The log cabin Democrat., 1914-03-19
JEFF DAVIS SON
 D[NOUNCES CLARKE AS ENEMY OF HIS FATHER
WALLACE DAVIS ISSUES LET TER SHOWING PERFIDY OF
 SENIOR SENATOR.

Little Rock, March 16.-The effort which is being made by Senator Clarke to ride into public favor on the memory of Senator Jeff Davis has proven abortive. His first election was due more to his sycophantic fol- lowing of Jeff Davis than to his own ability to win the respect, let alone the votes, of the people. Judge Kirby had scorned to make use of Senator Davis well-knOwn opposition to Sen ator Clarke, to further his interests, until Senator Clarke's misrepresenta- tions of the true situation forced him to take cognizance of it.
 Wallace Davis, son of the, late sen ator, has issued a pamphlet, in which he declares:
 Senator Clarke's ingratitude to my fatner has become part of the political history of the state, and keenly did my father feel it. My father often told me that Senator Clarke, in Washington, on all occa- sions, never lost an opportunity to in- dulge in unkind remarks about him to other members of the senate, and sought in every way to rob him of prestige in that body, and bitterly did my father resent it. My father al- ways believed that Senator Clarke was at the bottom of the conspiracy that defeated him before our state convention in June, 1908, when he wanted to go as delegate at large to the National Convention at Denver. All who attended that convention re- member with what intense satisfac- tion Senator Clarke went as dele gate and left my father behind.
 My father also believed that Sena- tor Clarke encouraged opposition to him in his last race for the senate, and that he secretly gave that oppo- sition his support.
 "Smarting under these and similar outrages often repeated, and believ- ing that Senator Clarke had broken faith with his people, my father had for more than a year been planning Senator Clarke's defeat, and only two days before his death, on the eve of his departure for Washington, where he expected to be gone for sometime, he told me that he intended to devote enough time to Senator Clarke's race to defeat him, expecting to oppose him publicly; that the time had come when he and Senator Clarke could no longer remain in the senate together"
 Like voice from the past, but one that has a most important bearing upon the present crisis, are the ex- cerpts from Senator Davis letters to his law partner, Hon. Frank Pace:
 "There is bunch of eastern Ar kansas fellows up here, who are per sonal and political enemies of mine, none of whom 1 have spoken to for years," as he wrote on April 12, 1912. "As I passed out of the senate cham Der yesterday, Clarke was talking to this bunch in the hallway, and as passed he hollowed at me, and want ed to know if I did know this bunch of gentlemen. I told him did and passed. They hollowed and laughed at the top of their voices. He did this only to embarrass and insult me, if possible. If I had been physically at myself. I would have given the whole bunch, including Clarke, a good cursing, but I am not in any condi- tion to allow myself to become exas- perated or get in a fit of anger, so said nothing and passed on.'
 At another time he wrote, "Clarke, as usual, was lined up with the Re- publicans.