Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-02

tastic descriptions upon each other. In fact for while it seemed as though the race was to the man who could th nk the hardest things to Say about his opponent.
 The staid old men, the bulwarks of the Republican organization who have been collecting internal revenue and stamping letters and reading picture post,al carps in crossroads postoffices for the past twenty years, were shocked to the soul. The fact Demo- crats, Progressives and Republ cans, everywhere declared that the gusto and unction exhibited by the contest ants for the votes of a majority of the people was practically without pre- | cedent. New terms of reproach were coined by the campaign managers and stump speakers of all parties, par ticularly those of the Republican and the Progressive partsssi 1Hlf We be- lieved the fire-eat ing thunders who held forth from the political plat form, we had become race of thugs, receivers of stolen goods, straw men blrd the like.
 The paragraphers and the soberer editorial writers of our greatest or gans of public $ppin on came out in burning columna and severely un- ] r.iy l., for hni "a nd oratory.
 It was with deep and earnest sin cerity that these men walled at the trend of the fti1hessand declared tbst the country stood indeed, at Arma- geddon; not an Armageddon of poli- tcs, but, an Armageddon of manners and customs.
 But: let us pause for a. moment and consider whethed this new system of campaigning wat 'sfter al, something new under the sun. Assuredly, it was not, If, in Fthe elder days the politicians dealt not in such terms as thug" and ''horsethief," they at least made frequent use of seffective phrases even though they were of | more elegant n3ture. Take for m stance the attitude of the founders of this nation coward the use of strong terms and the employment of sharp practices in bringing about conclu- sions devoutly to be wished for by the majority.
 I mean the Declaration of Imdepcnd- ence. You may look over the news columns of our public prints today and nd that public men are calling each other odd sounding and uncom- plimetary names. But after all it is simply man to man. But when the drafters of the Declaration of Inde- pendence set 10 work they had King and powerful one, 10 de5l with. Up on him, then, they heaped the choicest recriminations onesever heard. Da nty and effete descriptions were applied to him but they had prodigious punch; in fact so much of punch tflat they pushed the King and the Kings m'nions across the sea. To wit:
 "The history of the present King is l1 q history of repeated" injuries. F He has plundered our seas, .ravag- l ed. our Coasts burnt our towns and destroyer the dives. of our people. How's that. George. the pirate; George. the plunderer; George, the firebug; George the murderer. Bravo John Hancock and the rest of you.
 He is at this t'me transporting l2Tge armies of oreign Mercenaries te complete the works of death. desola- tin tyranny. already begun with cir. cumstances Of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most bar. barous ages and. totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nations
 He has constrained our fellow citi. zens to become the executioners Ci their friends and breathren.
 He has excited domestic insurrec- tions. amongst us.
 A Prince whose character s thus marked by every act which may. define 2 Tyrapt. is unfit to be the ruler of l free people .''a r And much more to the same effect , For a spicy and vigorous arraignment of a ruling. mona reh,a ! it appears. then that the Declaration of Independence makes the petty repartee of some 0i l'l,our latter day srevilers, pale and grow in comparison.