The Springdale news., 1889-04-05


 and extended to ballot-box thieves and the benefclarIes hereunder he is to be placed upon the bench of the Supreme Court, not so much for services rendered Tn the past as for the protection to De afforded them in the future Tn the event any of them shall De brought before the courts. Tho ballot box thieves and ballot-box suffers rallied to him ln force. The mob that drove the ot. fcers of Crittenden from the couu ty and neutralized a Republican majority of 2,00o was there. The ballot-hox thieves of Lee, who de- stroyed the Republican majority of 1000 and returned a majority of z 300 for the Democracy, wero there. The ballot-box suffers of Woodruff county were there; so were those of St. Francis. The mlsereants of Un1on, who had Hughes commis- sion as officers of the militia, were there. Tho ballot-box thieves of Pulaski were there; so were those of Miller; and last, but not least, the noted Capt. Stowers, of Conway, with Hughes commission in his pocket, was there, and they were all for Hughes. Breckinrdgo, whose friends stole the ballot-box at Plum merville, and whose friends after wards assassinated Clayton, was there. Cate, who was returned IS receiving over l,300 majority in the first district over Featherstone, was there with his friends, who made false returns whereby Featherstone was deprived of over 5000 votes.
 'Is 1t any wonder that the con- vention nominated Hughes? Is it any wonder 1t chose it's presiding officer and sergeant-2t-arms from Pulaski county? Smooth, of Neva- da, and Bum, of Ouachita, were candidates In the Churchill bond case, while acting as special judges ofthe supreme court, they held some of the bondsmen liable, and thus sealed thelr doom. Sanders, of Phillips, approved the bond of the Union Labor candidates i'll St. Francls county, after it was shown by proof to be worth S90,000 over the penalty of the bond, and for that reason he WAS not deemed q suitable person 10 go on tho su- preme bench. Pittman, of Wash ington, was regarded as an honest man, and being in favor of fair sl ection and an honest count, and for this reason he was not regarded as a proper person to go on the su- pIciHo pGHNH. ulstSh NoHhAh wanted protection. It already had two mem bers on the supreme bench, but it wanted \ majority. All the ballot-box thieves and bal lot-box suffers wanted the same thing. Hence they put on Hughes, and Pulaski county obtained ma- jority of the supreme court. If Hughes is elected, Pulaski county and other ballotbox thieves and suffers will feel safe. IL would not do to let tho judges go out of the negro counties. Hence, three of them are kept in Pulaski, and Hemingway, of J efferson, is given the fourth place, and Sandels, of Fort Smith, Is given the other. The friends of a fair election and an honest count are asked to inquire if the things herein stated arc not true; they are asked to defeat it if they are. Ask yourselves why PittmaE was rejected !; why Bum was rejected; why Smoothe was re- jected; why Sanders was rejected. Ask yourselves why four out of the five of the supreme court judges must be kopt in the negro counties Ask yourselves why men of known ability and fitness for a place or the supreme bench were passed by, and a man like Hughes, who, it is con ceded, has no knowledge of the law, should be chosen in their stead. Ask yourselves why 1t IS that men like Sanders, Pittman, Smoothe and Bum, who have spent a quarter of century in the practice of tho law and on the bench, arc told to stand aside to give place to an old man who never acquired a knowl edge of the law, and two unknown lawyers of little experience. There is not litigant in the country who