The Carlisle independent., 1910-03-24
SOUNDS NOTE
 OF WARNING
John Bowers, Sr., Calls Atten> ton of the Voters to Some
 Points in Senatorial Race.

Editor of Carlisle Independent: After seeing the answers of both candidates for state senator to the questions propounded by the Lonoke County Union Legislative Committee, 1 suppose they are public property and subject to criticism by private citizens.
 However, you can read between the lines, 1 desire to say first,
 Mr. Oldham comedies he in favor of the Paper and Stamp Act to keep his constituents posted on what the legislature is doing.
 This argument is as good as to say that he can take forty or fifty papers and D cents in stamps and keep five or six thousand people in his district posted on what the legislature is doing, this would be absurd. To keep posted each man would need a daily pa per and plenty of time to read it. Now listen: This fifteen or twenty thousand dollars goes to the Little Rock papers, and a large per cent of this goes to increase the representative per diem,
 which is absolutely contrary to the state constitution, which they
 have taken an oath to support.
 We believe in taxation to run the state government economically administered. This appropriation
 would be an extravagant waste i of hard earned tax money. MT. Oldham says he is opposed to an extension of the session, but oc- casionS do arise when it is neceS
 sary We admit that occasions arisen in several years past, but if that body, after organizing,
 would proceed to make the ap- propriations for running the state government there would be but little other legislation neces- sary. The fact is there Is little business transacted until the term is extended. Next we mo- tice he says he is personally op- posed to. questions 3 and g. Of course he is opposed to those two questions. They are the cause of the chief politicians in- ducing him to become candidate and try to elect him so that they would be able to defeat these two measures for their own personal interests and to keep the people busy coughing up taxes to pay into one'man's s salary that might be ample to pay two officers.
 What is Mr. Oldham's political career as representative for masses of the people? Will men, tion some things: He was elect ed to the legislature four yea IS ago and in his own township, where he had lived some twenty years, my recollection is, he re- ceived nine votes out of fifty odd cast. This is not a good political showing at home. During the session he attended as a repre- sentative 1 personally approached him with the request that he in troduce>a bill whereby the people could elect the road overseers in Lonoke county and he absolutely refused to consider the matter. Next we see him but little over i a year ago, and 1 do not think the people have forgotten this yet
 At that time there was petition
 to the legislature to separate the sheriff and collectors office of Lonoke county and to put the county officials upon stipulated salary. I signed the petition, to- gether with 1.5S1 others, which was three-fourths of the demo- cratic voters of Lonoke county. Where do we see MT. Oldham next? Listen: He was lined up with his now chief politicians be- fore the Judiciary Committee of the last legislature to defeat the will of a majority of the peo-