The San Francisco call., 1898-11-27

n The Governor of South
 IVY Carolina, he says to the
 V V Governor of North Caro-
 lima, Its a long time be- tween lynchings"; and the Governor of North Carolina. he says to the Cover nor of Sou Carolina, "Sh-h! Don talk to me about lynchings. Golly! Don't you know they came near lynch ing me the other night?"
 Thus in allegory they are telling through this Southern country of an in cident in the race war of last week which somehow did not get into the papers, but came very near furnishing as big a sensation as North Carolina ever had in its history. So far as re- ,. called no Governor of a State in this country has ever lost his life at the hands of indignant citizens of his com monwealth.
 But Governor Daniel L. Russell of : North Carolina came very near suffer ing 1t from mob rule when the excite ment was at its height and while the ~ streets Ofl Wilmington were literally running with blood.
 Governor Russell began his political career as a leader in this section ot the State He organized the colored Re publicanS in Wilmington, ana more than any other one man is responsible aSCeQQGHCN the white man in the Cape Fear region So when the negroes were shooting at the white citizens and the white citi- zens were actually pOtting the negroes by dozens with WinchesteTs, Spring fields and shotguns, the Governor, who was in this section of North Carolina. hearing of the trouble, started for home.
 "LYNCH THE GOVERNOR"
 hzT Of Goldsboro. Learning that there was mob of several hundred men at Colds boro waiting to give him reception and Knowing that at that perlod or excitement he was marked man, ne changed his route and went via Max ton. Word got to MaXton ahead of the Governor that he was going that way, and when the train arrived swearing, howIing mob of red shirts" heavily armed and ready for almost anything, was awaiting him.
 They invaded the car, threatened the Governor and actually offered him vio- lence. The crowd was increasing and there were cries of Lynch him. when the Governor and one of his friends hustled out of the car into box car, which was locked behind him, and the conductor and his friends stood guard until the train pulled out.
 Governor Russell reached his home, in Raleigh, over the Seaboard Air Line, very badly frightened, and the Govern or's friend did not have button on his coat and his raiment was In tat ters The Governor weighs more than 300 pounds and his frustrated enemies at Maxton are still speculating as to the figure he would have cut at the end of a rope.
 This is only one incident of the many exciting events that have stirred the two Carolinas during the last ten days. There has been a great political riot and a wholesale massacre of negroes in Wilmington, N. c. There has been a great political riot and a wholesale massacre of negroes in Greenwood, s. ;. z, The story of Wilmington and the story of Greenwood both furnish food : for thought, but on far different lines. THE WILMINGTON RIOT.
 At Wilmington at least fifteen ne grOes were killed: but no white man lost his life. At Greenwood at least . eight negroes were killed and one white man lost his life.
 T will first tell the story of Whining ton and then of Greenwood, and let the impartial reader draw his own conclu- sions and make his own comparisons. = The Wilmington riot was due entirely ~ to the negro attaining supremacy In To- cal politics. North Carolina is about the only Southern State in which the : negro has practically without reStr1c- ton exercised the right of suffrage The . negroes have been permitted to do this because they were in the minority. There are 21000 white voters in the State and about 100000 colored voters. Only in recent years did the danger of the negro securing supremacy become threatening. Tn 1898, when a combina- :: tion of the black and white Republi- cans and the PopuIists made Russell Isovernor by an enormous majority, the white voters, and especially the Demo- cratic white voters, began to have their apprehensions.
 ;. Governor Russell halls from the sec . ton of the State in which Wilmington is situated. Here the ratio of coIored ; men to white is almost two to one. The : Governor and his Republican allies got : hold of the government of the city of Wilmington, and in order to keep the negroes solid permitted them to share in the offices. The colored men here quickly felt their power. They realized that 1t was through their votes that . The Republicans had triumphed. While the Republican leaders held the more important offices the white men in Wilmington soon found that they had over them a colored police force, while the fire department largely consisted of colored men and the postoffice was manned with colored letter-carriers.
 NEGRO GOVERNMENT. > In fact, to all intents and purposes, it was a colored city government. The colored city government levied the .ot+,, +oxaa collected them and spent