The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-22
OUT OF THE WHOLE CLOTH.
The Herald "Out-Yellows" the Yellow
est OF Journals.

The New York Herald of Sunday
publishes, under Wilmington date, Il
long, illustrated article from Il special
correspondent. The writer in true yellow
journal style begins his letter by talking
aoout ''lynchings in the South" and re-
lates IAN incident in the race war of
last week which somehow did not get
into the papers, but came very near fur
nishing as big Il sensation as North
Carolina ever had in its history"
With this delectabe introduction the
Herald's correspondent proceeds to lay
before his readers the following highly
spiced dish:
80 far as recalled no Governor of a
State in this country has ever lost his
life at the hands of indignant citizens
of his Commonwealth. But Governor
Daniel l.. Russell. of North Carolina.
came very near suffering it from mob
rule when the excitement was. in its
height and while the streets of VIII
mington were literally running with
blood.
Governor Russell began his political
career as Il leader in this section of the
State. He organized the colored RepubT
licans in Wilmington and more than
any other one man is responsible for the
ascendancy of the African over the
white man in the Cape Fear region. SO
when the negroes were shooting at the
white citizens and the white citizens were
actually potting the negroes by dozens
with Winchesters, Springields and shot
guns the Governor. who was in this
section of North Carolina, hearing Of
the trouble, started for home.
HE first intended going by way of
GoldsbOro. Learning that there was a
mob of several hundred men at Colds
boro waiting to give him a reception,
and knowing that at that period of eX-
element he was Il marked man. he
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,
bowling 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-
Ience. 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 ear,
wnch was locked behind him, and the
conductor ana his ITlcHuS SlOOu EudTu
until the train pulled out.
Governor Russell reached HE home
in Raleigh, over the Seaboard Air Line
very badly frightened, and the Cover
nors friend did not have a button on
his coat and his raiment was in tatters.
The Governor weighs more than three
hundred pounds, and his frustrated enc
mics at Maxton are still Specializing MS
to the figure he would have cut at the
end of Il rODe.
This is only one incident of the
many exciting events that have stirred
the two Cardinals during the last ten
DAYS"
If the other incidents are as false MS
the one related the Herald's correspon-
dent would do well to keep them to
himself.
His dispatch, as above quoted. was
shown yesterday to Governor Russell
and his executive clerk, who was with
him at MaXton.
at is absolutely and entirely false"
said His EXcellency. Not II word OF
truth in it. except that at Maxton sew
cral men dressed in red shirts got on
40 tr"in. hurrahin@. They offered me
no violence, not even an insult"
Executive Clerk Fowlc was even
more emphatic in his language. lie de
nounccd the whole dispatch MS a lie
from beginning to end"
And that is how it failed to get into
the papers until the Herald man came
along