Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-06-28
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION.
SL1NDER REFUTED.

Now that Democracy has sl0mped in Kentucky there is satisfaction in Knowing that Kentucky is no South ern State and never was much ot q Democratic State.
 Kentucky is a State of politicians, the State of Phil Thompsons and Billy Breekinaidges.
 Kentucky. the home ot great poll- ticians, has neither the proud dis tinction of having been one of the original thirteen that gloritied the Union in 1776, nor one of the santl= fled thirteen that made Southern soil sacred in '61 and 64. She was neither one or the other in that great fratricidal struggle, but spent her time as she did during the early days of the Republic when for twenty long years succeeding l784 she was intriguing with Spain for secession.
 It was in Blue Grass Kentucky that Aaron Burr, arch conspirator against his country, found his great est sympathy, greatest encourage ment and greatest support.
 ' be at last betrayed into British tolls it is eminently proper that Kentucky the home of eonspirators, intrig6ers and tories, should open the door and invite the enemy in.-G. R. Williams in Fort Smith Democrat
 The above is reasonable. It is an unjustifable slander of Kentucky and all Kentuckians In this pyro- teehnic display Bro Williams does himself no credit. It is the ebulition of distempered mind whose intense hate of the administration and every thing connected with it is largely inspired by personal ehagrin conse- quent upon the failure to receive a fat public office at the hands of the administration which Bro Williams now villiGes so vehemently. His language is not only ill-tempered, but unpatriotic, and in order to vent his personal hate he misrepresents the history of one of the granaest old Commonwealths in this glorious Union. If Kentucky was not one of the original thirteen States that fought in the revolution, it was be- cause Kentucky was not at that time State, but a part of the "0ld Do minion" of Virginia-the mother of Presidents who gave to this Nation Washington, a Jefferson, a Madi- son, Monroe,a a Patrick Henry and 9 Robert E. Lee. Kentucky as State did not participate in the war of the revolution for the same reason that Ohio, Arkansas and the other twenty-nine since settled and organ ized States did not.
 However, though only a county in the State of Virginia Ken lucky gave many of her bravest sons to fight the war of the reYolu- tion.
 As to Aaron Burr there is no more foundation for the, statement that he found his greatest sympathy in Kentucky than for saying the same thing about Ohio or any other State contiguous to his operations. Aaron Burr's little scheme was in regard to an island in the Ohio river near Cincinnati and history does not record that the Kentuckians connived at his trea- son.
 But what of Kentucky? In the conflict between the States she gave freely of her sons and citizens to North and South alike, and being border State and subjected alike to raids from the soldiers in blue and gray, she suffered more prehaps than any other Statein the South. Since the war there has not been presidential election in which she has not cast her vote with the solid South for Democracy. Her people are so imbued with the spirit of true Democracy that even the wild-eyed and long-haired Populists have been unable to make any head way in that commonwealth, which is great deal more than can