The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-06-25
ACTIVITY IS FEVERISH ON
THE POLITICAL FIRING Line
Press Correspondent at Little Rock Gives
Thrilling Account of Bloodless Maneu-
vers for Entrenched Positions
on the Battlefield

the war are tootetalers, and the
majority of them adherents of the
Baptist faith.
Zeppelins, however, being pro-
PEELED by hot air, are very much in
fashion, and no well equipped gu
bernatorial camp is complete with
out having a few hangers full of
them.
The four camps of the An
nounced are showing every evil
dence of feverish activity.
About the Brough camp the
university alumni are forming a
solid phalanx. The newspaper
men are rallying to the standard of
the man who halls from as many
places as he expects to reign over
if he is elected governor. Business
men and advocates of a New Deal
are enlisting under the Taylor ban
ner. And men of all classes are
swearing allegiance to the former
congressman from the seventh.
Designing chautaqua promoters
have endeavored in vain to stage
an engagement as part of their
entertainment course, but they
have refused to sign the contract
Occasionally some of them get
close enough to the others trench
es to shake hands across the bloody
chasm. On the CORY field of Tex
arkana recently three of them got
close enough together to have their
and it was not necessary to sub
nit the case to the Arkansaw
Travellers arbitration commission to
reassemble the pieces.
In fact, they say that you
couldn't tell but what they were
really good friends out on a picnic
instead of sworn enemies seeking
to put the other fellows batteries
out of commission.
The greatest interest now CEN
tiers in the acts of the Neutrality
League.
The most prominent members OF
this division are Gov Hays, Sena-
tor j. M. Futrell, former State
Treasurer John w. Crockett, Attor-
ney Smead Powell of Camden, U.
s. Marshall A. W. Walls, Judge H.
w. Wells of Monticello, and Attor-
ney w. H. Arnold of Texarkana.
Several of them are wavering.
They are seeking tangible
grounds upon which to charge that
their neutral rights are being
abridged.
Almost any day some of them is
expected to toss his cap into the
ring, or fire broadside that will
wake the echoes from Clay to
Miller.
Hays, Futrell and Crockett are
believed to be on the verge of
declaring war, while Walls and
Arnold are not far behind them.
Smead Powell is also said to have
been laying up supply of ammu-
milton.
Political statisticians calculate
that if ten of the hostile armies
enter the field, twenty thousand
men will be enough to capture the
citadel
And the field is not limited to
these ten, for every tree and every
innocent appearing kopje shelters
a possible chief executive.
On account of shortage of re-
liable census takers, so many of
them being investigated by the spe-
cial auditing committee, it has
been impossible to secure accurate
data on the subject
A careful review of the situa-
ton, however, taken by men who
realized that their lives were in
imminent danger. shows that in
the third class of reserves are
Judge E. A. Rolfe, Judge w. ].
Driver, Congressman Floyd, Con-
I gresham Caraway, former Con-
gressmen Brundidge and Brecken-
ridge.
Judge Kirby Indignantly denies
that he has any designs on the
office, and openly announces his
intention of going out after bigger
game. Senator Clarke's term will
expire some time Then watch
the papers" says Judge Kirby.
1t is too hot for much fighting
this summer, but is expected that
with the coming of the autumnal
equinox there will be a general
movement all along the lines.
! With Gov. Hays in possession OF
the fortress, he will have an adj
vantage over the others. but there
viii be as many elaborate plans for
demolishing his impregnable posi-
tlOn as there NAV ba opo,,,;o, "a