The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-14
OKOL0NA MUSIC.
The Keynote Of the Democratic
Party for the Contest
of 1880.
As Sounded by an Organ Represent.
Ing a Majority Of That Party.
The South win Remain Solid; but WIN Cal
Loose from the Northern Democracy.
LInIsss They Come Out for State Sovereign.
~, and Leave on Warfare upun Multi.
cation and Secession.

cation and Secession.
EOkOnO npd) Tribune. .a
It is o well known fact that there Is
Democratic paper published at oko-
Iona, Miss. 1t Is called the Southern Sates,
and is owned by Col. A. Y. Harper, and
edited by Will. H. Herman. We have
frequently published extracts from the
editorial columns Of the S'ates, and have
asserted the fact that it was true to Demo
cratic principles at the needle is to the pole.
Many Of our Democratic exchanges have
repeatedly disavowed that the States reflect.
edin any wise the sentiment Of the South
eru wing of the Democratic party, and
have gone so far as to state that ''The
States is in the employ of the Republican
party" In view of these facts the follow.
ing correspondence is offered without
further remarks:
On October 25 we addressed the follow.
ing letter to Mr.. Herman, editor Of the
Southern Sdtes:
OFFICE OF the "TRIBuSE," KoxoMo,
ND, October 2j, 1s79.-M. ". q. Etr.
nan, Editor Southern &atSs, 0kolond, Ma.-
DEAR Sn: The following clipping il
taken from recent issue Of the Kokomo
Dispatch, q Democratic newspaper, and i
only one Of . number Of the same chrac-
ter that have appeared in that paper Tor q
year past:
We are opposed to the further continu-
ance in power OF the Republican party,
and most emphatically decline TO help
that cause along by tanning the Okolona
States into further notoriety. Republi-
can journals are interested in the success
of the Sates, but the Democratic press is
not. "a pa
As the charge that the okolona
Southern aGtss Is in the employ OF the
Republican party has been so frequently
made by the Dapdtch and other Dem
ocratic newspapers Of this section, we
would be pleased to give you the space to
reply to the same. Yours very truly,
- I. O. PHILLIPS Sous.
On Monday last the following reply was
received from Mr.. Herman. wegiye it in
full, with punctuation and paragraphs the
same as appears in the original. The
reply is addressed to the Kokomo Dis.
patch, but the editor Of the States includes
several other Democratic newspapers that
have persistently made the chargesagai
him referred to above. I'VE believe that
our readers viii agree with us that the re.
ply is in no wise evasive.. Mr.. Herman
meets the charges boldly, and answers
the SANDERS in language that cannot fail
to be understood. But to the letter:
oKoLoNA, MISS. October 90, 1s79.-Ed.
itorS Of he Tribune, Kokomo, Ind.-GEST1R.
MEX: Kokomo is disgraced by q paper
calling itself the DiSpdtch.
Ny attention was first attracted to the
nature OF the unclean sheet by the follow.
ing harmless little lie in its issue Of August
1flast: a h 80
The Dispdtch Is in receipt Of private let.
ter from VIII d! Herman, editor Of The
0kolona Miss. SIGtes, stating that an ex.
change Of newspapers is desired; and he
asks an advertisement Of the Stdtes pub.
lished in the DispGteh one time, with edi.
torial notice of same. Mr.. Herman closes
by these words, Thine for JEFF Davis and
the Right" Really, Win, we cannot com,
ply with your modest request. ~
| The facts in this case are Is follows:
The Dipdtch man sent Us copy Of his
paper with an "X" marked on the margin
or wrapper.
Following our customary rule, I wrote
and told him that we would enter his
paper on our exchange list II he would
publish our prospectus. jars ,
had never heard OF his unpFincipled
and obscure sheet until he sent us copy
And when he attempts TO make it up,
pear that we, and not he, solicited an ex.
change, he simply liza.
AND, ifhe doesn't ike this language, he
knows precisely what he can do. I
But this isn't the only falsehood that be
has perpetFated ct our expenses. Ii'a19
In his issue Of October 2, speaking Of til,
0kolona States, he said that It was an ''al
legged Democratic paper, published in Mis-
sissippi, on money furnished by the Re
4 publican National Committee. :"
He Had when he made this statement;
ndIWhat ismore, he Erer, in the cor
Of his 90 zR3
Black, - ~ :
Shiny, and .-i m.
CoWardly 49, brs d4
, heart; that he was lying.
I. And, uheidoesn like this Language, b
knows precisely what he can do.
never laid 0 feather in the path OF thiI
fellow;
| do not even know the name Of thi
disreputable puppy,
And yet he Wilfully and mAlieiousl.
tries TO ruin my reputation.
Tries to make thu public believe that
am . spy and q sneak IN the politics
household of my ancestors.
say 10 you, and 70 the whole world
that the man who would thus attempt +
assassinate the character OF . fsllow.mal
would pick q pocket II he had halt
chance.
/ have sacrificed my time, and toiled 70
Il the Democratic party with alImy
Heart, ,5.,.,
Brain,
viii, and H., 4stlfi
Power.
l have been Egs
/ Prosecuted and ~ 3
SIandered &
Because OF my deathless fidelity ID Il
illuminant and immortal principles.
have neyer requested, and never wi
request, single office or honor at II
hands ,,-5-sl s,ss's Z s,.s,. 49,, s-f
{ And the honest and unpreiudice
masses Of the party who know me kno'
, that would let my right arm be para
wed in its socket rather than take q brit
j: to betrGy my fellow partisans Of the Je
I ferson school. re5
!. The DispGteh man makes his infamor
accusation. 9t tss
iDEFY HIM TO THE PROOF.