Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-17
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thy the editor of the Press Eagle and unjust to the editor of the GRAPHIC. It seems to be 6 part Of the common seold' 5 policy to east reflections upon everybody who dis
 agrees with him or does not serve his private purposes The pros pective spoils in the shape of fec which the GRAPHIC accepted was for the publication of an interview which Ferd Hayis prepared or caus- cd to be prepared in reply to certain charges made by the Press. Eaale. The article expressed at tho time exactly what it was-a prepared in terview 1t was Ferd Hayis talking and not the GRAPHIC, and we refus- cd to publish the interview except at our regular advertising rates. We have yet to learn that the pnbli- cation of q prepared interview makes tho paper esponsible for the ntter ances contained therein. And we have yet to learn that an interview or communication is to be declined because the party offering it is a eolored man. The Eagle at- tackled Fred Havis record, ard tho latter prepared an answer thereto and caused the same te be published in each of the local daates. Neither was under any obligation to deny the negro space to reply to tho Rrsss- Eaaaie Ii could be no breach of courtesy, for the editor of the Press. Eagle has often allowed the use Of his columns to anonymous cores pondents for the purpose of reflect ing upon his contemporaries. We bear in mind a time when the col umns of the PreSs Eogie were used by the disreputable negro police man Ed Jefferson to make an attack, without the usual advertising rates, upon the editor of the GRAPHIC Does the Pfess. Eagle decline either the communications or business Of colored man? Do our merchants refuse to sell goods to customers of the colored persuasion because they ara colored, and should the GRAPH. Ie refuse the use of it's columns to q coiored man simply because he is coored? This is new and peculiar doctrine Of economical ethics, and que that the Press Eagle itself does not subsubscribe to.
 The statement that this public defense of Havis was published on the editorial page of the GRAPHIC, thereby carrying the approval of both the business and editorial man. agement of the paper, is a gratui. tous and malicious falsebood. Had the Press- Ea9le editor read the inter view in the GRAPHIC he would have found that it was published on the FIRST page, among other reading and advertising matter, and that no reference whatever was made there to in either tue editorial ar local colums of the paper We do not see why the editor of the Press Euqlr, even in public controversy, can't tell the truth as ne goes along. 1a
 less if is part of his policy 10 ma 1 lieiously msrepresent anything and everything that does not serve his personal purpose.
 This common scold also apbraids us for not protesting against Ha- wis appointment in behalf of the i Anglo-Saxon manhood and woman hood of Pine Blun. Since when did the editor of the Press. Edgie be. come the champion of the Anglo Saxon manhood and womanhood of the eountry2 Did he not oppose a straight Democratic ticket in this county for white mans" govern. ment in 1891 in behalf of his special proteges, the Jones faction of the Republicans. His course in that campaign is of too recent political history to require further comment here. And did the P,ess Eagle edi- tor stand mp for the Anglo Saxon race os the South when he bolted the National Democratic nomina- ton last year, and by his course of action, along with the rest of the Boltocrats of the country, make Mo.