The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-05-28
Arkansas In the Wake Of LOuiSiana-Thc
Governor Aiming for Wur.

| Arkansas like .Lousian, and other
'oarpet-bag, Southorn States, has cvi.
IDENTIFY been badly reconstructed
Arksnsas, in the wake of Louisiana
fkqm the violent sGuabblcs of the ra.
| pacious politicians, appears to Lc
drifting to the verge of civil war. Bat
while ito trouble in Louisiana has
'bcon,apd is bitter conflict bc.wee,.
tho republicans and the opposition
elements for the State government,
aud the spoils, thu now difficulty H.
Arkansas is hitch between two con
ending factions in tho republican
camp, vey9iug to an appeal to gun.
powder. Our special Correspondent.
at Little Rock informs us substantial.
ly that tho worst clements of the raIi
cal party in tho State, headed an.
Parcntly by Senator Clayton, Chic!
Justice Mcclure, Judge Bowen and
others, finding out that Go,ernor
baxter ,(repuplican too) is not the
conVanient tool they desire, want to
oust him and put Smith, tho Lieu
tenant Governor, in his place that
to accomplish this end they have de-
vised scheme for testing the legality
IT the Governors election before the
supreme Court - proceeding
whiph, # carried to the point of bring.
ing the Governor to trial, will at once
suspend Kim and put Smith in his
office.
But it next appears that Baxter :;
not only fully aware of his danger il,
tho premises, but that, taking time
by the forclock, he is fully prepared
to fight tho hostile combination on
tho threshold. lie has recognized the
State forces ho has established
guards over the State House, thc
Governors rooms and tho public
grounds he Unsecured the stores Of
State arms in the city he has ap
pointed new officers to the State mili-
Tia, includinga fighting man or two
from the, ku Klux Klan he has thn
Stato Arsenal covered by battery Of
artillery ; he cats and sleeps in the
Governors office, aud when he takes
an airing it is under an armed escort Of
his friende. Baxter, in word, means
business, and If, through writ Of
quo '0arra"'o, tho opposing clique at
tempt to reach him o-morrow, as thew
Threaten, .ho may disrcrso the whulc
party. He has, It is said, the demo,
Gratis, the conservative republicans
apd majority Of tho blacks on his
side, and so, if pushed TO tho wall, he
ia.strong enough to adop} the decisive
tactics Of Oliver Cromwell
Over this condition of affairs much
excitement, exists in little Rock and
in the State. We should think SO,
Our readers of Now York, city and
State, have only to imagine this vio-
lent fictitious fcud at Little Rock
transferred TO albany to comprehend
the matter for excitement that there
is in this Arkansas imbroglio. If
Governor Dix we're in tho position Of
Governor Baxter, intronchcd in the
State House and with his guards of
horse, foot and artillery in the Uapi>
tol grounds, there would DC much cx.
citemont not only at Albany, but in
every city, village and ham let of the
State and o. the whole country. And
it is only by bringing such matters
homo as these Louisiana and Arkan-
sas political squabblos that we can
roaliza tho very exciting SORT of
law and order that exist in those
States.
1t is expected this txcecling in
teresting political snari ut Lit'lc
Look will be unravcllcd tomorrow,
with or without n resort to villairous
saltpctrc.. lu any. event lot us hopo
that Arkansas will be spared any
complications or disturbances Of the
public poacn requiring tho intorvcn-
tlon of tho United States troops or
government of martial law.-Ncw
York Hcrul9.