The Forrest City times., 1888-07-28

can persuade by the arousing of preju- dices, to fall in with you. You are found in the secret meeting of what was instituted for the benefit of the farmers--the wheel, corruptlng it's in- iiuences, making null and void it's ob- Jects, arousing prejudice against men living in town, making enemies of friends, and you have your henchmen and sentinels, and they denounce every one who opposes your selflshness, as bosses, political tricksters, etc. They are seeking, aided by you, to cripple the influence of the press by misrepreseDt- ing 1t. You are electioneering for Dr. c. M. Norwood, the republican candidate for governor of Arkansas, against Hon. J. r. Eagle, democrat, and man against whose character there stands not a blot, an able man. You are found in all the laboring news organi- zations trying to convert them into po- litical machines for your own advance ment. You have made plain the fact that you want the offices, regardless of any party principles. You are offering to the people. a fusion ticket with the blacks, thereby hoping to increase the number of ballots which will be cast for you office seekers. You know this is a step against good government. We would like to ask you in this con. nection, are you going to vote that fu- sion tiket !? We want an answer, we want to see you vote it, we don't be- lieve you will do it. Your stomachs are not strong enough. You are run hing a newspaper in this county, which is arraying labor against capital, there- by injuring labor. You want office, but you are afraid your party don't ap- preciate your past enemies enough to re-elect or promote you. You are afraid to trust your friends. The con- sequence Is, you will not have any friends, politically, after the election. If you are elected what can you claim, simply that you have the office by vir- tue of a colored vote, nothing more, and that you have defeated the party that has honored you.
 The following from this remarkable letter is worth repeating:
 "We have never asked anything of a system which acknowledges fraud as an essential component; therefore we owe it no gratitude.
 The translation of the above, as we take it, is as follows: system means the democratic party. They accuse it of acknowledging fraud as an essential component, which is false, and then have the gall to to say they owe it no gratitude. They must admit that the democratic party elected them to the offices, bat they owe it no gratitude
 This is adding insult to injury. The lower animals have more respect for those who feed them than this, yet they askIto be reelected by the dissatis- fled elements, and according to prece- dent, should these elements elect them, two years from now they will be full hedged republicans, and the same charge of gratitude will be brought mp against them by these elements, and these office seekers will say, you are a set of thieves and ballot box suffers, and We don't owe you any gratitude. Why my readers, we can't find words to tell you tow unprincipled, ungrate- full, thankless, and inconsistent, such a course seems to us, and is. We could not take a comse of that kind, not for the presidency, we would consider that chad lost our manhood and our claim upon our fellow man for recognition. Did we stand in such position, we would feel that we had forfeited the good opinion of our friends. We would be ashamed to look them in the face. We couldn't do it. We believe these men are are in the wrong. We ask the people to study and weigh the ques- tion in cool even frame of mind, and vote against the courthouse ring.
 In conclusion, we wish to call your attention to one thing. These men make speeches and talk privately every day to the people in the country or in town, and behind our backs charge us with being connected with every kind of fraud, trickery, and corruption. They don't stop at anything, scarcely, that is mean, to say about us, and they don't say it where we can have an op- portunity of answering it. Yet they talk to you in their newspaper articles about "vituperation," ''contemptuous manner etc. This is all bosh. Vote the straight ticket and have clear conscience.