The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-23
DEVELOPING INTO
 TITANTIC STRUGGLE
Gubernatorial Aspirants Begin to Line Up Campaign ActiOns-Numer- ous Other Possibilities Men
 toned May Enter Race.
(By Clio Harper.l

the front indicate that the firing line extends from Fayetteville to Moni- cello, and from Paragould to Texar- kama, crossing in the superheated (region of the state capitol, where the 42-centimeter guns of the Special In vestigating Committee are lombard ing Notifications that had been con- sidered impregnable.
 What at first promised to be only minor engagement is rapidly develop ing into a titanic struggle along a | frontage of several hundred miles. and innocent by-standers are being fore ed into the fight.
 That it will be a bloody contest now seems assured.
 Of the large number of contestants struggling for possession of suite of private offices with leather-covered couches in the North wing of the capi- tol, it is freely predicted that all but one will be picked off by the enemy's rapid-tire guns.
 It is further predicted by the same wise predicter that the one who is destined to capture the inner redoubts in the beleaguered fortress is ........ Unfortunately name deleted by the censor.)
 There would be a lot more good news, whether true or not, if it were not for the activities of that meddle- some censor, whose identity will be revealed to the first regular reader of the News who sends in ten coupons.
 At first it looked like a holiday frolic, when the first gun was fired. The first declaration of war came from Secretary of State Hodges, who issued a proclamation that it would be only little skirmish, and that at the proper time he would transfer his base of operations a couple of rooms North and invite the present occupant to resume his law practice in Camden.
 Then out of the Athens of Ark ansas, reverberating through the or chards of Ben Davis and Arkansas Blacks, came a resounding discharge from Dr. Brough's Busy Bertha. It was a discordant note in the Hodges symphony, and the battle was on. The issue was joined.
 For awhile there was only desultory firing, while a constantly increasing hoot of candidates began assembling on thefi ring line.
 These candidates readily divided themselves into three classes, the An nounced, the Probables, and the Men toned.
 One of the interesting features of this modern Armageddon was that there appeared to be no Allies-every fellow was for himself.
 While the ranks of the Probables were being swelled daily by new re- cruits, they manifested disposition to remain neutral as long as possible. as serting that they were opposed to long and expensive campaigns.
 Inside information is that the Min istries of Finance have found it diff fcult in several instances to float a war loan sufficient to carry on the campaign.
 Lack of funds is reliably asserted to be helpful assistant to neutrali- Ity.
 While Brough and Hodges were maneuvering for an opening, Charles E. Taylor, Chief Burgomaster of Lit tie Rock tossed bomb into camp from his Zeppelin, and it rained splinters for week.
 Scarcely had the echoes died away when from the middle South came the boom of another big gun, whose smoke wreaths spelled across the lowering sky the name of TOM Mc-R-A-E.
 Thus in sullen silence, having huri. ed their defs, the four hostile camps arrayed themselves, and began nasty preparations for the final assault the last week in March.
 In the meantime there will be many mouth-to-mouth engagements, liber- ally interspersed with type writer charges and newspaper battles.
 There have been some evidences Of the possible use of poisonous gases in the trenches, but these methods are generally discredited as in violation of the established rules of political Nuar-fara