The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-07
armour was his honest thought and simple truth his utmost skill, is new in the celestial 

Rsso,usd, Therefore by tho citirens of Jener- l son County:
 First-That our city, our county and State | have been bereft of grand citizen and spien- d!d excmpiar in all that 1t takes to make up the l true type of manhood.
 l second-That as citizen he has always
 proved himself to Dc 8 man who loved his fel- | low men, strove for the greatest good to his ncighbors, his friends and his countrymen l Third--That as man and friend his virtues | had their birth and home fin the heart,nn they | were the sequence Of noble spirit. kindly. | frank. generous temper and a soul to which no | appeal for charity and sympathy was ever in | vain.
 | Fuurth--That as a part san he has aiways | been liberal yet decided and most remarkably consistent, but over keeping in view tho ele-
 ments Of charity, philanthropy and unscihsh- | ness.
 l Fifth-That we proclaim our county has lost
 its best friend, one who in all its perls has l been ready to remove raneor from honest op- l posing foroes and to temper tho spirit of party | with the clements of manhood and magnanim-
 lty.
 l Sixth-That we express to the bereaved chill l dren and brothers and relatives the assurance
 of profound sympathy with them in this, tho dark dreae hour of their desolatiou, and that
 we assure them Of present and future earnest
 and practical interest in then happiness and l behalf
 ! Signedl JUsIUs GORDON, Chairman M. L. BELL A. B GRACE c. c. NEWMAN, C. P. J MooEY, A. l.. BURNETT J. c. CoRBIS.
 AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL CLAYTON. After the funeral your correspondent went out to the Clayton residence, where he met Powell Clayton and his brother, W. II. H. Clayton, and the following con- versatfon occurred:
 General Clayton, would like to havo from you an expression on this sad af- fair"
 "I am really not prepared to make statement. My brother, W. H. H. Clayton, and myself after consultation and delib- eratiou, have decided to make at an early date succiut and truthful statement of
 the whole affair, and we do not wish to
 make any assertion that could be denied in the slightest particular. Whether this statement will be made in the form of an interview or over our signatures, we have not decided. In our present hour of grief our expressions might be biased by our indignation at the foul manner iu which our brother met his death, and we would be more than inhuman did we attempt to
 make political capital out of our poor brothers blood. We only wish to show
 that he died martyr, and to yindicate his right to hold to his opinions and to en- deavor to secure to those who voted for him just expression of their wishes and, as believe, believed as he did, that he had been fairly elected to Congress from this district.'
 Hon. W. H. II. Clayton was then asked what he thought of the reports of the murder tliat had been sent out from the | different points. He said: T notice the following assertions made by the Little
 Rock correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat relative to the feeling at
 Hummer vile: Not man in the town
 knows aught of the crime, or if he does his face does not so iudi-
 cate. The town has possibly 400 or 800 people, and one and all denounco the crime, and are crying out for no red
 tape, but plenty of hemp. The stores were all open, but there was no busin ess, the murder being the sole topic of con- versation.' I was there for four hours
 the day following the night of my broth er's death, having gone from Little Rock to take his body to his home, and for the further purpose of making what dis killing. During the tina was there not a citizen of the town even as much as spoke to me, much less offering me any assistance. If they were clamorous for the detection and eonvic-
 ton of the murderers I failed to observe
 it. On tho contrary, I was impressed
 with the belief that the great majority of the citizens of that town were accessories
 to the crime before or after the fact Not the slightest effort had been made by any citizen of that place to pursue, detect oI capture the assassius."