The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29

lile TeaucIS Ol tuc AEMoShAl must not be frightened at the above lengthy headlines, for when you have read them you will have learr- ed the worst. The Independent Laboring Mems Convention iast Sat urday was a failure. Still some good things were said and done, among others the openingladdress ol Dr. Geo. w. Darkeyi which was q fair, dissassionate and eloquent summing up of the points involved in the proposition to remove the County Seat, The Doctors remarks, as near as our reporter could catch them, were as follows:
 He said his views as an old citizen were well known as they were often expressed in private, and lie now de clarcd them publicly. The storm which damaged the Court house so as to make it unfit for use, and very ex- pensive to repair-had brought the question of the removal from Dover to Russcllyille, and they had given a bond payable to the county, when the vote was decided in favor of removal, for S2, 800 to be used in erecting a suitable building; and that bond was payable only in legal tender money and the assertion or insinuation that it would or could be paid in scrip was too absurd to notice, even though it had been so stated in the Atkins paper which was ip the interest of Atkins, and whose editor was certainly very wcak-sounding Bell, if he believed what he said. That the next week E DEMOCRAT would contain an article signed by those who gave that bond re- moving the ignorance from the Atkins editors mind. The people of the couil- ty knew these men well-nuch better than they did that edit0r---and they knew the bond would be paid in gold, silver or greenbaeks whenever it was called for to build the Court house al Rtissellville. 2t
 Would it not be better to have new Court house built at Russellyille with out one dollar of expense to the people, tban to repair the old one at Dover now unfit for holding Courts, at an expense to the county of at least two thousand dollars in scrip which would have to be paid sooner or later in greenbacks and if majority of the people wanted it. as he had no doubt they did, how much better. and more convenient to the ma joriuy of the citizens, to remove it to the railroad, where some day, if mol now, it was bound to come. And in Russellville is the largest in population and business, aud the most central in the county of any town on the railroad, it was the most eligible place offered for the Court house. Besides, Russell- vile was most conveniently located and more accessible by dirt roads than any place in the county, and he beliey- ed the people knew and appreciated these facts. It was better for the coun. ty to have one large town capable ol furnishing everything the people might want, than several small ones, and if the Court house was of any advantage and it would be of course, why not give it to the town having the largest pop nlation, the most central location, and besides the only place that offers la sin gle dollar to build a Court house. What other place had offered a dollar not one--not even Atkins where the people, or few of the leading ones, are simply working to defeat Russell vile, as he was told that they admitted. That the Atkins leaders, it appeared from the result of the primary election, had combined with certain townships in the northern part of the county, to give them the Representative, if they would give them the County Judge Hhn lA1 fD -a1 well ono side, but by some accident or the County Judge. How the combina- Seat question, we would see. s l& :.
 AS this was a matter of more or less importance to every voter in the coun- polls, and it should be remembered that every one who stayed at home counted one against removal. It took q majority of all the votes as shown by the Asses sor's books, when the vote was ordered by the County Court; and there being 2,250 or 2,260 voters, il would take about ,l30 votes to secure removal. If neither Atkins nor Rus. sellville get majority on first vote though a majority vote "for change y then the law required the County Court to order new election between tn, two places having the highest number of votes, in which last election, sim- pie majority of the votes cast was sufli- cient. If the voters would all go to the polls both propositions would carry T! the first election, and Russellville would get the County Seat. In closing he would say that the report that tht law would require the property at Do. yer to be paid for if the County Seat was removed, was an exploded idea
 that that old law was repealed in 1869 and again in 1875, and the fact was toe we'll known to deceive anybody.
 After this speech which evidently put the hard-laboring mcr present to thinking, tho meeting was organized by electins Dr. Harkcy chairman. Some ont then suggested that Secretary wat needed, and Mir. James Potts wa. called upon to act, but respectfully declined. Mir. Wood Wilson wa, then called upon to keep up the mo mentous minutes of the meeting, dolngs, but he, too, declined tht honor. Some other gentleman wal then suggested, but he mildly hintet tlnt In woe not nua nf tla tS,,,,lc,i