Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-24
J. q. BLACK WELL.
A Specimen Witness I'm the Dam
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The SENTINEL contained q dispatch
Thursday concerning the testimony of. @.
Blackwell, Corporation Judge of the City
OF Danville, in the investigation now be-
ing pushed at Washington by a committee
Of the United States Senate. Blackwell
t~estiies to having been for four years a SOL
der in the Confederate army, and the
general effect of his evidence is to leave
the impression on the mind Of the or
binary reader that he made a frank avowal
OF facts against his %prejudices; which
would, Of course, go to enhance the credi-
bility of his testimony. Friday after
noon a SENTINEL reporter conversed with
q gentleman Of unimpeachable veracity
on this matter, and a former resident Of
Danville. This gentleman had been an
noyed by q remark directed to him to this
effect "What do you think of the Dam
vile matter now? One Of your people
gives you away" Stung by this and SINH
lar speeches, he sought an interview with
our reporter to make a plain statement OF
the case with regard to Blackwell, who,
when ingeniously questioned, was made to
appear as saying against his will that he
was q Confederate soldier. Our inform
ant states, and we will vouch for every
word he utters (the matter is OF record,
too, and it can be proved il there is
suspicion of misstatement) that Black
well is q Judge of the incorporated
city OF Danville, which place he was
chosen to by the Malone Legislature.
He was a Confederate soldier, but
like Malone and Riddleberger of Vir-
GINA, and Scott and Moses of South Car
olina, heo q "scalawag," q man who,
in the course if reconstruction, gave up
all his notions and prejudices and Joined
hands with the baggers and the
negroes for the sake OF Office. He is q
turncoat for this reason alone. On ac-
count of his mercenary behavior he is
Stunned and ostracised in the commu-
nifty over which he presides as Judge,
by all except his W crowd. This will
serve to show the animus Of the Asso-
ciated Press, which we have had occa-
sion to refer to more than once, and
which not long ago got us into q guar
rel with that Republican agent. We pre-
sent these facts as to the credibility Of
the witnesses that all persons who are dis
posed to be fair, and who want to learn the
truth, may be put on their guard now,
and may see the importance of taking all
future Associated Press dispatches on po-
litical matters with q grain of salt.
We believe, and have time n again
asserted, that the masses of the Republican
party are fair men and care no more for
politics than 30 far as the welfare Of the
county is involved. 1t is only such men
as John Sherman, who have their conf
dence. and whom they are predisposed to
believe, that cook up lies which keep strife
alive and tend to p~erpetuate ill-feeling
between the North and the South. This,
in fact, as will inevitably be recognized
even by those who now can't be talked to
on the subject, is the main stock in trade
that a coterie of corrupt men at the head
of the Republican party deal in to keep
themselves in control of the Government
and immense patronage which, after long
! years of power, leads to INSTRUMENTATION
and fraud at Washington, such as we are
disgraced by now. Our informantst states,
also, that the circulars" referred TO in
the dispatch we're simply a printed appeal
to voters, showing up the Malone crowd
and urging them to put down the
Readjuster party. Simm's, a Readjuster
| candidate for the State Senate, took this
| circular as a text, and in an incendiary
| speech at Danville laid the foundation for
whatever trouble occurred. We again
warn all fair-minded men 1--WE do not sd-
dress any others) to be suspicious of such
dispatches as We are forced to publish, not
being able to get others, and to wait pa
tiently until the Danville investigation"
has been finished and we have been put in
possession of all the facts that everybody
will recognize as reliably given.