The courier-index., 1918-05-24

, P0antnentes AhG be0eraI Grand Jurins in courts where his Marshals ofsc,ats Lef us loos into his career in Con. gress little further. When the Sena- tor forced his election to the Senate snd went to Washington, notwith- standing his well-known aptitude for political speech-making. he preserved an Omirous and consistent silence un- til, as he imagined, the wrath of the people he had betrayed had cooled and contented himself by drawing his salary and appointing his kinsmen and friends to offce But this could not continue indefinitely. The day of election in Arkansas was drawing near snd something must be done. At last the psychological moment arriv- cd. The war clouds were hoverinx ' low. IaFoliette made . speech that nobody indorsed, that the Legislature of his own State by resolution .x- pressly repudiate1, snl tbat his own people overwhelmingly condemned. The Senator cleared the deck for his political battle in Arkansas. He de- nvered his phllippie over the corpse of LaFolIette, and mailed copie. by the tens of thousands smoDg the vot- CTS of Arkalisas at Government ex- pense. . campaign speech in the in tereet Of his race for the Senate, and at once his TtGeTai aDp0tntees raised the cry, ''Hs stAnds hy the President. :" His dash into the imslt<ht was as ,beld and assrssstve - Ms feEaer e. yser had hess passivA and sabtsed. In view of the fact that sswArxl months Aavs now psssed since this widely Ad IveYtissA attack vas made, and ws 1nd Senator LaFolletts stitl occupy. fnG his place in the Senate, ws must conclude that the same was made for %hs parpose sf keeping Senator Rob inson in the Sexate. sna not to put LAFollctte cut, -
 h my opening speech charged hind with deliberately betsAying the people of this State -I charged him with us- ing the power os patronage to force his own election to the United States Senate. an offense which At the time it was committed constituted . crime against the public conscience, aud which was 10 fragrant and notorious that the Legislature afterwards mace it . crime against the statutes ef the State. punishable by imprisonment in the peniteptiary. But up to this time the Senator he's been toe busy to re- ply: too husy to account to the people of the State for bis conduct He had time to leave Washington and come to the State Democrat ic Convention, seeking to con- tirue his control of the State or ssnization, by re-eIecting his brother in-law, A. T. Walls. Chairman of he State Committee He had time to leave Washington and 50 on the Chau- tauoua platform snd deliver pleasing platitudes for the entertainment of the public and in the interest of his pri- vate fortune He has had time to play golf in Washington and time to play politics in Arkansas.
 But the greatest camOunsge that the, Senator has ever pulled of is in connection with the Third Liberty Loar, drive in Arkansas. It was ar ranged that sousa's Band should tour the State ina special Pullman and the Senator managed to get himself invited as the guest of honor A teie- gram from headquarters ordered that he and, his wife be given stateroom in the Pullman and taken care of fo- ten days. The idea evidently was that he would star In the closing days of the campaign the band would draw the crowd and his irnpassioned 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 ueople. His Pullman train was not re- ouired in either of the former drives, 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 &OuEtv- 4NVt hSNNs~ 'NS- - his next stop was at Newport. Jack son County was S5o,00c over when he rot there. Thence to Pine Bluff. LAt- tie Rock. Conway, Russeilvilie, ana elsewhere, for ten days, but over they went ahead of his train. The state was lover" 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 rtrugsle. To abandon the trip was disappointing. to continue it, sp- surd. But this band played on, ana the Senator called aloud to the people to discharge duty they had already performed before he arrived.
 don't know who was refponsibis for this trip. only know that ths Liberty Loan fund pays the bill. Who- ever may have formally invited nm. those who are familiar with his poht'-
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