St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-13
ARKANSAS ELOoUENCE.
Speech of Bake, IF Benfon. in Changing
From BERRY to Jones.


From BERRY to Jones.
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
Mr.. Baker, of Benton, when his name was
reached, rose to his feet and said: 'sMr
PRESIDENT cast my first vote in this senate
rial contest for Gov. james H. Berry, and l
have continued to do so up to the present
time. know him, and like him. He is
good man, and well qualified to ill the
office; an hoaored citizen, brave soldier,
and an able statesman, he is high in the es-
TEEN of the public. | am rough man my
self, man from the mountains, and
am one of those men who stick by their
friends; stick by my friends when they
deserve it, when they are well able and well
qualified, until they fall, and even then I'll
not desert them; l am ike Collins sheep;
when they fall fall with them. I hated to
see Gov. Berry withdraw from the field, but
when saw it must be l looked about me and
took the thing under consideration and
thought on it. 1 thought long and carefully
over it, and l slept with it. Laughter.
saw l must cast my vote for some one else,
and must make choice of the other can
didates. I'll tell you how lid it. looked
over the field. / have met the other two, End
had studied them. l met the Hon. Poin-
dexter Dunn and l saw in him many good
points. | saw fine head on him Il greatly
admire fine head) and saw in him great
coming man. But tell you what did the
work for me. met Mrs. Jones-the wife
of the Hon. James K. Jones-and that set
tied it. This is how it was. l met her and
l went and called on her--yes, did. The
room was full of beautiful women. didn't
hardly know what to do, but she sat by the
piano and 1 asked her to play little tune on
it for me [laughterl-I asked her that very
thing-asked her if she could play MY Old
Cabin Home She said she would if would
sing verse of it, and | said I'dtry. Cries,
sing it now, let's hear it'll You wait. l
said l would, and she touched up the piano,
hit the very keynote of the piece-the tune l
know and love the best on earth. 1t rang
and echoed about the room. The place was
full of women, and pretty women, too.
Applause. And among them l saw Miss
Roane, the daughter of old Gov. Roane, the
lady of whom Mr.. Mcmillan spoke so beauti-
fully while ago. They crowded around,
and right there stood and 1 sung the verse.
lCries of 'sing-sing-give US the verse. y
All right, gentlemen, to accommodate you
Pn sing it." and clearing his throat, the
gentleman from Benton struck upa bear
tone solo and sang:
we'll hunt no more the grizzly
In the nook,
Wen leave the canon all
So dry;
Well drink no more of the
Clear crystal brook.
So, my log cabin home, goodbye"
AS the ''good-bye' foated up among the
cobwebs in the dome of the hall the densely
packed throng burst into cheers and shouts
tornado of applause shaking the old house,
while bursts Of laughter broke out like thun-
derbolts, and hand-clappings sounded like
hail among the confusion. At length the
orator succeeded in getting silence again,
after bowling and gesticulating several
minutes, and said; ''Hold on-wait and
hear the chorus;' and then he sang;
THE CHORUS.
"We'll mind no more, but play,
l never shall forget
That log cabin home
That log cabin home far away"
Again the storm broke forth, and it was
several minutes before he could proceed.
When lull came he continued: 'Well,
lnoSe lauleS croWueu alOunu NE, anu Wnen
Mrs. Jones stopped playing seized her
hand and l said: Madam, / am in love
with YOU [Shouts. Yes, told her had
fallen in love with her, and she said she
wished I'd fall in love with her husband as
well. She treated me nice---they all did,
too. Now, am rough old man, but ladies
have great attractions for the old mountain
boomers. l know l do [cheers], and never
forgot that visit They looked so sweet and
nice wanted to hug them all. When met
Mr.. Jones | looked at him closely, and saw
in him man | could well support. He had
big head, too--a head like washtub, eyes
set away back in and deep thinking look
in them, and so, with all this to think OF
after looking well about me, after consider
ing the matter well, after sleeping with it,
have concluded to vote for the Hon. James
X. Jones'" [Cheers, long and loud.l