The Mena weekly star., 1918-05-23
'B2UND|DGE ASSAILS. .ROB|NSOKS RECORD.
Extract From a Speech Of Ex-Ccr- aressman Stephen srundldse, can dldste For United States senator Delivered at Camden, Saturday, May 4, 1918,

time to remain in Arkansas a week looking after his political interests IT. ter he had finished a tour of ten days in his Liberty Loan Pullman. also l@king after his political interests thought he might have a little time 10 give an account Of his public conduct to the people of the State. In ofdef that he might have an opportunity to da SO, challenged him to meet me ln joint discussion. it being Fly intentloa' as the Senator himself well under stood, to discuss his political record. But the Senator claims that after more than two weeks in Arkansas, during which time he made no public ntterance concerning his record It ls imperative that he should immediate ly resume his Senatorial duties in Washington.
 1 should have liked very much to have heard what the Senator had to say of the conduct of Governor Gard ner, in Missouri, in comparison With his own, who, just few days ago,
 
 Stone. refused to resign and permit his successor, the Lieutenant Govern or of that State, to appoint him to ths United States Senate. preferring to carry out his contract. his solemn ob- ligation, to the people of his State, rather than to gratify his selfish ann bition to serve in some capacity to which his own people had never called him.
 The right of Senator Robinson to return to the Senate rests solely upon the fact that he claims to have stood by the President Beyond this he of- fes no defense for his conduct and aside from this and the Federal pat ronage he has distributed and what he has under promise to distribute here after, there Is nothing to commend him to the people of this State. He is a political accident if there ever was one on earth. It was the acci- dent of Senator Davis death and the accident of his being Governor at that time that put him in the Senate The accident of the war is the only excuse his friends assign for keeping him there. The people did not want him in the Senate when he forced his cleo ton. They do not want him there now. No considerable number of the people of this State are supporting him in this race on his own personal account He would not carry half dozen counties except for the war. He has not now, and can never have, the confidence and trust of the people of the State. The only ground for the support of his candidacy is the fact that by accident he is in the Senate ard Is standing by the President Not withstanding the war. there is no req son why intelligent people should not measure his claims upon the public by the ordinary standards of life.
 Tn the nrst place, ninety-nine per cent of the people of Arkansas in pri- vate life are themselves standing by the President as faithfully as ihe Sen ator ever stood. and for infinitely more patriotic reasons They have shown it by contributing of their means most abundantly to the Young Mems Christian Association, the Red Cross the three Liberty Loans. and every other call that the President has made. They have stood by the Presl- dent by denying themselves the luxu- ries and even the necessities of Hfe. and investing their savings in War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds. Yes. they have done a thousand times more than this They have sent their sons from homes of peace and safety to the fields of carnage to be haptiz- of the Senator that he has stood by the President. in comparison with the sacrifices of his fellow-men at home.
 While the people are sacrificing to stand by the President let us see what sacrifice the Senator himself has made. To begin with. he sacrificed nearly s50,000 that the people of this State had to pay in taxes. the expense of holding primary and special cleo tion, because he vacated the Gov. ernor's office. He has been paid ST. 500 per year in salaries since he has been in the Senate. He has been able to pension two of his brothers-in-law on the pay roll of the Government with handsome salaries. 4 J. Walls, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of thr State eff Arkansas, with salary of $4,000 per year. and Grady Miller. Secretary of the Committee ca Expense Of the Department of the Treasury. with a salary of s2.50N per year Also J1ssc Miller, his father-fn. law. Assistant Secretary of said com mittee. with a salary of $500 per year. and Ewilda c. Robinson, his wife. messenger to said committee with a salary of $1.200 per year. Ar appropriate committee for the famil tc serve. These same brothers-in-law with an innumerable host of other kinsfolk and political friends are serv ing their Government in It's hour 0 need managing the Senator's cam paign in Arkansas. This mighty army of Federal offce-holders is heroicall; standing by the Senator for the sam, reason that the Senator is standin; by the President You will see the evl dence of 1t in the friendly resolutions of County Central Committees wher' hs has made powerful political Ap
 
 poiItments. and Federal Grand Jm les In courts where his Marshals oificlate,
 Let us loo. into his career in Con