Nevada County picayune., 1886-08-18
WHICH HAS LiGD?"


 glance at the editorial page of the Arkansas Dispatch will reveal t@'a suggestive quevfjan:-''Nhjeh Is lying the Journal or tno Nevada county preacher and his bojH guard of lawyerS?' 1 say, q sn@ gestive question, because there Is a suggestion of talsehood existing some where; and upon the pant oI the reader, curiosity is excited as to whom the culpaOle party may be.
 Grant that the .lic is out,' and in our first step of investigation, we propose making the Dispatch suspected party.
 The preacher and his political couferes have stated that the EK- ecuti1e. the Legislative, end the Judiciary of the United States, are in the language of Joe Brooks, "reasonably honest, that k, as honest as men eycr become. and far above the groSSer Sordidhesa or contemp,ahle liUlcueSS which might be bought with money, daz- zlcd with h0norS. or scduced with the hlttery ofrailrond compliments and nothing to tue contrary has the Dispatch ever proven except by authority dy p9'pnb'e ignorant off,icty as is itself iinpudeot in ac cusation.
 Bat. comes the Dispatch, and says that the Comrier-joarnal makes the charge of corruption against Senator Beck. aud thcrehN creates an issue, wherein either the preacher or t&c JomatlHvc2-- sarily lied. Had thejournal made such charges, such coHclu-ious as those arrived al by the Dispatch would have hp"n reasonable. But the Courirr.Jourmal never made i those charges ana even the Wa-h- ington correspondent to that pa per fails to charge oI intimate that Mr. Bcrk'S position is not the re snlt of an honest conviction. While both the Journal and tie Nevada county Democrats regret the opinions which Mir. Beck ra gently maintained, ticy neither differ in tajcr regard for lls alin. pcachablc intcgritv.or in their .t3tc- mcnt ia regard to the mfoltauat. attitude ia which he has laeci himSctt.
 Then, since We have granted that "the lie is out,' and since we have shown that between the lrst accused par!je3 'hcr" |, no contra, dirtory statement. The lie belong, not to them--so we recall our 'neN parties" ani repeat the question: "Which l.cdY'
 But no. the Dispatch may re. serve its confession uuHl if rN- haustS is evidence. ThA time has come when it mast prove its librl ons charges, or accept the m"r' cd contempt which rrspcctA5Dlit} feels for the foul nOUthcd tradHrrr. Prove that the Executive iS hoagAt, prove that the Legislatures ara bought, prove that tho Judiciary l. hought No; you t7n prov" uota ing by q blind preacher. who, of all men, has least opportunity tu know, lon can not prove that ooa man i7 bought. because another said that he desired to bay him You can not prove fact by the opinion 0ta stranger, whose aeage of knowing was no better than your own. Adopt this kind Of cy- jdnnce --should YOn desire to prove the questionable vrracitv and more questionable integrity of a representative, show that he promised his constituents to vote for Railroad taYaton and for ro dncto1 of official salary, anI thIt when he entered the legislature ho voted just "tothrr wa}". WheD you desire 10 prove representa- tive corrupt, merceuarv and u1- priuciplcd, show how h. received money under false pretrncc> by collecting mileage from his cous,it. uehts, when hn was not "09l' oac nieklp of tarc, Ina ing received a complimentary ticket from the railroad. IfyOu desire tp pproln that that candidate is utterly dopgavcl. show how he deserted the pe0pA" in their hour Oi need and aSsiSte invading baudtti rob and OpprcsS them; betrayed his ucjchbprs aud friends into their hands. rareiug only that Inc himself might float in infamous ease to a brief political notericty. and gather a pittirul, mercincry profit. But all these facts must be shown by living wit. nesSes or by authoritative public records as have been used bv thr Democrats to suhstancintc like charges against the Grrenback candidates. Let the Dispatch prove some of its many charges against Democracy, CT let it con tradict by credible evidence the changes which Democracy brings against it's party. We deny that it has ever proven by respectable evidence one charge that 1t has moI0 We cbu lnno-n fl tn th, ,,