Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-29
Tricks OfRegistratiOn..We Must
 be WatChful.

Tricks OfRegistratiOn--We Mus
 be WatChflul.
 The game the radical party is playinI
 is deep and shrewd one. Fairness 1
 not sought; permanency for the futur
 is not considered; the future welfar
 of the people or prosperity of the stat
 does not enter into their calculations The question is, "shall we make ou
 little game win, or shall we repack ou satchels and go."
 1 Lean, cadavorous men like Cassius who, by accident, have been permitted to prowl about the national capital have invented the reconstruction laws and fixed upon plan of registration that will be likely to prove most con dusive to party success and to theiI continuance in power. Their agents and tools at the state capital have theil instructions. It will undoubtedly bt sought to give to the registration as much as possible, an air of plausibility and candor. In many counties in tht state, and in many townships and pre-. cincts in counties, twill do to register fairly. In such cases good and consci. entious men will perhaps be selected for registrars, and an air of honesty and good faith given to the conduct oi the registration and the election. Oul people thus lulled into quietude under the false impression that all is going well, may forget that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and wake up al last to defeat and ruin. The state has been thoroughly and carefully can- vassed in the radical committee room the exact number of votes wanted is known; the number that can be secured fairly, by purchase, and through the agency of thoroughly organized league is footed up, and the margin to be overcome is provided for. It is to be done in great measure by disfran- chising rightful electors, for which full and ample provisions have been made by attempting to authorize the register TO REJECT ANY ONE HE MAY THINK NOT ENTITLED TO REGISTER" Another re- course is the usual mode of ballot-box stufiing and voting men over and over again, and if all these are likely to fail, we have reason to believe that in dem- ocratic strong holds, disturbances will be sought, the polls will be closed up and final result announced from the votes cast elsewhere throughout the state. All these tricks and schemes should be carefully guarded against by committees composed of thorough -go- ing vigilant men, who comprehend the emergency, and whose duty it shall be to watch the polls, the registration lists, the ballot-box and the registrar. There is nothing so efficient to prevent mis- chief as a good pair of honest eyes wide open. Evil-doers always quail under the eye of watchfulncss. The thief falters when made aware that he is seen. The tool of the league room who attempts to duplicate his vote pur- suant to instructions, when reminded that he has once casta ballot, will drop his colors and sneak away. Men intent on nothing but evil are always towards and shrink from the light. It is hence that the reconstruction laws of con- gress, and the registration laws of the state are so full of hidden meanings made simply to dupe and deceive. Now that registration has commenced, precautions against fraud and knavery are of the most pressing importance. This election MUST NOT BE LOST. Fail ure is ruin and death. Success is eter- nal political life, and that prosperity which the honest people of Arkansas so eminently.-Little Rock Gazette.