The courier-index., 1920-11-12

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 The bill for the creation of Cool idge county, the first name propos- l ed, was introduced in the legislature | in January 1873, but it was showed | from committee to committee 'tiil | the latter part of March, when the fight began in earnest.
 The Arkansas Gazette prints a letter from Judge Hutton which gives a good idea of the feeling about the matter.
 Arkansas Gazette, Tuesday, March
 25, 1s73-Coolidge County. Editor Gazette -
 Our attention has been callel to publication made in the Helena | Daily Clarion of the 18th inst. in which we are made the subject of unkind strictures.
 We wish do not wish to give a lengthy notice of the article allud- ed to, as the community in which the Clarion is most largely circulat- ed has long since by common con- sent, rendered the virdiet that false hood stands godfather to most of its printed thoughts.
 The subject of Coolidge county being discussed by the Clarion, there seems a desire to know whether we have in our memorandum book any ! blank deeds to town lots with which to mobilierize some of the weak | lambs of the legislative flock.
 Suffice it to say that we are NOT engaged in the CREDIT MOBILIER | business; if we were and needed the | influence of the Clarion to advance our measure, we would use untir- | ing efforts to get up little job of public printing which would cer- l tainly make the capture. The Clar- ! ion undertakes to say that it is not the people of the district to be set off who are asking for the creation of the county of Coolidge, and that those living on the territory pro posed to be taken from St. Francis county have almost unanimously re- monstrated against it. This gives us occasion to state that we have seen | the St. Francis county remonstrance and pronounce it one of the most uncomely bastards upon which we have ever looked Last spring we were at the St Francis county cir cult court, at which time there was much interest and excitement over | the proposition to remove the coun- | ty site from Madison to Forrest | City. We had an opportunity of examining the petition gotten up by the people in support of that pro- | ject. And now when the Clarion's | St. Francis remonstrance comes. 1t comes clothed in the apparel of the most damnable fraud and false hood that was ever attempted to be thrust upon an intelligent leg islative body.
 It is the very petition to remove the county site with the caption cut off and a new heading pasted | on.
 Let it be told in Gath or in the streets of Eschilon that such wicked and premeditated frauds will fail to their purpose and notwithstanding the St. Francis county remonstrance and the Helena Porter-House fraud, | Coolidge county, like the dead phil anthropist for whom it is named, will yet stand as a monument of pride in our state.
 We close by saying that when anyone deisres to attach our motives or our conduct, politically or other wise, our foot is upon our native hearth and our name is McGregor. | H. N. HUTTON. | P. S.-In the Republican of the 24th we notice card from Q. R. Underwood, judge of the probate and county court of Phillips in which animosity appears with ref erence to the creation of Coolidge county. The card asks for the pub- lication of an article from the Helena Clarion which contains the statements which are not au- thorized by facts or respectable strategy.
 The thrust made by the Clarion strikes directly at Col William II. ! Wood who, being q gentleman, can- not be seriously harmed hy the feeble shafts Of 3 country journal The purse pro0d nonresident whom the cion saE proposes gQ spend a "w thousand Nollar on tho legislature a the interest of Coolidge eou8 has mot paa' nor otEerea to pay ae ln penny r
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