The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-04
CONDEMN MOB
SPIRIT AT TRINITY
The North Carolina Press Association Denounce
the Action of the Students of that
Institution.

lOTIu tHe IesolulloH VI COiueHlHdIioH
should take.
Finally a motion to table Mr. White
heads resolution, on the ground of it's
condemnation of the trustees of Trinity
College The motion, however, was lost
on standing vote, Mr.. Whitehead having
asked the president to have all members
in favor of tabling the resolution to
stand, so that the other members could
see what kind of men they were.
Major London then presented his plan
for modifying the resolution of Mr.. White
head, which involved the appointment of
committee of five, which would invest
gate and report on the effigy incident only.
The resolution was put and carried. The
committee was appointed by the chair and
included Major London, Rev. P. R. Law,
of Lumberton; j. A. Hartness, OF States
Vile; j. A. Thomas of Louisburg, and R.
C. Beasley. of Monroe.
During the afternoon the committee met
and discussed the proposition for the as
sdciation to take. 1t early developed
that Messrs Hartness and Thomas were
in favor of a more sweeping resolution
than Messrs. London and Beasley. while
Mr. Law seemed to occupy sort of mid
die ground.
The views of Messrs. London and Beas-
ley are expressed in the resolution finally
adopted by the association, and which
was drawn by Mr.. Beasley and concurred
in as a compromise by the other members
of the committee.
The views of Messrs. Thomas and Hart
ness are expressed in the following resc
luton. which they offered in committee,
but which failed of adoption:
Whereas. it is published in the daily
press of the country this morning that
the students Of Trinity College early yes
terday morning hanged in effigy Hon.
Josephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh
News and Observer and an honored mem
Der of this association, and:
Whereas said indignity was heaped
upon our brother because he. in the ex-
ercise of the constitutional right of free
dom of the press, criticized in his paper
member of the faculty of Trinity Col
lege for publishing an article totally re-
pugnant to Southern traditions and de-
grading to Southern manhood;
Therefore, be it resolved, by the North
Carolina Press Association, in convention
assembled.
First That we denounce the indignity
offered to our brother in the proper ex-
ercise of his constitutional right as an
editor or free newspaper.
Resolved, second. That copy of these
resolutions be sent to Hon. Josephus
Daniels.
The association met at 430 to receive
the report of the committee, but it was
nearly six o'clock when it completed its
labors. The report was made by Major
London, who read the resolution printed
at the head of this dispatch. remarking
al "a =. ~f
and he hoped it would be adopted without
discussion.
President Warner expressed like hope,
and was about to put the question when
Mr.. Whitehead arose, saying he had some
views on the subject and he wanted to
express them. He then read the follow
substitute to the report of the commit
tee:
Whereas, the North Carolina Press AS
sociation stands for all that affects the
veal or woe of the best interests of the
old North State, and especially for those
principles that underlie and have for their
object the maintenance and existence of
the Anglo-Saxon race inviolate and in
corruptable; and.
"Whereas, we regard the tenets and
teachings of social equality, or any doc
trine or act bordering thereon, as destruc-
tive of the morality and integrity of a
race that has been foremost among the
nations of the earth in planting the flag
of civilization on the highways and of
every land upon which the sun shines to-
day; and
Whereas, one, j. C. Bassett, a member
of the faculty of one of the leading and
foremost educational institutions of the
South has unwisely seen fit to give ex
preston and publication to such sentl-
ments and principles as are repugnant to
Southern manhood, and as can have but
one disastrous ending to all that we of
the present and our forefathers of the
past have held as sacred and dear to the
peace and happiness of our families and
firesides; now therefore.
''Be it resolved by the North Carolina
Press Association, in convention assembled
at the city of Washington, December Sd,
1903, that we condemn Prof. Bassett's dan
gerous teachings and writings as destruct-
i've of that peace and good order which
has so long existed between the two races
and point to the hwless action OF hls stu
dents at Trinity ollege in hanging In ei-
figy Josephus Daniels. one whose writings
in opposition to lawiessness is we'll known
throughout the State as Nlndlcation Oh
our action here today-condemn alike sald
conduct and deprecate the action OF thSse
responsible for failure to accept Bassett
resignation. as rebuke to his teaching,
that he might. like the Arabs OF old. 81
lently fold his tent and seek the atmos-
pbere around Tuskegee, Alabama, where
he would doubtless find the environments
and surroundings more congeniai to his
tastes and inclinations.
1t is further resolved that this associa-