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The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17
CHICAGO NEGROES

Chicago, Nov. 10.-An indepen-
dent party movement has been
launched by the Negroes of Chica-
go to nominate city ticket on
which they will get recognition in
the board of aldermen, and one of
the chief positions in the city ad-
ministration-mayor, city treasur-
er or city clerk.
The movement is inspired by
resentment of the wholesale knit
ing of f. l.. Barnett in strong Re-
publican wards, and confidence
that Barnett's success was due not
to the party's landslide, but to the
personal strength, the Negro vote,
and the votes of white men were
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17

to solve this mis hty question and
if possible to save and elevate and
dignity the race that is dependent
on our own.
1.-THE foregoing article appeared
in the magazine, The World To-
Day" together with a reply from
Prof. w. E. B. Du Bois. The re-
ply will appear in our next issue.
ED.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17

Meridian, Miss, Nov. I3.-Fol-
lowing disorder at a performance
of a Negro minstrel troope at Ma
con, Miss, last night, DR. w. D.
Shepherd, a Negro deputy marshal
was wounded, and his home de-
stroyed by a mob of citizens and
an unsuccessful attempt was made
by Negro to assinate County Of
ficer Clark. For the latter offense
Beverly Lewis, a Negro, was ar
rested and brought to MERIDIAN
for safe keeping. The Negro was
later spirited away on the ap-
proach of the mob who searched
the Jail. Shepherd has disappear
ed,
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17
The Tragedy
At Atlanta, From the Point of View of the Whites by
John Temple Graves

1t is exceedingly difficult in
times of excitement and of public
protest to consider dispassionately
or to induce others in that environ
ment to consider dispassionately
the causes. conditions and provo
cations which lead to lawlessness
and personal vengeance.
1t is equally difficult to persuade
the majority of those people who
live on the northern side of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers to re-
ceive any utterances that come
from the South with patience and
consideration unless it happens
that these expression coincide
with their own views.
By the thoughtless newspapers
in many cities of the northern and
central states, I am written
down as radical extremist
upon this Negro question. and
without anything more than casual
reflection, men who measure other
utterances by the line of their own
convictions, have done me the in
Justice to credit me with many
things which I have never said,
and to misconstrue entirely many
things I have said.
am legitimately and earnestly
student of the race question. l
have studied more diligently than
any other the question that relates
to the life of the people of the
South, with an intensity of inter
est due to my conceptions of its
serious meaning to the welfare of
nv children and to the future of
the section of our common coun-
try in which I live.
am not an extremist. l am
not negrophilist. On the con-
trary, am absolutely devoid of
passion, temper or prejudice in
the consideration of the Negro
question. Personally the Negroes
regard me as their friend and help.
er. I receive more requests for
personal favors from them than
almost any other white man in
nv section, and within the limits
of my strength and capacity, l give
more to their personal welfare and
development than most men who
live in the South. During the re-
cent troubles in Atlanta my home
was the rendezvous of Negroes
who sought protection at my hands.
And during the high tension of
the riot period I sheltered under
my own roof and upon my own
premises perhaps a larger number
of Negroes than any private indi-
vidual in the South.
| have reached first of all the
impression derived from history
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17

that the African and the Caucas-
ain races are not only opposite but
antaeonistic races. They are in
herently so. They would have
been antagonistic if the institution
of slavery had never existed. They
are equally as antagonistic in the
northern and middle states where
slavery has never existed as they
are in the South to-day. Who
will deny the fierce and frequent
outbreaks of this prejudice in the
northern sections-in New York,
in Wilmington, Delaware, in DAN
vile, Illinois, in Evansville, In
diana, in Columbus, Ohio, in Chic
ago. in Indianapolis, in Leaven-
worth. in Topeka and in Cana and
Gainesville in Virginia. The diff
ferent skins of the races make an
antagonism which seems TO be but
natural and providential, and I
have only been able to explain it
upon the theory that the antagon-
ism of the races represents in part
the purpose of the Creator in pre-
venting congregation of many
peoples in one especially favored
region of the universe, and in sep
arating the races into different
countries by the implanting of this
natural prejudice in the bosoms of
each.
1t is doubtless true and may as
well be acknowledged that this
prejudice is greater in the South
than in the North, because of the
institution of slavery, which pro-
duces in the mind of the white
man rebellious protest against
any effort to place his former slave
upon an equality with himself,
and on the part of the black man
a spirit of revenge for the century
of slavery in which he served the
South. At any rate no thoughtful
man looking fairly at the question
can fail to realize that this race an
tagonism, which exist everywhere
exists peculiarly and emphatically
in the South, and that the years
that have passed and are now pass
ing do not in any degree modify
or ameliorate this racial antipathy
and dislike. The younger Negroes
imbide in their mothers milk the
sentiment of hostility and hatred
toward the youth and adults of the
white race, and this is manifested
in their personal relations from the
time they start to school to the
time they separate in. the work and
in the vocations of life. 1t is not
because l would be unwilling to
see this antagonism speedily de-
stroyed, and it is not because /
am not myself reverent believer
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17

in the creed that Christianity is a
solvent for human problems, that
l am skeptical of religious solu-
ton, but because l do not find in
history or in precedent one line of
light or one ray of hope upon
which to base expectation that
this feeling will die away, either
in the lapse of time or through
the labors of the Church,
1 do not know that the crime of
rape is primarily due to the exis-
tence of this racial antipathy. L
am quite confident that in many
cases, perhaps in the large ma
jority of cases, it is evolved from
other and more tangible causes.
The increasing use of whiskey, the
consumption of morphine and CO
caine, the observation obscene pic
lures in low dives, and the ever in
creasing recklessness and irrespon-
sibility Of the criminal Negroes,
all joined with the long continuance
of hot weather, produce at certain
seasons of the year a wave of Grim
inality along this APPALLING line.
In the application of these con-
sideration to Atlanta's recent riot,
l would simply ask fair-minded
and broad minded Americans to
adopt that policy which has its
sanction in Holy Writ and in the
philosophy of Justice, and to put
themselves so far as possible in the
places of the people whom they
sometimes SO unjustly judge. I
am not seeking here to defend or
to Justify the violence of the mob,
but I insist upon it that no brave
fair minded people in any consid-
Grafton of the mob can fail to re-
member and to weigh the provoca-
ton which moves the mob
Those who have kept up with
this lamentable tragedy in Atlanta
and those who have done me the
honor to read the statement which
the Washington Post was kind
enough to distribute through the
Associated Press, will bear in mind
that for nine consecutive weeks,
the people in and around this city
of Atlanta, the capital of Georgia,
and in many respects the metropo-
lis of the South, were Mortified, at
first week after week and then,
day aftef day, by the continued as-
saults upon the persons and the
virtue of blameless and helpless
white women in this vicinity.
Never in the history of this atroc-
ious crime in the South have the
assaults been so brutal, so audac.
ious in attempt, so fendish in pur-
pose, in the mutilation of women,
and more insolent in the reception
with which they have been met by
the mass of the race from which
these criminals came.
AS l have said before, there
were within three weeks eleven as
saults made and attempted upon
pure and virtuous women of good
repute and standing in the imme-
diate suburbs of Atlanta.
u
On the Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday preceding the day
of the Atlanta riot there were three
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17

aggravation attempted within the
limits of the city. Friday was an
intervening day. The people
breathed easier. On Saturday the
first editions of the evening news
papers came out without the re-
cord of rape.
Then suddenly there flashed up
on the streets an extra announcing
that four women had been assault
ed within the hour and the indica-
tions were that the crimes were
preconcerted and co-ordinately ar
ranged. Another extra of another
paper confirmed the rumor, and by
6 O'Clock the streets were swarm.
ing with an outraged and angry
populace who, having exhausted
every expedient of remedy and
protection that genius, money and
law could devise, felt themselves
absolutely helpless before the fast
multiplying criminals of race
who we're seeking to destroy the
wonian of the South. - r
You know the rest as the story
has been told. Without premedi-
tation, without deliberation, with
out any possible organization, and
simply upon the wild impulse of
humane nature driven to frenzy by
the failure of the law and the fail
ure of public sentiment, the i'm
pulsive thoughtless and hot. headed
members of our civic population
lost the rudder of control in the
storm of apprehension and danger
that threatened their dearest pos
sessions and the mob was on.
Now we do not need to go furth-
err. Atlanta through its represen-
tative voice has spoken its protest
against the mob. Its newspapers
have condemned lawlessness. The
world has known the sober, repre-.
sentative sentiment of this city
does not approve the Wholesale
assault upon a whole people be-
cause of the monstrous and un-
speakable crime of few.
do not plead justification of
the mob, and | do not argue for
its continuation, but | invoke the
human nature that runs in the red
blood of every white man in Amer
lea to understand at least even if
we can not justify, the fearful and
transcendent provocation which
stirred the Atlanta mob to its
swift and terrible revenge,
thank the world to day and all
thoughtful periodicals that give to
the people of the South fair
hearing upon this question. No
people on earth know and under
stand and appreciate the Negro
as we do, who were raised with
him, and who live in the civiliza-
tion, of which he is so interesting
a part. If you will join with us in
studying this great question and
give to your reflections and ex-
pressions less of bitterness, less of
of the prejudice of sections, and
less of abstract philanthropy that
measures considerations at the dis
tance of thousand miles, we will
promise to meet you in the same
way, frankly and earnestly, and be-
tween us we should at least avail
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17

Greenville, S. c., Nov. 13.-The
Workingman's Saving and Loan
company of this city, the only Ne
gro banking institution in the
state, closed its doors to day by
order of the state bank commits
sioner. Careless book. keeping is
said to be the cause of the banks
EN- barrassment. The capital stock
was $4,000.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17

On the Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday preceding the day
of the Atlanta riot there were three
separate attempts of extraordinary
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-17
RACE NEWS
Gathered from vAr,ou. >ource..

New York, Nov 15.-By uaani-
nous vote the Republican county
committee at its regular monthly
meeting held tonight resolved to
ask President Roosevelt to rescind
his order discharging dishonorably
a battalion of the Twenty fifth
regiment, U. S. infantry.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-07-12
OUR NEXT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
PLEASANT DALE w. VA.

PLEASANT DALE w. VA.
Editor Argus
Dear Sir: In the last issue OF the Argus
appeared an article supposIng to have
been written by an old farmer relating to
our next County Commissioner for King.
wood district. In reply TO the same. per
init me to say, that we agree with the
writer in some respects, who instead Of
being farmer, is one OF tho larger mrr.
chants OF our county and who like otler
merchants. is as much interested in the
orders that commissioner may turn in TO
him as he is the loose stones in the road
We agree with the farmer.merchant that
we want a commissioner who will look
alter the peoples interests and one who
is not CRATER etc. and one who is not
the 1901 OF any ring or class Of men, pol
itically or otherwise. and we find Just such
man IN candidate and former comuiissi-
oner. Edmund Messenger. whose record as
county commissioner. is a credit TO himself
and the district he represented. as well as
his services was saving to the Who'll county
We have nothing to say in particular
against the other candidates for this Office
but we do know that Mr. Messenger made
one OF the best commissioners that ever
represented our district look at the con.
dition OF our roads when Messenger was
elected commissioner, our roads at that
time were In very bad condition, and
during Messengers term as commissioner.
he put our roads in better condition than
they had been for years before. and since
he has been of the county court. our
roads have been becoming worse each
year until at the present time. they are a
disgrace to the district Look al the
condition Of our Aims House when Mess
enger was first elected and see what he
was instrumental in doing Tor the county in
the purchase OF the Poor Farm. which is
today worth several times what il cost
the county
The Office OF COuty Commissioned. is one
Of the most important Offices in the county
and should be represented by men Of ex.
peri ence and matured. ard the tax payers
should see that such men represent US and
we believe that no better representation
can be secured than the election OF Judge
Messenger for county commissioner. man
Of good judgement and unlimited cxperio.
nee. and above all. one who will serve the
people alike 10 the best interests Of the
county regardless Of ring rule or party
dictauons
We people in the countr are getting
tired Of few men in town running our
whole affairs and we went men TO repre-
sent US who are under no obligations 10
ibis ring and who will 600 our Offices TO the
bctterment OF all the people and not to the
advantage to a class Of few. These arc
some Of the reasons why we want 20 nom
mate and elect Judge Messenger Tor county
Commissioner from Kingwood district
Farmers and laboraung men. think IL
ever and see II you don't decide Tor
yourselves that Messenger IS the man who
viii best serve as
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-07-12
GRIMES STATEMENT PROVEN.

MAsoNTowN, w. VA, July Z.
In the front yard of the court
house at Kingwood, Preston county,
w. Va, March term of court four
years ago, we had a conversation in
which Mr.. Carrico did promise me
that if would withdraw that he
would not come out against me for
the Office this time and that he
would use his influence in my favor.
Further he agreed to recommend
me for appointment on the board OF
examiners.
Respectfully submitted,
f.. Il. p. GRIMES.
The undersigned do hereby verify
the above statement.
b, f. WOODWARD,
w. L. RUTHERFoRD, n. p.
Fellowsville, July 9, 1906.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-07-12
PLAIN FACTS.

TUNNELToN VIVA July 9, 1900.
Editor Argus: La the last issue OF the
Preston County Journal, | noticed
that the editor charges that | have
received from Mr.. Fairfax S. Land
street draft for s.. 900. 90 TO be US
ed in Preston County Primary, and
challenges me to deny that state
ment. The same editor is his former
issue charged that the Wabash Rail.
road and the Insurance Companies
were furnishing me money in this
campaign. Being confronted with
the facts disproving this statement,
and thinking 1t was impossible in
the shorttime yet remaining before
the election for me to publish any
statement contradicting his charges,
he makes this false and malicious
attack. now most positively say
to him and to the voters of Preston
County, that have not received
from the the Wabash Railroad, Mr..
Landstreet or any other person,
firm or corporation any such draft;
nor have received from any source
any sum of money to be used in
any unlawful manner in the coming
election.
l am trying in every honest way
possible to obtain all the support |
can in Preston County; this, shall
continue to do regardless of the I'M
warranted attack of the Journal
II can secure the nomination in
this manner. want it, If any other
method is necessary to secure it,
prefer that some other candidate
win.
Respectfully
| A. K. STALLINGs.
Candidate for nomination for State
| Senate.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-07-12
TO THE PUBLIC.

The making of community, the
making of a country, the making of
a State and the making of a nation.
depends upon the making of the
men and women which make up
these various divisions.
The making of men and women
depends upon education and indus
try; and we, as the people who now
make up these various divisions OF
our nation, should earnestly en-.
deavor to select leaders for our DIFF
feren. departments of government,
who We can set before the rising
generation, and with pride, say,
ole IS a model man, follow his
footsteps"
The one most importau, Office Of
our county, the filing of which al.
most undoubtedly depends upon
our Should be- wise decision the
r4th, inst. is the office Of County
Supt Of Schools
Let us all cudeavor to ill this
Office with a man who is competent:
man Of energy; man who has
had experience in promoting edu-
cational interests with success. a
man OF talent, man Of character.
a man Of morals and a man who
knows what it is TO make a man Of
himself, despite adverse circum
stances.
Such man which wc place be
fore the pIbIic for your voice de
cision on the I4th, INST, is in the
person of F.. K. p. Grimes.
Mr. Crimes introduced the dis.
trict Free School Commencement
in our county aud by this manage
men., carried through the first com.
mencement exercies az the little
town Of Fellowsyillc three years
ago, there being eight graduates.
For this one act alone in his
teaching career, which has created
50 much interest in the districts
which have adopted these exercises.
Mr. Grimes deserves special men.
ton
Mr. Grimes is also one Of those
Abraham Lincoln boys" who has
repealed and weuded his way
through adverse circumstance 10
what he isi so lee us as voters, pat
rons Of schools and education place
him AZ the head Of our schools for
the ensuing term
DO not only hold fast % that
which is good, but strive TO do bet
ter and in so doing we shall come
out best.
BY one interested 10 education.
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Federal Prisoners Brought Here.

From The Morgantown Chronicle
Deputy United States Marshal uupp &c.
companlsd by Winfield S.. Ki..r and Park
Reed left Morcaniown ON ihe O'Clock train
yesterday morning for Kngsood Marshal
iIapp came 20 Morgantown Thursday with
two federal variants, one t., Kig.r and ,be
other f9r Reed The w.wu'7 charged
them with an offence aEaIn.t n.s gaycmmeu,
revenue laws 10y the unlawfli retailing Of
liquors. Reeds term boo jad Expired ycster.
day, while Kiger bad been out ou a stay
bond. Both went 'n kngnaYI and we're
arragned before Commissi1usr Daley at
that place They both waived examination
and we're bound over .n $500 'Y await the
action Of The federal grand Jury which sits
az ClafMburg October p Kiger gave
security for his appearance az thar slime
Reed vas unable 90 furnish security and was
taken % the Harrison county jail. where De-
Will undoubtedly remain until the time set
for bis appearance.
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PORTLAND DISTRICT.

EDITOR ARGUs:-Thinking per-
hapS an expression from this Quarter
or rather quarter section of the
globe would not be out of place
now that the time will soon be
here when the people may again
exercise that God-given right of
voting for whom they please 10
represent then IN the different bran
ches of legislative halls, both state
and nation. In exercising this right
we hope and believe the people will
exercise good judgment and vote
for only such as will guard and
protect the interests of the masses
and not classes, as heretofore.
Vote only for such men as will vote
only for such measures best calcu-
lated to insure equali justice to all.
At the next session of our legisla-
turt a U. s. Senator is to be elected
to succeed Senator Elkins, though
Mr.. Elkins is an avowed candidate
to succeed himself and has made
the bold assertion that he was a
candidate and would be elected.
1T U. S. Senators were elected by
the people we would be inclined to
doubt this assertion from Mr.. Elk
ms, but unfortunately they are
elected by the legislature an often
weak and timid body of men, ready
at all times to do the biding of
corporate greed and graft. There
fore it behooves the people to think
we'll and long before casting their
ballot for members of the legisla.
ture. Vote for no man for the
legislature who is ready and willing
to support for u. S. Senator man
in any way connected with railroads
or other corporations. Why be so
Particular in electIng State Senators
and members Of the lower house of
our National Congress and the send
members to our legislature to elect
U. S. Senators to block all legsla.
ton in the interest Of the people.
The Preston County ] val cried
loud and long in lis efforts to defeat
Senator Montgomery for State Sena-
tor, charging that he vas the b. &
o Railroads candidate. But The
Journal is not at this time preferr-
ing any charges Of this kind against
Senator Elkins who owns railroad
and all the coal under the surface
through the county through which
his road passes. How Mr.. Elkins
will manage 20 operate his mines
and ceke ovens in connection with
bis railroad under the new railroad
rate law remains 70 be seen. But
IL again elected u. S. Senator this
dIhculty will be overcome, perhaps,
by placing some member Of his
family a the head Of his great enter
prses Yet it suerly places Mr..
Eikins in an embarrassing position
as it vii. be all IN the family. Yet
The Journal and our own dear
Governor, who but a few short
moons ago would not confer with
Mr. Elkins, which brought forth the
Dawson -Tillman correspondence,
are as silent as the grave now, when
Mr. Elkins is again asking 90 be
1OnOTcd
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-07-12

The Standard Oil Company and
the Republican campaign managers
got in their work on the railroad
rate bill in the conference COM
mittee They tried to kill the Senate
amendments to the bill which for
babe railroads to issue free passes
and also The one which divorced the
business of the common carrier
from that of the producer and
manufacturer. Read the Congress
sional Record for June a5th, from
pages 9377 to 1896.