Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-01-13

tllt uotiNc. II III Like county there
| WAS au old fellow who undertook to
commit suicide by hanging himself
with blind bride. About the time he
was going off they cut him down and
rubbed him till ht came to- He rubbed
his eyes, looked nourutul!y at his son
| ahd said, John, ii you had let me alone
minute leH&'r would have been in
heaven. The boy replied: '4,#: lou
would haN" cut Il dr>5l Of il figure in
i heaven looking through Il blind brelle,
wouldn't y@u| fhHt's the WAY a Dem
ocrat would look voting til. Republican,
! ticket under any circumstances, coll
cludcd tie governor
Won on Ills Locks.
! Governor fill is HE oIl@ maa ever
knew Hhe tft;de= political capital o1it of
lis lack ef i=eaut5. y eseryAouy
knows. .GeVefl.ef= beeisers is Il iae.sr.
| h&ndseHe' .s..,:a. lie t,j.5}y- I}eua9.rat
soaFo Xe.1 se7 ,oe.aa.a 9.:at he ~
the nsa:sl 5Jj-lf.it '.y=z..,eee. ,.5efuue1 ot
the Missouri 4s!esasz.ft n congress-
!,alI is >aaii why Hati.='lo especial
j Is hana>nafn Het 99.l - in his
iese - r. r.44u' les IDS I-5.sles,S for
..s.. l.l::s .'y {, The ia@ r. ~a4s: ,Not
/ ~. s5sgro#I val. ~ ;tt 5..e;f5ant Hi
~ :t-=l1e@ di1.6} !>.6asv 4 soal ia
Are ;s-4H So Stattpd a4; II get ac=
rHainted. s5,3a fra, i :ti4 / mel was a
taIl. good ..h a4 man. HaiszeG u, to
him alpl SID. 4,guti Hot.t1.tl@. sir=My
| ie19,1a .ft.,|34 tl,., -tr.,,,
! ger asked Yes; Itavc- Fall of Pike
What Are You the man who is running
for govcrnui:' Yes. | am the nan
| The tail one looked down on me for a
moment and said, Well III be ever
| lastin@lN hornsWa@gled" After having
| relieved himself in that Way and re-
covered from his surprise he took me
all over town and introduced me to the
entire popllation.'
! Dr.. Buckners Question.
| 1t takes :; man of infinite good ma
| tllre ami IN exquisite sense of the ri
! diculollS to relate an anccdotc in public
when tie point is against himself. This
| Ball delights to do. In Pike county
| lives il man of great intellectual brill
y
| He is a brother to Judge A. H. Buck
| her. Who for II Years represented this
! district in congress- With signal ability
| DR.. Bualinef is decidedly ahsentnlld
! ed. He and Ball are great croncs
In his stump speeches he relates this
ludicrouS incident: lone day as Dr.
Buckncr and were walking along the
Sfr toI, I hi
| being a candidate for lieutenant GOV
ernor and asked him what he thought
Of it. He seemed to take to the idea
aud said: :, would advise YOU to run.
The pay is good, the position honorable
and the duties light Then for several
minutes he walked along in a brown
study. utterly oblivious TO all terrestri-
al things. At last he stopped and look
ed me squarely in the face. asked
him what he was studying about He
replied. i was just thinking that il yor
were elected lieutenant governor and
the governor happened to die what a
devil Of fix the state would be in
Always His Second Choice.
The greatest fight for high office ever
made by an old man in the history Of
this world was that Of Thomas Hart
Benton when he appealed to the people
and ran for governor of Missouri in
1856. At the advanced age OF a3 he
Travelled day and night and canvassed
the entire state. That WAS before the
days Of railroads. and it WAS Il colossal
undertaking. The old statesman laid
ny,I ,,ttin a. Mt
ed his tactics and raised him at his
own game They We're a multitude.
Even men who never dreamed of meet
ing him in debate took an occasional
shot at him at point blank range
Up in Rails at that time there lived a
man who was as great characte, in
his way as Benton was in bis. He WAS
universally known as Honest John
Hawkins, and his wit was provcrhal
throughout his own baliwick.
One hot day Colonel Benton was
speaking to Il vast multitude under the |
trees in the courthouse square at New |
London Honest .fohn" Hawkins WAS
lying on the grass listening. He sud
denly rose in the midst of the great OK
senator's speech and ut tn" top of his
voice yelled Tom Benton has been my
second choice for governor of Missouri |
for 80 years. Hcnton stopped and,
bowling in the poitest manncr. said.
MAY inquire who is your first
choice?" ANY man in tho state who
can beat Colonel Benton, shuE;@G I
Honest John" to the aniazem'nt Gf
the audience. Honest John" hit The
bulls eye that time. dead sure pop
A New Way of Getting Elected.
Impossible as the performance may
seem and uuDrrcrdpntrd as it nn,iauht-