The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-17

mn litigation or issue a writ unless it
was demanded on the affidavit OF some
one; that he succeeded McDoWeil Tt fas as
Justice of the Peace, examined his lee
bill and found that in accordance with
law. The charge that he made $2,OOO
out of the Office is untrue; he dld not
make half of it. The charge that he
affiliated with the negroes is a base
SANDER. Mr.. Mcdowell conducted
himself socially and morally as gentle
man in every sense OF the WORD. Jones
saws he has been a resident of the dls-
trict and county forty years, and mas
been a fe-long democrat who voted
and worked for the party. he corropo-
rates the statement in regard 10 NC
Dowell'S acting as clerk under the negro
Grayson. Mcdowell built church and
did more than any other man to build
up the morals of the community; was
known as temperate man ana opposed
intemperance publicly and privately.
The intimatiOn that he carried whisky
| around to get Office is absurd.
Mcdowell next submits the statement
| of James III. Turner, OF Obion County,
| Tenn. He said he went TO Desha
County in 1873, boarded and lived with
| ing all that time he never heard that
| Mcdowell was republican or belonged
to the Loyal League. He openly
claimed to be a democrat. lie Crurner(
| was a physician in active practice all
the time he lived in Arkansas, frequent
! Iy out at night when not so engaged.
! lie STAYED at McDowell's house as
! boarder until 1876 and knows the facts
as to his conduct political, social ana
moral. No man of DeSha County stood
\ higher morally and socially with the
| IaW-abiding classes. II he had been a
Republican or member of the Loyal
League he wonld have known 1T. Nc
| DOWeil was seldom from home at nlghP
except to visit white neighbors and
| Mai. Coca more frequently than any
one else; that Maj. Wynn, one OF TEe
| American's witnesses, had the reputa-
| ton of living in adultery with negro
woman. He does not know these re-
ports to be true, but that was the gener-
| al understanding in the neighborhood.
He heard that Maj. Wynn became Of
| Tended at Mcdowell because Mcdowell
| criticised his manner of life touching
| criminal cohabitatiOn as stated above:
While Justice of the peace he enforced
| the law and made some enemies. IL is
not true that he stirred up strife, OF
! that he made large amount OF money
out of his office. He was an active ana
| efficient church member, ran for clerk
as Democrat, and presume that he ran
as a democrat for Magistrate. 1t was
| ALWAYS necessary to work for the negro
| vote to get elected in that county. de
saws DIR. S, II. Peoples was elected to the
Legislature in 1876 by the negro vote.
| The negroes were willing to give the
democrats the State offices in consider
| alton of the Clerk IS Office for one OF cnelr
tippler and often draEk to intoAIcatlon.
| l. Ct. Bum, who was a Constable dur
ing during McDowelPs term,as Justice
of the Peace, said that in 1873 Judge w.
| b. Peterson, white Republican, re-
signed the office of Justice OF the Peace
because, he said, that if he enforced the
law the Democrats would kill him.
The people petitioned the Governor to
appoint Mcdowell, which he did. de
got the office by appointment, and Bum
said that he knew everything that went
on. The lawless people, who did not
want the law enforced, tried to defeat
his election in 1874. The best Demo
Gratis insisted on his making the race
and claimed he was the only man Whc
had, since the war, enforced the law
The negroes, finding that he always
gave them justice could not be controls
| ed against him. He was elected, get
, | ting four-ffths of the white vote ano
! most of the colored. After he became a
| candidate for reelection as an lnde-
pendent Democrat the RepubifcaT
: Climb met at public meeting and In
dorsed his candidacy. 1t is not true
, that Mcdowell belonged to the Repub
Iican League. 1t was the custom IL
those districts to give the republican:
one Justice and Democrats one. Ht
, | never heard anybody intimate tina
Mcdowell was a Republican excep
Peoples. Bunnisays he has been life
: long Democrat.
, Prof. Bell is introduced as State Sena
/ tor. 16 tGSIlnoS CndD Mall w LII ANON
in adultery with negro girl; The CIR
q confessed as much to his mother In MI
a (BelPS) presence
: There is introduced statemont from
II. Thane, Clerk, showing that !. W
, Combs was convicted twice for gamb
! ling and once for selling whisky ol
= Sunday,
! Rev. r. HI. Poynter, of Desha County
: after Mcdowell left always heard hin
spoken of as an upright Christian gen
| tieman. He says that DIR. 5. j. People
/! was a drunken imbecile, that he killed
! | a man while on a spree, that while a
: his house once Peoples suggested ina
= they go out and get In bog With son.
negro women; that he had never visi
= ted his house since.
A certificate of the Clerk showin
! that Jan, ss Newby was fined for Sabbat
!, breakinl Mcdowell adds that Newb
{ is a gambler and keeps a gamhlin
. room for negroes, while ]. w. Dickin
. son raised a sum of money on fraudu
: lent bills Of lading and bankr1pted
Mcdowell says that he had j. X. Ma
y son, one of the negroes who te5tihe
: against him, sent to the peRitentlary fo
! hOg-stealing.
= Rev. Thos. Gilbert, Jackson Greer
n Virgil Holmes, A. @. Curry and w.
y - Freeman, all negroes except the 10 ,
. deny that they made the statements o.
)! tribIlted To thom in The American an
- charge that their signatures were forge
:, by The American correspondent.
MT. w. OluIlIluR say ChdI oAlASO AAAoA
inc the statement published in Th
~ American, he has made Investigation
80 and ia satisfied that the annoyance an
d labor of WaEking up, trivial cases
a which he spoke, was due to the OonsGt
% BILE rather than to Mcdowell. he Oil
~ not pay much attention to the Wordln
- | of tie statement and does not kno
20 that Mcdowell was Republican: Nj
'55 DoweIl always told him he was DEM
}" crat, though some people said he WS
10 nad 1ur1a hnSinaSS tranSd
,S tions with Mcdowell, which were satl
20 factoryup to the time he left, Whe
,e they had differences as to the respons
10 biIitY for money due quilting frol
70 hands on McDowelPs place. He wit
~ draws the statement that all white PEI
~ - pie had lost confidence and respect ft
q him when he left, The report that
70 belonged to the Loyal League ,oan
= from negroes, and he, Quilting, kne
-, nothing about it. McDowelPs NOR
i" and Christian standing was good;
~ w. NJ. CaFder sayG, SINCE reading d
- former statement in The AmerIoanl
y has secured additional informati(
as which tends to show that Mcdowell w
'ro not a member of the Loyal League;
- | ways found him honest in buslne
" transactions; did not know he was
ne Republican; regarded him as an hone
~ | official, and knew nothing against
20 | moral or official character.
a. a. Jno. X. ChildS was deacon in e
nS same church with Mcdowell. Mcnowt
- | WAS an GfflCI6nG WGrk6r IOr
% and prime mover in having chur
~S built in Red Fork. He regarded him
7 a Democrat, and never heard OF him pI
II. ting himself on an equality with 1
~ ~ Frank Nady says The American 1
o5I porter didn't publish what he said
10 favor of Mcdowell. He always regard
him as an honest official, and an uprlg
n+ Christian gentleman.
~ w, B. Dumas, introduced as one OF
70 most reliable and respectable farme
.' o in Desha county, says he, Dumas, W
no @@ elected County Surveyor of Des
nS county in 1872; also Assessor and DEP
s ty Sheriff in 1874, and frequently visit
w. Red Fork township. Never heard N
- Dowel's Democracy questioned until
u ~ saw it, in the Little Rock Democrat Ia
'i week. He says he eiectioneered WI
Republicans whom he ran for office j
Of as other Democrats did, Never Aea
-, but one man say Mcdowell stirred
w litigation and he was unfriendly to
aI DowelI. Dumas said he Joined the CO
-, IN federate army in Shelby county, Ten
a., in 1861 and served four years,or throus
IN out the war.
~ w. NJ. Dedman never heard or n
II Dowell stirring up litigation, and
- ways believed him to be Demoor
Charles Malpus says substantially
1T same.
~ G.. ID. Ratliffe said he regarded n
,S Dowell as an honest, upright of1ci
~ ~. He talKed with Tho American repor
IL while there, but his statement was ]
:. ~ Al alxr