Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-26
LAKE CITY HORROR.
THE CRIME CONDEMNED ny ALL
s0UTHERNERs.
WHY Mr.. M'KINLEYS PERSISTENCE ?
why Does He Appoint Negro POST
masters I'm the south. Where He
Gets No Votes:-Why Not I'm Ohio,
or New York, or Indiana.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., February o.
(Special)-An southerners here condemn
IN the most positive terms the barbarous
and inhuman murder Of the negro post
master and his child at Lake City, S. c..
but some OF them very forcibly ask,
why does Mr.. Mckinley persist in APP
pointing negro postmasters in that Sec
ton Of the country?' He gets no cleo
toral votes from the South. The negro
vote there is practically OF no use TO
him and his party, except that 1t Is a
basis upon which to send delegates to a
national convention. The negro vote,
however, in Ohio was of great benefit to
Mr.. Mckinley. The negroes there are
said 10 have held the balance OF power.
In New York, there is also a large ne
gro vote, which is cast solidly for the
national Republican ticket. The same is
the case in Indiana and others Of she
western States, but Mr.. Mckinley Goes
not appoint negro postmasters in that
section of the country. He dare not at
tempt 1t. Lynching would undoubtedly
follow. one gentleman pertinently re-
marked that the President must be an
enemy of the negro race, as he cannot
fail TO know that such appointments as
he has made in the South are bound to
provoke bad feeling in the communities
there, and are liable to result in bloon-
shed.
POST OrFlCIAL.
Tne contest over the post-ofice at Gull
pepper is ended at last, and r. L. Rawson
carries off the plum. Chairman Agnew
ana Judge 4. W. Strother, of Giles coun-
ty, a former Culpeper man, and a mem
Der of the state Committee, put their
hands together and endorsed Rawson.
Mr.. Bowden, who is the post office referee
there, gave his decision in his favor, and
the matter was settled. His name will
be sent in next week, as the Office is a
presidential one.
Mr.. Bowden and United States Marshal
Morgan Treat were doing missionary
work at the departments to-day. 1t is
understood that a decision has been
reached in the Richmond and Ashland
post-office contests but the names Of the
lucky applicants have not yet been d.
vulged.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Vivian Fleming and Mrs. jose
phine Wallace, Of Fredericksburg, are
here, attending a meeting OF the Mary
Washington Association. and are stop
ping al Miss Lizzie Carriers, on street.
EX-Consul-General TO Rio Janeiro VIII
liam T. Townes Of Danville, Va; j. II.
Anderson and wife Culpeper. Va; w. r..
Corns and WIFE, Virginia, and G. S. Brad
shaw, Of Raleigh, y. c., are at the Metro
poitan.
r. G. Thornton. Richmond; +. p. Cover.
Front Royal-Metropolitan
c. w. Scott. Lynchburg-St. James.
NJ. b. Hickman and wife Winchester,
Va; S. Meyer. Roanoke-The Raleigh.
w. Z. Huntley. Jr.. and w. II. An
thony, Richmond; r. Z. Whitestone and
S. d. Mayor, Culpeper; r. Beverley and
wife, Virginia-National.
POSTAL.
The following were commissioned post
masters February I'D: David f. Holtin,
Olympia n. c.: Lucy r. Mookler, Mango
hick, va; David c. Rakes. Shack NILS,
Va.-not money-order Offices.
Changes i'm star male schedules have
been made in North Carolina as follows:
Chatham to State Road-Modify order
of February Z, 1898 bulletin 5i76), so as to
state a decrease in distance Of 80 miles
by the supply Of State Road at the site
authorized February 4, 1898, and to take
effect February s, 1898. instead Of Febru-
airy T. 1898.
Ozark to State Road-Modify order of
February Z, 1898 bulletin 547O so as 10
state an increase in distance of 80 miles
by the supply Of State Road at the site
authorized February 4. 1898, and TO take
effect February s. 1898, instead OF Feb
ruary z. 1898.
Senator sewell. Of New Jersey has in
PRODUCED the Fredericksburg National
Battle-Fields Park bill.