Arizona republican., 1911-01-27
HICKES, THE IhFRINGER
 ON MARK TWA|N'S PATENT SIMPLE ELIMINATION OF UNDE-
 SIRAeLE CHARACTERS. Why Messrs. Bailey, Lloyd and 9th CTS Are Not To Be Considered.
CBy Innominatus.)

One William C. Hickes has project ed himself vigorously into the fight in behalf of the proposed cOnstitu- ton which so far as l am aware, mo- body is opposing. The supereminent form of Hickes towers already above the sided fray.
 l am attracted to Hickes by his classification of certain democratic and republican congressman who In a Washington dispatch, lately printed in The Republican. had been quoted as opposed tO the constitution. He finds them unworthy for various reasons.
 Hickes' disposition of these senators and representatives is simple. Con- gressman Dwight was once. he says, associated with Standard Oil. Sen ator Bailey was once associated with Standard Oil Representative Finley was once associated with Standard oil
 IL probably occurred to Hickes at this point that he was using too much Standard Oil and therefore he sought other charges against Repre- sentative Lloyd of Missouri and Rep resentative Dalzell of Pennsylvania
 The method of Hickes though eff fectual is lacking in originality. Mark Twain invented it and applied it in getting rid of superfluous characters in novel as he explains in his pre- face to The Extraordinary Twins. story which had been inadvertently mixed with "Puddinhead Wilson
 The humOrist explains that he be- gan writing a short story which in creased in length in spite of him and new characters kept obtruding them selves.
 Something was palpably wrong with the story when it-was done and the writer set out to locate the defect.
 Says he: When the book was finished I came to look around to see what had become of the team originally started out with, Aunt Patsy Cooper. Aunt Betsy Hale. the two boys and Rowena, the light weight heroine They had disappear ed from the story sometime or other. I hunted about and found them found them stranded, idle. forgotten and permanently useless"
 Further research disclosed that Mir. Clemens had written two stories in one. They must be separated and in one of them the useless. idle charac- ters must be disposed of.
 Then Mark Twain describes the method he invented and which Hickes has infringed upon: 50. at the top of Chapter XVII. l put Calendar remark concerning July the Fourth and began the chapter with this sta tistic: 'Rowena went out into the back yard after supper to see the fireworks and fell down into the well and got drowned
 ''It seemed abrupt. but I thought maybe the reader wouldn't notice lt. because l changed the subject right away to something else. Anyway 1t lOosened up Rowena from where she was stuck and got her out of the way and that was the main thing. It seemed a prompt good way of weeding out people that got stalled and a plenty good enough way for those others; so l hunted up the two boys and said. They went out back one night to stone the cat and fell down the we'll and got drowned old Aunt Patsy Cooper and Aunt Betsy Hale where they were aground and said. They went out back one night to visit the sick and fell down the well and got drowned was going to drown some Of the others. but I gave up the idea, partly be- cause I believed if I kept that up,