Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-19
Republican Methods.
Scott County Leader. !

ceived litter directing them how
to conduct the election. and in the
event that the direction is no: fol
lowed the writer says:
I'VE have the dynamite and car
tridges to blow hell out of all the
thieves in gate city and brains to
know how to use it,
The letter was directed to Mr..
Munich, and signed. slack the rip
per-" The postmark On the letter
was so smuggled that the mailing
Office could not be designated.
tits a we'll known fact that this
came from dark lantern caucus of
Republicans. But who was the
writerH Some one of the emissaries
of the caucus.
The dynamite is the weapon cf the
cowardly assassin, whose mission is
crime and whose joy is murder in the
dark. 1t is furnished by the mem
bers of the caucus TO further their
malicious schemes. These caucuses
are not confined TO modern history.
All history tells of them. Members
of the class of men who compose
these caucuses have swung from the
gallows and haye been drug from
the guillotine in every age.
The one characteristic which marks
them wherever found is desire to
destroy officials. Witness the assas
sination Of President Carnot, of
France; King Humbert, of Italy, and
others too numerous to mention In
our own country, go read the history
of these dark lantern caucuses just
prior to the fatal dynamite bomb
thrown among the police in Chicago.
Just short time ago it was reported
that dark lantern caucus sent out
emissaries to asssssinate President
Mckinley. How often do you see
accounts of these midnight caucuses
sending Internal machines to officials?
Again, go witness the assassina-
ton of VIM. Goebel, of Kentucky,
and read the account ofthe midnight
caucuses held in a place where hu
man life ought to have been held
sacred, just prior to the fatal day.
Honest citizens, can you endorse
these methods? And when these
cowardly assassins are arraigned
before the courts, what is the one
plea? eve wanted Justice" They
got it at the end of a rope or on the
guillotine, and good people said
AMEN.
These bravos-in-the dark silently,
wickedly, mesnly, maliciously and
cowardly plan the murder IN their
dark lantern caucuses and then hire
emissaries TO do thu work. They
say in letters directed to the Leader
and Messenger that they are defend
ing General Walker, who howled de-
fiance of law and order throughout
this district two years ago. Here is
the same old plea, the one character
istic of the tribe.
These NANCY, sneaking ours seek
by intimidation and threats to elect
Congressman. Will the honest,
law-abiding people of the country
join them and thus tacitly, if not
openly endorse the use of dynamite
in the dark2 Can it be possible?
Where was this letter mailed! We
do not know. The law says the let
ter must bear the name of the mail
ing office plainly stamped on its face.
This was not done.
Two years ago, letters addressed
to Democrats were stolen from the
mails ana sent to Republican papers
for publication and for other pur-
poses. Letters that had been duly
stamped and addressed to Democrats
had been, in the course of transit.
the Democrats name erased and a
Republicans name put in its place.
Why was this? Possibly some of
these "bravos-in-the-d dark" can tell
you, we cannot. Why were not these
threatening letters stamped so as to
give the mailing Office? Was there
a conspiracy between the postmaster
and the fiendish scoundrel who mail
ed them. You have the facts. Judge
for yourselves.
We ask the question: "Who
wrote these letters p and proceed to
answer IL Knt ono ulooo foo1S