Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-17
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The sentiment in favor of com ipromise is composed solely of the the personal friends of these two Republican office holders, their hired henehmen and few misguided I planters, who honestly think that a straight ticket would have ten dency to demoralize the negro labor of the county. But in the latter opinion majority of the planters dc not concur. as has been fully shown by interviews published in the GRAPHIC from time to time with such prominent planters as Leo M. l Andrews, R. l.. Elliott, J. w. Tucker, J. W Corcoran, S. N. Reeder, " B. Greenfield and a number of others whose names we dc not at this moment recall And against such an opinion is the ex- perience of the entire South since the War. No fact has been more fully established since the abolition of slavery than the fact that the negro Is more peaeeable, law -abid- ing and industrious citizen when taken out of the vortex of exciting politics than when excited and wrought up by political meetings and discussions. which take his at tention from his crop and his fields. 1 Since the reforms of two years ago, when the negro was in a great meas ure eliminated from politics, the ex- perience of e5ery planter in this county has been that the negro is a better workman, a more aw-abiding citizen than under previous con ditions. The experiences of the planters in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and all the Southern states since the war go to establish this rule, and there IS absolutely no foundation for the opinion that a straight Democratic ticket will de- moralize the negro labor of Jefferson : county.
 The proposition to make another compromise with the Jones faction of Republicans is too ridiculous to merit serious discussion. Why this faction should be made the favored pets of the Democracy of the county we are at a loss to understand. It is q notorious fact that they are without following or influence in their own party, and that two years ago they were dependent upon the Democratic voters of the county for their election. The Jones faction does not represent Republican sen timent in Jefferson county. In the last election the highest vote pollded by the Jones faction was 439, while the straight Republicans boiled l s515 votes. If, then, a compromise is and must be made, why not make it with the Republicans who repre- sent the Republican party in Jetfer- son county and who have in their ranl s nine tenths ot the Republican voters of the county. As between these factions there Is nothing in common The leaders of the straight Republicans have said that they would rather see a straight Demo cratic ticket than another compro- mise with the Jones faction, and no doubt there are many straight Republicans who would vote for a 1 straight Democratic ticket before they would vote for another compro- mise ticket with the Jones faction of bolters- The proposition for an other compromise with the Jones faction, in effect, is, simply to give two Republicans, without standing, power or influence in their own l party, two offices to which they could not be elected by the Repubi- can voters of the county, and who are dependent solely upon the De moeracy Of of the county for their success. And what about these two Republican offiee holders? The in competency of one is Of public record and has been fully estab Ilished, while the chief recommends
 tion of the other is that he has done nothing very bad, aud whose chief success is due to the selection Of efficient deputies.
 l The GRAPHIC does not believe l there should be another compromise
 The Australian ballot aud poll tax amendment to the co,sfitution have placed the government in the hands of the intelligence aud tax payers of the State, and we would be recreant to all of the late reforms fl we did