The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-10-05
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- an excellent editorial, says: u
Although during bis lifetime r = 81. is
dent Mckinley showed himseh 70 10 10
friendly to the South, anu on nh ',ho al
M one occasion rebuked those VINO ri
.arocated sectional politics, II IS a II
snrnrisinc fact that his death iurh- ii
:"hda Tho occasion for some OF tne Il
most upcbaritable and uncaiiea, 'oi
ainos at the people OF this sec,ion :
,rhe states has already discussed the u
nnius,ifiabIe manner in which Judge i
Lewis travelled entirely out Oh 'ne. ).
~ in his defense of Czoigosz 10
make a fling at the Sonth, and now
he neglected the defence OF ais /
al;ort in far-fetcbed defense OF him- :
Golf and an unnecessary arrangement t
If the South Senator Doihver' Oh
lava is another prominent Repuhh- {
can who was guilty of taking adSaht-
ace of an audience. assembled IN
Nor;hern city to hear eulogles pro-
nounced upon McKinly, and turning
the occasion into ar opportunity 70
make q bitter attack upon the Soutn.
+ Indeed, there appears to pea wen.
fdeyeloped tendency on the part OF
several of the more radical sectional
noliticians and newspapers OF tue
1 North to trace out some sort OF con-
nection between lynchings IN the
South and the assassination OF NC
Kinlev in the North. The attempt,
.contemptible as it must be futile. Is
made to produce the impression that
/ Iynching in the South is almost Ill
f rectly responsible for the assasslha-
3 ton of the President. and one or Two
a ~ the speakers have been brutal
senopoh to assert that the lynchng OF
negro criminal in the South Is a
!. mneh greater crime than the ruthless
e and unprovoked shooting down OF
e the President by Northern man
y and in a Northern city. We OF the
, South have been taught to beheVe
! that crime knows no geographical
- limitations that the mere questioh
r, If locality in which crime IS COM
= mitted has nothing whatever 10 uo
= with its Nervousness. But II tne
- sneeches and newspaper reports 10
d. which we have alluded voice any
20 considerable proportion OF Nortnein
sentiment, it would appear that, .c
'h their mind, geography is OF the hlgh'
be est importance in determining. ,hs
he criminality of an act. Thus Judge
-, Lewis has no word of reprobatlon lo'
the unprovoked murder OF two fresi
ne dents. one of which crimes WAS com
be mitted by New York criminal an'
or the other in New York State; ne IA
10 M word of condemnation for Tn
New York mobs which last year ruin
nNe lessly assaulted and beat to death 10
'ur offensive negroes upon the streets o
the Metropolis of bis State, YET .
fines an unclassifiei and indehnit
The hanging of a negro in vaguely de
in 6ned section known as "the South,
are a crime shocking enough to call iof'
his bitter condemnation.
on' Thus Senator Dolliver, stanon
ntn within a few feet of the scene OF I'M
lip most unprovoked and hellish erin
Of committed at Haymarket upon inn'
"a cent and unsuspecting citlzeh'
ea standing within short distance
IN Melrose Park, where preachers al
the people banded together and, WI
nds shotouns in their hands, watched u
trains to shoot down innocent n
oroes who were not even suspects
IF any crime, past or prospectiV
" standing in the same State IN VIII
and ynden and Pana are situated, VINE
of white mobs shot down honest,
nth dustrious and peaceable negroes W
were guilty Of no crime worse I'd
uay that of working to make an hon
Is living tor themselves aud their Ia
mp ilies-anind such surroundings, a
,,a,. with the record of all these thu
vet fresh upon the public mind, tn
'upe', two distinguished mouthpieces--s'
e TO assnmed and inaccurate, let US hop
had of Northern sentiment have SUM-
aur. effrontery to seize upon an occas
90 solemn as the death of Presld
Mckinley to make. invidious re
ances to the South, the only poss
great effect of which could be to STIR
rock, sectional luminosity.
,irtv- Such sentiments as those 10 WI
nc allusion is here made are singul
"'i ;nfalicitous when uttered beside
close 'n'es 80 of William Mckinley.
The there he one part of Mr.. Mcklnl
,urse. fame which will outshine and gu
Il oil others. it is the part he playe
sso bIott,nq out sectional animoslties
inner uniting the people of the two sec
Tues !, stronger fraternal love and syl
being thy. He will be longest rememo
i the as the one Republican president
was able to rise above sections
amer me marty. and to be President OF
better whole country. He will be reN
as the man who, by deeds ana
professions merely, gave empha
muies his desire to blot out all trac'
h nave sectional BITTERNESS and TO a.
(. and sincerity and equal hon'G to the
a,,,;,, who wore the gray and TO those
~. !. wore the blue. IL it not strange,
ore pas that the men who profess TO
ton of in his footsteps and to share ms
E world sentiments should, of all occa
Military have seized upon that Of his de
from e anan.n,. TO his known principl,
Attest OF conduct? Can Senator Dolllv'
practi. and Judge Lewis find anywhere
;ssonr; teachings or in the deeds OF +"
-. Mckinley justification for the
raising rine which they promulge. by
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