Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-02-05

burying a political adversary, ant
they had no desire to- interrupt tn
job being done thoroughly or deep.
Senator Clarke is man so fal
above the ordinary in oratory, as wei
as in ability, that one would expec
to see an audience in awe of him
but not so at Morilton. Those farmers
appreciated his fairness, and seemed
to appreciate the frankness of a man
who would come before them and de.
clare they were not common peepul'
as is the stock in trade of the poli.i-
cal bigot. Senator Clarke did not
refer to them as the honest yoem-
amy of the SOIL" and that too they
appreciated. His very bearing con-
WINGED the farmers that he is their
friend, and would be whether he re-
ceived their votes or not, and there
by the voters so attached themselves
to James P. Clarke that all the poll
teal thunder of his opponent will be
unable to jar them lose.
Delivering, such a speech as Sena-
tor Clarke did on Saturday, and is
continuing to do this week, is a ply
steal exertion and a mental strain.
Senator Clarke works with his audi
ence, and the more it is pleased, the
greater is his effort. Such exertion
must tell upon candidate, but to
this strain, Senator Clarke has an
added one which his friends should
assist him in overcoming. This is
the little confidential confab with
office seekers, or friends of those who
would not refuse if government
plums were "shook down" in their
yards.
Nothing is SO firing to Senator
Clarke as this endless seesawing by
office seekers. Second to that comes
the we'll intended, but misdirected
kindness on the part of friends who
seek to entertain him while in their
towns. Delivering two speeches a
day, travelling by packhorses, bus,
automobile, freight train, and occas-
ionally in the vanished cars, is
enough to wear away the constitution
of a young man. Senator Clarke is
no longer young, but as a statesman
he is at the zenith. He must con-
serve his energies if he continues
the schedule of speechmaking, though
it is hardly necessary that he do that
in order to be again chosen as Ar
kansas greatest representative in the
United States Senate. He had that
race won before he started.
you do not have to prove truth
on me, l will admit it. There has
never been faint upon my name. Ny
character was built for inspection"
OF all the words in Senator Clarkes
campaign speech, these are the most
freely applauded. After hearing his
account of his stewardship, the peo-
pie are forced to recognize him as
the foremost Arkansan in Arkansas
today. He has long been considered
the leading spirit of the Senate by
President Wilson and Secretary of
State William Jennings Bryan, and
now his political enemies are forced
to admit it.
Nothing so convinced the audience
which heard Senator Clarke at Nor
rilton, as his remarkable display of
fairness toward his opponent. Aside
from stating he had a ''streak of yell
low in his back as wide as an old
gin belt" because he would not meet
him in joint debate, Senator Clarke
treated his opponenet with kid gloves.
Even in the statement regarding
the Caldwell & Drake contributions to
Judge Kirby's campaign for govern
or, SenaSpr Clarke RETAINED from
going into detail. or to read the state
ments made by George w. Caldwell,
Miss Mytra Goodman and Judge W.
NJ. Kavanaugh on the subject. In
stead, Senator Clarke merely referred
to the attitude of Judge Kirby at
that time, as 'out Donagheying
Donaghey." Senator Clarke gave
copies of these letters to Morrilton
citizen in the audience. and request
ed him to give them to Kirby man.
if he could be found, so that Judge
Kirby might explain to the people
why he stumped the state declaring
that Caldwell & Drake had robbed
the state and should be in the peni-
Tertiary, and at the same time receiv-
ing cash contributions from the form
er Capitol contractors in order to
send out his campaign literature.
Senator Clarke stated that it was
possible that Judge Kirby did not
know of the contributions at the time
they were made