The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-20

A ssarphic Description of His
Experience by one who
was treated TO N Cont
of Tar and
Feathers.

wayuesburg Republican.
The famous brotherhood called
the RED Men," have had many das-
tardly deeds attributed to them, and
it is said that their membership is
made up Of those whose deeds are
evil, and that they Glove darkness
rather than light" which accounts
for their work being principally car
ried on after the sable curtain of
night" has shut from sight the glo
rious light of the ''orb of day. Just
what the object of this organization
has been in years past we know not,
certain it is that in the later years
just gone by they have done much to
rid those sections in which they
have held sway, of much crime and
expelled from otherwise reputable
communities, many disreputable
characters. Although some of these
self-constituted guardians of law
and order, have used summary and
oft times not the most righteous
means to accomplish ends they are
at least to be commended for having
the general good of their respective
communities at heart, and many a
vagabond and evil disposed person
has been made to feel their power
ONE OF THEIR VICTIMS.
One of the highest and mountain
like hills in the western end of Greene
county, bordering on West Virginia,
with its numerous organizations Of
"Red Men," can be seen small cot
tage house that has history, and
whose walls could tell of many acts
and deeds that would not bare the
closest scrutiny. There resided in
this cottage in the not far distant
past character, who said his "name
might have been Cooper, but it
wasn't" with inclinations far from
good, and whose mode of living was
such as to call forth repeated warn
ings from the "Vigilantes."
They had no effect on the fellow
Cooper" and he continued in the
seven tenor of his way" and the
scenes of vulgarity and downright
badness became of nightly occur
renee, and one night, when with
"corn juice" cards and fiddle they
were making night hideous, the "Red
Men, came upon the scene.
HIS OWN STORY.
We give the victims own story, as
told our informant, by himself.
s'There was about twenty of them,
all masked, and they didn't stop to
knock but entered without form or
ceremony. Just as soon as they got
in everybody run but my old woman
and the two girls, and we had to face
the music. They weren't long about
gettin down to business, for without
word other than to order the VIM
men to get out of the room, they told
me to strip off my buds. | begged to
be let alone, but when heard some
thing click | didn't wait long in
mindin them. AS soon as | was
stripped one of these fellers pointed
a revolver at me and another covered
me with tar. After this they ripped
open a feather bed and put me into
it. They then left me, one of them
sayin, the way of the trangressor is
hard, but you have fallen in soft
and downv place"
STICKS CLOSER THAN A BROTHER.
To an inquiry as to how he remov-
ed his ''feathery" coat, he said: "Ill
tell you, Mr., it the awfulest thing
ever happened to man." and he turn
ed pale, as his thoughts reverted to
his nights experience. "Why, Mr." "
he continued, sits the alfiredest stuff
to stick you ever saw. The more l
tried to rub it off the tighter it stuck,
and the only way l got shut of the
blamed stuff was to build big fire
and turn myself round in front of it
meltin' the tar, while the old woman
rubbed me with greasy rags. 1t took
us bout fifteen hours to get it off.
l tell you | don't want any more tar
and feathers. Nobody knows what
it is till they try it. I've left that
country for good; and you can bet
I'll not stand on ceremony the next
time I'm told to leave place" and
with kind of a shudder, he walked
away.