The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-03

most of the politicians of the cities,
 never fail to catch the country crowd.
 He never talks over the heads of his
 audience He tells them plain facts
 and makes plain charges. When not speaking. he is mixing" with the
 crowds which always turn out to hear
 him speak.
 When in Little Rock Davis Is digni-
 fled and reserved. The wealthiest or
 most prominent man in the city may
 beNpassed with a curt nod, if not to-
 tally ignored. Such citizen when he called at the executive office, might be
 left to kick his heels for an hour
 while the Governor greeted one of his
 supporters from the country with a
 handshake and Hello Bill' This is
 politics as played by Jeff Davis. He
 has been fought bitterly by practically every newspaper in the State, he never
 received a respectable vote in Little Rock, Hot Springs. Fort Smith, Pine
 Bluff, or the other cities of the State, but he has not cared a jot. He has. made no effort to conciliate the voters of the cities. He has relied absolutely upon the votes of what he has himself termed the "one-gallused" Democracy. With this vote almost solidly behind him he has been able to defy the cities. he has been able to apply the term
 squirrel headed editors" to the news paper men of the State, he has been able to remain at swords points with the leading organs of the State, he has been able to defy the old-time party wheel-horses, and he has been able to do thousand things, which. to any body else would have meant political suicide.
 navfs ratirad os Hayaroor of A.I-.. sas January IS. Two weeks later he was elected United States senator This was in accord with his cutom of re- maining continually in office. He be- gan his public career as prosecuting attorney of the district which included the town of Russellville, where he was horn and reared. He forced himself Into public notice while holding this minor office by filling the jails with lawbreakers and giving the courts more business than they could do.
 He went from this office to that of attorney general. While serving in that capacity, an antitrust law was put upon the statute books. The at toruey general instituted proceedings against several alleged trusts. The Supreme Court construed one portion of the law contrary to thea manner in which the attorney general held it should be construed. The attorney gen eral thereupon dismissed every suit which he had instituted and declared that the trusts could remain in Arkan- sas so far as he was concerned, The notoriety attaching to these proceed ings, together with other events of a similar nature. made the attorney gen. eral a logical candidate for guber- material honors. He made his first memorable campaign for the office and was elected. During his first two years In office he pursued his policy of an- taEonizlng the city interests and con ciliattng the country. He was elected for a second term without much op- position and it was then that he became really supreme in the ranks of tho Democratic party. His actions as member of the penitentiary board were questioned by other State officers, mem- bers of the board. The Governor made counter-charges. A legislative invosti- gation followed and an attempt was made to impeach the Governor. It was at about that time that the feeling be- tween Davis and the anti-Davis men reached It's height, Night after night as the legislative investigation was pros ecuted in the dingy supreme court room In one corner of the historic old State house. the leaders of the two factions sat under a terrific tension waiting for. some litle act that it was realized would have acted as a lighted match cast into a powder, magazine. Dozens of men in the room were armed. A personal conflict between any members of the