The Russellville Democrat., 1878-06-20

witkcnt exhibiting | selfshness and want ef petrioEism whlchsw0uM have bssn dispieAblef Ifhe sees proper b wnis nntil othsr aspirants to Gu bernatoFial honors have canyassed almost the entire State and secured instructions from maiy counties i! is his own business and 1t does no one any injustice. uNLEss IT n Al fxJUs- xscx TO nlnsELF. He is net . p0liti- elan and has no public record which either Of the other aspirants could have desired to review. We are cer- tain that there is not single private act of his whole life that either of his opponents could have cited as . dis. paragcment to his worth and merits as . man and a future chief exec ntive of Arkansas. lf he has ever made nse sf anything which has been developed in the canvass thus far concerning either of the other aspi- rants, to forward his own chances, we have not heard of it. If be has ut- tered or written . word or syllable in the way of electionecring for him self, we have not heard of 1t. In deed his inactivity has been source of no little annoyance to his friends.
 The second point taken by the Ga sette is very silly and far-fetched. We would not understand that Col. Embry claims ita qualification" or . personal merit recommending him to the support of the people" that he ls NOT a Johnson man. If Col. Embry had been politician he would not have been thus frank and candid in regard to the Senatorial question. We think it very silly in the Gazette to accuse him of seeking to make himself popular by openly expressing himself as opposed to the selection ofas popular maa as Hon. Bob Johnson, for U. s. Senator. It IS absurd to allege that Col. Embry is guilty of tricks of demagoguery" in making this frank statement of his views on the Senatorial question. It is anything but demagoguery, for if he had wanted to act the dem agogue he would have simply kept dark on this question until he could have seen how the popular breeze was going to blow and then he could have hoated with the current. How 1t could be construed into an attempt to pull down Col. Johnson for man to simply express himself as not being . Johnson man is a mystery to us. If Col. Embfy had have made any attack upon Col. J. the case would have been differ ent; but thls he has not done. He has simply stated, evidently in reply to the question, that he is not a Johnson man. If that is crime the Gazette should have pointed out the law making it so, a long time ago.
 The Gaxetts's third remarkable thing" is the weakest point ot all. Col. Embry's letter was not written to republican paper, and was evi- dently not written for publication at all. It is addressed to friend and was evidently intended as private, friendly letter. We doubt if Col. E. ever dreamed of it getting into print at all, much less through a Republi- can paper. The friend to whom it was written, we suspect, had it pub lished on his own responsibility, not stopping to reflect that some vindic- tive enemy might take advantage of it to impugn Col. Els democracy, forsoothe, because letter over his signature appeared in . Republican paper. It is too thin to attempt to bring Col. Embry's democracy into question. There IS not a truer dem- ocrat in the State.
 Hurrah for Col. Ben. T. Embry, for our next Governor!
 Valuation of Real Estate.