Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-11
Things Look Bad for Jehazy.


Chattanooga News.
The case made out against John II
Mcdowell seems to grow stronger
and stronger by virtue of his silence
and his unparalleled method ofmeet-
ing the charges preferred against him
by the Nashville American, and
proved by "all the reputable people
who know him in Desha county"
He is not meeting the charges openly,
but is working up some manner of
refutation in the dark-lantern, mys-
terious way of which he is so fond.
He is not proceeding in the manner
which man upheld by a sense of
conscious rectitude would be expected
to proceed in disproving charges that
were calumnies and libelous. In
fact, he is proceeding in manner
similar to that in which a man with
hopeless case might attempt to beat
the woods in an effort to invent some
sharp coup to give him a possible ex-
PLANTATION of his career in Arkansas,
and he is hurting himself more than
ever in the eyes of the people and the
press by his unusual, mysterious
methods in not facing the music at
once, and in bulldozing the people of
Desha county. The following from
the Marion County Democrat is just
about the opinion now expressed by
nine out of ten of the Tennessee
press:
"John H. Mcdowell has asked a
suspension of public verdict on the
charges preferred against him by the
Nashville American until he hears
from his friends in Arkansas. John
H. Mcdowell cannot consistently ask
a suspension of public verdict until
he puts in a defense of no uncertain
character. He must proceed at once
to test the genuineness and reliability
of the evidence that has been brought
out in support of the charges, and his
only course is to accept the Ameri.
cans invitation to 60 into court
This is his only alternative, and I'm.
less he forthwith adopts it, he has nc
right to ask suspension of public
verdict. He can escape verdict Of
guilty only by impeaching the evil
dence that has been adduced against
him. The declaration of a thousand
witnesses that those charges are moi
true will not relieve him. What one
man testifies to be a fact a thousand
others have no right to dispute only
on impeachment of that one mans
testimony. Mcdowell may and car
60 through the farce of collecting ar
indefinite number of statements de
claring his innocence, but he will
never impeach the evidence of tn,
thirty>fve witnesses that have testi
fed against him. He is guilty. l
he does not at once institute a libe
suit against the American, Gov
Buchanan must ask him to resign"
That's it. McDowells silence, if h
has any defense to make, work
against him. 1t seems that an limo
cent man would have straightwa,
sued the American and compelled i
r to prove its charges, and in event c
its failure to do 50, have received
handsome sum and a vindication c
his character. With $4,000 salary
he cannot plead that he is too poor t
, go into the courts. Instead of that
he is, according to reports, trying t
, terrorize his Arkansas accusers an,
, make them take back water.
These facts make Jehazy's silenC
, hard on him. The sooner he speak
, out, if he has anything to say in hi
, defense, the better for him.
AS is, things look very, very fish
for moor old JnhaZV .