The Forrest City times., 1889-10-19
FROM A REPUBLICAN staNDPoisrs
The following from athe Little Rock

FROM A REPUBLICAN STANDPOINT!
 The following from lthe Little Rock Republican, while lengthy, is an in- teresting. and We know, an honest ex- planation and opinion of one of the nost devoted republicans. and grand est writers, in the state of Arkansas.
 Wemean Hon. W. Jasper Blackburn:
 It is due and proper that we should
 make some explanation 0f the failure of the REPUBLICAN to appear more reg
 ularly recently, and in doing so shall speak the truth plainly, and may there
 by rub the soren when some would prefer that we should bring the plas- ter But the truth should never stand indebted to a lie, and never will
 at our hands. For the past month or so. under suggestions and promises from NJ. A. lluIi, proprietor and mama ger of the Arkansas State Register of
 this city, we have been induced to hold
 up and not issue our paper regularly being willing as we were to join forces in building up and maintaining here iu Little Rock one iirst-class Daily and Weekly Republican journal, winch might prove creditable and beneficial | alike to the party and the whole State; | but after permitting us thus to cripple
 our own business somewhat by this lin- | geling delay, he went back, totally
 and squarely, on everything that is, | to Iisee q phrase mor expressive than elegant, "izzled out But whether 1 this was of his own free will and ac-
 cord, or through pressure from the Ring Masters who are already known
 to cluster around and brood over his
 establishment, We know not, and real 1 ly do net care: We only know that 1 MT. Hull deceived us. which We regret only because of the lowering Which II necessarily occaslols from our first esti-
 mate of the man-and this, whether he
 acted upon his own untrammeled will
 and choice or at the behests of others. l On hls own account, we would rather believe the latter; but then, when we remember that he permitted one of our
 sons, who had been requested to fill the place of proof-reader on his paper, to be literally LIED OUT of his office by
 a ''pimp and pandererN to his favor, we are ready to believe that he would
 prove false to any promise, upon the mere whim and caprice of any human tool and servilo lackey who might sur round him. As 1t Is, however, we have
 neither asked nor sought any place with him, but only consented to dis
 continue our own paper and accept such upon certain conditions which
 were promised but failed to be made good; and this leaves Us, not only as a
 matter of necessity but really of our
 own choice to proceed alone and upon eur own responsibility Ill the publlca- ton of Il Republican, paper at the Cap ital of our native State, upon the basis Of principle aud honor, not only to our own party but to the common public as we'll, as we have been doing for the past decade-piedged to Wage war to the knife and the knife to the hilt
 against any power ,hat may dare cross
 our path or oppose Us in such work
 neither asking nor granting quarters;
 and if we fail to kill IS many ot them 1 as they do of us,N 1t will be because
 our usual editorial warfare will have
 weakened. But owing to this recent
 bother thus occasioned by being led to expect something from nothing. We may
 not be able to keep up regularly and cunsecatively for Il time; but as 1 LINCOLN said of his effort to conquer the Rebellion, we shall keep begging away assured that he that does the best his circumstances allowe, does well the angels can da!ao more. .with,full rS lanee upon the potency of the lief tersnnlan maxim that truth is i'll ug danger from error, where reason IS left free to combat it. Meantime, we ap- peal for "ald aud comtoltN to these III whose behalf We shall thus speak and labor. For suca continued yindlctive partisan and sectional hate. as ias long been iHdulged by Republican sheets North and south and which we sec sl freshly introduced and aImed to he in-
 augalated i'll our very midst, and en- gratted upon om local party tenn per and policy, eau constitute no part oI d safe and just statesmanship, and can not be reconciled with the known original ann and purpose of tle great National
 Republican party 0t this great country
 and can find neither favor nor deieust at our llahds-never las and never shall; and that k why the Snraking thleVing, cowardly and strlft-breeding
 men If our own party have no use fer
 us-and God forbid that they should.
 And, while We have thus happily in- cured theig diSpleaSue, by taI.itg al Il refusing in the past to join Ill uith
 their IndiScrimlnate crusade against the south, We will see to 1t that ih, ground of such complaint shall he in- tensiiieu in the future. We will show them that a man can be Republican
 and stu be q gentleman, and retain the respect and Fcontideuee, and com. mand t'.e businsfs support of henma-
 hle pol ,<tai oppEeuts.