The Southern herald., 1886-08-07
Col. StOckdale.

NVAS OOOOhNttAOe
Clarion, July %: AS this paper
was going to press, we received
lengthy letter from Col. .R.Stock-
dale which, for want of time and
space, will not appear till next
issue. In his first card, which was
written hastily, where he uses the
words, "and promulgated by Van
Eaton's friends to defeat me by
slander when they found they could
not do it otherwise" /" he desires to
say: "and promulgated by some of
Van Eaton's friends to defeat me
by SANDER when they feared they
could not do it otherwise" The
word "foundo was doubtless mis-
print in the card as first published,
and Col, Stockdale disclaims any
intention to include all of Major
Van Eaton's friends in the para
graph quoted.
The Summit Sentinel Of last Sat-
urday contains a certificate of J.F.
Sessions, R. W. McNair, Jas. A.
Hoskins, and twenty four other
citizens of Brookhaven, in which
they say, "having noticed in the
newspapers that Col. T. R. Stock
dale, of Pike county, is charged
with having given in his adhesion
to the Republican party at a Re-
publican convention held in this
town on the Oath day of August,
1875, iu justice to him, hereby
certify that we never, until the pub
lication of the charge recently in
the newspapers, heard of the said
charge. Ii the charge had been
true, VIC think we would have
known or heard of it before. Col.
Stockdale has made many political
speeches in this town from 1868 to
1882, often meeting the most prom
inent Radical leaders in discussion
for the Democratic party. He has
been recognized as Democrat
prior to 1875 and since"
Col. Stockdale, in answer to the
question, Did you support Seal in
1875? telegraphs Ed. Bloomfield,
Moss Point, Miss, under date of
Summit, July 81, 1886, as follows:
"Yours received. I did support
Seal in 1875. He had a discussion
with Lynch at Summit. He stayed
at my house while here. l was
head of committee and made all
arrangements for his entertainment
here. Went to Amite when he
spoke there to work in his interest.
Did all in my power to elect him..
w. H. Noble, who edited the
Woodyille Republican in Septem-
ber, 1875, publishes an open letter
to Col. Stockdale,N under date of
Fallback, Miss, July 22d, 1886,
from which we extract as follows:
"Whilc l was not the author of
the article which contained this
statement,yet as editor Of the paper
l fully approved of it at the time
as correct. My conclusions that
you had given in your adhesion to
the Republican party were based
upon the following facts:
cat theRepublicanC Congressional
Convention held at Brookhaven on
August 25th, 1875, you were present
and at an invitation of said conven-
ton you addressed it. During your
speech you made use of the fol-
lowing utterance: 'This is not a
suitable occasion to make a speech
but at some future time / shall
stand ready to defend Republican
principles.
"The fact of your accepting an
invitation from a Republican Con-
vention to address it-receiving its
applause during your speech, and
using the language above quoted,
gave myself as well as other Re-
publicans present the grounds to
base our conclusions upon, that
you were in full accord with us
politically.
eff we were wrong We were sim
ply deceived in our man, and your
actions and utterances before us
were false in every particular"
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Died:
At Osyka, Miss, July 9th,
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