The Osceola times., 1888-10-06

State.
Ex-senator Camden, Of West
Virginis, says his state can be coun.
ted upon to give the usual Democrat.
ic majority.
GOVERNOR HUaHRs' RRPLY TO
CARL LEE's LETTER.
Little Rock, Sept. 22, lS88.--To
the Press: In your issue Of the 18th
inst. appears y letter from r. 3.
Carl Lee, in reference to the recent
state election in Arkansas, in which
he says: If the people of the United
States only knew half how we have
been treated, congress would wipe
out the fraudulent state government
in Arksnsas and grant Us = repubh.
oan form Of government - guaran.
teed by the federal constitution
This 70 an assumption that the state
government Of Arkansas il not true
in point of fact. The assumption
that congress has power to wipe out
the state government Of Arkansas,
is founded in ignorance OF the struct.
ure and powers of the government.
Carl Lee seems ambitious to be.
come notorious ~ an untruthful and
unscrupulOus defamer and enemy Of
tho state Of Arkansas, of which he
is . citizen. In his letter are state.
Inents / know to be false and without
the semblance Of truth. They are
as follows: 'ln Union county Gov.
Hughea armed the democratic clubs
with the state Winchssters on the
night before the election Sunday
-
'In Miller county the democratic
clubs were armed by Gov. Hughes
with the states arms No demo.
cratic clubs were armed by the gov.
srnor anywhere and no arms were
sent to either Union or Miller coun.
ty. Carl Ice says: They (mean-
ing the democratic clubs Of Union
county, passed over the county and
whipped over 20 colored men, some
Of them 10 badly that they had to
keep their beds.' On Monday they
shot and killed Z white union. labor
men and wounded 70 more, and ..
Eldorsdo, the county seat, they took
the poll pooks away from the judges
and burned them before the eyes Of
the people, and then held new
election, At which no upion.labor
man was permitted to vote ! have
been informed that there we're no
such occurrences in Union county,
and that no man WAS prevented from
voting at the election; and have
the assurance Of good, upright, hon
orable citizens that these things did
not occur; that one man only was
killed in Union county on the day
of the election, and that he WAS &C.
cidentally killed.
d. ID. Leach, . prominent rerubli.
can, is the captain of the militia com.
psny in Woodruff county. The
statements in this letter Of Carl Lees,
IN regard to Arkansas, Lee, Missis.
sippi, st. Francis, Jackson Howard,
Lincoln, Lafayette, Little River,
Monroe and Saline counties l believe
to be false.
Carl Lee says: "A delegation of
wheelers% = y waited on Gov.
Hughes, giving him the facts lin re.
lation to frauds in Crittendcn coun.
ty), but he refused to take any act.
ion in the natter After the cleo.
ton two mon presented . written
statement to me charging frauds in
the election in Crittenden county,
by which one Of them claimed, be
had been beaten out Of an Office. l
informed them the governor could
take no summary action in the prem.
ises, and that he had no power to
hear and determine . contest Of the
election; that the question, who was
elected, in case of contest, was a ju.
,icial question, to be determined
alone by the courts Of the country.
! have to-day been informed by a
most reliable, conservative, truthful
man from Arkansas county that the
opposition to the democrats in Prai.
rio township, at St. Charles, in that
county, on the day Of the election
would not permit one of their regu.
larly appointed judges of the election
to serve, but put in one of their own
and stood over the ballot box with
arms; and that the township, which
had previously been largely demo.
cratic, was carried against the demo.
Gratis; and that shout 20 of these men,
armed with Winchester rifles and
shotguns. accompanied the ballot
boxes to the county seat.
At NcDaniels, in st. Francis coun.
", company Of quiet, peaceable cit.
izens, sitting on porch, on the night
of the day of the election. were fired