Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-30
OLDFIELD vs.. MYERS
Candidates Meet in Joint Debate
in This County

Hon. w. A. Oldfeld of Bates
vile, Democratic nominee for con-
gress, and his Republican opponent,
Hon. H. H. Myers of Brinkley and
Little Rock, made a series of joint
debates in this county, opening here
last Saturday and winding up at
Holmes Monday. night.
Mr.. Oldfeld started the ball to
rolling by opening with broadside
against Republican extravaganza
and corruption. He showed the in
iquities and discrimination of the
robber tariff, and declared amid
wild applause that the Republicans
couldn't raise large enough cor
ruption fund this year to defeat
Bryan. After making an earnest
appeal to all Democrats to go to the
polls on November 3, and help en-
large the Democratic majority in
old Randolph county, he closed
amid the applause of his auditors.
Mr.. Myers followed with a very
eloquent address. He is an enter
tanning talker and kept his audience
in a roar of laughter throughout his
speech. He told why he was Re-
publican and why he wished there
would ALWAYS be a Democratic party,
but he failed to tell why the Repub.
lIcan party was opposed to publicity
of campaign contributions, opposed
to the election of United States SEN
ators by direct vote of the people,
opposed to the guarantee of bank
or why there is danger of
a continuation of the present Re-
publican panic in case the Demo
Gratis carry the election. He stated
positively that the South was the
richest section of country in the
world-that it produced nearly one
half of the worlds wealth, aud that
it should for that reason vote the
ticket in order to be
more prosperous. He failed to
in his eulogy of the South
land that it is the only solidly,
safely and surely Democratic section
of the country, free from the greed
of trust magnates, and free from
corruption in politics. But taken
all in all, Mr.. Myers made a very
eloquent and reasonable spec h, and
his arguments were highly pleasing
to the Republican side of the
audience. He 10 frank and honest
and, in case he should happen to be
elected, would do the thing which
he thinks is right.
AT Maynard Saturday night Mr..
Myers opened with a very brilliant
speech, in which it is said ne took
the hide off of every man who ever
had any intention of being a Demo-
crat, having been previously in
formed that he was addressing a
strictly Republican audience, who
cheered him Justify. But, we have
been informed by half dozen re-
liable parties, when Mr.. Oldield
took the fl Jor there seemed to be an
undercurrent of Democracy sweep
ing the audience, the big crowd
seemed to be working alive with
Bryan and Oldield Democrats,
gathered in from Richardson,
Sloan, Little Black aud Columbia
townships, and Mr.. Myers was
forced to sit by and watch a supposed
crowd literally tear
their throats for his opponent
and that great matchless leader of
Democracy, VIM. j. Bryan.
The crowds at Biggers and
Holmes were small and nothing OF
a sensational nature transpired.
These gentlemen are conducting
nice, clean, and honorable campaign
and no personalities are being in
Quoted into the affair. They are
basing their arguments purely on
issues of the two parties and not on
the issues of men. One of them
will be our next congressman, and
he'll make a good one.