Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-23
FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET. A IBREEzY COMMUNICATION FROM
 S. GAULIGAN. The Press Eagle and Commercial Are Do ing More to DemoFaiize Labor Than All the Straight Tickets That
 Could Be Put in the
 Field. He Says.
TUCKER. ARK, 2f.=1S94

TUCKER, ARK 21, 1s94.
 Hon.J J. ". Adams. Editor GRAPHIC.
 DEAR SIR-As it appears to be the order of the day that voters and non
 voters of Jefferson county are giving
 vent to their political ideas through the columns of some of the county papers, will you please give space iu your paper for q few remarks from
 me. By glaneing over the Press-Ea- gle of your city find that its editor has prepared and sent out circulars, as it seems. to q select few, to get eX- pressions on what kind of ticket would be best to put in the field this year l fird that among those few who have answered, there is a diver sitY of opinion as to what would be 1 best for the geneI al interest of the county. Some think that it is not eXpedient to put out a straight ticket, while others, fully as well posted, think it the proper thing to do. some claim that it is not right in principle; that the Republicans have mquestionably from 4,000 to 5000 majority when they c0mpro- missed with the county Democracy
 Allow me, sir, if you please, to ask when did the Republicans get such majority Is it not a fact that the majority are all negroes except 300 or 400 all told. Then, if there are only that many white Republicans, the remainder certainly are negroes. In the years from 1868 to 1878 were there any compromise in this county? Did the Republicans not hold all the offices in the county? Why did they about the year 1878 condescend to compromise with Jefferson county Democracy? Was it because they were so liberal-hearted, so fair, and loved the Democrats so well? think not sir; or l am badly mistaken in the history given to me from the lips of some of the pioneer Democrats who were here in those days when it i tried mems souls to be Democrats There is more than one Democrat left in this county who helped make the political fight for Democracy in those days. During reconstruction days did the Jefferson county people put Democrats in office? Who filled
 the offices in those days? Wonder if there is a Democrat in the county who ran for Constable or Justice of the Peace and was elected and never heard of his commission only t0 hear 1 that the man he defeated was in- stalled in office in his stead That
 was the fec0gHitiOns the poor Demo- crats received at the hands of those generous and kind hearted Republi- cans. This state of affairs continued
 to exist un .il about 1878. Why did they at this datechange their tactics? ] Was it from q remnrse of conscience j that had overtaken those sainte1 Re- l pnblicans and from change of heart l they concluded to sin no more, as ] they had done. counting out Demo l CIdlH dlld lhdhltS ldlaS iNth lio against us? Ii. sir mistake not, it was not goodness on the part of the
 Republicans. They had run their race to the end. Providence called a
 halt on such infamy and put the
 breaks on their vehicle of injustice. 1 In 1872, about six years before the compromise, did not the Democrats elect Joe Brooks Gov. of this State, and did not those sainted Republi- cans count him out and put in Elisha 1 Baxter, who never was elected? This is when claim the intervention of q kind Providence, for it was Il God
 send act for the people of Arkansas.
 Through mistake the Republicans
 did it; for when they found that Mir. Baxter was not the tool they wanted