Nevada County picayune., 1886-06-23
"By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know
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PRESCOTT, ARK.
 June 19, 1886. ]

Editor PICAYUNE;-AmOng the amusing paragraphs winch l noted ill the last issue of the Dispatch, was one signed by an "E. K. Light foot.n It was a kind of letter con taining little harmless malice, struggle nt wit, a school boy eag- erness (and a sentence which mai cated that little school-boy expe- rience would be beneficiaD and a tingling anticipation of the result of that glorious Wheel convention. All these clements were comblned to form a series of silly assertions and sillier questions, which, with your permission, l will lightly treat.
 Tine 9th of June has come and gone, and that conqnering hero that your fevered imagination, my dear "E. K" conjured into exist ence hasn't materialized; the stannch hub ahout which the wheel was to roll to victory-in fact, the wheel itself has "kind O petered outn since then, and the 1 fact seems to Do that nobody seems half so desirous for the nom nation for governor of Arkansas on the Wheel ticket, as you, my dear boy, were for the Democratic nomination in 1878 when you ran and received only fifty votes Tn all -don't you remember? After that experience and defeat, believe nc, would never accuse you of being either an "aspirant" or sufficiently talented for a "demagogns,' snd l ars satisfied that after that dnsk- ing in the "plscid waters of Salt River" very little "politica' dirt' vss left about about you-or any tking else.
 Yes, you kit one truth, quoted however, which looms up rare in your communication like an oyster lin plate of festival soup. You SAY, "A tree is known by its frnit'' Democracy has borne this fruit, i,e: :,
 Daring the la.t ten years It has commanded the respect and .sd enforcement of from 2S, lSl to Ss, .3O majority of the rlear-hsaded industrious people of Ark~nsah oat of the total voters pollcd Of from S0,72l to l56,3l0.
 . Its liberality has condacsd to the increase of population from 4S4,411 to S02, ,602, drawn thltker by the advantages of wise admin istrations.
 The rate of taxation from lS13-4 to 1882 and 1886 has been reduced from l2.5 m. to 4m.
 The State debt in 1874, ameant- iug to ST, ,302,67T hs. been rcdnc- ed to s6, lOS, GOO.
 The railroads which in 1874 paid no tax, iu 1886 pay $l3,62l ,oW. Public economy has reducsd the expenses of State government that in 1868 and '74 amounted to sS,' 5332 232 for the years 1880 to lSS6 amount to s1, ,34O,OOO,
 The Democratic party has borne other fruit than idle platforms glowing with shallow sentiment and mock patriotism.
 Now, K. k." tell us what has the Greenback party d"ns' Speak out, my boy. It did it's best to turn it's balance of power to the remaining carpet-baggers, from whom the Democratic party res cued this State ia "A, and tried to elect to Congress, one from Pine Bluff of that old regime. It nomi' nated Bsnj, F. Butler, a monOpo- list, capitalist and ex-carpet'bagger for the Presidency.
 It writes beautiful literature which it call. 'platform,' y pilfsr. ing old Democratic principles, and uses it as Mephistophles does his cloak. to hide the Republican, SO cialistic or selfish tail which .indi- catcs it's nature. And that tail has become visible at every fusion 1t has m adc-at every convention it has held, and in every nomination it has made.
 By thy fluits yc shall know them.' Answered correctly. Now tell us what tract (rheels don't bear fruit has the Wheel madef
 The Wheel platform says, "We demand that National banks be abolished" and then that wheel convention ten,lersd the nolniha- ton for Governor to a president Of a National Bank, trying to throw the chief cxecsti,e oi'ice into the hands of "oac of those spiders" which they profsss by words to be attempting to destroy.
 The wheel professes to be work ing to alleviate the distress of the l,6oring class, when it is well aware that it is utterly powerlsss, and that its only rssult Must be the weakening of the Democratic party, which alone will or eaa give succor.
 Correctly answered aSain-go up ahead.
 Now, my bcreaved "E. K" ac, ~ept my condolence for the loss "t that "comng champion" that was to have riseA on June the 9th. The Democratic party, Ike the .'Old ship of Zion" has weathered many storm, and will pull you
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