The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
Tho Democrat and tho Sweet Case.

Tho Democrat and tho sweet case.
 The ilt,lc Rock pcmocrat. commenting on Inc termination of the Sweet case la the fed crai court at this plaoe, theorihcs after this fashion;
 The swec, ease ensei on Saturday in a dis agreement of tls .urS and thcir dlsehafsc, This wiii probably l.. tho last ut if Nhtl. tue Democrat has no sympathy whatever with the large majority of dst.sRe suits, We arr tfVe 70 express the opinaaa shat tho detchaanis in this case committed : very great Inistake. IT their own statements arc to be accepted Gs true and many of them arc responsible and honorable gentlemen. they were "nilg m sending Sweet into exile. in order to protect him from .l.s mob elemcnt in Forrest city, They should ts4, fnseltcr have thrnfti'd and stnnrlod thts elsment. IT there Is any of h still ies, they stluuid al once put II iu sub lection .o iaw No man should bc forc~d Io leaye hts i.au.- for his opinions If his opinions or his language is dangerous Co tho peace ot stcie,y. lot him bc tried according to iaw and punished. Hut in the namo of liberty. let II not happen again in Arkansas that any eitt zen is compelled to ~ into exile either for the htn from the violence uf \ mob.
 The Democrat, hypothetical reasoning Is very good. But IL has supposed n case and gs. stunned condition of asairs which, in ihs Sweet c\sc. happily did not exist Mir Sweet wss not ,Ntilcd by the good people Of forres, City. A mad. lawte-s mob WAS holding sway there. and ,hcre no timo for reasoning, Mr. Sweet and men like htm wcrc bcltesca to have been in sy ympathy with the instigators of the riot, and 1t was believed that his presence in the community would make it dincuit Ia qucli the disturbance aud stop the bloodshcd The citizens against whom this damage suit was brought were for peace. and they looked upon this as the quickest and irost t~raibic way of restoring tt. They had nothing against Mir Sweet and 1t was for tho protection of hi- own life from an infuriated mob that they advised him to leave until the trouble could be quieted. fae Democrat says these citizens should have throttlesi and stranebss this law less element. Does 1t not seem plain that they adopted the most effcctuai means in reach to restore pcaccS The idea of stopping 10 try a man for inccndiary of Unreasonable utteranccs when a community Is dcmoralixcd and at the mercy of n iawiess mob Ls all nonsen@s. If Mir. Sweet had not needed the advice of his friends and left the city. it Is safe te say that tho hloodshed would have been far greater than il was. Jt was for Mr. Sweets best in tercsts for the best interests of the faction hc represented. ~4d for the best interests of the community at large. that he should leave un- til the mob could be dispersed. Nohcsiy ob- tcctcd to his returning to Forrest City after quiet had been restored. His suit against tho people of Forrest City, who savsy his life and prevented the further shedding of blood. Is tho hasest piece of ingratitude ever known in this country. If Mir. Sweet has spark of manhood in him he ought to blush for shame at its institution. -~Heiena States.
 The fact, alone. that the men who advised Sweet 10 absent himself for a time. werS i.is friends, and among the best he had on easth, is sufficient ar gument to sensible, unprejudiced mind that this suit is simply a contin- uation of the prosecutions mapped out by these nondescript politicianers, backed by the money of the republican eo.suption conmittee, and against which the decent element has no re- dress. It was just such persecution that led up to the riot. The persecu- tors were careful to do no act that the law would punish, and yet lost no op- portunity to annoy, islander, ana misr represent the democrats.