Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1898-11-15
CAROLINA RACE WAR
Three More Negroes Shot by
Whites.
LIVES OF THE TOLBERTS IN DANGER
Enemies on Their TraiI--J. II. Toll
bert and His Father Acquitted
of the Charge OF melting 20
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over Greenwood and Abbeville counties,
and the list Of shootings has grown by
three. II is no longer a political feud
II is a race war; and they are killing
colored women now and trying to Kill
colored children. This is yesterdays list
of casualties
Eliza Goode, co years old, colored;
shot In her house by three white men,
who fired through the walls; was re-
ported dying last night.
Kennedy McCaslin, white, 10 years
old; shot by Charles Hall, cOlored; Nc
Caslin's condition serious.
Negro, name not given; shot by John
Fell near Verdery, Abbeville county,
dead.
All Of these ARRAYS are traceable to
the murders of last week, and are due
TO the excited and bitter feeling between
the whites and blacks. The shooting Of
Eliza Goode is as atrocious a piece of
villainy as has occurred since the muir
dering and burning Of the family Of the
colored postmaster at Lake City. Eliza
Coode lived alongside the Piney Grove
cOlored church. 1t was from this church
that some colored men on Wednesday
fired from ambush at a party of whites
and wounded two Of them.
The wounded whites rode past the
church yesterday morning and began
firing into the houses indiscriminately.
The only persons in the house were Mrs.
Goode, her sick daughter and child.
The woman was shot through the abdo-
men. There Is just Indignation among
the whites at this outrage.
The other shootings occurred in Able
VILE county--of which Greenwood coun-
~ recently formed part-and were due
to disputes between whites and blacks.
John Hall, colored, farms for Kennedy
McCaslin. white. McCaslin went to the
house yesterday to get his share of the
cotton. They could not agree. The ne
gro ordered McCaslin away and fired on
him. The load took effect in the side of
the white mans head and he may die.
The negro was pursued to the county
courthouse and captured in the square.
In the scufle his eye was Knocked out.
There would have been a lynching but
for the Intervention of the sheriff. the
mayor and some citizens. He was lock-
ed up and the sheriff wired the govern
or for protection.
The third ARRAY Of the day was due to
an alteration in which John Fell ac-
/ cused the negro of theft and then shot
/ him.
/ This whole section is now ablaze with
| excitement as fierce as last week. The
news of Sunday that President McKin-
ley would support James Tolbert in the
/ Mccormick postofiice with federal
/ troops If necessary caused great excite
ment The news yesterday that the
president may avoid the issue by abol-
fishing the office as he did at Lake City
may allay the flame.
A mass meeting OF citizens has been
called at the courthouse TO consider the
situation, which seems at present to be
just this:
If any Of the Tolberts come back, they
viii be killed. If any negroes who are
suspected Of being engaged in the cleo
tlon ARRAY are found. they win be lynch
ed. If the feeling does not calm down,
anything may happen.
Governor Enerbe last night practical
~ admitted that the state was power
less in the hands of any mob that chose
TO operate in these words:
"Our national guard is all crippled
through our militiamen enlisting in the
United States volunteers. The only
thing / could furnish would be one
company at Greenville, and it is so de-
pleted as to be almost useless. 1 wir-
ed the sheriff asking him If he wanted
POO rifles and 500 rounds of ammuni-
ton. did not send them, for I was
afraid they might be used to kin ne
groes with"
The governor said he believed the
trouble over. When asked whether the
case was fear of negro domination, he
replied;
mo. There is no fear of that in our
state We have disfranchised the ne
groes legally for our own protection
They must be able TO read and write
or understand the constitution and owl
$500 worth of property, so there is nc
danger of their getting the ascendency
here The trouble at Phoenix grew out
Of the anger of the whites with the Toll
bert family for being so intimate with
the negroes.
THAT the South Carolina white mar
will not stand. The whites were much
more eager TO kill the Tolberts thar
their black dupes.
II have no hesitation in saying thai
the white men of Greenwood county
went too far. l deplore it. There was
no necessity of having a row becaus,
the Tolberts were fixing affidavits II
the room below, but Mr.. Etheridge OBJ
jestcd. Mr.. Etheridge. a white Demo
! crat, was the nrst one Killed, but M
was killed by a black follower of tn,
Tolberts Then the mob went crazy
and has done many things and is still
doing things that 1 would be glad t
/ step.
THE things Tolbert has been doing
E there for years, arraying the black vot
ers against their best friends, the white
men, for his own advantage. made tn,
event of last week a logical sequence
II was I who saved John r. Tolbert'!
life when he escaped from the mob ant
E got to Columbia. / feared the soldier.
who had just been mustered out w5ul,
7 lynch him. and / sent him to the pe-i
tertiary.
There is no help for what las hap
pened. 1t viii go on so long as design
ing white men make the cOlored moi
their dupes. our people viii not stan,
y any arrogance from the blacks
h. L. Tolbert. a nephew of John r
z Tolbert. is the only member of the fan
o lily permitted to remain in the country
e. He saved his life by deserving the res
b Of the family and has issued a card II
2 which he says it was a mistake that IN
was in favor Of negro supremacy. IL
asks to be forgiven
Tohp r Tolhorf and his SON bo1 .