The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-15
A War of Races in Oklahoma


There is a small race war IN Guthrie,
Oklahoma. The whites are arrayed against
the blacks. Hundreds of men of both races
were armed on Monday aud ready for a
fight
The whole trouble was brought about by
one of those vagabond blacks who commit
murder and rape and who are sometimes
lynched in the southern states. Recently,
in the north, several of the same kind Of
worthless and brutal criminals have been
lynched.
The black criminal In Guthrie who is the
cause of the pending trouble there made an
indecent assault upon a white woman. He
was arrested aud placed in jail. The VIII tie
men OF Guthrie decided to lynch him and
the black men. who are about as numerous
there as the white men, threatened to burn
the town if he were lynched.
Oklahoma is a new state and pretty nearly
all the white inhabitants are from the north
A few of them are from New England. The
northern people, therefore, have a very fine
opportunity to show the world how much
better their treatment of the blacks is than
the treatment which the blacks in the south
receive.
1t really looks, does it not, that the
northern people in Oklahoma purpose to
deal with blacks who make indecent assaults
upon white women just about as they are
dealt with in the souths For these kind Of
assaults black men within the last few weeks
have been lynched in New Y ork, Ohio and
Indiana, and there is danger now Of q race
war in Oklahoma.
Does the New York Tribune, the Phila-
delphia Press, and other papers of that kind
that are all the time making such an out
cry about the lynching of blacks in the
south, think there is in the north DISPOSE
ton to treat more leniently blacks who are
guilty of committing outrages upon white
womenl II they do, upon what do they
base their belief9 Surely not upon what re-
Gently occurred at Port Jervis or what is
now taking place in Guthrie.
After all, is not much Of the criticism of
the south in the northern newspapers due
to hypocrisy or ignorance2 II to hypocrisy
those papers are deserving of contempt, and
If to ignorance they are deserving Of pity.
The lynchings and attempts at lynchings
that have occurred in the north and in the
south within the last month ought to con.
vince any fair-minded person that the
blacks who assault white women are in
! just as much danger of being lynched in
the north as they are in the south. There
is quite q large black population in Okla
homa. The white population is from the
north. 1t will be interesting to notice the
treatment the blacks get there. Thus far
it has not been such as to make the blacks
glad they left the south.
The New York Times correspondent at
Washington says: Congressman Watson,
of Georgia. has received information that
the Rev. Sam Small is trying to secure a
seat in congress. Mr.. Small has in
vaded the field with a proposition that he
can raise among his prohibition friends the
sum Of $3.50 to put into the fight" That
is $1,000 more than the first report had it,
and it appears that this report comes
straight from tom" w atson. Comment
ing on the rumor the Times says: "The
ways of the modern evangelist are strange.
The report comes that Sam Small is de-
sirous to go to congress from Georgia dis
trict, and promises to raise s25, 900 to pro-
mote his election. Small in the House OF
| Representatives would contribute, In these
circumstances, moro 70 the gayety than to
the piety OF that unregenerate body"