Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-30
the crowd dispersed, and for Johnson there was " NARY WAVE"

tended State Convention, he showed clearly l that all the great landmarks of Democracy haa
 been departed from, and such system had 1;i
 been inaugurated in it's stead as woulo uit- l ihately bring all conventions into alS[epote
 and contempt, and thereby utterly ana noPe- lessly disorganze the party. 10 aVolu thIS l calamity and save the Democratic party rom l impending ruin. the Democracy throughout
 the country demanded candidate, and ne mas
 answered the call.
 | The Democracy had established the two, l third rnle. It was practiced by the Natlonai Democracy, and the late State Convention ae- l clared that G the unity of the DemocraIlc party. and the safety of the South required tlle | adoption of the two third rule," and our oeie-
 rates to Charleston were instructed to " maih- 1 tain its adoption as an indispensaoie necessity | If the unity of any party ever fequlleo .a suen
 rule to be adopted, the democracy ol A nr hansaS
 surely required it; yet, whilst 'ne tad 'und' in | dynasty ordered the rule to be executeu i li' other conventions, they refused to apply It 10 1 themselves, simply because it would nave re- | suited in defeating Dick Johnson, and nolhi- hated a man that would have been acceptaole 1 to the whole party, and would have gwen {: unity. harmony and safety" to the Demo 1 cracy. What care these spoilsmen Tor uhi.y' | safety and harmony, to you ana to lhs eoui. | try? Their only wish is for oihce ana sPo,,s they determined to perpstuate tnoi, and dynastic sway. even if it is upon the rulns of the democratic party and the destruction or the Republic; and like the Russians, 1T df,ven from the capital, they intend to leave to theif successors nothing but lurid flames ana Snoui- dering embers. 5rs. .+ .,.- Lr;n Democratic conventions, from the oegln- hing have never consented to nominate Can didates with any less vote than malorley ol the whole Indeed no authorltlve hohiiiiaIioh m could be made by ninorlty-they coulu' n the nature of things, only recommend accord ;nqIy tbe committee in the State Convention, stocked on purpose to pave the way for MT. Johnson,s nomination, reported that "a ma ioritv of the Democracy of the State should make the nominationsD Upon counting noses it was ascertained that MT. Johnson could not command majority of the State ana "ith an impudence and recklessness unparailea, tue
 followers of MT. Johnson, the omce-nolders' who weuld lose their commissions to-moIIo" if they did not obey orders, stralghtWay changed the oIder of their own com mlttee, and resolved that Ca majority of shese present should confer the nomination" Let the De- mocracy once accept this squatter sovereign rule. gentlemen, and it is only necessary for MT. Johnson to call together a half dozen men, pretending to be deiegates-meh Who spurn the public will-inen who are supported by offices given them by his brother, Senator l N@ASHS present shall confer the nominatlon," to usurp your rights and seize upon the ballot box, and take possession of all offices and the entire government, against the will of the people
 Such proceedings are disgrace to the Deiho- cracy, and burning shame to the State
 Where shall such things stop, if unrebuked by the people? Already these men suppose that any enormity may be parpetrated by them with impunity. Mir. Yerzes, the partner or Dick Johnson in the True Democrat, claimed to be the delegate or proxy for Van Buren county, and actually set ln convention ana aided s majority of those present. to noml- nate his partner for Governor or Arkshsas 1; when. in fact, his credentials were forged from beginning to end, and the people of the county of Van Buren, whose name was forged, had no more to do with the matter than the man in the moon After forging his way into the convention, this same man Yerkes aided a "maioritv of those present" to cheat and de- fraud thousand citizens of Benton county out of their rights, and put in their place thirty six Johnson men, and declared them to be
 Benton county. These enormltles were per petrated by convention tricksters who mad been trusted to represent various counties, in. structed to vote against Johnson for Governor; but, in all the preliminary matters, they la bored to fix up the matter so that he should 1 have ''maiority of those present" on ballot- ing. when some of them would be compelled
 to vote against him by instructions from nome. 1 Mail agents, post-masters and land oihcers thus prepared the trap, by expelling the county or | Benton, whilst Mir. Johnson's partner brought | in the county of Van Buren. and all was ready
 to confer the nomination by majority or l those present." On the second ballot, the
 special mail agent, as President of the Conven- | tion. and Mr. Rutherford, Gov. Conway | Private Secretary, deserted Fletcher, who was
 entitled to thesvote of Green, and came with l the vote of Green and Lawrence, which coun-
 ties were opposed to Johnsou, and thus aided
 the spurious, bogus delegate from Benton, ana
 the forged delegate of Van Buren, to give
 " majority of those present" for Johnson for
 Governor. Thus nay opponent, trampling on | democratic usage-the two-third rule, and | the majority rule also-aided in the end by fraud upon Lawrence, Green and Benton, and by forgery upon Van Buren, was declared the nominee of a s.majority of those present." ls this Democracy? Is this honesty? Can any
 party uphold and sustain such wickednes:
 with impunity?
 Upon the subject of the State debt, Col R said Col. J. contends that taxation on one hand or repudiation on the other stares us 1T
 the face, and that gentleman declares there l! no way to avoid it-Col. Rector thought there was, and said the constitution did not allow any
 
 enough to defray the expenses of the Statt government-an unconditional tax was now
 being collected from the people--the legisla ture had passed bill to lessen the tax, and { Governor, sworn to support the constitution had vetoed the bill--three or four hundrel
 thousand dollars surplus revenue had beer collected, and my opponent wishes to use i
 to buy in the State bonds. Col. Rector wa opposed to this; he thought we had dont enough for the bank debtors; they have ruined the character of the State, which had for year been in disgrace on their account, and now [ Col Johnson wishes to take the peoples mo ney to secure them again still further. H thought the bonds, Emost of them, might b. l bought with railroad stock, and the Stat
 could obtain the railroad stock by new inter nal improvement bonds, due twenty-five year hence4in the meantime the State having pail ] the debt, could proceed against the stock lant of the Real Estate Bank, and make hersel
 whole. All of this might be done withou
 taxing the people, and at the same time rende
 material aid to our long neglected works o internal improvement--a plan of this kind ha
 been suggested to him and he now threw it ou for what it was worth; either this or some othe
 plan natured by the wisdom of the legislature
 could surely be adopted and put in practice.
 is with the legislature to say and to enact-al : the executive can do is to work in harmon
 with them. Our yonpg and growing State