The Russellville Democrat., 1890-07-31


 1 take it, and all my neighbors think the testimony valid, that Moses was not allowed to reach the promised land. Neither will Fizer 'git there" This was tue will of God concerning Israel, and that same urcbangeable Belng watches oyer the nations yet. The great Eagle Is the man for gov ernor. He will stuck; he mas been tried since 186l He bears in char acter what the name implies. He is ready and can meet United States high commissions, and speak out in unmistable terms in defense of the great State of Arkansas and her cit izens.
 Now, then, to take it all through, | from one end to the other, where or when do we expect to get better ticket than we have In the field this yeaf?-men upon whose record, pri- yate or public, so far as l know, there is not stain. And then, they belong to party that is, and always has been, both in government and in Legislation, in the interest Of the masses of the people--and whose principles were not stolen from the Union Labor party, either, Mir. Vim dicator. There is q want ot inform ation, I see, notwithstanding the com bined wisdom and extensive knowledge of the editorial staff.
 The grand old bed rock principles of the Democratic party of today were enumerated by Thomas Jetfer. son, adhered,to by Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and Grover Cleveland, and believe, sir, as firmly as 1 be- lieve in the existence of God, that the happiness and prosperity Of our selves and of our children, and the perpetuity of our free institutions depend upon the triumph of those principles.
 Then, with the government we have had in Arkansas for the last fifteen or sixteen years, for those Union Labor fellows, or Republicans, to rant so much about reform, seems awfully strange. There would be quite change in affairs, l imagine, if thls same party would get in DOW CT once more all around. They make great noise about the oppression, and the great burdens that the la boring classes have to bear, hard times, and cry out, Reform! Why the thunder don't they go to the fountain head to begin? Why don't they go Washington and blow up the old Capitol, break up that rich mans club2 Ah! they would be stabbing their own brethren, their own friends, their own party, and they cannot afford it. How exceed, ingly foolish, then, to talk about re- form.
 Now, suppose they elect their State ticket this year, and all the county officers in every county in the State, would we have better times? ? Would they relieve the laboring man of his burdensp Would they give him more money for his work Would they, or could they, so con. trol the money power of this great country as to give Arkansas an in creased circulation of money? Could they do anythingwith national banks, the infamous tariff laws, pension laws, and would they undertake to undo nearly everything the present Republican Congress has done2 No, we answer; thousand times no! They could not if they would, and they would not if they could. In consistent. It would only strength en and encourage the work of de structlon that is now going on. I am sorry that some of our citi- zens who once professed to be Dem ocrats, and who were once not al lowed to register by this same party, are going off with this wing of the Republican party, under the guise of 'sUnion Labor"
 More later on. JAMES A. EVANS.