The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-11

Cor. TssImsn. bsfoFs and xfssr he kecxsse
sovseses. always psssde1 shs dsctriss 81
''shs higher las for Eohs shsn they
murdered nobody bu. negroes. bat the
rDemens the whiss Eob bsxsns % nrns
down Tsiirsanss isqaor constsbses then
Tslimaa dsssvoxs the s.hishsr lav.r calls
oas the militia and places The Telegraph
under censorship.
Earssy these soufh CaroiIns PoraIisfs
hass sesp~d exactly What sher hare scvn
No insurrsrtion exissed in Cosnmbia, q C..
aad Gov Tiilmaz's snfer<erencs vi.a
ccnrnoa carrier eneagsd in Interstate corn-
Eesce vas Illegal and unjsssifabae and
Gov Tiliman may look for suit for dana
ages In the Federal courts ~ the hands of
the Western ORION. Humans faction BE-
fore be vas governor murdered soiored
voters. robbed ballot boxes and swore 70
faiss election returns, and by the same
lasless methods the sgrarian party Of
6outh Caroiins made Tiilmsn eovefnor;
be has used HE isga, powers - governor
70 oppress everybody that did not bssons
to his triumphant Popusist faction. and hs
has brought his state 20 the verge Of
anarchy; he called ous the militia and 1as
confronted with . mntinys he took poo
session Of the railroads and sesegraphs.
and ne ID shs genius Of tyfannical Popu-
iism At the South. His attempt TO prevent
the Wes.ern Union Telegraph Company
from sending any dispatches except those
which he approved Vas worthy of Ben
Butler's military govsrnorsip Of she cap
tured city OF Ses Oriesna
Bat ~ We said before, South Carolina 10
only being hunted to death BY her own
dogs Toe shotgun aud tissue ballot can
vass OF the reconstruction era permestsd
South Carolina with . spirit Of lawisss-
ness which makes her people csrsssss Of
statutes and reckless Of human life The
Tiiiman faction and the Hampton faction
vied with each other in the work Of shoot
ing and cheating the blacks, and today
they are busy shooting and cheating each
other. Tiiiman and his faction are really
socialists posing a. Democratic The state
dispensary Law il itself IN experiment in
socialism which increased 1silman's
patronage throughout the state: il was
war of the country whites against the
whites of the tewna
The Populis.-Sociaiist theory Of gov
eminent in practice means dsspotism, and
naturally results in violcnce, 40 has bssn
the case in Kansas, Colorado and South
Carolina Popuiism more quickly reaches
despotism and violence in . Southern
than In Northern state. for the habit Of
lawlsssness permeates the South. Negroes
are iynchsd In the Southern states for oil
crimes from stealing . chicken 10 murder.
Lynching Is common at the South, al
though the machinery OF the Law
is completely in the hands Of the
iynchers. who secured control Of it
by the shotgun and the tissue ballot
Lynehings in the South, a. Chief Justice
Bleckley. OF Georgia. admits. are not the
result Of the laws incapacity but Of utter
disregard of Law and supreme contempt Of
human rights except the right Of brutal
might. The whites Of the South have
been educated to spurn the Law, TO disdain
TO rely upon 1t or wait upon its processes.
The courts are adequate for the punish
ment Of criminals and the protection OF
the innocent, but the masses have become
dcmoralixed. as Chief Justice Bleckiey. of
Georgia. says. by being educated to feel
that they have the right 10 take the law
into their own hands, and Governor
Tiilman is one of the men in high posi-
ton in South Carolina who has always
extenuased. excused or apoiogixed for
lynch law, and no has recently had =
bitter experience Of the effectiveness Of
his own encouragement to lswlessness.
lie has always helped educate his state to
enforce ivnch Law. and now that he IL
governor the verv dogs that he has trained
snap at his hand and bark at his authority.
Truly the New York Son 10 justified In it,
sarcasm when IL says:
IAN insane monkey seems to be an OBJ
ject of curiosity aud interest to the Inter-
national medical congress at Rome. An
insane monkey would not be looked at
second time by aiienists familiar with the
cases OF Popuiist governors.