The Forrest City times., 1890-11-01
IT MAY LEAD 70 TROUBLE.

For some time the papers have been full of comment upon the action of United States Marshal II. N. Faulkin- bury and a negro named Bill Allen. These gentlemen(p) visited Lee county recently, ostensibly for the purpose of summoning witnesses to appear be- fore the United States circuit court, which meets at Helena in December, but the true object of their presence there turns ont to be to secure signers to Il pledge to vote for Featherston, etc. We reproduce the following from the Lee County Courienon the sub ject.
 hchest of their dirty masters, were in our midst several days of the past week soliciting negro signatures to pledge which reads as follows:
 We. the undersigned. pledge ourselves to go to the pols on November | and use o,ir best endeavors 10 have our neighnors go with us and vote for Hon. l.. F. Fcatherston for congress. And we pledge ourselves that we will not be dissuaded from exercising our right as frcemcn to vote for the man of our choice by offers of extra prices for picking cotton or working at gins on that day Tor the puposc of keeping us away from the polls.
 This document IS all bedeckcd with req. white and blue ribbons. and bears on It q large red seal. in order to give it an appear ancc to the negro of being official instruc- tions From the govcrnmens: sspeTay mhah
 This sweet scented pair also carry another document to impose upon the ercdulity and excite the aNarice of the ignorant negro voter. This is worded in the form of pcti- ton to congress to turn the U. '. treasury into vast loan association for the bcnent of inc poor colored man. the induccment being held out to him that by signing these papers and voting for Fca,herston he will get all the money he wants from the government at per cent a year. and grow rich and become independent of the merchants and democrats of the country.
 I've have been further informed that. act ing under the instructions of those afch fiends of hell, Clayton and McClurc-whosc vile emissaries these political heeiers arc they arc to SOW the seeds of trouble and bloodsbed and get out of the way ere their sowing bears fruit. and to leave the poor dc ludcd darkey to bear the brunt of the con fiict.
 prejudced mind of the Southern white man than these vile measures now being resorted to in our midst for the purpose of eiccting Fcatherston to a scat in congress, and thus endorse the infamy already imposed upon the democratic voters of the First congressional district by the ttty-tirst congress. in depriv ing them of their legally elected representa- tive and seating in his stead the vile traitor, l.. P. feathcrstonY Can it be possible that there is decent Southern white man with in the limits of the district who will virtually endorse such infamous. tyrannical measures as the above by casting q vote for Feather stont We sincerely hope not If there should be one. he should forever afterwards hang his head in shame.
 Following on the heels of this fla grant outrage on the people of that community another |. $. marshal, one Srellmau, accompanied by fourteen armed deputies, has been added to the force. This band is now doing Lee county. A special from Lee county says:
 Mir. Spcllman was asked the question why he thought 1t necessary to have such large posse, and he replied that fanlkinhury aud bin Allen could not do the work by them selves. and that while ull Alien was examin- ing witnesses here last week some white democrnt would ee present to take down in writing the answer ot each witness, and thn' tli, intitnidatea the negroes. The inforinn. tien was then given Spctinau that the only time last week when such WAS the case was at single meeting to winch several democrats had been expressly invited hy hoth Fanlkin bury and Allen. and that the answers writ ten down were written on q hlunk for the purpose furnshoi sa,d democrat by satd Bill Allen. Spcnau expressed considerable sur prise at this, but merely replied that he was powcrcss to do anything he was acting under .dircct orders from tho attorney general of the Cnitcd States"
 The Arkansas Gazette, commenting on these facts, says.
 Motif, ing witnesses to appear before ,he federal court is merv routine work. IL would he au infamous faschood to charge that this work is performed with difficulty. When te- fore has it been deemed necessary to take n large body of armed deputy marshnis into any county to secure witnesses for the orii- nary causes to come hrfore that tribunal Such proceeding Is unknown. IL has cer- tainly not been hnd in many years: yet Mar shal Spcilman k given us authority for Inc statement that he acts under orders from Washington
 "If his statement be trr,e-and we are pre- pared To believe it-~it proves that the federal administration has conspired with our home carpcthaggcrs to prostitute the federal ma chincry In Arkansas to the hesest uses de- sired in the interest of partisan republican politics. It is an evident attempt to eompci negroes to support Powell taytons eandl dates for congress and to iniimidate and oycrawe law abiding citizens who oppose and seek by lawful methods to secure their de- feat.
 "A more hIgh-handcd outrage was seldom performed. even in the hissinx hut days of reconstruction. IL Is n direct unlawful infcr- ference with the rights of the peopic-~a gross misu se of authority, which if attempted in \ northern state would evoke protest that, if unhecicd, would create revolution. But here in Arkansas tht, machinery ut feGer7ii courts can he openly employed with i'm. puuiiN to carry federal elections in the inter. est or Inc republican, party cuhtruitea ny Powell Clayton in execution of hts pro grnmiEe of Nougcancc. and to indignant pro test no answer is made. We are told the ders came from Washington. where only the carpctbaggrrs and the negroes arc recoG ni2ed as the people of Arkansas"
 Powell Clayton is becoming desper- ate for revenge on the party of the people, which busted him from power in Arkansas. He will center the forces of the republican party in Lee county, and if by any possible means. fair or foul--eithcr by deception or threats-that county can be made to give Featherston a majority, they will no doubt elect him. Everything de- pends upon Lee county and the inter est democrats manifest elsewhere If any democrat falls or refuses to vote in St. Francis county he is unworthy the name of democrat. Let us go to the polls and defeat the tool of Reed and Clayton whose name is Feather ston.
 ShIIohss (.Opsup, pfiop Cure