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publican Senators and Representatives
of the Tenth district; Archie Shopper
son, r. T. Page and w. A. Marshall, of
the Fourteenth district; G. w. Tankers-
ley, George A. Kingston, J.. S. Corbell
and o. S. Hawkins, of the Seventeenth
district; S. w. Mcleod, John G. Rollins,
L. G. Crute, T. V. Rankin, J.. b. Hill
and J. T.. Joslyn, of the Twenty-sec0nd
district. The complaint then proceeds
in the same manner as the one previ-
ously filed by Judge Harrison, and re-
cites about the same frauds. II asks that
said defendants be restrained from exer-
cising the duties of the offices to which
they nave been returned as elected until
the further order of the court. The case
IS set for hearing on the fifteenth instant.
Little ROck Gazette.
HODGES Or M'DONALD.
EDITORS APPEAI-The chances are
that Asa Hodges, State Senator from
Crittenden county, or that cosmopolitan
citizen of the United States, Ex-United
States Senator Alexander Mcdonald,
will be the winning man for the covet-
ed place. If Hodges-nO better repre-
sentative man could be selected for this
place. He has the advantage Of all his
competitors, being an old citizen, and
knows the wishes and desires of his
people. If the latter gentleman-he,
too, will make a faithful representative.
He is the most liberal gentleman in the
country, and has spent a fortune in try
ing to benefit the people of Arkansas.
In his short career as United States Sem
ator, after reconstruction, his views of
governmental policy were liberal, and
never vindictive. He is one of the few
men that are aspiring for public place
and honor that has no enemies to pun
ish, but lots Of friends to reward. Ev-
erybody and 1.-THE cookH is Alex. Me-
DOnald's friend. Both of these gentle
men have acquired great wealth through
reconstruction. How honest it was ac-
quired is only known to themselves.
The lesser lights of aspirants for this
place Of honor are confined to Messrs.
Bowen, Ex-G Governor Hadley, and Col
onel S. w. Dorsey. The first, to say
the least, if elected, would be disgrace
to the Senate. The second is the chief
fugleman of the StatehOuse ring of
thieves. The third is an honest and fair
minded gentleman, but can hardly
claim citizenship in this State-haying
been here only long enough to cast one
vote; consequently he is unacquainted
with the wants and disposition of his
constituency, should he be elected to
this exalted place; and besides, he has
private ak to grind, through Congress
siOnal aid, to his great line of narrow
gauge railroad from Helena, Arkansas,
to Denver, Colorado. Yet this under
taking is a momentous one, and should
be supported by the National Govern
ment in subsidies of lands and bonds.
TOP.
BOWEN, DORSEY, AND ASA HODGES.
EDITORS APPEAL 1t has
become a historic fact that if it had not
have been for the influence of the AP-
PEAL at the early stage of the late
campaign, Hon. Elisha Baxter, an
old citizen, would never have been
thought of in connection with the nOmi-
nation as the candidate of the Minstrel
party for Governor. The people of
Arkansas owe his election to you and
your correspondent, " Anything to Beat
Grant, yet the latter supported and
voted for the " Great Gift-Taker" never
theless. And if Baxter is elected and
quietly or forcibly inaugUrated, the citi
zens will, of this State, every mothers
son of them, say amen before another
year rolls around that Baxter is Cover
nor. If he does not make one of the
best executive officers of the State he
will have to Obliterate all his former
record and past life, and experience
will have to go for naught Therefore,
we opine that the Minstrel horde this
time at least have caught tartar, and
it is not at all singular that such fellows
as Tom Bowen would like to slip
through his fingers and get out of harms
way by landing in the
UNITED STATES SENATE
to prevent any prosecution, so far
as he is concerned, in the manipu-
lating of State railroad aid This,
like every other well laid plan,
sometimes will go astray. If elected,
ne would have to be elected by bribery
the plan that was adopted to return the
Ex-Governor to the United States Sen
ate two years ago. That won then, but
it will not win now. Therefore, Bowen
can only be looked upon simply as a
candidate in name. Colonel Dorsey, so
far as any of the new-light candidates,
has the inside track. He is a clever gem
tleman, and said to be honest, but his
acquaintance with Arkansas and its
people is limited, consequently the
chances of either Bowen or Dorsey is
doubtful, and Hadley is hardly thought
of in connection with this exalted place.
His career as a superciliOus officer in
dOctOring up the returns of the election
has damned him with his own party to
such an extent that he will have to ego
West" The only probable candidate
named that could be possibly elected is
HON. ASA HODGES, OF CRITTENDEN
COUNTY.
Whatever else can be said of this gen.
tleman, he at least is honest, and knows
the people of the State and their wants.
His only great fault has been the great
aspiration he has to acquire wealth, and
no doubt has made as much money in d
legitimate way as any other man in Ar
kansas ddring the extraordinary politi-
cal crisis that the State has passed
through during the past four years. Yet
il is supposed that he has made it hon
estly, and acquired it through legitimate
means. And the larger portion of the
wealth this gentleman has acquired here
since the war, has been expended here
in identifying the capital, building
houses and in the purchase and running
plantations in our immediate vicinity.
This ea1not be said of his opponents,
particularly Bowen. His wealth, if he
has acquired any outside of his railroad
scheme upon paper, has been spent in
riotous living, fast horses, etc., by the
sea, and in the hundreds of Northern
cities, and whose whole aim is self, and
if elected would be to exalt Tom Bowen
rather than serving his constituency in
the upper house of Congress. If Arkan-
sas and its representatives in the Legis-
lature desires a faithful representative in
the United States Senate, it will elect
Hon. Asa Hodges, an old citizen of the
State, and one who would honor the
office and be a faithful sentinel of the
interests and wishes of the people of this
State in the halls of Congress, and
would not have a private ak to grind,
like his competitors, at the cost of the
PUBLIC.
LITTLE Rock, January 6, 1872.
PROGRESS.