The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-14


: VIII Messrs. Sherman and Edmunds kindly
mote for an ipves feAclon OF certain Long
Island outragesY III the ensanguined garment
Is TO be waved. let us have the entire exhibi-
tion.-NeW York Graphic.
There is nothing smarfiu this: it is simple
idiocy. The Long Island Outrages and muir
ders are the expression OF q depravity that 10
common to the race, and which Is North:
South East and West. 1t Is also to be said that
the legal authorities of Long Island are using
their efforts to bring the guilty persons TO
punishment. The murders in the South which
It is proposed to investigate are not murders
for lust or for robbery, or for~engeance, but
they are murders committed by ana in the
name of political necessity; murders Endorsed
by the authorities, murders for the punish
ment OF which not only Is no effort made, but
the perpetrators are honored and rewarded.
-I,idiaaapots Journal. tetf a
Does the Journal know that that is
the casep 1t speaks positively, but does
it know? If it thinks 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 Just pos
sible that the source is foul with liesp
Two parties in Virginia are opposed
to the little man from that State who
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 it is right to repudiate on
honest debt. The parties opposed to
him are the Democratic party and the
Republican party. They say he lies
when he says that fight was forced
upon the Mahone-Arthur party of re-
pudiation. They swear that he lies.
Before any ordinary court the Prepon-
dcrance of evidence 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-
sibility that have attached themselves to
the Senatorial merchandise bought and
paid for by Garfield and Arthur.
The indianapolis 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 indivis-
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 vindicated.
The bloody shirt has been shown to
be "a Haunting l:e'' 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
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
otfice-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 political outrages
anywhere. And the story Of Eliza
Pinkston, who after appearing as q
martyr before the visiting statesmen
succeeded in killing the husband who
had caused the martyrdom, will never
grow old however this indignant man
Sherman, whose testimony helped to
give poor old Hayes the Presidency.
would like to bury tn Y. Graphic.