The Russellville Democrat., 1892-10-27
BOLD SCHEME
To Garry the State for Harrison and Re-
 conssruciionists.
EXPOSED BY DEMOCRACY.
Peoples Party and Republicans Divide the Electoral Ticket--Hon. J. W.
 House's Address.
To the Voters of Arkansas

To the Voters of Arkansas:
 We have just passed through state can vass, in which a decisive and glorious victory has been achieved for the bemoc- racy, thus showing that eur people are not willing to turn the administration of the affairs of the state over to the enemies of good government. But we are now engaged in struggle which involves the liberties of the people, and the life of the nation, and we should not abate our energies until the party of plutocracy, of combines and trusts is dethroned on the Sth of Novem- Der next.
 We should not have deemed it necessary to make any further appeal to the people of the state, had it not been for the slander- ous utterances in the addresses of the Peoples Party committee of recent date. The wholesale fraud which they have charged against the Democracy of Arkan- sas, which comprises al least three fourths of the intelligent white people of the state, is unnanly and uupatriotic. They are only the utterances of disappointed and digruntled men. That the recent state election was fair no honest, well informed man can deny. That there may have been few irregularities here and there may be true. This will always be the case as long as men are human. It always has been the case. But the charge that there were such irregularities or frauds as would in the slightest degree tend to change the result of the recent state cleo tion is puerile and childish The charge of fraud is islander upon the good people as well as against the fair name of the state, and such charge can but recoil upon those who uttered it.
 THEIR MODE OF REASONING
 in trying to establish the fact that there were frauds perpetrated, is like the excla- nations of mad man. For instance, they take twelve counties in the white belt, Benton, Crawford, Johnson, Lawrence, Logan, Sebastian, Washington, Polk, Dallas, Stone and Clark, and compare the returns with those of two years ago, and say the fall off of the Democratic vote this year is 54l9, and the increase in the op position vote is 1911, and then say they have no doubt but what the election in these counties was reasonably fair. Why do they say thisf Simply because the Democrats lost and the opposition gained. Now the Democrats could say, with just as much propriety, that the Peoples Party committed fraud in these counties by in timidating and bulldozing the ignorant, and bribing election judges But of course we make no such charge. We know such is not the case. Let us take twelve other counties from the same belt and make the same comparison and see what is the re- suit. We will take Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Calhoun, Cleveland, Columbia, Cross, Franklin, Grant, Prairie, Sharp and Yell The Democratic vote for governor in these counties two years ago was Is, 130; this year A ,953, falling of of IT, The oppo- sition vote two years ago was 859S; this year 5912, falling off of 2686 That is to say the Democrats lost one vote out o every eighty five, and the opposition one vote out of every three. Now if they had wanted to be perfectly fair, why did they not call attention of the public to these twelve counties, where the loss to the op- position was much greater than to the Dem ocrats2 They then turn to twelve black counties, Conway Hampstead, Pulaski, Jefferson, Monroe, St. Francis, Mississippi Crittenden, Jackson, Lafayette, Phillips and Drew, and say 1.-two years ago, the Democratic vote was lS,996, and the oppo sition 24 ,S4l, thus giving the opposition majority of 5s45. This year the Demo cratic vote was 17,lS6, the opposition H., $50, thus giving the Democrats majority of 524s, net gain for the Democrats of II 093." There is an old saying that figures never lie, and yet if what this committe say is true figures do lie. They say the Democratic vote two years ago was ls,996 this year, 17 ,195, "thus showing fall ing off of the Democratic vote 1901, instead of net gain of Il ,093."
 THE NEGRO VOTE,
 Then from the fact the expedition vote in the twelve black counties named was not so great as it was two years ago, they say, ''the Democrats perpetrated the most fla