Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-23
ARKANSAS.
The Indescribable MuddIe - Devious
Ways OF Devils Past Finding Out.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, August 20, ls7z

LITTLE Rock, ARK, August 20, 1872.
1sDToRs APPBAL-The unaecounta-
bic dullnvss Of this 'fhuge village in the
wilderness" for the time being, is about
/ to come to a sudden close. The last and
largest show, the assembly Of all the
NuNsTBELs, THIEVES IN OFFICE,
will convene for the fifth and last time
in convention tomorrow. The last
trumpet Of that great Snowman, Clay
ton, has been blown. They are all here.
On and after the fifth day of November
next they are billed and advertised for
the wilds of Colorado, which, in the
course Of events, and through the ma
nipulations Of the sold he Brindle,U of
all that. is radical Radicalism, and the
unterrified Democracy, will compel this
horde of "thieves in Office" "to silently
steal away not like the Arabs to the
camp of their tutor, nepOtism Grant,
but TO the wilderness Of the Colorado.
Quite a large number of this Minstrel
hordeOf thieves know this, and the past
summer visited that far-off country
with their dishonest stealinGs, fieeced
from the tax-paying people of this State,
and made investments there in the ewilds
Of that "great wilderness of the noun
tains." In anticipation Of being driven
away from the scenes of their past in
iquities here, by that which will be the
almost unanimous verdict Of the people
at the election as certain as the sun rises
and sets on the fifth day Of November
next.
The latest move upon the Minstrel pO-
litical chess-bOard among the knowing
ones, those who are manipulating and
stocking the cards to suit the carpetsack
element of the convention, is to secure
the nomination of Hon. Alexander Nc
Donald, late Radical United States Sen
atOr, as their candidate for Governor.
This is the party that the great show
man, Clayton, so Numerically fleeced
out of place and Office at the late cleo
ton. In electing himself, through the
aid Of dishonest registrars and ballot
box stuffing, to the United States Sen
ate. The native element Of the show
are concentrating their forces upon
Judge Elisha Baxter. If the latter,
success so far as this Office is concerned,
and if not elected it viii not be for the
want of a large Democratic vote to
make it such. Three-fourths of the
younger Democracy of Arkansas will
vote for Judge Baxter for GOYsrnOr in
preference to any other Radical, in the
absence of a straight-out Demo ratio
ticket in the field. But so far as Me
Donald is concerned, he will not carry a
single Democratic vote, consequently
Brooks would have an easy race and a !
election, with at least
twenty thousand votes to spare. Nc
Donald, though Liberal carp etbagger, !
henchman of the Grant school /
IF politics, yet he is like Paddy's flea, |
and anything that he would |
not lay his hands uDOn and manipulate |
Tor his own benefit, whether stealing a |
-ailrOad bond or railroad franchise, or |
4 road already built, is not worth hav-
ng. This is the same fellow that foUr1
years ago came so near losing his seat 1
md being expelled from the United
states Senate for having defrauded the
government in an extensive flour trans
lctiOn at Fort Smith, having purchased,
n connection with an officer of the
jommissaTy department, a large amount
# condemned flour, and upon the spot
eselling ii to the government, to this
tficeT, at five hundred per cent profit.
The full history of this swindle can be
cen in the debates of Congress in the
Congressional Globe, winter of 1867 and
S6S, which was brought to light by
ohm Sherman, of Ohio. God help the
eOple of Arkansas, if this thing i0 hu-
nan form should ever be elected Cover
or of Arkansas. RUNNER.