Pocahontas star herald., 1926-08-12
BOWERS GETS HEARTY
G. 0. P. ENDORSEMENT

G.. 0. p. ENDORSEMENT
In the Arkansas Gazette Sunday the
/, Republicans of the state had the fol-
lowing to say Of their gubernatorial
candidate, NJ. d. Bowers, of Pocahon-
tas:
Democrats generally are disgusted
at the disclosures that have been made
by the two candidates for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination. Many
declare they would not vote for either
one if nominated. 1t is unnecessary
to repeat the epithets and charges that
have been hurled back and forth ad
nauseam. If the charges are true then
neither of the Democratic candidates
is fit to be governor. If the charges
are untrue, then the men that would
make such false charges are unfit to
occupy the highest position in the
state.
Rising above this welter of politics
is young man. forty years old, whose
character is without reprOach and
whose career is without a blemish--
Nj. ID. Bowers of Randolph county, the
Republican candidate for governor. His
career is one for yours sons to emulate.
Born of God fearing parents, he labor
ed on farm, except for two brief in
tervals, until he was 21 years of age.
He knows what it is to labor with his
hands. He was the Oldest boy i'm
large family and the burdens on him
were heavy, but he managed to attend
four terms at Ouachita-Maynard Aca-
deny and POcahOntas High School five
winters, returning home each spring to
make crop In 1910 he entered the
State University at Fayetteville work
ing his way for two years. He was
class orator in his freshman and soph-
OmOre years, represented his class in
the freshman-sOphOmO debate; won
the highest place on the Arkansas in
ter-collegiate debating team and was
one of the Arkansas representatives in
the debate with the Mississippi Uni
versity at Oxford, Mississippi. In the
student strike in 1912, he was chosen
by' the student body to defend the 36
expelled seniors in the Ozark theater
before the Governor and Board of
Trustees, and the 80 seniors were re-
instated.
He was admitted to the bar In PO-
cahontas in 1913 and practiced until
the war. when he enlisted as a private
on April Is, 1917, just twelve days
after the declaration of war against
Germany, and was the first volunteer
from his county. He returned in No
vember, 1918, and in 1920 formed
law partnership with Judge W. L.
Pope, who is now Democratic can
didate for Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court.
On February 1. 1926 he was ap-
pointed Assistant United States Attor-
ney and his splendid work in the fed
eral court at Little Rock, in enforcing
the laws of the United States is we'll
known not only to the bar but the pub
lie generally. The same energy that
made Drew Bowers the champion
corn cutter of Randolph county as a
boy is today making him a champion
in enforcing the peoples laws in the
United States courts.
In 1908 and in 1916 he was the Re
publican candidate for representative
from Randolph county, in the latter
year losing the county seat by only ~
votes. In 1924 he was the Republican
nominee for Congress from the Second
Congressional District. speaking in
every county and in the face of tre-
mendous odds making record that
reflected honor on himself and his
party.
Drew Bowers inherited some Of his
splendid mental equipment and ora
tion ability from his father. who was
a well known Baptist minister in
northeast Arkansas. His father was a
Democrat but was an independent
voter. One of his mothers brothers
was in the Union army but all her
<other brothers old enough to serve
were in the Confederate army and one
of them lost his life in battle.
Drew Bowers is the man of the hour
in Arkansas politics. The people have
said that If the Republicans would
nominate man of unimpeachable
character and high attainments they
would support him. You now have
that opportunity. Every vote for Bow
ers In the general election on Octo-
ber 5th will be a warning to the Ar
kansas Democracy that they must
clean house. His election would focus
the eyes Of the nation on the Wonder
State and be notice to the United
States that the people here vote as
they pray and that they have deter
mined to nut an end to Slum politics