Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-11

God. in the integrity of the entire American
people, and that a bright future Is in store
for my race
Register Lyons Views.
Mr.. Judson W. Lyons of Georgia, register
of the United States treasury, said on the
same subject: II regret very much that
these things should have happened in
Georgia. In view of the statement which
was published throughout the country last
week. that colored people We're actively
assisting posses to hunt down this alleged
murderer. Sam Hose: that one man in It.,
so earnest that he was mistaken for the
murderer by part of the posse, was shot,
and, upon discovery of which error. as a
slight compensation for his wound, col
lection was taken up all over the country
for his benefit-in view of all this, L am at
a loss to understand what Gov. Gambler
meant by intimating that colorsd people
were harboring this supposed criminal.
1T is most unfortunate, because the
natural inference is that they are disposed
to encourage crime which any one who
knows them must agree in saying is untrue.
Gov. Gambler has the reputation of being
an honest and upright man, and it must
be that he was appalled, by the awful
occurrences that have recently taken place
in Georgia that for the Tina being he lost
his usual deliberate and clear way of stat
ing things.
'Ex-Gov. Atkinson and Judge Freeman
and manly stand they took for law and
order under circumstances which would
easily have affrighted the bravest. What
they did and said regarding the horrible
crimes represents the position that all true
lovers of law and order must take. else all
the accommodations of toll, of science and or
Christianity will be lost.
II remember when 1 was a boy 1t used
to be urged in excuse of violence Of this
character that some of the state govern
cnnld
to mete out justice in the punishment OF
crimes and misdemeanOrs, since they were
in the hands of republican officials, who
were described as carpet baggers, negroes
and scalawags But now the entire jul
dietary of the south is in other hands. and
no such excuse as this can be urged. STILL
violence and lawlessness seem to be on
the increase. No man who has a spark
of manhood in him could ever excuse
rapist but we have courts, and why not
them?
Beget Contempt.
These occurrences are begetting such
contempt for law and order that men are
lynched upon even the suspicion Of crime.
The newspaper dispatches informed us that
a man named Strickland, preacher, was
lynched, although a great majority OF the
people, both white and colored, In and
around the town asserted most positively
that he was not a party to the alleged
crime OF nose. lHey also say uiitl dfotHci
man, named Sewell. who was merely sus-
pected of making threats, was lynched.
What are we coming to?
If these occurrences do not show the
danger of mob violence l do not know what
will. Man is said to be something like a
beast. If he once takes human life 1t be-
comes a matter of indifference with him;
and so. from lynching men for the alleged
crime of rape, they have gone to lynching
them for alleged threats. The mob near
Newman dealt the proud empire state of the
southland this l say with profound regret.
for Georgia is my home-a blow that it will
take her a generation to recover from
There IS only one solution that | can see
to this thing. Everybody who loves the
country, its fame and its glory, who is jeal-
Gus of our good name. must exert himself
o re-establish law and order"