Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-20
SHOW YOUR HANDS.
Ringing Communication from q
 Straight Democrat.

Editor GRAPHIC
 It has been suggested by great many leading Democrats of the county that it was time that your esteemed contemporaries were being smoked out and compelled to show their hands. Both the ress-Eagle anh the Commercial Drofesses to be Democratic papers and yet it has been apparent to the most casual reader that since the people in the convention of May l7th ut, declared against the ress- Eagles pet scheme for d negro-radieal-wh com bination, that paper has been dis gruntled, sulking, cavilling at every act of the party and anxiously seek ling some preteXt to bolt it's action and go off into support of an alleged compromise ticket. As the fyee has the little Barraque street animal fawned along at the heels of the
 ress-Eagle, willing and anxious to lend itself (for ;t consideration to any scheme to defeat the white tax payers of Jefferson county, but lack ing the courage to proclaim it's real purposes. The course of the Com merial is !, matter of small moment to the party. The people of this county have learned by long experi- ence that it's editorial support can be bought for money and, hence ii is utterly without influence in local affairs. Bnt the course of the Press l Eagle is a matter of regret to all good Democrats. That paper has always heretofore enjoyed the con fidence of the party, and while at times it has been on the losing side of local questions, and while it's ut terances have often been so bitter as to invite criticism, yet no one has heretofore questioned it's honesty of purpose, however much they differed from it in judgement
 In the present case the course of the Press Eagle is inexplieable and therefore the more to be regretted. The Demoera tie party of this county has spoken in no uncertain tones it's 1 wishes on the question of comprom- ise, and yet the Press Eagle refuses to yield to the will of the majority. More than ninety per cent. of the Democrats of Jefferson county de- clared in favor of thestraight ticket, and yet the Press Eagle refuses tO fall into line and keeps harping on the compromise Compromise with whom? When? How? The Dem ocratic party? Certainly not, for the party has passed on that question and declared against it. Does the 1 Press Eagle purpose to lead a bolt of discontented or defeated aspir- l ants for office and affiliate with the negroes and few white radical 1 bosses in an effort to defeat the Dem ocratic ticket? We had sincerely | hoped not. but the evidence now points strongly in that direction. IL has so far failed to hoist the Demo cratic county ticket at it's mast head. and keeps the announcement i of candidates for nomination still standing as though no convention had been held. 1t has, up to this time, uttered no word of encourage ment to the Democratic party; said nothing in the way Of urging unit y of action. but on the contrary has filled it's columns with forebOdings of defeat and highly colored rumOrs of imaginary discontent, threatened bolts, splits and kicks, and woeful predictions of defeat. k this the usual and proper course for a DEM
 oCRATIC newspapers The answer vii come from the Democracy of Ieffer- son county on September 4, i'll ont long, laundering, emphatic NO!
 A. E. C.