The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-22
NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA.

While The Times Is for white mans
irrevocably and at all hazards, and
while we have given our sympathy and
support to tho white people Of North Car
DINA in their struggle for supremacy we
have always insisted that force should
be the last resort. and that we believed
n mere demonstration OF force would
Of itself be emectual. This judgment was
confirmed by the practical surrender by
the negroes IN North Carolina before a
shot was fred.
II IS true hat In the city Of Whining
ton. N. C., things had come to such a
pass as that 1t was absolutely necessary
that the whites should assert themselves
that there should be a revolution ana
that the corrupt negro regime should be
overthrow at whatever cost. we believe
that such men as Mayor Waddell were
actuated by the highest motives, that
they did not mean TO oye~turn law and
order. but to restore law and order. and
hat all their efforts were prompted by
that high motive.
Yet we would all attention to the fact,
q fact which we have so often tried 10
impress. that the lawless element in
the community took advantage Of the
emergency to commit acts Of lawless-
ness which we're utterly unjustinable, as
they were unnecessary. Some negroes
were killed by lawless white men for the
sport Of the thing. and the burning or
tho building in which the negro news
noper was published, was. in our opinion,
not only without justification. but was
in bad policy as giving the people at the
North a text for TRADES and as creating
"a sympathy with the negro editor. NO
orc regrets this species of lawlessness
more than Mayor Waddell and those
whom he represents, but when the law
less element Of any community are un-
restrained by those who uphold the law
there is no telling to what lengths tho
mob will go.
As for the outbreak in Greenwood
county. S. c., We nave put on foot some
investigations through which we hope
~ arrive AT the exact facts, and for the
nresent we withhold an opinion. We re-
nroduce. however, in to-day's paper an
article from the New York Herald whose
s,ecia1 correspondent has visited South
Carolina. and tells a shocking story. We
direct especial attention to that part OF
tho publication in which makes allusion
to Senator Tilman and Senator Ililmah $
man. Governor Ellerbe. The Herald
c-orresponden says that Governor EllerDe
did nothing to prevent the riots AT
brentwood. 'He told me in Columbia
after quiet had been restored, continued
the correspondent, chat he did not send
trooDs because he had none to q
Everybody else in South Carolina says that
The reason he did not send troops was be-
cause he was afraid Of being scolded by
Senator Tillman."
The Democrats of South Carolina are
differently situated from the Democrats
of North Carolina, because, under the
South Carolina constitution, the negro IS
not an element in p%ilitics, and there was
no negro question TO deal with in the
late election. We say that we withhold
our opinion as to the Greenwood affair
uatlI we shall have further information
but we cannot but believe that the riots
in that county were less Of a political
nature h in keeping with the lawless
spirit thai ,has been rampant in South
Carolina during the past several years.
There have been murders and lynchings
without number, and it is only a little
while ago tina the bishop Of the diocese
felt called upon to direct every Episcopal
clergyman in the State on an appointed
Sunday TO preach a sermon from the
text. Chou shalt do no murder"
Tillmanism is responsible for it all, for
Tillmanism means riot and revolution.