The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-05-23
THE KELLEY RIOT.
The story ofa Blot ofIso7 in Mobile
ee.o,d Dv one Who Was There

Retoid by one VINO was
w,su~.roS. Nav l3.-speciel Cores
,.sad,ace.-The following correspondence
was gwen to the press this evening
Hause of Representatives. [. - WASH
incton. D. e.. April :. isss, VIM. d. Mann ,
~, Work Hotel. New York. Among
the many letters found upon my taoie
aster an absence Of three days from the
citv is one from you which reads as ioi-
lows:
Hon w. D. Kelley, Washington, ID. |
c-sir; find in the Mobile Daily Eeg- |
;rey az Wednesday, 2ist inst, what pur-
ports TO be a Washington dispatch irora
which extract as follows;
Judge W. d. Kelley, well-kno"n as
P;olron Kelley. looks fifteen years young
er than his age. Tie seems to get thih-
ner As he grows older, but his color is |
GOOD and his hand steady, his foot light
and his hair -till holds its native brown.
..Yes. am very well for a man who
has i,een through as much as / have, ne
said j once was shot and once more
,,o5 si.tv shots fired At inc. The latter
hapuened. yoa know. in what Is known
as the Kelley riot in Mobile, Ala IN
ls.-. under Andy Johnson White speak
inc there was attacked by very bad
loi of car,,et-baggers. marshaled and led
on bv q cuiihraat whose name IS nov
,,cii. .tnown in connection with patent
ear lie meant 10 Kill nae. The plat
c,,.,o mas swe,i by bullets Of the assas-
sins and several men were slain by my
side II was fearful scene, and that
villain was solely responsible Tor H. iAs'
wear when Al West Point, he drove
around in stylish rie, and scattered
him every time by simply moving To-
ward him when be stopped. A soon as
he saw me be whipped up and took
new position every time. He Was eVi-
IDENTIFY very uncomfortable, fearing that
might speak to him, or, perhaps, that
would expose him TO the crowd.
wonld not like 10 harbor in my breast
that untaoh's conscience y"
VIII vou be - good A. 10 inform me If
Won arr correctly quoted above or not, as
there can be no question that ] am the
person alluded 10? Respectfully,
". u. mann.
you are not mistaken in supposing that
Won are the person TO whom ] alluded m
the course of a conversation with Mr..
gonui. who is. ! suppose, the author oi
the communication 90 which you refer.
The facts 'ouching the Mobile riots sci
forth in that communication, both as to
the danger in which was involved, the
woundinc and killing Of Others, and your
responsibility for that riot, and its terri
bic results, are substantially correct
am. however responsible for the language
used by the reporter Of that interview. |
did not. a. he represents, limit the mum
Der of shots fired at me at sixty. They
must have exceeded hundred, and j
said that when the military authorizes
on the next morning examined the plas-
tered wall in front Of which | was speak
ing. when yonr creatures opened fire on
me. they found sixiy-fiye distinct bullet
marks ami several abrasions, which had,
they believed been made by bullets. did
not apply the term cuithroat and villain
to you, a. am not in the habit of using
such epiiheis. But looking back through
a vista Of nearly tweniv-one years, and
contemplating the infamous means TO
which YOU resoned 10 produce that riot,
feel that if those cpithe;s were ever de-
served by man, l might well have ap-
piled them to YOU
Nou have not been quick, Colonel
Mann. 10 discover the terrible character
Of the charge you invited when, on the
approach 90 Mobile Of the late Henry
Wilson. of Massachusetts, and myself
no, together. bat by different routes and
on successive days, neither knowing q.
the others intention 20 visit Mobile al
the time, You, IN the columns Of the Mo
lille Time. the infamous sheet you own
ed. and responsibility for whose utter
anccs YOU avowed in my parlor at the
Battle House in the presence of represen'
taiives Of the New York Ho'id, Phila
delphia Iayain,c, and the Cincinnati
Cgmasr-ial. announcing that two North
ern agiiaiors were coming to Mobile, anc
Immediately advised the people of that
city to treat them with indifference
by ignoring them entirely. Those who
knew the character of your sheet and ii
readers interpreted this paragraph as al
invitation TO personal violence, and in
duced senator Wilson to leave Mobil,
without delivering the address he ha,
been invited TO make. He left the cit,
before arrived. and as renamed yol
determined TO effect
NY RANIsiIMENT NR ASSASSINATION.
aud in the Times Of the morning Of tn
day on and which was 10 speak misre
presented my nativity. and the faitl
which had characterized my ancestor
from long before the days when, in 1864
they sailed up the Delaware and settles
at Salemn. y. J. In an inflammation
paragraph You said that, though wa
an apostate from my faith and my part,
and rocreant 10 my country and m
God, you hoped the people of Mohil
would not serve me as the people Of Bos
ton had served an Irish Catholic dcput
marshal whom they had found in tn
act Of executing an order of the Unite
States Cour, 10y conducting a slave 10 il
owner. and who. in their wild fury, the
tore limb from limb on Boston common.
Colonel William y Mann, you are mi,
taken in supposing that the gentlemeI
who were in my room when vou visited m
are dead. Nearly twenty-one wears hay
elapsed, but some of them live to bea
witness that YOU admitted the falsity @
the statement as 10 the Irish marshal
that YOU expressed regret that YOU ha
inserted the infamnla,ory article, an
that you promised to issue an extra ed
tion containing a retraction of the state
ment and expression ofyour regret. l n
peat that YOU are slow to feel the inflm
of this charge. lou have lived quieil
under it fs- more than twenty years, an
now. Tor the first time, ask who is respoi
shle for making known your agency
fomeniipg that murderous ri&
ON my way to Philadelphia. in accor,
.,.. With ,,re.ax iSfip., ,p.,,co,,,arts