Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-26

Crow cars WHulH bt Fut ~ 'h'ii
wits ends to tell them from the fair
est maidens of the better favored
race.
We have seen enough lynch ropes
and funeral pyrcs to say to the wolld,
every white woman can pass and re-
pass without fear of being molested.
unless it be by some low degenerate
and outcast NC, who is desplsed
by the whites. 5lnfeccgniZed by the
negrGas and e. f9rsaken by him
self. You can ta ttc list of ne
soes Iynchel iaFsing the sane
.tty of southern ncsnc3 for the last
twenty-five years 9Hd you will be able
"a count on one hanu,s fingers enough
, 10 tally with the number thus pun
ished that belonged to the class of
negroes that are respectable or even
80 denomnatcd by the whites in the
communities in which they lived prior
u the commission Of their crime-or
before chal ged with it
There is another feature of this
much-dscussed negro question that
calls for serious reflection. The MT
nsaF6Hs race wars and riots that cause
e much bad blood at times between
The races are brought on in nearly
| ave Y instance by some worthless ne
Gro or iow-doWn white man. In near
| u every ease the party at the bottom
Of il was man entirely out of his
! piaee-some foolish. disrespectful ne
GO who knows net the value Of
words. using epithets unwarranted or
, unpleasant. or some White man.
, spirnea by his own race. prowling
) around negro festival. crap game.
! OF gEabbing some negro woman to
dance with him. These two elements
meet. and community is aroused to
',ieed heat and the result every time
zaHy good and ignorant negroes pay
2e penalty by havin gto lay down
eetr liyes-also a few white men.
Politics is another great strife
= eeder in the south. | know what
she'll say here will be treadng on
! dangerous ground. both as it relates
tie white Republicans of the south
Nd the negro. Before going too far
desire to say that, individually.
aFe in the past supported the Re-
II
'ears on the Republican state Genital
eassfmttce in the state of Mississippi
"as a mombcr of the same when the
two factiCns united. and voted against
v. +. Mollison upon a propositions
when | was serving in his employ
while hc was superintendent of cen
us for the Eleventh district OF said
stato. because | feared what we Re
auhlieans call ''lilywhteism" was go
ing to take the organization out of
IN hands. anl it did. Further,
made about twenty speeches in south
ss$t Arkansas last year in opposition
70 the "insu' gent moveEaent' in this
1
80 "Claytcn ring TIE above and
~fher efforts have been put forth by
n ta see what profit is to be gained
" the yCung negro clin@ing to the
EenNhliean party--I mean the wing
+ the south. | have found. first that
Yearly all of the white Republicans
i the south-especially is it so in
Arkansas and Mississippi-are first
and foremost in getting the negro
into trouble. He goes to the conven-
items, fills the negro with '.rot gut
whisky. puts a gavel in his hands
that is. at county conventiOns-and
has the negro to make speeches of
an inflammatory character on prop
Gsitions that he the white mani
would not open his mouth about in
the same community; then he gives
the negro another drink and a few
times. and has himself elected to the
arger conventions and indorsed for
public office. He will pick out few
better Informed negroes and send
them out in the canvass promising
to turn HI bottom upwards with the
president of the United States for
office for said negroes. and the mo-
ment ii is thought that these negroes
really stand for office Mr.. White Re-
publican whispers around: He will