Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-02-08
OFFICE: NO. IF PINE STREET.
 TELEPHONE No. 102.
PINE BLUFF. ARK, FEB. x. is9f
THE {RESS IND PRLUARLEs

THE PRES,S AND PRIUARIE.S.
 The Little Rock Press is never satisfied without cutting some new caper. Following the example set by the St. Louis Republc in writing editorials and addressing them to Congress, the editor of the Press last Tuesday indited lengthy editorial to the candidates for the State Sem ate and the Lower House of the next General Assembly, in which the Press calls upon every candidate for the Legislature to have the names of all the candidates for the United States Senate put upon the tickets to be voted in the primaries. The Press bases it's action upon what it believes to be an effort on the part of certain politicians to stife the voice of the Democratic voters of the State through an edict from the State Central Committee for bidding the names of candidates for the U. $. Senate being put upon the tickets at the Democratic primaries. The Pless, in that connection, fails to tell us by what right the candi- dates for the Legislature have to order the people to vote upon that or any other question in the prima- ries. Neither the candidates for the U. s. Senate or the candidates for the Legislature have any authority to order the people to. do this, that or the other. The Constitution of the United States has prescribed the method of electing United States Senators, and, so far as we have been able to observe the great body of the people are willing that it should remain in the manner established by our forefathers, without dictation or interference with constitutional privilege. All of this hue and cry about Senatorial primaries, we have observed, comes from the Fishback organs. Do they imagine that Gov Fishback has the voters of the State hypnotised, and that if left to a vote Gov. Fishback has "cinch" on that office? We would advise the advocates Of Fish back to make haste slowly along that line. It is true that MT Fishbaek was overwhelmingly nominated for Governor, but it must also be re membered that he individually no opposition whatever. Then there were.lots of people who favored MT. Fishback for Governor who will not favor him for the Senate. If Gov. Fishback desired a second term as Governor, there would be no doubt of his election. The GRAPHIC sup ported Mir. Fishback for Governor at the last general election, and would do so again were he eandi- date, but then, the Senate is quite another thing.
 We would admonish his supporters to look deeper than surface indica- tions. We would also admonish the Press that the people look beyond and under surface indications; for 1t need not flatter itself that its ad- ,ocacy for primaries, and early primaries at that, is not thoroughly understood by the public. Prima- ries and early primaries are advo- cated for the reasons that it is sup posed by the Fishback organs that the Governor has the people hypnotized, and that for that reason early primaries would be to his ad- vantage It is for Fishback's $ aa- vancement that they would violate the Constitution, break down old and established precedents, and establish a new innovation fraught with dangerous consequences.
 AS Abraham Lincoln once said ]. s..You can fool all ot the people q part of the time, a part of the pee. pie all the time, but you cant fool all the people all the time.
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