The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-09

The more the news Is received from Ar
kansas the better it gets for the Democracy.
At first the plurality for Fishback, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor. was esti-
mated at $4,000. but the latest accounts
place IL at $4,000, and it is still growing.
The Democrats have. therefore. won not
only a decisive. but brilliant victory
This election settles all doubts about the
solidity Of the South. Weaver and Field
made the most strenuous efforts TO divide
the Democracy of the State 10y going there
and personally speaking in the interests OF
Third partyism. Both, too, were apparently
san0uine of success, and telegraphed that
thew had the popular ear and the popular
sympathy. and that they were bound 10
win. And yet they were completely over
wheImed. and apparently made no impress
sion whatever on the people. This result.
following so closely upon the heels OF the
Democratic victory in Alabama, where the
split in the Democratic ranks was decidedly
formidable. shows beyond dispute that the
South is solid for the Democratic party and
proposes TO remain 50.
The causes of this signal Democratic
triumph in Arkansas are two-fold The
white voters are evidently awake 10 the tact
that fusion with Third partyism means
nothing more nor less than Republican sue
cess and a restoration of carpet-bag. scala
wag and negro rule They have evidently
not vet forgotten their experience IN the
days Of reconstruction. when Grant Sent
troops to the State and took possession OF
her Legislature with his soldiers, ouSting
by force legally elected representatives OF
the people and installing in their places his
own minions. They. therefore. had
horror OF a revival of that era of military
and negro supremacy, and 80 they
stuck by the old Democratic party,
through whose efforts they were re-
leased from the bondage in which
they were held, and again assured the bless
ings of personal freedom and home rule.
They have prospered and been happy under
white control, and knowing that under the
laws of force TO which they would be again
subjected should the Republicans succeed
In getting possession Of the country they
determined to take no risks Of such catas-
trophe by aflliating with the Third party or
any other annex TO Radcaism.
1t seems too. from the fact that several
counties heretofore Republican went Demo
orotic, that the negroes of the State, just as
was the case in Alabama. are finding out,
at last. that their best interests lie with the
whites. aud that the Republican party only
makes use of them as hobby horses upon
which TO ride into power. This is good
sign. since it portends that the negro is be-
ginning to realize that he can never hope to
rule over the whites in the South, and that
il is to his advantage to accept the situation
and cease an antagonism to his white tel-
low-citizens which always has, end, neces-
sarily. always must, result in injury and
hurt to himself.
The Democracy of Virginia send greeting
10 their brethren of Arkansas and Alabama.
and congratulate them on their decisive
victories over heresy and schism. And when
the Sth day of November comes the Old Do
minion will be found still in ranks with her
Southern sisters, assisting them to present
a solid front to the common foe, no matter
what disguise it may assume for the pur
pose of Turing the South to break away from
her safe Democratic moorngs.