Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-08

oue pY iSdoOi oi Us idfSe Demo cratic vote, the city of Pine Bluff has the deciding vote in the conven- tlon, and as majority of the wards of this city go, so will go the conyen- tion. In view Of this fact, it is i'm portant that there should be large attendance of all the ward conven- tions to be held tomorrow night so that there can be full, free and fair expression of opinion
 The occasion is important and full of meaning to Jefferson county. We have reached a crisis in our affairs. Since 1878 the county has been laboring under the incubus of a com promise which has filled the higest, most responsible and most profitable offices with ignorant and incom- petent men; oyer-run the county with reckless and irresponsible ne. gro deputy sheriffs; demorali2ed labor, retarded our growth and pre- yentented our prosperity. The records in the Circuit Clerk office are known to be in demoralized con dition, which concerns the home, happiness and property of every citizen of Jefferson county, and which will require several months of hard and intelligent work to be strengthened out in the proper man ner. By reason of the compromise and a reckless and villainCus negro deputy sheriff, a race riot on the most prominent thoroughfare of Pine Bluff was narrowly ayerted few years ago. In consequence of a compromise the people of Jefferson county, both white and black alike. have been over-run by unscrupulous negro deputy sheriffs in the past, the labor of the county demoralized, and life and happiness imperilled. Under such condition of public affairs the progress of our county one of the grandest. richest and most fertile in the State.-has been i'm peded, and we have been bound with shackles similar to those which held us in the days of recon struction. We are now in the light of a new day with full promise of brighter morrow, where there will be peace, happiness and prosperity, and the rule of the Anglo Saxon race will be complete and absolute. It is now within the power of the Democrats of Jefferson county, under late constitutional and legislative reforms, to gain complete and abso- late control of county affairs the first eanagtuRity since the war. Will the Democrats avail themselves of that opportunity? If it is lost, it may be lost forever. The Democrats Of the county and
 
 Pine Bluff are now called Oh to de- eide whether we shall advance in the sunlight of the future, fill the eoun- try with peace and prosperity, build up Pine Bluff to magnificent city, where we can invite capital and i'm migration to abide with us in peace and security, or return to the un- happy conditions which have pre- vailed under compromise in the past, retarded our growth, and shackled us with nanacles of Re publican misrule and misgoyern- snegt.
 Let the Democrats of Jefferson county arise to the magnitude, meaning and dignity of the situation and by bold, united and determined action free thewselyes from the fet- ters which have bound us in the past Then there will be peace, prosperity and security among all races, and the measure of our hap piness will be full to the brim.
 Let the Democrats of Jefferson do theiF auey boldly and fearlessly,
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