The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-07-23
A GARD FROM COL. sTooKpALE.

- 0AtAhhutt ~ tue DdthH0h
Clarion among others OF n similar
character appeared last week
HArTlEsBURG, Miss July -, lss6.
Editor Clarion;
Please notice the a ticle in the last
Wood"ille Republican, which states that
"Col. Stockdale gave in his adhesion to
the Republican party" and say for me
that denounce it asa falsehood raked up
from old files of a Radical sheet, and pub
lished at SO late an hour that could not
be hrard uutil the Conventions in several
counties have been held aud was pro-
mulgated by Van Eaton's friends to de-
feat me by Islander, when they found they
could not do it otherwise. Yours,
7. R. STOCKDALE.
"Denounce" aud "falsehoodn are
high sounding words, but ere
never known to prove anything that
we have heard of. 1t has been
rumOred Tor sometime that Colonel
S~tOckdale had affiliated rather in.
tlmately with Republicans, but III
the absence of proof "Van EatOn's
friends had concluded to beat Col.
Stockdale without making reckless
assertions when this piece of re-
cord proof is accidentally found by
the WoOdville Republican. If the
referred to appeared in print
once, why not againF If Colonel
StOckdale cared so little for his
political reputation in 1875, when
It a of all things Il gross insult
to a true Democrat to be called a
Radical, as to allow sach a charge
be laid at bis door, and remain
aot "denOuncedp his denunciations
low will have little weight. I'm.
lgine a "Radical sheet" with the
-emerity to say that Judge Van ;
along side of John Lynch, ,
gave ia his adhesion to the Re.
publican party" In the first place
70 "Radical sheet" would be fool :
nough to do it, and III the next !
lace there would be more "fuss q
nd feathers" than a mere denial (
leven years afterward. 0
The Woodville Republican "pro. 6
no falsehood unless the =
ecord itself is false, or never ex. i
;ted, and this Col. StOckdale has c
e sense to know and yet, while a
e doesn't charge that the article =
,ferred to is not genuine, he says, e
was HprOmuIgated by Van Eaton's Y,
lends to defeat me by SANDER" p,
There is no plea OF nal tieI record "
7 which the ''friendS of Van ~
atom could alone be made to APP q,
culpable. lie simply d%enOunces ha
e allegations of the said "Radical to
eet' as being false. Then, we &c
k, was he at that Lynch cOnven- ~
N, in 1857 did he give the va
,adIcal sheet" no cause for using
name as it did ? aud did he de- ST
unce it at the time, as he ought Ju
have done9 and what could a 90
,adical Sheet hope to gain by in
ch a blunder2 There is evident re
something "rotten IN Denmark" az
Who is to blame that the counties bi,
Col. Stockda!e have al ha
held their Conventions, and ce.
OSe favoring Van Eaton are back Al
lrd, and what harm can 1t do or;
ockdale Stockdale counties have biI
,tructed for him, Van Eaton cOun-
S for him, and others are unin-
.ucted, all held while Stockdale loy
un~impeached. Suppose, now, we
1t these charges had been pub. we
he'd prior to these conventions, It no
probable that Van Eaton coun. we
S would have instructed for him, CIV
lers gone uninstructed, while no
,ckdale counties would not have los
IN for Stockdale. The things go
Dlished by the Woodville RepSJ. we
IN had been rumOred for some WI
Ie, and Van Eaton's friends are we
) sorry that they did not get the na'
'of sooner. No, the only trouble Oil
refuting the charge, for which sal
re IS plenty of time. DIS
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