The sun., 1907-12-18
The Low Com bed Rooster or Arkansas


The rhetoric of the Hon. JEFFERSON
DAVIS of Arkansas, our JEFF DAVIS,
as an Arkansas Judge has called him,
has been studied appreciatively in these
columns. As Acknowledgement and Gov
ernor his emotions have been duly re-
misfortunes, such as being driven out of
the Baptist Church by his "persecu-
tors" or being charged, in report
printed by prosecuting majority Of
the Legislature, with official miscOn-
duct and petty grating. We have seen
him knocked down by various opponents,
beaten over the head with the butt of
"a revolver, blackened as to his eyes,
sprnting from the wicked. All these
tribulations were the work of the aris-
tOcrats, whom JEFF calls the high
combed roOsters," the high collared
crowd" If it be true, rs Attorney-Gen-
eral BOB ROGERS is not ashamed TO say,
that you can make JEFF jump into the
Arkansas River by pointing a corncOb
pipe at him, the fact eliminates the
sensitive and POetical hRture Of Shirt
sleeves and testifies' to the persistent fury
of his enemies. Pursuing or pursued. he
wears this label and inscription:
An l ask is that when l am dead you will bury
In the old graveyard and write my head.
stone the motto: lie died a martyr to the common
people"
Mr.. DAVIs's speech in the Senate De-
cember II shows his undiminished love
of the common people" He hears the
beating of their great throbbing hearts y
He talks to them in the Senate Dulces
reminiscitur Argos, he can't keep away
from Arkansas. OF capitalist recently
dead he speaks with taste and feeling:
lie has gone TO that place and CLINE where ST.
PETER doesn't take sugar in hlsn."
A favOrite forged quotation; it is time
for Dictionary Of Forged Quotations:
Mr.. LINCOLN the great patron saint Of the
Republican party bless his memOry-In his
latter days spoke great truth when. looking down
upon this Government from his lofty height in the
travail of his soul, he said. an approach.
ing which gives more concern than did the civil
war. ! see a period approaching when all the
Wchltn Ol lhc CuuubIg Will uc CohCtuIhNeu IN tne
hands OF few. and when that day shall arrive l
tremble sir. for the republic itself do not GuOt-
Mr. LINCOLN exactly. but that Is the substance of
what he said
A moment afterward he makes this
curious neurological historical asser-
ton, a bit of popular" history trans
ferred from JEFFERSON to JACKSON, with
a nickname Of the late Governor WILL
IAMs Of Indiana lugged in:
Who was the greatest President. save and
except GEORGE WASHINGTON. that this country ever
had' l say without fear OF successful contradiction
that Old Hickory. Old Blue Jeans. was the greatest
President this country ever produced. When no
was sworn IN AZ Chief Executive Of this great nation
he came 20 the White House on horseback. He rode
his horse out mere. htchcd lt a rack and. dressed
In suit of blue Jeans. walked into the White House
and took the oath OF once"
I'VE want to get money. Gold is
god says the martyr of the common
people. A more than sufficient answer
TO the high combed roosters Of the Ar
kansas Legislature whO-reported, April
Q, 1908, that Governor DAVIS used part
Of his continSeut nInd.for private sx-
penses. took free railway transportation
contrary to law. twice received from