The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-06-28
TEMPEST IN A TEA POT.


Sheriff Roche left the city yesterday
morning happy In the consciousness Of
duty well done in the matter of pro
tecting the negro desperate, Hardin
Davis, from white mems mob who
were bent on taking hum from the
city calabo1se 10 hang him contrary
to the law of whose majesty he Is
the embodiment He returned late
last night only to learn that he had
been tratiuced in a shameful manner
The Bulletin had gone forth yesterday
morning, upon the streets and into the
business places and homes of the PEG
Pile, and stated that the squad of de.
puties the sheriff had marched down
to police headquarters Tuesday even.
ing. and marched back again yester-
day morning, were negroes. whereas
they were all white men--full blood
ed Caucassans every mothers son Of
them There was Tom Fuller and
Ernest Nordman. and Jas. Lahue and
Bud More-al Of them good looking
fellows-strong fellows and brave;
fierce, too, if occasion demanded, per-
haps not so fierce as TO cut throat or
scuttie a ship. but fierce enough to
whip their weight in wild cats six days
In the week and eat them all up or
the seventh.
And these men were called me
gr0es' by The wretch who wrote about
the sheriff's posse for yesterday mora
ing's parer Some of the deputies
We're married men whose wives had
pined at home alone the night before,
in the fond belief that their lords"
were performing a noble duty as citi
zens of the state in upholdng the dig
nifty of the law perhaps al the risk
of their lives; and when they read in
The Bulletin yesterday morning that
the sheriff's deputies were negroes,
these wives set their countenances 10
lines severe and asked troublesome
questions in voices that did not sug-
gest the warbing of birdlets. the
gurgling of brooklets and the bour.
geoning of flaseolets.
Brt.these men did no< seem to recog-
nize the enormity Of the offense com
mitted against them by The Bulletins
wretched scribe. At any rate. their
Wrath did not manifest itself in any
way at The Bulletin Office. Some Of
them even were inclined 20 regard
the thing in a humorous sense. But
the sheriff was not TO be misled:
he could read deliberate insult in the
lines and between the lines and on
the margin of the paper; and in very
much srch a flutter as a motherly hen
gets into when she finds her chickens
are ducks and take to the water. he
sprang to the telephone and in a voice
quivering with suppressed anger de
manded that The Bulletin make re-
traction of the foul story.
Recognizing the justice OF the
sheriff's demand. but more especially
because it is The Bulletins policy 70
do no man an injustice knowingly.
The Bulletin hereby retracts humbly
meekly as becomes one caught "red
handed" and dead to rights" so 20
speak. yet with as much dignity as the
circumstances will permit More than
this. The Bulletis has given the sheriff
a most sanguinary revenge-its regu-
larry employed and high salaried exc
cuiioner has strangled the BOBBY who
wrote the objectionable lines (figura-
lively speakng) and has pinned his
measley heart over the office door for
The edification of the gaping crowd
What more can the sheriff want2
Bus. now thai this bloody work is
done and the just with of the laws
majestic representative has been salts