Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-28
degrade, the public service.
 It Demands Especial Attention.

degrade, the public service.
 It Demands Especial Attention.
 There are other important and timely declarations in the platform which can not here discuss 1 must content myself with saying that they have my approval. lf as Republicans, we have lately ad- dressed our attention with what may seem great stress and earnestness to tho new and unexpected assault upon the fnan- cial integrity of the government, we have done it because the menace is so grave as to demand special consideration and be- cause we are convinced that if the people are aroused to the understanding and meaning of this silver imitation movement they will avert the danger. In doing this we feel that we render the best service possible to the country and we appeal to of the people, irrespective of party or sec tion for their earnest support.
 It Will Maintain Law and Order.
 We avoid no issues. We meet the sud den dangerous and revolutionary assault upon law and order, and upon those to whom is contided by the constitution and laws the authority to uphold aad main tain them, which our opponents have made with the same courage that we have faced every enemy since our organization as q party: more than 10 years ago. Govern ment by law must first be assured: every thing else can wait. The spirit of lawless- ness must be extinguished by the fires of an unselfsh and lofty patriotism. Every attack upon the public faith and every suggestion of the fepadiation of debt. public or private must be febuked by all who be lieYe that honesty is the best policy, or who love their country and would pre- serve unSullled its national honor.
 Sectionalism Almost Obliterated.
 
 the almost total obliteration of the sec tional ties which for many years marked the division of the United States into slave and free territory, and finally threatened it's partition into two separate govern ments by the dread ordeal of civil war. The era of reconciliation, so long and earn estly desired by General Grant and many other great leaders, north and south, has happily come, and the feeling of distrust and hostility between the sections is every where vanishing, let us hope never to re turn. Nothing is better calculated to give strength to the nation at home, increase our power and influence abroad and add to the perlnanency of our free institutions than cordial relations between the people of all nations and parts of our beloved country. If called by the suffrages of the people to assume the duties of the high of- flee of president of the United States I shall count it q privilege to aid even in the slightest degree in the promotion of the spirit of fratefnal regard which should an- innate and govern the citizens of every sec tion, state or part of the republic. After the lapse of q century since the utterance, let us at length and forever hereafter heed the admOnition of Washington: "fhele should be no north, 10 south, no east, DO west, but co mmon country
 It shall be my constant aim to improve every opportunity to advance the cause of good government by promoting that spirit of forbearanee and justice which is so es- Sentlal to our prosperity and happiness by joining most heartily ill all proper efforts to restore the relations of brotherly re- spect and affection which, in our earlier history charat terized all the people of all the states. l would be glad to contribute towards binding ill indivisble union the different divisions of the country which indeed now have every inducement of sympathy and interest" to weld them together more strongly than ever. l would reioie to see demonstrated to the world that the north and the south and he east and the west are not separated or in danger of be- coming separated, because of sectional or party difference The war is long since over. We are not enemies but friends" and as friends, we will faithfully and cor dially cooperate with Him who has thus far so signally sustained and guided us. to preserve inYiolate our country $ name and honor, It's peace and good order, it's con tlnued ascendancy among the greatests governments on earth.