The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-07
PISTOLS AND COFFEE.
Congressman Wise Says He VIII
Have No More of Them.
A Richmond Editors Remarks About
the stateman and..the Latter's
Reply.-.The stakes Not
Even.

RICHMOND, Va, March 1-Richmond il
again agitated by the talk CT duels and
bloody encounters. This time the trouble Is
brought about by the Kitchen" testimony OF
Congressman John s. Wise before the Dan
vile investigating committee. At the time
his evidence was published, and while he was
resentatiYes for what they re-
garded as slurs upon their race
the whites were denouncing him in equally
vigorous terms for what they deemed SIAN
derous assertions about the course of the
Democrats in the last election. The Cam
paign is a weekly Democratic paper con
Quoted by Capt. W. Page McCarty, zeal
| Gus Democrat and believer in the "code
He was one of the principals in the Mordecai
McCarty duel. He was himself desperately
| wounded and his adversary killed He wac
Mr. Beirne' second in the Beirne- Elan duel
After Mr.. Wise's testimony was published
The Campaign contained the following edi
| torial:
"How characteristic of the individual is Mr.
Johnny Wise's stump speech on the witnes
| stand. A man occupying seat in congress
| stolen with manufactured votes, himself tn,
very exemplar of violent prejudice, braggar
| and bully The hero Of thirteen bloodles
| duels; kicked out of the Democratic party and
| selling his little stock of brains to Malone,
| frozen out of recognition by honest m en-, ant
| relegated to the association Of the negroes
| whom he derides, and who are his superior,
| in all that makes even a pretsnse to man
hood. Johnny Wise forsooth talking about
vilification, when he and his gang never hac
| any other capital but vilification
| prejudice and falsehood He asserts tina
| Cameron was elected by a majority
of the white votes and that the Democrats
convention last summer at Lynchburg wa
in favor Of drawing the color line-two fai
| specimen tricks of his fabrication All th
| cracked witnesses in the coalition part,
| could not establish these two assertions a
| facts, even before the court of stalwart Rad
cals, to whom Mr.. Wise volunteered as pros
| ecuting attorney and suborned witnesse
against his own state"
As Mr. Wise has all along posed as
duelist, and did in fact two years ago engag
in a combat with Judge Ward of Abingdon
in which shots were exchanged and neithe
hurt, the public expected to hear of hi
challenging Capt. McCarty. He was in Ga
city Saturday and Sunday, and his presene
confirmed the suspicion that a duel was in
pending. Sunday night Mr.. Wise retarne
to Washington and later The Wing publishe
the following card, addressed to the publ
i and dated Sunday:
about twelve months ago, as is We
known to many persons, l resolved neve
again to recognize the practice of dueling.
few weeks ago my political disabilities, il
CURED under the dreling act, were for th
second time removed by the Legislature
The above conclusion was stated under oat
Monday last. Ny reason for SO doing wer
satisfactory to myself, and, being of
private nature, are OF no concern to tn
public. The public consideration mos
potent in my decision was that l az