The Mena weekly star., 1913-10-30
'Tbe leronto leerson
 from Arkatlsas
Joe T. Robinson, His IdiOSyncraSies Political Speed, Given a Literary Treatment in Saturday Evening Post.


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 Tn the current issue of The Sat urday Evening Post, under the de- partment heading of Who's Who and Why" Senator Joe T. Robinson is the subject discussed and an alyzed. After a more or less gen eral discussion of Arkansas and its senator, the writer says:
 Cautious reference is made to Senator Joe T. Robinson. Though his name appears in the Congress sional Directory, in the autoDlo- graphical section, as Joseph Taylor Robinson, I am told that it Is a mere concession to fOrm-mayhap an editorial blunder-for in Arkan- sas the senator is known universal ly as Joe T.-not Joe, or Joseph Taylor, but as Joe T-just that. And so shall he be here, lest-oh, well, he's Joe T.
 Every man brides himself on some personal proficiency, property or possession We all have known citizens who were quite puffed up because they could wiggle thelr ears, and I once discovered a per- son who assumed importance be- cause he had six toes; while the number is legion of our fellow creatures who pin medals on them selves because they take cold baths or take hot ones, Or-they say-un- derstand BergsOe, or appreciate Wagner, or wear goatees-not, Of course, that Senator Joe T. eXalts himself for any of these momentous reasons, but merely as a foreword concerning a human fOble that IS not lacking even in him, and which takes the form of the firm convlc- ton that he is the best bird shot in his state.
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 So he may be-so he may be. Still, minding my p's and as assiduously, I venture the assertion that, excel lent a bird shot as Joe T. may be, he is not half or quarter so fatal to the quail or partridge or grouse as he is to adjectives and adverbs.
 Once he gets into action, with his feet braced, the light of conquest in his eyes, his oratorical gun ready, his trope cartridges in his belt, his elocutionary finger on the verbal trigger, he slaughters them by the thousand. Down they came flut- tering to his feet-adjective after adjective and adverb after adverb, falling into and through his rolling sentences.
 Oh, it's great! You can picture it to yourself. The oratorical sweep stakes is on for the Flowery Lan- guage Cup. The scorer calls: Joe T. Robinson is next gum" Up steps Joe T., calm confident eager, sure shot of all the tonitrous and trala- titious sureshots. Are you ready?' "ReadyW Pull"
 Bang! Dead adjectivew shouts the scorer. Bang! Dead adverb '" Bangl "Doublel". As live, he took an adjective with one barrel and an adverb with the other. And so it goes; and when the count is made there stands Joe T., winner of the sweepstakes, with the field literally strewn with the victims of his cer- tain skill.
 It is, perhaps, unfortunate that most of the people outside of Ar kansas think of Arkansas in terms of the Arkansaw Traveller, who found the native, you remember, who could not fix his roof when it was raining, and saw no need for fixing it when the weather was dry. Do not make the mistake of con- sidering Joe T. in this light. If the Arkansaw Traveller had run across Joe T. he would have discovered a citizen who not only had fixed his roof expeditiously, but who had all his fences in repair. If Joe T. were referring to another who was a hustler he would speak of his dy- mamie energy; that that is good enough for Joe T. Dynamic energy is an inclusive term and it includes Joe T. He is bundle of live wires
 Take a short period of forty three days in his crowded life. In that brief space of time he was representative in Congress governor of Arkansas and United States sena- tor therefrom; and that, as all will admit, is moving with considerable celerity, to say nothing of going some.
 Joe T. had been elected to Congress five times, and resigned on January t4 last, to become gov ernOr, which he did day or two later. Meantime, Senator. Jeff Davis had died, and on January 2S Joe T. was elected to the United States Senate, and resigned as governor early in March to take his seat as senator on the 10th day of that month.
 He was always pronto person, however. Joe T. never took his leisurely time about anything. He preferred to jump hurdles rather than to padge along the smooth highway. He dashed through school dived head first into the law. took a running jump into the Arkansas legislature when he was 23. beat Sam M. Taylor for Congress by the time he was 30, served in the House of Representatives until last sprinp and then grabbed the other offices one after another, with both haste ana precision; and now, pufnng slightly, but in full possession of his nrafnrY ha ia siffinn hl ".