Show i 1 r i DISLOYAL ARKANSAS I 1 1 1 I 1 if any additional evidence were needed to strengthen the opinion that I 1 the legislature of arkansas ie Is composed I 1 ot of unpatriotic men and rebels the telegraphic item from little rock rack published in TUB tas last friday will supply it F first fret they authorized the painting at 1 I i public expense ot of a life size portrait I 1 of that arch traitor jefferson Jeff ereon daus davis upon the receipt of the portrait it was 1 placed over the speakers desk in the house of representatives taking the 1 I I 1 place of the portrait of george washington which had been hanging on if I 1 the wall for tile past twenty years ll 11 1 the dispatch fails falls to state that the ie 1 portrait of the father of hie his country 1 1 was ordered to be removed to the 1 1 11 I 1 junk chop shop preparatory to being con t deigned to the crematory but that would hive have been a fitting finale to tho I 1 I 1 whole scandalous proceeding in the tile senate on the same day a bill appropriating I 1 2500 for the worlds I 1 fair was defeated the question quee tion naturally arises are thu the members of tho the arkansas Ar kansis legislature fools or knaves the answer ie is they are a 1 1 combination of both with the element I 1 I 1 I 1 of knavery predominating such bach incidents as these are not calculated I 1 to inspire confidence in the I 1 loyalty of the people of arkansas 11 4 to republican institutions these legislators hare have rendered them I 1 N I 1 1 eulyes contemptible in the opinion of 1 ik every honorable citizen of the republic I 1 r f they in effect have placed the 1 f flag ot of the defunct confederacy above I 1 I 1 the stars and stripes their act will I 1 I 1 rank with that of the italian boata en i in the harbor ot of new now orleans who 4 floa floated led the flag of italy at st the masthead I 1 of their craft with the american I 1 11 flax underneath union down when I 1 4 4 they learned that a bribed jary jury had f acquitted acquit led a band of Si sicilian Bici cillan llna assassins I 1 it goes without baylog that the 1 1 dastardly act will find apologists in a i i the north but they will not be of the 1 I 1 republican par party for arkansas ie is a democratic state and euch such an act I 1 would be impossible in ina a republican bf 4 detate it atia Is not democratic I 1 Z I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 I 1 N 11 I 1 1 Z box I 1 U IF 1 1 11 k 1 I 1 J t I 1 1 plea but democratic practice that bae has led up to the commission commis eion ot of this cros crowning ning infamy in the infamous career pursued by arkansas since the close of the war it is the natural sequence of the disloyal teaching of 0 theAr the Arkansas kaneas democratic press such a thing might be expected to happen only in a state whore where there ie Is no true republican form of government aa as is the case in arkansas and where peaceable de fenceless citizens zens a whose only offense was republicanism republican can lam and fealty to the national flag alg have for years been in fear of their lives and at times been forced to floe to the dismal swamps and dark recesses of the forest to escape from the democratic reign of terror which has prevailed in that state ever since it was declared reconstructed and the federal bayonets were withdrawn d rawn arkansas may well be con a eldered as a commonwealth commonweal ib composed of people who are without the idea of nationality who are haters baters of our institutions of learn log who lack intelligence and are destitute of patriotism |