San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-13
THE MURDER OF CLAYTON,

THE MURDER OF CLAYTON,
The most foul political murder that
has ever disgraced the annals of the
state of Arkansas was that of John
Nj. Clayton, who was shot down in
cold blood while attempting to secure
evidence against the democratic
thieves who had stolen the ballot box
at Plummerville. Clayton had very
carefully collated his evidence, and
was on the trail of the thieves with
every prospect of speedily convicting
them when he was shot from ambush
and killed. The threats made against
Chambers in Mississippi, and the
very narrow escape of Webb, of
Florida, from the hand of the politi-
cal assassin, warrant the conclusion
that the word has gone forth to kill
the contestants of democratic seats in
the national congress. Here are
three men. republican candidates for
congress, all claiming the seats for
which they made the congressional
race, and claiming them on the
ground that the ballot boxes were
stuffed or stolen. These men COM
mence taking testimony to submit to
the proper authorities in proof of
their assertion that they are fraudu-
lently deprive of their seats in con-
gress, and one is shot dead, another
has narrow escape for his life, and
the third is threatened with assas-
sination if he takes any farther steps
in securing testimony. In the face of
these damnable facts, the Paris
News of this state has the effrontery
to charge that Clayton was killed by
the republicans in order to make him
appear political martyr. No
fouler aspersion was ever cas-
by any man Claiming the Or
binary decency of humanity than
this charge of the Paris News. 1t
shows how besotted and stepped a
man may become i'll political guilt
when he will make such charge
without one grain of evidence to sup
port it or one iOta of reason to give it
color. The mind in which the foul
charge originated must be peculiarly
oblivious to moral sentiment and any
attempt to rouse it to moral action
must necessarily fail. The time has
come to call halt. Let the states dis
franchise as they will but the national
government will enfranchise. 1t is
goodbye Grover in a few days and
that eternal justice which demands
an equality of privilege and an equal
exercise of rights before the law will
again have place. Not that the re-
firing president was willing party
to assassination and fraud; not that
the respectable element of the demo-
cratic party is in sympathy with
political murder, but the party
gains thereby and "niggers"
have no political rights which
southern democrats are bound
to respect and so the murders go on
and the party has the lockjaw and
the blood of slain republicans cries to
heaven and there is no democratic
president to hear and no democratic
congressman to refuse a seat to him
who goes to his congressional desk
over the bloody corpse of the man
who should have had his seat had
the hand of the assassin been with
held. The solid south is only made
solid by such means and these means
will not be suffered in the future.
Political assassins may take note Of
this fact and govern themselves &C
cordingly. Journals that attempt to
cover the bloody trail of such assas-
sins by charging the crimes they
commit upon the republican par
ty, who can gain nothing and
always suffer from such MUIR
ders, will find their bloody tactics
ofno avail. A new administration of
southern affairs is at hand. An adj
ministration in which equal and i'm
partial and exact justice will be
melted out to all without reference to
race or political affiliations.
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