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The Men Who are Today Lifting the World Upward and Onward are Those who Encourage More Than Criticise
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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, March 20, 1914
Vol. 13, No. 50
OLDFIELD’S RECORD IN CONGRESS RANEY SHOWS UP WOOD’S CHARGES
Brief Outlines of His Work In Assisting the
Democratic Administration to Redeem
Its Pledges Made to the People
The Democratic party under the
leadership of President Wilson aid
ed by Mr. Bryan, Speaker Clark,
Mr. Underwood, and other able
democrats in congress has made
a splendid record during the last
twelve months.
It smashed the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill and has gi”<?n to the
country a measure reducing the
tariff on many articles of common
consumption, and in this way
lowered the cost of living to some
extent without doing any harm to
manufacturing interests.
It has put into the statutes a
law forcing the payment of a tax
on incomes exceeding ?3,000 a
year which reaches in a way not
heretofore reached the wealthy
class of the Nation and forces
from them a contribution to
Goverment revenue, over a protest
that echoed from the lakes to the
gulf and from Maine to California.
It has created a currency law
that will in the future prevent a
handfull of financial buccaneers i n
Wall Street from plunging the
country into a panic at will in
revenge for some legislation it did
not approve of.
It is now going to arrange a
system of farm credits that will
enable the owner of farming
property to secure a loan at low
rates of interest for a long period
in seasons of hard times.
It has shut out the lobby and
its satellites, who in the past
shaped all legislation in the inter
est of certain classes. They are
now without influence in legisla
tive affairs in Washington, and
instead of strutting around with
lordly airs they are hiding their
faces from the view of honest
men
The fight for anti-trust legisla
tion ;s now on, and there will be
the same result The administra
tion will win and some laws will
be enacted to reduce the oppor
tunity for mutimiliionaires to in
crease their holdings at the ex
pense of the humble citizen.
It is an era of good goverment
through a democratic administra
tion in accord with humanity and
integrity. In shaping this result,
the democratic Senators and Rep
resenatives have taken a promi
nent part. They stood shoulder-do
shoulder behind the President and
helped him push through his
policies of reform, and they are
entitled to the commendation of I
all their constituents without ex- j:
ception. j
The Represenative from the']
Second District of Arkansas, W.j
A. Oldfield, occupies a promienent
placd in the lower house of Con
Kress. For years the system of
issuing patents by the Goverment
has been criticised by many good
people as perpetuating and pro
tecting various monopolies. Efforts
to change the laws regulating
their issuance have been attempt
ed heretofore,but under republican
administrations they were un
changed in any respect. Mr. Old
field was made the chairman of
the Committee on Patents, and he
is drafting laws to amend existing
statutes so that the issuance of a
patent will not mean that the
public shall be forever at the mercy
of the owners of certain manu
facturing devices, which they
have, usually, bought from the
poor inventors at a small figure;
and the holding of this patent as
a monopoly, not to be enjoyed by
any one else desiring to enter the
same business, has been made a
means to push prices to consumers
to an unholy limit, without any
means of defense upon the part
of the consumer. Mr. Oldfield is
being backed by the administra
tion in his efforts to reform the
patent office systems and put the
interests of the consumers more
on a level with the interests of
the owners exclusively of patents
not shared by other manufactur
ers. All the leaders of Congress
are with Oldfield in his work along
this line.
Mr. Oldfield has been criticised:
in some few instances because he j
voted for the bill authorizing the
present administration to build a
Government owned railroad in
Alaska, yet this was one of the
great measures passed by the
present Congress. Mr. Oldfield
did not originate this measure, but
he followed the leaderseip of Mr.;
Wilson, Mr. Bryan and Secretary j
Lium', whose democracy cannot be!
questioned, when he voted for it.
For years there has been complaint
aginst the railroads of the United
States, as to freight and passenger
rates, and the influence in shaping
legislation to protect their inter
ests. Some of this complaint may
not have been dbSetved, but it is
the truth that tile most of them
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CONGRESSMAN W. A. OLDFIELD
Reports From All Parts of the District Indicate His Re-election by
An Overwhelming Majority
I Ruddell The Winner
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I Lawrence Ruddell is deserving a man. He makes
a living by hard work and when he was defeated for
sheriff in a previous election he returned to his work
I With no grudge or malice toward anyone.
] He is sober, industrious and honest, and would
I rather suffer defeat than resort to any dishonoable act
j in the campaign. He has conducted a clean, honest
[ and open campaign upon his own merits and not upon
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finds it, without regard to friend or foe.
He lost only a few votes in his home section of
Ihe county in the last election, and in this eleceion he
vtill carry it by a larger majority than before. He was
defeated by Fike by less than 100 votes, and is a sure
winner this time.
A VOTE FOR RIDDELL IS A VOTE THAT
WILL BE APPRECIATED
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Defends His Record and Shows That Charges
Made by the Distinguished (?) Mayor of
Marianna are Baseless and Fnvolus
He boasts about building Marianna from 2,000 to5,000, but
I am inclined to think it would be well to call another witness.
Charge No. 1. He says that I was absent and not voting
one-third of the time of the session. I did not miss a single day
during the session, and was on duty at all times. Three-fourths
of the legislation was local, and those matters were always left
to the senator of the district from which they originated I ppsl
sibly did not vote on several local bills, as they were of no ifSj
terest and there was not any fight in regard to them. I was orf\
several important committees and was over in the house partof
the time, but was on duty at all times.
Charge No. 2. He tries to show' that I wTas unfriendly to
the laboring people, and I will publish a letter herewith written
me by W. D. Jackson, chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, which shows that I was a friend to the laboring peo
ple. I live in a farmers’ town, and they are all my friends and
I am their friend.
“Little Kock, Ark., Jan. 7, 1!»14.
“Mr. Thomas .T. Haney, Newark, Arkansas.
“Dear Sir and Friend: I see by the pa(>ers that you are a candidate
for Railroad Commissioner from your district.
“I take this opportunity of wishing you a successful campaign for I
believe in standing by those who have stood by us when we were in need
of a friend.
“1 want to say that no one appreciates more than I do your loyalty
to the laboring man, and your services while you were a senator to the
laboring people was unqualifiedly “A No. 1,’, and I hope that the good
people of your district will stand as loyally by you in your*present cam
paign as you did by them when you were in the legislature.
“Again wishing you a successful campaign, I beg to remain,
“Your friend,
“\V. D. Jackson.”
Charge No. 3. He tries to show that I was unfriendly to
the agriculture schools, and hoped to prejudice the farmers,
who patronized the schools, against me. The following telegram
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ENDORSEMENT OF
HARRIS FOR SHERIFF
To The Voters of Independence County:
We, the undersiged citizens of Christian and surrounding town
ships hereby endorse N. F. Harris, for Sheriff of Independence county
for the reason of his qualifications in office. He has served Christian
township as Constable for the past four years and has proved his effi
ciency by enforcing the law to the letter, and especially in the man
ner in which he has gone after the “Bootleggers and PistolCarriers”
since he has been in the Costable’s office. He has always watched
very closely after matters of that nature and has brought more men
to justice than any of his predecessors in the past ten years. This
fact is shown by the J. P. Court record which is open for inspection
We further endorse his administratiod as a sober man and a fearless
officer and take pleasure in recommending him for the next Sheriff of
Independence County.
W, H. Burrow, farmer
W. E, Chambers, farmer
John Clayton, farmer
It. R. Reeves, farmer
Rufus Massey, farmer
J. L. French, farmer
A. B. Pelley, merchant
Henry Taylor, Farmer
K. M. Crabtree, farmer
O. C. McFay, farmer
J A. McVav, farmer
R. E. Tinkle, farmer
W. H. Adams, farmer
B. C. Childers, blacksmith
Sam Childers, blacksmith
A. J. Woods, farmer
J. W. Walker, farmer
Willis Fate, farmer
J. W, Adams, farmet;
J. M. Chandler, farmer
W. K Hays, farmer
W. W. Anderson, farmer
Bedford Go wees, r firmer
Uee Hodges, farmer
M. G. Goodman, farmer
A. Z. Shipp, farmer
J. W. Milman, farmer
R. L. Gatling, farmer
James Bruce, farmer %
O. A. Riddle, farmer
J. N. Shirley, fanner
A, Brownlow, farmer
J. R. Morris, farmer
Jesse Bennet, farmer
J. W. Payne, furmety
FI. F. Board, farmer
Perry Osborne, farmer
fx»e White, farmer
F. M. Staggs, farmer
A. K. Harris, farmer
II. J. Harris, farmer
B. II. Dodd, merchant
W. VV. Wheeler, merchant
W. A. Wyatt, M. D.
J. M. Nichols, merchant
W. F. Fain, farmer
J.T. King, farmer
I. G. Madness, farmer
J. W. Metcalf, farmer
A. Gatlin, merchant
II. II. Shipp, farmer
M. A. Cole, farmer
W. S. Miller, farmer
A. K. Hays, farmer
C. E. Hays, farmer
t'harles Rigg, teacher
Fred Hook, farmer
C -V. Ws*ts, farmer
It. C. Harts, farmer
J. A. Reynolds, farmer
W. W. Clark, fanner
T. G. Stephens, farmer
Fred Capliner, farm«r
W. J. Stephens, farmer
A J. Roberts, blacksmith
J. N. Grigsby, farmer
Joe Haley, farmer
J. T. Robertson, iarraer
Henry Rice, farmer
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