The Forrest City times., 1911-05-12
IS HE SINCERE?
Representative Little Withdraws His Resignation Temporarily and Re-
 fuses t0 Answer Summons,

Q, ye wha are sac guid yoursel
 sac pous and sac holy
 AeNe naught to dc but mark and tell
 Your neebor's faults and folly.
 . see your state with theirs compar'd
 And shudder at the niffer
 But cast moments fair regard
 What maks the mighty ditferY
 Wi wind and tide fair f your tail.
 Right on ye scud your sea way,
 But in the teeth O baith to sail
 It makes an unco' lee way.
 -lAddreSs to the Unco Guid or Edgidly
 kighieous.-BuTnsl
 That there is graft, deceit, and foul play upon the people, going on in the Arkansas Legislature does not require d very great stretch of the imagi- nation.
 Bribery, thievery and intimidation, graft of all kinds, in fact, has become so common in high places. in legisla- tive halls in every state and even in the National Congress, that unless it becomes too bold, and of an extra ordinary character, little or no notice Is given to it. The people mutter, but at the next election they forget the lesson of sad experience ill preced- ing years, and recommit themselves to the greed, avarice and dishonesty Of the same old gang
 Representative Little, of Mississippi county, rendered his resignation to the Arkansas General Assembly a few days since, giving as his reason the depravity of the Senate and the rule Of the liquor interests, which he said, made it impossible for him to serve his constituents as he would like and had hoped to do. Later he denied the authority and refused to answer summons Of a senate con- mittee appointed to investigate his sensational charges, and nowannounces that he has decided to remain, at least until nearer the close of the session, a martyr to the wishes of his friends.
 We've got no patience with the lion. Mir. Little. He strikes us as being out simply and purely for per sonal notoriety, and has already been given much too much. The Times would not be a party to it except that we want to denounce the whole thing as being on it's face insincere, and in order to point out that if it was otherwise, MT. Little would be a coward to resignhis seat, he being one of the few honest men there, and leave the rascals to the subtle and baneful influences of money unrestrained.
 II such things are going on as he hints, 1t is his patriotic duty to stay there and fight the grafters to the last ditch; to expose them and bring them to the bar of justice and hold them up to the scorn and scotling finger of the public which they are wronging.
 To slink away under the self-lauda- tory, better-than-thou, I-belong-to- the ultfa-good speech he made, would lead us to believe that he was no bet ter than the rest, but that he had been sighted in the distribution, or not considered so valuable as some others, and therefore had a bad case of sour grapes.
 Little has succeeded in getting into the public prints, but he has overdone the thing and no matter now whether right or wrong, he has withered his chance of fame by the certainty of his wobbling on the gudgeon and vascil- lating mind. And if good comes out of his accusations, he will get little or no credit, because he turned the white feather and pretended to want to run away from the scene and cen ter of legislative bribery and graft, which he alone confesses to having knowledge.
 If honest and sincere, we hope he will prove it by deeds rather than words, and then we shall say, but not before, all honor to Representative Little, of Mississippi county.