The Newark journal., 1910-03-18
HILL BILLIE STALDS PAT
Insists That he is Right and Wants
 to be Cited"

mission, l would again call upon the candidates to tell us plainly how they stand ou prohibition, whether they will vote and work for short term or go down and rob the state again, as other legis- latures have done; if they will re- peal that pernicious statute, sec tion 1909, and if they will give us modern election law.
 Permit me also to notice Dem ocrat, " of your last issue.
 First, he says my writings sound like reconstruction. When a gang of legislators rob the state every two years by an extended session; when people have to pay SIT. 50 to get $500 house insur- ed, while the same policy can be gotten in Missouri for S5; when Caldwell & Drake can buy so much legislation for few thousand doI- lars; when the insane lie rottening in county jails for want of asy- lums; when two by four legisla- tor gets S6 day, while the farmer gets S1 day; when you can hear the official vote of the entire state of Missouri or Texas before you can get the official vote of Inde- pendence county; when the circuit courts of the county last ten weeks a year and the country schools only three months a year; when the county clerk gets $2100 year and the country school teacher gets S120 year; when the court houses and jails are palatial struct- ures, built of brick, stone and marble, and the country school houses are cheap wooden affairs; and when the legislatures squander millions of the peoples money, is 1t not time for reeonstructionl
 And the people-not the poli- ticians who call themselves Demo- crat or Republican, for revenue only-are going to do the recon structing.
 Second. s'None, according to Billie's criticism, have offered who are fit to be legislators. " No man is fit for that office who will not openly declare that he will work for what the people want, and name what he will work for.
 Third. Thinks it would be a good idea to turn the legislating over to Billie with plenty of booze. " 1 will take the job for one-third of what the last legisla- ture cost, and not charge any thing extra for booze, and give bond that 1 will do the state ten times more good than the next 1 legislature will do if the members go there unpledged on the import ant questions.
 Fourth. Now Billie why didn t you stay in Missouri; who sent for youW 1 did not want to stay in Missouri. 1 came to this county in the sixties with my mother who had lived here in the forties. Rud- dell township bears her maiden family name, and that family came here from Missouri in 1S11. Who sent for you, "Democratlo You were not here in the sixties. Why didn't you stay where you were thenl The world would not have missed you. Why don't you say the principles 1 advocate are wrong, instead of singing mudl
 Fifth. Billie said some good things, but gave us too much hot air.n 1 didn't want to say anything but good, and my coming out bold ly and truthfully in saying what I know to be true hurts Demo crat" and he tries to fool the peo- pie by calling it hot air.
 will not put brakes on my pub- lie utterances as long as 1 am cit izen of Arkansas while she is be- ing robbed every two years by the legislature; nor until her people can get as cheap insurance as the | ,,oo,,Ia of MisSonr;. ,,ow 1T .1