Madison times., 1885-06-06

Will al ICiuSoS w NoPy ~,
N. H." is stated to be lawyer,
once of Little Rock, who claims in
timacy with Attorney General Gar
land and is associated with J. Hale
Sypher, of fragrant memory. He is
familiarly known about the Con-
gressional lobby as Nat. Hill:
Blood on the Face of the Moon.
ANOTHER PUNGENT STATEMENT FROM
MR.. HOUSTON. OF LOUISIANA.
Especial
NEW ORLEANS, May Al have
Just seen the National Republican,
containing the latest effort of the
hired scribbler, who signs himself
"E. n. H." He is presumptious
| in the extreme when he attributes
my former interview to any article
he may have fathered for others. l
was after his client, Senator Gibson,
who has always fought, even dur
the war, behind tree or another
man. Every charge made against
me by "E. N. H." is an unmitigat-
ed lie, and his employer or employ
ers know it. Senators Gibson and
Jonas were in New Orleans when
my interview appeared. They are
here yet.
But neither they nor their friends
have attempted to answer my
charges, because they know they
are true. l am prepared to prove
that Gibson has been, since 1917,
an office-seeker, and that he has
always been elected by ballot-box
stuffing. l charge and can estab-
, lish that H. D. Kernochan. whom
Gibson had appointed Naval Off
Ger. is a heeler of the worst de-
scription; that during one of
Gibson's campaigns for Congress he
hired a steam. boat and brass band,
loaded the boat with the worst
toughs and hOodlums he could find
in the slums of New Orleans and
3 transported them to a poll in
another (Plaquemines) parish.
There was free bar and free
a lunch, and, in recognition of this
e picnic, the ruffians drove away the
r honest voters, captured the poll
u and carried the parish for Gibson
God save the people from such
S reformers
I'll Nowhere save in Washington
/. would the charge be made that
have slandered Gen. Gibson. M
e such charge is made, because
would pile up the evidence so higl
IT that, when / got through, it woul'
Is look like a mountain of corruption
This last attack on me, l think
was inspired by Louisiana's weep
:. ing militia general, }. Floyd King
!. who, l see, is in Washington. H
~ never had a command, but got hi
l. title from G ov. John McEnery, VIII
&c was de jure Governor in '72-'76
'o and gave away commissions quit
III freely. 1 have been told by gen
81 tlemen, who will substantiate thei
fe assertions, that King attempted
while candidate for Congress in tn
is Fifth Louisiana District, to lea
in the white men in their struggl
ne to protect their wives and daugh
IS. tiers from outrage at the hands
is the Negroes, but that when actus
Ill fighting began he went to the can
ey paign committee with tears in hi
I'd eyes and asked them to accept hi
i'd resignation. They told him t
ou calm himself and 60 home which
s. I am told, he did, crawled unde
he the bed and pulled the cover dow
#. to the floor on the side nearest tt
o. door, remaining there until tf
~ danger was over. A general, TO
cd sooth / am lost in surprise tn;
II he should indulge in criticism upo
x. bulldozing and ward politician
re when he has never. been honest
no elected to Congress in his life, ar
[r, 1 am prepared to prove it.
If / am responsible, pecuniaril
.re and otherwise, for every statemel
&c I have made.
u, JAMES d. HOUSTON.