The Forrest City times., 1890-03-22
article. sanctioned as correct state ment of facts by Featherston.

these statements will be received as testimony freed from either partisan
 ship or sentiment. because they come from one who at one time was perhaps a democrat. The fact that Feather stou has repudiated any sentiment i've cannot think he ever had any principle of democracy that may have been taught him ny his father, it seems to us, ought to be sufficient evidence to the l public, that he is unreliable in politics, and hence liable to exaggcration and misrepresentation in order to sustain himself in the false position he now occupies. Being the only beneficiary his statements should at least le thor oughly probed for that carelessness of speech or speech of strained anxiety which would lead the disinteicsted foreigner to adjudge whole commu- nity as robbers and murderers.
 If by "section,r is meant st. Francis county, then the assertion that -four fifth of the people in the section where he (Featlerston) resides are negroes" !" is false. It is admitted on all sides that the negro race is in the minority here. Perhaps the fairest ratio that could be estimated is three-sevenths negroes and four. sevenths white.
 Under the free school system, which is maintained by the white people for their benefit, the negroes are making some progress in education, but these are all very young. and as yet have shown no character, except in rare in- stances. To say WITH FEW RXCEP- TIoSs the colored people of Arkansas are making remarkable progress, etc. :" is certainly the reverse 0! truth. Their progress is very slow, aud will never be remarkable. He instances FOUR who have acquired land. Of course there are many who acquire property but wherever you lind one of this kind you also find one who takes small inter est in politics, and IS at peace with his neighbors. As to great injusticcs done them, we should like to see that man. white or black. who can say II never had an injustice done me" The negroes meet with no more injustice than the white man and enjoy every blessing afforded by competition.
 Daring T residence of nine years in the South. the writer has never heard any white man say that lie feared social equality. Such an idea was never thought of by any respectable white person living. IL is m impossibility with man, and not probability with God. As to negro domination, there are grave fears This is the greatest question Of this glorious southern country. And the negro being unfit to govern, We oppose those who teach him to seek office A government by white people is eur enly hope of preser- walton. and as a friend at our elbow suggests. self preservation is the first law or nature.n The negro does not exercise the franchise intelligently. and ne person who ever witnessed au election in tho South will honestly tes- iity ta such stuff.
 Every word uf tbst correspondence referring to aa eligarchs of dlsap- pointed army officers Is new to us, and exists ouly in the barren minds of Fca,herston and few followers, Otherwjs jsc, no doubt, we should have heard of il.
 Tho strongest opponents of Feather ston are high-toaed honorable gentle man. who de uot want office, and have no special tayorites for offices.
 That part of this correspondence re- ferring to the May riot, IS so distorted as to facts. and contains so many islSc- hoods, that 1t seems to us any intelligent person would at once discover theIn. IL MAS never before claimed that any per son had been killed here for advocating an honest election We have al ways stood upon that plank Such a statement is too base lie, surely, for any person to think of believing. D. NJ. Wilson was killed by a stray bullet, more than block from his residence. and all that part referring Ia his friends repairing to his house armed to resist the "huWling mob, and the intimation that the lives of these men were sought, together with the statements in regard to Medley, are false, and likewise that statement regarding a notary public being murdered in cold blood etc. v That paragraph headed testimony Of cx-democrats, " IS inserted to blind the reader to truth. The reason Feather ston and those who support him are not with the democrats is simply because the leaders wanted office, and could not get IL longer from the democrats, and the followers Were led to believe they would be rewarded by the victory Of their leaders--a position as false as the dozens of interpretations con taiaed III the article, reprinted above. We never heard of any democrats offer ing tine county clerkship to Fealherston, and fl thay did tl.y offered something which it WAS not theirs to give. The idea If two or three men offering a gift wuich is only in the power of the na jorit, ot the whole people to bsstow is pteposter2us
 The effect oi the busting of Mir. Cate will be, that democrat will receive the largest majority next November ever given to . congressional candidate in this district.
 Featherston is now in a position where 1t i'll becomes him to misrepre- sent the people. And every mis-state- rnent of fact that comes from him will ns,fN tuaraaSa tha ...tptatuuf ir, ,ylteh ba