The log cabin Democrat., 1914-03-04
CLAY fU[kS ON
 SENATORIAL RACE SCORES CLARKE PAPERS ANSWERS EDITORIAL ATTACK MADE UPON HIM BY HELL
 ENA WORLD.
By Clay Eulls

By Clay Fulks.
 Writing in the England Courier of February 20, Mr. R. B. CarlLee maeks this amusing assertion:
 "Clarke rs q progressive Democrat who believes the peoples condition can be improved by wise progressive legis- lation
 l Kirby IS standpat conservative Democrat, who believes in corporation control of all business enterprises-a policy that has damned the worker in this country and the world to poverty and despair
 Singular enough, the compositor, by oversight or through a sense of humor, let the obvious error stand just as he found it, thereby leaving Mr. CarlI4 zee in ludicrous position. Undoubtedly, in revised edition of his works, he will substitute the name of Clarke for Kirby and vice versa, thus sexing himself straight before future genera tions.
 ! The England Courier plaintively protests against the election of Kirby over Clarke in this wise:
 Would you send to Washington a man unskilled in attending to affairs of a nation? Would you replace a man, who, by hard work and constant ly remaining at his post, has at last reached the topmost rung in the Unit ed States senate, where he is in a po- sition to secure much for Arkansas, by man who has never made brilliant success of anything he has attempt ed?"
 The Courier then complains of Kir- by's fishing and hunting, and adds this note of warning:
 Send him to Washington and a re- port might come that the ducks were flying in on the Rappanhannock, or that bass were biting fine, at the very time vote was to be taken on an inn portant measure" In other words, Clarke should be kept in the senate because he is al- ready in; and Kirby should be kept out because he is such a near failure as to be already out. To refute such argu- ment as that is the despair of logic But will the Courier explain why Sen- ator Clarke, constantly remaining at his post" was recorded as mot vot- ing 119 times out of the 129 votes taken in the senate on the Payne-Al- drich tariff bill, including its various schedules? Would the Courier admit that there is a possible 'possum hunt ing in Virginia? But Senator Clarke S paid announcement appears in the Courier. while Kirby's does not.
 The precaution taken by Senator Clarkes friends to solicit and parade testimonials from President Wilson, Secretary Bryan and others, purport- ing to prove that the senator is en rapport with the spirit of progressive Democracy, is significant. Character witnesses who are forced on the stand and who themselves have great inter- ests at stake may be pardoned for much diplomacy. But why should Senator Clarke stand in such distress ing need of clean bill of political health? What appears to be a genu- inc picture of the president accompa- nies some of these testimonials, which remind one of the pictures and testimonials of congressman some times displayed in advertising peruna ONE EDITOR RUNS AMUCK. Because candor compelled the writer of this column to refer politely but firmly, in a recent article, to the asin- inc reasoning of the Lilliputian intel lect of the Helena World in brief paragraph of fulsome praise for Sena- 1 tor Clarke, that paper came out stark naked on Sunday, February 22, and presented shocking example of jour nalistic depravity. The editor who sits at the helm and shapes the destiny of