Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-10-27
ANOTHER "DEM0CRTIC LIE. :"
A YOUNG WHITE BOY CHAIN
ED TO TWO BURLY NE
GRO MEN,
<D Their way to The Pen From
Sampson County What Hap+
pened TO Them While In
GoldsbOro.
Fusion and Democracy.
Fusion and Democracy.
Daily Argus of last Thursday.


arrived in this city to-day a big
two hundred-pound white man
stepped off the cars leading two
burly, black, uncouth negro men
and small, salIow, delicate, un-
kempt white boy, all three chained
together, and followed by another
white man, both being Populist-
Fusion deputies, V. L. Macarthur
and Jesse Mathis, having the
three prisoners in charge from
Sampson county, carrying them
to the penitentiary under sentence
of the Superior court
The two officers landed their
prisoners in the railroad waiting
room, and Macarthur went to
dinner while Mathis stood guard.
Without discussing the re-
spectiye roles Of the little white
BOY and the two negroes as Grim
inals, the scene was such as to
make the biood of every white
man who had an impulse Of ply
IN his heart or vestige Of race
pride in his soul boil with indig
nation at the gross humiliation
to which the helpless youth
criminal though he be-was thus
subjected. with two white men
n charge, any enc Of whom
could have hand-cnffed him apart
from the two black criminals and
delivered bin safely at the pen:
But they were fusion officials
and fusion says that white man
is no better than q negro, ard SO
from the fusion> ridden county Of
Sampson started these two fu-
sion officers. delegated by the
fusion sheriff. with tbs little
white boy, ii years old. and the
swo burly ragged. jail be-smeiled
negroes all Grained together for
Sc penitentiary.
Some weeks ago a white maa
and 3 negro were carried through
nero chained together from the
Rer Poplican fusion county Of
Craven. and our people chafsd
under the humiliatiDg sigh; but
that was grown man, and
| ought to have had better sense
and morals than to commit a
crime, and while the object les
son Of fusion" was there With
two negro deputies in charge,
our people let it pass at that.
But day, when the fusion
lesson "the Democratic lie''-
was little, slckly white boy
chained to two burIy negroes, with
two Populist fusion white deputies
in charge, the citizens of Colds
boro could not tolerate the odious
sight, and determined that it
should not be, but, being law-abid-
ing as We are, there was no resort
to violence: a warrant was duly
issued against the officers in
charge, and they were given a
hearing upon the charge of as
sault, in that they were subjeeting
this little white prisoner to cruel
iudignity-~and through HIM OUT
raging tue racial pride and sense
OF decency of tie AngIo-Saxon
people. They were given a
hearing and the JUDGMENT of
the court was suspended upon
condition that they separate
the little white boy form the
heavy chains of the negro
prisoners. The court SO ordered,
and it was then and there done,
and they proceeded to Raleigh,
as they should have lett Samp-
Fson, with. the little white boy
apart from the negroes.
| This sickening scene was Wit
messed by quite number of hith-
erto Popuiists and yotaries OF
Fusion" and they know it is no
I"Democratic Lies" but they are
all Democrats now. This sight
converted them to decency and
i Democracy.