The Arkansas banner., 1846-09-30
senaforissI Election.

~tHE.DEFAEcAFfoNsOA OA0Ak" has puoiish- ell various statements with rsgasa to the rel aive strength of fY ell and Ashley in the sena- tOrial Contest In one of his papesssafter in- fnitive pains and an unusual pasade of kg-
 ures. Woodruff sqDeezed out just sl votes for Ashley, the precise number of votes re- quires to elect SenalorI The calculation
 was suspieious; the positive evidence of un- certsiniy was on it's face; and, II was stun
 ming blow ,o Ashley, coming as t did from friend; from whom he was expecting better account Just 51 votes, and II was
 admitted too, that many were doubtful E:
 Woodruff was evidently dissatisfied with the calculation; especially as he had boosted that Ashley would have an overwhelming majority The will was nos wanting, ba.
 Woodruff could do no better; for he well knew, that squeezing out this unfortunate number ol 5l votes, widely departed. from the truth, and that to go beyond it, would be placing his mendaciiy loo promiasnily before the public, besides subjecIing him to ridicule. f the calculation, did not please him--tleep indeed must have been the dissatisfaction of the master.
 h is said that when Ashley saw t, his spir- its fell ss suddenly as the mercary of iher- momeler in cold day and that he could not have looked more melancholy, even fl the caleula,or himself had paid the grea, debt of nature. wiihou, paying his debt to the State. The reflections of Col. Ashley were prnhabiy something after this fashion s.lf Woodruff with his pIiant conscience and will lingness io peril body and soul ill my cause, could ind just 5l votes, for me and no more under the circumstances of the case, am gone, but meihinks even now hear the Tells of the .unterrifiesl democracy,' annonn- cing my political deGfh ia toaes Of thunder" FiGiy-one yotes There IS danger of falling to 'forty-Rine.' IS there not Buck Neither Ashley nor Woodruff. believe they can drum "P Sh 'VtSf, Nh-'usti " O0dtSc SdusStc will be made for il. Alter all their iabors. they have the modification to know. that they will be defeated III their schemes. anei that the good democracy of Arkansas, frown upon their attempt to divide and distract il. 'Tksy undertook t with their eyeg open-it was an nnholy attempt. and thank Heaven Il was Euisless, and now let them reap the consequences.
 The truth of this matter was heretofore shown by Us. which IS, tha, Gov YELL has q majority cf the demoeraic aembsrs of ths Legisiafere. Il is noi large, but, that the fact Is so. is indispu,abie. And no man can
 doubt fnr one moment, that if Gov Nell and Col. Ashley were candidates before the peo- pie, as for example for Goyernos or Repre- sentative to Congress. that ' ell would bea, Ashley Arce ;o one-itus showing that I ell, and not Ashley Is ihe choice of the people. Yell has always been popular; but when did Ashley become so' li was but few years ago, that, he did not pretend ;o travel m any portion of the State. except with the utmost caution. So odious was he then, that Tn some portions of the State, he could not, have escaped general tnssult- Denounced even in public meeiings-execrated i'll private circles, and generally condemned by good and upright men, moi only of the democrat ic, but of the other party. The idea oi hts having become suddenly popular in his old age. is not merely presex, too fiimsy to impose or the most eredulous, bu, Ii Is actu- ally so fareieal as to create smile.
 \ man sixty years old--odious all his life, without any feelings in common with the people, becoming suddenly popular, is 4 thing which deserves to be patented for its lrasiIy, aud ought to be put into the nexi re- port on the patent office.
 Was he popular in lsl0, when after weeks of drumming up, he was onfy able to com inaud s votes for the Senate Was he popu- lar al the April convention in 1914. when he sought the nomination ol Governor. and % tained 3 yotes--ats oarn. Cyrus w. Weller. and one flores A singular concurrence d circumstances gave him seat n the Senate --cireums,anees that would no,, in all pro- bablliiy, occur again Tn century; and ney- CT under the adsaatage which they gave him l; il Is a notorious fact. that Gov. Yell ceaId then have beat him if he had been esndl- date.
 The Ashley iscliou appear to regard il, as disorganizaiion for any one 10 think of op- posing, the reelection of their Chief Was il moi real Reorganization, besides insolling to the democratic party, for him io oppose Gov. Fulton III lS40' Has Ashley any of