Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-31
SUNDAY JANUARY 81 l904.
MR.. CORES CARD.

MR.. CORES CAHO.
Mr.. Jesse r. Core, candidate 1ol
county and probate clerk has printed
and distributed card among the VW
ers which is somewhat surprising When
It is considered that Mr.. Core Is al
astute politician. The Graphic does
not believe that Mr.. Core wrote the
card, and it would appear that 1t was
nrinted and circulated without Mr.
Ccres ever having seen it, as the
Graphic has always given Mr.. Core
credit of being too shrewd to circulate
an argument with so many vulnerapie
points in it. However, it bears MI.
Cores name at the close, and of course
he must bear responsibility for its au-
thenticity until he denies it, which
would net surprise the Graphic il ne
should do.
Mr.. Core attempts to weaken the
force of the truthful arguments made
by the Graphic as to why the voters
SnOuIU cast tllSll Ddllolo III A'ii. N|>.'-~
and not for Mr.. Core, by saying that
the Graphic is influenced by mercen-
ary motives in its advocacy OF Mf.
Sallee's election. He says that MT.
Sallee is relative of the president
OF the Adams Printing company, hence
the Graphic has "its financial eye on
the public printing and much fat
public printing"
1t has always been custom, and is
the custom today, among the county
officials to divide the printing up
among the various printing offices of
Pine Bluff. The Graphic has never
asked more than that and would not
ask it sf Mr. Sallee. because he would
be a public servant dispensing public
patronage, and 1t would be unfair to
Mr.. Sallee and to the Graphlc's COM
petitols in business to ask all of the
public printing at the hands of the
county clerk Mr.. Core has said to
the Graphic mere than once, even
since the appearance of the editorials
of which he complains, that il he
should be elected clerk he would di-
vide the public printing among the
various printing offices of the city,
giving the Graphic its proportionate
part. Mr.. Sallee would do no more,
hence from a financial view point or as
t. that matter from any point from
which the matter may be viewed, Mr..
Sallees election to the office of county
and probate clerk would be of no great
er value to the Graphic than the elec-
tion of Mr.. Core.
Mr. Care says that he asks the office
of clerk on merit alone. The Graphic
would be panied to think he would
ask it on any other grounds, which Mr.
Core comes very near doing when he
talks about the death IF his bankrupt
father and his widowed mother. but the
Graphic will not discuss that part of
Mr.. Cores card further as it deems
the poverty Of his parents too delicate
a matter for discussion in a political
campaign and passes that question
up to Mr.. Core to expatiate upon as
he may deem advisable.
Mr., Core says that the Graphics as
sertian that he is wealthy planter is
false. Mr.. Core owns five tracts of
land. one of 32o acres, another of PIG
acres, another OF 279 1-2 acres. another
OF 24o acres, and another of GO acres,
making total of 1.115 1-2 acres.
ihere are not many Jefferson county
voters wha would not feel very COM
1ortaoiy fixed if they owned over eleven
hundred acres of good river bottom
lands, and it may be added that there
are not many voters in Jefferson coun-
ay who would not be satisfied with