The Forrest City times., 1892-08-12
Featherston. Carnahan ana the
 Force Bill.

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 Arkansas Gazette.
 MT. l.. F. Featherston when in con gress voted for the force" bill. know ing it's object to be the virtual disfran- chisement of the white democratic yo- ters in the South by wrestling from them all control of their elections. When that measure was befors the Fifty-frst congress, where he sat in a stolen seat, MT. Featherston endorsed the following blood-thirstY phillipie hurled by the notorious Kelley of Kan sas against Arkansas:
 MT. Speaker-We see this wave of political murder roll across the Mssis- sippi river into Arkansas; we see hum dredS of humble, but loyal and true republican victims fail sacrifice to democratic hate; day after day. night after night. they fall in the humble cabin, in the presence of wife and chil- drent, on the highway, in the field, in the lonesome wood. in the jails where they have been placed by the officers of the law on some false pretext, that they might be taken at greater disad- vantage by the eowardly democratic assassin. And yet republicans in that state persist in exercising their politi- cal rights. The leaders must be killed, is the democratic edict.
 He (Featherston) is a republican, has been confederate soldier. was born and raised and has all his life lived in the South, but if the demo- cratic programme is carried out he must die. Ten thousand dead already who is the next to die?' might be written of those heroic. seif-sacrificing republicans of the South, and only half the truth expressed. Every dead man a republican, every assassin demo- cratic, is also truth. Political murder seems to be d pastime, and 'nigger hunt as sport, is as exhilarating as the old time fox hunt"
 Instead of resenting this foul, infa- nous islander on the white people of his state. as several of his colleagues did, MT. Featherston gave Kelley's atro- cious lies the following endorsement:
 Not one of the assertions made by the gentleman from Kansas relative to political murders, not one of his asser- tions can be denied in regard to these results, and not one can be denied in regard to the cause. These are just as he stated. There has not been a single conviction by the state courts. Now, gentlemen. this is to be deplored, and I regret it; but it stands there, and there is nothing to contradict it."
 Then, recognized as republican. sitting with the republicans, and vot- ing with the republicans as republi- can. MT. Featherston is now the nndisputed leader, the head and front of the Peoples party that recent lv set Prof. Carnahap on end as can didate for governor.
 Mir. Featherston voted for the force bill, and the Peoples party state con vention found nothing in the force bill to condemn. Why? Because Q) Mir. Featherston's views were the views of the convention, and (2) be. cause the republican state convention had already endorsed FeatherSton s position by demanding force legisla- tion for Arkansas and the South es- pecially for Arkansas, upon whose white people he desires to wreak ven geance. Prof. Carnahan cannot escape | from the position forced on him by his political affiliations. He represents a platform whose framers held MT. | teatherston's views and interests above the liberties of the white people of Arkansas, and whose members en- dorsed their acts without question He is now canvassng the state in the hope of inducing democrats to vote for him for governor, though we'll aware that his own election is impossible, and ! that every democratic vote he receives 1 IS substantially vote to weaken the democrats and strengthen Col Whip pie, the bloody shirt" waver, who is the republican nominee.
 Prof. Carnahan will find his posi- tion most embarrassing and humlia- ting as he continues his work as a re- publican decoy; for, willingly or un- willingly. that is his only attitude be- fore the public.