The Russellville Democrat., 1886-06-30

we please, every buc WothtuS tWt sA~
 good es e..ss se..ss whole people, seltishness
 and trickery has no abiding place in our community, the best and most capable men for office Is our motto.
 May the true principles of Jeffersos
 nian Democracy prevail is the wish of every vc.as in this township Success to the DEMOCRAT.
 IN. CAeLE. Correspondence of the Democrat.
 DovER, June 2S. The following pairs were allowed the privilege Of pairing off: Mr. A. T. Embry and Miss Jessle Gabel, Mr. w. H. Beck | ett and Miss E. J. Maddnx. Miss Nepp,e Rollow, to the delight of her many friends, has returned from 2 1.-two months visit to Clinton. She was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. | Dr. Thornbrough of Clinton Mir. Dale of Little Rock Democrat IS rus ticating with his friend MT. John NJ. White. They arc stopping at Hotel dc KirchoH ~. Some gentleman of Ozark, writing to friend here told
 him to whisper in Aunt Wash's ear
 that BourIand lest Franklin county
 in the prosecuting attorney contest.
 There is no use to whisper what ev
 erybody has been bawline out; there
 is no secret about it, lie "vcry'' lost
 that county. Some of Bourland's
 friends had better read up on Blaine's campaign of 1884, and they will
 learn too late that, few men can write entertaining letters. Virgil is "bust
 ed'' for this race, but "not crushed"
 He'll come again Your Aunt
 Wash heard some wretched puns while at the picnic at RusselIville
 last week, and was reminded of the teaching of hls grandmother years ago. She said, .the man who SiIl
 pun you will plck your pockets" and,
 like all the rest of her teachings that
 I now remember, she was eminently correct in impressing that truth up
 on my mind as an undeniable one.
 ... I am always ready to acknowl-
 edge that, whatever subject I may
 attempt to discuss through the col
 umns of newspapers, my writing, in
 itself, is not invulnerable to criticism;
 and when criticised upon my course
 or ideas, my first thought IS, not to
 attempt to vindicate myself, but to
 ascertain as clearly as my own self
 interest will admit, whether the same
 are justly susceptible of criticism.
 Every thinker and every writer who
 possesses any individuality as such,
 is more or less selfish in the rendi
 tion of his own thoughts; and when
 the object sought to be attained is
 laudable one; and when the rropa
 gation of ideas is conducive to the
 interest and welfare Of the public, Tn general, 1t is unjust and ungenerons
 for people who do not possess pene-
 tration and intelligence enough to comprehend the force of common
 language to make unkind remarks of us. l shall endcavor to profit by
 some late experience on this sub ject, and 1 shall hold for nanght the attempted criticism of man who does not possess sufficient intelli
 gence to enable him to comprehend
 the story of the spelling book noto
 riety, the boys and the frogs, and that every pig headed misantLrope, whose diseased imagination deceives
 him into the belief that he knows something, IS not worth a moments consideration. ...I have been re
 quested by several men of promi- ncnce from his section of country to answer the peroration of "A. J. w." which appeared Tn your paper of June 18th, but I fail to see tue ne cessity Of doing so. If that writer was democrat he could not be) he should in the future make himself conspicuous by his silence; if q re publican, he should write some more, thereby showing to those democrats who are aiiihating with the Wheel that the long dormant feeling of apostate persecution that during eight long and bloody years of rad cal misrule and supremacy was the hard portion of the honest people of this country-is still abroad in the land. Is it possible that any dcmc- crat who read that efIusion, can a. low himself to be led by that party whose only boast is, that they rob bed and plundered the people of Pope county with impunity. know ing that they were secure from the punishment of law; that they mur- dered in cold blood some of our very best citizens in order that democrats might be led to believe that the only patriotic party was the republican party, and that by using such be nign and unseliish arguments as these enumerated, VIC should be taught that, though the war had ac