The weekly soliphone., 1917-08-16

l bllC HCOPlCo yOu dl W lll1uS lO fifty dollars to withhold from thest fathers and mothers and sweetheart i and wives the knowledge tha
 names have been entered upon tn, nations honor rolls You value thei paternal and maternal love in tn,
 same scales that you value a four
 bit piece of silver Now you hay' the unmitigated gall and contempt
 ible initiative to bring an indict
 meat against The Daily Press ant 1 Weekly Soliphone because the man
 agement of these papers did no
 agree with you as to the exact datt for publication of a list tliat wt were willing to spend money to put
 ting in type, while you were no willing to spend one cent in you
 capacity as county financial agent
 Really Judge, if most individual, were so small they could be corke(
 up in four ounce bottles and con veniently sent by mail.
 You want to go out and debate l these issues You want to harangue
 You want to show your teeth ant prate and pray and talk economy and change fronts over night The
 reputation you acquired i'll the re. cent campaign is enough to throw cold water upon any such sugges.
 tion. Your competitors tell us you would not stand hitched; that you would make an assertion one day have your hand called" the next
 and without even so much as the formality of a blush swear by all the dead gods of Greece you hadn't made any such statement.
 You seek to convey the impression to people away from Paragould that you are an exceedingly busy man when you suggest that these gab- 1 fests be held Hate in the aftcrnon ;" l It is a matter of common knowledge l that you hang around the court house as studiously as a setting hen, OoSu1IoioilS pIShiiS up lCG ol $2.50 for performing marriage ceremony and that this hanging arouad' continued until The Daily Press and Weekly soliphone began giving you unshirted hell for ne- glecting the roads and bridges.
 You know that you warmed chairs and hnnphoc in ba 1rt while bridges were being condemned and while the roads were going to the demnition bow-wows.
 You haven't yet denied the as- sertion that among the few concrete culyerts built during your admin istration, three were on the road leading to your own farm.
 You haven't denied the assertion that you promised the people of Greene county-the fellows who elected you-that you would spend at. least four or five days out of each week on the county roads, and that you would see that three con crete culverts were constructed each year of your tenure in office in each of the political townships.
 Where are these culverts, Judge?
 You promised to evolve some mysterious system through the manipulation of which you were to put the county on cash basis.
 You made the assertion on dog en stumps that you had the guar antee of a vast sum of money that would be lent the county. You were modern financial Moses especially called to lead the Children of Greene county out of the quagmires, and out of their scrip-ruts. But Nose, you haven't made good. Furthermore, Moses, you knew all the time you couldn't do the things you promised to do. You were mak- ing promises as industriously as a snake lays eggs in July and you had no more idea of doing all these things than you had of flying to the moon and holding seance with the man mp there.
 You were as liberal with your promises as some cadidates are with their liquor on election day, and you went into the court house in blaze of glory all festooned with sickly promises that had humps and measles and locomotor ataxia before you found out that Moses was Biblical character of some pith and enterprise, whi leperspir- ing office-seekers in modern times have about them less of grit and determination than the old patriarch possessed.
 Judge, if all the promises you made while you were "fghtin' the boys blood-raw" could be gathered together and put in a canteen for medicinal purposes, they'd cure the German Crown Prince of his Verdun fever and at the same time ob- lyiate the necessity for maintenance of the International Red Cross. No, Judge, the editor of The Daily Press is not going to engage in a teeth-anashing contest with