Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
The OkOlOna States Again.

One of the still-remembered features
of the last Presidential campaign was
| the OkOlona States, a newspaper, So
called, which was published in Okolona,
Mississippi. Ithad no merit. 1t displayed
| neither genius nor talent. Itwas notorius
only upon two grounds. The first
was its indecent persistence in keeping
alive the sectional spirit and appealing
to the worst passions and prejudices OF
the Southern people. The second
ground was the irrational and meaning
less but grotesque subdivision of its
vituperations into short jerky lines which
gave the columns the appearance of hav-
ing been struck by lightning
This paper was first heard of at the
North through the quotations from it in
Republican newspapers. The suspicion
was at once excited that it was inspired
by the Republican managers. Nobody
but Republicans subscribed for it or
made any use of it. 1t was shown, over
and over again, that, in it's own locality
and State, the paper had no support or
sympathy, and grossly misrepresented,
or failed to represent, the spirit of the
people. These facts strengthened the
suspicion which ripened into conviction
when Herman, the chief vituperator of
the concern, transferred his affections
and his depraved pencil to a paper
which frankly foated the Republican
colors, the Lemars Qowa) Sentinel.
We have recalled attention to this I'M
clean bird Herman, not because he is of
any consequence, but because his per-
sistent denial of his being a Republican
hireling when he was publishing his foul
travesties of Southern sentiment has
brought out statement which puts the
Republican leaders themselves on deni-
al. In the last issue of chat, in this
city, it is distinctly charged that letters
from Herman to Don Henderson were
found in the possession of the latter, and
that in these letters Herman acknowl-
edged the receipt of money from the
State Republican Committee, and in
CURED into the effect of what he called
his editorials y in Michigan.
We invite the attention of the Allegan
Journal and the Republican State Com
mittee to this charge. We invite the at
tention, also, of Senator Frye. 1t was
he who most frequently and coarsely, in
the House, ':rung in the Okolona States
as representative Democratic newspa-
per, and tainted his Southern fellow
members with entertaining the senti-
ments which found vent in its columns.
Yet he must have known all the time
that this foul sheet was Republican in
strumentality, that its utterances were
inspired by Republican partisanship and
paid for with Republican money wrung
by assessment from Republican Office
holders. He must have known this, be-
cause he was in all the Utmost secrets of
the Republican managers. Had he
known it, and kept silence. he would
have had no special responsibility for
the contemplate device; but by his ma
icious attacks upon the Democracy, for
offenses of which he knew them to be
innocent, he made himself personally
responsible much so as if he had
paid from his own pocket the wages of
the hireling Herman. And therein he
showed himself fitting successor of
that other fraud from Maine, the late
Secretary Blaine. Detroit Free Press.