The Van Buren press., 1873-07-15
Chief Justice McClure's Venom

Chief Justice McClpres Venom.
To show epr readers TO wha,depshs ofscur-
rility tile Chief Justice Of the State, in speak
ing of Gov Baxter can resort to, and the des-
perate means resorted to- to drive him from
the position he has taken we extract from the
lesdera of the Little Rock Daily RcpVblicaa,
tho past week:
Several timus within tho present week
friends have come 10 us from the governors
Office ard said that Elsha Baxter told them
he intended to hang Mcclure just ~ soon as
he com ntted some covert act Now, we
would like 10 know what an over ne, II, as
We have no desire to be hanged. The same
persons have also informed Us that Elisha
Baxter says the supreme court had better
look out. or he will put this county under
martial law-that he Is IN the cilice Of gov
ernor. and that he intends 10 see that the
courts shall not hear or determine any ques
ton which affects his title to the office OF
governor. IL Elisha Baxter has enough
fIiends in this state. which we doubt to hang
Mcclure, We hope he will call them out and
set them to work, All that Mcclure asks l.
that Baxter VIII lead them. That the assas-
sination of Mcclure and Oliver was talked of
in the office occupied by Elisha Baxter we
W
who should be divers successor Is equally
true The same men talked Of the assassiua-
tion of Mcclure and ofOliyer in 1868, but not
in the office of the executive Of the state. nor
were their deliberations presided over by a
man elected by republican appliances. SO far
rs assassination Is concerned, personally Me-
Clnrc cares nothing about Ii. Al that he
asks of his friends Is, and Ihey have sworn il,
that, should some man, for small pittance
drawn from the contingent fund OF the gov
ernur, do the da>tardly deed, that Elisha Bax-
ter and all other who bear his name, or thro'
whose veins his blood courses, shall pay the
forfeit-July IN,
On another occasion We stated that the
nomination Of Elisha Baxter was bought and
paid for-price S20,0UO cash--ard ths: tn,
amount wa. paid 10y S. W. Dorsey--ve repeat
it now. The public well know that Baxter.
'inRueucc-personal, political and official
Was used to elect Dorsey to the Senate This
Baxter pledged himself to do, when Dorsey
bought him the no nnaton, and it i, the only
promise we ever knew him to keep and fullil
Dorsey having a bill Of ,ale, as we supposed
Of the ttWy he paid S2oou0 for, claimed tina,
he could and would control Baxter on the
railroad bill and insisted that the manage.
mcut OF our incorrupHble governor should be
lett tt him, aWl thVre it WAS len. In order &c
show that Dorsey felt soma Interest in tn,
passage nf the railroad lill, we will state here
that hr put up S2oO0U0 OF the mortgage bond,
ut the Central road to be used in CONVINCING 9
members Of the legislature that it Mas good
bill, and The best thing which could be done
for the state.
That we are not supporter of Elisha BaYtcl
a critical rcaGUr light infer from The tone OF
some articles which have from time to time
appeared In this paper. That We are making
war on lin We admit, and that We shall con
tiuue 90 DO SO we now announce, and, what !,
more, it shall not cease until Elisha Baxter
has been Sloru OF power We are not fight
ing Him because OF the defeat of the railroad
bill, but because lac hiss proven recreant TO hi,
party because he appoints more democrat.
to office than he does republicans; because he
increased the state taxes ong hunrvd per cent.
because he approved ~ law Withholding the
school fund because he removed republicans
from the command OF the militia and put the
u-kluX commanders Of lS6S In their ylaccl
because he used his cou,ingcnt fund, to the
eNteut Of seven thousand seven hundred and
| fifty dollars, to pay his private and personal
debts, and because no approved bill which
annually roSs elght thtslsand poor people OF
their homes and turns them over TO railroad
companies, WitAout redemption, aud for a
hundred other crimes against the party which
In due time our readers ,hall be fully advised
Of 1.-THE dirty, cowardly. lying, assembling
wretch who now hold, the Office of governor
eHn send US to the wall, well and good. All
that we ask is, that when we are driven there
for cur friends To come and see MS pin him TO
it, tor DO it we Wlll.-hy SM.
Nearc mAkinga war on Elisha Baxter, and
before We get through both he and his aged
mistress (thc Gazette and his other concu-
bnes will find that we are In earnest. lie
said At Lcwisburg that no compromise would
bo made. We have never asked for a compro-
mise and never will We have compromised
with crime and tresChcrr as long MS we are
going to, and for the last time Ii the Gazette
thinks that by attacking US 1t can make us
case up on it, political pinp, We inform |,
now. tIst that thing cannot bs done. We ar,
after the boss of the hsrem, anA not the mis-
trtSs, and will not turn aside at this lima e
discuss questions Of propyisty until We hav,
baggv6 her Hisn.' Dole us out anethel
lectu!e.-JUy lON.