The Parker post., 1911-08-26
ANOTHER HEALY Wall.

ful and libeOluS articles that has ever
come under our notice appears in this
weeks issue of the Appeal to Rea-
son, which attempts to resurrect the
Healy case by distorting facts in
such a manner as to make of Healy
a Leln and of the Parker citizens who
ran him out of the community a law
less bunch of grafters. 1t is surpris-
ing that the editors of the Appeal
could be tricked into giving publicity
to the Healy matter upon the lat
ter's affidavits, when it is generally
known by everyone in the territory
familiar with the case that Healy is
of unsound mind and mentally unbal
anced.
1t would be unnecessary to give
this libelous article even passing com
ment were it not for the fact that the
immense circulation of the Appeal to
Reason may include readers who are
not familiar with the facts in the
case. Everybody residing in Arizona
know from published accounts of the
out foundation in fact. Following are
a few excerpts of the story published
by the Socialist organ, together with
comments by this paper showing the
facts in the case. The Post can fur
nish affidavits substantiating the
truth of every statement it makes.
The Appeal says:
Wholesale stealing of government
lands, defrauding of rightful owners
and the lyinching of a. plucky news
paper man are some of the methods
adopted by federal and county office
holders in Yuma county, Arizona, to
gain possession of lands in the Colo
RADIO River Indian reservation. The
high-binders have not been proceeded
against. For sheer nerve and com
plicity of authorities the case is al
most unparalleled Secretary Ballen-
ger figures prominently in this af
fair The chief grafters are stock
holders in the Colorado River Supply
company. This clique was opposed
ny I1ulIOl IlCdly vi IHS L al hSl
(AriZ.,) Herald, with the result that
he was hanged from telegraph pole
and cut down only upon signifying
his willingness to suppress an edi-
tion of his paper exposing the theft
and naming the thieves.
The above excerpt does not con-
tain one word of truth. The sole
reason for Healy's deportation from
Parker was his unwarranted attack
through the columns of his paper up
on one of Parker's most estimable
ladies during the absence of her hus
band on prospecting trip. The hus-
band is crippled and unless he had
resorted to firearms he would be un-
able to mete out to Healey his just
deserts. No doubt this reason of the
husbands physical infirmities actua-
ted the citizens of Parker in dealing
with Healy, for if they had not run
him out of the community the hus-
band in the case would have undoubt-
edly killed him on sight.
There was absolutely no attempt
made to defraud anyone out of their
lots by the Colorado River Supply
company, and the members of that
firm only located on lots to which
they were entitled under h e
cials
The above excerpt states that the
"high-binders' were never proceeded
against, which is another falsehood.
They were proceeded against and in
every instance they were acquitted.
Nobody comprising the crowd who
gave Healy his walking orders ever
denied their participation in the af-
fair. Another thing, Healy was new
er hanged. He swore that he was
not hanged while under examination
on the witness stand in one of the
trials against the Parker citizens
who were accused of asSaulting him.
The edition he was asked to suppress
! did not expose any theft of lands,
but the edition did contain the sour
rilous article attacking one of Par
| ker's faireSt ladies.
! Is there a community so dead that
would not have acted along similar
lines as did the people of Parker?
In most places they would not have
been so lenient
Healy was not 'the plucky news
paper man" depicted in the Appeal.
He acted the craven coward in face
of what he imagined real danger.
Any man who resorts to attacking
reputable women through the col.
umns OF newspaper must of ne
cessity be nothing but cowardly
Here is another paragraph, showing
among other things. Healy hanging
TO a telegraph pole:
/ On February 17th at ou n n,