Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-11
An Outraged Reporter.

An OutFhkcu NepOrtcfs
The reports furnished to order to
the st, Louis Globe Democrat from
Helena have been subjected by the
Post. Dispatch to a little analysis, with
the following result:
The Globe. Democrats Arkansaw
outrage mill is turning out a very
poor mouldy grist this time. The dis
patches from various points through
out the State report a quiet election
with Republican gains, or fusion
gains, as compared with the Rep lbli-
can vote of former years in a great
many counties. Republican fusion
tickets have carried some counties
that were formerly Democratic by
500 majority. From Helena only
does our contemporary get its
sensational stories. That is notori-
ously the locality Of a chronic fusion
fight among the Republicans. Their
majority was so large that they could
not keep peace in their own poor
household, and all accounts of their
proceedings with reference to the
Helena election smack strongly of a
prearranged plan to cover their inabil-
ity to unite on a local ticket by claim
ing a "foul," and to fuse their party
discussions in bulldozing excitement,
il possible, for future effect. Thither
a Globe Democrat correspondent was
sent to work up the cut and dried
materials, and he has evidently worked
hard, but With poor results. He does
not make out as bad a case against the
Helena Democrats in an election as
Globe Democrat reporters usually
make out against Filley Republicans in
a st. Louis primary. He says that
drunken town loaiers accused him of
being there on purpose to misrepresent
the facts and SANDER the people;
that they asked him to give them a
list Of the local witnesses from whom
be got his information and by whom
he expected to prove the stories he
was sending; that they told him he had
better skip, but that the city marshal
and militia officers waited on him, and
with other Democrats begged him not
to be alarmed at what the loaiers said,
aud not to judge the community BY
their conduct. Such commonplace
incidents as this compose the entire
burden of the letters be has SEM to
Helena to telegraph to the Globe
Democrat, aud the fact that he went
to Friars Point for a nights lodging,
rather than sleep in Helena after this
alarming demonstration, seems to
make out the worst case Of bulldozing
he was able to catch on to-" The
Globe Democrats readers must see in
this correspondence that every trace
of color has faded out Of the famous
BLOODY shirt"
According to the CD. reporters
own account he did not possess v
the quantity Of courage that oozed out
at Bob Acres finger ends. He was
just shrewd enough to remember
having been instructed TO find out
RACES and to telegraph the meaningless
vaporings Of two or three wild young
men as indicating public sentiment,
while ignoring the ASSURANCES Of the
leading men Of Helena, who sought to
quiet lis absurd fears by promising a
protection they could furnish, but
which he needed no more there than
in st. Louis. Upon his return TO
Little Rock the startled reporter fell
into the hands Of a waggish Republi-
can, who. observing that be beloneed
TO the timid variety, begged him
10 lower the tones Of his
voice, lest members Of the Phil
lips county oath bound gang, -
who might be in hearing, should
murder him in his little bed. His
voice at once subsidized into a whisper,
which died away when informed By
the same party that he could not con
slider himself wholly safe until the
train reached Walnut Ridge. He left
on the next train, and is now doubtless
writing a complete history Of his
thrilling adventures among the Arkan-
saw bsrbarians and rebels"
In time the CD will learn that il
has been lending its columns and in
iuence 10 the schemes Of a few shreWd
Republicans in search OF an organ
ready 10 furnish such music as they
desire ground out.
Their schemes will fail; and the G.
d will learn that it has been used as a
tool for little purpose.-[Little Rock
Gazette, 10.