The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1914-02-24
FULkS ANSWER
ROGERS ARTICLE
GIVES HIM THE FACTS
TELLS WHY SENATOR CLARKE
CANNOT BE CALLED
PROGRESSIVE.
By Clay Fulks.
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:

lIdltof Log Cabin Democrat:
Dubbing Senator Clarke a progress
sive, as Mr.. S. w Rogers did in the
Arkansas Farmer, is like putting the
iiVery of heaven on the devil The
very idea Had not the amiable gen
tleman been so fearful in his publish
ed solloquy, one would naturally have
construed 1t as irony of high order.
aimed at the senator But there is no
mistaking that fetching pathos. that
/ broken sob 1t not only makes the la
menations of jeremiah seem light and
frivolous by comparison; its catalogu-
/ ing Senator Clarke as a progressive
Tor the reasons given has all the
nalvete of composition witten by a
+ little pigtailed school girl, assisted bv
her grandmother, in which the billy
goat is said to be like a man because
he has whiskers As indicating a
faith in his favorite hero that is at
once childike and sublime; as indicat-
ing a signal failure to comprehend the
spirit and scope of progressivism as
indicating hero-worship that is
touching in it's devotion; as indicat
ing, too, state pride that almost
amounts to an hailucination. Mr.. Rog
ers' published soliloquy is unique in
current political discussion. One can
no more ignore it than he can the wall
of an infant. But to reply in detail
would be like trying to unseramble
eggs.
lie says that Senator Clarke has
stood pat on the Baltimore platform,
50 has Champ Clark. Yet in the pre-
convention campaign of 1912, Mr..
Rogers denounced the speaker as re-
dictionary and urged the Democratic
party TO nominate either Wilson or
81 aat lha national convention, after
much deliberation, decided to follow
Mr.. Rogers advice. 1t rejected Champ
CLARK; and, assuming that Nj Rogers
had no particular choice as between
Wilson and Bryan, it nominated Will
son. If Senator Clarke is progressive
because he stands on the Baltimore
platform, 50 is Speaker Clark; yet the
press has carried no hint of Mr. Rog-
ers' apologizing to the Missourian for
preventing his nominations unless we
can take the speakers recent predic-
ton that he will be the next president
to signify that Mr., Rogers has agreed
to support him. Several months ago,
Associated Press dispatches brought
the glad tidings that Bryan and
Speaker Clark had buried the toma-
hawk; but if Speaker Clark has ever
yet forgiven Mr., Rogers, no reporter
has chronicled that fact.
While l was piling Ossa upon
Pelion in the Log Cabin Democrat to
show that Senator Clarke is reac-
tionary, Mr.. Rogers comes rushing in,
all out of breath, and excitedly de-
mands the facts"
Is it not fact" that when the
! progressive element in both the great
parties, supported by Golfers Weekly
and other powerful progressive jour
mails, We're struggling against all the
powers of darkness and standpatism
to secure presidential preference pri-
maries in the various states, succeed
ling in about Is, "Our Senator" COO
lingly so-called by Mr.. Rogers, had the
colossal effrontery to defeat the prop
osition when it was offered in our
state convention by the late James H
| Harrod?
Is it not fact" that when the is
sue of direct legislation-the touch
stone of modern democracy-wa be-
| ing fought out in this state, "Our SEN
ator' sulked in his tent, like a dis
gruntled chieftain, and said not
word?
Speaking of the Baltimore plat
FORM, is it not a fact that Our
Senator" bitterly assailed, in a public
speech the author of that platform
W. j Bryan?
| Is it not fact" that "Our Sena-
tor" cannot conceal his contempt for
Senator LaFollette, one of the great
est progressive statesmen of this or
any other age, and whose name will
adorn the pages of history a thousand
years after Our Senator" shall have
been forgotten?
Is it not fact that "Our Sena-
tor supported in the senate a meas
lure robbing injured workingmen of
their common law remedies for dam
ages and transferring the jurisdiction