The Prescott daily news., 1909-06-01

ld ltI lHlIOuuceu WlIH ne tSuD- mission bill after 1 had with drawn one which was probably too drastic according to conser- vatiVe thinkers. After this, neith . CT Henderson nor 1 could scarce iy get recognition at all for fear we would call up somehkind of a prohibition bill. Out of the third group at least Henderson, Logan Freeman, Simms, Wingo, Oldham and myself warned the senate of it's mistake and gross neglect in disregarding the wishes of the people and the Democrat plat form. The simple reason why even a majority was against regular order. To suspend the rules and take up a matter out of regular order required a two thirds ma jority and this we did not have. With the presiding officer and the temperance committee all against us even good majority could do absolutely nothing.
 The simple truth is that the temperance forces are as badly divided as any two parties in the state or anywhere else. Their di- vision and the confusion they have wrought made it impossible to get any kind of legiSla atiOn on the subject,
 Of course the Arkansas Bapt- ist may know more about these | fhnn | iJn of it's former editorials critic smg the senate was about to be de- nOunced by resolution, none of the senate seemed to have known | the editor except Senators Simms and Oldham, two prominent Bap- lists who gave it as their opinion that he was not worthy of recog- niZing him i'll any manner what ever it being the general opin on that he was seeking cheap nOtor- | iety, l hope he is a better man than some of his fellow members seem to think.
 With the exceptions above not | ed there may be some truth in the lineup made by the Baptist 1 1 feel it unnecessary to explain my position. The readers of this paper know very well where l stand and my votes and efforts will speak louder than words. l would have been glad of the Op- portunity to vote for any reason able temperance bill before the close of the session, although I favored the bill 1 introduced and tried to get passed. If the temp erance people can get the smart alecs out of the way and get to- gether they can get what they want otherwise, they may vet get another dog fall.
 I have no words of praise for the senate as a wholey A body that wil ! in the beginning organ ize against the interests of temperance yet claim to be for temperance, a body that dis graces itself in the beginning by lodging truth in an election contest. that declares for nepot
 ism in the election of pages and chaplain; a body that professes to be composed of Christian cit izens and yet votes to legalize gambling i'll Hot Springs and under the guise of local legisla- tion votes for Sunday baseball in Pine Bluff that body of Christian senators who voted to make a railroad in Eastern Arkansas run it's trains on Sunday when its founder and his successors had maintained a firm stand against Sunday traffic and Sabbath breaking from the beginning and | last but not least, a body of pro- fessedly temperance men who would elect a rank booze fighter and whiskey advocate for lieu tenant governor do not deserve the praise of anybody. As sen ate it was in many respects a disgrace to the state. Notwith- standing this, and leaving myself entirely out of consideration the ssenate had some of the best men in the state They were pow erless to do anything however, under the circumstances and quit and left for home a few days ago thoroughly disgusted.
 Respectfully,
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