The weekly soliphone., 1915-09-17
HAYS-A POLITICAL JESSE JAMES.


small Bank robberes rapes thieving politicians
deres incest artists and professional despoiers of the
home-these things have been played up in public prints
for ages by the Kings English, the good old-fashion,
easv-flowng language of generations that have come
and gone Crime in high places has been exposed cor
rpton has been uncovered nfamy of the human heartI
has had the breasworks torn away by in the
paper Professionalism like the late Senator Carmack,
Brann of the Iconocast and others with written
high upon the scroll of fame-who could paint urid and
grotesque pictures of damnable characters characters
who through chance pure cussedness upon the part of
numbskull public were permitted to fill positions of
public trust. But never, perhaps, has any been
challenged describe malignant, malevolent or
more destructive usurpaon of power than that ex-
empIfied by George W. Hays, governor of Arkansas,
when Saturday that mollycoddle appointed Wallace
Davis attorney general of the state.
Wallace Davis, just twenty-seven years of age; not
even licensed to practice in the supreme COURT unable o
appear before the United States superior tribunal AMI
ncpd youth not out of college long enough to have ia
miliarzed himself with the ways of business
Wallace Davis riding upon the coat-tail of his faith
er whose demagogy and nsncery and trading and traf
Ticking and swapping and promising placed him in pot
cia power
Wallace Davis, retained a partner in a law firm
solely because there counties in Arkansas yet
stepped in the faith of that ghost of the dsgraceu past
that the presence of Papas Pride around the
suation table is mgher in point of persuasive power to
verdics against corporations than is the most pro-
found legal knowledge expounded by the most accom-
plished attorney in the Southwest
Wallace Davis, who at time to Para
gould in company with w. O. Troutt-Trou the Jones'
boro gutterrat sefconessed lbele political tckser
moral pervert and all-around contemplate individual
contemplate from any angle of measurementto WELD
the party lash Greene county voters and whip them
in line for Hays
Wallace Davis who supported Geo. W. Hays; who
revived the mummy of Jeff Davis in Arkansas caused
the spectre stalk and the ballot boxes do strange
trcks;-
Wallace Davis, who admits he elected Hays, theI
mollycoddle;-
Wallace Davis is today attorney general of this
state charged with all the duties prescribed by the
sttution, and
Wallace Davis is not even regarded good law
yer of the juvenile persuasion; has practced suf
fcently project his reputation legal light further
away from the gas-base than his tongue has car
ried it.
We care nothing for Wallace Davis. What he is
individual is his own business He may be per-
fecty agreeable boy may possess some virtues and
he may know the difference between mandamus and al
habeas copus-perhaps he does; he ought to know the
difference because he is today the chosen advisor to
every prosecuting attorney Arkansas and to the state
officials. He must when called upon, outline laws to
them. He must pass upon and "construe intricate legal
tangles must say this that is the correct interpreted
ton of matters affecting great state
And Hays-that shuffing idiot with perfdv of