Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-09
The Political Tread Mill.

the beariass. Potentially some re- former suggests that a let of our cleo
 tions be consolidated, but so far, it ] has never gone beyond the suggestions stage, except for an occasion Lill in- troaueed in the legislature which never got beyond some funeral com mittec
 II was three weeks after the elec-
 lion held on September 3 before the complete returns were in the hands of the secretary Of state but long before that time the wide-awake politicians
 we're dealing in futures in open viola
 tion of the law prohibiting cotton deal CTS from doing so.
 Congressionaliy the contests for next year are shaping up in some dis ] tricts before the election in November is held. There will be no contests in he First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth dis
 tricts, but there will be some lively times in the Second and Third, and possibly in the Seventh.
 "Billy" Oldfield, now serving his second term and nominated for the l third, has announced to his friends that he will be a candidate for the
 United States Senate against James P.
 Clarke who is expected to be can didate for reelection His friends
 predict that he will make a strong 1 race. This will bring on a scramble 1 fer his successor, and Judge Eugene
 I.ankford of DeValls Bluff, judge of the Seventeenth Circuit, has already
 thrown his hat into the ring. Others
 will follow, and ii is not at all un-
 likely that Tom Campbell, whom 1 Oldfield defeated the last time, will be heard from again.
 Tn the Third District, Charlie Floyd ! reiterates in a published statement that he will not ask for another term, and a large crop of aspirants has al- ready begun to show signs of germ ination. Judge J. N. Tillman, of Fayetteville, for five years president of the University of Arkansas, Is an avoWed candidate, and others who i have been mentioned in connection with it are C. A Fuller of Eureka i Springs, F. r. Freeman, of Rogers, and E. G. Mitchell, and B. B, Hudgins, of Harrison.
 Just at the present time, some of the leading political workers are talk ing for Woodrow Wilson, fully con- vinced that the party is destined to win a great national victory in No- vember. A few of the leaders will make speeches for the ticket in other states, Eut there are none so humble i that they may not have part in the i approaching triumph. An effort is be- ing made to raise S20,000 in Arkan- sas by popular subscription as the i penses. The newspapers of the state have been most enthusiastic and near ly S3,5O0 has been raised by them in
 dollar subscriptions, while the Fi- nance Committee of which State Treasurer J. w. Crockett is chairman, has collected nearly s2,500. The next two or three weeks, it is expected, will ser this sum multiplied by three.
 Fremonitory rUmblings are heard of the politics that always attends the organization of the General Assembly, and in few weeks the contest for president of the senate and speaker of the house, already opened up briskly in some quarters, will he on in full fierce.
 Municipal politics is also opening up, and in some quarters is due to become Vlfulent in the not very dis tant future. Charles E. Taylor, now serving his first term as mayor of | Little Rock, and a candidate for re- election, will be opposed by mem- Der Of the city council, William l.. Rogoski. Mayor Taylor says that the i people have too much politics, and as he is busy looking after the affairs of the city, he declines to be drawn into a campaign at this time. He says that he has fulfilled the pledges made the people before his election, and that about the only opposition he can find comes from the element that does not want the law enforced.
 Law For Game Preservation.
 Another strong effort is to be made in the next Legislature to secure the enactment of a law for the preserva- tion and protection of game and fish. E. V. Visart, secretary of the Arkan- sas Game and Fish Protective Asso- citation, is delivering lectures through out the state, and circulating pet ton among the farmers, requesting the Legislature to pass an act that