The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
BRUND|DGE ASSAILS ROB|NSON'S RECORD
Extract From a Speech of Ex-con- greseman stephen 5rundidse, csn- didste For United States Senator, Delivered at Camden, Saturday, May 4, 1918,

looking after his political interests af- ter he had finished a tour of ten days in his Liberty Loan Pullman, also looking after his political interests, l 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.
 I should have liked very much tn have heard what the Senator had to say of the conduct of Governor Gard ner, in Missouri. in comparison with his own, who. just 8 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 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 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 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 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 account He would not carry a 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 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 life.
 In 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 the Sen ator ever stood. and for infinitely more patriotic reasons They have shown 1t by contributing of their means most abundantly 10 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 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 a thousand times more than this. They have sent their sons from homes of peace and safely to the fields of carnage to be bapt'Z ed in hood How shameful this boast of the Senator that he h1s 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 nas made To begin with. he sacrificed nearly $500 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. BOO per year in salaries since he has been in the Senate. He has been able to pension two of his brothers-tn-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 s4.00O 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 father-rn- law, Assistant Secretary of said com mittee, with salary of $500 per year, and Ewilda c. Robineon, bis wife, messenger to said committee, with salary of y1.200 per year. An appropriate committee for the family to serve. These same sTothers-in-law
 with an innumerable host of other kinsfolk and political friends are serv
 ing their Government in it's hour o
 heed managing the Senator's cam
 paign in Arkansas. This mighty army