The Forrest City times., 1892-05-06
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. MAY C. Iss.
CopFIsH ON FIsHsAcK.
fhe Little Rock Bosses Wake up to Find the sHoys in the Trenches Running
 Things.


 was iu Clarendon at the time you took charge Of the Sun and have taken a keen interest in it's development and improvement since that time, and, at long intervals at least, have dropped you q line urst OH one subject and then on another
 To one out of politics. but with his eyes open to what is going On around him here at our capital city lwhere he has the best facillties), the gymnastic eg0lutions of the combine that has set itself the task of downing the border statesman,n present d humorous spec taele rather than otherwise.
 Having planned. as usual. to parcel out the political pie'' according to their liking and without reference to the desires or wishes of the people, they aWoke one fine morning to dis- cover that "the boys in the trenches"
 had quietly taken the bit in their teeth aud proposed, for once, to have some thing to say ill the matter. Some he roic remedy must be adopted in order
 to head of the overwhelming senti- ment in favor of the peoples choice.
 First, Gen. Reynolds and Met l.. Jones, the statesman from Jefferson, engage in a little private @ corres- pondence relative to an old war record with view of making this go as far as possible in destroying Mr. Fishback' s popularity with the younger class of voters, who have no personal knowl- edge of the old war times and the fact tliat all men i'll those days were more or less bitter in their utterances. Con scious, however, of the fact that many years ago and by eommon consent and in good faith, it was agreed in tue dem ocratic hosts that the dead past should be buried; that the doors d the party should be thrown wide open, and to all those who in good faith should come in and join forces in behalf of the lib- critics of the people there should be a hearty welcome, and the errors or in constituencies of that long forgotten time should not be resurrected; and that this Reynolds-Jones attempt would justly arouse censure and con- demnation, another party in the con spiracy, headed apparently bg Profess sor James Mitchell. of that great and good paper, the Democrat, raised a new song.
 Speaking for this party, the profes- sor depreeateS the war iSSueS;n says tttab nliCA4ilA AiiIlt bC lilNitai VI l4LbiO III it, it should never be raised and to do so will place us, as party, ill the at titude of people ready on the slightest pretext to break our solemn pledges
 He says over and over again that Mr Fishback should not be opposed on ac- count of the war record, but that it would be very unsafe to trust him with the ship of state,' because he is so fs..l. ,ra.ai.ia if r.a n hAt.r- ever, when attempting to illustrate this alleged fault, the learned profes sor has to go back into ancient history and fish up this same alleged record, in order to give an air of plausibility and sincerity to his argument. He does not intimate, nor can he, that Fishback has served in the ranks of the party and during which time he has been universally honored by the entire people, and especially his own he has not been as true as the needle to the pole and certainly as consistent and uniform in his course as some of the ''favorite sons" who are such modest @ efforts, with the consent and conniyance of our professor, to draw the lightning their way.
 Of course, we understand that this is all humbug. They laugh at it themselves in private conversation. But the people are busy and easy to forget, and many of them may be caught by this scarescrow. As an il lustration of the insincerity of the plea, it is only necessary to recall the fact that the professor was q member of" the
 t..l ( l.. ty, that prevented the renomination of Gov ;. r. Hughes in 1888, and that within the present month he has de- clared editorialiy that his first choice for governor is the lion. John G. Fletcher. Now his first choice only five or six years ago (not thirty yearsl was a defeated candidate for governor before democratic convention. It is needless fer us to refer to subsequent events. We all remember Fletcher speech in accepting an anti-democratic when he said: 'I thank God 1 was not born democrat, and hereby burn the bridges behind me-" etc. Therefore, we cannot believe the professor and those for whom he speaks, set such great store by the of consistency as they would have us believe. It is, in fact, all "too utterly too-too for anything"
 Again, the effort is to supplement these two methods of warfare by the ''favorite son' racket and determined effort to stave off instructions, with a view to working the convention. :" Il am not prophet" but l wish to pre- dict that when you and the boys come to the convention in June, you are going to be saluted by doleful assel tiOns about opposition being so general that it will be very dangerous to nomi- nate MT. Fishback, when, as a matter of fact. the opposition, so-cailed, is so much ''sound and fury'' that up to the present time no''favorite sonS,n except the statesman from Ashley, has had nerve enough to allow his name to be used. Of course, there can be but one explanation of this, and that is our 'favorite sonso are strongly persuaded that Mir. Fishback is the choice of vast majority of the party. When these evil prophecies confront you, recollect that the same statesmen have been allowed to have their own way once or twice heretofore, result ing in almost defeat to the party; and my observation has been that the very best way to secure free and enthusi- astic vote of the party is to let the that they have not been triggered and cheated out of their choice by design ing and interested politicians.
 l cannot believe but that an over whelming array of instructions will