The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-04-16
MURDERS CONTINUE TO INCREASE
UNDER GOOD GOVERNMENT"


Crime stalked abroad at noon day
Sleep lay down with alarm and the
sound of the pistol was more fire.
quent than the song Of the mocking
blrd". From Aye cxs inaugural adj
dress.
Now that Fusion rule Is q thing
Of the past and more than two years
OF "good government" have past
into history how would it do to
take stock and see just what are
some of the blessings the happy
transition has brought the people of
N. c.? We have promised to use
none but democratic authority.
The Whiteville News contains
the following. "Four foul Murders
and nobody punished. Within the
last two years four foul murders have
taken place in this county. Will
Bardin colored was shot and killed
In the Swamp near Fair Bluff and
not q one has ever been charged
with the crime. Felix Foley was
called from his home and shot to
death at his own gate. No one has
ever been punished for the crime.
Jesse Soles and James Stalley were
murdered and burnt up in one fourth
ola mile of the spot where two
murders were committed a few
years ago. 1t begins to look like
Columbus County only Furnishes
Negroes for stealing chickens and
lets robbers of human life go Free"
Judging from Aycocks phraseology
above quoted the county, mentioned
should be "Fusion" county, but
as matter of fact his part of N. c..
adjacent to Tillman's dominion
long ago succumbed to red-shirt
tyranny and mob rule, and is as
safely democratic as Aycock's county
of Wayne or Tillman's native
borough where not the slightest
pretence of an election outside of
the democratic primary has taken
place for years.
1t is worth remembering in this
connection that Columbus is 'dry''
county-no intoxicating drinks al
lowed to be made or sold within
her limits. So the cause of this
blood-thirsty attitude of her people
cannot be charged to the country
distilleries and bar rooms over
which Simmons wept and Watts
CRASHED his teeth and the eyes OF
our beloved governor threatened to
bulge out of their sockets during the
past winter.
A number of new cases might be
mentioned which tend to confirm
the already established fact that N.
G. In this day of "good govern
ment" is actually STEPPED in crime
and debauchery. The bloody affair
ut Henderson in which two lives
were sacrificed and others imperiled
the disgraceful filthy revolving affair
in the city of Raleigh involving the
lives Of three white men and tn,
character of a white girl of tende,
age. 1.-THE last mentioned deplorable
affair confirms the Simmons Watts
Aycock idea that only town peopl,
should be allowed to make ant
handle whiskey dosen't it?)
The "morslly stunted" according
to this trio live in the country
the pure in heart inhabit the towns
But why cite cases to show wha
Is already established-in fact ad
mitted by the "good government
regime? Let us turn from the darl
and doleful spectacle for a momen
and theorize little as to the prob
able cause or causes.
What, then, do you ask has com,
over our people that human life il
less sacred than among the savag,
Indians Of our western wilds? /
cause is supposed to precede ever,
effect. Will Mr.. Aycock tell u
now after more than two years o
his 'good government" that Fusion
rule is responsible for the Who'll
BUSINESS? Did he really believ
that Fusion rule was responsible 70
the conditions described by him il
the words quoted at the beginnin,
of this article? In fact did sue
conditions exist then save as the,
were produced and forced upon al
unwilling people by the red-shirte,
mobs Of 1898 who had been arouse,
with mean whiskey and infiamins
tory speeches by Simmens' cohort
> for the express purpose of bringin
about the very condition describe