The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-06-01


Another Presidential election q ~
preaching and the Republican managers.
Tor want Of IN Issue. are preparing 20
revive a. much - possible the dying
hatrcds % tho civil war. Like the sor-
rowing widow whose drowned husband
WAS brought 20 shore with his clothes
filed with cells. they propose % "set
Inn agin." IN order % operate this
plan general Indictment 81 the cleo
lion officers In South Carolina has been
rcsortcd 20 and the .'Southern outrage
mill started 70 grind out its gruesome
gri<t. That prince 81 political frIcksterS.
Benjamin buttcrworth. II Ohio, has
been appointed special counsel for the
United States in the prosecution Of the
election cases 10 IN enormous salary.
and the trick u snborning ignorant
witnesses. which was played 50 success
fully BY the visiting statesmen In 1876.
Is 10 be tried again for al il is worth.
But the Eliza Pinkston perjury and kim
drcd subornations practiced BY Ohio
attorneys il the interest Of Hayes are
too vivid IN the memory Of the public
70 enable this new conspiracy against
the good name u the people Of South
Carolina 70 succeed There must BE-
better evidence than the testimony Of
coached and frightened negroes or in
terested and desperate Republican poll
ticians II this new crusade under the
banner OF the "bloody shirt Is 20
make any Roadway.
The first installmcnt from the South
ern outrage mill u n hand. but IL
looks as * Il had been run through the
burrs BY IN awkward hand. II i in the
shape Of an anonymous letter purport-
ing 70 come from the headquarters Of
the X. X. H." addressed to j. Hendrix
McI-nne. late Greenback candidate for
Governor Of South Corolina, and threat
ening the life Of that parsonage If found
in Columbia on the 18th 81 April 1888.
1t i little singular that the only news
paper through which this terrible doct-.
ment saw the light was the AGfionak
Tier. published II Washington BY Lee
Crandall. the man who assisted :. X.
Mason in 1873 TO betray the Greenback
party in this State into the hands Of the
Cameron bosses. and who Is notorious
rs . tool Of the Republican managers
II would seem that II j.. Hendrix Me-
Lane actually received sucha letter and
desired % make II public hcwould have
given It TO the Associated Press or tosev-
eral Of the widely circulated Republican
papers II the country II he deliber-
ately hid bis light under Lee Cram
dalis bushcl he i withou. doubt just
such an as as would be likely TO be
made the subject Of practical joke
like that which Is now graycly accepted
BY the Republican press a. Southern
outrage" Besides il i altogether inn
probable that any one really intending
to intimidate Mr.. McLanc would have
used the stale device Of pretending to
send letter from the headquarters Of
the X. H. H." and Of signing il in the
grandloqnent style Of the '.Crand A.
sizer d. a. and r. r. d.. order Of r.
FL thus mixing things rather too pro
miscuouSly 10 brighten any person Of
reasonably sound mind. BE II observed.
too. that only ION the 28th of April,
1885," Mr.. McLane was 70 make him
self scarce in Columbia Before or
after that date he would be perfectly
safe in that city, Moreover he was
merely to leave Columbia. He might
20 anywhere else il the state: 70 Charles
ton Or Beaufort, or even 70 Hamburg.
the stamping ground u the ferocious
and terrible Butler. All! il j. very
pretty tale. indeed. and Lee Crandall j.
juSt the sort 81 person 70 invent it,
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot.