Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-31
The Southern Outrage Mill Grinding.

The Southern Outrage Mill Grinding.
Another Presidential election is ap-
proaching and the Republican managers,
Tor want of an issue, are preparing to
revive as much as possible the dying
hatreds of the civil war;. Like the sor-
rowing widow whose wnBd htls band
was broughtrta shore with his, clothes
filled with, eelss they propose.itoi Assst.
!. inn. agin,''', In order ,tolroperate this
plan q general indictment Of the cleo
: top officers il South Carolipa has been
iresorted to and the ..South lt outrage
nll started t to Grind out is grpfes s2nne
~ ta prince II: ~ noltiea tsters,
Benjafnin Butterworth, Of Ohio,D has
been app6fnted special counsel for the
United States in the prosecution Of, the
election cases at an enormous salary.
and the trick of suborning ignorant
witnesses, which was played so success!
fully by the visiting statesmen in 1876.
is to be tried again for all it is worth.
But the Eliza Pinkston perjury and kim
dredl subornationss practieed ,iby Ohio
attorneys. in the interest of, Hayes are.
too vivid in the memory OF the public
to enable. this new conspiracy against
the good pame Of. the people Of South
Carolina to succeed, There ,must be
better evidence than the testimony. of
coached and frightened negroes or in
'terested and desperate Republican poll
ticiarls If this new crusade UNDER the
banner of the ''sb1oody shirt is to
make any headway. -. $50 III
The FIRST installment from the "South.
ern outrage mill is at hand but It
looks as if it had been run through the
.burrs by an awkward hand. 1T is in the
shape of an anonymous letter purport-
ing to come. from the s'headquarters of
the, x. K Ks" addressed to -J:.Hendrix
,McLane, late Greenback candidate for
Governor of South Corolina,. and threat
enipg the life of that parsonage if found
in Columbia on the 28th of April, 1888.
1t is little Singular that the only news
paper through which this terrible docu-
ment saw the light was the National
Facw, published at Washington by Lee
Cranda1l, the man who! assisted S. r.
Mason in 1878 to betray the 'Greenback
party in this State into the hands of the
Cameron bosses, and who is notorious
as tool Of the Republican managers.
It would seem that if j. Hendrix Nc
Lane actually received such letter and
desired to make it public he would have
given it to the Associated Press or to sew
eral of the widely circulated Republican
papers Of. the country. If he deliber-'
'ately hid his light under Lee. Gran
dali s bushe1 he is without doubt Just
such an ass as would be likely to be
made the subject of a practical joke
like that which is now gravely accepted
by the Republican press as a Southern
outrage. 'las Besides it is altogether inn
probable that any tn really Intending
tolintimidate Mr.. MeLane would have
used the stale device of pretending to
send . letter from the ';headquarters Of
the x, X H. and ,,of signing 1t, IN the
sizer D; A, and T, P, r., order of : F.
F.: thus mixing things rather too pro-,
mistuously to ,frighten any person Of
reasonably sound mind. Be it observed,
too, that only ION Che 18th Of April, q
1882 Afrg 1NfeLaiie 'Ssasito mike him }
self scarce sin Il Columbia Before OF
after that dake he WOULD bel perfectly
safe in that 'city.A Moreover he! was
merely to; leave Columbia. az He might
go anywhere else in the State; to Charles
tor, or Beaufort or, even to- Hamburg.
the stunning ground gld Of the ferocious
and terrible Butler, All it is a very.
pretty tale, indeed, and Lee Cranda1l is
Just The sort of person. to invent It. L u
1'1-tsburg CPa. J Patriot.