Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-03
SOUR GRAPES J IS WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE EDITOR OF THE COM MERCIAL AND MIR. HAL
 DAVID.
Breezy Correspondence Which Throws Some Light Upon the Present Situa-
 tion.

Immediately after the GRAPHIc's announcement of it's purpose to shortly issue a special edition setting forth the resources and business enter prises of this city and county, and that Mr. Hal David, an expert in this line of service, had been employed to do the work, the Press-Eagle an nounced that it, too, wonld issue trade edition in the fall, which an nouncement was immediately fol- lowed in turn by the Me Too Com mercial that in the course of time it would also follow the procession led by the GRAPHIC and is ue q special edition of some character, "details ayoidsd) in the Spring.
 From that day te this the Com mercial in almost every issue has waged personal warfare against Mir. David and the GRAPHIcs enter prise, stopping to make the most contemptiLle le and .demagOgic refer erences to either or both. Not con- tent with personally vilifying the promoters of the enterprise in the columns of his wayward sheet. the editor of the Commercial has on the streets and in a personal way done every thing possible to discourage and defeat the movement.
 Heretofore we have paid no atten- tion whatever to his abuse of Mir. David or our enterprise, but there is limit to endurance, and we feel it incumbent upon us to expose the hypocrisy and insincerity of his words and acts.
 The factof the business is that it is a. case of sour grapes with the editor of the Commercial. The s'milk in the cocoanut" is that Mr David is doing. the work for the GRAPHIC in prefer ence to the Commercial. and that. the Commercial editors efforts to secure Mr. Dayid's services resulted in failure.
 After Mr. David had gotten out a mammoth edition of the Galveston Tribune he wrote letter to the eJi- tor of the Commercial and the editor of the GRAHPIC seeking employment for a similar service in Pine Bluff In some manner the editor of the GRAPHIC mislaid Mr. Dayid's letter and it went unanswered, but the editor of the Commercial immediate ly replied and a correspondence en- sued between Mr. David and the editor of the Commercial. This cor respondence resulted in the former sending the latter contract for the latter's signature. To this letter the editor of the Commercial re sponded as follows:
 PINE BLUFF, Ark, May 22, 1866 MT. Hal David.
 Dear Sir:-As per request 1 return to you the papers you sent me. l will say that guess it will be time enough to make 8 contract with you when you come over. 1 must say that l don't exactly understand what you require of me. When you come over will try and meet you fairly. Very truly yours,
 CHARLES GORDON NEWMAN.
 In response to this letter, Mir. Hal David came "over" to Pine Bluff. When he arrived here Maj. Newman was out of the city and his exact location could not be ascertained. MT. David wrote Maj. Newman a letter and then telegraphed him at his sup posed address, but in the meantime the editor of the Commercial had changed his whereabouts and the letter and telegram were not received until duly forwarded. During that time-almost week-Mr. David re- mained in the city, and after waiting a due length of time, concluded that he had fully performed his duty and obligation to Mai. Newman and thereupon applied to the GRAPHIC for a similar contract for the same service, which was made and signed on the 18th day of June.
 On the following day Mir. David
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