Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-07
PINE BLUFF. ARKANSAS MONDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER sse

Wn0Se FecOrdSs smell loud enough to stagger fhe sensfbilities of the con- mon peeplee This is'the. backing and packing t hat is used on our govern ment engines to drive our ship of state, is it'. .
 No wonder the people wish to get as far removed from said boilers as possible inl or1ergto save their lives. The indications are that the engin- eers, iiremen, etc, are using fuel of too dangeronr nature for the safe ty of the public.
 What was the condition of the treasury when President Harrison and his Republican friends were in power? Over two hundred millions surplus was in the treasury. At the expiration of his term, and when President Cleveland came into office, had not that surplus vanished? Mr. Mckinley says Mr. Harrison, in his letter, told the people how prosper ous they were. Did he tell of the de- pleted treasury? Mckinley says eight months after Cleveland was inaugurated his letter calling an extra session of Congress, revealed a deplorable state of affairs. Does he by such sophistries intimate that the Democratic party was responsible for it? Is there sane man but who knows better? Still he comes out in tt letter of acceptance making charges against the Democratic party for wrecking the government and bring ing disaster to our Country. He has been a member of Congress and he knew that when he east that asper- ton it was an untrnth. He knew Congress does not enact laws that take effect tt once; then how could the party be held responsible for laws enacted and enforced that could cause such disaster in eight months time? He knows full well that the Supreme Courts decision gave the first lick. and the gold syndicate sealed it's doom. adding to and de- stroying the confidence of the people i'll the stability Of the government. Standing behind his Republican mask he attempts to draw votes To himself as the exponentof the only principles which have, and can, set in operation the proper laws that will restore confidence and reinstate all business enterprises. How true tilis is needs no argument, for it was the Republican party that oppressed the South by maintaining standing armies in the Southland ten years after the close of the war, and during that time, by robbery and robbery, bankrupted theSouthern State; now Mckinley and his henchmen seek. by triekery. to despoil and disrupt the Democra tic party in these same States in order to again ride into power.
 Rich men are honored and respected just as long as the use their wealth in legitimate way. There is no such Il heresy as communism among the people at large. Cranks and fools to some extent are scattered all over the world. The South today is just as loyal to America and American Republic as any other portion of its territory, and her people would be quicker in the field to defend her flag, just as she is the quickest to defend the National honor when brought to the pale of facing an oigarchy against her established form of gov ernment, which at the present time seems to animate and dominate the Eastern section of our fair land with the intent of destroying it, making the people the hewers of wood and drawers of water.
 Will the people continue to hew wood and draw water for these mer- ciless syndicates who are backing Mckinley? N. E. TRULocK.