The Nevada County picayune., 1920-04-01

much regret, the conflict that must and will result from this campaign.
 It would seem that the gubernatorial bee has built his hive i'll South Arkan. sas The good county of Ouachita, just south of Nevada, has a candidate for l Governor in the person of my friend 1 Snead Powell, the big proud peacock Napoleon from Camden. MT, Powell ] is generous enough to concede that the other seventyfonr counties in the State have the right to alternate with his county in furnishing Governors for Arkansas In other words, the present incumbent in the Governors office was preceded by a Ouachita county man and it is now that ~county's time again to furnish the Governor.
 My good friend Mir. Powell has a most unique record as a politician. He enjoys the peculiar distinction of hay | ing reversed himself in his attitude l Governor and United States Senator during the last fifteen years, save and except two In other words. if he sup ports a candidate in one election, in the next election he opposes him, and vice versa The present Governor is an exception to the rule He has en- joyed Mr. Powell's support from the l beginning to the end. If the present administration is a success, Smead l Powell is entitled to a part of the credit and if it has been a failure he is likewise entitled to his part of the credit, since he has been one of the Governors chief advisers during his two terms of office
 Mir Powell has, for d number of 1 years, been a standing candidate for United States Senator. He started out this time to run for that office but decided he would first take over the Governors office and go from there to the Senate, Two years ago he launched his campaign for the Senate by mak- ing himself big speech over at Kings land. I believe it was, and in this 1 speech he took a strong stand against woman suffrage but I am informed that he now occupies the foremost seat in the equal suffrage bardwagon. \ fellow ill referring to Mf. Powell the other day. called him "vacillator." said. What is a vacillator?e He said. "A yacillator is a fellow all sliclled over with vaseline, so he can slip ana slide about from one politicians camp 70 another without any friction
 Mir. Powell got to the first quarter i'll his race for the Senate two years ago. then took out and formed q coalition with Col Brundige to beat Joe Robin son. and strange coalition it was l indeed. If I am not mistaken. this k the same Smead Powell who landed i'll Helena, in Phillips county, about the second or third day after the election in the Hays Brundige contest for Gov ernor. He was at that time q friend of George Hays, and it is said he gave wholesome advice and counsel to the politicians of Phillips county, who were then and there engaged in apportion- ing the vote of that county between | the two candidates for Governor. About week later the apportionment was announced resulting in the cleo l tion of Governor Hays. l have never 1 believed that Governor Hays knew of, or was a party to the things that trans pired in this Helena conference. Col. Brundige and his friends felt that he 1 had been outraged. and contested the election and carried the contest to the courts, but the case was finally dis missed on the ground that the courts had no jurisdiction to try and deter mine the rights of the parties
 Mr. Powell, of course. couldn't Jeo- pardize his reputation as ''vacillator 1 therefore he had to support Col. Brun- dige in his last fight for the Senate. It was an awful jump from the Helena conference to the leadership of the l ColonePs forces in South Arkansas, and nobody but a "yacillatera could make he landing, but MT. Powell landed safely, and made valiant light Tor the Col, appealing specially to his friends in Ouachita county to support his new made friend. and when the election was over and the smoke of battle had all cleared away, he figured up his friends votes in that county and found he had secured for him 359 votes as against 1905 for Senator Robinson. It is pre-