Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-15

hence it has fallen into the error of
vain boasting. 1t asks: why the
necessity of waiting two or three days
to get the local news ?" The question is
quite pertinent and most easily and
correctly answered by saying that
those who do not want to wait two or
three days to get the local news"
regularly read the Graphic, hence get
the bulk of the local news on the day
it occurs.
| The Almanac then tosses a bouquet
at itself by saying that it gives you
| the happenings, not tomorrow, not
DAY after tomorrow but as soon as
possible after the occurrences. This
is a fact Now the Almanac very
appropriately qualities its beast D. say
ing that it prints TIE happenings as
soon as possible after they occur.
1t will reverse itself in less than ar
other week, however, and say that Il
not only prints the LEGAL news of to-
day on tomorrow or the day after,
but much of the best news it never
prints at all. In fact it always fails
to print an interesting news ite24
if ns3ody vino Objects to its being
printed will only ask the Almanac to
leave it out 1t is not an infreQuent
| occurrence that persons come to the
Graphic c1iice TO set a news item sup-
pressed, and say tGat the Almanac 2a.i
agreed TO suppress the itai1, and ii
the raphic will oaly dc the same
there will be no mention Of the mat
ter in the newspapers at al The only
ss}swer the Graphic makes IS, tat the
9,2p:!ie is a newspaper and not an
almanac, and as it is the mission Of
newspaper to print the news and OF
an almanac to print patent medi
cine articles, the Graphic must respect
fully decline to grant the request
though it may be ever SO appropriate
and proper for the Almanac to do so.
The Almanac never fails TO print mig
ger news and matters bad about
"eommen white folks but it draws
tie line when it comes TO an item
which may cost it little patronage
from the best people oi cur city
It reserves its bouquets for the best
people," and tells the disagreeable
things in wi,ic!. "aisger,9 and com
mon white folks may become inVoly-
cd. 1t never discovers that the grand
5tiry returns indictments against any
body but "niggers" and common
white folks as ii the readers OF the
Almanac had no concern in what oc-
Cured in tie criminal courts except
as it applies to "niggers' and com
mon white folks" This is a fact" and
everybody in Pine Bluff knows it. mig
gers, common white folks" and Our
best people,
In the same issue of the Almanac
in which it tossed itself the pretty
bcuquet was a parag graph in which it
said that an error appeared reia-
tive to the plant OF the II. A. Rose
Lumber company. It says it should
have stated that the company has
branch office ct Little Rock instead
cl branch Of its large mill" The
error 10 which the Almanac confes8e5
IS insignificant compared With another
that it made. 1t was in error in saying
tnat the deaf ha3 been closed by which
tAe Rose company lad ccate into pos
session of tie Cads pant The II
"as on, but had not been completed,
rs the Almanac could have learned by
proper investigaticn 1t was Tie item
a3cHt the deal for the Cady mill that
caused the Almanam to get tie idea in
to its head that ii is q newspaper in
taai Of an almanac, and
tWO errors in that item
one of them seif-confessed minor
error, ana tie other an important er-
sor which very materially affected the