National Republican., 1882-07-15
TIC Political ontlooIs i'm ArIsansas.

ciates when it refuses to adopt the black
flag with "rule or ruin" inscribed upon it.
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The Political Outlook in Arkansas.
From the proceedings of the recent
State conventions ofGreenbackers, Dem
ocrats, and Republicans, and from other
sources of information, we gather that
while there is considerable dissatisfaction
i'll the ranks of the Democracy, split
has been carefully avoided on the debt
question by the adoption of go-as-you-
please resolution on that subject, declaring
itno test ofany mans Democracy whether
he favors the proposed reputation
amendment to the constitution, as the
great majority of the Democrats of that
State do, or whether, like the senior
United States Senator from that State
and very respectable minority of the
party, he may oppose the amendment.
The leading Democratic organ at the
State capital, the Gazette, is now con-
trolled in the interest of those opposed
to the amendment, and this paper, while
supporting the State ticket, spits con-
temptuously upon the platform, and has
declared that it would not have sup
ported the amendment even if the State
convention had so commanded.
The Gazette approves the resolution of
the Republican convention upon the
debt question, emphatically repudiating
Reputation; agrees that "a free ballot
and fair count" is necessary to the per-
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mits that the Democracy have been justly
chargeable with outrages on the ballot
box" in some instances, but claims they
have not been countenanced or sup
ported by their party, and gives a fair
summary of the admitted high character
of each of the Republican nominees.
The Greenbackers of Arkansas left
three vacancies on their State ticket, and
one of their nominees has declined. The
Republicans made no nomination for
Congress-at-large, which we regard as the
course of wisdom, and the nominee for
State auditor, Captain McClntock, has
declined. This leaves possible opening
for coalition of all the Liberal De mo-
Gratis who are opposed to frauds on the
ballot-box, and who repudiate repudia-
tion, the Greenbackers, who have already
been organized and arrayed at the polls
in opposition to the Democracy in sew
eral State contests, with the Republicans
who now the first time since 1876 enter
the field with State ticket. In such Il
combination we should join with our
most hearty sympathies, and trust that
the Greenback leader in the State, Hon.
Rufus X. Garland, would follow his pa
triotic impulses into the campaign with
vigor which would crown him as the
Malone of Arkansas with deserved
success, and with a position where his
acknowledged talent and ability would
be useful to the people of his State.
The Republicans will secure in such a
combination certain fruits of victory,
which would bring Arkansas once more
into harmony with the National Admin
istration, and secure the defeat of the
proposed amendment to repudiate a
llarge portion of the State debt. The Re-
publican convention appointed a State
Central Committee, composed largely of
young, energetic, but well-known Repub-
lican workers, among whom we notice ex-
Senator Clayton and his brother, who is
now sheriff Of Jefferson County; United
States Marshal Torrans, who has been Sc
lected as chairman ofthe committee j. A.
Barnes, of Union, and c. M. Barnes, of Sc
bastian, brothers of Major Lucien j.
Barnes, of the Treasury Department SER
vice. Six members of the State Central
Committee were delegates to the Chicago
convention, and their solidity on that
occasion is guaranty of future success
in the political campaigns of Arkansas.
We shall keep our readers posted upon
the progress Of the present contest in
Arkansas. The State election takes
place on Monday, September 4 next, the
election for Congressman in November.