Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-05-30
\ New Application of Old DEM
ocratic Methods.
Gas Sc Sow, So Shall Yc Reap"
A salty" Article and Plea for Even
Handed and Impartial Administra-
ton of the Law.

course in upholding the majesty of the
! law and the dignity of his court, when
invaded by the whitecaps, but the eff
| fort of His Honor in subsequent in
| terview to give the lawless conduct of
the misguided men political signifi-
canoe is stretch of partisan rancor
inexcusable in a ward politician.
The learned Judge does not say in so
many words. that the offenders were
opponents of the party in power IN
this State, but he leaves no other in
! ference to be drawn. and he lays the
blame for the unfortunate state of af-
fairs at the feet of those who decline
to accept the policy adopted by the
close corporation now dominating this
State without questioning its wisdom
or propriety.
This theory will, of course, be adopt
eddy the press and politicians, and the
So-called Democrats will congratulate
themselves that they are the pillars
uphOlding the law and order edifice,
which the rabble opposition is striving
in vain TO pull down. but this is not
true. so far as they are concerned, nor
is it just to those who disagree with
them.
The Messenger has no sympathy
with law-breakers. and it
CONGRATULATES THE GOOD PEOPLE OF
THE STATE,
of all parties, that whitecapism has
received death blow in Lincoln coun-
ty, but it protests against an assump-
ton of virtue not possessed by one
party and the stigmatizing of their op-
ponents as anarchists, for it believes
the laws penalty should be meted out
to all alike, and every intelligent citi-
Urn of this country knows this is not
done.
The zeal with which the average
Democratic politician and heller es-
pouses the cause of the oppressed col
Ored man in the whitecap counties
would be amusing. if the matter was
not so serious. Heretofore when the
negro was power a. the ballot box, he
might be terrorized by marauding
bands of night-riders, whipped, shot
and hung with impunity, and the
courts took no notice of such diver
sions, because. we infer, it was recog-
nized as a political necessity. A court
has been invaded and
fhloONEhS AND N11NESSEO hASSA0 RED IN
COLD-BLOOD
and the perpetrators thereof were new
er brought to account. On one occa-
sion a drunken white man provoked a
row with negro on the public road,
and in the fight which ensued the ne
gro got the best of it. Subsequently a
BODY OF INDIGNANT DEMOCRATS,
led by man who had abandoned his
wife and was living
IN OPEN ADULTERY WITH A NEGRO wENCH,
undertook to avenge the stigma placed
on the white race. In the dead of night
this band of regulators wendell their
way to the home of the offending dar-
key, for the purpose of teaching him
that law in this country was enacted
to protect one class and to punish an
other. The darkey defended his home
as his castle, and some of the regula-
tors were killed. Then followed
REIGN OF TERROR AND SAVAGE BRUTALI-
seldom, if ever. surpassed in the dark
est age of the world. Armed bands
secured the country for days, shooting
down the fleeing blacks wherever
found, and actually burning their
cabins and killing their stock. The
Governor of the State after the devil
ment was done, complacently inquired
into the matter and instructed the
sheriff to stop the vandalism, but if
any of. the participants in the crime
were ever brought to justice nobody
ever heard of it.
Men classed as best citizens" were
engaged in these outrages, under the
guise of maintaining white supremacy
and the domination of machine De-
mocracy, and the Executive hand was
stayed and the courts were as silent as
charnel houses.
THE PLAY PROCEEDS,
but the scene has shifted. The negro
has been eliminated from politics. He
is no longer factor to be feared at the
polls and, 10 he becomes the especial
ward of the gang who formerly perse-
cuted him. Now, when the Jew mer-
chant succeeds in getting a deed of
trust upon the piney woods home of
the poor and ignorant farmer, and con-
cludes to foreclose his mortgage and
turn the white owner out of the pine
pole cabin he had constructed by
his own labor to shelter his wife and
little ones, and install therein negro
tenant, it becomes penitentiary of
Tense to notify the darkey to quit, and
the moment the whitecaps undertake
to carry out their policy, which in their
ignorance they imagined they might
do, because when
DOING THE BIDDING OF THE POLITICAL
BOSSES
they have made Sambo take the bush
many time, and because of the fact
that other and greater violence had
been tolerated heretofore, and is now,
at the hands of the Intelligence" of
the State, the despicable machine be-
comes the champion of the poor color
ed man, and rushes frantically around
with Winchesters to maintain the dig
nifty of outraged law.
The leaders, who have inculcated the
pernicious doctrine, which the white
caps would put in practice, are none
other than
THE DEMOCRATIC INTOLERANTs,
who have encouraged ballot-box stuff
fing; engaged in bull.dozing; melted
race riots; corrupted courts and justi-
fed every outrage upon the rights of
the citizens, murder not excepted, who
dared to think and act without first
getting their permission. and