Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-11
Politics In Arkansas.

Politics In Arkansas.
Down in Arkansas there Is some
thing doing in politics. Governor JEFF 4
Davis Is hotfoot after the senatorial
toga which has adorned the shoulders
of Hon. James II. Berry for score
Of years and which the latter desires
to wear through another term; hence
he objects most vigorously to Jeff's eff
forts to disrobe him. Governor Davis
proposes to open the campaign on the
ever glorious Fourth, though the pri-
marles are nine months in the future,
and when he stands up before 'the
Red Necks and Hill Billies," by which
peculiar terms of endearment he calls
his followers, things political will be-
gin to sizzle. In fact, they have al
ready begun, for the governor and SEN
ator have been carrying on most
acrimonious correspondence through
the public press. Consequently every
body from the Missouri line to Louisi-
ana and from the Indian Territory to
the Mississippi is on the qui yiye. 1t
doth not yet appear with which lies
the advantage. Senator Berry is popu-
lar and points with pride to his record
as soldier, schoolteacher, lawyer, leg
islator, Judge, governor and senator Of
the United States. His friends are
devoted and enthusiastic. So are those
Of Governor Davis. These latter shout
for him and point with rapturous de-
light to the wreck he has made Of
precedents Not long since Governor
nov Senator) James P. Clarke and
Governor Davis, fighting in pairs, easi-
~ rolled Hon. James X. Jones. Wheth-
er Clarke is helping Davis I do not
know. Anyway Berry Is tougher
proposition than Jones.
Ex-Minister and ex-Envoy Plenipo-
Tertiary to Venezuela Bowen appears
to be in the same woeful plight of the
parrot whose neck was wrung for talk
Ing too much. Next time Bowen will
know enough not to tackle court fa-
vorite. He is one of the men who man
aged by judicious Hopping to hold OH
to good fat Offices under both Demo
cratic and Republican administrations
He had long hold on the public teat.
OF course he dislikes to be separated
from 1t, but such Is the decree Of the
powers that be. There are some others
who might be retired from the public
service without serious loss to it.
While Messrs. Taft, Shaw, Fair
banks ct al. are sweltering and sweat
| ing about a Republican presidential
nomination there is one eminent Amer
lean who knows that he can secure q
presidential nomination by simply In
dicating that he will accept. That is
Justice David ]. Brewer Of the Unit.
ed States supreme court. By de.
claring that woman may be presi.
dent he has made the female suffra.
| gists solid for him. True, he would
have no earthly show Of election, but
he would go into history as presl
dental nominee, which in itself Is 8
passport to lasting fame.
That rampant Republican organ, thu
st. Louis Globe Democrat, has discov
cred great economic truth, or thinks
1t has, which 1t voices in this wise
"There are two ways of abolishing The
dehcits-to Increase the income and t,
decrease the outgo." Yea, verify, tina
is true; but the Globe-Democrat dix
not discover it, for it is at least as oil
as that great tinancier and politica
economist, wilkins Micawber, VIII,
stated 1t In even more fascinating
1 style than the Globe Democrat. From
whom Wilkins borrowed it, this de
ponent saith not.
The venerable proposition to pur
/ chase the Danish West India islands
st. Croix, St Thomas and ST. John, bob
up serenely just as we are all trying
to keep cool. But one thing is notice
able, and that Is that the Oldest :ingoe
who rushed the Hawaiian and Philip
pine grabs and jobs to conclusion ar
not SO vociferously shouting for thes
Danish islands as they We're a year o
so ago. Perhaps they cannot see niue
chance for jobbing in little transae
ton in real estate and human being
which involves only beggarly an
measly 100000.
Nobody except natural born idiot
and lunatics will be deceived by Secrt
tary Shaw's scheme for reducing th
deficit for the fiscal year ending Jun
80 by postponing till July payment Q
debts which ought to be paid in Jun,
OF course the net result of that wor
derful piece Of fnanciering will be
increase the deficit for the next fiscs
year. strangs ways these flnanciel
have!
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