The Pulaskian., 1918-03-08
LET US NOT MlNcE WORDS
 THIS IS A BRouGH NEWSPAPER

Why Gov. C. H. BrOugh should have opposition the publishers of The Pu- laskian have been at loss to answer, but after reading the maiden address of Judge L. C. Smith, delivered to the voters of Ashley county at Hamburg last Saturday, we find that Gov Brough will have no opposition The speech of Judge Smith is in itself as strong an indorsement as Gov. Brough could seek.
 Judge Smith is seeking the Demo- cratic nomination on a retrospective platform. He is making speech that is about as serviceable a vehi- cle as 1870 stage. coach would be h transportation circles today. The people demand up to date policies on the part of men seeking office today, and Judge Smith has failed to grasp anything for use in his campaign but an appeal to the prejudices Of recon struction days. and an effort to ride into office on the presumption that the voters Of Arkansas are deeply concerned about the health and fu- ture of the pesky little cattle tick.
 Absolutely nothing constructive is found in the speech of Judge Smith. He does not even attempt to conceal this, playing instead to the passions and prejudices of the alleged ignorant voter. The days of ignorance when designing politicians could pull the frfsI 4t3a Of J,ae, passed. The voter today wants a man in office who stands for some thing, who will do something, and who will lend dignity to the office. The spirit of Democracy is to LET THE PEOPLE RULE, and the as sumption that he alone will give it to the people is unadulterated nerve on the part of Judge Smith.
 The principal plank in the Smith platform is the cattle tick. That, Judge Smith, is a relic of the past. You might well have included it in your reference to the liquor question, placing it among the dust accumulat- ing documents of Arkansas political archives. The tick is now out of Ark ansas, or practically so, and the far mer has seen the benefit to be deriv- ed from it's expulsion. Your plank a few years back, when few who did not want to be shown were blowing up the vats, might have been an is- sue, but the farmer would not have the tick back today-in fact, they would resent any effort to reintroduce the costly little pest into the state. The men who fight hardest against thing, fight hardest for it when they are convinced they are wrong. They have had practical demonstration in the tick matter.
 Judge Smith accuses Gov. Brough of reciting poetry and speaking at many out of the state functions. Let us ask Judge Smith whether or not these trips of Governor Brough have proven state assets or liabilities?
 While we will not give all the in stances in which Gov. Brough has been out of the state, for we have not kept account of them, yet we do recall few and we will recite them or the public to pass upon.
 Governor Brough attended the Southern Cattle Breeders Association at Atlanta. He made a speech before this gathering that brought the 1917 meeting to Arkansas, and conserve tive estimates are that it did the agri- cultural interests of Arkansas $1,000, 900 worth of immediate good. It dis tributed among the farmers of many sections pure blooded stock that will eventually make the farmers Of Ark ansas rich.
 Governor Brough attended the con- vention of the National Good Roads Association and of the Bankhead Highway Association He made speeches on the resources of Arkan- sas and these conventions will soon be held in Little Rock They will no doubt cause an epoch of road build ing that will eclipse anything in the history of the state Does Judge