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The Twin-City American., 1899-05-11
Public Sentiment Greatly Aroused.
Lynching and Mob Violence Strongly Deprecated Press
Comments and Personal Expressions in Regard
to Lynchng and the Georgia Horrors.

The annals Of Indian warfare,
of darkest Africa. of all the bar
barous hordes of the islands of
the South sea, afford scarce a par
aIlel to the brutality of these acts
Of white men in the civilized ~
commonwealth Of Georgia.
For nIiscreants of the class to
which the tortured Negroes be-
longed there need be little waste
of sympathy or pity. Let it be
saved for a community where
there are whites in large numbers
whose latent instincts, despite
their schools and churches, are as
brutal as the murderous lust Of
their Minneapolis Times.
The Twin-City American., 1899-05-11

South by the lynching OF three Negroes;
one OF them guilty of outrage and muir
der, second merely accused by the
murderer, third guilty OF objecting to
the lynchlng. An ordinary killing BY
mob without process of law is bad
enough, but on this occasion white hu-
manity disgraced itself by torturing its
victims, chopping off their ears and
fingers, pouring kerosene over their
heads before committing them to the
flames, hacking them with knives, dis
membering their bodies for relics, in
short behaving quite as badly as In
dians were ever known to behave. II
IS too wide statement, however, to say
that such acts represent white humanity.
These lynchings usually occur in re-
mote hill districts where the people are
clannish and unschooled, where they
are in a minority as to numbers, where
they feel it almost duty to impress the
colored people with displays OF force.
The black man is even more ignorant
and passionate, and when he gives way
to temptation he becomes indeed ter
ror to the community. As to the result
OF lynching, II is without doubt re-
stralning. 1t has been seriously pro-
posed by one Southern statesman that
the women living in country districts
shall arm themselves and do their own
lynching. The trouble with a plan OF
that kind is that it would cover almost
any case OF murder, if the unsupported
word OF woman is to be taken in pref
erence to the testimony OF any number
OF Negroes.-Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
The horrible torture, mutilation and
killing OF Negroes by a mob in Georgia
ought to suggest to President McKin-
ley that we have some home problems"
worthy OF attention. An orderly and
decent lyching-using the words in a
comparative sense-is bad enough, but
when the mob murder is accompanied
as in the present case, by savage afro
cities and disgusting barbarities that
would shame an Apache Indian, the
matter becomes a reproach to the whole
country and its boasted civilization. A
resort to mob law is confession OF the
failure OF democracy. - New York
World.
Crime cannot be rooted out by crime,
nor can the degradation OF the black
race be removed by the self-degrading
OF the white race.-New York Journal
What can be done to put an end to
this useless slaughter OF human beings
and this equally useless dulling OF the
finer sentiments OF the people? The
South alone can answer now She alone
suffers directly at present from these
crimes. But there is a future reckoning
to come. as sure as fate, il the South
does not attack the case courageously
and honestly in her own name and for
her own fame. The country at large
eventually suffers in prestige and in con-
science from these repeated acts OF vio-
lence. We are one people, united now
in sentiment as never before. What
affects one part OF us must in time and
in turn affect another part. A moral
gangrene. spreading unchecked in one
extremity OF the republic, will in the end
attack its heart Washington Evening
Star.
The Twin-City American., 1899-05-11

dropped And, perhaps, the Messrs.
Harpers will not permit a repetition OF
it in the pages OF their magazine.
1t may be fairly doubted that the
South wants lynching stopped But, il
it does, it will never attain its object till
it abandons this puerility OF seeking to
justify barbarism, and looks the plain
fact in the face that many OF its rural
communities have sunk to lower plane
OF civilization than is known elsewhere
in or even out OF Christendom. The
events which have disgraced Palmetto
in the last two months could not have
happened and did not happen in Alba
MIA or Peru. The Southern white is, in
degree which bids fair to approach to-
tality, failure at government-the
proof being in the conclusive fact that
he can find no deterrent" for crimes
OF violence. Thus he has failed to mas
ter the A B c OF all government-New
York Press.
The one force upon which the South
must depend for the suppression OF
lynch law is education. The Negro,
who is the most frequent offender
against the sanctity of the home. is in a
majority Of cases primarily a victim of
his own ignorance. He is dangerous
only so long as he is kept in intellectual
darkness, and he grows in usefulness to
himself and the commonwealth in ex-
act proportion to his advance in knowl-
edge. The white people either do not
know this, or, knowing it, they refuse
for some reason to avail themselves of
the easiest, speediest and most humane
means OF removing a peril which stands
shockingly revealed in the frightful
crimes for which Hose was burned at
the stake.
But while the white citizens OF the
South are still Indifferent to the intellec-
tual condition OF the Negro, the black
man has taken up his burden bravely
and without complaint, and is making
steady headway out of the darkness.
His course is trying one--menaced on
one hand by the unsympathetic attitude
OF the superior race and on the other by
the helplessness of his own. The edu-
cational enterprise founded at Tuskegee
by Booker Washington presents an in
spring example OF the awakening spirit
OF Negro progress From that institu-
ton radiate the forces and purposes
which are in due time to accomplish the
moral and intellectual regeneration of
the Negroes OF the South. Yet whole
some and benehcent as the labors Of the
Suskegee foundation have been, we do
not believe that they receive their merit
ed share OF the sympathy and support
from the white people OF the Southern
States.
Dennis Kearney, the agitator OF the
sand lots in San Francisco, once
summed up his entire philosophy in the
expression, Feed me, and am good
citizen; starve me, and / am a fiend." !"
Perhaps the South may learn sooner or
later that the Negro must be dealt with
from relatively the same standpoint
Educate him, and he is good citizen;
continue to keep him in ignorance, and
he is menace to society and to him
self--New York Mail and Express.
A terrible spectacle is offered in the
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BARnARrsM N oEoRGIA.

The people of Georgia ought
to be stimulated by the shame
of the doings at Newman yes
terday to adopt some positive
course to remove the stigma
of barbarism and 1awlessness
which rests upon their state.
The cannibal population of
Mindanao and of the Central
African jungles could hardly
have done worse than did the
white citizens of Newman and
vicinity. They did everything
that the aforesaid cannibals
would do to victim except
eat his flesh. Such people
ought TO be outlawed and
hunted to the death like wild
beasts; but, as even in such
cases law and order should
prevail, the state of Georgia
owes it to her good name and
common decency to bring to
justice every man engaged in
the burning and butchery of
the Negro. Sam Hose. This
Negro was a criminal, but
down in Georgia, they have .
habit of preventing the law
from dealing with such, and
adding to Georgia's dark
record of crime by perpetra-
ting cruel tortures from which
even the Wagundas of sub
equatorial Africa might
shrink.
Here is a good square chance
for the government of Georgia
to make a terrible example of
Georgia barbarians who defy
the law. Every man implicated
in the burning Of the Negro
should be arrested and brought
to trial, that the country may
see whether Georgian jury
will sustain barbaric cruelty
andcrime or not. Minneapolis
Journal.
The Twin-City American., 1899-05-11

pressions in reference to the
horrors. 1t Is very gratifying
to note the unanimity Of senti-
rnent prevailing in the different
sections Of the country against
lynch law; and we trust that
the same kind Of sentiment
may be thoroughly assimilated
in every corner of the globe.
The Twin-City American., 1899-05-11
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, ILL.

The following telegram was received by Mr. Jasper Gibbs last
Monday
NEW YORK, May 4 1899
Mr.. JASPER GIBBS. Minneapolis, Mimi
Dunbar seriously i'll with pneumonia all
engagements indefinitely by physician.
MRS PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
This great shock the people the Twin Cities
especially those the Dunbar which
scheduled May 10Th and 17th ST. Paul Minneapolis
respectively appears that Mr. Dunbar
engagement and took sick while there
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MccANTs STEWART.

Public senti-
Public m ent against
Sentiment crime and mob
Aroused. violence has
at last been
aroused. The burning of Sam
Hose cy the lawless brutes and
savages of Georgia, and the
distribution OF his cooked
flesh as souvenirs among the
savages; the lynching Of the
colored minister (Strickiand)
without the slightest evidence
of his guilt, and the lynching
OF another man by the name of
Sewell. for expressing a hope
that the victims Of the first
Palmetto lynching would be
avenged all operated to
arouse public sentiment gener.
ally. And from no source do
we hear stronger expressions
against these crimes than from
the pulpit and press. The press
has devoted considerable space
to them, and thousands
of sermons have been de.
iivered throughout the coun,
try since the Georgia
outrages aliof which indicate
that our self-respecting and
law.abiding citizens realize
what . disgrace II is to live in
ma country where the laws
are deiied and mob violence
reigns supreme.
Such deeds cannot be toier.
ntcd, They not only reflect
upon and debasr the states ID
which they are committed, but
the country at large suffer.
both ia prestige and pros,
perity.
In another column. We re-
produce some of slae editorial
eoinments and personal ex'
The Twin-City American., 1899-05-11

w WHcn Wuitc
The jury of Ken
Millennium lucky has the
Not Far courage and
Hence. honor to return
verdict award
ing $4,000 damages to a
|colored man, against members
of a mob that tried to lynch
him, surely we are justified in
saying that the millennium is
not far hence. 1t will be re-
membered that sometime ago,
one Dinning, a colored man Of
Simpson County, Kentucky,
was accused Of stealing
chickens, and a mob ordered
him to leave the county. He
refused to go, aud was fired
upon by the would-be Iynchers.
Fortunately, Dinning was pre-
pared to retaliate; he fired
upon the mob, and killed one
of it's members. He then fled
for his life, and the next day
the mob drove his wife and
children from their home and
set Dinning's house on fire.
DINING Immediately went to
Louisville and fled suit in the
Federal Court for $4,000 and
the jury brought in verdict
last Friday for the full amount.
The outcome Of this suit fully
demonstrates the fact that all
Southerners are not in sym
pathy with the barbarous prac-
tice Of lynching and burning
Negroes without a fair and law
full trial when they are charged
with a crime. This verdict
partly reedeems the South
from It's heavy burdens of dis
grace and barbarism, and Ken
tucky is to be congratulated
upon having at least II respect
able men who believe that the
law should have it's course,
and that mob violence is not
to be tolerated in a civilized
state. The Minneapolis Times,
in commenting upon this
verdict, among other things,
says: "The millennium is GER
tainly not very far off when q
white jury In Kentucky gives
a Negro $4,000 damages
against members OF a mob that
tried to lynch him. The Incl
dent is especially remarkable
when ii is remembered that the
Negro shot and killed one Of
the lynchers."
The Twin-City American., 1899-05-11

GEoRGIA's INDELIBLE DISGRACE.
do not stain the honor of the
state with a crime such as you are
about to perform" said ex-Gov-
ernor Atkinson, OF Georgia, in his
appeal to the frenzied mob that
had gathered at Newman to mutt.
late, torture and burn at the stake
a Negro who hadbccn arrested on
the charge of numbering a white
man and assaulting his dead vic
TINS wife. But the maniac mob
went on with its awful work and
the savagery Of all ages and all
races was concentrated in the
vengeance they wreaked upon
their prisoner. The story Of this
most criminal punishment of
crime, as printed in yesterdays
dispatches, is a most sickening
recital and has, indeed, as Mr..
Atkinson declared. lett an in
delible stain upon the honor of
the state of Georgia.
For the miscreant who suffered
tortures unspeakable in retribu-
ton for his hellish crime there
can be no sentiment of pity or
sympathy. but the crime COM
mitted by the mob was as brutal
and cowardly as the one of which
their victim was accused.
Granting that they had the right
man, that his confession was true
as to the murder of Crawford and
false as TO his denial of the as
sault upon Mrs. Crawford, the
law would have made quick work
Of him and the penalty would
have been death. Granting the
great provocation, the rage and
terror inspired among the whites
by previous deeds like the one of
which the Cranfords were the vic
Tins, making all allowance for the
heat of passion that is only natural
when a miscreant is caught red
handed all this does not excuse
THE acts of that Newman mob. If
they had dragged the prisoner
quickly to tree and hanged him
There might have been excuse if
not justification. If they had
even riddlcd him with bullets or
Iribboned him with knives, sudden
frenzy might have been in a meas
lure. a valid excuse. But the de-
Iliberate manner in which those
Gecrgians went about their awful
deed. shows more than passion or
momentary frenzy il was savag-
leg. And by way Of further proof
THAT their lust for iahnman vcnge-
ance was no sudden impulse they
continued the carnival yesterday.
|by iynching and mutilating the
aged preacher whom their FIRST
nctini had accused Of instigating
1.-THE crime
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MINNEAPOLIS MAY 18th, 1893.
Our first car
toon, Industrial
Expansion, Z
OUR
CARTOONS.

CARTOONS. Expansion a "
which was con-
ceived by Editor Griffin, was
sketchcd by Mr.. Will Browne,
q University student who has
done excellent work for the
University "Arlel' and the 100
Gopher" The cartoon for this
week, we are able to present to
our readers through the cour-
tcsy Of the Tribune Publish
ing Company X speaks more
than words can possibly ex-
press. We pray Almighty God
that the wrongs perpetrated
upon a people who are utilizing
every advantage to become
useful, educated citizens, In
every sense Of the word, may
soon sink, "where oblivion
broods and memory forgets,"
and that, in the words of a
famous Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court, this country
will be a government Of law
and not Of men,
McCANTs STEWART.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-31
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1890.
THE VANDERBILT WILL.

A romantic interest will always at
tach to young Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Jr., who has been practically disinher-
tied in his fathers will. The world
loves lover, and the world will always
have a sympathetic feeling for the
young man who sacrificed his birth
right and patrimony to marry the girl
he loved, well knowing at the time
what the step would cost him. The
late Cornelius Vanderbilt seems to
have carried his grudge and resent
ment into the grave with him and acted
the part of the stern parent. His will
exhibits the same selfish desire to keep
the family fortune intact and its influ-
ence paramount that has characterized
his whole life.
Cornelius, Jr., has exhibited more
democratic spirit than any of the other
members of his family. He is a hard
worker and a practical inventor, and
with his own fortune added to that of
his wife will in time have about SS,0O0,-
600 This, it is hoped. will prove suffi-
cient to keep the wolf from the door.
Alfred Gwynne has saved himself
much public criticism and unpopular
ity by voluntarily making over TO his
brother $60o0,0 600 out of his own share,
an act which merits the highest praise.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-31
cRoNIN--HEALY.
Pretty Wedding Ceremony at St. PauPs
Church Yesterday.

Pretty Wedding Ceremony at St. Pau's
Church Yesterday.
st. Pauls church was the scene of
pretty wedding yesterday afternoon at
$50 o'clock, when Mary l., daughter of
Michael Healy, became the bride of
Henry D. Cronin, M. D. Rev. P. H.
Boland officiated The bride wore
skirt Of white accordion plated Brus-
sells net over yellow silk, an overdress
and bodice of brocaded corn colored
silk, trimmed with point applique and
duchesse laces, and plumes in her hair
She was attended by her sister, Miss
Grace Healy, as bridesmaid. Miss
Healy wore white Suisse trimmed with
Valenciennes lace over yellow silk,
broad yellow sash and picture hat.
Thomas Cronin, NJ D., of Webster,
brother of the groom, was best man.
The wedding party entered the church
as Mendelssohn's wedding march was
played by the organist, Howe First
came the ushers, then the groom and
bridesmaid, and last the bride, leaning
on the arm of the best man.
AS the bridal party left the altar, to
the strains of the Lohengrin march,
the bride was presented with a bouquet
of yellow chrysanthemums by her little
niece, Theresa Healy; with bunch of
white chrysanthemums by little Marie
Sullivan of 40 Chandler street, and
with bunch of violets tied with violet
ribbons, by little. Jennie Doom of Ma
tick.
The ushers were DR.. w. ]. Delehanty,
DR.. T. E. McEvoy, DR.. Charles r. Nc
Dermott, Charles j. O'Hara. F. A.
Dowd, DR.. j. F. Smith. ]. w. Lynch,
and T. F. Sullivan of Natick
The ceremony at the church was fol-
lowed by reception at the home Of
the BRIDES parents, 225 Pleasant street
DR.. and Mrs. Cronin left on a wedding
trip to the south. They will be at home
after Dec. 20 at 81 Park street.
DR. Cronin was born in Millbury, and
his mother now lives there He at
tended Holy Cross college, and was
graduated from the Baltimore medical
college. He enjoys lucrative practice
in Worcester. Miss Healy was a
teacher in the first grade at Mason
street school
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-31
BILLY MASoN,s COUP.

Senator Billy Mason and Mr.. Michael
Davitt of the British house of com
mons are as like as two peas. The de-
light of each is to make a scene and to
shock the staid old legislative bodies of
which they form homogeneous parts.
Davitt, in a pyrotechnic' climax, has re-
signed Now Billy announces he, too,
will resign and appeal to the Illinois
Legislature for reelection as an en-
dorsement of his anti-expansion views.
This idea is not at all original with
Billy Mason. 1t was invented and pos
sibly patented by Roscoe Conkling. 1t
is doubtful if it will work in the present
instance. The Springfield Legislators
might provokingly turn this fine little
piece of clap-trap tragedy into com
edy by electing in Billy's place an
apostle of imperialism.
Mason is a political mistake. He
owes his position to a deadlock where
two factions united on Billy because he
is good fellow" 1t is a well known
fact in Chicago that the present junior
senator from Illinois started his cam
paisn on a box of cigars purchased for
him by the press representatives at
Springfield. The quill drivers may not
prove so obliging next time.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-31
COLLEGE INITIATION.

Once in about so often college stu
dent loses his life undergoing the or
deal of initiation into Greek letter
fraternity. The most recent case oc-
CURED al Cornell, where a young man
was drowned while being initiated into
the rites of the Kappa Alpha society.
Although this is a most unfortunate af-
fair, there is not so much blame at
taching to the members of the secret
society in this as in similar cases. The
student was given a written message,
and told to pin it on a bridge. A canal
obstrucred the approach to the bridge,
and Understanding the depth of the
water, the student walked in. Unable
to swim, he lost his life. The student
was unblndfolded at the time, and his
single companion was so far away as
to be of no assistance.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-31
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Henry w. Hastings and grand
daughter Elizabeth have returned from
a six weeks vacation at Chelsea, Mass.
Charles G. Widen of Worcester, the
hobo juggler, is playing a weeks en-
gagement at the old Howard in Boston
this week.
r. o. Hanson of the Burbank Pro-
duce Company is in New York on a
business trip in the interest of the
firm.
William Coley, who has been a resi-
dent OF Fountain City, Wis, for year,
has returned to Worcester and accepted
his former position in Whittall's car
pet mill.
George H. Hill, for several years con-
nected with New York banking house
as their Worcester representative, is to
leave Worcester and enter the firms of
flee in New York. Mr.. Hill was for
merly of the w. H. Hill Envelope Com
pany before it became a branch of the
United States Envelope Company.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-31
YALE'S DEFEAT.

Vt is to be hoped that Yale's frequent
reverses have taught her to bear defeat
with philosophy. Such a defeat as that
of Saturday by a college of an inferior
class" would have been a catastrophe
too terrible to even contemplate in the
good old days. But now neither Yale
students nor the outside world are
greatly surprised at Columbia's victory.
Before long profound reasoners will ia
vor us with their theories as to the
cause and reasons for the blues lack
of success, of which the principal one
will be the "lack of the old democratic
spirit" which we were told a few years
ago was the chief cause of Harvard's
decay.