Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-20
An AtrOci0us and Infamous Calumny

An Atrocious and Infamous Calumny.
The Associated Press, it seems, has
for 1884. On Saturday it sent out
printed slips of an inilammatory ad-
dress issued by William Malone, as
Chairman of the Readiuster party of
Virginia, carefully sub-headed and
marked s.For use in Mondays Papers,
We have not observed that the Associat-
ed Press has taken the pains to send out
the printed slips of any of the speeches
of Senator Bayard, or of ex-Speaker
| Randall, or of Senator Wallace, or of
any representative Democrat. If Will
liam Mahone's TRADE against the Dem
ocrats of Virginia is legitimate news,
the speeches of the Democratic orators
are likewise.
A more atrocious and Infamous cal
umny never was uttered against the
people than this same libel on the white
| people of Virginia just published by
| William Malone and distributed by the
Associated Press. 1t is simply lot of
groundless and unfounded ISLANDERS
strung together in turgid phrase and
| repeated over and over again to the ex-
tent of four dreary columns. 1t charges
| systematic murder and intimidation by
the Democrats, and processes wonder
| full admiration for the colored people on
the part of Malone and his fellow-Re-
adiusters. But how easily this enraged
| and INSCRIPTIONS slanderer is answered
and exposed?
William Malone and his party at the
time of the late election had control of
the entire State Government of Vir-
ginia. Mahone's creature, Cameron,
was then and is now the Governor of
the State. Mahone's lackeys fill the
judicial offices of the State and control
the administration of justice. Mahone's
tools were the ma ority in the Election
Boards throughout the State. The Fed
eral offices are filed with men of Ma
homes own choosing, and the whole
power of the Federal Government in
Virginia was virtually welded by Ma
hone. How on earth comes it, then,
that the crimes which Malone now
charges upon his fellow Virginians were
not prevented, or if they could not be
prevented that no steps are being taken
by Malone and his party to bring the
alleged criminals to justice? Why is it
that Malone fails to name one single
murderer or to specify one solitary case
of intimidation? Why is it that Ma
homes Governor failed even to make an
effort to protect the Readjuster voters
from the violence of which this con-
temptible slanderer now complaints?
There has been but single murder
trial in Virginia which grew out of the
recent political canvass. That trial re-
suited in the conviction of one of Will
lam Mahene's own peaceful and an
gelic Readjusters of the killing of
straight-out Republican negro. How
comes it that Mr.. Mahone's vivid i'm
agination and inf1amed rhetoric fail to
describe the only political murder in
Virginia of which Mr.. Mahone's courts
bear record? The other night while
Democratic jubilee was in progress at
the Virginia capital several Democratic
negro organizations from the surround
ing country were in attendance. What
happened then and there? Why,
gangs of Readjuster negroes, inflamed
by the bloody instructions of Malone
and his co-conspirators against the
peace of the State, assembled and as
saulted the peaceful and inoffensive
members of their own race who had
Notification. This occurred in the Dem
OCIdtlC otIouSAOAo Va oAC Se<1eC SAu LIZ
under the nose of Mahone's Governor
Does this indicate that the Malone ne
groes were inundated? Does it not
rather prove that the intimidation
was ON the part of the supporters of Ma
hone? But that terrible and bloody
mob, the natural outcome of Mahone's
inflammatory appeals to his ignorant
followers. is not even mentioned in the
address which the Readjuster slanderer
has seen fit to impose on the country
through the generous aid of the Asso-
ciated Press. If anybody is deceived
by the excited, fantastic but malignant
statements of this culminator of his own
people, he must be as egregious an ass
as Malone is an unconscionable politi-
cal scoundrel. -Harrisburg (Pa.) Pat
riot.
British postal telegraphy under
Government control is a great success.
Since the purchase by the Government
the number of offices and length of lines
in operation have more than doubled.
Ten million dollars of interest on the
purchase has been paid out of the pro-
ceeds, and now the rate for messages is