The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-01-26
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{ areer otsenator Berry Told by Judge
sn =. THOMPSON OF Little Rock. s,....,
4 S"s"'tSt. y.ouis Repuhlcl t. siJeF-
The. general manager ofR,hea Bates
vhi stsdi4 Brink ley aRsilrosd, Judge
Mind. Thompson, of Little Rock,
A,ia,, is in the city Oh business connect
ed With his. line' A reporter corraled
hiu, fn the Lsc!ede ru.utida' last night,
anG III naesyDnse ~to questions on the
pol t. cah ,situaiipn down there he,
* .va, up'',as follows, 7..,,s4, ,,l,s;ss
.n.r.hi! opposition to the te-cleclion Of
Mr.. Berry To the United States senate
a,,- aied ua,t asa ne will withoHt
douht!,l,ei his own successor. There
Was i,.ii of Governor Hughes. but he
never stood any cnance ut I'LL from The
s,ar, against Berry's, popularity, which
has made him successfully repressnta-
tive, judge, governor and senator.
Betry's 7hist6ry reads like romance.
lie was boru i'll Mississippi, / thiuk,
aud al. the age of 10 enlisted in the
confederate army, an Ignorant country
boy with neither education nor fortune
nor polish. He1cft leg At Shiloh,
aud ,aftera the war settled at OzarE,
Fmnlshn county, where he went to
school, working nights and mornings
for his board. Afterward he moved 10
Cargta, county, becoming school
teacher, : aud when he had saved
money enough he furnished u house
and, writing to Ozark, invited one Of
the iuVeiitst ard most accomplished
belize ID the place 20 come and share
it,. sac was willing, but her parents
could not listen TO such Il thing.
Berry then, for the Grst time, showed
thai inuomituble pluck that has siuce
uye.cuma all obstacles. He closed his
school, crossed the mountain and by
aid ST il friend and Il ladder stole his
iady-tove from Il second story window.
They swerc msrried and shortly after
ward the young pedagogue was elected
to Tie legislature. but the old man
who daughter ho had won after the
s'y!. Of middle-aee chiva!ry could not
him. For years, however,
EeirA's wife ard children were annual
visit o;s at the Ozark homestead, be-
cause bn insisted on il, though the
doors we're c!csed to himself. He
canlp rnt of the state Legislature
iawSer, nHd q good ore, too. When
his constituents elevated him to the
circuit judsuship, his father ,iu-iawg
often referred 10 him as my son-in-law,
.udge Berry, but never spoke 10 him.
In j $50 The great North vest brought
Berry out for governor, and lie was
by aecla,nation and elected
by 10000 majority. II ln:st have
hee;s u prond and happy day for the
Judge when his wife's father wrote To
him :issA!y daughter was better Judge
otnncn Than j: forgive me, and during
ynnr administration whenever you
want 10 slip away from the capital to
g, j IS briCG respite from the cares Of
state. I 10 not Invite but beg you to
make nny c"untry house your home"
Mir. Berry is now nenrthe close of his
;i,ss term in the United States senate,
hmxil = been elected four years ago to
tilt ;hu uuvX pircd term of Senator Gar
Iand, and, the attorney general except
ed, i head and shoulders above any
man in Arkansas, both in point Of
intcl.cct nud popularity" ...-ta
a"ls there any probability that the
tegisiaturc viii change the election
law Of Arkanaas":" Judge Thompson
was asked. .t "'' 1908 '#Ft ar
"No; now, that Mr.. Harrison has
been elected, there is not. The state
and ul,olGi elections will be held on
h;ntrth: d4ys, "a heretofore. It is bad
enough to have cur congressional and
pres, dentie! elections under the heel OF
federal SUPERVISORS, without throwing
our state ballot :-oox into their clutches.
The vrCs9nt governor (Hughes), who
goes on; on the 1ith Inst, was once
committed TO tho policy of consoiida
ton. but tue action of the Republicans
Stree Inc defeat Of Clayton by Breckin-
ridge n the Second congressional dis
tfict has c0n vinccd him OF his error
'sWhat about the race problem?"
"The Republicans oftho south are
of cGarsn opposed 10 an educational
qualification tor voters, and the Demo-
Gratis IGCk upon anything that curtsiIs
unjvc,sal .utTrage as averse TO our in
s'imtions. [ do not think anything
viii be done III the direction Of n re-
stricttd ballot ..t. q. au
Philosophy Of Cooking.
TI'Hgeuio Eldridge in Good Housekeeping.