The Mena weekly star., 1910-03-24
Speech of Leon Westmoreland at Wal.
 dron, Ark, March II.

In his speech at Waldron, Ark. March II, Leon Westmoreland said, in part:
 " In few days you will meet at the polls to employ Congressman.
 ask you most earnestly and sin eerely to leave my name unscratched on your ticket, if you consider me worthy.
 - refer the farmers to the farmers who know me best, the bankers to the bankers who know me best, the mer chants to the merchants who know me best, the railroad men to the railroad men who know me best, the people of all classes, callings and professions to the people of all classes, callings and professions who know me best.
 It is generally conceded that my opponent s success is mostly due on ac- count of his sainted mother, who is recognized as good woman of the pur- est type wherever she is known. Sym. pathy for ones mother is all right. but he has not the only mother in the world.
 "You have elected him to this posi- tion two terms already, which has pleased his mother greatly.
 "T To elect him to the third term you could add but little to the enjoyment of his mother, but you would strike a dagger to the heart of my mother If sympathy is to play any part in the employment of your next Congressman want you to consider my mother the same as his.
 ' It should be man s greatest ambi tion to please his mother, and I want you to help me please mine this time
 In my former circular letters you have learned was DOER and not a dreamer. l stand by the Democratic platform as adopted at Denver have made all have, paid for my own edu- cation, have studied to prepare to go to Congress as l would prepare for any profession. My opponent was raised in luxury, and is wealthy now.
 :" want to treat my opponent fairly i want to ,io him justice. 1 have writ ten him time and again to meet me on he stump. He has ignored me in some instances; in others he has said that there was so much business of interest to the people of the Fourth Congress sional District in Congress that he could not come He has written special special friends, all over the district that he was too busy in Washington to get down here, and would have to depend on them to look after his campaign.
 "After writing all of these letters to his friends, do you know where he is todaya
 "He is in Fort Smith, Ark, and has been there since Monday He slipped in there and the newspapers of his home town did not mention his arrival until Wednesday, and then referred to him short local as the Hon. w. B.. Cravens.
 "Did you ever hear him called that beforei In referring to him the Times Record said: Hon. " B. Cravens ar rived home from Washington Monday on short business trip.
 ''The Southwest American said; Hon. W. B. Cravens has arrived home for brief visit. Heretofore these papers have announced his arrivel in single and double-column headlines. They would have been equally as kind this time if he had not iuterfered. "Do you think it an accident that ooth papers just happened to call him w. B. instead of Bent
 "The conclusion is that he went to these newspaper and told them to make it w. R. and give him as little notice as possible, in order that his friends. whom he had been writing to over the district that he was so busy in Washington, would not know that he was in Fort Smith, idling away his time. when he ought to be man enough so meet me on the stump
 "Am | saying too much when ] ven ,ure to warn you that man who would try to deceive his best friends would be better out of Congrcssf
 "Am I looking st it right, or Is it because | am candidate for that pc .itionq hope | am not so selfish as l hot know his most int'rat0 nor