The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-20

time to remain in Arkansas a week looking after his political interests af- ter he had finished tour of ten days in his Liberty Loan Pullman, also looking after his political interests, 1 thought he might have little time to give an account of his public conduct to the people of the State. In order that he might have an opportunity to do so, challenged him to meet me in joint discussion, it being my intention, 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 utterance concerning his record, 1t is imperative that he should immediate. ly resume his Senatorial duties in Washington.
 l 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. upon the death of Senator William J. Stone, refused to resign and permit his successor, the Lieutenant Govern or of that State, to appoint him to the UrSted States Senate, preferring to carry out his contract, his solemn ob- ligation, to the people of his State, rather than to gratify his selfish am 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 a half dozen counties except for the war He anh u 1,, confidence and trust of the people or the State. The only ground for the support of his candidacy is the fact that by accident he is in the Senate and 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 &fe.
 In the t1rst place, ninety-nine per cent of the people of Arkansas in pri- Tate life are themselves standing hy the President as faithfully as the 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 life. and investing their savings in War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds Yes, they have done thousand times more than this. They have sent their sons from homes of peace and safety to the fields of carnage to be baptiZ cd in blood. How shameful this boast 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 $5o000 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. 800 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. A. J. Walls, United States Marshal for the Eastern District of the State of Arkansas with a salary of $4,000 per year and Grady Miller, Secretary of the Committee on Expense of the Department of the Treasury, with a salary of s2,500 per year. Also Jesse Miller, his fatherm- law, Assistant Secretary of said com