint station he erected at Bridge Junction, and that all trains be re-