The Forrest City times., 1888-10-13

St. Francis county, Ark, August 3l, l 1888.
 Whereas. We are of the opinion. that some free-pass railroad lawyer 1 wrote the article headed Negro Domi- nation" and published ill the Para gould Pless. signed by lot of figure heads purporting to be the Democratic Executive Committee of St, Francis county. is so base d misrepresentation that 1t has never been published in this county; and, as an evidence they did not write 1t. the Chairman, o. F. Dor i ris admits he never saw 1t; therefore lee it
 Resolved. By the St. Francis County | Wheel, representing eight hundred of the best white citizens of the county. that the peryersi0n of facts is only to injure the character of l.. r. Feather ston--
 Firsi-Because he is President of the State Wheel.
 Second - Because he has had the manhood to ignore conventions which are run in the interest of trusts and moneyed corporations, and casts his manhoGd and his intellect in behalf of labor; and that we of St. Francis coun- ty Wheel endorse him aS an honest, in- telllgent farmer, and whose acts in the last legislature de mOnstrated the fact that money nor bulldoZng can not bias or swerve him from the path of right.
 WM. MANNING, T. o. FITZPATRICK, President,
 Secretary.
 THE TIMES has the following com ment to make regarding these two communications;
 First; According to information from honest sources. there wasn't any law yer in the case whatever. Even ad- hitting there had been, TIE TIMES believes our lawyers have just as high sense of honor as other men, and no doubt have. There is absolutely noth- ing in that charge and no thinking man would entertain such an idea as is tried to be expressed in the language of the wheel resolutions.
 Second; The article did not appear in the county simply from the fact that it was overlooked. TIE TIMES fully in- tended to publish it, The failure of the press to publish it in this county is no evidence of misrepresentation on the part of the committee.
 Third; While Mir. Doris may not have seen the article. prsor to it's pnbii- cation, he had authorized members of the commitcee to afix his signature to it and be fully endorses every word of it. Every name signed to that communication was authorized. So much for the preamble.
 Fourth; This wheel resolution claims to represent "s00 of the best white citl- zens of the county" TIE TIMES is prepared to assert and prove that there are not 300 white men in the county who indorse these resolutions; that not over 26S white men voted the fusloh ticket in this county. and that that number represents the full strength of the political wheel-white. While the agricultural wheel may represent SUD white men in the county, the politlcai wheel don't represent 800, and loo oi these belong to the most ignorant class es. These are facts and thoroughly disproye the assertion that the men who adopted these resolutions repre- sent 500 of the best, or any other kind of white citizens of this county.
 Fifth. The communication to the Press was not made to injure Feather stons character, particularly, but sim ply to place him in his true light before the people of that county.
 Sixth: The assertion that this com munication was written to inlure the cl ar,,cter of Featherston BECAUSE HE rs TIE PRESIDENT OF TIE STATE WHEEL is simply q bare-faced false hood. only exceeded by those recently circulated by Rube CarlLee, and made with the same intent and purpose, i. e. to injure the iair name of our county and arouse the preiudices of the backwoods farm ers who don't read newspaper oi any kind and think sl.59 is too much TOT their home paper.
 Seventh: We deny that Featherston has shown any manhood in ignoring our conventions.
 Eiehth: We deny that our coh'eh, . lions have been run in the interest o' trnst. and moneyed corporations There are none in this county or dislric'' ,hat we know of. The late conVeu t;ous were fair and square ana hohoi' bic. q, .A, Ninth. That f Tea,heTstoa iS me