Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-22
w. e. TODD.
j. w. TYLER.
H. CARTWRIGHT,
T. f. TURLEY.
March 20. 1896.

McIver Denounced in Clarke Paper.
The following leading editorial appears
in the Decatur News CLARKE papei),
March 90
The senior editor of this paper has been
sick in bed for the last eight weeks. suf-
fering intensely and continuously with
infamnfa tory rheumatism. He is still
unable to leave his bed, and his condi-
tion is such as to excite the deepest solicit
tude. In justice to him the junior edi-
tor makes this statement:
During the recent visits of Mr.. d. w.
Mclver of the Montgomery Advertiser
to Decatur, he visited the sick room of
DIR. Grubbs, and was most cordially and
courteously received. His visits were at
times when my father was In extreme
agony of paroxylsmal suffering, and
hence no man familiar with the ordi-
nary amenities of life and the proprietes
of the sick chamber would have attempt
ed to discuss or investigate alleged cleo
tion frauds, but from his own unsupport-
ed assertions it appears that Mr.. McIver
visited a sick and suffering man for no
other purpose, knowing that he could not
then get out of his bed and had not left
his room for several weeks.
Since then Mr.. McIver has written sew
eral articles that appeared In the Mont
gomery Advertiser, In which he alludes
to my father and the Decatur News In
a way designed to put both at disad-
vantage where the real facts are not
vert innuendoes are unqualifiedly false,
and Mr.. McIver must have known them
to be such when he made them My faith
er is yet deeply afflicted; If he should re-
cover he will speak for himself touching
these matters.
In the meantime a sensa of duty Inn
pels me to say that no depth of iDfamy
is too low for man to descend TO that
will assail, without cause or proyocat ION,
another who has never harmed or hurt
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sickness and unable to defend himself.
WALTER NJ. GRUBBS.
Clarke's Organ Silent.
The Decatur News and Decatur Herald
are strong and influential Clarke support
ers in Decatur, and neither one of them
primary election on March 7. We do not
believe that these two able defenders
and supporters of Mr.. Clarke would
stand by and see fraud perpetrated
against him and not condemn 1t. Why
don't the News and Herald speak out on
the subject and deny or affirm the
charges?- ?-Hartselle Enquirer.
Sparkmasi Exposes McIver's Threat.
Our readers will recall that Mr.. s. A.
Sparkman, postmaster at Decatur, sent
special to this paper showing that Nc
Iver's list of alleged voters for Clarke
published by the Advertiser daily was it.
self fraudulent McIver, thinking he
Z could frighten Mr.. Sparkman, in his Of
fetal position as postmaster, away from
his loyal defense of his neighbors from
slanderous charges, wrote him that he
had been reported to the postofice de-
partment at Washington. The Adver-
tiser was of course, behind McIver and
has since twitted Sparkman for not pro-
ducing McIver's letter. Mr.. Sparkman
sends us the letter, which we publish In
full:
McIver's Letter.
W. w. Screws, President. The Adver-
tiser Company, Proprietors. F. p.
Glass Secretary. The Montgomery
Advertiser, Daily and Sem.Weekly.
The Leading Alabama Paper in News,
Influence and Circulation.
Montgomery, Ala. March 1G. 1895.
My Dear Sir. l have read your letter
In the State Herald You do not ehal-
iengs but three OF the names in my re-
rort, and two of them are not On the Ger
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