Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-07-27
Number 42.
The Old Line Democra+ D

we notice Tn a late number of inc Mem. pms Avalanche, the prospectus of the new paper (The Old Line Democratl sbortlv tc be established at Little Rock, Ii ;s cer. tainly one ot the most singular introdnc- tions of new sheet, to public favor, that we have ever read
 We shall be pleased to hail the estab- lishment of new democratic paper at our capital-we need more papers of this com ! plexion, and we have no doubt, but good editor will make the Old Line Democrat a | popular institution. But at the same time we must have smile at the beligerant challenge of this unborn bantling It will see the light with itsfst doubled, and pitch into the True Democrat, Gov. Conway, Sebastian, and any one else who happens to be in the way of its success.
 This prospectus Is a most singularly worded affair, and seems the dawning of a new era In newspaper politics. It does not give us the terms at which the paper will be published, but breathes of nothing else save aggressive warfare on what is known as the Johnson party and the State demo- cratic organ.
 That the following personally denuncia- tory paragraph referring to an individual occupying no higher position than junior editor ot one of our State papers, should lind It's way into the prospectus of a paper that Is intended as the organ of great par ty, and the defensive bulwark of the only true national organization, is an anomaly that certainly IS worthy of notice.
 "The rank and file of our partv-tbe honest hard-fsted yeomanrv,' who do our voting and win our victories, without other hope of reward than the country's good and the approval of their own con- sclenceS-have no mouthpiece at Little Rock. The so-called True Democrat makes blind obedience to clique of office holders and office seekers the test of or thodoxy, and denounce as traitors and
 dlsorganlzers' all who would not kiss the feet of those lordly aristocrats. Yet. while thus accommodating men who ne yer tiinched in the advocacy of our nrinci- pies, who never hesitated to sustain our usages, and whose only sin is that they scorn to acknowledge a master, that paper itself IS edited by an ex -whig or ex-know- nothing, latter day convert-is the apolo- giSt of a coalition with our political ene- mies-and the defender of the fraudulent admission of know nothings and disorga- nlzers into the democratic conventions!'
 Another rather humiliating reflection suggested by this prospectus, is that Phil lips county should discover radical defect Tn the present organization, and should now be engaged-with patriotism truly noble-wlthout the cooperation of her sis ter countles-in remedying the defects of .otdte party. If the shortcomings of our present democratic organ have made it ne- ceSsary that another should be established. then we are Tn favor of calling convention ot the entire State and in that only just way passing resolutions to that effect, con talnlng no personal olIusionS, but simply stating the necessity for such organ, and the intention to create such an one. De- mocrats throuS hout the different parts of the State, will not consider themselves as under the slightest obligations to respond to call made on them, by a small meeting of dlsattected members in a town on the borders of our State. If Phillips county wishes to establish q democratic organ for that county alone, they have the right to locate it when and where they will, but 'tls folly to suppose that the united party of the State will be governed entirely by the ipSe dixit of county meeting in which they were not even complimented by a so- licitation to attend. And Phillips county IS assuming an unwarrantable prerogatiye when she legislates by county convention for an entire State. The "Old Line De- mocrat' must have more stable founda- ton than this, or it will not sustain the po- Sltlon Its name implies. Have the present action indorsed by State convention held al some central point, and 1t will then meet the cordial support of the democratic party: otherwise and it fails.