The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-04-09
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6Ul UUl ANU SAfE
George H. Brennan presents at
lat Grand Wednesday night, ..frhe
clansman,'' an American play BY
lThonas Dixon, Jr., from his two
famous novels, "The Leopard's
Spots and "The ClansmaB.s
"Thcre is a physical difference le-
tween the white and black "a .es
which viii forever forbit them liy-
ling together on terms of social and
political equality, said Abraham
Lincoln.
Following il the cast Of The rlal
in The order they first speak
Rev. Ephriain Fox. a negro eS-
horter .... Charles johnson
Dick, dark-skinned white man
....-.......... Samuel liyams
Alcck, the Sheriff. OF Ulster .ss
......... John B. IIymer
Nelse, an old-fashioned negro.
..... Dewitt G. Jennings
Carpetbagger a peddler and apc-
tieneer ..... George B. jackson
Thompson, a Southern planter. ),
.s.,.,..... A. Fl. Synlmons
Judge Wallace, Of the old regime
i. r. Miller
Gus, of the Black Guards ....
.......... Joseph Woodburn
Eve, Nelse's wife ......
.. Mrs. Cllas. G. Craig
Austin Stoneman, the Radical
leader ........... NJ. ]. Jorian
DR.. Richard Cameron, a Gonserva-
tive go. Joseph Whcelock, Sr.
Flora, his little daugher ......
....... Little Francis Shannon
Nellie Graham, a daughter of the
South .... Aileen Goodwin
Alice Worth, Nellie's friend
...........-s-... Ruth Hart.
Elsie, old Stoneman's daughter
........v Georgia Welics
Helen Lowell, EIsie's schoolmate
......... Grena Bennett
The PostmaR -....,.s.e. j. Karl
Ben Cameron, the Clansman
.............syd Sydney Ayres
Silas Lynch. T4ieut.-Goy. Of
South Carolina -. Austin Webb
Freedman's Bureau Agent 80.
Observation-Disclosures. G. Murphy
Negro Corporal. Joseph Woodbufn
Mr.. Pitt Shrimp, Governor Of
South Carolina Mtrry Woods,
Jake, the Auctioneer's clerk -. g
............ William Alton
Gen. \. B. Forrest, Grand Wizard
of the Klan James J. Ryan
The United States Commissioner
................ John Nichols
Citizens. Soldiers, Black Leagucrs,
Clansmen, etc.
Truth is stranger than fiction
Conditions out Of which grew the
Ku Klux Klan:
On November %. 1867, the neg
rocs of South Carolina were allow
ed to vote on the same day 10 en-
franchise themselves and to disfran-
ehise their former masters o: the
race whose genius created tic
American Republic. Social equal
itv was boldly proclaimed. The
Commander Of the Carolinas issued
from Charleston a proclamation re-
|pealing the laws of marriage, and
promised bayonets 10 protect bi,lc6s
in intermarrymg with whites. Neg
rocs filled the office of Lieutenant-
Governor, State Treasurer and
Judge Of the Supreme Court. The
Legislature was composed of nine
ly-fom negroes and tweny-thrcc
white men. The Speaker of The
House was a negro. the Clerk a
negro, the Chaplain a negro, the
aoorkccpers and pages all negroes.
The Governor, an ex-conyict, was a
white scalawag. lower than his black
associates. Millions in taxes were
voted and stolen. In collecting
these taxes as many at 1900 homes
were executed and sold BY the sheriff
IN single county. A negro militia
If 10000 men paraded over thc.
State. and no white was was allowed
to bear arms.
The leader Of the Government in
Congress. a man Of daring genius.
was pressing a measure (House Bill
No. 29l 10 confscatc The land of
he South and give it 70 the negroes.
On the promise of this land. a sec
ret oathbound league was formed, in
10 which the negroes were all gath
cred. taught, drilled and armed.
Out of these conditions grex the
Ku Klux Kim. In 1870 the KIan
overturned the negro regime in six