The Forrest City times., 1888-04-14
EPENDENGE. WHAT IS lT?---WHERE Is IT?---WHY IS IT? In Politics There is No Such
 Thing. Demoeraey the Fuend of the Peo- pie. Through Which, S,d@e.

The following is copy of the call for Cooperative Convention at Jones' z boro on April {;
 To the wheelers If the seventeen
 counties comprising the First N heel
 District of Arkusa5:
 Ton are hereby requested Co send one delegate for each one hundred members ta q Cooperative Convention t1 be held at ]anesbof3 5n Ne4ues lay, April i We have at present eight cooperative stores. aad shauld have by September I. seventeen, in order that lye may act in harmony and succeed in balking our business during the year. 1 am making this call at the request of twelve of the seventeen counties com posing the Filst district; K. of l.. who are not cBnSt,tutionNly debarred hy the wheel are requested t0 send dclegate5. We hope the brethren from every coIRty W.ll have a cu. neeting of the county wheel, ua regular meeting is had prior t0 the call aud send d-legate5.
 Wheel p8gerS will alease copy. and ail luthers triel lly tO ha farming inter- ct. S. E, SWEET, Lecturer First District.
 It would strike enc at first reading that tl,is call was mHla in the interest of tLe farmers Was 1t? Let Us ste. As yet there has been no published statement of what business was traus- acted. except that Hau. L. r Feather stou was indorsed and nominated as 2 wheel, or a peoples tor anything You are mind to call itl candidate foi congress from this the First congress si5nal district of Arkansas. Hereto fore My. Featherstau has been demo crat. Ia accepting this nomination and in future refusal to go before the democratic convention at Helena he has, does and will declare himself an enemy to the party,
 The Helena World, in speaking ot the call for democratic convention there on June 23, says:
 The call for a Democratic eonven- ton in this district is aS liberal an ln- strument as could be drawn up, and throws the door wide open to any prodigal or alien who desires to enter It has the ring of true democracy about it. extending a welcome hand to au Every one who enl1rsE5 President CleVelaud's s message to congress Aud will support the democratic nom nee can participate in the pfimaIes throughout the district. lt puts leno- cratic salvation in reach of all, and will be the means of bringing many into tho fold.
 Have the men who indorsed Featherston read the call? Can any democrat read this call and indorse the action of this handful of littC politicians? When our convention Is wide open to every democrat eau they consistently refuse to aid it? Demo erats (in the fullest sense of the NO rC who have been democrats all thell lives, or who are democrats from choice cannot indorse such proceed ing, and when the time comes they will fall into ranks and a solid front will be presented to our enemies through the lines of which none can escape They must perish. There is no help for them.
 ! It is said Featherston is a people s lcapdidate. The democratic party Is lthe party of the people, for the people-the peoples party. Is he q democratic candidate? No' Then he is not the peoples candidate. He has told you, or at least is quoted as say ing to the brother wheelers, Make your fight as democrats" Is he goine back on his own advice? The Beebt Argus on this point says:
 The National Wheel Enterprise urges aTr rtTe wfreetTrs ttr1 to t'le democratic primaries and select deles,, gates to the county convention that VIII properly represent them. If farmers desire to control the politics or the State they can do so in the aenlo cratic party, as they are in the majority T his would be the proper course lol them to pursue, and they would have the good will of all concerned. l'' this, wheelers, and quit barring your doors against others who are equalA interested in the welfare of the govern ment. What you do, do openly ana above board.
 Through the democratic party onii you may accomplish the desired re- suits. There are only two politlea parties democratic and republican There is no independent party-ther' cau't ha oaa If Vnu are not d demo