The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-07-30
The Senatorial Race

self justification for a record such
as Kirby left, and looking back he
cannot understand why LaFollette
and Debs and others of their like
should have been so severely criti-
cized.
This paper is published in Con-
gresham Caraway's district. We
have not always agreed with him,
and there will doubtless be occa-
sions in the future when similar sit
uations will arise. But we have
never doubted his honesty. We
have never questioned his sincere
ty of purpose, and we have never
had any inclination to dig behind
the surface to find and hidden rec
| ords. Congressman Caraway, the
official and the man, says what he
! thinks. He is not a human dicta-
phone. He entertains likes and dis
likes and is not afraid to emphasize
the latter and express the former.
He has personal courage of very
high order and values straightfor-
ward manhood more than he values
the good will of bowery buns. He
will not pledge himself to support
Bolshevik propaganda in order to
gain support of those who reason
as Trotsky thinks. He has not mis-
represented his district and no one
in this end of the state ever takes
the time to deny insinuative charges
made by his opponent.
T. H. Caraway believes in going
to the foundation of a problem and
determining the composition of its
parts. AS practicing attorney his
opinions were based on research and
not upon rumor. He had an inor-
dinate amount of curiosity about
the law and an uncanny way of
storing information away and spring
ing it on an adversary at a most
inopportune time. He easily be-
came the strongest prosecutor in
Arkansas. He studied human ma
ture and discovered the art of keen
analysis. Lawbreakers learned to
fear him like dying sinner fears
holy writ. Attorneys specializing
on criminal defense lost weight and
reputation while T. H. Caraway
served the Second judicial district
as prosecuting attorney. No one
ever dreamed of attempting to buy
him off because he wasn't for sale.
He might have made fortune had
he chosen the easier way.
I Mr.. Caraway, in congress, main
tanned the reputation he fought for
and won in his judicial circuit. He
did not have to sit around in padded
chairs in a luxurious office ten years
before making himself useful. Di-
rectness is one Of his most charm
ing attributes, and in congress he
went at things just as his nature
suggested. He became a power in
running debate. His whitening sar-
casm became a real asset to the
democratic party. Always alert, al
ways informed on matters under
consideration by the House, Con-
gressman Caraway's colleagues dis
covered within a few months that
they had been given the two-edge
sword of another Carmack, and re-
publicans soon learned to avoid
his scintillating wit and his en-
barrassing repartee, yet to respect
him as a fair debater. Congress
man Caraway is better known in
Washington than he is in his own
district. He has not spent the gov
ernment's money distributing a rec
ord of his speeches. He does not
believe in blatant trumpeting and
gallery acclaim. He comes from
sturdy race of true American man
hood and has experienced the ad-
versities of life as well as its meas
ure of success. But often he has
climbed the ladder with blood on his
feet and with joints aching from
fatigue. He is not the product of
hot house or the flower of doting pa
rents. What he has done has been
achieved as the direct result of will
power and application. He set his
own brain into motion, so TO speak,
and he has been back of it with
determination and an indomitable
will eighteen hours a day for more
than twenty-five years. Credit for
what he has achieved is due entire
ly to I. II. Caraway and to the
associates he had the good judgment
TO select He was not turned out
of a congressional factory. He has
seen the days when he was as poor
as the proverbial turkey that starv-
ed to death on Jobs short rations,
but always he has kept his face
above the floods of adversely and
by the exercise of hickory qualities
and an intellect that is as clear as
the old liberty bell, he has come
through with colors flying and with
the respect and full confidence of
his fellow men.-Editorial From
Paragould Daily Press.
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