The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-17
JOHN FL. MCDOWELL.
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price for which but little more than
halt the stock of the American sold
only few weel7s.ago, and demonstrate
to him that he eQnht collect not only
$4,000, but $H8,o00 Judgment, ii he
could only get the judi naent, the former
amount being the price be himself has
set on his character.
"Mr. Mcdowell refers to the suit of
the Stone Fort Paper Company against
this paper. He will find small comfort
there. That was friendly suit which
the American itself desired in order to
teSt.th6 validity of certain bonds which
it;disputed and which constituted an
Onerous charge upon the paper. In the
amicable adjustment of that lawsuit
tho American was relieved of the IN
debtedneSs il disputed and which Nc
DOwell now parades as evidence of in
SOlvency to the amount OF SIO,OOO. In
the recent sale to which we referred
a IN erican stock sold for 81 times what
it sold for just before the bond suit in
question.
"But the American has always been
of the opinion that honorable men
! brought libel suits tor vindication and
not for cash. Are we to understand that
John Mcdowell values his good name
merely as a commodity? That he
would only take his character into the
courts as he would take his ducks to the
| market-tO see how much 1t would
| I6Icn! MI. MCDOWELL III a T0cOIlL
view talks of the delays, the costs, etc.
He has an income OF from $1,000 to SlO,-
900 per annum-would he sooner part
with his reputation than with a few
coal oil fees2
"But there is another way open to
Hon, John, He can have the editor OF
| the American indicted for libel. The
| State will furnish him able and eloquent
counsel who will prepare his case with
out charge, and the State will bear all
| innidnnf the nFOR1Hn-
ton. Mr.. Mcdowell need not spend a
| cent and need do nothing except enjoy
| the prospect of seeing the editor to the
American behind prison bars.
HOr if he insists that he must not only
he free from costs, but must make some
| thing, Ae 63Dnat only sHe the Ameri-
| can, but fifty QtheP newspapers. lie
can go to Arkansas and do as he threat
ened-sqe some of the Americans wit
pesses, and thus test his character In the
| very community in which he lived. Ii
he won he could get q fortune in judg-
ments, and COLLECT every pent.
"As we have said, fuller reply to
Mr., MGQowe:lls defense will be forth;
additional evidence, IS well as some
very plain expressions or some OF his
witnesses and his. methods:
I'm the meanwhile we ask that Mr.
seseS and fsRx Pc says thSG
"few" of the American's witnesses al
good men but they have been deceived
az to his character by the thieves
ter of fact Mcdowell .hRs not .pretended
to assaiI MORE than four matbrlal w.t.
pesses, and he assaulted every one
against whom he could find breath o.
reprOacl. An analysis of his statement
shows that with the active aid of his
brother, who is personally very popular
in that country, he has found about
tw6nty HleD whom, we suppose, though
as to all of theM we are not sure, to bt
white men and Democrats, TO. ipdorse
his character, and he has gone from ont
end of the county to the other picking
them up wherever he could find then
and begging men with the most piteou'
appeals TO give him an inlGrsement fo
his family's sake. When it GQmes t.
"suppressing," we will show that Hon
John Mcdowell has had to suppress I
great many unfavOrahle answers in or
der to parade an unbroken array o
twenty white men in two weeks
search who would testify that he was
good man, A little more than one mar
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