The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-01

your services were wanted at Jackson,
you could not be found. Where were
you then4 Now, when your services
are not needed, you come and stick
your nose in our business. Go back to
Brandon
THE Governor paid no attention to
the remark, but continued his argu-
ments, and finally persuaded the crowd
to permit the sheriff to take the prison
ers to Jail. The Governor returned to
Brandon this morning.
SHERIFF Stephenson has been placed
on guard at the Forest Jail to prevent
the lynching of the rioters, now in GUS
tody on account Of open threats being
made here to storm the prison. To
night the negroes under arrest have
made a full confession.
1.-The funeral of the murdered officer,
Sibley, occurred at Harpekville to day
and was attended by hundreds of PEG
pie.
ut is reported here that two Of the
murdered mans brothers are on their
way from their home, Yazoo county,
at the head of a large crowd bound for
the scene of the race war. 1t Ia feared
that when they arrive a determined
and successful assault will be made on
the negroes and all the rioters will be
lynched. {
"LATER Sheriff Stephenson consid
cred the situation so serious to, night
that he took the prisoners to Meridian
for safe keeping. A large posse was
organized and the negroes will be
placed on the 9 o'clock train"
After reading this we waited for an
extra edition of the Newsand Observer.
Every minute we expected to hear the
newsboy yelling, Extra! Extra News
and Observer! All ABOUT the Terrible
Race Riot! Only Five Cents a Copy =
Minutes passed and finally merged into
hours and still the cry of the newsooy
was not heard. What could be the
matter9 Was J )sephus, the alert, ever
vigilaut, never sleeping, uncompromis-
ing advocate Of white supremacy dead3
Was he who only the morning before
had startled our city at break of day
with an extra to tell of a little insignifi.
cant affair in Robson county, asleep2
Surely he who had issued a four page
extra to cuss out our State government
because of the little Robson affair
would issue an eight pege with scare
heads and cartoons to Ist cuss the
Mississippi government blue becauee
Of this riot a thousand fold worse than
the Robson affair! It made US whistle
just to think of what blistering Ian
guage J0sephus would use to tell of the
vileness of Mississippi's State admin
istration! And oh, how earnestly
Josephus would plead with the white
men Of the s ate, the members of our
brave, all c~onquering Anglo Saxon
race, to rise up and drown by an ava
lanche of votes the party in power in
Mississippi-the party responsible for
this terrible riot, the party on whose
head was the blood of these murdered
menl And then he would conclude
with these eloquent words: 'See the
sad plight of Mississippi See how her
white men must risk their lives, must
murder, must kill, in order to protect
their libertiesI The party in control
there must be destroyed-and it must
not, shall not, win in North Carolina.
To your tents, o, Israeli"
But alasI no extra came. Hours
passed and finally the regular edition
came! But there was no scare head
type, no terrible cartoon, no earnest
appeal such as we looked for. We
looked the paper over two or three
times before we found this little insig
nificant item without any display,
without any scare head-in fact no
head of any kind-tucked away with
some unimportant matter:
IN a riot precipitated by the blacks
in Sc Ott county, Mississippi, one white
man and eleven negroes were killed.
The whites have followed the negroes
into the sWRmps, and more bloodshed
may follow"
OF course We yer amazed. Had
Josephus turned traitorl Had his elo.
quence forsaken him7 "AlaeP" we
mosned, "our Josephus, our elc lent,
unfinching tribune of the people has
sold out to the negro party. And who
now will plead with the people to drown
with their ballots a party that had
given Mississippi such an administra-
ton that the white people must fight
and die in order to defend their fiber
tiesG' But just then it flashed over us
we remembered that
MISSISSIPPI LIKE TEXAS. IS DEMOCRATIC?