The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
|NSULTED A CRIPPLE
Spencer Adams WantonIy In
suits a Young Man.
There is Universal Rage in Burlington Over the
Occurrence. A Lady Tried TO Stop
Adams But He Would Not Stop.
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Burlington, n c., June IL have just
learned of one of the most dastaEdy
pieces of insult we have ever heard or
Mr.. Crowson, the editor Of the News
is a cripple and goes on crutches
He says he went to the board
ing house to get his dinner, and sat down,
and soon Spencer b. Adams, Republic
can candidate for Governor, came in and
recognizing him as a newspaper man,
who had unearthed some of his rascality
while editor of the Milton Herald, took
occasion to insult him. knowing that he
was unable to defend himself against the
insults. He knew Crowson personally
and without any allusion to the parade,
said the little scoundrel editors of the
country papers would no doubt lie ana
swear that there were only two or three
white men in the parade. Mrs. Hardin,
who was present, saw how embarrassed
Mr.. Crowson was, whispered to Mr.,
Adams that there sat an editor. He said
he knew it and went on to say that
'"These little lying editors never have
anybody drunk but Republicans. and they
were abominable. lying scoundrels.'
OF course Mr.. Crowson could not de-
fend himself, but his friends will. There
is universal rage in town today over the
affair, and it would not be healthy for
Adams to repeat the insult Mr.. Crow
son is Il conservative, popular young man,
and feels very badly the insult, as this
was the third or fourth attack of like
character.
Yesterdays Burlington News makes
this editorial reference to the incident:
IAN UNCALLED FOR INSULT.
1--WE have always tried to be impersonalr
in our fight against evil, and we have
tried TO stand up for purity in politics
and have made but few enemies. But
it seems that we have incurred the mall
ice of one man at least. We were so un-
fortunate as TO have to sit at the same
table at dinner with Mr.. s. b. Adams at
Graham last Saturday, and in cowardly
and rascally way he took advantage of
our being in a respectable ladys house
to insult us, Soon after we sat down,
without any reference to any conVersa-
ton, and without any excuse Adams
reared himself back and said, i suppose
the little scoundrel editors of the little
country papers will say that there were
only two or three white men in the pro-
cesson today, as it would only be sam
pie of their lying representations. HIay-
ing delivered this kind of TRADE against
us on another occasion We considered
that we were one of the editors referred
to. Of course we had too much respect
for the lady of the house to reply to
this insult, and haven't the physical
strength to resent it personally, if we
wanted to, but we will say this much,
that there were in that procession many
white men, men who are our friends, men
who are true gentlemen but there was
certainly one in that procession who was
a disgrace to the gentlemen who were
in the procession, man whose heart is
as black as the face Of the black negroes
whose champion and leader he is and
we nearly said companion, for if meeting
with them and juggling with them is not
associating, we don't know the difference.
u dirty negro leader in every sense of
the word man who in voting for me-
gro called upon those present to come
and see him do it; a man who excusing
the hellsh deeds Of rape of the negro,
said that it was no worse than the seduc-
tion of wenches by white men, excusing
the acts of such brutes as the negro
Sellars who is now lying in jail at Ora
ham charged with such crime, which
crime is as apt to be against the little
innocent child as against the strong wo-
man, comparing his crime with that of
evil minded white men, and he a judge
upon the bench at that time. And above
all, this man proposes to be our next
Governor! We excuse him for his in
suit, but don't believe he would have
said it if we had been physically able to
have resented it, but we pray to God
that no such man will defile the Guber-
Material chair OF North Carolina, and
he certainly never will unless negro rule
becomes supreme"