Nevada County picayune., 1889-09-11
Open Letter to MT. O. s. Jones.

DEAR SIR II have read your com munication in the Republican organ of Prescott, where you pour out your billingsgate and "black vomit" upon | me, and the world at large, in at tempting to review my article on In [ timidaticn, in the PIcAYuNE of August 2lst. Why should you have taken exceptions at what 1 said: l only assailed the Republicans, and am surprised to find that you take up the glove to defend them. If you are an hon0red member of the l.. l.. r. as you cidim to be, why should you grow so wrathy when the Repub
 licans arc assailed? Likely you have
 "repentcd of your error and gone over to the Republican side" Perhaps you are one of them or you would Eot dodge. You are like Lorenza Dow s man who stole the aX. Or it may be you imagine the welfare of the Re-
 public committed to your keeping.
 Like the toad that swelled himself up till he thought he was as large as the OK, fear you will burst l spread my net for sharks, and To. have en- snared sucker. You indulge your passion for abuse to a large extent, but l shall deal with you just as though you couched your sporadic thoughts in decent language.
 First. You refer to me as legal sprig. In your own estimation you seem to be a great over-grown black jack. but from the fruit you bear (and that is how we judge a tree) 1 fear you are hollow. So l shall now pro- ceed to act the part of the Scriptural husbandman-''lest you cumber the ground.
 Second. You say the Gazette and Democrat rejoiced over tue free and fair election in Pulaski county last fall So they did. But my dear sir, did we ever charge the Republican leaders of Little Rock with being fools? In the Coats Patten case which went to the Supreme Court, involving the validity of the election in 1882 in Pulaski county, the court held the Republican candidate not entitled to the seat, notwithstanding the returns showed he got a ma or
 itv of the votes, on account of the actions of the Republicans at the polls in clubbing, threatening, and intimdatng the Democratic votes, and absolutely driving them away from the polls. So with that case be-
 fore them do you suppose the Repub- lican leaders at Little Rock would permit disturbance at the polls last fall? No. sir but they waited upon all colored men who had indicated a desire to vote the Democratic ticket, threatened them with exclusion from the church and other societies, told them they would be mobbed and thrown into the river, and that they would elect colored justices of the peace who would fix them when they were sworn in, if they did not vote the Republican ticket. The result was that when the election came off , the Democratic colored men were in mortal terror and afraid to vote, es- , pecially as they had to vote an open : ticket, and the Republicans had men at the polls who took the names of all who voted for the Democrats, or who refused to vote an open ticket. IL was quiet election but far from being an hOaeSt one. And no one knew of it until they began to put these threats into execution some time after the election. So my dear sir, this prop is knocked out.
 Third. You charge me with hay ing paid the delegate from Red Land township twenty-five dollars to make the objections he did ln the Republi- can convcntionin in this county in 1886, not one word of which is true or has any foundation except in your supple imagination. 1 did not know the delegate nor where he came from. But suppose he was paid. Did that justify the bull-dozers to drive him out of the house-to curse and as sault him in q public assembly?
 Fourth. Next you charge me, in substance, with buying votes in
 1886. and say when paid man to
 vote gave him yellow Democratic . ticket and required mm to vote it. Now this IS the greatest and most un- , mitigated falsehood of all because I there was not C yellOW Democratic , ticket used or printed in Nerddd county in 1886. All of them were I white. You remember the maxim, false in one thing false in all l did, I however, offer one colored man two
 dollars to drive q buggy to bring
 Democratic voters to the polls, who were unable to come otherwise, and when he told he was offered five dol
 lars for his time" by the opposition, your political associates and allies
 it almost took my breath, knowing
 you never resorted to any but hon.
 est { ) means.
 Q Fifth. You say l correlled sixty negroes in hall on Sunday night , before the last election, and paid n them, and marched them to the polls r etc. Here, sir, your immaculate i'm e agination is again at fault, or you arc n perfectly ignorant of what you say r or have willfully made mistatemcnt
 the culpability in either event being
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