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 meet in Convention, that then in that event, those attending shall be authorised and re- quested to give the full vote of the county on all questions which may arise in said Con- vention.
 Therefore, Resolped, That if said contem- plated Convention should be represented by more counties than that held i'll December last, we will cheerfully and unanimously sup port the nominations which may be made.
 Resolree, If the said contemplated Con vention should be represented by less mum Der of counties than the former, and said Con- vention should nominate the same gentlemen, we will cordially support the nominations
 Resotced, That we will harmonously and zealously support the nominations of the de- mocratic Convention, to be held n Baltimore. Tn May next, for President and Vice Presi- dent of the United States.
 ResotUed, That we will oppose the cleo ton of Henry Clay, the whig candidate for Presldent by all fair and honorable means in our power. We oppose Mir. Clay, be- cause he Is the great advocate of United States Bank, which we believe to be uncon- stitutional in principle, and dangerous in prac- tlce-we oppose MT. Clay because he is in favor of high protective tariff, which brings large bounty into the pockets of the North ern and Eastern manufacturers, and imposes unequal, unjust and heavy taxes on the farm ing and agricultural part of the people, the practical effect of which is to enrich the few at the expense of the many-we object to Mir. Clay, because he is ill favor of distribu- lIng the money arising from the sales of the public lands among the different States, and that too, when the Treasury is virtually emp ty, ,and the government many millions in debt we object to MT. Clay, upon the ground that he was the efficient advocate, and prin- cipal author of the late Bankrupt law, which we consider dishonest in principle and mis- chievous in practice, because it had direct tendency to destroy that confidence among men, so necessary to be preserved in the in- tercourse of the whole eountry-we object to MT. Clay, because, contrary to the known and expressed will of large majority of the American people, and in violation of his in- structions from his own immediate constitu- ents, by his management and influence he made John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, whose odious principles ofab- olltlonlsm and disunion, all candid men must condemn. If Mir. Clay received an equva- lent for that operation, the American people believed they did not, for at the ensuing elec- ton, they, with just indignation hurled the minority incumbent from his high place, and almost by exclamation, conferred it on their venerable Jackson, from whom 1t had been unrighteously flched by intrigue. And last, though not feast, we oppose MT. Clay for his unkind, unauthorized, illiberal, and reproach- ful language, used in the Senate of the Uni ted States, Ill reference to the industrious and enterprising pioneers d the Far West, in de- nouncing them as a laacless rabdfe, plunder- CTS and robbers. For the foregoing reasons, and others that might be mentioned, we pro- claim jointly and severally, unitedly and in- divldually, our uneompromising opposition to MT. Clay as President.
 And 1t is further Resolued, That we as a portion oe the Democratic Republicans of this State, shouldert to shoulder, will stand up to our principles and sustain the men of our choice, our cause is the cause of the people, and our policy the interest of the nation, a majority of the people of Arkansas are with us, a majority of the people of the United States are with us, and five all as unfnching democrats do our duty, we have nothing to fear from the result.
 On motion 1t was
 Resolued, That Democratic meeting be held at the Court House, in Fayetteville, on the first Monday of May next, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Legislature, and county officers.
 On motion 1t was
 Resolced, That these proceedings be signed by the President and Secretary, and be pub lished in the democratic newspapers in this State.
 ROBERT M'CAMEY, Chairman.
 JIG. PITTMAN, Secretary.
 DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN POPE COUNTY.
 MAKE WAY FOR OLD POPE.
 A large meeting of the Democratic citizens of Pope county, was held in the town of Do- yer, on Saturday the 23d of March, 1914, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the Democratic State Convention to be held at Little Rock, on the 3rd Monday in April
 On motion of John Williamson, Esq. Ben jamin Langford was called to the Chair, and J. Logan was appointed Secretary.
 On motion-Jas. B. Logan addressed the meeting; after which, John Bruton and Jes- SC S. Hayden, made able and appropriate speeches.
 On motion, committee of three, viz Jno. Bruton, Jesse S. Hayden and J. B. Logan, were appointed to draft a preamble and reso- lutions expressive of the views of this meet ing. Whereupon the following were report ed:
 Whereas, this meeting is deeply impress ed with the importance of the approaching political contest, and believes that 1t will go far to decide whether the people shall retain their liberties, as asserted and guaraniied by the Consttution,- whether they shall be compelled to surrender their dearest rights and submit to form of government not con templated by our fathers of 1776; and where- as, its the duty of every man, who feels a becoming interest in the welfare of his coun- try, to express freely, and aid in dissemina- ting, what he considers sound Constitutional