Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-17
PINE BLUFF, ARK, JULY r, 1895.
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION,
Sr4NDING BY THE RECORD.

$ STANDING BY THE RECORD. Rolling, rollicking laughter is something despised by the cynic and misanthrope, because his heart beats not in response to feeling so gay and lively. He looks only to snarl, not to laugh. He prefers to go through the world growing like a mangy bulldog (with an apology to the dog) snarling at anything and everything that throws a shadow athwart his pathway, or crosses his purposes and i'll will. To one so ill., tempered laughter is q crime, what ever may have been the promptings of such merriment.
 Because the editor of the GRAPHIC, the sad-eyed, serious young man, gave vent last week to his long pent up merriment, the Diogenes who pre- sides over the editorial columns of our weekly contemporary, the Press Eagte, reads us in his issue of yes terday a very ugly lecture, with little sarcasm and grataitous advice thrown in, which largely consists of lot of common place expressions that have been hawked about every bar-room and groggery for the last ten years, and which no doubt, by the vulgar are considered humorous.
 The occasion of the GRAPHIo's laughter which has evoked the dis pleasure of the bulldogfaced and be- sotted editor whose thought throbs"-to borrow his own words are recorded in the columns of the Press Eagle, was hearty editorial hal hal hal in last weeks GRAPHIC over paragraph contained in last weeks Press Eagle complimentary to one of our efficient straight ticket officers. A compliment to straight ticket Democrat from the Press Eogle,: in view of it's record during the last campaign, we thought an occasion eminently proper for mer- riment and laughter, and in the ex- tolerance of our joy we gave full vent to our long pent up feelings.
 But our hal ha! has! did not set well on the tender tympanum of the mule-eared and mule headed editor of our weekly contemporary. The ed- tor of the Press Eagle is one not to be laughed at, nor to be sneezed at, either, for that matter. The editor aforesaid would have you under stand that he is some pnmpkinsl The "sad-eyed, serious young states man, whose thought t-throbs are re- corded in the GRAPHIC cannot "smole'' few old time, winning
 smiles at the aforesaid with i'm punity. The great tycoon, with a searicature of face, must not be scoffed at in that manner, so the vials of his excited wrath are poured upon our meek and lowly head, and in belabored effort he seeks to undo . his wrong doing by denying the language attributed to him by the :. GRAPHIC as being used in the last campaign. We appreciate the re- morseful spirit and contrite beart eyinced by the effort to escape his own language, and we desire to soothe his remorseful spirit by the assurance that
 sAs long as the light holds out to burn
 The yilest sinner may return" etc
 But mems words do rise up to haunt them, and the editor of the Press Eagle must stand up to the record he has made, however pain ful the effort may be.
 Yesterdays issue of the Press Eagle, among other things, said:
 *s After tickling himself in the ribs until he succeeds in giving his readers a very fair imitation of a laughing hyena the usually solemn young Solon proceeds to stul- tify himself and paper by inditins this de- very month the Press Eagle was vehemently denouncing the straight-ticket movement straight-ttcket Democrats and straight ticket cadidates," and then he proceeds to quote language evolved from his own cratic brain, and attribute it to the Press-Eagle. in support of his assertion that the present Sheriff and Circuit Clerk, and all straight ticket candidates and Democrats. were ',de- nounced' by this paper.
 That part evolved from our own