Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-08
News That Il News.

News That - news.
We gather from a dispatch to the
Memphis Avalanche hat the glorious
Democrats victory" gained in the
election held in Helena. Arkansas, on
the 4th instant, was achieved by the
use of that favorite Southern Demo
cratic argument-the shot gun. One
negro was shot. The candidates on
the Republican ticket were subjected
to personal violence, and the eolored
voters driven from the polls. SO this
remarkable victory was won IN the
face Of a Republican majority Of 2O0O.
That IS what Arkansas Democrats
understand as allowing every man to
vote as he wishes and having his vote
counted. The shot gun and the tissue
ballot are the great Democratic mis-
sionaries in the Southern States
Cincinnati Commercial. :,
The Avalanche is the paper OF all
other dailies in the South to look to
for such reliable (?) news. The Ava
lancht has a monopoly and a patent
right on all real or imaginary facts OF
this kind that will furnish material
for Republican newspapers and cam
paign managers at the North. Scratch
a Russian and you will find a Tartar. "
1t Vsuits the purposes. and policy Of
our contemporary to give prominence
to such rumOrs as the above, and to
give the cue to papers like the Com
mercial and others still more reckless
and mendacious hat even
at this late day delight occasionally to
wave what is left of the bloody shirt.
Our genial neighbor is one Of the
worst Of Bourbons from his standpoint
and on his side. He says he does not
care a cent what Hawkins did in
times of war and reconstruction. The
logic of this is that Hawkins is all
right now and hat it is perfectly le-
gitimate to aid in the election Of such
= blackmailer by ridiculing and
abusing a gentleman like Bate and
supporting the sky blue bolter Gen.
Russell. The most reliable informa-
ton that we have seen from Philips
county is contained in the following
special to the Little Rock Gazette:
HELENA, ARK, September o.
Owing to isolated precincts upon the
Mississippi river, full returns are NOT
in; but as those will arrive by the
Dean Adams tomorrow, a complete
report may be made for next issue.
There was never such work done by
Democrats before, and never did the
Radicals draw the line Of hate and
color more closely; but the right pre-.
vailed in spite Of them. AS an evi.
dence Of the programme which wal
thoroughly carried out, Captain j. A
Bush cultivates 1000 acres in Sprini
Greek and Big Creek townships. B.
working INCREASINGLY he united capita
and labor at the ballot-box and showe'
what was shown, hat these can STAN
together in eastern Arkansaw. Berr
and the whole State ticket, Judicial
county and township ticket received
Democratic majority Of at least l55(
This no doubt explains the result {
the election in that county. TIL
colored people are not all bite
Republicans, and in local and Stat
elections often vote with those VIII
employ them. There may have bee
a disturbance and a man killed
In times Of popular excitement acts {
violence, for which no party or part
doctrine can be held responsible, ar
liable to occRr. Such troubles are t
be deprecated and guarded against i
Arkansaw as well as in Californis
Ohio, Maine or any other State. Their
is one thing evident as regards thi
particular matter, the man who sen
the dispatch alluded to by the Cincin
natl Commercial, knew where t
send it.