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Surnames: Carnahan, Fishback, Whipple, Fletcher
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Hi Everyone,
This is a really, really long article about various candidates so am only going to include
the information that applies to Jacob Preston Carnahan.
Take care - Emma
New York Times - 17 July 1892 - pg. 4
Parties in Arkansas
Leaders Of The Three Tickets In The Field
Little Rock, Ark., July 16 - The Republican State Convention, held in Little Rock, July 6,
closed the gap in the convention list for this State for 1892, unless the Prohibitionists
should see an opening and put out a ticket later on. Intimations to this effect are
heard, but no overt act has yet occured definitely fixing the purpose of this faction.
Col. William M. Fishback of Fort Smith heads the Democratic State ticket, while Col.
William G. Whipple of Little Rock and Prof. Jacob Preston Carnahan of Fayetteville
represent the Republican and People's Party tickets, respectively.
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Prof. Jacob Preston Carnahan, whose name heads the People's Party ticket, is a native
of Washington County, Ark., and only good report can be said of him. He is fifty-nine
years old, was reared on a farm, and was educated at the common schools of the county and
at Cane Hill College. He was a Captain of Infantry in the Confederate Army, and was
recognized as a brave and capable officer. At the close of the war he returned to his old
home and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1868, he was elected to the Chair of
Mathematics of Cane Hill College, situated at Fayetteville, Ark., and held the position
about ten years.
He started life rooted and grounded in the faith of Democracy, but went off on a tangent
and adopted the belief of the Prohibitionists some years ago, afterward affiliated with
the Wheelers, finally landed in the People's Party and is now the Moses of that
organization, but unlike his Moses, is seeking to lead the people into greater darkness
rather than to turn the light on in the mists of the old world of politics.
Col. Thomas Fletcher, ex-United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas during
President Cleveland's Administration, is "Captain of the boat" at the
People's Party headquarters in this city, and he says his party is going to
"sweep the state like a cyclone." He is a brother of Col. H. L. Fletcher,
present Mayor of Little Rock, and of Col. John G. Fletcher, President of the Gernam
National Bank. The Fletcher family is one of the most prominent in the State, Louis and
John G. being leading democrats.
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