The Russellville Democrat., 1891-05-28
PRESS COM MENTs-
what the State Papers are Talking About
 Editoriany.

what the State Papers are Talking About Editoriany. A state fair would make Arkansas boom.-Forrest City Times.
 The Camden Beacon. is going to change from an evening to a morning daily.-Arkadelphia Herald. President Harrison takes junket in a palace car and George Pullman pays the freight.--H Hackett City Horse Shoe. Mayor Fletcher, of Little Rock, has suppressed the sale of The Kansas City Sun. Good L. Woodruff Chronicle. The next congress will certainly give the pension bureau the disinfectants 1t so much needs.- Fayetteville Democrat. The preservation of the Democratic party is more important than the suc- cess of any ism. Howard County Press. The great trouble with the Western farmer is that he has borrowed, not wisely, but too much. Benton County Democrat.
 To pave or not to pave? That is the nut to crack. Which shall is be, gentlemen of the committed? ?-Fort Smith Call.
 The people are losing respect for ssGrandpa's Hat" and the more it is exhibited the less they care about it, Batesville Journal.
 The proposition of reorganiZing the state militia is being considered by q part of the state press. The idea may be good one. -Rison Advocate. If sherman and Foraker lock horns over the senatorship from Ohio it will make it possible to give Senator Brice 8 Democratic colleague. e.--Conway Log Cabin.
 Some Republican papers are very much stirred mp over Michigan dividing her electoral vote, and are trying to argue that state has no right to divide her vote. Morrilton Pilot. It is galling shame that young men who attend social parties cannot do so without first t placing their manly pro- portions around an over-abundance of bust-head whiskey.- Randolph Her aid.
 The Mccarthy Light Guards will be among the competing companies at the big drill at Indianapolis in July. They are an honor to Arkansas -Arkadcl- phia Siftings.
 The fees of the grand and petit juries at the last term of the circuit court amounted to S1740. Add to this the
 
 fore the grand jury and we have S2l7915, A very pretty little sum- Benton County Journal.
 Arkansas needs and must have rail- way commission. Let the people keep discussing this matter and make it the main issue in the next state campaign; {; this is the only wsy relief can be had, and greedy railway corporations be made the servants, and not masters, of the ople.-Nevada County Picayune. From present indications Arkansas will not show up to any extravagant ex- tent at the Worlds Fair in '93. The legislature made no appropri- ation and it looks little like the peo- pie were not disposed to do much. So far as Drew county Is concerned it is away ahead, anyhow Monticelloniar. The three great mineral counties of the state, Boone, Marion and Searcy, pro- pose to make a combined exhibit of their mineral resources at the Worlds Fair. If the project is carried out, 1t is safe to predict that many more preten- tious exhibits will be far inferior in real worth to the one from old Arkansas.- Marianua Index.
 The papers throughout the state are
  law is alright if the overseers and his hands would comply with its require ments. The fault is with the grand juries. If the star chamber tribunal. ywould indict the bosses as they deserve to be the thoroughfares would be kept in first-c'ass. .traveling condition. Gam den Beacon.
 W. Rol Reel, the agent of The Kansas
 
 of tar and hundred lashes in Waco, Tex, has appeared in Little Rock to re- sist and test the action of Mayor Sun In Little Rock. Our sympathies are entirely with the mayor, and we hope that he may be successful in every respect.-Fordyce Enterprise.
 Our county needs an immigration bu- reau, and, in order to bring about an in- terest of more thoroughly settling up our fine farming lands, something must be done that will bring our land on the market to actual farmers. This county, along with a great many others in Northeast Arkansas, will sooner or later have to depend on their agricultural resources; in other words, the timber interest will soon be a farce. Farmers dLQ IS Wndt Wt Wdul huu have, If we have anything, and the sooner we devise some means where by to convert our land into solid farms the better.-Harrisburg News.
 Arkansas Is sadly in need of new constitution. Under the present con- stitntlon the people do not have lati- tude enough in some respects. For in- stance, they are not permitted to vote enough school tax as was evidenced by the school election last Saturday, where out of vote of over sixty there was but one ballot cast but what the in- tention was to vote the full limit of taxes which the law allows, and some voted twice the amount, and as result their ballots could not be counted Give us new constitution and give the masses of the people voice and we will soon have the best school system of any state in the union.-Heber Jacksonian.