The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-08-06
COL. sTOOKDALE As THE CASE
STANDS.

Developments in the matter {
: the charges against Col. Thos. l
Sto5kdale since our last issue re
ders it necessary that we make tuI
Their briet mention of the presen
!. status. In the first place, Stock
dale has written "A long letter to tn
Natchez Democrat explaining an,
? apologiziug for bis card imputin;
impure motives, on the part OF "Val
Eaton's friends which lie claim.
1 to have been intended for IT,,
WOodville Republican, and thos,
connected With the action o! tina.
paper and none other. He says
also that if it be true that he was al
the Brookhaven convention in 1875
and said she would defend RepHbii
can principles whenever called on
by the people, he meant republi-
can as descriptive of Our forui OF
government, and not the radical
party. In answer to this we append
the following letter from w. FL. No
bic, who was in 1875 editor OF the
Woodville Republican OF whom that
paper OF a recent date says: "Mr.
Noble is now a planter of Bolivar
county. He is a business man OF
standing and his personal veracity
is unquestioned
AN OPEN LETTER.
FALLBAcK, Miss, July D, 1856.
Col. Thos. r. Stockdale
Sir: Ny attention has beer called to
your ard in the Clarion d%enouncing as an
infamous falsehood the statement publish
ed in the Woodville Republican of Septem-
Der 4, 1875, to this effect, 'Col. 7. R.
Stockdale gave in his adhesion to the Re
publican party" While 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. Ny
conclusions that you had given in your
adhesion to the Republican party were
based upon the following facts.
At the Republican Congressional Con-
vention held at ~BrookhaYen on August %,
1875 you were present aud at an invita-
ton of said convention you addressed it.
During your speech you made use of the
following uttterance !: ''This Is not a suit
able occasion to make a speech but at
some future time 1 shall stand ready
to defend Republican principles"
The fact of your accepting an invitation
from a Republican Convention to address
t-receiying its applause during your
Ipeech and using the language above
gave myself az well as other Re
'ublicans present the grounds to base our
conclusions upon, that you were in full {
ccord with us politically.
If we were wrong we were simply de-
in our man and your actions and =
.tterances before us were false in every j,
articular. W. II. NOBLE.
On the other hand a number of !,
of Brookhaven published a :
ertlficate that they resided in :
'r%ookhaven in August 1875 aud :
new nothing of Stockdale's ofili. :,
ting with the Republicans. Three !,
.epublicanS, r.. w. MiISaps, OF Ha- :
.ehurst +. w. Collins, of Summit
nd j. Q. Travis, of Magnolia also 2
ublish cards. The first two say =
ley were not at the Republican =
invention at Br0Okhaven referred "
but knew nothing of Stockdale
eclaring his adhesion TO their par. n
7, while Travis says he was there
nd the statement is false. That is
bout the way of these old defunct !.
,alawags. The first Two were -
rominent Radicals and yet profess ~
'nOrance OF the differences of their :,
Fn official journals of that time,
bile the other says those journals
The question then arises, did
ley lie then or are they lying nOw7
nd we have nothing proven by
.em. I'll
1t is proven, and conceded that Nj
.Ockdale was at Brookhaven on SW
e day that convention was held. ha
is not to be presumed that the Ice
liens of Brookhaven, Democratic an
mel who took no part in Ne
at convention could know what an
Ockdale was doing. If ho took no ia
TT in its proceedings, there is oa
netting wonderfully strange in ar
wind. Coupled with other evi. III
1ce We notice that while his p"
euds have ransackcd records and no
reduced living witnesses to an
we S~tockdale's political records !
! Democratic work he is lost in
ht of in Democratic ranks for w
-eral years before and several oh,
hrs after 1875. leo
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