The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-06-08
PARAGRAPH CAUSED ROW.
COlOred Newspaper Editor at Au-
gusta, Ga, Narrowly Escapes
Rough Handling BY Mob.

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Rough Handling BY Mob.
Augusta, Ga, narrowly escaped
more violence last Saturday night,
growing out Of a publication con-
corning the recent killing Of Alex
Whitney and the lynohing Of his muir
derer, William Wilson. Saturday
afternoon more than 200 white men
marched from an indignation meeting
on the river bank q mile across town
to The Georgia Baptist Office on Camp
bell street, near Qwinnett, to demand
retraction from the editor, and at
night another party was organized to
force Editor White to leave town and
to wreck his printing Office.
The indignation in the community
arose over aparagraph published in The
Georgia Baptist, a danominational me-
gro paper, published for years past by
Rev. w. j. White. It rurported TO
have been copied from another paper,
''The Bee," said to be published
Washington city. 1t was as follows:
''The lynching Of William Will
son, popular young mechanic, in
Augusta, Ca, a few days ago, is
another one of those damnable
sins for which the south must be
held responsible. Mr. Wilson died
unfolding tho virtue of one Of
Georgia's most refined and highly
respected young ladies'. The white
wretch who offered the insult fell
at the hands of this young martyr
and the unpleasant thought that
such a brilliant career had to be
sacrificed for one portraying the
worst type of criminality is not
only unfortunate, but sad to the
very extreme"
The entire statement was so palpa-
bly, false that it filled the friends of
young Whitney with indignation.
An indignation meeting was called
and the publication denounced and it
was proposed to run Editor White out
of town, to wreck his newspaper office,
while some even wanted to tar and
feather him, or do him other violence.
The meeting decided upon the appoint
ment of a committee to wait upon
White and demand that he sign an
apology and a reputation of the arti-
Gle.
In the meantime White had gone to
The Herald and Chronicle offices and
stated that he did not know the para
graph was in his paper; that it was
published without his knowledge or
consent; that it was absolutely false
and he was anxious to put card in
both papers repudiating it and apollo
giving for its publication in his paper,
The following is the card which the
committee dictated for Editor Whites
signature:
1.-THE infamous article that appear.
ed in The Georgia Baptist on May
91st as a clipping from The Bee, was
inserted without the knowledge or APP
prevail of the editor of this paper,
who hereby emphatically disclaimf
connection with its publication.
81 cannot sufficiently deplore the
fact that this disgraceful article APP
peared in our paper, apparently as the
expression of the opinion and senti
ment of the editor of this paper. AnC
further deprecate, repudiate and de
nounce the article and all the senti
ments it contains, and further guaran
tee to the white people of Augusta tina
it is not the intention of The Georgit
Baptist to offend by upholding any
such dastardly acts as that referred t.
in the article in question. I further
guarantee to the white citizens that NJ
such offense will again occur in tn,
columns of this paper. I respectful.
ask the morning papers to publish Thu
denial and promise to print it in larg,
type in The Georgia Baptist.
civilian J. WHITE,
publisher of The Georgia Baptist