The Springdale news., 1908-12-04
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.


 We are now approaching the season of the year when people persist in using the crazy Xmas" instead of Christmas. Who invented ''Xmas,' anyway, and why will people use it?
 The Siloam Springs Herald is being offered at twenty-five cents year, and the Fayetteville Sentinel at fifty cents a year. Probably the respective publishers of these papers consider that Is all they worth.
 The complete returns from the November cleo tion n Arkansas show that the total vote was al most 12 900 short of the vote cast at the Septem- Der election Bryans plurality Taft was 27,795, and his majority all 19,45S.
 The papers are full of all sorts of rumors about what is going to be done to Joseph G. Cannon when congress meets, but The News will risk it's reputation prophet the assertion that .sUncle Joe" will land the speakers chair with his accustomed ease and grace.
 The statement of the treasurer of the Republi- can National Committee showed a campaign fund of more than a million and half dollars, while the Democratic campaign fund amounted to only S620, 644. Charles P. Taft brother of Secretary Taft contributed more than hundred thousand dollars to the Republican fund.-
 Andrew Carnegie expresses the opinion that this country should revise the tariff to basis of raising revenue only, and not for purposes of pro- tecting our industries. As Mr. Carnegie IS one of the stalwarts in the Republican party and built up his fortune largely a result of the pro- teetive policy, his statement has occasioned con- siderable surprise.
 The newspapers that Frank H. Hitchcock has been offered, and has accepted, the position of Postmaster General in President-elect Taft's cabinet. MT. Hitchcock chairman of the Republican National Committee, and in the dispensing of patronage 1t IS conceded will be of valuable assistance to President Taft He Is Massachusetts
 A movement has been started to place the three Methodist schools of the state, Hendrix at Con- way, Galloway at Searcy and Henderson at Ark adelphia, under one head, to be managed by a board of twenty-four trustees. The preparatory department al Hendrix will be abolished and the school will be made eo-educational. Galloway and Henderson will be what is known as ssjunior' schools and not will confer degrees.
 What Editor II. M. Butler ot the Pryor Creek (Ok.) Clipper will do to Editor D. c. Ambrose of the Fayetteville Republican should they ever meet will doubtless be plenty. In referring to Mr. Butler the Republican says he published "Populistic organ" at Prairie Grove eigh- teen years ago. which IS a mistake. Butler was never a Popuist and his Prairie Grove pa per was Democratic, and while resident of Prairie Grove Mir. Butler a candidate for the Democratic nomination for representative.
 When 1t reported some two years ago that diamonds had been discovered in Pike County, this state. many people considered 1t hoax, but 1t HOW seems that there really diamonds of value in that section, and preparations being made to develop the field OH all extensive scale. The Ozark Diamond Mining Company last week paid s2O, 900 for undivided three-fourths inter- est m forty acres of land in the diamond district, which would indicate that something besides talk has been going on. The diamond field is in the southern portion of Pike County, fourteen miles from Nashville Hampstead County and the dia- monds far found said to equal those of South Africa.
 c. B. Myers last week resigned as deputy State Land Commissioner. His career has been a little bit unusual. He entered the office March r, 1875, al the age of thirteen years, janitor and for thrty-four years has been continuously con- he was promoted to clerkship, later on made deputy commissioner, and on the death of Com missioner Paul NJ. Cobbs in 1890 he appoint