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be capable and just under other inf1u.
ences than those which at present surround
him; but Powell Clayton, Mcclure, and
Co., control the State organization, and Hadley
reposes in their arms. He is now well-to-do,-
the fruit as I was informed, Of some division in
railroad spoils but whether the said division
was fair plumber or not Who can tell, since
everybody has explained away the Credit Mobl-
ier peccadillo? The boundaries between official
right and wrong have been broken down by the
land-ggrant Railways and Legitimacy "occu-
pies much wider area than it used to.
TIE CHIEF JUSTICE.
While the Governor, looking the Magistrate,
is asking and answering questions, we may sun
pose that old John Mcclure, the Chief Justice,
drops in. This celebrated Chief Justice was q
and studied law with the celebrated i'd
ding Billy Mungen, Democrat. He never
shrieked for Freedom before the close Of the
war, when Clayton imported him into the State,
and he was put on the Bench OF Associate
Judges, all of whom look like confirmed poker
Arkansas can be seen nowhere outside OF New
York City. Several of them are plugs, with ears
which stand on guard and eyes which run into
peoples pockets. As Mcclure played the largest
game Of poker on the Bench, and was the most
INSCRIPTIONS man there, they worked out one
Of the Associate Judges, and made him Chief
Justice OF Arkansas. He is, at the same time,
Public Printer and the editor OF the State organ !;
and, if these letters are so fortunate as to OBJ
tain his favorable mention, I fancy We shall
choice specimens of Judiciary English in retort.
This man has published in his paper precisely
what he wanted Governor Hadley to do i'll Pope
County. He says:
"We urged him with all the eloquence We are
master Of, to put the county under martial law,
dera from the face Of the earth. To our
advice he turned an Indifferent ear, saying
These assasEinations are horrible but there
has been no resistance to processes, either civil
or criminal
III this bit Of writing from Chief Justice
Mcclure, the diligent reader can see the persons
and minds of both Hadlcy and his highest
judicial officer. The latter wanted blood; the
former preferred Cancellation, and thought that
the healing of time was better than vengeance.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
Next to Mcclure in the Governors galaxy was
the tall, rather owl-eyed Secretary of State,
Johnson. who has bean pushed by the carpet
basgors into that flexible position. where he has
lost the backbone which took him into tho war
and made him nearly 4 hero. Uneasy; appre-
hensive, not satisfied with the way things are
going in q State where he has lived s;nca child
hood, johnson illustrates what may bscome of
good men when bold and bad ones dispense
power, otice, and mercy.
THE RIaHF-HAND MAS.
Then there WIS the Cheyalier Bowen, q perfect
man Of the world. who rejoices when he hears
that people OF great pretensions have turned out
rogues; who is perfectly liberal, perfectly
unscrupulous, rich, "game," and the right
hand man of Clayton. Bowen comes. in The
Maryland, nnd is tall. with stend-up ears, and
was good soldier, during the war, for Kansas.
He belongs to what is called the "Kansas Ring"
which is composed Of Clayton, Mcclure, Sarber,
and Bowen. Bowen's advice is always to fight at
once. He thinks the Reconstruction acts were
foolish, and that tho way to hold the South is
with an iron hand and brass lnucklcs. Bowen
was one of the Associate Judges on this Bench,
although one would think, tolook at him, that
he would be a more capable judge at q prize
as he had made considerable sum Of money by
receiving and selling State bonds for a railroad
Of which he was President, he chnfed under the
strict duties OF both Judge and Governor, end
at per cent q month"; keeps fine house, and is
Clayton's choice for the Senate, as successor to
Rice. Bowen is as shrewd as any Of the
shrewd men in the ca1pet-bag Govern
ment He is not ungenerous,. is
moment, and his general remark, when you talk
about troubles in Arkansas and the fall Of car
pet-baggery, is this:
1" By G., We don't run"
TIE KNa cAapET-DA6GER.
Next in the Governors junta we may show
the Pope County people into the presence Of
Powell Clayton.
This man has nothing of the New England
character, and is a Middlc-State boy, from Just
over the Delaware line in PENNSYLVANIA, OF Z
aober:minded Methodist family, and it is ru-
mored that he was, in his youthful days, an ex-
horter in that Church universal.
He immigrated to Kansss some time before
tbe var and had m sc7nnafhv there with fi,a
Observation-Disclosures: hnt nccori1inr to some ac.
connfs ewore that he xsnnld take mn arms m
ba}aif If t},a nersecnted Sn1,th # 4inco1n m.
nosed them. However' he went into tie var
and came ont of It WITH Ana renntatinn fnr
n1rcF and coo1ness. and WITH a 3or;a1 hovish
nature. 1 '' 1t he close Of the ~ war, be took to
Wanting oot him a u;fa IN Artapasa M voc
ha1d in hief, esteem tv almost everVhodv for his
clever. felow-yeli-met1 1nanner' and physicai
nronansit;es snc1 "a hnnt;np 1na gay ha
sFhot off his ieft hand vhi1a On one of thesa AZ.
ne7itions and he. therefore' a. carries an eYnntv
sleeve: but W It is not menoento Of the " war.
Clayton ms soon % a. showed a Love- love for T politics. and
this probably crew out Of bis attachment to the
rana Of 5 noEer vhieI, ia the ereat nolitica1 ac1
eomplishment COMP % in tho West " M and So soutbwest4 % Ha
thonght that old Governor Nurnhy was weak
md ysciIlatn@ 1l1 and soncht r. hsva sA ndeeTe
johnson , remoys murphy u % and appoint @ himself. %
a. that time vorT 1nanv nf the Rahela WouId
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