Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-24
of the Press Eoqze.


 character of MT. Adams. which was intimated would follow as result of his failure to sign an humiliating re- traction, (which the Press Eagle is pleased to designate as entirely honorable9) appeared in the Press Eagle of yesterday, the 23rd inst.
 Among other things, after quoting a paragraph from the GRAPHIC, the editor of the Pfess-Ea9le says:
 Unlike the young fair-brained ego tist and self-constituted champion of temperance and morality, whose idea of wit and hilarity is to indict such miserable rot as above, he, the edi- tor of the Press Eaglel is no canting hypocrite. Should he have business with a saloon, or inclination to pat ronize it, he goes i'll the front way iii broad daylight, rather than through alleys after nightfall, to become in- volved in a disgraceful broil with men of the town about nnthruthful publications concerning on unfortu- nate inmate of n house of prostitu- tion, who was arrested i'll this city and taken to Memphis, charged with committing theft from her mother. Such was the unpleasant predica- ment of the editor of the GRAPHIC, in the saloon located nearest his office on West Baraque street, with an alley entrance facing south, one night last winter"
 Without stopping to notice the scurrilous language of the above, or descanting upon hypocrisy, with an opportunity so inviting for profta ble explorations and investigations, the editor of the GRAPHIC has only to explain the incident above al- luded to to honorably acquit himself of any charge of blame. It was on the night of December 19, 1894, when the editor of the GRAPHIC was run ming morning daily paper, about the hour of midnight, when, as was our custom, the writer went in search of lunch. Passing by the Elk saloon, on Barraque street, the writer observed the hot tamala man in the rear, aud immediately walked through the front door back to the saloon in the rear and invested in lunch. While devouring the lunch with the rapacity of an average hungry editor at midnight on a morning daily, he became engaged in conversation with two young linen of the town In the course of the conversation the GRAPHIC's editor mentioned the fact that the paper of the following morning would contain an article from the Memphis Scinitar giving an account of the arrest of an inmate of a house of prostitution in Pine Bluff on the charge of theft. To the publication of this article one of the young men entered a vehement protest, stating that the woman was innocent of the charge and that such a publication would do her great injustice. To this the editor of the GRAPHIC re- piled that he wished to do the wo- man no wrong, but that the article had been published in the Memphis papers; that it was a legitimate news item; that it was already up in type, and that it would be published; :; but that if the young man in ques- tion had anything to say in defense of the unfortunate woman, the GRAPHIC would publish it imme- diately following the article from the ,Scimitor, which was done, and that was the end of it. If the editor of the Press-Eagle has never become en- gagged in a "disgraceful broil" any worse than that mentioned above, he has indeed been fortunate.
 The editor of the Press Eagle in his long catalogue of what he has mot done, in his issue of yesterday also says:
 "Nor was the editor of the | Press Eagle, throughout long newspaper and business career, ever 1 forced to the extremity of borrowing money from the keeper of a house of prostitution, while posing as mor- alist and soliciting business from all denominations as a shining light in the Y. NJ. c. \. This, we are very reliably informed, is the unenviab ble dual position sustained by the editor of the GRAPHIC toward the people of this city only a few years ago. We will do Mir. Adams the justice to state that our informant says the obligation has since been cancelled; but it must occur to all fair-minded honorable men that person having once rested under such obligation, which materially assisted him to his present start in life, would be slow to malign or abuse others for