Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-09-12
Cautions Democrats of Ar
kansas Against Being Led
From the Fold.
BE SURE TO CAST VOTE
Secretary OF State Central Committee
Urges Members OF Party to Take
Part i'm Election
Monday.

Little Rock, Sept. ll.-A maj plea
to Democrats to vote in Monday
election, despite the fact that few
Democratic nominees are opposed,
was issued today by J. S, Maloney,
secretary Of the state Democratic CEN
trail committee, who says:
On the 18th day of September, 1874
the Democratic party having regained
control of the state government al
ter long era of Republican misrule,
the following memorable words were
selected as the preamble of the state
constitution on that day adopted.
1--WE, the people of the state of Ar
Kansas grateful to Almighty God for
the privilege Of choosing Our own
form of government, for our civil and
religious liberty, and desiring to per-
petuate its blessing and secure the
same to ourselves and posterity, do
ordain and establish this constitu-
ton"
For just forty years the Democratic
party, faithful TO its beneficent princi-
pies then nodded into the constitu-
ton, has guided the destinies of our
state. In these years stupendous
changes have been wrought. From a
community overwhelmed with debt in
every county and township, not a
public building or institution within
the borders of the state of enough
Importance to challenge honest pride,
with every village and neighborhood
torn and harassed with political en-
nifty and strife private industries
stagnant, natural resources undevel-
oped. civil liberty mockery, the very
name of the state a synynoym of de-
rislon and contempt even far beyond
our own borders, has under the in
telligent administration of the Demo-
cratic party grown into magnificent
commonwealth, the home of the hap
piest and NEST contented people that
the@sun sees in all his course. Strife
and bitterness have disappeared, the
mutterings Of sectional hatred and
distrust have gone the fierce denunei-,
alton CT political controversy finds ia
for no more, and in their stead, is
heard the voice of intelligent discus
SIGN in the political arena and the mu-
sic of contentment and prosperity
eohoing from forest and field, while
the hum of busy industry is heard in
all the marts of trade Emigrants
are coming over our borders from all
points of the compass and the prod
ucts OF our mines, fields, forests and
factories are distributed not only
throughout the nation, but have found
their way around the world and are
sheltering and feeding nations across
the seas.
Surely the Democratic party has
kept the faith. Against the honest
and intelligent administration of her
principles nothing can prevail and no
temporary period of depression
brought about by external conditions
need alarm. But these very condi-
lions are such as to lull to rest the
busy citizen and cause him to FORGET
the very highest duty of citizenship.
The right to vote was purchased by
the very best blood of our fore
tive of the sovereign citizen of a re-
public. No man who fails to appre-
ciate it, or neglects to exercise the
privilege when opportunity is afford
ed, has a right to complain either at
the selection of public servants or the
enunciation of political principles.
Universal suffrage has been criticized
upon the ground that the idle and the
vicious are thereby introduced as a
factor in governmental affairs. The
Democratic party believes that the
honest and intelligent are always
strong enough TO control. Our consti-
tntlNn has cold bnt N q 1ionnco o,,6
virture are the bulwark of liberty. No
wiser nor more vital words We're ever
written by the pen of a statesmen. If
the intelligent laboring man, the far
mer, the merchant, the lawyer, the
doctors, and other professional and
business men, whose own happiness
and prosperity are staked upon the
good government OF the state, are
content TO let the idle and ignorant
vote while they remain at the pillow,
the forge or the desk, corruption and
mlsrule are but the fruits of their
own unfaithfulness to the highest
duty of citizenship. You owe it TO
yourself and your children to improve
and perpetuate the government under
which you live. The very greatest
evil WHICH can creep INTO dpOpular
government is the Indifference OF the
upright and intelligent citizen in times
OF peace and prosperity OF the politi-
Cal progress and development Of his
country. Democracy appeals to her
voters and expects every man to do
his duty"
The Democratic party is in control
of state and nation. Never in all her
history have her servants displayed
more wisdom and virtue than in. these
trying times when all the nations of
the world are flying at each others
. threats with such vengeance as to
make civilization itself tremble upon
its foundations. Thanks to the Demo
cratic party wise and faithful men
are at the helm and the American re-
public deeply regretting the strife,
stands firm, conservative, ready at
The first opportunity to use her good
offices to bring about peace, to bind
up the scars and pour out her oil and
her wine in abundance for the wound