Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-22
DESPISED DEPUTIES.
Assistant Q. S. Marshals are Very Un-
popular in the South.
THE MOONSHINERS LIE In WAIT
With Guns for Men Who Resemble, or
Remind Them of officers.
A SOUTHERN PROBLEM SOLVING ITSELF

Mr.. j. j. Hoblitzell, a frebrick maker
who has works located in Alabama and
works there good part of the year, re-
Gently returned from one of his trips. He
was interviewed at the Monongahela
House. Mr. Hoblitzell admits that what to
do with the negro is coming problem. but
he takes exception to some of the remarks
of Mr.. Terry, of Birmingham, on this sub
ject, published in The DISPATCH some
weeks ago.
Mr.. Hoblitzell said: sit is not true that
the Southern Republicans are lot of seal
awags.' They represent some of the best
people in the South. -Four years ago
Southern gentleman told me that he was
one of four men who contributed $1,000
apiece to elect Republican Congressman,
and yet he was not able to vote that ticket.
His neighbors threatened to ostracize his
family, and, rather than allow them to
suffer, he.voted with the Democrats.
YOUNG BLOOD DRIVES IT OUT.
"But find that this old spirit of animos-
ity and strict adherence to one party is
wearing away. The young men of the South
are indeed progressive. They haven't time
to nurse old teuds, and, better than that,
they have no desire to. Occasionally one
runs across an ancient Bourbon who is as
bitter as ever.
81 claim that the negroes could be easily
managed if the whites were so inclined. It,
is true that when you go into one of the
black districts the people are very ignorant
and clamorous for Office. They want
to rule before they are fitted for it by edu-
cation. Many of them are quick and active
and learn easily. The whites say, You can
make us vote the negro; but you can't make
us count his ballot If you watch the
ticket receiver closely on election day, you
will see the negro's vote dropped to the
floor. 1t hardly ever goes into the box.
This is how the work is done.
''Some time ago 1 was in Kentucky.
President Smith, of the Louisville and
Nashville road, asked me to go over two
routes they had surveyed in the mountains,
and give him my opinion as to which one 1
thought was the better to catch the most
coal trade. l
STARTED ON HORSEBACK
in company with Chief Engineer Fitzhugh.
I noticed q man ahead of us we seemed to
be following. Finally I asked Fitzhugh
who the fellow was.
"'Oh, he replied, our friend ahead of us
is Scotch-Irish Methodist minister. have
taken him along to preach to the people and
tell the moonshiners we are not deputy mar
shals. I doubt if we should come back
alive if hadn't taken this precaution.'
"When we got into the mountains Fitz-
hugh commenced to point out the places
where murders had been committed. We
were in the famous feud country where
whole families are frequently deci-
mated for trivial causes Here some
over there number had been massacred,
and we came across a church where, short
time before, regular fusilade of bullets had
been poured into the logs. I was
GETTING SCARED,
and 1 told Fitzhugh that if he kept on relat-
ing his tales Of blood I wouldn't 90 any
further.
CATER time we came to a point where
the paths divided. Fttzhugh said it was
only three miles across the country to Sny-
der's creek, but it was nine miles
around by the road. He wasn't
sure that the moonshiners would
permit us to take the short cut. However,
we thought we would try it. and we hadn't
gone very far before heard something like
the click of trigger on an old musket be-
hind me. Turning around 1 saw the bushes
part, and two moonshiners came out with
drawn rifles. They ordered us to stop. We
explained at once that we were not deputy
marshals, but, whether they believed us or
not, they were not willing to take any
chances. They positively refused to allow
us to pass through their territory, and we
had to 90 back"