The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-23

| tee, in pursuance of the plan to in
| timidate the white men of the State ana
prevent a fair election, issued to MS
subordinates a secret ciTcuia sd' tnv.'1 to
prosecute persons under the enforcement
inws before some reliable United States
Commissioner" and he appended a list
Of such.
liable Commissioners, and when two ne
groes were found to swear that Reniro
and Bullock were guilty of the murder
of Billings these men were taken all the
way to Mobile to get them before him
when there were many United states
| Commissioners nearer at hand. and they
were carried more than one hundred
miles out of the way that they might oe
| paraded before the negroes OF the piack
| belt -
men are guilty we want them punished;
| first. because It 10 a crime against the
laws az God and man, and, secondly, be-
| cause II is a crime against the pest IN
| terests of our State for any white man
| to give our opponents an excuse 10 sian
der our whole people; But shes@ W ahs
| law. The evidence against them was py
| two negroes, who swore they saw tne
| prisoners commit the murder, ana theTe
| were many Inconsistencies In their STATE
THE evidence for the defense consisted
| of the testimony of the two colored VIII
nesses, who swore that at the time OF
the murder Renfro was az rome nen e wbo
swore that Bullock at the time OF the
murder was at his home. seven miles
away Yet Gillett committed them to
| IAN without bail. What do the people OF
| Alabama think Of this reliable commits
sioner." .,,,o-
conflicts between the whites ana turDu-
| lent blacks in Greene County, VINO were
resisting legal process. but 1t Is mat
| fer of congra tulation that those lead
ers who expect to profit by. creating
| troubles amongst US have really accom-
| plished 80 little in that direction;
If Democrats had broken up Repub-
Iican meeting as the Robinson negroes
| have broken UP Strobach meetings they
would have found themselves hand
| CURED by a United states Deputy Mar
shall and committed to jail by reliable
| United states Commissioner in less
| than twenty-four hours.
These men have exhausted ingenuity
and beggared all invention in their ef-
| forts to stir up strife and at the same
| time are ALPHABETICALLY pretending to be
| In favor Of peace. They flood the coun-
with ,n wTste9 by preTdise
against secessionists. They head their
hand-bills Liberty, Tolerance and
| peace" when the notices upon which
they act are "bayonets. handouts and
We have no space to repeat the refu-
tations already made Of the ISLANDERS
| aRainst our State-slanders whtcha the
nernatrators know are calculated to de-
! ter capital from coming into our State
and prevent immigration; but we SOL
| EMMY declare that we, the undersigned.
who are citizens and property holders in
Alabama, believe that our State has no
worse enemies than those newspapers
which indulge in wholesale abuse OF our
people, and that nothing could be more
| dangerous to our future prosperity tnan
| the Success of that party whose leaders
seek office by making trouble.
SO desperate is their condition that
| they are seeking to bribe our people by
| Government rations. Bacon that was in
| tended for the sufferers from the over
| fow 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 think ii will catch most
\ votes.
Freemen of Alabama-you who were
| born freeI Can the leaders who style
theuselves Republican, cut WHO stPne
&ssA9X eaRaaERse hN az W. l0y&9& q