The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-18
The Sweet Singer of Benton.
Arkansas Democrat.

During the last legislature ar amendment was offered to the con stitution, which Baker of Bentor opposed. He finally got the fool and delivered the following speech which was taken by a shorthand reporter who happened t, be pres ent. The reporter has had many a good laugh with his friends over .he peculiar style of the natnra orators delivery, and he has final ly agreed that it be published fol the benefit of the public:
 MR. SPEAKER:-I am agin the proposition of the gentleman iron Shicot. don't hold he has any right 10 alter ther constertution oI our State. If the gent can tell o any fellow who favors his motion he can heat me. want every man and woman ttt, to have all they want, but when it comes to tacklin our constertution I think it's time to call a halt. When he fitched in his motion I felt busted. How dare he to bring in proposition to alter ate ther constertution of our coun' try which came down from Wash. ington, Jeffersun, Jackson and Bessy. He can't do it! MT. Speak. CT, I tell yer he can't do it, the mortal tonstertution of 1886 must stand. Whose in favor of altering the constertution' Whar can you find i'm? 1 tell yer Mir. Speaker, I have travelled from Jonsing creek, in East Tenn. to the head of Winel river in the rocky mountains and captured grisley bar cubs for a liv- ing, lived in my old cabin home among the she bars of Sara Neya. dy mountains and not hearn one of them wanted to alterate ther con- stertutiOn. l have hiskiused among the redskin and kiOtas of the plains and followed the deyouring flight of the grassl,opper through Kansas into Missouri where they lit and with longing eyes looked over tc the pious shores of Arkansaw, but not one of lem was in favor of al. tering ther constertution. have watched the lowing hsards of cat tie, listend to the bleatihg of the focks, and the believing of the bulls of Benton, but none of lem wanted to alter ther constitution No Mir, Speaker, you may search this country from the rOckbound coast of the stormy Atlantic, where the roscy checked maiden of the frozen North frolicks in merry glee in the virgin snow of New England to whar the black eyed daughters of the sunny South bathe their tiny feet in the tepid waters of the Gull of Mexico and you can't find any ov lem who want ther constertt' shun altered. You may travel from the Canadian line, e,whar Queen Victoria's, kiotos bark at Uncle Sam's flag to whar the alligators maunch flies, dogs and nigger ba bies on the coasts of Floridie, and you can't find one who wants to have his constcrtution altered. Go then, Mir. Speaker rum the Stormy Atlantic whar the grand old King of day rises dripping rum the waves to whar he sunk to his evening rest in the placid Pacific and you can't find sin gle feller that'l stand up on his feet to alterate their constitution
 Here the speaker began to ray for order.
 Mir. Baker continued "NOw
 Rap came the speakers gravel.
 Baker-"NO! Go where you vii go to old vaginna, go to new Vaginna, go to Tennessee, go tt old Kentuck, go to Missouri, go te Texas"
 Rap, rap. rap, came the speakers gravel.
 Baker, after a slight pause "Go to h--l and none ov 'em is il favor of alterating thar constertu l.1,, tS