The log cabin Democrat., 1911-02-09
CAPT. MARTIN IS
 MAKING GOOD"
HAS RESPECT OF HOUSE
FAULKNER COU NTY REPRE- SENTATIVE ENJOYS PROM
 INENT POSITION.
(By A. w. Parke, of Parke-Harper
 News Service.

Little Rock, Feb 9.-1f you want to get the honey from the bee-gum, go about the work quietly and don't stir up the bees.
 This is evidently the theory of Capt. w. w. Martin, representative of Faulkner county in the house of rep resentatives of the Arkansas general assembly. Capt. Martin is not a nosiy person, but he is getting the honey. Whatever he wants from the house he gets it, and what he wants from the administration he gets. Could Faulkner be better represent ed or get more than this?
 Had the people of Faulkner county scratched vale and hillside with bull rake, no man who would team better with George w. Donaghey, governor of Arkansas, could have been brought to the front.
 It has been the policy of the Don aghey administration to live and let
 
 honest and for the best interest of the state; to promote the welfare of the people of Arkansas always. These principles stuck out all over Capt. Martin the first morning he strode down the house aisle to take his seat, and they are with him yet, untouched by the witheirng breezes which some time blow from the anti administra- tionists. Capt. Martin has never been molested in this, for his stand was right always-the individual after wards.
 When the committees of the house were appointed, Capt. Martin loomed tall as the chairman of the temper ance committee and as a member of the state capitol committee. He was chosen for the chairmanship of the temperance committee because he has such strong sense of right and wrong Speaker Milwee knew he would give the -prohibitionists the ad- vantage of any argument which might be in his favor, and at the same time be as fair to the side of the prohi- bitionists, where he had been fighting all his life. The liquor men recogniz- ed the fairness of Capt. Martin. They could trust in him. The house itself | c. oH a1 {1o chairman of the committee, and it re- alized that once the committee has a bill in it's hands, report will be forth coming-not that it would finger and die as some bills have in former temp erance committees.
 The temperance committee has held but two meetings since it was formed, and two acts passed beneath its scru- tiny on these occasions, the Roddery bill, to make bootlegging felony, and the Kersh submission bill. The com mittee very promptly recognized in the Kersh bill one which was poorly drawn and which favors prohibition. The committee saw a better submis- son bill in the senate and decided to wait for it to show up in the house, so made an adverse report on the Kersh measure. The Roddy bill went back with a report favoring it's pas sage.
 Cappt. Martin has introduced but one measure in the house, the bill to permit quorum courts to make appro- priations to assist in county farm demonstration work He stayed by this bill through house and senate, and the committee meetings as well. He is now standing closer to this bill than ever, for he is seeing that it is enrolled as soon as possible to be rushed to Governor Donaghey for his signature.
 Another bill is in the hands of Capt. Martin for introduction in a few days. It was prepared by Rev. A. c. Millar, president of Hendrix college at Conway, and provides the manner in which trustees for the Methodist colleges of the state shall be elected.
 Other than these bills, Capt: Mar tin states he will have little new legis- lation to offer, and will spend the bal ance of his time assisting to build up the state, instead of tearing it down with local measures. He is one of the few "sixty day sessionists" in the