The Indianapolis journal., 1891-07-10


is possible to give them partisan color
ing, they receive it. There have been
numerous cases of the kind. The latest
is the account of the street fight on the
last day of the military encampment.
Following is the account of that affair
widely published:
The Southern boys were passing down
the thOrouRhtare when they were guyed
by a negro boot black. The boys took it
good-naturedly for q time. but finally got
angry and advanced on the negro who was
surrounded by a number of older negroes
who were encouraging him In his Insults
The bOOt-black threw his box at one or the
whites. striking him a stinRlng blow upon
the head. The crowd then advanced upon
the negroes, who broke and ran into negro
saloon near by, the whites following. As
the latter entered they were confronted by
some twenty or more negroes, and per-
feet volley of spittOOns, brickbats and
stones were hurled at them. Nothing
daunted, the whites grabbed what missiles
they could and returned the volley. knock
ing half dozen negroes down. freeman
of the whites and Martin Lynch, negro,
closed in upon each other with billiard
oues. Edwards came to Freeman's assist
ance. and Lynch was soon stretched upon
the floor, bleeding from dozen ugly
wounds in the head. Another negro rushed
upon Freeman with a razor and gave him a
cash In the left cheek extending from the
mouth to the back Of the jaw. Williams.
another of the Macon boys was beaten ter
ribly over the head with billiard cue. and
Bradford and Bonner. who were trying to
defend him. were both badly hurt by spit
tOons which struck them in the head. max
ing ugly wounds, from which the blood
flowed freely.
This is grossly unfair and untrue
account. Its evident object is to create
the impression that the negro was the
aggressor and that tine whites weSe act
ing on the defensive. Precisely the Op-
pOsite is true. The Southern Cadets
were the aggressors. 1t was they who
gave the first prOyOcatiOn and brought
on the fight. They had been drinking,
and, without any provOcatiOn whatever,
they insulted cOlOred man who was
getting his boots BACKED. This pro-
vOked retOrt, on which the white men
attacked the negro. Two of them were
knocked down, us they deserved to be.
u saloon they were still the attacking
party. There was no razor used. From
the beginning to the end of the affair
the Southern men were the aggressOrs.
The above account is on apar with those
sent concerning race troubles In South
ern cities. in which the negro is always
represented as the aggressOr. 1t shows
how impossible it is for Democrat to
tell the truth where a negro is concerned.
s-...@--=
In letter written by General Haileck,
in April, 1864, then chief OF staff, to Gen.
Sherman, at Nashville. the following ex-
tract appears:
Newspaper stories aho1t quarre1s be-
tween the President. secretary OF War,
General Grant and myself. and my resign
ing, are all ''bOsh." Not word of truth in
them. There has not been the slightest
difficulty, Misunderstanding. or even diff
ference of opinion. between any of the par
ties far "a 1 know, and the relations be-
tween Grant and myself are not only
friendly and pleasant, but cordial These
malicious stories generally originate IN
such secesh journals as the Herald and the
World.
The tactics of the newspapers hostile
to the Lincoln government in 1863 and
1864 were the same then as now. Their
purpose was to destroy the confidence of
the people in the administration by rep
resenting that those directing the Union
armies were Quarreling about the course
to be pursued. The spreading of such
malignant falsehOOds then was no better
than treason. The free-trade papers are
now trying To make the country believe
that President Harrison and leading
members of his Cabinet are at logger
heads, but the old tactics which appear
to have troubled even General Sherman
more than quarter of century ago
do not deceive intelligent people now.
ONE John Braml, "a pauper and dis
eased immigrant FROM Bavaria, has just
been sent back to Europe under the for
eign- n-immigratiOn law. This is the first
case of the kind that has occurred at any
interior city. The immigrant inspector
at Milwaukee says there is no doubt
paupers and other undesirable immi-
grants to this country and smuggling
them past the authorities at New York.
In the case in hand the inspector found
| that Braml had been receiving charity
| from the public authorities of his town
| i'm Bavaria for five years past. He was a
| confirmed invalid, as we'll as pauper.
| Finally the authorities secured his pas
sage to New York, and placed in the
| hands of the purser of the ship sum of
| money, to be given him before landing,
| to show that he was not pauper. But
when he reached Milwaukee he was a
| pauper. and became a public charge at
once. The inspector is investigating the
case of three other pauper immigrants,
whom he expects to send back, the law
providing that this may be done within
year after arrival if they come within
| the prohibited class.
-.
| COMPLAINT having been made In Mas
sachusetts about the high price of farm
labor and the difficulty of securing it al
all, the Boston Globe assures the farm
ers that this is one of the evil results OF
protection. "The sole and only cause
of labor's aversion to farm work." says
the Globe, "lies in the fact that the pro.
tective policy has thrown all the ad-
vantages of production into the hands
of the manufacturing classes" This
knocks the bottom out of a common
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