Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-02
DOES THIS WET YOU g
IF IT DON'T, WILL CLOUD UP
 AGAIN"
"I Denounce Arthur Murray as Liar and
 Traducer of Decent People"

delivered itself.
 The charge about the reduction of the saloon license is an old and ex- ploded one. The facts are, that dur ing the year 1886 the City Council passed an ordinance reducing the saloon license from $500 to $500, which I vetoed An election for Aldermen then took place and one half of the City Council came fresh from the people and at once enacted this ordinance, which l permitted to become a law, believing that those Aldermen who had been so recently elected reflected the wishes of the people in that regard. Now, nearly all these names produced in the Press Eagle by initials. some of which I recognize, are now alive and most of them engaged in the saloon business, and if the PresS-Eagle can produce the affidavit of any single one of them that The community would believe on oath that he ever paid me one cent to influence my action as Mayor of the city of Pine Bluff, havn't word to say.
 Capt. N. T. Roberts and W. z. Tankersley bought a piece of proper ty fronting npon Main street over 520 feet, and on Martin avenue some thing over 100 feet. They proposed to dedicate strip on Main street to the city, and the Council undertook to pay them for it, which I success l fully defeated. As 1 took the posi- tion that they were more directly benefited by the opening of the street than the city could possibly be, and I think time has fully demonstrated that I was entirely right in the premises.
 The Press-Eagle gives LIS the copy of articles of impeachment to be pre- fered against me which were never presented. I suppose they are still i'll the hands of the same attorney Am I to be held responsible for any paper any lawyer may write about me? If so, the Press-F Eagle should be governed by the same rule, and if he will call at my ofiiceI willprOmise to furnish him with literature such as this:
 The Press Eagle is very massey sheet. Mr. Arthur Murray, it's edi- tor, is a dirty liar and traducer of decent people.
 With regard to the Water < Light contract not being upon the city re- cords I know nothing. Mr. D.. Aschaffenburg, very worthy citi- zen, was the City Clerk at the time the contract was let,and as provided by law, the same was delivered to him and he furnished the Board of | Public Affairs with a certified copy thereof, and that is all know about | it.
 The statement that I east the de- ciding vote upon the awarding of the Water < Light contract is deliber- ately false, as the contract was let and the ordinance passed by unani- nous vote.
 The Press Eagle says that the Water X Light Company took steps to attack the validity of their ordin- ance. Now when and where did they take those steps? This is false; no such steps were taken.
 In one breath the Press Eagle says that l cast the deciding vote to fasten this ordinance upsn the city and in the very next says that my antagonism to the original Water & Light Company was such as to drive them out of the City. What a lie.
 Now, as to the testimony which the Press Eagle undertakes to quote from being in his possession where he can lay his hands on it. l desire to call your attention to sec ctions 20442 and 2043, Sandel and Hills Digest of the laws of Arkansas:
 Section 2042. Every grand jury may appoint one of the number to be clerk thereof to preside and keep the minutes of their proceedings and of the evidence given before them.
 Section 2043. The minutes of the proceedings kept shall be delivered to the Prosecuting Attorney when so directed by the grand jury. Now, as no such order has ever been made, and as you will see from the following correspondence that the Prosecuting Attorney is in pos session of no such testimony, I de- nounce any such papers as the Press Eagle pretends to be in possession, ,or have at hand, as fraud or forgery.
 PINE BLUE, ARK, April l, 1895. Mir. s. c. Martin, Prosecuting Attorney. City. i DEAR SRI herewith hand you a Press Eagle Extra of this date and write to ask you as Prosecuting At torney of this judicial district if any such testimony is purported to be | sr; uan hafora a brand iurv is now or