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 GENTLEMEN As a citizen of long stantl- ing in Arkansas, take the liberty of express ing through the columns of your paper, my preferences individually and politically, for Chester Ashley, as the choice Of the Demo- cratic party, for Senatorin Congress pass hy any supposed claims he may have to that office, as the expression is commonly used now. Others might regard the fact that he has been for years identified v'ith the party, and laboring for it's support, as giving him a high claim to its honors. But our prefer ences ought to be based upon the merit and qualifications of those whom we are about to select as public servants, and not bestow- ed, as merely the reward of past services.- Without intending to dlsparage the claims or qualifications oi any other person for that high station, ] consider Col. Ashley emia- ently qualified by lis experience, his person. al worth, his acknowledged talents. and his long residence in the Siate, and thorough ac- qualniance with the wants and wishes of the people. He IS, in fact, one of the pioneers oi Arkansas one among the oldest of our citizens now living, and still able and will ling, Il need be, to endure the hardships and privations of former years

 In selecting public servant to represent us In the councils of the nation, we want a man capable of understanding our interests. and faithful to advocate and guard them.- We want man in Congress who would do us credit; of whose position there, we could ieei proud. Il is now settled, by the recent elections, that our next Senator must be la ken rom the ranks of the Democratic par 'y, sound i'll all the cardinal doctrines of its