Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-05-16
a VOICE FROM ALABAMA.

A VOICE FROM
The outrage business is apparently
pretty we'll broken up, and from the
way things are now going the carpet
bag politicians in the late Rebel States
will either be compelled to earn their
bread and butter in some other man
ner from that in which they have been
doing Tor the last ten years, or will
have to resort to some new expedient
for retaining themselves in power.
That many of them, however, will sue
coed in supporting themselves much
longer at the expense of the public.
except perhaps as inmates of penal es-
adjustments, is rather doubtful, for
the old adage about honest men COM
ing to their own when thieves fall out
is apparently having its truth very sat-
isfactorily demonstrated by the way in
which the men who have been run
ming Southern politics for some time
past are eliminating and recriminating
each other. From Alabama, for in
stance, comes a very pretty outrage
story, that apparently has a good deal
more truth in it than many which the
late Attorney General was in the habit
of disseminating just about election
time. A committee is investigating at
Montgomery the means used by Mr..
Spencer to secure his election to the
United States Senate, and from the tes-
timony taken it would seem that Mr..
Spencer did not hesitate to resort to
many vain tricks and dark ways to
secure his seat in the Senate Chamber.
For instance, yesterday a certain J. II.
Perrin, who was recently a member of
the Alabama Legislature, testified that
troops were retained in Alabama be-
fore the election of the Legislature by
which Spencer expected to be returned
to the Senate, or the requisition of
himself and others, who had an under
standing that Spencer had arranged
that troops should be put at the dis
posal of certain Federal and munich
pal officers wherever intimidation
should be necessary. Intimidation ev-
identity was necessary, for Perrin fur
Their testifies that a United States Mar
shall, accompanied by the soldiers, OBJ
tanned in the manner stated, and armed
with fictitious warrants, paraded about
in various counties with a view of pre-
venting the opponents of Spencer from
going to the polls. Perrin states that
he even went so far as to shoot a hole
in his own hat, and then report that he
had been attacked by Kuklux, and IN
the strength of this report troops were
sent to arrest his mythical assailants.
These troops, according to the veraeious
Perrin, were kept as long as they could
be used as political machines, the OBJ
ject being to secure the control of the
Legislature at all hazards, and to elect
Spencer. Exactly what has occurred
between Spencer and Perrin to make
the latter go back on the Senator and
on the whole outrage business in this
frightful manner, We do not know.
The old principal of honor among
thieves, however, does not hold be-
tween political adventures, and it is
easy enough to imagine a thousand
reasons for the falling out Of the two
unworthies mentioned. Perrin is evil
IDENTIFY an individual who would not
hesitate to tell the most gigantic lies
his imagination could conceive, to
serve purposes either of profit or re-
venge, and 1t is possible that he is
drawing it rather strong at Spencer's
expense, his idea being rather to de-
molish the Senator than to signalize
himself as the great truth-teller of the
age. That the testimony, however, is
true in the main can scarcely be doubt
ed, for there is ample evidence that the
same tricks have been resorted toagain
and again by men of the classt to which
Spencer and Perrin belong.