The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-13
An Atrocious and Infamous CaIumny.

already begun the political campaign
for 1884. On Saturday it sent out
printed slips of an intammatory adj
dress issued by William Malone, as
Chairman of the Readjuster party of
Virginia, carefully sub-headed and
marked 'tFor 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 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 SANDERS
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 a wonder
full admiration for the colored people on
the part of Malone and his fellow-Re-
adjusters. 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. fzahone'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 s
tools were the majority in the Election
Boards throughout the State. The Fed
eral Offices are filled 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 iusticeP 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 Read ;uster voters
| from the violence of which this con.
temptible slanderer now complainsP
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 VIII.
lam Mahore's own peaceful and an
gelic Readiusters of the killing of a
| straight-out Republican negro. How
| o1r,,o, NJ. A., 3. 4 -,
agination and infamed rhetoric fail to
| Virginia of which Mr.. Mahone's courts
bear record? The other night while a
| 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 ino1ensive
members of their own race who hat
come to participate in the Democratic
| jollification. This occurred in the Dem.
ocratic stronghold of the State and right
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
inllammatory appeals to his ignorant
followers. is not even mentioned in the
address which the Readjuster slanderel
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 OWL
people, he must be as egregious an as:
as Malone is an unconscionablc politi
cal scoundrel.-HarriSburg (Ra.) Pat
| 1.iot