The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
THE EUREKA SPRINGS TIMES ON
 THE CLAYTONS.

the important history of Arkansas that has passed under the notice "f every person now living in the State. Our readers do not need 10
 be reminded of the Killing of Hon. John NJ. Clayton last winter at
 Plummerville; neither do they need to be told of the expression of hor- 1 TOT, indignation and sorrow by the whole people of the State which the terrible crime brought forth
 nor how they, without regard to party or class, subscribed money to fund raised for a reward for the apprehension If the assasslns- The whole people from governor the State to the poorest and most humble offered their money, their sympathy and condolence to the murdered mans relatives free
 ly and earnestly. The legislature
 by special act authorized the gov
 ernor 10 offer s 1000 reward, and to thls was added the sums from prl- vate individuals sufficient 10 swell this amoant to q fortune to the man who would hand the slayer or John | Clayton over to the officers of the law. All the public men who ex- pressed themselves on the subj ect were sincere and positive m their denunciatfons of the crime, and earnest and sorrOwful Tn their sym 1 pathy and coincidence offered to | the dead mans sOrrowing relatives. Tn order that Gen Pc well Clayton, who, from his political position controlled the appointment of Fed era officers in this S.ate, might have better facilities for hunting down the slaycrs of his brother, the Cnitcd States marsha of the Eastern District of Arkans re- signed hls office that the place might be filled with all the .subor- diuates by 2 man of Gen. Clayton's own choosing. Every newspaper in the State uenounccd the crime Tn the most bitter terms, and called upon the officers of Conway county do thelr duty and spare nothing that would be available in bringing the rud-handcd murderers 10 their well merited punishment. One would certainly have expected the relatives of the slam man tc have made some acknowledgement of this unprecedented action of the people of the whole state. And Tn this, If the people anticipated it, they were not mistaken; bct 1t came in q different straln to what the people would naturally have expected from high-mlndcd, hon orable gentleman, instead of retn n ing his thanks and expressing his appreciation of this noble action of the people of Arkansas; instead ot accepting thelr expressions of sym pathy and condolcncc as sincere, instead of receiving their offer of money to prosecuto the mnrdercrs o1 his brother in tue spirit It was pizen: instead of mamfesting the magnanimity of soul that always charactcrizes great mlnIs, ahd should be one of the component parts of every great mans !lfe. Gen. Pow ell Clayton and his brotE- CT Hon. w, II. II. Clayton turned upon the ,e people, and in long and carefully prepared statement, pubish to the world that the very men who had offered them all man. ner of assistance, paid the highest bonors known in America to tho memory of their dead brother, kindly and sorrow fully followed his remains to It's last resting place. and writ ten and pronounced in pnbl'c the highest ecomiums upon the char acter of the deceased, were respon- sible for his death. That ;hc State thrt had thus honorcd, mourncd and one all i'll the power of man to do to avengc his death, was the home of the protected assassins, the political outlaw and that it's officers and the majority of it's citiz ms were Tn league with his red. handed, midnight murde r CTS. This, We say, in effect was l tnc TcluTu tIOSo POopiS Soe''o" from Gen. Powell Clayton and his brother, for what they had done to tighten the blow of tue unavOida. b!e death of John Nj. Clayton. Is il any wonder then that the public men and newspapers of the State,
 to defend their people ard com
 monwelth against those atta cks, turned against the CIaytons, espec
 ially Gen. Powell Clayton, and havo been ever since, constantly and vigorously. showing up hi~ political and officia career since he has been q citizen of Arkansas.