The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-07-26
ANARCHY AND
REQ SHlRTlSM IN TUE EAST.


They Are Sanctioned and discouraged by
the Denocrssie Papers and sDeAhsrs-
Good Men and Women Condemn it,
suck Cannot Continue in . Christian
State Like OUR.
Civil and political liberty and per
sonal protection, regulated BY just
laws. fairly administered for the good
and peaceful enjoyment Of all law abb
ding citizens and taxpayers, constitu-
ted the chief corner stone upon which
this government was first founded. II
was for this our forefathers fought,
bied and died, that their descendants |
might be free to think. to speak and
and to vote their honest sentiments on |
all public questions.
North Carolina was the first tn de- |
clare for Independence. Her able and
patriotic statesmen and orators. in |
Church and State, for years and years.
boasted that, by the help of God, this
inheritance should be perpetuated and |
chrystalized into per feet Christian civ !
ilization. And to this end, courts Of
justice were established, religious
schools were founded and endowed,
and churches were organized and built
in every community, and men Of God
were called ard set apart and paid to
preach and teach Christ, and thereby
help to mould character and to build
up a country that could indeed be call.
ed an enlightened and God-fearing
State-one in which brotherly love and
peace and happiness shou'd reign su-
preme in the breasts, in the thoughts,
words and acts of all its people.
But with all this shed blood of the
revolution, the labors and prayers of
our mothers and fathers and beloved
pastors, together with the millions of
money spent to educate and christian
ize our people. what have We here TO-
day? Have we State wherein free
dom, safety and happiness, under a
iu.t protective law, are guaranteed to
every hristian and law-abiding citi-
zen3 No! Not il one-tenth we hear,
read and experience be true.
In certain sections of the State, land
we are glad to say they constitute q
very small portion of our great State)
MOB VIOLENCE runs riot. And no man
it matters not how high he may stand
in society, in church, in business, or
beloved in the hearts of thousands of
his countrymen, his feelings, his per-
+, son, his goods. his business-yea,e even
his life-is not cafe if in the honest
to write, to speak and to act, POLITICAL
ly, he antagonizes the policy outlined
bv a certain set of self-constituted po
, litical bosses and leaders, who thinf
it not robbery to ''sINk THEIR CON
SCIENCES for office and for power.
This reign of violence and anarch.
. is carried on under the auspices o8 tn
leaders, and by an organization know
as Red Shirts. This organization
mainly composed of political hood
o. lums, men who are not needed and cor
suited between campaigns. Men ger
orally who have no reputation to los
or business to injure; and men who Al
fooled IN doing a work for the bose
that the bosses themselves are not onl
afraid to do, but would be ashamed
10 do.
re When this Red Shirt band was flr
" organized in South Carolina sever
We years ago, the united press, pulpit. s
ed ciety, and political speakers of Nor
"a, Carolina, condemned it as anarchy,
disgrace to civilization, altogether u
Zip called for, and claimed that no patri
or Christian could even wink at
much less sanction and encourage
Our preachers and politicians and et
I'M tors bosstingly declared that nothi
no of the kind could or would ever be sar
we toned for a day in this State. B
on how the mighty, the good and the b.
re- have fallen!
fth When the Red Shirts first appear
in this State, and IT was charged Il
H., they were organized and sanctioned
lor the leaders of the Democratic par
re their papers and speakers and spiri
at Al advisers denounced it as a slam
ms on the Christian character of the p
rln sonels of that great party Of civil
OF religious liberty in this country.
the .on,d not offer a greater insult Il
OF charge them as having to resort to
Shirts, riot and intimidation to ca
:. an election. They claimed it slant
'uft ed their superior numbers, intelIige
and speakers, and that any party
would have to resort to such lawl
ness was unit to rule, and when ii
'aao party got down to that, they We
'orn quit politics and denounce it on e'
II ~ stump.
But RedShirts became more nun
ford Gus in 1898. While their papers did
80 laud them to the skies, yet they ce
-SUV, to condemn or deny their ki nshlp
6 aid year after nominating man for
ernor who declared that his party
sruled by force and fraud, but pre-
one red TO rule by law" and Simms sa
,tion they intended to carry the stat
make it q grave yard, and Dou
nent saving those who did not vote T
:ti0n would smell and see blood hot,
tford many other such sayings by Demo'
ic speakers and threats by the new
pera, Red shirts multiplied. THY
!. P. escort the Democratic candidate
Gov from place to place They thre
Populist speakers, and say they
Vin- not speak at certain places. Tney
vented Seawell from speaking at
dath rinou TN .nd nr % Ps.rson this week an
fered all kinds Of insults and TIL
Gar. when e. "A. Bernard United s
District Attorney went from
:, eigh to Duplin county to try ca;
V. l. the way, got on the train and foil
him here and away, and made all
nth of threats, and had he not been pl
li.en ted by the conductor, no telling