El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-03-07

Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas,
seems to have got in bad ON his re-
cent admission in a congressional hear
ing, that he was financially interested
in getting a bill through congress
John Temple Graves, the noted south
ern editor, writing on the event, says:
THE developments of the day seem
to have left senator Jeff Davis, of Ar
kansas. under the suspicion of con-
duct similar to that for which senator
Burton, of Kansas, is now serving a
term in the penitentiary.
Other Radicals Are Respected.
TT IS not SO much that Jeff Davis
is the blatant professor of radical
views No man was ever more radical,
according to senatorial standards, than
Ben Tillman of South Carolina. And
yet the brave old Carolinian, smitten
with a final illness, is lying today in
his rooms near the capitol in the full
enjoyment of absolute respect and con-
fidence of every senatorial colleague,
of every man in congress, and of the en-
tire country For there was. from first
to last, the rising of courage and sin
certify in Ben Tillman's note and the
pitchfork' was welded by full grown
man.
La Toilette and Cummins are as
rank radicals as Tillman and yet they
are today honored and respected as
leaders throughout the country, for be-
lief rings true behind their words, as
they have not hesitated to put interest
in the scale against their convictions
everywhere.
Davis Simply a Demagog.
But Jeff Davis is a demagogue-
plainly and simply a dema gog-a stir
rer Of the peoples prejudices for the
Of
a real leader or a patriot in his public
life. For whether arguing against a
political opponent because he wore clean
linens, or changing his standard hos
iery for yarn socks in the eye of his
rural constituents, he appealed always
to the lower rather than to the loftier
instinct of his people, and rose TO
power in an interior state out of that
transitory period between the dying
prejudices OF the war and the fierce
jealousies Of the general class as
against organized wealth.
There is no longer room in or out
Of the senate of the United States for
men like Jeff Davis Of Arkansas
He is the last of his type and Ar
kansas, grown wiser and larger and
happier, viii never send him or any
man like him to represent a live state
in public life again.
Arkansas Ready to Forget Him.
Il have talked to dozen Arkansans
public and private, today and they tell
me that Arkansas is as glad as the
country will be to forget Jeff Davis,
and to remember in the future men like
senator Berry and judge Rose. who al
ways reflected honor upon the state
and. the south, and the country.
II do not know senator Davis /
have never met him. But l do know
and love to the very core of me the
south, of which / am q part, and be-
cause / have so often been challenged
to the defense of my people against
the disappearing representatives of the
Davis type, 1 know that l am doing my
loyal duty to Dixie now, in wasting no
sympathy over the exposure of yester-
day and in expressing the real southern
sentiment of rejoicing over the passing
of the last of the dema gogs,' and the
reopened way for the ante-bellum
craftsmanship that sent to Washington
men like Calhoun and Clay and Hayne
and Preston and McDuffie and Hill and
Toombs and Stephens and Lamar and
George and Morgan to the highest DELHI
eartive forum in the world.
The NevG Report.
Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas con-
fessed to the house committee on public