The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-16

| ate the impression that the whole State They secretly imported arms into Greene. Sumter, Baker and Marengo and sought to create trouble between the | Il. M. J.," an anonymous slanderer wrote vile letter to Washington, false. ly representing that Republicans were not safe in Montgomery, when at the parading these streets making the night hideous with their yelling and drum | beating.
 Such was the impression created that the Washington Chronicle headed L. NJ. | J 8 letter, Hell Broke Loose in Alabama and All the Devils There"
 Congressmen White. &sapier. Hays and | Senator Spencer hastened off to Wash- | Ing troops to Alabama before he could have time to learn the truth.
 | They obtained the troops, and on Sept the Republican State Executive Com mittee, In pursuance of the plan to in- timidate the white men of the State and prevent fair election, issued to his subordinates a secret circular, inviting I them, in case ocasion should offer, to | prosecute persons under the enforcement I laws before some reliable United States | Commissioner" and he appended list | of such.
 | Gillette of Mobile was one of these re- | liable Commissioners. and when two ne- eroes were found to swear that Renfro | | of Billings these men were taken all the | way to Mobile to get them before him when there were many United States | Con missionrs nearer at hand, and they 1 miles out of the way that they might be paraded before the negroes of the black | belt.
 1 We do not defend murder. If these | men are guilty we want them punished: {: | first, because 1t is crime against the laws of God and man, and. secondly, be- cause 1t Is crime against the best in | ter ests of our State for any white man | to give our opponents an excuse to slan- | der our whole people. But these men | are entitled to the full benefits of the | law. The evidence against them was by | two ngroes who swore they saw tho prisoners commit the murder, and there were mary Inconsistencies In their state | ments.
 The evidence for the defense consisted | of the testimony of the two colored wit | nesseS who swore that at the time Of the murder. Renfro was at home. eight | miles away, and of three white men who swore that Bullock at the time of the murder was at his home, seven miles away. Yet Gillett committed them to Jail without ball. What do the people If | Alabama think of this reliable commis | sioner."
 And the State Journal published the evidence for the prosecution and omit sl the people think of this reliable hewE- paper?
 There have been, it Is true. some minor | conflicts between the whites and turbl- | lent blacks in Greene County, who were resisting legal process, but it Is mat ter of congratulation that those lead CTS who expect to profit by creating troubles amongst us have really accom- | pllshed so little in that direction. | If Democrats had broken up Repub- lican meeting as the Robinson negroes have broken up strobach meetings, they cuffed by United States Deputy Mar shal and committed to jail by ''re- | liable United States Commissioner" in less than twenty-four hours: ,.- | These men have exhausted ingenuity and beggared all invention in their ef- fcrts to stir up strife and at the same time are hypocritically pretending to be try with documents written by anony nous scribblers, invoking prejudice against secessionlsts. They head their hsndp!s wn.n LPerty ,Sa Tolerance boS anS they act are "bayonets. handcuffs and | intimidation
 We have no space to repeat the refu- tations already made of the islanders perpetrators know are calculated to de- ter capital from coming into our State and prevent immigration; but we sol emnly declare that we, the under !igned. who are citizens and property holders in | Alabama, believe that our State has no worse enemies than those newspapers | which indulge in wholesale abuse or our 1 people, and that nothing could be more | dangerous to our future prosperity than l the success of that party whose leaders seek office 1v making trouble. l So desperate Is their condition that i they are seeking to bribe our people by Government rations. Bacon that was in- tended for the sufferers from the over flow of the Tombigbee, Alabama and | Warrior Rivers. and that should have been distributed months ago they have reserved till near the election and now send where they thing it will catch most votes.
 Freemen of Alabama-you who were born free! Can the leaders who style | themselves Republican, but who stand already condemned by all true lovers of republican government carry this State by bayonets and bacon, by intimidation and bribery. You have it in your power to defeat them by many thousand votes. that that you are are doing your fuIl duty in canvass. Continue the good work; be Vigilant. be active, be cautious. Bring out a full vote and in November next Our foes will disturb our neace no more, for, like Georgia and North Carolina and Virginia we will. be, beyond the reach of the handcuff and bayonet.
 Fellow-citizens the news has just flashed to us along the wires that the Democrats have carried Ohio by lS,OOO to
 Democratic by 15.0OO and that we have gained twelve Congressmen in those two
 States to help us secure the rights of white men In the next Congress. The islanders against the good name of Ala
 bama perpetrated by those Radical lead
 CTS and newspapers of our State, who have sought to organize riot and blood shed in our midst were repeated and magnihed from every stump in Indiana and Ohio by 'the advocates of the Civil
 Rights bill They defended that mon-
 strosity by attacking us. The canvass
 was warm and bitter. Morton and Sher- man used all their eloquence to rekindle
 the memories of the late war and fire
 the Northern hearts against Southern
 people They spoke of so-called Southern
 outrages by the hour They flooded the country with circulars pretending that ing another war just as the false-heart-
 ed leaders of the negro party are now
 doing all over North Alabama. They
 pretcnded that kuklux Klans and secret White Leagues were rnurderng negroes all over our State, when in truth the Is that of the National Guards a Repub- licar semi military organization effective ly offered as shown by their success ful onslauEhts in Montgomery County on the meetings of StrObachers, the oppos- ing Republican faction. But the people to be deceived. They were tired of hate and Wtary of the perpetual demands of the negro and his allies. They rebuked inc slanderers who were eudeaVoring to
 perpetuate strife and pronounced for neac. with their Southern brethren.
 of us. by q majority of twenty thou sand. respond to the men of Ohio and
 Indiana that We too are for peace. har-
 monv and unOn-that We have estab-
 lished again good government and white
 ITnion of our fathers Is restored.
 l ie ahead of The tple-