The Van Buren press., 1873-05-27
Captcres,

The prrsen, condition ei affairs In Arhan-
sas il well calculated to snake us put on our
"thinkin. cap" Mcclure Of the HcPathcd"'
insists that MIR. Baxter has been captured by
the Democracy, and ndulges in II Satire vein
which reminds his readers of tlc gambol' OF
hyena The game has been blocked by an
unexpected determination. on the part OF
Baxter, to prevent the further robbery OF The
people.
That the Mcclure gang expected to handle
Baxter as best suited their nefarious pur-
poses, when they put him forward, Is fully
demonstrated by the fact that they fall out
with him as soon rs he refused to endorse the
first grand swindle, called properly the Rail
road steal" Finding they could not use him
they determined to abuse him. ana made their
fight SO bitter at the outset, that it became
impossible for Baxter to longer act with Nc
Clure and his gang and forced him to rely up
on other citizens, who did not countenance
knavery but advocated honesty in the admin
istratien of our State affairs. That men who
compose the ring Of public printers, contract
takers and scrip raisers at Little Rock and
elsewhere throughout the State, should be
disappointed by finding an honest man whom
they have put toward or helped TO foist into
Office. is not matter OF sstonshment. And
having found him in the high Office Of Gov
erner, it utterly destroys all their grand
schemes for plundering the people, and no
wonder they become frantic and losing all
self-control hurl at him the old stale charges
" "going over to the Democrats, "heing
guarded by Ku-klux, "" catering to Rebels, "
etc.
Nov, all these charges we're once raw
head aud bloody bones y to the ansophstca-
ted Republicans OF Arkansas but they have
ceased to be of any force, as the honest men
of the party have long since discovered that
they were only used by certain leaders, for
the wicked purpose OF distr,ctirg attention
from their foul deeds. While they kept the
"loyal people well frightened, and filled the
poor negro with fearful apprehensicns by
such terrible battle cries, they could easily
slide into office and quietly plumber the
treasury. BY the adoption OF the recent con
stitutional amendment. the people have de-
clared that these foolish charges are without
oil be trusted with the ballot the great wes-
pom of freenen. So this silly balderdasA has
played out and can no longer scare any one.
The people feel that our State is In far more
danger from such men as Met lure, Bowen.
Tankersley. .et ID on'ne genus, than from former
Confederates,
We 10 not and will not claim Baxter as a
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one. We have no idea of attempting to cap
ture him. nor do we desire to capture him.
lie Is, we had supposed, Republican fully
endorsed by the Republican party, and the
mere fact that he 10 not Hor endorsed by such
men as lead the present diSgracehl attack
upon him, we apprehend does not exactly
drive him from the Republican party and
compel him 10 affiliate With its old opponents
We know there arc men in the Democratic
party that propose TO rescue our unfortunate
state, only In their own n.eulinr 'ssv --lt"'
we are not one OF them. We desire TO see our
State taken ont Of the hands sf such men As
have been making her a burlesquc upon Re
publican governments, and using the peoples
money for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. In
ether words we want an honest and fair ad-
m!nistration Fair, not to office seekers, but
to tho tdr-poyeYs. We are not OF the number
who believe that all men who wear the badge
Of Democracy, are pure rs angels; we are not
Of the number who believe all Democrats are
sclf-denying and have no itching for office.
Neither are We OF the number of equally silly
men who think all members OF the Repub,i-
can party are rogues. 1t is true the officials
selected from that party, in the subjugated
States, have been miserable set Of scamps in
the main. Hence, no doubt arises the great
disgust Of some Republicans at the course ia
ken by Baxter,
SO. II Mr., Baxter chooses to iill most Of the
Offices with honest Republicans, it is but ap.
plying an old Democratic rule; and Ii hc
chooses to select certain Democrats for posi-
tion, II must be because he has confidence In
the integrity Of the appointee, and not be-
cause he expects political fnyors from the
Democratic party. We repeat what We for
merly said, as long as Mr.. Baxter discounte-
nances rascality and by his actions demon
strates to US, that hc intends to give us an
honest administration, we are with him. We
desire to see better state Of things in our
State, for the sake Of the people, asking for
no favors except such a will be conferred
upon all tax payers.