Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-16
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION
CARLzsIE FOR PRESIDENT

lG. w. Miles In Commerclat-Appeaif
 Two principles engage just now
 the attention of the American citi
 zens, just tariff and a sound cur
 rency. The presidential election oi
 1896 will turn upon these vital ques.
 tions. Sectionalism is dead so far
 as dictating presidential candidates
 is concerned. Northern men who
 favor a just tariff would vote for a
 Southern man of similar views
 rather than for a Northern man who favors an unjust tariff. Northern
 men who favor sound money would
 vote for Southern man with similar views rather than for a Union vet eran of pronounced free silver views. This is the first quadrennium since the war that this has been the case, and such being the case, the Demo crats need not look far for their lea der.
 There is one great Democrat who has been for years and is now the ac- knowledged exponent, the undis- puted leader of tariff reform. He is the dearest, strongest man in Amer lea on this issue. Other men have learned at his feet as at the feet of a master. He taughtits lessons even to MT. Cleveland whom it has twice made President. After leading the Lower House of Congress in unan- swerable debate, he was finally sent to the Senate, and although he had been in his seat but few days, he was appointed by his Democratic colleagues to close the debate on the Mills bill, so thoroughly did they recognize in him the foremost cham pion of tariff reform in America. If there is any one man more than another whose arguments brought the American people to reverse the oppressive and iniquitous robber tariff; if there is one man whose clear intellect led his party step by step on this great issue; if there is one man whom political envy did not be- cloud, but who stood out among his associates universally respected, that man is John c. Carlisle of Kentucky. He has been the champion, the lead CT of tariff reform On that issue he has achieved for himself the right to the Democratic nomination for President.
 On the other great issue. sound money, while he has differed from many noble and veteran Democrats from the South, yet he has stood forth again as a leader and an un- answerable debater for the sound money side of this great controversy In this he has been unequalled and unapproachable. Not even the Pres ident himself has been able to exert the influence on the political thought of the country that this great Seere- tary of the Treasury has exerted. And what is more. in the face of ap- parent disapproval by his party, he has gone on and shown courage, character and conviction in dealing with the gravest problems of the generation. In the sale of the Gov ernment bonds, MT. Carlisle has called down upon him great abuse and much misunderstanding. Yet not one of the men who know him intimately, not even Republican leader, has so far lost his own self respect as to charge MT. Carlisle with dishonesty. He simply did his patriotic duty and the American peoples sense of fair play will never see him sacrificed because of it.
 But apart from his own acts in the face of great crises it has been his great speeches in favor of sound money that has won for him the ad- and gratitude of the Amer ican people. Even the free silver advocate are bound to respect him more than such skulking political leaders as Reed, Mckinley, and Har- rison, who avoid any expression on the silver question as though it were the leprosy, and 1ainly try to ignore such a burning ssue. Mr. Carlisle is almost soli- ;ary among the great political lea lers of America in his heroic efforts 'o keep the masses of the people loyal 0 sound money. His Kentucky and l Memphis speeches have scarcely | Yer been equalled in their fairness,