The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-15
RESULT OF
 POLITICAL SIN
EVANSVILLE RIOTS DIRECTLY DUE TO CoDDLING OF
 NEGRO VOTERS.
Republican Leaders Blamed-W mite Women Made to Stand up in Cars and Even Pushed Of by
 Brutal and Spoiled Blacks

Evansville, Ind, special to Philadelphia
 Record.
 Flame for the bloody race war which has torn this city for the past week and has resulted in the killing by the militia of eight persons and wounding of score of others is directly traceable to sins of unprincipled polit- clans. While the negro, Robert Lee, Is primarily regarded as the cause of the conflict, the root of the social condition which has produced the riots lies in the efforts of party schemers to turn the negro vote to their own ends. For years the Republican politicians of this city have coddled and petted the negro until he has grown to be absolutely vitiated and utterly spoiled. He has become a clustering, bull-dozing, offensive bully. Because of the value he Is to them on election day, the Republican manipula- tors. shrewdly congratulating themselves on what they fancied was their political finesse, have allowed him to become so inflated with his self-importance that he actually believes he is a trihe better than anybody else. Speeches are made to the negroes in which they are told what great citizens they are and how the destinies of the nation rests in their hands. The Evansville negro is a very cocky individual. He not only sits in the street car while white women stand up; but in some instances the white wo- men are pushed off the streets by col ored brutes.
 Mayor Covert, whose city has just been stained with blood. is himself one of the most assiduous cultivators of negro dom- ination. In 1898 he and another Republi- can leader named Jesse Peck corralled 50 negroes and gave them a sumptuous entertainment in the Federal Building over night, so as to be able to vote them | the next morning.
 Vice Flourishing Unfettered. Under the protecting influence of a | friendly city administration negro dives have sprung up in Evansville which are eye-sores to all decent citizens. These dives are hideous places. Dozens of ne- groes are often harbored in single dive The fill themselves full of cocaine and beer and often the most horrible crimes I are committed.
 Most of the negoes who are brought to Evansville and cOlonized in these dives and other places almost as bad in order
 that their votes may be secured are the
 scum of the negro population of the | South. Tennessee furnishes great many | of them. Not only are they brought to | Evansville, but to nearly all of the other | counties of this part of the State border ing on the Ohio river, and the race feel Ing Is consequently very strong all | through the First District. In this city the feeling against the me- groes because of their saucy and impu- | dent manifestations, has been so tense for years that 1t needed only the striking of 1 match to cause a flare-up into a confla- l grafton. That match was struck, f1gura- 1 lively speaking, when the negro, Robert l Lee, started to kill another negro over | crap game involving cents, and Police | man Massey, a popular white officer in
 attempting to arrest Lee. was killed by | him.
 To Bring Lee Back for Trial. | Robert Lee, the negro murderer who Is | the cause of the race riot in Evansville, | will be brought back to the scene of his l bloody crime tomorrow. Whether the day i will pass without bloodshed remains to be | seen, but the citizens here do not take | rosy view of the situation. This after noon many persons are predicting another | bloody chapter tomorrow. while others | think that armed force will be sufficient
 to prevent clash. A telegram sent by l Judge Rasch to Superintendent Byers fol- | lows:
 "Is Robert Lee able to be brought back | for trial now?"
 To this Byers replied "Yes" | Sheriff Kratz will leave tonight for Jef- l fersonvile The time of his arrival with | Lee tomorrow will be kept from the gen | eral public. A patrol wagon and several | companies of militia will meet the train l negro will be brought to the jail sur
 rounded by troops. The jail will then be
 heavily guarded. It Is the intention to
 rush the machinery of justice as fast as 1 possible.
 Will Be Rushed to Gallows. Lee will be hastily convicted and sen
 fenced to hang. Under the law leo days must elapse between date of sentence and
 execution. Unless the mob gets Lee the
 usual formality of holding the prisoner in
 jail two weeks unti, the warrant is is sued will be waived and he will be hust- | led off to Michigan City.
 Large placards were posted about the centre of the city today advising people to stay home tonight. Let us have peace" the placards says. Twenty indictments have been returned against members of the mob. and now that the militia is here arrests will be made rapidly. Albert P. Cardwell. a prominent merchant, was arrested today. He pleaded mot guilty" and gave bond in sum of $500
 
 Tho Rahal1inn