Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-10-25
OUR LEGISLATORS

ooos %. Ahc1c dIe tHlfby -One Demo-
Gratis and one Republican in the Sen
ate, the Populists having failed to
secure single Senator. w. B.
Morton, representing the district
composed of Carroll, Boone and
Newton counties, is the solitary Re
publican who will sit in the upper
house. How lonesome will be his
lot among those thirty-one Demo
Gratis. But as this will offer fine
opportunity for converting him to
the true faith and turning him from
the wicked path of McKinleyism
and Claytonism, it may rebound to
his gain.
In the House of Representatives,
the roll as at present made up shows
eighty eight Democrats, nine Popu-
lists and three Republicans. The
political complexion of the General
Assembly, should there be no deaths
or designations, will therefore stand
as follows when it meets in January:
Democrats, 119; Populists, nine; Re
publicans, four.
On religious lines the Solons are
more equally divided than on politi-
cal questions. Our Methodist
friends, however, possess the strong
est pull, having representation of
forty-tive. The Baptists come next
with thirty-one members. Eleven
are Presbyterians and ten are mem
bers of the Christian church. Four
worship at the shrine of Episcopa-
lianism, two are Cumberland Pres
hyterians, two Catholics, two who
call themselves Professionals" one
Lutheran, one Jew. one Church of
Christ disciple, and one Ga Populist,
of course) who describes himself as a
"Christadelphian, whatever that
may mean. The remaining twenty
one members of the body avow
themselves members of no church.
The farmers have no reason to
complain of lack of representation
in the coming General Assembly.
They lack less than ten of having a
clear majority over all the other
combined professions, trades and
vocations. The lawyers come next
in numerical strength, followed by
the doctors. The occupations of the
members, as described by themselves,
is as follows: Farmers, forty five;
farmers and teachers, four; farmers
and merchants, three; planters, two;
farmer and lawyer, one; farmer and
trader, one; farmer and book keeper,
one; farmer and editor, one, total en-
gagged in agriculture, combined with
other business, fifty eight; lawyers,
thirtyfve; physicians, eleven; edi-
tors, six; teachers, six; merchants,
five; lumbermen, two; merchant and
editor, one; teacher and law
yer, one; real estate agent,
oney drummer, one; minister of the
gospel, one; miller, one; mechanic,
one; harness manufactures, one;
commercial agent, one.
The nomenclature of the body
presents bnt few interesting fea-
lures. The names, as a rule, ale
of the plain, every day
kind They have Il West and a
South "a Moose and a Bullock; an
Eagle, a Heron and a Martin; o
Weaver, a Miller, and several
a Lake, Brooks with Fords,
but no Water; Hill, a Vineyard
and a Holitield; a Gray, Brown; a
Dunn,a Quick and Dedman; Bell
q Shell and Black we'll; a man of
Luck; two Wits with but a single
Word; and Quarles will be inevitable
but King and Pope will be on
hand to hold down the unruly mem
oers.
AS to nativity, fifty-two of the
first saw the light of day
On Arkansas soil, one was born in
one in Iowa, and one in
Germany. The remaining seventy
seven were born in the Southern
states, Tennessee coming in for the
argest representation.
The oldest Senator is your Uncle
Beaver Dam Williams, who repre-
sents Pulaski and Perry counties,
who owns to "; and the youngest is
Editor James w. Adams, of Jeffer-
son county, who has lived through
twenty-nine summers. B. Nj.
of Conway, is the senior
IA age among the assemblemen at
a, while Frank G. Smith, of Crit
tenden, at %, easily captures the
honor of being the youngest mem
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