The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-09
NEGRO SER THBM CRAzY.

For the want of argument the
irnitators across the bridge resort to
abuse. They confess that even the
negro who is so illiterate in their
estimation has won the debate with
them. They provoked it themselves
and the negro handled them without
gloves and did it simply by honest
comparisons 1t is our opinion that
they will now be good and not rush
headlong again into the abuse OF
even negroes, who have convinced
them that the negroes are their SUI
periors, not only in intellect but
perhaps in other particulars.
They came among US as
strangers and the first dash
out of the box jumped on to the
negro population here. Their ac-
ton was passed over in silence by
those who were assailed, hoping that
even those who were indulging them
selves in such miserable abuse would
discover their own meanness and be-
come disguised with themselves in
making these cur-libe attacks on the
colored race. But, after due sea-
son it was seen that they were not
only hide-bound but also brainless
with principle of right altogether
foreign to them, and then it was a
member of the colored race decided
to expose their villifications, and he
not only punctured the bubble OF
their hate but also read their pedi-
gree to their own displeasure and
discontinue With few strokes oil
the pen he made them desperate and
drove them insane with rage. They
were provoked to imagine in their
ignorance and seIf-conceit that they
were being imposed upon and that
they had been led into strange and
unknown paths and left in the will
derness of darkness and despair. So
desperate were they that their walls
turned from the negro race and were
converted into blue streaks of abuse
toward the editors of this paper and
others of whom they are so envlous'
And all because a negro had over
come them in the discussion OF the
negro question, all because he had
the courage to give them over his
own signature a calling down they
will not forget even to their dying
davx all because they conceived the
idea that they have been trapped, I'M
nosed upon or fooled, all because, as
thev say, they thought the Telegram
would pursue a certain course and
rnust do likewise, thus confesslng
themselves to the world as lmlta-
tors.
and mad ever since they came among
us. for what reason none know I'M
less they thought to assume Dictator
shin in the local profession, and have
made frequent emissions OF Their
venom toward us, what especially
enrared them to the extent OF Their
bitter attack upon us was in add
Hon to the fact that Edward w.
Henry. colored, had beaten them IN
10 retreat on the discussion OF
Tnblic question, nothing more than
an ordinary incident .l,,
On Saturday morning, the fourth
OF November, at the session OF I l'o ~,
court there was young wnlte M.
before the mayor charged with 1S.La5
drink and disorderly. 1t developeo
mon his trial that he had been ar
Ltd , nv the colored officer, Lewis
~. being drunk and insulting Two
t,sisS.o5 men. The same two men
o,,Deared against him and ne was
s ffped $500 and costs - =
mn me News reporter was not at
~ &c sossion of the police court
'i'1 some time after the Telegram ~ re- :.
So ao,. net the News reporter on the
2 NI MI l,rid0e. Knowing the
New attitude toward the Prese