The Russellville Democrat., 1885-12-03
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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1885.
Nor satisfied with the issue of the

Nor satisfied with the issue of the last little bout with this paper, the Dardanelle Post noses around in the rubbish to hunt up bone more to his liking or rather one which he thinks he can use to better purpose before his people. It was such a plain case of cowardly backing out of the position he had voluntarily taken in regard to large portion of his people on the question of peti tioning liquor out of his town that he felt hls ignominious retreat and conduct ought 70 be covered up to do it but to provoke another quar- rel with this paper upon another ground, as much as to say, like the boy, if l can't throw you "ingin hug I'll try you brooches hold" We'll the Post is an awful wrestler, that is to say, it can wrestle heap whether it does anything at execution or not. We see one thing clearly, and that IS, the Post is mad, and is seeking a way to vent it's usual stock of spleen. It carries that kind of material, ,as one would suppose from it's readiness to jump head over heels into the dirti- est sort of insinuation and use it as though he expected people to consid- CT 1t fair matter or truthful dealing. We talk this way, truly sorry that it should be necessary to do so, in or der to rightfully allude to the un- manly attempt of the Post to cast dart against the editor of this paper, which he had poisoned before the sending. We may be allowed to say that since we saw him capable of using slander against the people of his own town, we need not and are rot surprised at any sort of demon stratlons against us which he is ca. pablo of. We happened to allude to Dardanelle's strait in her liability to be cut off from her harbor by an ac- cumulatlng sand bar next to town, or in the event of the current of the river being turned back towards town in order to cut away the bar, the probability of cutting the bank away also and endangering the town in that way, in which we saw the conditions to puzzle the wit of the wisest to know exactly what to do and how to proceed, and for this, for sooth, the Post humps it's back and puts on it's warlike tones, creeps down close in the dirt to insinuate that this editor IS somebodics tool. The Post seeks to take advantage of 8 prejudice against the ferry and it's owner to point dart poisoned in the dirtiest sort of insinuation to carry point against the DEMOCRAT. This is fact, and yet, the man who did this actually talks as tho he had morals on the subject of journalism. The people on that side of the river, and this, know too well our attitude in this matter for dart of thls sort to penetrate, and our neighbor had as we'll settle down to the fact that the DEMOCRAT Tn the consciousness of it's convictions and straightfor- ward independence, will continue to deliver it's mind according to it's good will and pleasure, the Post to the contrary notwithstanding. And now we only wish to add, so far as any appropriation is concerned for Dardanelle, the DEMOCRAT would be only too well pleased to see it come 60 near home to build up and inn prove Q community so near us. We know what helps Dardanclle, helps the country, and in helping the coun- try Russellville will be helped. We say this for the ear of Dardanelle's good people, and we know they will believe it. If the Post wishes to pervert it and get down as low as he did before, we know of no law to prevent it. The law of good raising might have done it in his youth, but whether it will now or not remains to be seen.