OLDFIELD ANSWERS
CAMPBELL’S ATTACK
Popular Congressman Defends Record
and Asks Voters to Carefully
Consider the Facts
Editor Newark Journal.—
Newark, Arkansas.
Dear Sir:
A friend f mine supplied me
with clippings from several
papers of the district con
taining what purports to be
a letter of the Hon. Tom W.
Campbell, cf date January 31,
1916, addressed to me. No such
letter was written to me by Mr.
Campbell, end no such letter
was received by me, nor was 1
expected to receive this letter.
It is a campaign document is
sued by Mr. Campbell with the
sole purpose in view of mis
leading the voters of the 2nd
Congressional District. In the
pretended letter are many state
ments of what Mr. Campbell
says he will charge with refer
ence to my record, some of
them too trivial to command
attention, and others couched
in language so unbecomingthat
no reply can be made to them
in the vein that prompted him
to write.
With reference to the state
ment that it is costing too much
to keep me >n Congress, I wish
to say that I am drawing the
salary and mileage fixed bylaw.
The law fixing both the salary
and the mileage was passed be
fore 1 became a member of
Congress, and therefore I am
not responsible for either. 1
take it for granted that if Mr.
Campbell were a member of
Congress, h i would expect to
be paid the .ame salary as that
paid to the other members,
however little he might in jus
tice be entitled to receive. By
innuendo Mr. Campbell says 1
have been in Congress long
enough. Of course no thought
ful person will give serious con
sideration to this criticism
which is made for the purpose
of getting votes only. Every
person knows that my prede
cessor, Mr. Brundidge, repre
sented our District in Congress
for twelve year, while I have
been in Congress only seven
years.
It has boon the custom not
only in Arkansas but in every
state in th? Union for the peo
ple to keep their Representa
tives in Co igress all the way
from ten to twenty years and
even longer.
Speaker Clark of Missouri
has been in congress twenty-one
years and Claude Kitchin of
North Carolina,our Democratic
Sloor Leader, has been in Con
gress thirteen years. By their
long service they are the most
influential members in the
House.
In these troublous times when
men of experience are needed
in Congress, I dare say the peo
ple will pa/ very little atten
tion to this criticism.
His charge that no bill intro
duced by me has ever been en
acted into law, to put it mildly,
is a reckless statement,contrary
to the facts, and known by him
to be untrne at the time he
wrote it. His next charge that
I helped pass a bill to license
the gambling in cotton futures
is untrue, and known by him to
be untrue at the time he made
it. He made it with the hope
that he might deceive some one
not familiar with the record,
and withou any regard for the
fact that he knew the state
ment to be false. I have sup
ported every measure introduc
ed in Congress since I have
been a me nber of that body,
that looked to the suppression
M gambling' in futures. I sup
ported the Scott bill that pass
ed the House and failed in the
senate; I supported the Beall
□ill that p used the House and
failed in th.* Senate.I have sup
ported every measure that the
farmers of this country have
:hought would grant them re
lief; I supported the Clarke
amendment; I supported the
Lever bill, ;i bill that destroyed
the element of gambling and
compelled those people who
had heretof »re dealt in cotton
futures to write a binding con
tract that would protect the
growers of cotton everywhere.
1'his bill w.\s advocated by Mr.
Bryan, who was then Secretary
of State. It was advocated by
the President of the United
states, Wood row Wilson, and if
lo charge me with being the
aider and abettor of legislation
to license gambling of those
people is to indict the President,
he Secretary of State, and
□racticallv :Jh entire Democra
ic membership of the House
md Senate with being in league
vith gamb'trs and supporting
neasures to ’icense and protect
rambling in futures.Mi. Camp
>ell knew .vhen he made the
tatement that it was untrue,
le knew,or f’ould have known,
hat the farmers’ organizations
avored the measure. It was
idvocated by farm organiza
ions everywhere, and opposed
>y every cotton exchange in the
vorld. Anu at other times he
riticises nu because Congress
ms not passed a rural credits
•ill. While he is criticising me, I
am here working for rural
redits legislation and eo-oper- j
ding with Mr. C. S. Barrett,
’resident and Mr. A. C. Davis,
iecretary of the National Ear
ners’ Union, in having Con
fess pass a good rur.d credits ;
•ill which will enable the far
ners of our country to borrow I
noney on long time at low
ates of interest. We will pass
uch a bill at this session of
Congress. 7,i keeping with the I
pirit of his letter, Mr. Camp
ell charge* that I voted against j
ive cents a mile mileage. He
■as aware of the fact that this
statement was untrue. The on
ly opportunity offered for a
direct vote on that question
alone was on December 18,
1914. I votsd for this reduction
as appear? from the Congres
sional Record of that date,page
880. Mr. Campbell has the re
cord of that date, and knew'
the fact when he made the
statement. Now it is irue that
I refused to vote for five cents
mileage in June 1914. because
I would have been joining a re
publican fillibuster to defeat
one of the great appropriation
bills, and thereby embarrass
the presdient, and the Demo
cratic party and defeat other
meritosious legislation
This ma ter of mil-age had
been in conference between the
conferees <d the House and
Senate for a number of weeks,
and the en 1 of the fiscal year
(June 30th) was rapidly ap
proaching: the President of the
United States, Woodtow Wil
son, was e irnestly urging us to
pass this measure; die demo
cratic leader in Congress were
insisting that the measure be
passed at once. Mr. Campbell
knows that to have voted other
wise would have been to em
barras the cemocratic adminis
tration, and to deprive the peo
ple of relief by other measure
which wou’d have been defeat
ed by the fillibuster.
I stand for a reduction in
mileage. I have always done so.
my vote reflects that fact, anci
he sough' merely to mislead
and misrepresent me in his
statement in his so-caked open
letter.
Mr. Campbell says these are
grave charges, meaning those
he has ma l« against me. 1 con
fess it, and had they been made
by a man who had any regard
for the truth, and one who had
the real interest of the people
at heart, and not by a profes
sional office seeker, who wants
an office regardless of the
methods by which he might ob
tain it, I should have expected
somebody to believe them.
His statement that he wants
to make fifty or sixty speeches
at least half of them off the
railroad,and that he desires my
presence on this occasion, he
well knows was made when the
opportunity would be denied
me to join in the campaign. It
is strange, however, that he
should complain that he is per
mitted to go over the district
and reiterate statements that
are obviously not supported by
facts. He certainly has been
accorded every opportunity
[that an aspiring office seeker
might desire; that is,if the peo
ple will go out to hear him.and
therefore, I take it that I am
not subject to criticism,because
I rely upon the fairness and
common sense of the people
not to be misled by his charges
and prefer to remain at my
post of duty and discharge the
functions of the office to which
the people through their par
tiality have elected me.
In connection with his desire
to be heard at points remote
from the railroad, and there
fore, to discuss good roads with
the people who feel the neces
sity for roads, I wish to say
that roads are not built by pub
lic discussions, nor delcamatons
delivered by candidates for of
fice. I have supported in Con
gress, where my vote would
count in legislation of that kind,
every measure looking to the
establishment and maintenance
of good roads, supported
by appropriations out of
the federal treasury. We pass
ed through the House in the
Sixty-third Congress a measure
granting twenty-five millions
of dollars to aid in the building
and maintaining of purely
country roads, the kind of a
road that farmers need and
use. This bill failed in the Sen
ate, but through no fault of
mine. I have aided in the pas
sage of a bill through the pre
sent Congress calling for a like
appropriation, with a provision
that in the years to come still
larger and more substantial aid j
will be extended by the govern
ment toward the building of
public roads. While I am in
clined to believe, if you will
search Mr. Campbell’s record
during the +ime he was a mem
ber of the Arkansas legislature,
that not one word or act of his
is recorded where he sought to
promote the building and main
taining of good roads, and he
is only a road builder, I judge
from that, for the purpose of
obtaining office only, while my
record as I said, is written in
the measures that passed
through that body of Congress
of which I am a member, and
I pledge myself to support any
measure that looks toward
building and maintaining good
roads, not for those who desire
to use them forautomobilesand
pleasure,but the kind of a road
that reaches the farmer, and
connects him with his market,
with his school and with his
church. I believe the people
know my record in this, and I
willing to risk their intelligence j
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