The Forrest City times., 1888-10-13
1 GOVERNOR 6 HUGHES

eOIy to tho Outrageous Cnarg-
 es of Rube CarILee.
 Tho following is the letter of Gov.
 D Hughes to the editor of the New
 ,,k Press. refuting R. B. CarlLee's
 .adprous letter, which was published
 Inc TINES of Saturday:
 LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 22. loSS.-To THE
 agss: In your issue of the 18th inst.
 pasars d letter from k. B. Carllee, in
 Iepnce tn the recent state election in
 rksnsas. in which he says: If the
 ,aole of the United States only knew
 fl how we have been treated congress
 pA wire out the fraudulent state
 yernment i'll Arkansas and grant us
 renahlican forLl of government as
 nranteed by the federal constitution. y
 bg is aIt assumption that the state
 Tprament of Arkansas is not repub-
 amin form, which every well infm med
 psal knows is not true in point of
 d The assumption that congress
 A power to wipe out the state gov [ppeat of Arkalslsn is founded in
 ugance of the structure and powers
 the government.
 elrlIee seems anxious to become
 sai)us as an untrathful anl unscrup-
 aas defamer of the state of Arkan sas. which he is a citizen. In his letter
 p clements that know to be false, na without the semblance of truth. heg are IS follows: In Union county
 x. Hughes armed the democratic
 aM with the state Winchesters on hs nght before the election Sunday. r
 ."In Miller county the democratic
 as were armed by Gov. Hughes with
 e states arms" No democratic Iuh were armed by the governor any
 hpre, and no ar ms were sent to either
 aim or Miller county. CarlLee says: IhY meaning the democratic clubs
 raioH eountY) passed over the county al whipped over twenty colured men; Gas of them so badly that they had
 kecp their beds On Monday they
 and killed seven white Il fion-labor 3plq wounded over twenty more. 4M Ell pradp. the county seat they sk li,e poll books away from the | GsS and barned them before the eyes 1 Ehe people. and then held new l sriion at which no union labor man | knFsmitted to vOte,7 have bee II Hxmed that there were no such | arreuces in Union county. and that 1 laRan was prevented from voting Ut | ssleetion. and l have the assurance | gn l. upright. honorable citizens | Etthese things did not oecar. that ! |rnan only was killed in Union | |@iy on the day of the election, and | X he was accidentally killed. |DD. Leach. a prominent republican,. f% captain of the militia company in FHifutf county. The statements ih |4etter or C.ulLee's, in regard to (lasa5 s. Lee, Mississippi, St. Francis ExSn. Howard, Lincoln, Lafayette, ttie River. Monroe. and Saline kMties 1 believe tn be false.
 hFll.ee says: "A delegation of Essers waited on Gov. Hughes. kahg him the facts Gin relation to l |uaas in Crittenden couhtyl, but he bsased to take any action in the nsterH After the election two men |msent ed a written statement to me Firglng frands in the election in Crit ieaien county by which, one of them tsmed, he had been beaten out of an tace.
 Informed them that the governor gah take no summary action m the Fsnises, d nd that he had no power to leal and determin c d contest of the sseliou; that the question, who was sseied, in case of contest, was | ssaicial question, to be determined | iaae in the courts of the country.
 lhaye today been informed by a AG reliable, conservative, truthful eaa from Arkansas county that the aspOsitiOn to the democrats in Prairie | hsaship, at St. Charles, ill that county, sa the day of the election, would not , ftnlit one of their regularly appointed . lsdges to serve, but p ut in one Of thelr | 8a, and stood over the ballet box with | Rms and that the township, which had ls'lOnsly been largely democratic, was i erled against the democrats, and ] pat about eighty of these men. armed ! saa Winchester rifles and shotguns, | seampanied the ballot-boxes to the | t4hty seat.
 Al McDaniels. in St. Francis county, [ seOmpany of quiet. peaceable citizens, asllag on porch, on the night of the | " of tue election. were fired into by . ,4e unknown parties, and seven oi !aen Were wounded-all democrats.
 Ar, CarlLee, referring to this. says: Vne of our men fired on them wlth Jsarrei shot, and wounded d four.of them. sas IS the only act of violence we are .sS sFused of in the state. l am sorry Tor | Isone,n He might have truthfuliy siled' that this is the only authentl- Mlea act of violence that occurred at .@ ~ election other than the stealing ot .as poli-books in Pulaski county. By vlr men. " he means, of course, union- aoor men.
 in Pulaski county the poll-books ,on nine townships were stolen from " ". clerk, but MT. CarlLee fails to s4e that rewaad was offered by the ssefnor for the arrest and conviction \ s saeh of the partiee who participated %a, and that 1t Is universally ana ,r'elely denounced by all parties, and X ,i tue democratic press throughout < i~ Nate, It would be difficult to group ,ss rre same space more misstatements M, ,Ia inisfepresentations than are con -iAsd In CarlLee's letter.
 ,snouid not have felt called upon to M gssef these interpretations, as sss I IariLee ia we'll known in Arkansas. x saa ': ! not felt certain that his object IS s ,i @u Tn running the "outragemili" Ill N r. interest of the republican party in Y M hatlonal campaign. In the interest a1salh and justice to the state of 'ssn s't's sss, the Press is requested 10 'aaaish this letter.
 SIMON ?. HCGnEs,
 Governor of Arkansas.