Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-05-25
From Pope County.

MR EDIToR-I notice an article Tn your paper | ,f the l1th signed, T. which certainly deserves l one notice, on the part of the democracy and he covention of Pope county. As always has been and ever will be, where there are opposing asprants, there has to be minority. T. has cer- tanly been left in that company, and reasonable conjecture will say T. is one of the defeated as- pirants, and now reported to be in the field in opposition to the regular nominees. will set T. down as the defeated aspirant; if incorrect in this, am correct in placing him as the advocate of the defeated asprant. T. says four town ships held primary meetings; the fifth was rep resented by delegates who had written instruc tons signed by respectable number of voters, which made five, all told. Now the township here alluded to is Russelville. It is notoriohs- ly known this township held a regularly organ ized meeting, and no doub. attended by the largest number of any township in the county, the delegates were instructed to vote for the defeated aspirans and Dr. Russell, the latter re- ceived the highest number Of votes, which bghted the formers prospects for the nomina- ton, as the northern portion of the county would be more apt to take up the strongest of the above township The defeated aspirant and his friends immediately hunted up those who did not take interest enough to attend the meeting and obtained some twenty names or whereabouts to the instructions alluded to- setting the defeat ed aspirant forth as the first choice of the town ! ship The delegates paid no attention to the | instruction, believing the movement to be wire working and springng of triggers, that T. so cor rectly alludes to- They cast the vote of the town ship for Dr. Russell and the defeated aSpirant ac- cording to the instructions of the regular meet ing; the defeated aspirant got the vote yet was not satisfied, wanted to be supreme. T. doubts the democracy that composed the convention; he says the true democracy had but little to do in the management of that so called convention The men T. alludes to as having time and agair refused to support nominees, have been battling in the cause of democracy in this county for twenty odd years, and have participated mcre or less in every democratic convention ever held in Pope county, and never have failed to SUD- port the regular nominees of the county, and am satisfied portion of them never failed H State nomination in only one instance. They voted for Smithson in common with. the great body of the democracy of the western part of 1 the State. Yet T. says but seldom ever sup ported a nominee. The democratic faith of these men has never yet been so weak, as to take upon themselves that sable mantle o know nottingham which the defated asprant wore with honor to himself and the dismal and dark concern it represented! Perhaps the con- vention was too democratic that T. 50 abominate. 1t, that did not suit his purpose; one of the delegates, an old sIm) )n pure, proposed to make diligent search ifany had wore the mantle abov ve alluded to, and behold it was found to have been upon the person of the defeated aspirant If T. had have said nothing can sooner bring conventions ia dsrepute than for defated asp- rants, who gave their nlme; to d convention pledgng themselves to abiIe its decision and then go out among the quiet democracy and excite them to dissatisfaction, it certainly would apply strictly to the case in this county. T. appears to questions Simon being a democrat, probably he will question the writer of this if 50 let him try the matter; the mss of the de- mocracy of this county can testify as to the fact will leaTe T. to breathe on in the atmisphere of Reorganization; he can do but little harm, old Pape will send old and tried democrats that have never finched to the next legislature
 A DELEGATE.
 May 17h, 1858