Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-07
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION.
4 PROPOSITION WITH
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 The willy editor of the Press Eagle is still at his willy tricks. The GRAPHIC has repeatedly challenged him to the proof ot the infamous lie to which he gave birth when he stated some two weeks ago that the editor of the GRAPHIC had borrowed money from the keeper of a house of prostitution, which materially aided him to his present start in life'." The editor of the GRAPHIC has twice denounced the statement as alie, and as many times challenged the proof, but in the last two issues of the Press Eagle, MT. Murray has resorted to some kind of cowardly subterfuge. If the statement were true, it ought to be easy enough to produce the proof, but in lieu there of, he is content to eschew the is- sue by ascribing his failure to name the 'keeper of a house of prostitu- tion" from whom the editor of the GRAPHIC is supposed to have bor- rowed money to an "indisposition to burden our (the Press -Eagle's) read CTS with the details of his (Mr. Adams) private financial affairs; yet in the same issue he devotes nearly a column to diatribe of epithets which no gentleman with a spark of manhood yet remaining in his breast would employ. Whether his failure to produce the proof, as called for by the editor of the GRAPH 10, is due to the fact that there is none to produce, or his failure to name the keeper of the house of prostitution" fromw hom the writer is supposed to have borrowed money is due to cowardice, is a question upon which we decline to venture an opinion. However, if his informa- tion is "reliable" or true and cor rect" it certainly seems strange that the proof is not forthcoming. We beg to assure Mr. Murray that nei- ther the editor of the GRAPHIC nor any of his relatives have any de sire whatever to suppress such Gin formation" but, on the other hand, each and all court the widest inYes- tigation.
 MT. Murray is pleased to make references to courts of law. If MT. Murray will quit dealing in glitter ing generalities' and name the skeeper of house of prostitution from whom Mr. Adams is charged with borrowing money, and come out in the open and not, like a guer- rilla, hide in the bushes, or, like an assassin, sneak around in the dark If he will be little more specific, we will prove his charges to be false in court. In his present method of hiding in the dark behind some Ire liable informant and some Keeper of house of prostitution" his cowardly taunt to appeal to the courts does not stand him in good stead.
 In yesterdays Press Eagle, in the course of a blackguard editorial, Mir. Murray submits three propositions which he very generously offers to hold open until August 10th, and to which We invite the careful atter- tion of our readers. The proposi- tions are as follows:
 PROPOSITION 1.
 On yesterday there was deposited in the
 hands of the cashier of the Bank of Pine
 Bluff certified check for One Hundred
 Dollars (slO0. which we will donate to any
 worthy charitable purpose in the city If
 we are not able to convince committee
 of any three reputable business men in
 the city that our statements concerning
 the disputed financial transaction be-
 tween MT. Adams and the keeper of a
 house of prostitution" is based upon the
 testimony of one or more reputable, cred
 itable informants, who received their in-
 formation direct from one of the parties
 to the transaction: provided,lthe editor of
 the GRAPHIC will deposit Fifty Dollars
 (s5O), to be similarly donated in the event
 we convince the committee of the credi-