Vicksburg Herald clipping
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ECHOES.
The editor must beg leave to inflict the convention proceedings on the readers of the Chancellor this week again, because it is our desire that each claimant as far as possible will learn what went on at the second annual convention of claimants. It is also desired by the publication of the minutes of the convention in this week's issue, that our claimants will see the importance of this paper as an organ through which we can be heard, and make our appearance before the reading public. -The Chancellor, Muskogee, Okla.
The receipt of a copy of the Chancellor, with the name of Cornelius J. Jones editor and proprietor, informs us that the said Cornelius is out of the penitentiary yet, or again. When last heard from he was in durance vile in Memphis, for robbing negroes out of fees for suing the government on claims of no possible validity he instigated to be made against the cotton tax of half a century ago.
In spite of the adversity encountered in pursuit of that arrant fake the said Cornelius J. must have fared pretty well, as he is still carrying on the same skin game, to which the front page of the Chancellor is devoted. As "Chief Counsel" he calls on all claimants to come forward with a fee each of $3.50 to enable him to push their claims. According to the Chancellor, in response to this call "the streets of Muskogee were thronged with sturdy wearers of badges of the convention of claimants" which read as follows: "Civil War Revenue Cotton Tax Claimants Convention, held at Muskogee, September 11th, 1917." Why the District Attorney, U. S. Marshal, post office authorities at Muskogee, and honest outsiders, permit such a bare faced robbery to be openly perpetrated, advertised in fact under their noses, is a question.
The editor must beg leave to inflict the convention proceedings on the readers of the Chancellor this week again, because it is our desire that each claimant as far as possible will learn what went on at the second annual convention of claimants. It is also desired by the publication of the minutes of the convention in this week's issue, that our claimants will see the importance of this paper as an organ through which we can be heard, and make our appearance before the reading public. -The Chancellor, Muskogee, Okla.
The receipt of a copy of the Chancellor, with the name of Cornelius J. Jones editor and proprietor, informs us that the said Cornelius is out of the penitentiary yet, or again. When last heard from he was in durance vile in Memphis, for robbing negroes out of fees for suing the government on claims of no possible validity he instigated to be made against the cotton tax of half a century ago.
In spite of the adversity encountered in pursuit of that arrant fake the said Cornelius J. must have fared pretty well, as he is still carrying on the same skin game, to which the front page of the Chancellor is devoted. As "Chief Counsel" he calls on all claimants to come forward with a fee each of $3.50 to enable him to push their claims. According to the Chancellor, in response to this call "the streets of Muskogee were thronged with sturdy wearers of badges of the convention of claimants" which read as follows: "Civil War Revenue Cotton Tax Claimants Convention, held at Muskogee, September 11th, 1917." Why the District Attorney, U. S. Marshal, post office authorities at Muskogee, and honest outsiders, permit such a bare faced robbery to be openly perpetrated, advertised in fact under their noses, is a question.
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Vicksburg Herald, “Vicksburg Herald clipping,” Mississippi State University Libraries, accessed November 21, 2024, https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/items/show/711.
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