Arizona republican., 1891-01-08
WHERE FREEDOM IS A FARCE.

According to our Democratic friends the passage of the Elections bil! would be an outrage upon the South. They seem to forget that the bill is national in it's character and equally applicable to every section of the country. As to the boasted freedom of expression in certain sections of the union we com mend the following special dispatch to the San Francisco Chronicle of a few days ago;
 CHloAao, January 4.--W. M. Glenn, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, who was sent to Carollton, Miss, to in vestigate the assassination of the Repub- lican postmaster, Matthews, and who received many indignities at the hands of the Mississippi "Majahs, has re- turned to Chicago. He tells an interest- ing story of his experience and of the cold -blooded murder, which, a dispatch from Washington says, ''the Baptist minister at Carrollton assures Senator George politics had nothing whatever to do with"
 Glenn went to Carrollton, investi- gated the matter quietly and thorough ly, ascertaining facts that remove all doubt that the killing of Postmaster Matthews was a murder by the shotgun policy of the Democrats. The stories sent out by Southern Democratic papers about Matthews terrible record and his bad character were pure fabrications. Glenn learned all this and then called on the brother of the murdered man, United States Marshal Matthews. The Marshal was sick in bed with typhoid fever, but he had already heard from a friend that the people were "onto y Glenn and he told the reporter he had better 20 to Winona to send his dis. patches as he would meet with harm in | CarrolltoD.
 | So Glenn went to Grenada on the train and hired horse and wagon, with negro driver, to take him to Winona. | Arrived there he filed at the Western Union office an unbiased account of the assassination and went to bed. The operator evidently passed the dispatch around among the shotgun Democrats | for the next morning Glenn was met by | the liveryman of whom he had hired the sorry looking nag the day before and informed that he had driven tho | name was Weed, demanded Sl25 1T settlement.
 Glenn refused to pay, and five min utes later he was under arrest, charged with having driven to death Weeds horse. The officer who arrested hin cheerfully informed Glenn that ''w, have hung men for less crimes around here and the people don't think any to, much of you for that telegram you sen last right" Glenn was taken to tn, office of the mayor and Police Magistrat, Kelly and, after being told that he wa, guilty, was committed to jail. He wal allowed to telegraph to his paper fol $250 bonds, and pending the receipt O a reply he was taken to jail, room reeking with filth and bad odors anl occupied by three or four negroes ant white men, confined for minor offenses
 After several hours the marshal tool him out and the matter was comprom ised. Glenn paid fine of sS and gav' promissory note for $90 for the horse This was indorsed by the relatives O the murdered postmaster, who extende, him all the aid they could. After h, went through the above little formalitie Glenn was released, on condition tha he leave the town.
 Dr. Jones had been sent from Carroll ton by Marshal Matthews to aid Glenn if possible. He advised Glenn that tn best thing to do was to get North a once. Its no use for you to attempt to fight the case, said Dr. Jones. "Nt matter what the evidence or the facts il the case, you will be found guilty, snt the chances are you will get the extreme penalty of the law"
 So Glenn came back to Chicago, afte receiving vigorous object lesson on pc litical economy in the enlightened Com monwealth of Mississippi.