The Brinkley argus., 1915-01-29
POLITICAL SlANTS
 IN LITTLE ROCK.
The Capital City Cores. pOndent Writes a Breezy Letter on State POliti-
 cal Gossip, etc.
Little Rock, Jan. 27, 1915.

ago, J. w. Crockett, who re- tired as State Treasurer two weeks ago, has received a Fed eral appointment, indicating that he is now out of the race for Governor in the primary of 1916. This does not simplify the matter however, for where one goes out, two may be expected to come in, for those who were strongly urging MT. Crockett to make the race will not turn to one or two prominent citizens of Eastern Arkansas. J. Marion Futrell, of Paragould an d Thaddeus A. .Carraway of Jones' boro. Either would make can didate that would be hard to beat.
 Practically every visitor to the
 Arkansas Senate asks to have
 Senator FutreIl pointed out to
 them, and when they meet him.
 they begin insisting that he
 make the race for governor. Senator Futrell is not the kind to take kindly to a campaign over the entire state, and as he is doing remarkably well practic- ing law, he scoffs at the idea of his being a candidate. Few ex- pect him to yield to persuation, but if he should, Congressman Carraway will be among his supporters, otherwise he may be counted among the candidates. In this case there would be two former Congressman in the run ming, for J. c. Floyd, of Yell vile, is considered a certain can didate.
 Other certain candidates are Earle w. Hodges, Dr. c. H. Brough and George w. Hays, it a five pointed star. with four of the candidates re- siding, or claiming their home to be in the Northern part of the state, with one from the South. If the one from the southern part can hold it solid against the divided north, together with the prestige the possession of the office gives him, there can be but one result. When the real running comes, political prog of the Capital can see but three in the running, but it would be an unhappy task to pick the three at the present time and stand unprotected be- fore the wrath of those who were left at the post in the picking.
 Ambition is superior to the hope which is said to beat eternal in the breast of man, especially where politicians are concerned and it must be admitted that Elmer E. Lundy. president of the Arkansas Senate is ambi- tious.
 It has been many day since the Arkansas Senate was pre- sided over by one so versed in parliamentary procedure, one so forceful in his rulings, and at the same time fair to all. with an almost super-human ability
 
 to despatch business as Elmer E. Lundy. Every action of the president of the 1915 Senate is clean, he having been elected upon a platform which had clean politics and clean government as its principal plank. President Lundy is ably backed by Senators Calvert, Moore, Futrell, the par limentary veterans. and in one respect he goes farther than any presiding officer in many terms. in that he commands the respect, if not the esteem, of every member. Rabid in his stand for prohibition, no advocate of local option can truthfully claim that he has been the victim of par tiality.
 The fate of the Sunday base ball bill killed the Sunday motion picture show bill before it was introduced. The moving picture show bill was intended to per- init the houses in the larger cities to operate on Sunday after