Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-09-23
4 SWEET c. -RANIUM.

presides over the editorial destinies of the wagward Fort Smith Daily 7imcs Democrat, is never anything 1 if not extremely foolish. c. Ran lium has never been D bis right
 mind since he failed to get the Fort Smith postoffiee, contrary tol the wish of-a majority of the people of Fort Smith as determined by ipelition, under Cleveland,s second administrations. For this failure to bestow upon G-Ranium a nice slice of Federal pie, both Senator Jones
 and Congressman Breckinridge fell under the ban of his displeasure.
 Two years ago Bro. Williams pur
 sued BrecEinridge with the energy
 of a sleuth hound. and.nolenger than
 the late State campaign. before the
 primaries, he worked with ihde
 fatigable seuergy to compass the
 defeat of Arkansas greatest states
 man and silver leader-James K. Jones. There is no hatred so in-
 tense and irreconcilable as that
 which eonsumes.a a disappointed and Idisaffected Federal office seeker.
 In Breekinridge's defeat GsRanium
 saw the accomplishment of his de fsires, but the Fort Smith editors
 opposition to James K. Jones only resulted in the latter carrying Se-
 bastain county and forcing his op-
 ponent from the field before the
 campaign had fairly started. This : humiliation and disappointment tserved to iAtensify Bro, Williams hatred of existing things.
 l In consequence of a disordered $ liver and disappointed hope, result p ing from frequent defeats, Bro, 7 Williams is never satisfied without ? lambasting somebody. He has Q taken upon himself the irksome t duty and responsibility of reform : ing the world when the world does 2 not want to be reformed. Just now ] the object of Bro. Williams wrath
 and asimadversions is the Pine
 Bluff newspapers. He is lambast-
 ing the P,ess-Eogle because it IS
 supporting the Indianapolis bolto- crat ticket and thinks the latter's 2 local contemporaries and the Demo r crats of Jefferson county should either send it to the insane asylum f or to the peniten tiarv. He thinks l ''the efforts of the Press Eqgle help no. cause but that of oppression, and it should be.foughtas firmly as if it were the blaekest Republican sheet in the Union. ] And then Bro. Williams wants to 9 know why should the icowardly , GRAPHIc7 leave this for him to do.
 And then, too, he wants to know
 whatis the matter with the Pine Bluff Gommeretal2" In fact Bro. Williams wants to know a great
 deal, and needs to know more. The , Pine Bluff newspapers are quite 7 capable of taking care of their own affairs without any suggestions from the Fort Smith Times Democrat. They know the local situation per } haps better than the foreigner of Fort Smith. Each of tke Pine Bluff newspapers and the editor thereof is. responsible to his own
 conscience and his constituency, and not to the T,nles-Democrat If the
 I'D. man wants to rave and tear
 his hair about the financial question,
 the PessEogle or any other @ques-
 tion, he is at perfect liberty to. do
 so; but because, forsoeth, he should
 act the fool about the festive dol
 lar, is no reason why anyone else
 should feel it incumbent upon him. l self to act likewise. The GRAPHIC | is giving itself no concern about 1 the P5.ss-Eqale, the Times Democrat,
 or any other newspaper, For our
 part, the editors of either or both
 can have all the. rope they want,
 and like Judas lscariot, car. go out
 and hang themselves for thirty
 pieces of silver. The GRAPHIC would
 not for the world undertake so
 hereulean . task as the reformation
 of either The Tanaes-Democrat can l fight it's owA battles, and the Press
 Ea9le may defend itself as best it| can, and may the Devil take the
 hindmost aa siofs e.it 4-a-saJ