April 7, 1895

In an exchange of angry words with W. R. Jones of the House Ways and Means Committee, Governor James Clarke gave an example of his famous temper when he spat in Jones’s face. The altercation was over Clarke’s insinuations, in an interview with a reporter from the Memphis Commercial Appeal, that legislators who voted against a bill creating a state railroad commission had been bribed.

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