Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-07-21
The Pretsxts on which Judge Rector
 Runa

lne V3I1Oub PSCeSAsD uP0sA '--NS' ' s-S~ ,ector runs against the regular nominee
 nav all be reduced to two points first,
 he people are dissatisfied with the State
 onvention on account of alleged fraud;
 nd secondly, unsolicited they have called
 jim from the shades of legal quietude to
 become their standard bearer. We have so often refuted the first point that it seems nugatory to do so again. We will simply say that the charges of fraud made by the Old Line Democrat, if true, convicts the editor of that immaculate sheet of the grossest and most unpardonable corruption, inasmuch as he seems to possess such a lively sense of political purity, and is conse- qucntly proportionably more guilty than any one else. To him, in the language of parable, has been entrusted Ca hundred talents," and the democratic party will hold him accountable for strict integrity in his stewardship. But we undertake to say that the editor of the Old Line Democrat will not admit his own guilt, and conse- quently has convicted himself of scarcely less iniquity-a perversion of facts and the preferment of charges for the purpose of deludng the masses which he could not possibly have believed The Old Line Dem ocrat by this unfair, misrepresentative policy is really responsible for nearly all the dis satisfaction that exists. The forged proxy of Van Buren county has been fixed as far as circumstantial evidence can prove thing upon the "Old Liners" Upon far less satisfactory evidence Macauley has decided the authorship of the letters of Junius. In addition to this MT. Lafferty, whose name was forged as the chairman of the Van Buren county convention-aiter hearing Johnson and Rector, said the democrats of his county, though displeased at first, were satisfied that the fraud was perpetrated by Col. .Johnson's enemies, and that the dem crats of Van Buren would stand by the nominee This disposes of the tire charge of corruption, fixing the fraud existing in the convention on the Old Liners, and show ing the fallacy of the charge, inasmuch as it could not. possibly vitiate the result.
 Now for the second point. We fear our neighbor will consider us an unfeeling To- gician, but we will be compelled to exhibit the trickery praeticed in this instance also. Every person knows that Judge Rector was consulted long before his name was an nounced, and consented to run if he should be called out by unsolicited expressions of the popular feeling. In obedience to this pledge, secret circulars were sent out to all localities where it was thought most dissat- i,laction existed. A few artiul editorials in the Old Line Democrat, filled with bold assertions devoid of truth and backed up by unblushing effrontery alone, inhamed the partial dissatisfaction which inevitably fol- lows the result of nomination or an cleo ton, and enabled the underStropperS to whom the task of manufacturing public
 
 sentiment had been assigned, to trump up few calls. Col. Hindman forced his col lar men to sign one at Dover. These Judge Rector calls unsolicited! We sup pose a solicited call would be one demanded at the point of the bayonet How shallow is the sophistry on which the disorganizers base their claims. They denounce the State convention because one vote was cast by proxy forged by themselves, yet to all intents and purposes they torge unsolicited calls, wil(ully distort and magnify little temporary dissatisfaction, and divide the party by barefaced coalition between as pirants whose ambition exceed their merits, and personal enemies that Col. Johnson in his editorial career would necessarily make. Recent events have fully developed the bounds of this coalition, which, founded in demagogueism, in fraud, in corruption and forgery will bear upon its suspicious brow, during transient existence, the brand of in- fanny, and dissipate in the sultry Ides of August, like lowering summer clouds which bear within their darkling bosoms no scathing thunder-bolt. The disorganizers are fast realizing the fate of Milo, they have succeeded in partially rending the party, but the rebound will leave them powerless. Secuted by their own party, condemned as renegades and traitors by the opposition, in the shades of neglected privacy, like Cardinal Woolsey or Stephen A. Douglas, they can muse on human destiny, and the fate of those who learn too laNfhe great lesson of philosophy-"t to fling away ann bition."
 Eg- A gentleman who has recently trav- eled through the counties of Washington, Benton, Madison, and Carroll writes us that Col. Johnson's majority in these four conn- ties will not be less than fifteen hundred- Rector's policy of creating new debt, pay ing compound interest, and eventually re- sorting to repudiation, he says docs not go down well at all with the people" and is