The Van Buren press., 1873-06-24
NO. 8
worst, aud will have it placed ia water.
tight bags, which may serve IS life pre-
servers also.
Arkansas

| IL is not often that men who are accused
of foisting a defeated candidate upon
state as its governor in fact turn right
around and mako their own frauds the
pretext for setting him aside, and de.
volving his authority upon a lieutenant.
governor who was equally indebted for
his position to the same frauds. And
yet that is what the conspiracy Of Chief
Justice Mcclure and Attorney General
Yonley sought &c. accomplish. Mcclure
and other leading R.dicals we're inter
e:ted Ia big railroad ssesl--a bill to re-
Iieve the railroads Of a state lien for o5,-
900 600 advanced to them Gov. Ban.
ter preferred the lien to the wStered
stock offered in exchange, and his indu-
ence defeated the bill. He also mortally
offended the same clique by some OF his
appointments, and in the matter OF leas-
ing the penitentiary. The chief justice.
as editor Of the partys state organ,ope
ed violently on Baxter, denounced him a.
traitor, and dismissed him as one who
had gone over to the enemy In Arkar-
sas this was equivalent to decree or
outlawry issned by the highest judicial
authority, and it was supposed that II
needed only to be supplemented by lit
tie legerdeman, Ia Durell, 10 secure
/ federal interference and have Baxter
crushed out as Warmoth and McEnery
were in an adjoining state. BY entertair.
ing Jurisdiction ofthe Baxter Brooks con
test the supreme court could enloin Bax
ter, defer its decision indefinitely, and
thus transfer his authority to more do
cie hands The chief justice never
doubted his ability to manipulate so par.
tisan beneh Of justices as constituted
his court Three ont Of fvs we're carpet
baggers, three out Of five had been ap
pointed by Clayton, and the other two
! been elected on the same ticket and by
the same clerical dexterity to which
Baxters cect'o was attributed. This
court wa. so certain never to decide
against governor who remained "Ioyal"
that the chief justice felt equally certain
it would decide always against the ofh
cial status ofa governor who had become
4" disloyal.
The plot was an excellent plot but 1t
was prematurely exposed. By the time
| the quo warranto came up In court the
governor had enlisted the whole Demo
cratic press in his support, had reorgan
lied the militia, and was in position to
crush insipent revolution at a moments
warning Meantime, too, the menacing
tone of public sentiment had reached the
ears OF Senators Clayton and Dorsey In
the far East, and at the last moment they
plot which, until then. they had affected
! to consider mere canard On the whole
the augures were so very untavorabie,
that Chief Justice Mcclure alone OF oil
the Judges had the nerve to claim the ju
risdict0n contentled for by Attorney
General Yonley 1t was q tremendous
defeat for the chief justice. Ii has left
h m exposed to the sharp eensurfs o'
his party organs everywhere out OF the
state; il has stripped him of prestige with
his own party at homo; it has left him
to bear almost the whole disgrace OF
crushed conspiracy when circumstances
raise the suspicion that sharper men bare
ly slipped out Of it in time to leave hlnI
with the bag to hold About the time
when Baxter first began to get rumors e'
what was in contemplation. there WAS
singular hegira of Radical officials aud
ex.olIicials from Little Rock. They
scattered in great many directions but
few days before the quo warranto was
Nrought up in court, Clayton and ex.Goy.
Hadley were inter view in New York ana
gave the most positive assurance that tho
alleged quo warrsnto movement was
mere conservative scare gotten up to es-
TRANCE Gov Baxter from his Radical
friends and to throw him into the en-
braces Of the other side. 1t was only
3 hol ha0pu tts
work and had been denounced by Repub-
lican papers all over the United States.
that the Arkansas senator's en- the last
dav Of the argument telegraphed their
adhesion to Baxter.
| And now, cut off from the spoiis, h's
slate broken, his authority as party or
psnist and his character OF chief justice
! both gone, it is said tha, Mcclure medi-
! tates the most desperate sort OF nank
movemen. in the politics OF Arkansas-a
| thorough union of the anti Baxter kadi.
! calls with the soreheaa Democrats and
| such Liberals as can be led by Brooks
aud Rice The programme is said to IN
clude the assemblage or rival state gov
srnment with Brooks al It's head, and an
appcal to the president to decide con
|
have di.claimed jurisdiction, aud which
the legislature has refused to enter
tain. The president has acted in Louis
! lana 80 ne TO encourage such movements
in other states, but he has no brother'in-
! law and no prosperous snd influential Gus
tom house ring TO betray him into this
Arkansas scrape. Then, too, the state
pants for peace. and Baxter has develop
ed disposition which wins him the sup
por, OF three four,hs Of the people lhey
are enfranchised now, and looking nope
! full, to the future rather than dwelling
on the wrongs Of the past Under these
circumstances the president is not gong
to burn his fingers for other peoples
kinsrolks, and Mcclure and BROOKS can
do nothing by themselves. They had
better subside. ST, Louis RsPuH'cdn'
Ss- Busy not thyself in searching IN
TO other mems lives; the errors OF thinc
ewn are more than thou canst answer