Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-05
Hear GubernatOrial Can |didate Speak at Court House
EIES HE SOLICITED
 HELP FROM BROUGH
ECoyernor Continually Sought to Make Him Cease His lacks on Joe H0use-Charges
 Fee Grabbing
i the penitentiary commission,

ay department and the can pods burea," alias agriculture Iment, are mulcting the peo Arkansas, and that when he, a Tor, "gets a whack at the sap |s he'll clip their bills off t. Ives" were declarations O Powell of Camden in an hou Eff speech here last night il of his candidacy for the gov hip. Former Congressman ESecretary of State Terral ant ther opponents MT. Powel rid Those to escape the shafts O baker were former Congress cRae and a few of the guber candidates punched as "als' len 800 and 600 men and wo kended the meeting, by far thu audience to greet any candi Ire this campaign. Count! Williams had granted the us' avn, where chairs were placed etric lights suspended. A brass ntertained the crowd pend arrival of MT. Powell, who wal former Mayor Simon Bloom o the audience, on his tril lar City.
 owell, after being presented emp Toney, acting for Greco as "the next governor o1 ," explained he was a bit as this was his fourth en' t of the day, during which travelled 115 miles in a Ford ed by declaring he was the { all the others in the race mingly were more afraid o1 of any others; gave a brie1 f his family history; made on" of "v6ting for Brough,' mitted repentance" H. frankly that upon assuming will fill appointive posi-. th friends and supporters izing these as "the best the state."
 ArraiOus Officials
 If the address was devoted Inment of the officials o1 D board and highway depart. Powell promising, if elect we the state $60,0OO a year idating the tax and corpora missions, and possibly save 10 $250,000 more by consoli. e penitentiary commission board of control of charit. buttons. Sale of the peni. which cost $300,000, was ad- ohm T. Burkett, member son board, was flayed. He Ied with sumptuous enter. heriffs and deputies at the | the state in the effort tc political organization, and ed of sending convicts from farm to cultivate the Bur. lrty. That Captain Burkett the pardon arrangements there was money involved' Ter charge made by Mir 10 alleged that $1,0OO was |rocuring the pardon of the robbed the Bank of Huttie or $2,500 in procuring g man convicted of mur- of which matters, he said led by Captain Burkett. MT W a laugh from the crowd related that Captain Bur. anne to Arkansas on a gov nagboat operating in the river, at which time, he tain Burkett was repub pc" House, as the candidate
 the highway department ould have made million ii P2OO,0O0,000 worth of road. by "two-man bills" hac ructed, he asserted. Tho lure whittled MT. House.. on from million on the
 basis to $5,OOO straigh, attorney was equal to the according to Mir. Powell ga that the highway de lttorney also represented ts, engineers and contract eaker citing such fees a,
 a Howard county distric' rom a district in Uniol
 engineers and contractor.
 MT. House was paid thes, 'arged, for his ability t,
 distrlcts appropriatioks
 tate and federal funds tne state department, ant ce in awarding contracts.
 ttacks Brought
 ler, erstwhile engineer fol
 ent' was another held u, wealth through "influ
 penslng the half million
 oo'ooO federal road funds
 It on Hugh and he resign
 s just as popular at tn,
 ment," MT. Powell said
 mat MT. Carter had ob
 iiiions of road contract because of "his influenc,
 rtment." There are oth
 he said, who prof
 em right here in Pin
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