Year: 1876

Henry Rhoades in Reply to


the Hillsboro Gazette.


To the Voters of the 7th Congressional District,


find in this weeks issue of the Hillsboro Gazette,
(Aug ~ several low, vulgar articles, filed with


SANDER, maiignity, anger and bitterness.


When asked Marshall, the present editor of the


Gazette, Il he would give place to my articles in


his paper Of last week, he said he would and that


he would allow Dickey to answer them in the


next weekscissue. When I found the vulgar


SANDERS In Asrshall's paper of this week, as above


stated, I went to him, and in the presence of
witness, asked him if he was the author of them.


He said he was. He said he had to do it for 9TH
ers, and that politics was a dirty, dissgreeable


business 20 him. told him he had published
falsehoodss and had laid himself liable to be sued
for libel called his attention to the word "men-
dacity," which be had applied to me, and he
claimed it meant SO man who had nerve to 90
through with any enterprise he undertook" When
he looked In fse Dictionary he acknowledged he
had used tie wc<d without knowing its meaning
and hadd5aeshe wrong, and sAits he would correct
it In his next issue. -


BE eays he published my articles 'for consid-
Grafton" I asked him about that, and he said the
consideration was the respect he had for me- He
said his paper was the Democratic organ, and of
course she would have to go for the party right or
wrongl :"


Avery sensible and good Democrat remarked to
me. "Rhoades, the more of such low, vulgar
slang Dickey and his henchmen throw at you, the
more votes they win make for you."


"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make
mad" Mr.. Dickey and his henchmen are now
of his defeat and are splitting out their gall at
me. I am responsible for what publish, and my
neighbOrs all know it. Everything that have
written about that Convention is TRUE, and can be
proved by five hundred persons. Mr. Dickey,s
henchmen aremen of no pecuniary responsibility,
and their ISLANDERS viii be disregarded by all decent
people.


They could not answer anything 1 wrote, and
they find the decent sensible people are all on my
side, and justify my course, and down on fraud
and trickery in Conventions and otherwise and they
feel they are 'gone where the woodbine twineth," /"
and all they can do is to belch out their gall, in
slanderous, vulgar abuse against Rhoades
| 1 defy them to say harm of me in any way, and
speak the ruth 1 appeal to my neighbors
and the good people of Highland county for the
truth of what say. The people of Hillsboro have
known me for 20 years. 1 read law here with Hon.
VIM. o. Collins and Gen. Mcdowell, and have been
practising law, farming, trading and merchandising
ever since. If have ever wronged any of my
fellowmen out of dollar, all they have to do is to
lei me know it and they shall have it.


| The difference between me and Mr.. Dickey is
simply that have been producer all my life, and
he has been a consumer. My principal business is
farming. 1 feel the oppression that the farmers
feel, and can and do sympathize with them 1
never got dollar out of the public treasury In my
life. Mr.. Dickey has been fed at the public crib.
He has lived all his life off the taxes that and 9TH
ers have paid, and has been q standing candidate
for Office for years. He was before the Democratic
Convention two years since, but failed and got
angry.


He knows but little about the needs of the busi-
ness and hboring classes. His hands have been
kept soft all his days out Of the taxes paid by
them. have no doubt his object is to get his
head into the public crib for what he expects
to get out of it than for the good he expects to do
the public.


Let Sloane, Diekey's principal supporter, give
vent to his malignity and spit out his gall at me
through Marshall, q weak brother. The good old
Democrats say to me, that while such irresponsi-
be creatures as he, who feel no interest in the
Government except to get the spoils and live off the
labor Of the people, are trying to run the Demo-
crat party through trickery and fraud no good can
or viii come out of it. They say to me go ahead
and show up the trickery and fraud, and they will
be with me, and see that Dckeys name is scratch
ed off the ticket and mine put on.


What few friends Dickey has left say that if he |
goes through this campaign it viii cost him SO
much that IT will break him up. My advice to M.
Dickey is, if he is engaged In business that won't
pay, the sooner he gets out of ii the better.


have been among the Democrats of the district /
considerable lately. l have found but three that |
said certain they would vote for Dickey. The old,
staunch, good men of the party tell me they will |
not touch him, and say to me to go ahead If
Dickey can be elected by his own vote, sloane's,
Ditty's and Marshall's, be may make it.


now say to the good people of the 7fh district.
the lovers of good government, of justice, snd
right, and who are opposed to injustice, trickery
and fraud. can get no place in Marshal's paper
(because be says it is Democratic organ) to an
swer the malicious libels contained therein. Mr..
Boardman has been kind enough to give me place
in his paper, and whatever you see there with my
name to it is truth, as am responsible for what
say, and dare not, and have no desire to publish
falsehood.


Marshalrs paper says think favorably of my
self. do. / always had too much self-respect to
do mean or dishonorable act. II had ever done
as one man has who is candidate, never could
have the audacity to ask the intelligent, law-abid-
ing, moral and Christian people of the 7th district
to vote ior me for their Representative.


Several decent Democrats said to me to-day,
that Marshall had let that paper down 70 low by
giving place to such vulgar slang, that no decent
man would have 1t in his family; that it was de-
for children to read. One of them
said he had thrown his in the fire, and If he found
any more such stuff in it he would discontinue his
paper. "Out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh," and 50 tree is known by its
fruit" No doubt such vulgar slang is food for
Dickey, Sloane and Dtty, and Marshall, poor fel-
low, has not only soft place in his head, but his
whole head is soft and he is made the scape-goat
to bear away their sins
Dickey and his little ring at Hillsboro, knowing
that he is already beaten, are angry, and can see
no remedy but to ease themselves by splitting ont
their bitterness and gall. They not only scratch
their heads, but pull out their hair Poor fellows
they are to be pitied for not having more self-re-
spect and self-control.
Let me say to my felow-Democrats, have been
over the district considerably in the last week. and
ind the Democrats everywhere are going to vote
for me and scratch Dickey. I have no doubt of {
my election, the way things working. 1t is six
weeks yet tin the election. 1 expect to speak In
every part of the district during that time. Be of
good cheer, unite at once me. Ny full purpose
from the beginning has been not only to beat
Dickey but Brown also.
Aug. %, 1876. HENRY RHOADES.