The Forrest City times., 1912-03-22
CARAwAY QUITE AT HOME IN CLAY COUNTY.

scope is concerned, he Is a friend to both Macon and Caraway, and 1t would be real pleasure to me to vote for both of them. l have never
 voted for anybody but Macon since that gentleman has been running, and l am not ashamed to say so: for have always believed, and still be- lieye, that Macon is an honest man. But l believe as much about Cara way. In addition to Caraway's many other worthy traits, he is an intense hater of all kinds of hypoc- ricy, and has never made a pretense to virtues which he might not pos ses. Intellectually, he is classed among the giants by all that know him well. If he goes to congress, when he reads a bill he will know what it means; his x-ray vision will pierce right through the very inter- nals of the thing there is a joker in the bill, out goes the joker. or out goes the whole bill.
 Macon is an honest and stable man: Caraway is an honest and weighty man. Arkansas has long been noted for having, happily, a stable delega- tion in congress, but what Arl ansas so greatly needs is weighty delega- tion. For this purpose, Caraway fills the bill After all brains and not bullion governs the world Caraway has the brains. He would be a heavy- weight in congress; and, Heaven knows, what greatly ails Arkansas is that We have sent too many light weights to Washington Our op- pressed people are sorely in need of some heavy weight champions. Too many of our featherweight represent atives, though honest and true, are tossed about like cork by the waves of the monied interests. Caraway is not cork. The wave that dashes him toward the breakers will be cut and dtsfgured into an unsightly form.
 l have been looking into this bridge question, and there is not much to it. The bridge has served principally every two years as passageway for MT. Macon from the first district to congress Every time MT. Macon made q speech he would stand on the bridge. So, of course, what more natural than for Mr Caraway to at tack his bridge record:
 l believe that Mr. Caraway is too hard on Mr. Macon on the bridge question. MT. Macon, 1 believe, did not knowingly work in the interest of the bridge company when he passed the bill authorizing the bridge to charge passengers on railway trains ? cents. MT. Macon evidently did not know that the bill contained a joker authorizing the bridge con- pany to charge ? cents when, with out such bill, the company had no right to make any charge whatever. Mir Macon is responsible for the bridge company having any right to charge anything at all for such pas sengers, and he ought not to try to dodge that sponsibility. Why don't he tell us that ? cents is a fair charge, and that the company ought to have that much for lettin 2 passengers ride over on the trains, it being unreasonable for them to pass over great bridge like that at the rate of three cents mile-the railroad rates.
 Why doesn't Mir. Macon defend his bill by saying that he would not do injustice to great corporation by it to let passengers go over bridge costing it millions of dollars, without paying one cent for the privilege outside of the regular three cent railroad fare? My motto is, let the bridge company charge ? cents for passengers and then, if it is making too much profit, compel it to reduce it's charges affecting freight rates Whoever can do anything to reduce freight rates in Arkansas will be public benefactor and should be lionized while living and heroized when dead
 But as to the ? cents bridge charge for passengers, that does not much concern us people up in the north end of the district. It is chiefly of interest to the fashionable people re- siding in the counties down near Memphis-that class of people who do their shopping i'll Memphis, and wish to go to the city once or twice a week. But as for the people of Clay and Greene counties, how many Of them have ever crossed the Mem phis bridge, anyway
 There is no merit in this bridge question. But, Of course, if the bridge is MT Maeon's platform. MT. Caraway is justified in knocking it into a cooked hat