The Forrest City times., 1892-08-19
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Col. w. Jasper Blackburn, the vet eran editor of the Free South, a repub- lican paper published at Little Rock has this to say in coming out for the demo- cratic ticket as against the nominees placed in the field by the republicans and their allies, the populites. It is a view which should be entertained by every white man in Arkansas. Being . decent man, Col. Blackburn cannot compromise his self-respect by lending aid and encouragement to the parties which have only self-gain at heart, the sOod of the people at large being . secondary consideration. There arc a number of republicans who agree with Col. Blackbrn:
 With malice toward none, but with charity for all, we hoist and shall sup pOrt such of the democratic tickets as we think the common good demands at our hands, and absolutely requires should bc elected-the state and county dem- Ocratfc tickets, and the congressional ticket throughout the state; with almost willingness to leave the pres identi&l ticket to take care of itself, feeling that in any event, and regard less of our support or opposition, Ar kansas will give her electoral vote for Grover Cleveland, in whose hands the common good and the destinies of the nation would all be perfectly safe, as we believe would be the case with the reelection of Benjamin Harrison, with the difference in favor of Cleveland that his triumph would be safest and best for the South; which is something with us, and should be with every pa triOtic man in our Southland ,and hence we hoist the democratic presidential ticket also-willing, should it prove the last campaign we shall ever fight, to close out our political life where we begun; native Southern democrat. true to the South, and what we deem her best and safest interests. We thought and aimed this when we sup ported the immortal stephen A. Doug laa against the clamor of secession in 1860, and we feel 1t now in supporting . presidential ticket composed of the same character of patriotic democrats
 We could say much in vindicatiOn of this course, and indeed in vindicx- tiOn of our political course all along the line of our long and laborious and watchful life, showing wherein and why we have always been consistent, and right according to the test of the truth of history, and have failed and refused to be led astray by the errors and fOllies of any political party to which we have ever belonged; but we are willing to leave the plain record to answer for us, without special com Dent or elaboration, until and unless assailed upon this recOrd-appealing Co the common sense of an intelligent and patriotic public to justify and vim dicate us in our unsel1sh eff0rts in be- half of the common public good.
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 And so, if not exactly this in our own case. from political standpoint we arc at least tired of sectional hate and local confusion and national de- moralization over the calamities of the late war; and most of all are we tired and desire 2 rest-a long and peaceful rest, if need be like that of the grave StructiOn days in the South; we want of that character, but a national unity of love and fraternal safety of equal rights under . common constitution; and as safe steppingstone to all this, if not Indeed the only immediate hope, wo look to the election of the national dem0cratic ticket In the pending con- test, and the continued rule of the na- tional democracy, as regenerated from . somewhat sad experience, for at least many years to come, and the triumph of home rule at the hands of the white masses-which means the demOcrAcv