The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-03

vile. Tenn, March 81, lS9l.-My Dear
sir and Brother: In reply to your favor
will saw there was so much OF the LesCl-
mony Il would DO impossible for me 10
give Il in detail. 1t was taken down by
Fl. q. Lemming, Harrisburg, "a II
van would write him and offer him say
Il to COPY it for you I think he would do
it. Hall, of Missouri, can give you SOME Iis
gtPong points drSwn out by him. MS
DO Iloffioe is Hubbard, Nc,
sGThe most damaging points J remem-
Der are: He (Macunel was asked II ne
got any money from Pat Calhoun our,
that he got $1,000 from him as loan
after the Senatorial race was over: ne
admitted that the Economist had losC
SI6, 900, and that he had bought hne
residence in Washington for 5000, pald
SI, 600 down and 500 month AFTER
yards: that ne and Sledge had bought
out the Southern Alliance Farmer pay
ing 81 900 cash for Il controlling interest,
and that he favored and worked LOT Inc
election of Pat Calhoun, big raliroad
Ia TUver and that he went to Washing
ton 4 poor man. Mr.. Hall, of missouri,
asked him where he got the money 10
meet the $4,000 loss on the EconohlSL;
the money to pay for his residence anu
the 81 900 for the Southern Alliance
Farmer. He failed to answer except
as the latter, saying Sledge FURNISHED
his half of the 81 900. Sledge Also OWLS
"A controlling interest in the Mercury OF
Texas, owing that he anu Macun n1
we.e irving TO control the organs OF
other States as we'll as the natlonal
organ, in order to carry everything
their own way.
81 give you these points, but IN your
fight with hi IN don't bring me into IL as
YOUR informant, because L do not want
at this time to be forced into a cohtro-
versy with Macune. When 90 waht
the whole record that Oeming has, that
[ may be properly fortified SHOULD ne at W
I3eloit, Kan, is another man who signed
at first a minority report with me giving
the facts. This report was Afterwards
withdrawn. Your friend an6 Drotne'
J. Ii. Mcdowell.
at will be seen that in every material
particular The americans charges are
infinitely corroborated by the stestl-
monV of Mcdowell himself; that ne
i even contemplated opening hre on on
Macune himself and only waited TO
tortify himself with the official RECORDS
with which to confOund and contute
him should he attempt to deny-thls,
at least, is his pretended reason ioI
keeping out of the fight while secretiy
aiding and encouraging others III thelr
| open hostility; though we suspect that
/ his real reason was that ne Ieareu "
| tempt the powerful wrath of Macune'
| "NOte that this letter iS-nOt yet ninety
DAYS old-it was written on the 3lst day
| of last March. II less than sixty Gays
after it was written Mcdowell was on
| the stump declaring that those charges
were base calumnies, holding up Ma
| cune as a pure and spotless champion
/ of the people and denounclnS III un-
measured terms those who refused &c
believe it. -
"T'he A merican, especially because
| il dared to do openly what John Nc
| Dowell only dared to do in secret, was
aSsailed with an almost unParalelel
bitterness; because it honestly tFleq &c
enlighten the farmers az TO the recoru
/ of false leader while MGpowell was
trying to deceive them, it was held up
| to scorn as an enemy of the farmer ana
| every true Alliance man was auVlSeu
| to throw it out of his house. This same
John Henry Mcdowell had the lmpu'
dence to cite in proof of Macune's limo
cenee and of the malice OF his enemies
the exonerating report signed by him
/ Mcdowell, but which he himself re-
pudiated in private as sham, white
| wash and q fraud Intended TO deceive
| the honest farmers, for whom he was
chosen guide,
| son March 3Ist Mcdowell was paint
ing with vivid tOuch-for private ust
| picture of Macnne, which showed mn
in the most damning cOlors; by the ISL
of June he was publicly painting hin
/ as the prosecuted saint of noble cause
| and his opponents as calumnlatorS mos
/ tOo vile TO be mentioned and few days
| thereafter he was threatening The
| A me ricdn with a libel SUIT by Macune
the witness stand and give Testimony
under oath which would exonerate Ma
| cune and put The American in FOL
heavy damages.
| aMacune and Mcdowell! Par noble
j f,atTunn! When did such another
brace of perfumed patriots decorate the
same page of the worlds historYT"