The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-07-07
n. seuthern outrase nam Grlndlns.


Another Presidential election is app
preaching and the Republican managers,
for 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 drowned husband
was brought to shore with his clothes
filed with cells, they propose to "set
i'm agin." In order to operate this
plan general indictment of the elec-
ton officers in South Carolina has been
resorted to and the Southern outrage
mill started to grind out its gruesome
grist.
That prince of political tricksters.
Benjamin. Butterworth, of Ohio, has
been appointed special counsel for the
United States in the prosecution OF the
election cases ut 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
dred subornations practiced by Ohio
attorneys in the interest of Hayes are
too vivid in the memory OF the public
to enable this new conspiracy against
the good name 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
ticians if this new crusade under the
banner of the "bloody shirt" is to
make any Roadway.
The first installment from the s'South.
ern outrage mill is at hand, but It
looks as if 1t 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 headquarters of
the X. X. K.," addressed to j. Hendrix
McLane, late Greenback candidate for
Governor of South Corolina, and threat
ening the life of that parsonage if found
in Columbia on the 28th of April, 1888.
II is little singular that the only news
paper through which this terrible docu-
ment saw the light was the National
VieD, published at Washington by Lee
Crandall, the man who assisted S. X.
Mason in 1873 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.
1t 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
dall's bushel he is without doubt just
such an ass as would be likely to be
made the subject of q practical joke
like that which is now gravely accepted
by the Republican press as Southern
outrage" Besides it is altogether inn
probable that any n, really intending
to intimidate Mr.. McLane would have
used the stale device of pretending to
send letter from the headquarters OF
the X. X. K" and of signing it in the
grandiloquent style of the ''Grand As.
sizer ID. A. and T. P. D., order of F,
F." thus mixing things rather too pro.
miscuously to Tighten any person OF
reasonably sound mind. Be it observed,
too, that only ION the 28th of April
1885," Mr.. McLane was to make him.
self scarce in Columbia. Before o.
after that date he would be perfectly
safe in that city. Moreover he wa
merely to leave Columbia. He Nigh
go anywhere else in the State; to Charles
ton or Beaufort, or even to Hamburg
the stumping ground Of the ferociou
and terrible Butler. All! it is yer,
pretty tale, indeed, and Lee Crandan i
just the sort of person to Invent it,
Harrisburg (Pd.) Patriot.