The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-31
KNOCKED OUT!
MCD0WGIlS "VildiGatial" Torn ali
to Pieces.
Denounced BY . Mass Meeting in
Arkansas.
His Recent Methods as INSCRIPTIONS as
Ills Past Record.
The American Sustains It's Charges by
Proof Overwhelming.

The American of last Sunday de-
votes four pages to another chapter
in the history of the now notorious
John II Mcdowell. 1t is a rather
long aud cumbersome treatise for u
newspapers columns, but is certainly
exhaustive of the subject. 1t goes
back to the beginning OF the discus
main, as follows:
l. That during the latter few years of
his residence in Desha county, Ark, he
was claimed by the negroes as Il repub-
lican, and the claim was conceded by
his white neighbOr6.
2. That his affiliations, as an office
seeking republican, were with the ne
grOes, who constituted not only the
republican party but the great body
polite of the county.
3. That in pursuance of his policy to
obtain Office through the negroes, he at
tended many of their own meetings,
and on one occasion sat at the table in
the home of one of his cOlOred followers,
surrounded by others of that color, and
ate supper.
4. That it was currently reported
throughout the county, by white and
cOlored people alike, and believed by ali,
that he was member, in full fellowship,
of the negro republican league.
5. That in the conduct of his office of
Justice of the Peace, he had large eye
upon tie revenue feature thereof.
It then tells of McDowell's trip to
Desha county, Ark, followed by his
brother w. w. Mcdowell, who, it is
supposed, when John H, had fur
nished the "facts," pre- pared the
"vindication." The paper calls at
tention to the fact how, "notwith-
standing the appearance, as a basis
for the accusations, of statements
from nearly the entire white male
population of Red Fork township, in
which Mcdowell lived and practiced
politics, establishing each AMI every
one of them, his more rabid Alliance
adherents pronounced him guiltless
far in advance of any evidence tend
ing to prove him So"
1t then states when the proof came,
what it was intended to show.
1. That John Ii. Mcdowell, with Ma
cune, Livingston and Terrill, constitute
the Alliance.
Il.
gest of them all, has been seized as a
martyr, with purpose to destroy the or
der, by INSCRIPTIONS democratic pol1tl-
clans.
jealous and liberal Christian who had
over been seen or dreamt of in Desha
county,.
4. That he was a most devout and per-
sistent follower of the recognized found
or of democracy during his entire stay
in Desha county.
5. That he never allowed his eyes to
rest uOOn a negro suspected of being
repub lean.
o. That his accusers were men utterly
lost to the world of decency and known
only in tho criminal history of the coun-
ty and State.
7. That his magisterial eye was al
ways closed when revenue was even
limited at.
The American, through its special
correspondent, theu gives statement
of the case in general way as he
found it in Desha county while Nc
Dowell was working Up his vindica-
ton and Immediately thereafter. He
states that McDowelPs first move
was to find his old political chums,
the professional negro politicians OF
the county, and together they went
to working up the county" as of
yOre. People who remembered him
in the long ago, remarked sit looks
like old times, when Mac and his
henchmen were trailing the woods
for Office" The correspondent states,
upon the testimony OF responsible
men, how negroes, who before Nc
Dowell's arrival were nOtoriOusly
without money or credit, suddenly
became "fiush," after their private
interviews with Mcdowell. The
statement of me case shows, by the
testimony of white and black, how
Mcdowell travelled the county armed
with a Winchester rifle; how he
threatened to kill some and intimated
those he could; how he hribed others,
and when these remedies failed, how
he appealed in the name of his family
and worked upon their sympathies.
In this way, it is alleg ID, he gOtrhis
"vindication" and seemingly made
the Americans witnesses cOntr adict
themselves. But when McDOwells
proof was all sifted down, and the
dates were compared, it develops that
what little of McDO Wells proof there
remains, that is unPurchased and
worthy of credit, relates to the first
two years of his life in Arkansas,
while the Americans charges relate
to the latter years of his life there.
1t shows further that a number of
McDOwelI's own witnesses charge
that the statements they made were
''doctOred" by somebody aud did not
appear correctly stated. Besides this
statement of the case by its correspon-
dent, the American editorially says:
Oyezy Oyez!
One of the worst if not the very worst
chapter in all the odious and odorous
record of John Henry Mcdowell is the
fraudulent defense of his reputation,
which in the light of the Americans in
vestigation, stands exposed in all %
rottenness. That defense was never in
tended for the general public. John
Henry Mcdowell knew on the day on
which he gave it to the press as we'll as
he will know when he reads his Ameri-
can this morning that he could not
maintain the base deception which he
had practiced upon his readers with re-
gard to the character of his witnesses.
He knew that the American would soon
strip the disguise from the faces of the
negro scoundrels masquerading as rep
utable white men under the titles of
"Reverend," "Professor," etc, etc., etc,
with no hint or suggestion of their real
character. Every man in Nashville
who read McDowell's defense believed
that George w. Bell, the SENATOR"
"the Professor" the man of "high
moral character" was q cultured and
honorable white man; every man in
Nashville will know this morning that
he is a graoeless, goddess and redemp-
tionless negro sooundrel. one OF Mo-
Do~ell'A old coafederates In the dark