The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-07-16
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the following statement, which | learn
was concocted in Stanford, on Monday,
July 18th yesterday, and designed
for private circulation. A friend was
fortunate enough to obtain a copy
and | propose to do the authors Of il
the favor to print il and publish il to
all the people Of the county. ] am
DESTROYS that they shall have n larger
audience than they intended. The
paper is as follows, and the copy I
have is unsigned;
"Mr. Thos. II. Shanks stated, in
substance, in speech made by him to
the colored people. at Ben. Richard
sons school house, on or about the
night of june 29th, 1875, that he was
the only man who had dared publicly
to attack the grangers, and run in OPP
position to them. That he had them
whipped out and beaten but that if
they believed there was another man
in the county stronger than himself
that he would withdraw aud give
them his support. That his object
was to defeat the grangers, and that
this must be done at any cost. That
he believed that the grangers, if there
should be another war, would be the
instigators, and he was ready to take
up arms, as he did during the rebellion
and lead them against them. That
the object of the grangers was to re-
duce the price Of labor to four, six,
and ten dollars per month, and thus
Cypress his hearers. That no colored
man would be able to get work to do,
should the grangers succeed. without
a granger certificate. July 18th 1875
Now l never made a speech in my
life at the place mentioned. l never
uttered the sentiments attributed 20 me
in this paper, and trus. tha. the peo
pie, both white and black, believe me
incapable Of entertaining them. My
objection to the Order of Changers be
ing used for political purposes, in furth
erance ofany mans political aspira-
tons, is well known. My opposition
to any effort on their part, if they de-
sign any, to interfere with the difficult
and delicate problem of the relations
between labor and capital is equally
well known, No one, however, can
surely believe that l proposed to with
draw from this race in any contingen-
cy or believe that have charged the
Changers with any intention of insti-
eating war, or proposed to leal the
black race, or any other race, against
them. This, / submit, ought not to
impose upon the credulity ola child.
About the time referred to, and at
the place mentioned, l did, in compa-
ny with Mr.. Samuel Embry, meet a
number Of colored men and had con-
versation with them. The object of it
was simply to contradict some charges
they had heard against me to the effect
that | was the leader Of the riots at
and Lancaster last year. Ny
so-called speech" was merely a run
ming conversation about this matter
a denial of it,and an explanation of it.
Mr.. Embry and l we're the only
white men present on the occasion,
Respectfully,
THos. II. SHANKs.
| was present with Capt. Shanks at
School House in June
asst. l have read the foregoing, and
endorse its statements.
SAM'L j. EMERY
Stanford, KY, July 18th, 1875.
Since the above was put in type the
GLOWING statements have been OBJ
aimed, which corroborate it.
1--WE were present at the meeting
leld at Richardson's school house, al
uded to in Capt. Shank's card on last
Iune he made no speech. We have
cad his card and endorse his state
nents made in it to be true.
ACE Miller, John Bowen,
". NJ. Richardson Robt. Richards'n,
Willis Kingcade, Abram Higgins,
Jordan Higgins, Sam. Higgins,
Ben. Richardson, jr., George Hamler.
81 signed paper handed me by Mr..
lam. Baughman and Osborne Hale,
nut stated to them that there was
hings in it that he (Shanks) did not
ay--and endorse the above signed by
Iohn Bowrn and others.
Ben. RICHARDSON.
"Mr. Osb. Hale and Sam. Baugh-
nan presented a paper to me this
morning accusing Shanks of making
ertain statements and refused to
ign it because | was satisfied there was
hings in it not correct.
ANnrpanN ErSc..n