The Carlisle independent., 1918-05-23

pointments, and Federal Grand Jurfes
 in courts where his Marshals oficiate.
 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 tho people he had betrayed had cooled,
 and contented himself by drawing his
 salary and appointing his kinsmell and friends to office. But this could not continue indefinitely The day of election in sArkansas was drawing near and something must be done. At last the psychological moment arriv- ed. The war clouds were lowering 1 low. LaFollette made speech that nobody indorsed, that the Legislature | of his own State by resolution ex- pressly repudiated, and that his own people overwhelmingly condemned.
 The Senator cleared the deck for his
 political battle. in Arkansas He de- i livered his philippic over the corpse of LaFollette, and mailed copies by the 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 find 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-
 inson in the Senate, and not to put
 LaFollette out.
 In my opening speech charged him with deliberately betraying the people of this State. I charged him with us ing the power of patronage to force Senate, an offense which at the time 1t was committed constituted a crime i against the public conscience, and which was so fragrant and notorious | that the Legislature afterwards mace 1 1t a crime against the statutes of tha State, punishable by Imprisonment in l the penitentiafy But up to this time l 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 tue State Democrat ic Convention, seeking to con- tinue his control of the State or
 ganization, by re-electing his brother 1 in-law, A. J. Walls, Chairman of the | State Committee. He had time to 1 leave Washington and go on the Chau- | tauqua platform and deliver pleasing
 platitudes for the entertainment of the 1 public and in the interest of his pri- vate fortune He has had time to | play golf iii Washington and time to 1 play politics in Arkansas.
 But the greatest camou1age that | the Senator has ever pulled off is in | Loan drive in Arkansas. It was ar ranged that Sousa's Band should tour the State in a special Pullman, and 1 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 a stateroom in the Pullman and taken care of fo- A1o tlxrx r, lt ! he would star in the closing days of 1 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 Pullma. itrain was not re quired in either of the former drives, 1 but the election was not so near. Un- | fortunately for him, the people re sponded before he could get his band and oratory into action.
 He joined the party at Hoxie in Lawrence County. Not needed there, his next stop was at Newport. Jack son County was $50,000 over when he 1 got there. Thence to Pine Bluff. Lit- l tie Rock, Conway, Russellville, and elsewhere, for ten days, but over they
 went ahead of his train. The State was "over," the second in the Union; the whole St. Louis District, was over. except Tennessee. Wonder why he didn't go where they were having .
 hard struggle To abandon the trip
 was disappointing, to continue it, ab- surd. But this band played on, and
 the Senator called aloud to the people l to discharge a duty they had already performed before he arrived.
 I don't know who was responsible l for this trip. only know that tho
 Liberty Loan fund payS the bill. Who
 ever may have formally invited him. | those who are familiar with his politi-
 cal methods can readily see the Italian
 hand of the Senator himself behind it I all. I have no patience with such