Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-09-19

tue OulcaRo platform ana JOnH Young Brown for Congress- This action is in very marked con trast with the conduct of Col. Henri Wat terson and his Coarfer.Joa4ual Pine Bluff G,dphfc
 As fair q journal as the GRAPHIC ought to keep within forty rods of the truth, to say the least of it. Nineteen or twenty members of the Watterson Club, finding themselves at headquarters at moment when no gold bug members were present, passed resolutions favorable to Bryan and Sewal. The same press dispatches which contained an ac- count of the dishonest act, stated that their action had been repudi- ated by nine-ten ths of the member ship Of the Club, which is unaltera- bly, for Palmer and Buckner. We have noticed that whenever a sound money Democratic journal attempts to pursuade itself that it is for free silver it out Hereds Herod in the prevarication line. It is in this dis position aud ability on the part of partisan journals which brings the profession into disrepute and lays it's serious utteranees under suspi- cion. The GRAPHIC can vote the Democratic ticket, and say what ever 1t can of Q favorable nature of the nominees of the cause, without resort to downright lying
 The above comments are from the caustic pen of Bro. Neal, of the Helena World, who up to the meet ing of the Democratic National Convention at Chicago, was an ardent advocate of the gold stand ard. Since the Chicago convention Bro. Neal has not known exactly where he is lat, and has been floundering around like q fish out of water. Shortly. after the adjourn ment Of the Chicago convention the
 World announced that it would sup port the nominee of the regular Democratic organization, although
 neither the nominee for President nor the platform was satisfactory to
 the aesthetic editor of the World.
 But since that time Bro. Neal has apparently regretted his rashness,
 for the editorial columns of the
 World have contained often and ire quent criticisms of the Chicago
 platform, while sound money plates,
 supplied by the Sound Cur
 rency Committee of New York,
 have found prominent and conspic-
 uous positions in. the Worlds col
 umns. Neither has any ticket been
 hoisted at the World editorial mast
 head. It has not even followed the straddle-bug policy of the Pine Bluff
 Press Eagle in hoisting the somi-
 nees of the regular Democratic or
 ganization as we'll as the nominees of the boltocrat convention under
 the head of Democratic National Tickets Instead of coming out in
 the open and making it's position known, the World has contented it. self with carping criticism of it's contemporaries which have had the courage to make their positions known. If the editor of the World would make a few introspective glances and endea 5or to reform his own faults rather than those of others an hundred miles away, his efforts would, no doubt, bring forth results more satisfactory to his own constituency. But the World man prefers to keep his own attitude in obscurity while he snarls and growls, bites and barks at others less covert.
 As to the GRAPHIC, it is support ing the regular Democratic Nation al Ticket-Bryan and Sewall-with all the loyalty 1t possesses. In giv- ing the ticket the support due it by a loyal Democrat, the GRAPHIC does not feel it incumbent upon itself to lie about either men or measures. Nor does the GRAPHIC belong to that class of journals which believe in heaping abuse upon those who views and opinions differ ent from its own. The present political contest must be decided by every man according to the direc- tion of his best judgment and the dictates of his own conscience. The great mass of the people are patriots aud prone to do that which each one individually thinks is to the best interests of his country That there are selfish interests to sub- serve on each side of the financial 1 question is unfortunately true, but the great majority of the people will | iisrobe the issue of all selfish con- alterations and vote as they believe the best interests of the country re- luire. The GRAPHIC is therefore conducting itself with equanimity. It has been built up under a gold