Des Arc citizen., 1860-07-11
From the Old Line Democrat The True Democrats Texts with the
 Old Liners Comments.

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 0ld-Liner's Comments.
 "KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, That tn democracy of Arkansas has nominated can dldate for Governor, which nomination ha since been fully ratified by the Congressiona Districts, yet the OLD LINE DEMOCRAT refuse to support it."
 The bogus affair yelcpt, the State Con vention. by fraud and forgery nominated R. H. Johnson for Governor. The Dem ocratic party had very little to do with it Johnson has confessed to hs forgery o; ths Van Buren county convention, aud at tempts to explain awdy other frauds.
 The convention of the Northern Distrc at Dover, repudiated the State Convention and its nominee, emphaticaliy; and the Philadelphia Convention in the Southern District, virtually did the same thing. The True Democrat has, therefore, asserted a palpable FALsEHoop-a thing not at all unusual for that paper.
 "KEEp IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, That after hoisting Johnson's name as the nominee DE FAcTo, the OLD-LINE DEMOCRAT takes it down and pleads for partial Reorganization D Johnson is admitted to be the bogus nominee de facto of the bogus convention, but not de jurs. the nominee of the Dem- ocratic party. There's difference, slight. ually.
 The True Democrat, its owners and ab. ettors, having assisted in perpetrating a fraud upon the people, are liable to indict. ment, politically. The True Democrat and its supporters are therefore the disor- ganizers, and not the Oid.Line.
 We pulled down the name of the nomi- nee when we were satisfied that fraud and still worse, absolute FORGERY. had been used in securing the nomination of Richard H. Johnson, and after the two Congressional District Conventions had repudiated the same.
 "KEEp IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, That the only ground upon which the disorganizers base their hopes of success, is to tie to their tails CT edulous Know Nothings.
 The name and status of "disorganizers' having been shifted upon the shoulders of the True Democrat, Richard H. Johnson and his friends. This assertion may be true, accidentally lly-as for instance, A. J. Hut, Arch Rutherford, ct id omne genus
 "KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, That all the BUNCoMBE about the FAMILY is intended to put down democratic nominees in order to exalt real oLIGARcHy."
 The absurdity of this declaration is ab- solu,ely bewiIdering! No one save the immaculate DUMMY could have been gull ty of such nonsense. Poor Dummy ]! whilst he is sweating and laboring here ten hours in Auditors Miller's office, and five in the True Democrat office, Dick Johnson is repudiating him in every stump talk throughout the Northern District The "FAMILY" has been fully identified.
 'tKEEp IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, That after great braggadocia ovation over the bogus county protest, FIVE counties, either not re- presented or that voted against Col. Johnson in the State Convention, have since ratified and endorsed his nomination"
 The great protest of Benton county was signed by near thousand names and is certainly no FORGERY, MT. Johnson. As to the five counties sustaining the nom. nation of R. H. Johnson, that's proble matical-he and his friends are attainted with forgery-perhaps those five counties were represented as was SALINE, by just six individuals; and even if it were so, those counties acted under the impression that every thing was fairly conducted in the State Convention, which every body knows was not the case.
 Keep it before the people, That the Old Line Democrat is plagiarizing editorial thun- der from the Gazette of 1856, without making proper acknowledgements"
 That would be gross breach of cour- tesy, if so-and if so, we here take space to beg Capt. DanIey's pardon. If we have offended, we intend to repeat, "mar. ry. not in sack cloth and ashes, but in new silk and old sack" We have plenty of thunder of our own, with which we in- tend to knock the True Democrat, owners and all concerned, into Pr.
 "KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE, That Judge Rector proposes, if elected Governor, to issue new bonds in place of the principal and inter- est of the present debt, thus making new debt far more grievious than the present, and amounting, in fact, to paying compound inter ests on the present debt"
 There's no IF about Rector being elect ed Governor sure thing. The True Democrats assertion is not true In point of fact. Rector submits proposi- ton to absorb the debt of the State in in- ternal improvements. MT. Johnson pro- poses, without making any effort to tax the people grieviously, to pay debt that many of his relations assisted in fixing upon the S,ate-a matter in which he IS at his time personally interested, and in which the great mass of the people who now inhabit the State had not any action or interest whatever.
 SIGNIFICANT FAcr.-At the time the nomination of Douglas and Fitzpatrick was made, we beg our readers to remem-