The Green Forest tribune., 1902-03-08

of the most forceful arguments in favor of rotation in office. Among other things contained in the cir cular is the statement that "Con- gress is not a school in which to educate statesmen. The man who requires 10 years training in congress to fit him for it's duties should not be sent there at all, 7" and the circular goes on to quote Col. Peel on the rotation question in the latter's race against MT. Gunter 10 years before.
 After reviewing MT. Dinsmore's record in Congress and compar- ing it with that of Col. Peel, MT. Floyd calls attention to Col. Dinsmore's standing as a society leader in Washington and pro- duces as proof some newspaper quotations among which is the following from the pen of Ed Givens, editor of the Batesville Guard, who is also private sec- retary to Senator Jones. The ar ticle was written by MT. Givens in Washington as editorial cor respondence to his paper. It reads:
 ''Mr. Dinsmore is the society man of the Arkansas delegation. He has not danced any this win ter, however. The injury to his leg, caused by falling from a street car here last spring and re- newed in his personal encounter with the Van Buren county popu- list last August, does not yet per- init him to renew his terpsichorean activity; but he is frequent on- locker at ball room occasions and social favorite everywhere"
 Concluding his argument MT. Floyd said:
 "That MT. Dinsmore by reason of a commanding figure, an elo- quent voice and pleasing man. ner is an ornament to Washington society and to those ancient and honored halls of congress once adorned with Webster, Calhoun and Clay, 1 have never gainsaid or denied. But do you want to elect him to congress and keep him there for life simply as an ornament?
 ''I commend him as good man and true to his party's principles. He is also a fine politician-his political gun is of the most ap- proved Krag-Jorgeusen make but as constructive statesman I declare to you upon my sacred honor, he carries more blank cartridges in his belt than any man who ever went out to battle for the rights of the people. Talk ing panoramic view of his whole past career strewn all along with flowers-honor after honor-office after office crowding thick upon him. If I were going to indulge in comparisons 1 would not com pare him to the gnarled and sturdy oak, nor to the tall and useful pine but to the lilies of the field. They toll not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
 'I hail from the eastern portion of this district. In every contest for state and district offices, my people have been loyal to the people of Washington and Benton counties. We have helped to elect your United States senators, congressman and various state and judicial officers. Yet in the sixty five years that Arkansas has been a state, no congressman has been elected from any of the eight eastern counties of this congressional district. If the time shall ever come when you mean to deal fairly with the eastern democracy ever, loyal to you as brothers, I can conceive of no more opportune occasion than when one of your own men is seeking to override a party precedent and asking you to do something for him that you were