The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-10
Political 0utrages.


VIE Messrs. Sherman am, Edmunds kindly
move for an inyes igation OF certain Long
sland outrages! If the ensangu1ned garment
9 to he waved, let us have the entire exhib--
ion -Nebo York Grdphfc.
There is nothing smart in this; IL IS simple
liocy. The Long Island outrages ana muir
iers are the expression of depravity that IS
- lmOn to the race, and which i North.
;OIrh, East an West u is also to De said that
&c legal authorities of Long Island are using
LeiT efforts TO bring the guilty persons 10
punishment I3e murders IN the South which
il proposed Il Investigate are not murders
;or lust or for robbery. or for vengeance, buS
hey are murders committed by ana in the
name of political necessity; murders Endorsed
nent of which not only is no effort made. but
he perpetrators are honored and rewarded.
indianapolis Journal.
Does the Journal know that that is
The case? 1t speaks positively. but does
il know? If il thiaAs it knows, has it
any better evidence in support of its
knowledge than that of Malone and
his followers? And if that is the source
of its superior accuracy is it not inst
possible that the source is foul with
lies?
Two parties in Virginia are opposed
to the little man from that State VINO
sold himself to Garfield and afterwards
to Arthur. The sale of the little man
would be pretty good evidence before
any unprejudiced jury that he is MOI re-
liable He, assisted by Arthur. has
done more to destroy the work of Civil
Service Reform in Virginia than any
thousand other men might have done,
to say nothing of the fact that his main
idea is that tits right to repudiate on
honest debt. The parties opposed to
him are the Democratic party and tie
Republican party. They say he lies
when he says that a fight was forced
upon the Mahone-Arthur party of re-
pudiation. They swear that he lies.
Before any ordinary court the prepon
dcrance of evidenee rules. always bear
ing in mind the character of the wit
nesses. Certainly the character OF
these Republican and Democratic wit
nesses stands high, and still higher
when it is compared with the rag-tag
and bob-tail of ignorance and irrespon-
sib;lity that have attached themselves to
the Senatorial merchandise bought and
paid for by Garfield and Arthur.
The Ind annapolis Journal is very pos
tive. 1t couldn't be more positive if it
should wear the binders which enable
that stubborn Christian, the New En-
gland jackasS, to look afar off, but al
lows HIM no knowledge of the filth at
his side. and but slight Information re-
garding the hornet on his own tail. The
murders in Virginia doubtless were
committed in the name of political
necessity, but they were Malone
murders, and their sole purpose was the
redemption of the Individual who had
been beaten, with his treachery and his
other villainy, by good Virginia ballots.
The cause of Malone and that of Ar
thur-the cause of reputation and Re-
publicanism, for they are one and ndivis-
ible-demand an investigation, and
that is the sole reason why there is to
be an investigation, and why the prin-
ciple that perjury as well as Reputation
is right is to be indicated.
The bloody shirt has been shown to
be ga haunting LEI on the evidence of
| correspondents OF the atlantic Monthly
and the New York Tribune who went
South for the purpose of making per-
sonal Investigations. Those gentlemen
showed that there was about one out
rage to perhaps every hundred report
ed; that the one was revamped and given
a later date every four years, and that
the meanest men in the South-sordid,
Vulgar wretches whose main purpose it
was to fire the Southern heart-were
office holding Republican carpet-bag-
gers. Grant testified after tour
through the South that he saw loyalty
everywhere and had no reason to be-
lieve that there were pol teal outrages
anywhere. And the story of Eliza
Pinkston, who after appearing as a
martyr before the visiting statesmen
succeeded in killing the husband VINO
hatl caused the martyrdom, viii never
grow old however this indignant man
Sherman, whose testimony helped to
give poor old Hayes the Presidency.
would like to bury it.-N. J. Graphic.