The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-10-30
neutrality-suspicious. Tacticx.

IUe O0fOn1cle man ID very mOCn sur
prised at us in not taking his off hand
statements about ID. c. O'Malleys char
acter. The offer of $1,000 by Cal. D.
Hicks, president of the Louisiana press
association still stands untouched, and
the scandal unproven. Mr.. Chronicle
has found a new law which requires o
man to reverse the doctrines taught by
Coke, Blackstone, Wharton ct ais, that q
man is presupposed innocent, and nov
wants every man to carry q clear bill of
lading from all ports. By the way, Edi-
tor G., to show ridiculous your position
is, most of your charges are felonies, and
the absence of action by bitterly parti-
san court is prima facla evidence, etc.
But could you prove that you did not
commit in 18-. He states in his
paper that some Of the courts in New
Orleans are 30 bitter against O'Malley
they have ordered him to stay out OF
them; yet these same courts could not
convict or indict o. Malley of charges Der
Headlight" and Chronicle. = Peoples
Demands, Oct. 18th.
It is decided mistake to suppose that
we are at all surprised at any distortion
or absurdity appearing in the Demands,
as We have long since discovered that it's
editor is % bereft Of reason and stepped
10 prejudice that a sensible conclusion or
impartial comment is hardly to be ex-
pected. There are three or four incor-
rect statements in the above extract.
The Demands has on two or three &C.
casions coupled the CHRONICLE and the
Headlight together in this controversy.
1t 10 base and false assumption. We
have never seen copy of the Headlight
that we know OF, and have never seen
its editor. nor had word or line of in
formation from either source.
The $1,000 bet was not made by Hicks.
1t was only insolent bragsdocio, made to
hide and cover the real issue, and c. D.
Hicks especially disowned it at the time
Of publication. The entire sum, intent
and purpose of the bet is fully refpted
by the record we have given.
The Demands called for the record; we
accepted the challenge and secured the
facts. 1t joined in provoking the contro-
versy, and, finding itself convicted OF es-
pousnR the cause of disreputable per-
son, 1T endeavors to crawfish out of the
middle. and apparently tries to hide it's
retreat by singing mud as it backs Of.
We cannot for the life of as imagine
what interest Bro. Dunn has in champi-
oning OMalley, whose sole claim to dis
tinctlon is chat he is an uncomfortable
blackguard, engaged in pander,ng to the
vicious and criminal classes. and making
money by abusing and villifying his in
tellectual and social superiors.
We do not know what Bro. Dunn in !
'ends by the blank sentence, .could you
prove that you did not commit in
g." but If he means to intimate any
hing infamous or derogatory to us, we |
will say it is blank he. and he dare not |
III in the blanks, but seemingly prints |
IN inuendo because he knows nothing |
against us, and direct assertion would |
BRING him under the law Of libel. Pos
IDLY he il perpetrating stale joke, and |
AN prove we have committed matrImo-
y" or something equally grave. to which
4 course we plead guilty. But none Of
cuts any figure in shis discussion.
We have made no of hand statements,
mt have given specific facts, and stated
vhere recorded. Indictments have been
ound - the matter of conviction lie yet
o be tested. The Demands has publish
d the proposition ito prove the untruth-
ulneas" of these things. Let it do 90, or
hut down its smut mill.
Az the Demands casts a reflection on
be courts for not prosecuting O'Mslley
re this week print the grand jury report
9 TO why it could not be done. BY this
eport, which will be found in another
olumn, it will be seen that the grand
ary believed it to be ''due to the fact
fMalley and his co-workers have band.
d together for self preservation" One
{ the chiefs in O'Malley's combination
nd conspiracy to protect criminals, was
lionel Adams. then district attorney, by
hitch means the grand jury charges
|'Malley and other thieves and scoun.
re!s obtained nolle presses. rendering
he courts almost powerless. Thus New
'rleans was inflicted with a reign Of in
amy, while OMalley, through the Item,
II the while has been loud-mouthed in
Ne pretended zeal to put down crime!
This is the character Bro. Dunn il in
've with, and, together with other weak
minded Populist editors, would hold mp
. paragon u goodness, particularly
tied to purify politics, and play Moses
y leading the people Of Louisiana into
aths Of virtue and rectitude.
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