Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-10-22
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k ask YOU:
Who placed this MUST burden 81 taxation upon your
Who eosi YOU 100000 for preliminary expenses:
Mho failed to listen the MAJORITY Of the taxpayers!
Who voted ier such infamous bill that woud do all this:
Who vas present fheait made SPECIAL ORDER!
The man who did all this other than your
representative 11oo9 Your fellow citizen III your own
townships and gauf lei@Ihef, the ma1 Yoa have endors-
ed for the Senate aud whom pledge IL advance will Let
The People Rule Tom {. White
Did your candidate Tom { White then follow the
slogan Let the People Rule believe that was the para
mount issue when Bryan and Kern Of Indiana were the
nominees OF the Democratic Party for President and Vice
President thought heard Mr. Bryan say that when he
ira eled all Arkansas getting the voters to adopt the
amendment the Constitution giving them the right OF the
Initiative and Referendum III order that legislation might
lie referred to the people Upon White d1d not even
give YOU opportunity to vote upon that lum Bayou
Drainage Bill did he. Mr.. Collier? It was law when It
passed repealed this law for YOU III the last legislature
knew that that act was no disgrace the State OF Arkan
sas If your candidate Mr. White didn't follow the MA
ICRIY rule in 1900 What private assurances have you got
that he will follow the MAJORITY in the next legislature,
If he elected the Senate? He lived among you as your
neghhor and friend and in the same township until his no
ination for the legislature when he quit the Drug store
business and writing life Insurance He knew your
needs and knew the people the North side OF the river
Did he consult YOU about the bill Were you favor OF the
measure before passed? That Plum Bayou Drainage
Bill certainly had swift passage through the House! DID
YOU even get an opportunity file petition against it from
YOUR own township 1t reached the House one day. was
read first and second time, and was Immediately made
SPECIAL ORDER and the next morning promptly at 10
O'Clock it passed He voted for measure thafould nave
cost vo Approximately ($I ooooooooo) One Million Dol
lars He caused YOU spend 100000 for preliminary
expenses and you didn't get drainage district at all
believe the main questions you propounded to the candidates
for the Legislature whom you had Geore lnqusorla
body relative to- drainage acts and hebridge BILL IN
der the bridge bill have not cost you cet OF taxes De
cause you vote it down. Tom White cost you $780,
\No1 ~ n 4 hocE too
could What made it necessary for you endorse Tom
the way you did, don't object to his endorsement by YOU
and the Executive Committee that present. for go
ing to get as many Tom White will from your
membership You Chairman Of the meeting Asa Gra-
the Little Rock lawyer who has his home and residence
in Little Rock and who the Attorney for the Taxpayers
Protective Association OF Jefferson county acting that
lday believe IN an advisory capacity next to him at the
table P. Oracle, Secretary of the Taxpayers Pro-
ective Association also resident OF the City of Little
Rock, and believe Mr.. W. H. Langford the right
and the nterrogating, direct and
conducted principally by you and Mr. Langford and occas
enaly member would ask question have heard
severa OF your membership say since adjourned that
injecting that they did execute any Power Attorney
authorizing you them for the ticket YOU endorsed
for the Legislature Did you, Mr. Collier endorse the men
who candidates for Representative that were permitted
to appear before your committee who answered your qes
tion correctly as to the 81 cent proposition? You did
mot get from IA Wilson, whom you endorsed
that he would vote repeal any bridge law did your Ism.
lit fact that after YOU dismissed all candidates. thar the
tlell Went secret
sion, and didn't you endorse the three that you did
for the Legislature for the following reasons: You en-
dorsed Mr. " n Bridges who at that time had made no
formal OF his candidacy upon the belief that
he would shell the woods for you and carry the country
outside the city Of Pine Bluff You then endorsed Mr. s.
A. Miller because OF belief that lie would carry the
city Of Pine Bluff and you then endorsed Mn T. A. Wilson,
With hope and belief that he would the entire labor
ion not only for himself but for the entire ticket
THAT the three interests the farmers the business men,
the labor UNION men would Join and vote for Tom Ct White
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