Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-02-08
PINE BLUFF. ARK. FEB. s, 1891
ONLY 4 COINCIDENCE.

supporter OF the candidacy of Judge
Bryant for Supreme Judge and to
this no one can find fault. In its
Sunday issue it copies from the
State press several articles very
laudatory of the Judge and we do
not object to this. The one thing
noticeable, however, and which may
after all only be coincidence, is that
the two strongest endorsements of
Judge Bryant come from the Helena
World and Pine Bluff GRAPHIC, the
two rankest and most ran tankerous
gold bug sheets in the State. The
World is edited by Billy Neal who
has said more mean things about
the advocates of free silver than
any man in the State, designating
them as scranks, sfools, popu-
lists and like endearing terms. The
GRAPHIC is edited by Jimmie Adams
who was Breckenridge campaign
manager in 1894, when Breckenridge
was candidate against Judge Lit
tie, stamping the district against
the Judge. He is rank gold bug
and does not hesitate To write and
speak his sentiments on all occa
sions. Judge Bryant has been ae-
cused of being gold bug, but this
he denies and says that he is a
bimetallist, but at what ratio is not
disclosed so far as we have seen.
As we remarked before,
the fact that both the Helena World
and Pine Bluff GRAPHIC are support
ing Judge Bryant may only be a CO.
incidence, but it is evident that they
do not want a man of such pro-
nounced free silver views as Mr.. Jos.
NJ. Hiii-G Greenwood Leader.
In the first place, the editor of the
GRAPHIC denies that he is gold bug
in the true and original meaning of
that term. The editor of the
GRAPHIC is a bimetailist, but not of
the Is to l or bust variety. He be-
lieves in the bimetallism of the Con-
stitution and as laid down by the
National Democratic platform of
1892-the use of both gold and silver
upon such terms and conditions as
will insure the maintenance of the
parity of the two metals and the
equal purchasing power of every dol
lar in the market and in the pay
ment of debts.
But as to Judge Bryant's views on
the financial question we are not in
formed; neither do we care. Judge
Bryant is a candidate for Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court, and we
have yet to learn that a candidates
views on the financial, tariff or any
other purely National question, have
anything whatever TO do with his
qualifications as a lawyer or Chief
Justice. We do know, however,
that Judge Bryant is one of the
ablest and most brilliant young men
in the State-brilliant as a man of
letters, an orator and a jurist- and
that he is in every way pre-eminent-
ly qualified for the position to which
he aspires, and that his decisions
would be legal classics. Therefore
the Endorsement of his candidacy by
the GRAPHIC and Helena World was
purely a coincidence. We know,
furthermore, that Mr.. Hill, Judge
Bryant's opponent, has never sat
upon the bench, and that he is en-
tirely inexperienced in that line.
Judge Bryant has been tried and he
is known to be pre-eminently quail
fed; Mr.. Hill has never been tried,
and his abilities in that direction
are yet to be developed. That's the
plain English of the situation, and
if the people of Sebastian county
want to claim the next Chief Justice
Of the State, they will have to come
before the Democratic State conven-
ton with candidate whose past
record is sure guarantee of his
fitness for the position.
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