The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-20
THE STORM.

A negro backed by a deputy U. s.
Marshal. endeavored at Asheboro to
force a registrar to register him, but he
failed. Later this peripatetic firebrand
paraded the streets armed and cursing.
At Lucama, Wilson county the negroes
attempted to run ~rough-shod over the
registrar, but woke UP the wrong pas
.senger. They got cracked heads in
stead.
AT Winston he commissioner bound
registrar Thompson over to the federal
Court in the sum of 1000. Several
negroes tried to register but were re-
uuired to furnish the necessary proof.
etc. Later in the day, upon the afh-
davit o fregistrars Thompson n Wall,
the four negroes who swore out war
rants against them were arrested and
are now in the custody of the sheriff of
the county. Justified nj has been
fixed at $500 each. Chairman
who was there said the arrest OF
these officers by the federal court was
clearly without authority of law, and
is a paIpable usurpatiOn of authority
and hat every man who swears out
such a warrant will be arrested. Judge
Shepherds argument showed conclu-
.sively the lack of authority in the COM
missioners to issue these warrants"
The facts of all the above We gather
from the Raleigh News and Observer.
The deviltry widens and the despera-
ton of the white enemies of the state
intensifies. At Charlotte an effort is
made among the thirteen cotton mills
and perhaps other Industries, to array
labor against the amendment. A pub
location called the Mill News states
this:
"A deviIish scheme exposed in which
the editor alleges that the labor union
organizations of the state and sections
are being prostituted by paid political
emmisSaries, who are making money
for themselves by opposing the consti-
tutional amendment"
1t says:
I'VE have proof which convinces US
beyond doubt hat their principles of
unionism are being shamefully prosti-
tuted and the entire force of
in this state, without, perhaps. a single
exception, are really paid political ennis
saries who are working this scheme for
the I1OlSy IIlSIS i III II.
1t gives the names of the organic
ers' and tells how they are opposing
the amendment. 1t is a gross outrage
upon the operatives and upon the white
men of North Carolina. Six of these
fellows are named.
Last Thursday Mr.. r. T.Gaitley, of
Mangum, Richmond county, was shot
and dangerously wounded by a negro
named Ed. Ingram, a desperately bad
negro. Mr.. G.. is a democrat poll
holder. 1t is believed the scoundrel
was putting up a job because of that.
The Wadesboro Messenger giving an
account of this says:
The affair created great excitement
in Richmond county, as Mr.. Galley Is
a democratic pollholder and many be-
lieve the negro was put up to assault
ing him. Indeed the negro who was
captured at Roberdel factory Satur-
day night, told his captors that a prom
1nent fusionists politician Of the neigh
hood IN which Mr.. Gaitley lives, har-
bored him the night after the shooting,
n ADVISED him to get out of the county
as o as possible. This politician
has been visited by red shirts, who in
formed him that he must, in the future
either oehaVe himself or leave the
county. He promised to behave him
self"
One H. F. Sewall is a black radical
speaker. He once called the Laurin-
burg people 'murderers" in an incen-
diary harangue. They would not al
low him to make in1ammatory speeches
and ordered him to 'move on.".The
Laurinburg Exchange says:
"Now then who can, who does blame
the people of Scotland for NOV
ing this man on? Such speeches in
flame, excite and stir up passion. We
do not want any such speeches here
ID we do not propose to have them.
:. Sewall was moved on not on &C
4~unt OF political differences but for