Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1892-05-05
McRAE,s MATCHLEss RECORD.

ADNfht 81 tlAilHH ANbS'J WV ANEN' 49,
has charged Maj. Sewer with fla
GRAVITY misrepresenting the Legs
lative and Congressional record OF
his absent competitor, Mr.. McRae.
These Misrepresentation have by no
means escaped the notice Of the pa
pers in the district, as the following
extract from the Howard County
Press shows:
A certain paper quotes Hon. A.
II. Sewer as saying in enc
of his speeches, that he was unable
to find anything McRae had ever
done for his district. If the would
be Congressman does not keep up
any better than that he is not fit for
Congressman, if he knew better
and intentionally misrepresented Mr..
Mc2ae IN his absence, he is not
worthy the honor he seeks at the
hands OF the people.
The Congressional record contains
a detail report of everything said and
done in both Houses Of Congress.
There is not public library in the
country that does not contain this
publication, and yet Maj. Sewer, =
candidate for Congress against Mr..
McRac, and in his absence, has as
sailed and misrepresented his record
in the Legislature Of 1877, the jOmn-
ais of chich hare nerer been print
ed, because the State was then too
poor to stand the expense, and said
that he could not give his Congress
onal record because he could not
find it. Why is 1t that he could not
find 1t? Certainly he knows that
the Journal and Record of the House
contains it in full, and conveniently
indexed, and there he could have
had in half the time 1t must have TAX
en- him to get his unr eliable data for
his attacks on Mr.. McRae's Legisla-
tive career, which could only be had
by reading the written and we believe
undexed Journal in the office of
the Secretary Of State. 1t would ap-
pear that he had deliberately avoided
the Congressional record because he
knew that he could not successfully
ssssil it without misre presentation,
which could be easily exposed.
Although public attention WAS call
ed to the error in Maj. Sewers false
parallel column before he began his
public canvass, he has repeated these
misrepresentation from every speech
in the district, except Prescott. His
method and persistence on this line
furnish just ground for belief that he
deliberately selected the legislative
record on the subject for his attack.
and misstatements because the jour
nails Of that session were never pub
lished, and exposure is more difficult.
Emboldened by what doubtless seem
cd to him successful attempt to
discredit Mr.. McRae, and in verifi-
cation Of the old adage that mis-
representation never has enough, !"
he declare. that "if Mr.. McRae had
ever introduced bill in Congress
that had become law, his friends
had kept it studiously hid from the
public" OF course the impression
sought to be made by this is that no
bill introduced by Mr.. McRae had
become law. 10 disprove this
misstatemcnt, we will refer briefly to
q part OF Mr.. McRae's record and
service. 1t would require too much
space to recite it all in detail.
In addition to Mr.. McRac's bill to
protect homestead settlers within
railway limit. referred TO generally
last week, we name the following in
relation to public lands: To regu-
late fees for exemplidcation Of land
patents. To allow all proof. and af-
fdavits under the land laws 10 be
made before any Judge, clerk or
commssioner, aud to fix reasonable
fees for such service (instead of re-
quring the settlers to go long dis
tances to the land oilice). To allow
settlers who have abandoned or re-
linquished their homestead entries to
make another entry, and to allow
settlers who have entered less than
100 acres to take enough more to
make that amount, and to provide
for leave of absence from homestead
for sickness or other unavoidable
cause. This bill was fayorably re-
ported to the House, and while pend
ing on the Calendar, Mr.. McRae
moved 1t as an amendment to SEN
ate bill and thereby secured its pass
age, and it is now the law. Several
sections Of this bill to repeal the