Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-24
PINE BLUFF, ARK, JULY 24, 1885
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION,
4 PERSONAL STATEMENT.

Since the editor of the GRAPHIC engaged in the newspaper business in this city in September, 1888, he has earnestly endeavored to culti- vate cordial and friendly relations between himself and his local con- temporaries and competitors. We have earnestly endeayored to make ours mission of peace and love, and to make the GRAPHIG's columns bris- tie with happiness, good cheer, and good will, and to do that which would rebound to the best interests of our city, and advance, in the highest degree, the interests of re- igion and civilization.
 But our kindly offerings have nev- CT been received with a reciprocal spirit by at least one of our contem- poraries; namely, the Press-Eagte, over whose editorial columns MT. Arthur Murray presides.
 In season and out of season the malicious editor of the Press Eagls has poured forth the vials of his wrath and hatred upon the editor of the GRAPHIC. Even our humblest act. such as an excursion to Mexico with the humble announcement that while in that country we would in- vestigate the social and financial conditions that obtain there and give our readers the result of our investigations upon our return, was taken as the subject for a column ed itorial in the Press -Eagle in which we were held up to public scorn and ridicule, and even the contemptible trick of magnifying an apparent typographical error into an act of ignorance was resorted to. And in the campaign of 1894 after MT. c. R. Breckinridge had been appointed Ambassador to Russia, thereby ere ating a vacancy in Congress from this district, and when the editor of the GRAPHICs name was mentioned by the local correspondent of the Globe Democrat for the vacancy out of compliment to his efforts in behalf of Maj. Breckinridge in that cam paign, the editor of the Press-Edgie again made this the occasion of vent ing his personal spleen by unjust and unwarranted criticisms and per- sonalities.
 It will also be remembered that during the straight ticket campaign last year that the GRAPHIC and its editor were the subjects of frequent abuse and offensive personalities, which have been continued at inter- yals since.
 If the public will pause but q few moments to reflect, they will remem- Der that MT. Murray, from the time MT. Adams assumed charge of the GRAPHIC and made success of that paper, has made him the target for personal pique and spleen in the columns of the Press -Eogle.
 In whatever controversies between these two newspapers in the past, the first offensive epithets and per sonal animadversions have come from the columns of the Press Eagle.
 Many of these the editor of the GRAPHIC has borne in silence and fortitude; at other times he has re piled in such language as the occa- sion provoked. We have neither in vited any personal newspaper con troversies, nor sought toayoid them when thrust upon us. But there is a limit to human forbearance, ane that point has now been reached.
 In the present differences betweel the editor of the GRAPHIC and ths Press Eag1e, the latter has been th' first to soverstep the broad line Q demarkation between leaitimat' newspaper discussion and vil l6sctiv' personal abuse' statement sha can be substantiated by perusal Q