The Springdale news., 1914-02-06

service in it, and the public record of the case shows this to be true, and everybody connected with the case knows that this is true, and yet. he is parading up and down through the state making it appear that we won great victory from the rail roads, whereas he was drawing a salary as supreme judge three months before the case was eyer brought to trial in the lower court. In other words, he walked off from the case with the S5.000 in his poek- ct before it had ever been submitt- ed to trial in the lower court. If every other lawyer in the ease had done the same thing, there would have been little victory for the shipp- CTS to celebrate, and every other lawyer had as much right to do it as he had, if, indeed, he was con sdersd a lawyer in the ease. He knew that he had caused himself to De employed. and that employment did not come to him in an ethical and proper way, and. therefore, he had no computations in quitting the case on the first opportunity that presented itself to get another job
 In addition to the 5000 he was paid Sl,S00 by Attorney-General Nor wood for certain nominal services that lie rendered During the inter val between the passage of the act in April, 1900. and his going upon the bench Oh Oct. 30. l9to. he thus collected out of the state =tre asurx- in that short time $6sS69, plus addition al amounts for expenses for making trips in connection with the case probably more money than he ever had in his life and for which ha rendered no substantial service, and he is around the state now claiming. that he is the savior of the shipping interests of the state, The senator said that thkse th.nes were not III re assertions, bHt theY Wefe 6niy q re etal of the facts shown bt the rec ords.
 The senator said that the proper way to discuss things of this char aeter Was bf jout discus ion. WheHA the matters in dispute could be ssft- ed out from day to day He said that iH Candidate Kirby opening shech at Be nton on Nov 22 f9l@, that The candidate had criticisl | him for not being in Washington city
 
 currency law. aud censurins him fir absenting himself from his post oi duty on so important an occasion. The senator said that shortly th r. after he gave notice hat he would De in Washington on the first of Dc cember. when Congress met in reg ular session, and when the currency bill would come under serious con
 
 age; that immediately thereafter Gan didate Kirby put oat list o1 speak ing dates in Benton and N a5hIns Ion Counties. and dt the bottom of q circular aHH08HeIHg these dates h@ added in box ear letters the stat. ment Chat his opponent. Senator Clarke, was especially invited to b. present. when division of time would b. accorded 10 him. The can dtdate had hardly reached the terri tory a which the debate was to take nlacE before he began to denQuuce tAe senator fer being afraid 10 mo- him on he stump although he Was privately telling friends he never in tended to meet the senator
 Tie snator said that as soon as h. could get away from Washington City he returned to Arkansas. and iii d polite note called Candidate klr- by's attention to the fact that he was now ready to negotiate with the YIea of determining the dates and places where the joint discussion could take place With want of candor characteristic of him. Judge Kirby declined to engage in Joint debate upon the pretense that the relations between himself and the senator were not very cordial, and besides the senator had admitted the false charges made against him. His procedure was so farcical and so com pIetely the instinctige surrender of q fellow who did not have the nerve to face the consequences of sit nation he had created that the sell ator said he felt justified in saying that he had running through him a streak of yellow as wide as an old fashioned gin band.
 Letter Writing.
 The senator said that Candidate Kirby had arraiened him for not hay ing written letters to many of the people in the State of Arkansas. Tn senator said that he had writte n mor letters in the last five years than any other man in Arkansas' : that he receives more mail as senator than all the Arkansas delegation put together; that everybody who has business in Arkansas sooner or lat CT lands on him, and that he has written letters until he is almost bug house on that subject, that as