Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-12
JOE. ROBINSON IS
 THE BEST EQUIPPED
EDITOR RULE GIVES HIS REA. SONS WHY ANSAS SHOULD
 SEND HIM TO SENATE.
Demand Is For a Man Who Gan Meas. ure In To ihe Needs of the
 Hour.

Little Rock, Jan. 11.-Edi or Geo Rue lr., of l.onoke IS in the city, and Saturday morn ng gave the following reasons why Governor-e!9ct Joe r. Robinson should be elected 70 t4e United States Senate:
 The dea h of a member Of an or ganization of any kind almost inva- riably necessitates recastmg and changing of plans of the body.
 This is true of political, as well as commerc al organizations. Hence the death of Senator Davis imposes on us an obligation fraught with tre- mendous responsibilities. The type of man that we shall select to succeed him must engage our nest serious consideration and We should be 1n- SD red by nigh motives and patriotic purDoses-,h he consequences of d mis- take would indeed be far-reaching. What we are about to do cannot be limited to the confines of Arkansas, for ill peculiar sense the life of the entire nation is involved; therefore local self-interes must n some meas ure, be sacrificed for the national good. and in this instance our duty to the whole people is clear. We have reached a crisis in the nations his- tory, and the turning DO mt Is our gar y's career.
 '1f the Democratic party is pre- vented from doing the work that has been commi1ted to her, tlen our birthright is gone and the abatemen of the encroachment of predatory wealth will have been only temporary and our last condi, On will be more intolerable than he rst. Further, if our party fails to redeem her prom jses to the people then her usefulness is gone, her glory departed, and he dissolution inevitable.
 The Demands.
 "The demands of Arkansas is for man MO can measure up 10 the nesds of the hour.
 We have one such firmly ground ed in the essential virtues of honesty. suff cient mental faculties to compre- iaend and assimilate the principles and details of all measures that may come before the Congress; fitted by experience so tha,. his mental and physical energies may do service at once: having an acquaintance suIfic = e,atly broad to enable him to catch step and adjust himself to the work ing force immediately. If Arkansas sends her best equipped man to he Senate his name will be Joe T. Rob- in son-on that everyone is agreed s,ad it s CIT duty to give him up
 'Th.a fact that Prcsidcnt-elect Will son has indicated hat he will call an extra session of Congress on April 15. is evidence that he considers rem ell a, legislation imperative. The ef- fort to put this legislation through will be tough. skilfally and bitterly. Will Arkansas humiliate herself by send,ng man to the Senate who Will have to go througA Kindergarten course before he can be of any ser vice?
 However, our duty 10 the nation and to the Democratic parry at large does not absolve us from our obllga- tion to the State; but we are Ioi tuh- a;e in that ihe duties as senator VIII not begin to run until rae construc- tive work of the legislature Will have ended and if its members will do the'r work quickly the party please ,oan he redeemed at once and remedla legislation put through without saer' flcing any of the interests. AS mat 
 fer of fact. good legislature can t"Ke care of the States needs independent of 2 governor. At any rae guoerha- torial timber is abundant, but seha- tor al timber is scarce. TAere are d number of men in Arkansas sutflcleh'- lv yersed in State affairs to make d ca,Yable governor, to whose hands our interests could be safely commi'teu' Extending the range of our vision to inc horizon of the whole country, we .ro convinced that the wise and pa triot course to pursue is 70 give Joe Robinson to the nation ana elect in his stead a worthy successor.
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