The San Francisco call., 1898-11-27

the duties of the office himself and took all the emolumentS.
 Pictures of Bunting and his colored housekeeper still hang on a tree in front of his house, where they were hung by the mob. Thomas Miller, noted colored leader, who, when he heard the Record building had been burned, declared that he would wash his hands in white mems blood that night, was lodged in jail, and a picket was thrown around to prevent the more irresponsible whites from drag ging him forth and killing him.
 Colonel Waddell one of the most prominent citizens, who had been chair man of the mass meeting, was elected Mayor, and all the old officials resigned under pressure. Waddell has fighters jaw. His ancestors have fought in three wars.
 pr. Silas P. Wright offered his resig- nation as Mayor of the city, and it was accepted Colonel A. M. Waddell was elected Mayor of the city and sworn in by M. Newman, J. F., whereupon MT. Waddell took his seat as Mayor.
 Nearly all of the old city officials are now in Washington seeking uo have a Congressional investigation or are wan dering northward seeking new places of abode.
 The statement telegraphed North that ministers of the Gospel, with rifles on Iliell SllOulueIS, pdIdueu the streets on Thursday and Friday nights to pre- serve order is no fiction. This actually took place. 1t is also a fact that the race question in Wilmington rose above politics, and that many white men heretofore Republicans joined in over turning the city government.
 The fury of the mob at Wilmington when 1t finally burst forth was added to by race prejudice. long kept in restraint in North Carolina. The deepest blot on the city is that the poor whites wan tonly shot any negroes they met. Most of the murdered victims were unarmed and molesting no one.
 So high did the feeling in Whining ton run during the political campaign that it is a marvel that there was not murderous outbreak long before Thursday November 10.
 Early in the campaign Governor Rus sell became a target for the orators of the white mems party. The Gov ernor owns a large plantation on the other side of Cape Fear River, just op- posite Wilmington. For years he has supplied the city with milk. Some one printed a communication in the Mes senger one day inquiring why white men bought Governor Russells milk, since he was responsible for negro rule in the city.
 Instantly the Governors dairy was boycotted and his milk Is not now sold in the city.
 So much for the story of the riot in wilmington. Now for the story of Greenwood.
 THE GREENWOOD RIOT
 Greenwood County in South Carolina is a comparatively new county, having been erected from the county of Edge field on one side and Abbeville on the other. Edgefield County was the scene of some of the most disastrous political riots during the period of reconstruc- tion. Within it's borders occurred the famous Ned" Tennant riot. so called for the negro leader, who was killed.
 The colored population in that sec ton is very large. outnumbering the whites, but the race question there is merely social problem, not political one.
 In Greenwood County the qualified white voters outnumber the qualified negro voters about ten to one. The au-