Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-06
Political Rascality Exposed.

During the rast two or three weeks we have | and in printed hand bills, the circulars of se- veral sef-supposed great men, announcing them selves as candidates for different offices, in op- 1 position to the regular democratic nominees. - | Uupon reading hem we were struck with their similarity; each man announces himself as be ing democrat of the first water, democrat by instinct, or an independent democrat, and all | their cards contain like paragraph in opposi- l ton to conventions. In one or two of the more ambitious of these documents, these points are somewhat elaborated, but they are all evidently cut from the same bolt of clo h.
 When We take into consideration the fact that these men live at points remote from each other, that their announcements were made at about the same time, and that each of these songsters at the same moment strikes up the same tune, it serves to verify the rumor that these things were all prccoucerted We were told some time ago, that great blow was to be Struyk, that at the proper time a masked battery was to be opened and the grape shot poured into the democratic camp.
 We are perfectly well aware how these thing. were brought about and it may be proper to ill., form the true democracy of the country of the working of this new stratayem of the enemy. They knew that so long as the demQcratc par ty maintained its organization it was impresna- ble to their assaults, hence their only hope of success was to undermine it, to break down con- ventlOns, and to make the election general scramble and contest for men. To effect this, the leaders of the opposition wrote to their followers at different points, to sound the dis affected, tender-footed, vain and ambitious SOL disant democrats in their vicinity, to suggest to them that men of their vast abilities were, kept in the back ground by conventions, that if they would run as independent democrats, they would receive the combined vote of the dSsa- tisfed democracy and know notlings. To some they went so far as to promise that paper should be started here to advocate their claims one that should do justice o,their marvellous abilities and intense patriotism.
 We are glad to be able to say for the first Congressional district that they were unable to find any one fool enough to run the race against the gallant Hindman. If they had, it would have been rich treat to have seen the Cplomel skin him at every meeting. They succeed in inducing some to run for the legislature and for county offices in the northern district. h the southern district they were more successful in finding materials for their purp se tools req dv for their use. All these men were instruct ed what to say, what song to sing and what plan the best to hnmbug tho people, Hence the uniformity oi all ther addresses and the seif-same burden of s,ll their songs.
 Of course, the democracy, made aware of their schemes, will spew them out of their mouths and doom them to that obscurity from which they never should have emerged.
 We have no objection to these men running for office-vcry lityle objection to their abuse of the democratic party and its policy, for their censure and praise are worthless alike, and eve. ry man in-ths free country has right to make fool of himself. But we do object to their calling themselves democrats; strenouslv ob- ject to their being called so. There is nothing democratic in the positions they occupy, in the doctrines they advocate, or in the persons whose tools they are and who are urging them on.- The N. Q. Delta suggests fitting name, that Of Caribou, for such gentry. Let them not desecrate the name of democrat longer but for the nonce and we care not if for all time, let them be known as Caribows, or anything but l democrats