The Carlisle independent., 1918-05-23
BRUND|DGE ASSAILS
 R0B|NSON'S RECORD.
Extract From Speech of Ex-con- ;srcssman Stephen Brundidge, Can 'didate For United States Senator, Dellvered at Camden, Saturday, May 4 1918,

<1me 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, thought he might have little time to give an account of his public conduct to the people of the State Tn 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 Estood, to discuss his political record. -BHt the Senator claims that after more than two weeks in Arkansas, during which time he made no public utterance concerning his record, it is ly resume his Senatorial duties in Washington.
 l should have liked very much to have heard what the Senator had to nlers in Missouri, in comparison with his own, who, just a 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 limited States Senate, preferring to starry out his contract, his solemn ob- Iigaticn, 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 Nhe 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 q 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 lime that put Jim 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 qtion. They do not want him there nov: No considerable number of the people of this State are supporting him in this race on his own personal 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 and is standing by the President. Not withstanding the. war, there is no req son why Intelligent people should not meaY re his claims upon the public yby tJ ordinary standards of life.
 IT. the rlrst place, ninety-nine per .ceTL of the people of Arkansas in pri- vate life are themselves standing by the President as faithfully as the Sen .ator ever stood, and for infinitely more patriotic reasons. They have shown 1t by contributing of their means most abundantly to the Young Mems sChristian Association. the Red Cross, the three Liberty Loans, and every other call that the President has made. They have stood by the Presi- 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- ed in blood. How shameful this boast sof 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 seacrifce 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 a primary and special cleo tfon, because he vacated the Gov <rnor's office. He has been paid ST., BOO per year in salaries since he has been in the Senate. He has been able to pension two of his brothers-in-law son the pay roll of the Government with hardsome salaries. A. J. Walls. United States Marshal for the Eastern District of the State of Arkansas, with n salary of $4.00O per year, and Grady Miller. Secretary of the Committee on Expense of the Department of the f~Treasury. with a salary of $2,5OO per year. Also Jesse Miller, his fatherin- law, Assistant Secretary of said com Jnittee, with salary of $1,500 per year, and Ewilda c. Robinson, his wife. messenger to said committee. with salary of $1.200 per year. An appropriate committee for the family -fo serve. These same brothers-in-law, with an innumerable host of other k1nsfolk and political friends are serv- 1ng their Government in its hour of -naoa managing the Senator's cam -a