The Newark journal., 1912-02-23
LAWYERSFOR ROBINSON
Like the Mans Frogs, They Make Lots of Noise But are Hope
 lessiy in the Minority

ing with a great deal of interest what has been said relative to the gubernatorial race. | am a farmer and have devoted most of my time attending to my business and try ing to make a good citizen. l have never taken very much interest in politics, consequently 1 am not what you would call a politician.
 It has been my pleasure to sit and listen to both candidates for governor, MT. Robinson and NIT. Donaghey. MT. Robinson impress es me as being a splendid speaker. He is what would call a Fourth of July orator, and, in my opinion, should be preserved for that pur- pose. We farmers are tired of this big rip-roaring speech making and are demanding more real active service, and we think Governor Donaghey fills the bill.
 I am creditably informed that the opposition to the T-J bill origi- mated rightin Little Rock with the Electric Street Railway Company. I am certain 1t did not originate with Bill Jones and Jim SmithWho have always assessed their hogs, COWS, mules, horses, sheep, wagons, buggies and household goods for nearly as much as they are worth. Such men as these are not opposed to the T. J. bill, but are in favor of 1t because 1t will bring the cor porations "out of the vines" and make them pay on an equality with the small taxpayers. Our criminal laws were not made for men who never commit crime. Neither was the T-J bill intended for the man who wants to assess his property; 1t is intended for "Tax Dodgers" and the people, a majority of them, are going to stand pat with MT. Donaghey when they have an opportunity.
 1 notice in the last weeks issue of the Times Dispatch, the editor mentions ten men who are for MT. Robinson. One of them is a college professor, one a merchant, and the other eight are lawyers. We'll Mr. Robinson IS a lawyer, too. l can find hunders of farmers in Law renee county who are for Donag- hey. MT. Editor of The Times Dispatch, do you know the farmer is doing his own thinking today and that he IS not going to vote for Joe Robinson because the ma- jority of the lawyers want him to do so? Why, you meet up with one of these lawyers, and mention the Governors race, he will, at once tell you that Joe Robinson will be nominated by an over- whelming majority. Oh, they make a great noise about 1t. They remind me of the fellow who went to a restaurant to sell the proprietor ten thousand frogs. He had a pond near his house that he claimed contained as many as ten thousand bull frogs. The proprie- tor of the restaurant told him that if he would bring them in on a certain day that he would take them. On the appointed day the fellow that was to furnish the frogs steped into the restaurant with only two frogs, whereupon the proprietor expressed surprise at his bringing only two frogs after having engaged ten thou sand. Well" said the man, from the noise they made, l actually thought there must have been ten thousand, but after drained the pond, I'll be darned If there were not but just the two." Now the Robinson men are just like these two frogs; just a lot of noisy fel- lows, and after the pond is drain ed' will be just about as numer- ous. JUST A FARMER.