The age-herald., 1902-04-03
Washington Day bY Day

 cratic senators over the defeat of Sena- tor James K. Jones of Arkansas, Mir. Jones has never been liked in the Senate; was not liked in the House, before his "elevation;" and as a political leader he has been one of the most complete fall ures in the long and troubled history of our politics.
 Good morning. Joe-how are your was a Democratic senator Monday morning, greeting to little Joe Bailey, Jr. the nine year old son of Senator Bailey of Texas.
 q am all right-old Jones Is beat, was the boys instant reply.
 Out of the mouths of children come the opinions of men. Now. little Joe Baileys answer to his fathers Senatorial brother was disrespectful in that he should not have referred to any man by the simple designation of "old,' but children will be children. The boy had heard things evidently; and very curiously this nine year old Texan spoke the key to the sen timents of practically all the Democrats in the Senate. It was as if a little child was leading the masters of politics.
 More sober reflection will lead most of us to sympathize in some degree with MT. Jones. After all, he was sometimes amiable: and if he was not great the fault was one of birth and not of his making. It is inconceivable how he reach ed the Senate and how he became half dozen years ago the actual leader of one of the greatest political parties in the world, a position he still holds on this good April day. Mentally he is the most ordinary of men, and having political power he has made some of the most extraordinary political blunders of our time.
 To say this much is not speaking dis respectfully of the retiring senator for Arkansas; 1t Is merely a citation of well known facts, recognized by all men ex- cept Mr. Jones himself and friend or his in Nebraska. No harsh note regard
 ing him shall be sounded in this place. Such a note was sounded nineteen years ago when MT. Jones was member or the | House and this correspondent boy there | toiling then as now as he best knew now | for newspapers-sounded then, and re- eretted ever since because 1t gave pain and caused much trouble to more than two or three. The years have not changed the judgment, but they have sobeled and silenced it.
 Mir Jones' party colleagues in the Sem ate and their kindred workers in the House are in the main far from displeas- ed by the news from the Arkansas prim- ary election. In the House seventeen years ago there was pleasure not of | dattering nature when MT. Jones passed down over to the Senate. His bearing did not please his House colleagues In | those old days, and 1t has not pleased his | Senate colleagues snce This. again, was not his fault, it was his misfortune In the personal confidence of Senators 1t is not even now discoverable that there is or has been any individual resentment against MT. Jones' senators seem to feel that MT. Jones' greatest usefulness was not and could not be displayed in the | Senate.
 | Concerning former Governor James P. Clarke, who is to succeed MT. Jones in the Senate, nothing is known here MT. Jones IS now serving tHe iiSl ol eighteen years in the Senate, his third term expiring March 5, 1903. As he served six years in the House, he has thus been | twenty-three years a member Of Con | gress; and he will not be sixty-three until the end of next September. He was born in Marshall county, Mississippi, received a classical education, and served as l IJa a farmer until 1873, when he took up the practice of law. He entered the Ar kansas Senate a year later, became pres | ident of that body and assisted in the reorganization of the state government after the white people resumed control of their own affairs In 1884 he defeated James D. Walker for the United States he has ever since held.
 It is believed that Governor Jeff Da- wis, who has again won the governorship l of Arkansas, will De a candidate to suc- ceed Senator Berry, but the latter still has five years of his new term to serve. | MT. Berry took his seat in the Senate on the same day that MT Jones was sworn in; MT. Berry having been elected to All out the four-years of the unexpired term of Senator Garland. who entered MT. 1 Cleveland's first cabinet as attorney-gen- | eral. Hence MT Berry has been four | time elected senator. He Is a native of | Jackson county Alabama, and IS two years younger than Senator Jones. His health has been deplorably bad of late. l An Alabama man, now in Washington, who twice met the late Cecil Rhodes, the so-called "empire- builder" and who fur ther knew Rhodes through the medium of lost pounds, shillings and pence, Is some what amused at the ridiculous "heavy editorials uninfom ed newspaper men in this country are grinding out about the great one gone before.'
 To this Alabamian the most amusing feature of the whole discussion is that concerning the 'fawning' of English Dukes and the English aristocracy gen. erally upon the South African adventur- CT, for Rhodes knew no more about the exclusive society of London than is known by an Alabama hillbilly. who wouldn't give a peck of potatoes to know. In the first place, Rhodes did not care the snap l of his finger for the aristocrats of Eng land, except as he might use some of them in some of his money-getting