The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-04-28
ADDRIss oFLM CARTER
To the Democracy Of the Third Con-
gresuonal District

sIur. Hmr h'om Sou NiI called upon
.u east fUUr Suffrage .u mining tlo uH1i
| .ru-I I.ssmnn from tln IhIm District
| lH.HHn sou fHaU tluf stru. IuOs.re iu caI.
900 ntI0n Iu tlr ilct tlat L am a candid
ttr .nr .unt position subject Oh ihe action
| u. tar Democratic party hlYN n0
claims uIUu Sou t.lt anY Uih.r NrmucWI
Ias noe 7 Was BORN, raised and flucf 'fd
u llr bounds u. fl., Congressional Nst-
r.cL AI lhsrc Is here and % thew aye
/ ODDS rDnu.r nu earth whose welfare !
should g.. aniniere,t ior DO Is Che people
ui ths District.
| aeh Tuu irr your suffrage. I DO not
| ue..Ie tH .l.lLfru Yuu into voting Corr me.
/ neither lu desire Ihlt WN .Uuls take
/ thal stop Iu pushing mY Interests Iu Choir
rH- UUclItr c0unl.t. ", said th Q mnu
/ must De u Congress long number OI
| years before hD j, competent t0 dlsrlaIse
/ Doe dulles ui DIS office efficiently. that IN
NI.. unt be able at amy time iO any pytu-
ordinary dogrrc. ln other words, 10 amln
/ must ir tI.re number %. years before
na is competent io iIl the office, hc WAS
| uOt competent nor qualified when hc was
| elected. believe that "a reasonable men
| WIl agree with me in this statement.
Io oUIustratc:-S1moO Of the greatest men
/ 'his nation has ever known arc men who
mndo their reputation and exercised the
greatest Influence and power In congress
| 'u p leW months on year, after their clrt-
ZION. That Immortal Nplusaau MIl-
liam JennIug, Bryan. elected tO Congress
| Too i-.0 bs TINS force of hts intellect and
energy, forced to che front rank 0i TIE
greatest mon before he had been Zoo Cong
res, six months.
Take the Hon. Joe Bailey Of Texas,
now the leader of the democratic party Zoo
| the Lower House of Congress; before he
bad been There one half the length ni time
my opponent has, Dee had not only become
useful and influential lu Congress but he
| has been by the Democratic party. elect
ed their leader in the Lower House OF
Congress.
Take Sir. William Pitt OF Eugland;-
before he was 22 years old he bad madc
Che proioundest speech in the House of
Parliament the English Speaking people
had ever listened 10: and before he was
2S years old he was made the head of the
English Government There are other
examples mo- less noted and conspicuous
than those ] have given, both in this
country and I'm the other countries OF the
world.
soon after my announcement through
the press ] wrote number of letters in
the interest of my candidacy In which
0
rev Jackson I'm Congress, in 1923, condem-
ming long terms iu Office i'm the strongest
language. This letter with the extract
seems TO have made am impression on the
oOple of this District; am my opponent
| feeling called upon TO answer lt, has
written circul letter dated March IT,.
| lsgs. It has been sent broadcast through
out the length and breadth of this Dis
| trict. I'm that letter he says, General
jackson had uoreference TO Legislative
Offices. and that iH the message he was
giving his reasons why he proposed TO re-
move his enemies from Oiiiceand place his
friends ion their place Why my opp0n-
emit has put this statement I'm his letter is
iuc0mprehensible 10 me. As | before
stated. my letter with this extract, seems
TO- nave madean impression ON the people:
and my opponent, presume, felt that he
was called upon TO explain it away, he
has taken the liberty 10 say that Cen-
eral Jackson was only giving his reasons
why me was going to remove his enemies
from Office and place his friends in their
Dlace;-thereby leaving the inference
that he had no reference i'm that message
to elective offices or legislative offices.
] have the message of General Jack
sons now before me. Al the time l sent
out the extract ! knew what it contained
There is absolutely no thought touching,
u the remOtest degree, i'm any particular,
the removing of enemies from ON ana
the placing of his friends i'm their place.
Knowing mv opponentas do he certain
ly could not have made that statement
knowingly, and my, fellow citizens. if he
made it iguOrantly. it is certainly, in my
Judgment ineXcuSabe.
That YOU may know that / am not
mispepresenting the facts, / cite you to
Messages and Papers OF the Presidents,
Vol. .. Page 442 More than three weeks
ago / called attention to the fact, through
the public press that the message and
Mr. McRea'S 5 Interpretation did not cores
pond and that Notwithstanding that
have seen no explanation from MIN Mr..
McRea says further i'm his letter that
General Jackson could not have referred
to legislative offices because no one knew
better than he' the value of experienced
man in Congress. Therefore, he says he
could not have meant legislative Offices.
General Jackson says in that same mess
age. speaking to the same point that Mr..
McRea SAYS he did not meant cannot
but believe more is lost by the long contin-
uance ofmen i'm Office than is generally to
be gained by their experience.
assert than no man unbiased either
for or against MCRea or myself can read
this circular letter closely without COM
ing to the conclusion that he Is IN
favor of life tenue for Congressman.
There is no other conclusion to arrive at.
On this point, at least the Democrtlc
party has always stood opposed. In TN
last National Democratic platform one
of the planks in that platform is, that
the Demicratic party is opposed to life
tenue i'm Office except as provided by the
constitutions Long terms in Office is
against the spirit of this government.
The practice is not just to the equally
deserving members of our party and OF
our Government.
Why should your neighborS boy, who is
not more derserVing OF his party and the
people. who is not better qualified to MI
|. the office than isyour boy, be placed in
Office and kept there continuously and
your boy however ambitious he may be
10 fiji that position, forever held down
and made SubServient to the will and
wishes of your neighbOr's boy? Is it
right? If it is, and if you say it is, have
not been educated riaht; neither do l un-
derstand the people amongst whom |
live
1t is said again that this is the wrong
time to take Mr. McRea out of office, be-
cause as some of his friends say this is a
critical period and his services cannot be
dispensed with now Is this true? will
ask You what il is that Mr.. McRea can do
in Congress at the present time that any
-other honest man cannot do! All he can
do is TO vote. follow the lead Of his party?
and any other houest man can do as much,
saving nothing whatever of his qualiica-
ti0ns. lie has charge Of no Committees;
he has charge Of no special legislation he
| is as powerless standing alone in Congress
as the weakest man in the government.
Because tits a Republican Administration
and no Democrat can hope to pass any
law embodying the principles in our party
platform. Even If the next Congress
should be Democratic, and l hope and
believe that it will be, yet there is no hope
for a Democrat to do any legislating;
because the Senate will be republican and
the Presidents RupHblican. Therefore
nntfl there isanOther Administration OF