The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-22
NkfLY TO 11is. BOwDEN.

0ek1 AS A M MASs OO " A<A<&Ns
 In another column will be found a letter from MT. J. J. Bowden which requires . slight notice at our hands. With the very kiadest feelings for the writer of that letter we will say that at the very outset of his letter he shows that he is so badly preju. diced against this paper that he cannot display any "fair play" at all It is an easy matter to charge this place with having a "ring" and to stigmatize this paper as it's organ, but to substantiate these allegations Is not so easy. We answered this ring" talk last week and consider such talk too transparent to require further notice.
 The next fling made by Mir. Bow, den is that we have denomlnated the northern part of this county . minority" Everybody knows that IT IS A MINORITY, an9 ~e see nc offense in calling ;t ty that name certainly we intesd no ofYense. We respect the rights of minorities If much as any man, but we are just simply democratic enough to believe that MrNoRrrrEs should always yield to MAJoRIrTEs. It is new principle of political ethics which gives MINOR TIES rights which outweigh the rights of MAJoRITiEs. "The DEMO. GRAF claims to be county paper" says Mir. B. We are proud to say that we do, and we defy any man who has been a reader of this paper to point to q single article which has ever appeared in these columns that was not prompted by sincere desire for the genera: welfare and prosper ity of the WHOLE county, and which did not tend to benefit our people as a whole. We desire to bulldoze no one, to mislead no one, to misrepre. sent no one. In the matter of the County Seat question WE are cm- phatically on the peoples side. You are advocating that side of the ques ton which is bound to entail tax on every man in the county. This proposition we defy any man to at tempt to refute. We ask how it can bankrupt She county" as Mir. Bow den asserts to move the County Seat to Russellville? Russellville has made the offer to donate enough to build 8 good house, and we fail to see where the county will suffer in accepting the offer.
 The charge thst the DEMOCRAT has shown a preference for those candidates who are in favor of Rus sellville is gratuitous and not justi- fable by the facts in the case.
 We do not understand what MT. Bowden means by unreliable prcpo- sitions." Surely he does not wish to place himself in the attitude of saying that such men as R. J. Will son, J. M. Harkey, M. B. Roye, G. W. Harkey, J. L, Shinn, G. E. How ell, $. A. Buck, H. F. White and J. T. Fowler are unreliable. These arc the gentlemen who have bound in a bond for $s5OO in case of 6 removal to Russellville.
 If the editor of this paper and other gentlemen who are in favor of . change of the County Seat are not identified with the people of this county we should like to know who is. We have been here . great DOT
  tion of our lives and expect to re- main here. The men who are work. ing with us in this move are all old citizens and large taxpayers and are . . great deal more interested in keeping down taxes than is Mir. BOwden. If taxes 20 up it hurts their pocket books worse than any body else.
 In conclusion let us all be reason able about this matter, and not look at it from . sectional and-point, but let us look to the good of the whole. It matters not if it should help Russellville along a little to get the County Seat; the whole county will be benefited and why should anybody cut up about it.
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