Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-12

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i TOM BOWEN,
as he is Familiarity called by his assoei
ates, is now a central figure at the Ar
kansas capital. He is prominent can.
didate for the United States Senate
General Bowen migrated from lows tC
Kansas at an early day, and participa-
ted in the troublOus times in the organ
| izatiOn of that State. Before he was
old enough to vote he was elected a
member of the Iowa Legislature from a
county with four hundred majority
against him politically. When the war
commenced Bowen started a. Captain
Of company, and rose to be Colonel OF
a Kansas Regiment. When peace
came he settled in Van Buren, Arkan-
sas, and married the charming daughter
of an old citizen. He entered the Con-
stitutioHal Convention as a delegate
from Crawford county, and became
President of the Convention, and after
ward was elected one Of the Judges of
the Supreme Court. While Judge he
became President of the Mississippi,
Ouachita and Red River Railroad, and
constructed thirty miles Of it. He re-
/ signed his judgeship and was appointed
Governor of the Territory OF Idaho.
He resigned this position and returned
10 Arkansas. Judge Bowen is blessed
with liberal fortune, which he uses
generously. He has been a successful
speculator and manager Of railroad
schemes, in several of which he has
been engaged. General Bowen is
dark and slender, and of nerv-
Gus temperament. He is of pleasing
address, full of bOnhOHlie, quick in
his movements, adroit, a good speaker
and clearheaded thinker. He is es-
pecially distinguished for his pluck,
moral and physical, and for his match
less skill in managing men, He would
serve Arkansas well at the Federal
Capitol.
DORSEY.
This excellent gentleman was born
away down East in the little State of
Vermont. He and his competitor for
the United States Senate, Judge Bowen,
are of the same age, both having Ieaped
into existence in 1910. They came, no
doubt, of the intellectual earthquake
that shook the continent in 1S40, made
Harrison President, and gave birth to
the APPEAL. We don't know of any
better reason for the APPEALS kindness
to Bowen and Dorsey than the fact that
the three les enfd1.ts te7Ti5Ies all
bounded, full panOplied for war, into
existence in the same ever-memorable
Ammo Domini 1910. Dorsey was an
undergraduate, of the senior class,
in Oberlin University, Ohio, when
the tempest of revolution struck that
dwelling-place of the humanities. He
was born in Vermont and educated at
Oberlin in the ingrained faith that all
men are born free and equal Jefferson
asserted it theoretically, and prdcticqIllj
believed the assertion false. Dorsey
differing from Jefferson is none the
worse man for a. that. 1t is only curl
Gus to US, who can never learn the half
that Mr.. Dorsey knows in this direction,
that there is no difference among races
which society and government should
recognize. Are prejudices of race, of
which Mr.. Dorsey is incapable, products
of nature or of education? What did
Livingstone tell Stanley about it? They
are very stupid people, however, who
think Mr.. Dorsey unworthy of public
trust in other respects, because of his
peculiar incapaeity to distinguish differ
ences which We feel. He is only color
blind. In everything else he is sharper
than twO-edged sword. He is kindly. |
amiable, full of generous impulses, lib |
eral in his opinions, and esteems YOU
none the less if you differ from him. |
One can't help liking Mr.. Dorsey for his |
very honesty and direetness of speech l
and generous thinking. He has read |
much, speaks admirably, has travelled |
over Europe, INDUCED a cultivated /
taste for the fine arts, and loves
books. He IS good and trllel
10 h.
1861, while yet an undergraduate, and 1
was in the successive Virginia cam
paigns, participating as a captain of ar
tillery in all the great battles in Vir- 1
ginia. After the war he became a most
irOn-mOnger at Sandusky, |
Ohio. For the past two years he has /
been President of the wiseIy-managed !
Arkansas Central railroad, having his /
home in Helena. If evidence Of his /
worth were wanting, we find il in /
the fact that some of the best and oldest |
citizens of Helena are in Little Rock. |
exerting themselves to assure Dorsey's |
election to the United States Senate.
wALLY.
Joe II. Stewards two boys, four and |
six years respectively, occupy an apart /
ment next to mine. Last night. after /
they were in bed, heard the bright pair |
in the midst of an excited discussion, as
to the ownership of a barlow.n A |
quarrel and fight ensued, and BY some
means the older head was put in chan
cery, and the younger was cutting it
with terrible effectiveness! 'Hold up,
Wally," sang out the older boy, 'Ili /
sell out" These boys have been in Lit
tie Rock only two or three months, and
have solved the problem and pro-
foundest mysteries of Arkansas pol
tiles. Whenever an acute angle is
to be turned or a sharpe dodge made,
Or an eminently desirable end must be
attained, or a fierce conflict is precipitat-
ed, somebody almost >suffo Gated, his
head and neck Gin chancery," sings
Out Hold on, Wally, III sell out!'
In this exclamation of the Little Rock
lrchin the world will find the ultimate
solution, the open sesame to-the mystic
ries of Arkansas politics. LID.