The Washington herald., 1908-01-11
JEFF DAVIS IS FOUND
Was Only Down in Arkan-
sas Seeing the Boys.
BUCKET SHOPS his QUARRY
senator VIII OGer Bill on Monday to-
Abolish Such omces and 10 End
Trading la FutureS-BriuSs Back
TrunkfuI OF Letters and Four
ScrapboOLs Full of Clippings.


Senator jeff Davis has been found.
tie was supposed TO have been lost, ex-
cept by few Washington friends, who
We're aware that he was down ia Ar
kansas, receiving the congratulations OF
Bill Arp and the ether solid citizens
of that grand old Commonwealth, and.
incidentally, trying a few cases at law.
The report that gained currency during
his absence that he was last seen chasing
the octopus across the Mississippi River
is Incorrect
The eloquent Senator from Arkansas is
just fresh from that State. which he be
lieves to be the garden spot of the earth,
and he Is resting at the Metropolitan
Hotel, after the strain of parting from
his native heath. and the fatigue Of the
long journey which intervenes between
Arkansas and Washington. He got in
last night, just in time for dinner. And
he brought along his new secretary and a
trunkful of letters. which he has received
from all over tile country, congratulating
him on that trust-busting speech, which
broke the preccdents Of the staid Senate
into smithereens and made the Senator
even more famous than he had been there
tofore
Ten Thousand Letters.
There are over 1O,0c0 Of those letters.
and they are. some Of them. ten pages
and more in length. They came from all
over the United States, and not one OF
them contains anything but praise Of that
speech and its author, except a request
for copy. The Senator has arranged to
have 200O additional copies of the speech
printed, and he will comply with every
request.
One man wrote the Senator that he had
cabled the entire speech to St. Peters
burg, Russia, and that he had not minded
a bit paying the tolls. which must have
amounted high into the thousands OF
dollars. because he believed his friends
on the other side ought to have the
benefit of the Senator'S remarks.
Senator Davis has carefully compiled
the many newspaper stories which have
been written about the speech all over
the country, and there are four immense
scrapbooks filled 10 overlooking with the
clippings which represent practically
every paper OF any Importance In the
United States. Any one who cares TO
hunt up newspaper manual Will find
that's going some.
Going After Bucket shops.
The Senator will introduce in the SEN
ate on Monday next a bin, the purpose
Of which viii be TO abolish bucket shops
wherever they may exist in this country.
and to end once and for all trading in fu-
lures which he considers one OF the
greatest evils which threaten the pros
perity Of the country. He does not expect
to make speech on this bill in the near
future, but it is altogether probable that
he will have a good deal to say about It
later
Mr. Davis viii remain in Washington
for just one month. ON February 10 he
will leave for Arkansas again. where he
viii spend thirty days canvassing the
State for his friend, Attorney General
Kirby. who. the Senator says, IS going
to be the next governor Of the best State
in the country.
Surprised by Speech's Eject.
Arkansas is the whole thing with Sena-
tor Davis. He said yesterday that what
the rest Of the country thought about his
speech did not mean as much 20 him as
what Arkansas thought about it. But
what surprised him, he said, was that
the entire country had given It such earn
est and extended attention. To his way
of thinking. it was only a small effort.
EVERYBODY is for Bryan in Arkansas,
Senator Davis declares, and Democracy
down there is getting ready 10 do a lot