The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-29
Race Rlats at Atlanta.


A deplorable outbreak of mob vio-
lence occurred in the city Of Atlanta,
| Ca, last Saturday night, resulting in
the killing of about a dozen negroes
and the wounding of several times
that many by crowds OF infuriated
white men. The immediate cause of
| the rioting was the commission OF
criminal assault upon three white
women by negroes in different parts Of
the city, shortly after 8 O'Clock. Extra
editions Of the newspapers were issued
containing sensational accounts OF the
assaults, and emphasizing the fact that
no less than twelve such crimes had
been perpetrate within the preceding
two months. Great excitement ensued
and popular resentment found vent in
the formation Of mobs, composed
mostly of very young men, who pur-
found. None of the victims Of this
way with the crimes that provoked
rioting, and the familiar spectacle was
| thus presented of the avenging of one
wrong by committing another almost
as heinous.
Gov. Terrell called out the state mi
litia to aid the municipal authorities
in restoring order, and the law abid-
| ing people of the city assembled in
mass meeting to denounce the course
Of the rioters and pledge assistance in
maintaining peace, protecting life and
property and providing relief for the
| families of the MODS victims. These
measures were effective in suppressing
| the disturbance, but the saloons of
! the city will be kept closed until Mon
day next as a precaution against q
recurrence of the trouble.
| While such outbreaks are lament
| able in the extreme and cannot be too
severely reprobated and condemned,
| it may be regarded as inevitable that
| they will continue to occur whenever
J and wherever the kind Of crime that
| provoked ID" Atlanta emeute becomes
prevalent. The colored people can
| probably do more for their own safety
| and protection in this matter than all
| the powers of the law can do for them.
II they will combine to make war upon
the idle and vicious of their race, and
to ferret out. capture and bring to
punishment the bestial negroes who
are guilty of this nameless and in
| tolerable offense, instead Of harbor-
| ing the brutes and aiding them to
escape as is too often done, lynchings
and mob murders will correspondingly
decrease, and much of the prejudice
and bad blood existing between the
races to the detriment of both will be
extirpated.
The Republicans and Democrats of
New York held their state conventions
this week, the former at Saratoga and
the latter at Buffalo. The Republican
gathering was entirely harmonious
and nomin ated it's candidate for gov
| ernor by reclamation, the man thus
| honored/ being Charles E. Hughes,
chairman Of the famous Hughes in
vestigating committee that exposed
4 the great life insurance Irregularities
| in New York and caused a organi-
panies. The Democratic convention
was the scene Of a hot fight for con
| troll of the party machinery, and the
victory of the Hearst-Tammany COM
bine is bitterly resented by many
prominent and influential delegates.
| William r. Hearst, the eminent yell
| low journalist, was nominated for
governor, but it is doubtful if he will
come within 100000 votes OF an cleo
| ton in November.
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