The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-04
A pI. .AIN QUESTION.
ro rHr yorrns or PULASKI COUNTY.

te neal session o tis Legislature of 4rfansas, 6efe Representative oftle REAL ESTATE BANK, or of the PEopLE
 As Mr. Newton has 90 far recovered shealth, as to take the field, again, as an electioneerer, we re- sume our remarks upon this subject
 The Banis Gaeette, breathing only through the nostrils of the Cashier and Attorney, and slavshly subseryient to their wi has called question and remarks, in this connexion, "A weak effort of the enemy" An 'senemy'' to what and 10 whom This he does not specify and for the simple reason that if he speak the t1 he dsere not specify Is fl to the people of this State No-it is for their interest we are contending. Is it to Mir. Newton and Mir. Pike personally? No-we have never had any per sonal business and but little intercourse, with either of them and have, therefore, ground of personal ennity with them Is it to the Gazette God for bid for gave whether black or white, is beneath the enmty Of gentleman. To what and to whom, then, are an "enemy :" If the Gazette had dared to say that We are the eneny,2 the ayowed and un- compromising enemy, of Mir. Newton and Mr. Pike in their character of Cashier and Attorney of the Real Estate Banl-in getting possession of all insti- tation established for the benefit of the State and
 unfairly using it to promote their interest as political partisans, and for what other purposes We pretend not to llnow-T the Gazette had dared to say this, it would, for once, at least, have told the b0ht-a truth which We shall be proud to acknowledge, and endeavor to make manifesto the people, so long as we wield an editorial pen in Arkansas, until the evil shall be remedied
 With Mir Newton and MT Pike as private individuals. we repeat that we have no contro- Versy, and will have none, unless they seek 1t; and, in that event, each of us is presumed to be amply able to take care of himself, without the aid ofnewspapers. But heirpublic characters. as candidates for office, or as wrong-doing Bank off eers, we are ''alter them; and wish them to un- derstand that we shall continue 'afer them, solong as we continue to believe that they abusing their public trust to the advancement of their interests oi political partizanship. Letus be convinced that we are wrong in entertaining these unavorable opinions of their conduct, and we shall be as prompt to re- tract as we have been free to express it. But until So convinced, our course is onward and .'after them
 The epithets of denunciation and would-be ridi- eae, by which these "Bank Barons7' through their pluc1aacd orgnn, seek to characterize our efforts to expose them, and, thus, to deter us from our duty, will avail them nothing. We knew what awaited us, when we undertook the duty; and that t would re- qure tedious and perseverng pursuit. But, trust ing that '.truh is mighty and will prevail, and even through the agency of very feeble means, we uenot deterred nor disheartened.
 The first thing they deny positively, is our charge that the Real Estate Bank has put Mir Newton in the field, as a candidate for the State Senate. We ex- pected they would deny this for to have aeznow-
 lodged it. would have been to ensure their defeat at once Trusting to the mystery of their underground movements they boldly deny, and loudly call for proof. Positive proof we confess we have not for these actors were too wary to furnish 1t by their overt acts. But the proof of circumstances s to our mind, as strong that which has consigned many man 10 the penetentiary for life In late number, established, by train of circumstances, to the satisfaction of every candid man, that the Cashier and Attorney, of the Real Estate Bank, ordered, assembled and paid the Whg State Convention
 to register their edics, and execute their commands Al the same time, and as link in the same chain of operations, it appeared that the nomination of Mir. Newton had been determined and accomplished; the immediate agency, in this, only differing, from the other in being a county, instead of State Con- yenton. This County Convention was called by the Clay Club, of which Mr. Newton was President, and Mir. Pike the Master just as the State Conyen- lion was called; except in the item of paying ex- penses-that not being neededas all were near home That the nomination of candidates had been deter mined on, just as certainly, by Mir. Newton and Mir. Pike, before the County Convention assembled, as afterwards, is well known to scores Of persons in this city. And as none was so proudly pregnant with the intelligence, that the nomination of Mir Newton had been decreed, as the Editor of the Ga zette himself; so, none told it to more different in- diyiduas than he did. It is amusing to many, even now, 10 remember with what an air of pompous he wadded round the streets, and with sage mods and winks and confidential whispers to every one he met, communicated to the whole town that :. 1Ir. Neicoa is 10 De our nect Seaafo7 Proverbially eaky, of whatever is communicated to him, he seemed to be afflicted with perfect acoaii- of this important intelligence, and could hardly hold it from one corner to another. No one would have been surprised if he had published it in the Gazette, before the Convention met for, indeed, it would not have been nelgs to any one about Little Rock We repeat, and the memory of the citizens will bear us out in the assertion, that it was almost as well known here, and mainly through the editor of the Gazette, before the county convention, as af forwards, that MT. Newton was the Whig nominee for the State Senate Now the question arises, who determined the nomination of Mir. Newton, in ad- vance ofthe convention? From whom did the Edi- tor of the Gazette obtain his information? IT he dare tell he would say that he got it from Mir Pike, or Mir. Newioa himself. The whole matter was wellunderstood here-the candidates were all select ed and determined on, before the Convention was called-and the only need of the convention was 10 give the thing little form, and to rule Waftam k English and Richard Fleicher off the track.
 No one, we aye convinced, can consider the cir eunstances we have mentioned, both here and in our previous numbers, without coming to the con clusion that MT. Newton, having determined on his own nomination, only called the convention as matter of form, to give show of validity to his pretensions with the party, and to get clear of troublesome Whig compettor-in a word that he