The Green Forest tribune., 1903-12-12
DEN PICTURE OFGoV. V.DAVIS
4 Para gould Editor Sizes Him
 Just About as He I g.

gould Editor Sizes Him lust About as He I g.
 The opinion that Gov. Jeff Davis is true artist i'll his line
 of business is not shared alone by
 THE TRIBUNE, as will be seen by ) reading the following report of his
 recent speech there by the Daily soliphone of Paragould. Cover nor Davis is one of the shrewdest campnigners that ever stepped onto the arena of politics ill Ark s.. sas, if not in the south. Like the Soliphone, insaying this about him, we do notmean that his being a shrewd campaigner makes him a greatman, but the fact does remain that he is not an ordinary man. The Soliphone says:
 "Gov. Davis had a valise full of documents of every kind bear ing upon the campaign, and these he proceeded to spread out before him before addressing the audience. When he was intro duced there was not even ripple of applause and it looked like a frost for the governor, but he hadn't been on the floor thirty minutes before he had about two- thirds of the audience standing on it's head, figuratively speak ing, and the building shaking with frequent outbursts of ap- plause. There was consternation at times, and the governor had to stop in the middle of sentence
 two or three times and ask his friends to desist from their z vhilarity; they seemed to want to hollow too much. Gov Davis speech was the product of a gen. jus, not because of it's literary finish, it's brilliancy or the power
 of it's logic, but because of the
 man s inimitable style, his unap- proachable individuality, his wonderful power of mesmerism, which when he once gets the sympathy of his audience, enables him to bend them to his will. As a political juggler we doubt if Gov. Davis has an equal in this
 or any other state. His power is simply wonderful and an ordinary man is swept before him like chaff before wind. He has not the power of logic nor the polish of literary culture, but the intuition of a man of genius who seizes an opportunity without premedita- ton or preparation and makes the most of 1t to his own advantage, just as the artists paints the land- scape with an instantaneous stroke of the brush, when clouds, sunshine and shadow present the most pleasing contrast. In polit- ical legerdemain he is 8 past master whose cunning evades the best laid schemes of political foes for his entanglement. He dis
 arms opposition of it's mightiest weapons and puts it to hapless .ssssxht when his own undoing
 seemed inevitable. Such man
 is Jeff Davis. This is about as
 true pen picture of the man as.
 we are capable of making. We
 Ge not writing eulogy in de-
 iehse of his character: we are not
 saying that we are for the man for
 governor, or that we want him
 elected governor. We are simply
 giving our estimate of him as we
 find him on the hustings and as
 We have found Linn during hls
 political career in Arkansas. 1t
 looked like when the legislature
 was in session last winter that the
 star of Jeff Davisism would soon
 set and sink into oblivion, but it's
 ascendency in the political Ilrma-
 ment is now so clearly visible
 that blind man can see It. lie IS
 lhe Napoleon of Arkansas .pollt-
 lics who has not yet met his Wat
 sfioo. The politicians hate him,
 most of the newspapers roast hlm,
 'ae preachers, most of them exc
 cfate him, but the star of his