The Springdale news., 1908-12-25

Merry CnrlStmdS.
 When President Roosevelt wants to call some body bad names he has friend write him let ter, and in his reply, which, of course IS always made public, he proceeds to get in his work.
 Through the kindness of some unknown friend, Uncle Sam's official publication, the Congression- al Record, is daily visitor to this office. The Record is one newspaper that is never red about 1ardtimes the tariff on pulp.
 Senator Philander C. Knox, of Penns yva1ia has been offered, and has accepted, the position of Secretary of State in President-eect Tafts cabi- net. Senator Knox Attorney General under President Mckinley and also under President Roosevelt for time.
 The Fayetteville Daily says citizen of that town has made the suggestion that the turnpike be extended from that town to Sprngdale so as to enable the people of this place to go to Fay etteville to catch the cannon ball. That's all right and Springdale will be just as good to Fay etteville by assisting them in building spur to connect with electric line that Is to be built east and west through here.
 
 the state are running low, and that there will be deficit before the legislature adiourns. Such a condition will not be without it's redeeming features in that 1t will undoubtedly shorten the session of the legislature. Cut off the pay of the average Arkansas legislator and he is ready to go home light now regardless of whether not the states business has been tended to.
 During the recent campaign Daniel J. Keefe of Detroit Mich, of the labor leaders, deserted NIT. Gompers in his efforts to elest Bryan presi- dent, and after Investigating the matter the Dem- oeratie National Committee publicly charged that NIT. Keefe's desertion was due to the fact that lie had been promised the position of commissioner general of immigration. This was indignantly denied, both by the president and by MT. keefe, but less than month after the election keefe was put on the job. The public can draw it's own conclusions.
 Alfred Hawn, editor of the Huntsville Demo- crat complains that he has been un justly crit- eised and his Democracy impugned a result of his course during the recent campaign. Friend has been in the newspaper business long enough to know better than to worry the criticism of politicians who do not agree with him. When a newspaper starts out to try to curry favor with every politician that along, that newspa- per's usefulness has ceased The honest newspa- per man will mark out his line of conduct and stick to it, and while he may not please every body by his aetions he will have their respect even though they do not agree with him. and best of all he will have the approval of his conscience.
 Just what methods reSorted to to get jobs for the lobess who loaf around Washington was made manifest the other day by little incident that occurred Ill Congress- resolution in troduced i'll the House providing for clerk for the committee on Ventilation and Acoustics at salary of 5000 per day. Some member began making inquiry, and the fact developed that this committee, so far as the members of the present Congress had knowledge, had never even held a meeting. It was simply case of where some member wanted to get friend on the pay rolls of the government, regardless ot whether or not his services would be of any value. We have known of the Arkansas legislature eecting committee clerks who drew pay through the en- tire session while doing about weeks work.
 The Rogers Democrat the failure of the cannon ball to stop in Springdale Is great in- convenience to the people of that town, and the