Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-15
Senatorial Canvass in Pulaski and Prairie.
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The Gazette, by the preposterous cialms IL set up for its owner and editor, Capt Danley, having involved him in difficulty, devotes the larger portion of its last issue in fruitless efforts to extrcate him. It vainly endeavors to white wash him. and present him to the voters of this senatorial district as a worthy claimant of thelr suffrages. It labors hard to reconcile his thou sand inconsistencies and to purify and purge him of his thousand sins.
 One of the claims it has set up for him is, that he has always been the advocate of the Kansas ebraska bill! There is hardly any thing more preposterous than this assertion It is true that while Capt. Danley was professed democrat he did write one article in favor of the Kansas bill, but after. he joined the know nothing order he maintained profound silence upon the subject. He lot only ceased to es- pouse it after he became know nothing, but in the canvass of 1856 he supported Gen. Yell who in his campaign speeches never lost an op- portunity to assail and denounce the iniquity of that great measure. He too supported Willard Fillmore--the man whom he had previously denounced as a free -soiler-and who when ac- cepting the know nothing nomination for the Presidency, declared that the Kansas bill was the " Pandora's box'' from which all the evils came that then afflicted the country.
 Capt. Danley may have been an earnest friend of the Kansas bill all the time that he was thus supporting its know nothing enemies, but, if he was, the fact is still more discreditabIe to him. The claim set up for him by himself and his paper, that he was an advocate of the Kansas bill, does him no honor. It only proves, if fact that his principles were subservient to the oath he had taken to support the know nothing naminees.
 Another preposterous merit the Gazette claims for the Captain is, that he has always been the opponent of conventions. It says:
 "The central organ seeks to make the inn pression that Capt. Danley has always been the advocate of conventions, and the support of their nominees. In this 1t is strangely oblivl- ous of the past political history of the country. Both Gov Conway and Senator Johnson can refresh its memory in regard to this matter"
 And again:
 "As to the convention humbug, it is the trick by which willy politicians keep down in- dependent men, and perpetuate their power by putting subServient party tools in office and place. The people of this district will not swallow it, but spew it out of their mouths: Mark that"
 What will citizens of Prairie and Pulaski counties, who have so often seen Capt. Danley figuring in conventions, think of these two ex- tracts from his last paper? Is it not a clear case of a candidate sailing under false colors? Is it not plain attempt to deceive? We will give few facts.
 In1o5l, Capt c. c. Daney attended the State democratic convention at this place, that nomin- ated candidate for Congress, and, as proxy, cast the votes of Carroll, Franklin, Mississippi and Washington counties in that convention. He took active part on that occasion and even went so far as to introduce the following stringent rule
 " Resolvel, That this convention will consid CT the claims of no aspirant who will not freely submit the same 10 its consideration, and who will not abide by and support its choice of a caHutQate TOT OCN5ftS>," etc.
 The man who could introduce and advocate the passage of such rule can hardly be said to be opposed to conventions, and vet the Gazette represents Capt. DAnley to be opposed to them
 Again, in 1853, Capt. Daney was delegate from Pulaski county, to the Hot Spring con- venton, and placed the name of its nominee at the head of its paper, and called upon all dem- ocrats to support him. In 1854, he attended the Princeton convention as a delegate from Pulaski and the proxy of Perry county, and after the nomination was made, hoisted the name of the nominee, advocated his election, and urged it as the duty of all democrats to do the same.
 In 1855 Capt Danley deserted the democratic party and joined the know nothings, and obH- gated himself under oath to obey the mandates of all know nothing councils, caucusses and conventions, and in obedience to his oath, he hosted the aames sf the nominees of the know nothing conventions for President of the United States, for Governor of the Ssate, for Congress and for all the county offices down to coroner, and urged them the proper men to be supported by "ail true Americaps."
 In the face of these facts which are of re- cord and cannot be denied, Capt. Danley repre- sentS himself as ali opponent to contention. hunsbugs," which he denounces "as tricks by aehich wity politicians Keep d2,on independent naen!' Further comment Is unnecessary. We leave the subject to the Gazette and shall look with good deal of curiosity for the special pleading by which it will attempt to extricate the Captain from his difficulties; and after it disposes of the facts we now lay before it to is satisfaction, We shall present others along through the canvas as leisure aud inclination may determine Us. There is no candidate more vulnerable or more objectionable to the democracy of this district than Capt. Danlev. After years of efforts to rule them, he Iinally deserted them, and acting under a know noth ing oath, assalled them as anti Americans. ns creatures ef the Pope, and as traitors to Meir country.