The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-20

need managing the Senator's cam paign in Arkansas. This mighty army of Federal office-holders is heroically standing by the Senator for the same reason that the Senator is standing
 by the President. You will see the evi- dence of it in the friendly resolutions of County Central Committees where ae has made powerful political ap- pointments, and Federal Grand Jur1es In courts where his MarshalS officiate.
 Let us look into his career in Con- gress little further. When the Sena tor forced his election to the Senate and went to Washington, notwith- standing his well-known aptitude for political speech-making, he preserved an ominous and consistent silence un- til, as he imagined, the wrath of the people he had betrayed had cooled, and contented himself by drawing his salary and appointing his kinsmen and friends to office But this could not continue indefinitely. The day of election in Arkansas was drawing near and something must be done. At ed. The war clouds were lowering low. LaFollette made a speech that nobody indorsed, that the Legislature of his own State by resolution ex- Dressly repudated, and that his own people overwhelmingly condemned The Senator cleared the deck for his political battle in Arkansas. He de- ivered his phllippic over the corpse of LaFollette, and mailed copies by .he tens of thousands among the vot- CTS of Arkansas at Government ex- pense, a campaign speech in the in- terest of his race for the Senate, and at once his Federal appointees raised the cry, "He stands by the President" His dash into the limelight was as bold and aggressive as his former ca- reer had been passive and subdued. In view of the fact that several months have now passed since this widely ad vertised attack was made, and we Ind Senator LaFollette still occupy ing his place in the Senate, we must conclude that the same was made for the purpose of keeping Senator Rob- lnson in the Senate, and not to put LaFollette out.
 In my opening speech charged him with deliberately betraying. the people of this State. l charged him with us- Ing the power of patronage to force his own election to the United States Senate. an offense which at the time 1t was committed constituted a crime against the public conscience, and which was so fragrant and notorious that the Legislature afterwards mR0e 1t a crime against the statutes of the State, punishable by Imprisonment in the penitentiary. But up to this time the Senator has been too busy to re- ply; too busy to account to the people of the State for his conduct. He had time to leave Washington and come to the State Democrat ic Convention, seeking to con- tinue his control of the State or ganization, by re-electing his brother In-law, A. J. Walls, Chairman of the State Committee. He had time to leave Washington and go on the Chau- tauQua platform and deliver pleasing platitudes for the entertainment of the public and in the interest of his prl- vate fortune He has had time to play golf ill Washington and time to play politics In Arkansas.
 But the greatest camounage that the Senator has ever pulled of is In connection with the Third Liberty Loan drive iii Arkansas. IL was af- ranged that Sousa's Band should tour
 the State in special Pullman, and the Senator managed to get himself invited as the guest of honor A tele- gram from headquarters ordered that he and his wife be given stateroom In the Pullman and taken care of fo- ten days The idea evidently was that he would star in the closing days of the campaign, the band would draw the crowd and his impassioned oratory be credited with pulling the State lover the top" and thus make him the hero of the hour But he under estimated the patriotism of his own people. His Pullman train was not re- quired in either of the former drives, but the election was not so near. Un- fortunately for him, the people re- sponded before he could get his band and oratOrV into action
 He joined the party at Hoxie in Lawrence County. Not needed there. his next stop was at Newport. Jack son County was s50.0co over when hs got there. Thence to Pine Bluff, Lit tie Rock, Conway, Russellville, and