Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-31

has been pulling at the public teat
about eight years.
Mr.. Core fails to say that prior to
his four years as treasurer he served
about two years as deputy treasurer
under Mr. c.. Fl. Triplett, making six
years in which he has been pulling at
the public teat." Mr.. Core alsc, fails to
say that during the four years of his
encumbency as treasurer his salary
amounts to $4,000 or $3.50 a year,
and that during the eight years Mr..
Sallee has served as deputy clerk his
salary amounts to $8,400 or $l,050
year; cr in four years Mr. Core has
| received nearly tiwce as much as Mr..
Sallee has in eight years.
Mr.. Core says the Graphic would de-
stroy him. Does Mr. Core mean that
| with eleven hundred acres of land
| and about $4,000 received fer four
years services as county treasurer
that destruction is his doom if the
people do not continue to give him
| Office? The Graphic has made no OBJ
| lection to Mr. Cores election except
| that he has held elective office two
terms, to which Office he was elected
| after having qualified himself as a
held an elective Office, but was new
asking the people to elect him to the
office for the duties of which he has so
well qualified himself by having learn
ed those duties as deputy. While Mr.. |
Sallee is a poor man it believes him |
amply able and energetic enough to |
prevent his own destruction whether |
or not he is elected ccanty clerk. When |
Mr.. Core says that the Graphic would |
destroy him by defeating him for coun-
ty clerk he discredits the flattering |
enccmiums with which he showers
the young man. who exhibited sucn
wonderful energy and business sagac.
ity as to redeem "the farm hOpelessly
involved in debt and covered with
mortgages
Mr. Core undertakes to discredit the
statement made by Mr. Sallee that
when a young man he (SalIee) work
ed for forty cents day, by saying that
at the time Mr. Sallee says he, was
laboring for forty cents a day he was 8
student in the University Cf Lexington.
Ky. Mr.. Sallee was student in the
state college of Kentucky at the time
He was enrolled in the agricultural and
mechanical department, which is main
tanned for poor boys, and in which no
tuition is paid. In it the students per
form four hours of labor daily, receiv- |
ing Thereon ten cents an hour. Mr.. |
Sallees tuiticn cost him nothing, and
with the forty cents a day earned he |
boarded himself, and it was by that |
means that he was able to attend the |
school and pursue his studies. That is |
how Mr.. Sallee got what collegiate |
education he has, and instead of its |
being a discredit to him he deserves
commendation for making an effo"t |
to educate himself, Though it required |
the closest economy and four hours of |
manual labor daily IN addition to his |
studies.
Mr.. Core says: 1T is admitted
have made a god officer, served the
people faithfully, and have al all times
accounted for every dollar of the peo-
pies money!
The Graphic repeats that Mr. Core
has made coed officer. has served
the people we'll, and has accounted for
every dollar of the peoples money.
which was his duty as an honorable
citizen and public servant duty he
owed himself as we'll as his constitu-
eney. But that does not imply that
Mr.. Core has not been amply paid for
doing this duty by having been honCred
with two terms Of an Office with very
little labor attached
third term is against Dem cratie pre-
cedent. hence he does not ask another
election as treasurer. He asks for
the office of county clerk and if elected
CT course Will ask second term as an