Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-07


 mitted to thwart the public will, you will be justly condemned. If log rolling and swapping of votes be al- 1 lowed to pass pet measures, you will l he charged very justly of being spoils- men rather than legislators. Your success or failure will be measured by the standard of whether you wisely enact legislation fer he interests of the whole citizenship of this State.' Frem the foregoing it is perfectly 1 plain to see what the Democratic can didates' notions are as to the funda- mental duties of a public official. And with his shrewd eyes steadfastly fix ed upon the lawmakers of his state he has held them to mark without ap- parently interfering in the least with l their deliberations.
 Mr. Marshall has strong convic- ] ton that the three departments of the i government should not interfere, one 1 with the other, holding that it was ] thei intention of ihe founders of re- l public. For that reason he nas looked askance at presidents and governors, who instead of suggesting legislation along certain lines, have presented to 1 Congress and to legislatures, their personal measures. The critics of the Indiana governor say that he has gone too far in, this regard, declining to :n- terfere when his interference would have worked a benefit to the state. However, that may be, the lawmakers have had wholesome respect, if not a fear for their governor and the peo- pie of the state generally, hold him close in their affections.
 MT. Marshall is scholar. His ed ! ucation at college was along the old fashioned classical lines and it imbed- ] ded in him a love of books and of ab- stract mental speculation that has in creased with the years. He has never been caught by the craze for outdoor physical exercise. In fact he has an aversion for it. He never had fancy for toiling with hands. All jots of physical labor he turns over to some one else. The answer he makes when asked what he does for exercise is that he reads and so long as he has good health he says he will take no other. Anyone, assuming from this, that the vice presidential candidate is lazy, | would be firing in the opposite direc- i ton from the mark. He is prodi- sious toiler, but he tolls with his mind and not with his hands.
 There is a prodigious human side to MT. Marshall. One needs only to spend a few hours in Columbia City to be convinced of this. The people of that town, his old neighbors and friends, speak of him as little Tom7 my'' Marshall. And the tones in which those words are spoken indicate the affection that lies behind them.
 The devotion of MT. Marshall to his admirable wife, is that of a knight ot old; it is reminiscent of that of the late President Mckinley to his sadl! afflicted helpmate.
 His seventeen years of married life Mir. Marshall refers to as a honey moon,' and as has already been stated he has not been absent from his wife one night since their marriage. Fur thermore, it is evidently his attention that they shall never be separated fol so long a period as long as they live. Soon after his first election as gov ernor he declined to go with a party of governors on tour of inspection down the Mississippi river, because nc provision had been made for him tc take Mrs. Marshall along. Immediate | ly another boat was put in commits sion for the wives of the governors and he again declined because it would necessitate their separation, and be-
 sides he didn't think his not going 1 would hurt much.
 Having no children of Their own, Mir. and Mrs. Marshall lavish their af- lection on other people. The Colum' bia City friends of the candidate say that it was not an uncommon thing to see, the then obscure lawyer stand
 ing on the corner and watching the children as they went by on their way to school. If any child bore evidence
 of having come from home of pow
 erty where new clothers were an in
 freouent, if not an unheard of lux
 ury, his kindly eye was quick so no
 tice that child and off ne would tro'
 with it, first to a clothing store, for
 new suit of clothes and then to book
 store for complete supply of school
 books. This he would do quietly
 gently and with every effort to keeI it hidden from the eyes of the world