The Forrest City times., 1888-06-16

Languille Town Ship June the 4th 1888. Editor Times please allow me space through your columns to give vent to my feelings as Regards the county convention 1 have Ben a citi- zen of this Town Ship IA years & have always Ben withe the Democratic Party and served it with good con cienes up to the verry hour that the leaders left the true principals of De mocracy that they Did as Every think. ing man knows. I Read throug the columns of the Times of meetings wheare the Party had met Reorganized and Reformed l was not able to Be present at neither one of those meet ings But was present in the convention as a Deligat from this Town Ship Ex- pecting to see there spirit of True principals of Democracy But so far from the Broad and Liberal views of Democracy was the Spirit of that con- vention that it made me feel like there was a great Deal of that spirit there that was in the Confederate Congress about the year 1863 that passed an act to Exempt a man who owned as many as 20 Slaves from military duty. was sit down upon there By the com mitte on credentials then Elected By the convention as Delegate to the Ju- dicial convention with Due Respects to those gentlemen who voted for me in the convention will say that to Such convention can not attend If such IS Democracy of Modern Times 1 don't know what it means this is the third Time the people of this Town Ship have had their continents voted in county conventions without any consultation upon their part whatever few words in reply to the honorble ge ntleman who preached the political funeral of hon. l.. F. Featherston I would say that will be applicable to the arristocratic part of the Democratic Party when that Memorial day of No vember Shall appear and you Shall have to put on the political Badge of mourninge and gaze upon the thr0ng that Elected Mir. Featherston to con gress while that little crowd will Set in Deepe mourning you will See about ten thousand Majority for Mir. F. walk ing around with this inscription on their hats l.. P. F. M. c. it is Re- markable strange that some intelli- gent Men can not Solve a Problem when the figures are so Piaine.
 Yours Truly,
 J M. ALDHIDGE.
 I'VE publish the above verbatim. In our mind, there is no question, but the Featherston bull dozers have had a word with our friend AIdridge. They have magnified the act of the commit tee on credentials, and have, it seems, convinced him that he was "sat down upon." We were iii the convention and can testify that Mir. Aldridge re- ceived considerable more notice and honor than was due any man in his condition, As to who was the right delegate from L'Anguille, we can only take the report of the committee, and although we preferred Aldridge to Seaborn, we are willing to abide by the decision of that committee. This is an example of the creation of the inde- pendents. As we have repeatedly told you, men go into the primaries and conventions and if everything does not run exactly their way, they are Sc hot headed as to immediately cry fraud" We are inclined to believe that there is considerable ignorance and stubbornness manifested in just such position as has been taken by Aldridge. As to his assertions in re. gard to Mir. Featherst0n, we give them to the public for what they are worth -ED,1