Nevada County picayune., 1889-11-06
THE PAST.

generations. In fact. the combined wisdom and virtue and knowledge of all preceding generations are con- centrated and consolidated in the present generation. We live on the dead past. and 1t being dead yet speaketh through us. Patrick Henry, in his great speech before the House of Delegates, said: Il know of no way of judging of the future but by the past" The past. therefore. af- lords the tests and standards by which We are tO regulate the present and shape the future.
 This rule applies to every depart mcnt of life. to agriculture, to cOm- merce. to religion, to politics, and everything else. Any appeal to the past, therefore, is admissible as q gronnd for present action and de cision. Some of our contemporaries oppose any reference to the past in the discussion of political issues, and stagmatize all such references as vicious politics. Their mistake coa- sists in confounding exaggerated and incorporate recitals of past occur rences with sober and impartial his tory. The former Is wrong, but the latter is right.
 If Powell Clayton's record from 1868 to 1874 is truly and faithfully reproduced as an evidence of his un- | fitness to be entrusted with political power, it is entirely proper and legitimate to do so, the people are to be the judges of the fairness and truthfulness with which that record is presented. He has voluntarily thrust himself into the arena of Ar kansas politics, and as the admins, tration has seen fit to invest him witt the powers and privileges of deputy President, he thereby invites critl- cism and authorizes an appeal to his past history. The publication oi "scrops of history" so-called bl several of our Democratic contempo raries, for the purpose of showing III the true character of Powell Clayton as developed by authentic records is entirely just and legitimate, so fal as they are i'll accordance with tht facts of the case and the same state meut is equally applicable to the op. posite party. and to all parties.
 The record of the Democratic party, or any of it's officials, is a le. gitimate subject of criticism by it. Republican opponents, and they have q perfect right to publish any part oi such record with fair criticisms upon the same. A public office is pubic trust, and he who abuses such q trust by malfeasance in office, ought to bt held up to public scorn and cXecra- ton. This is just what some of the press of this State are doing to-day in reference to ex-GovernOr Clayton The assassination of his brother al PIummerville early this year was made the occasion of an onslaught upon the Democratic party, i'll which they are held responsible for the ter rible crime, despite their indignant denuncations of it at the time, al over the State.
 Jn the meantime, the official pat ronage and power of the government have been invoked in his behalf, and he stands forth to-day as the head and front of the Republican party in the State. Many persons now living | in Arkansas know but little of the events that transpired in the State twenty years ago, hence the necessity of turning on the light, and reyiving the memories of the Clayton regime. When the facts of that dark period
 
 are unrolled to public scrutiny, to- gether with Clayton's agency in the matter, the people will turn with loathing from him and his party, and enthronc the Democracy with added emphasis and increased majorites.
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