The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-30

turers who would seek Office by un
scrupulous methods.
IT
a MENACE TO THE WHITE RACE.
Somerset county, Maryland, has had
another brutal negro crime, followed
by another brutal lynching of the me-
gro who committed IT. Chief OF Police
John II. Daugherty, OF Crisheld. had
arrested negro for selling whskcy,
and, with another officer, was proceed
ing with the prisoner to Jail. when q
negro named Reed a pal of the man
under arrest, ran into a colored bill
liard-room borrowed a. big pistol, fol-
lowed the officers Il few PAGES, then
drew his gun and shot the chief of po-
lice to death. Reed and the prisoner
both escaped, but the former was
finally caught in a boat and brought
back to the wharf. The rest Of the
story is thus related by a correspond
ent Of the Baltimore Sun:
Hundreds of people of Cristleld and
all points in the county were down
town at an early hour, waiting further
developments, when about 10 o'clock
| the vessels sgnaled that the man had
been caught. Immediately the hum
dreds of people around the docks be-
came intensely excited, and as the yes
sells neared the dock the mob set up a
howl for the prisoner The town Off
! GERS, withsa large number OF deputies,
i made an effort to secure the man as he
was landed between two other deputies
on the dock, but the mob, with cheers
/ curses and iyells, made for the man
with clubs, knives and pistols.
4 1T was seen that the officers could
not keep the prisoner from the mob
and the two deputies who had hold OF
/ shooting. The mob led the negro to,
ward the scene of the crime. but by the
time he had gone about 100 yards tho
negro was dead. The mans skull was
crushed, and he was beaten to Jelly.
/. mo masks were used, and no ono
participating In the lynching seemed tc
have any hesitancy In doing what he
did. A rope was secured and tlet
around the negroes neck, and the body
was dragged through the streets te
the scene Of his crime, and there strung
up on telephone pole, where he hung
/ for several hours.
After this the mob raided the negro
settlement and beat every negro mar
to be found.
. We pass over%the fact that by sig
mailing the fact that they had their maj
i in custody the officers invited a lynch
ing, and to all intents and purposes de
|livered the victim to the mob. The.
I knew that the negro was doomed be
fore they reached shore. and they wer
as much a party to the lynching q
4 though they had helped to club him t
i death. But that Is q matter for TIL
Maryland authorities to deal with. Th
moral Of the story is that the ba
negro is not only, menace, but (
means of demoralizing the white race
BY committing brutal crimes he in
cites the whites to infiict brutal pun
z ishment The bad negro Is like til
h negro with a case OF smallpox. Fl
carries with him a contag!on whic
is danger to allwith whom he come
Y III contact. Hence lis that The Times
Dispatch has always commended tina
the negro race will drag the whit
race down. 1t Is Inevitable.
STATES RIGHTS IN NORTH CAR
d DINA.
\ An Associated Press dispatch frol
Asheville, N. c., says that counsel 70
the railroads are preparing document
for the ultimate cons, ration, Of til
Supreme Court of the United States
which will allege that the railroad
relinquished what they regard as thel
constitutional rights under duress be
cause Of the hostility of certai.. news
I papers. the pernicious activity of Ger
tain politicians and resultant demora'i
cation among their men.
We are also informed that the rail
roads We're forged to yield because the
found determined purpose on the PAL
of every branch Of the government c
, North Carolina 10 defeat the jurisdie
ton of the Federal court and ignor
its processes, and an intention to max
this effective by calling together tn
Legislature with the avowed purpos
of enacting such laws as would max
, their suit without avail. and, as far q
/, possible, render impracticable an efic
ent or remuneratiye operation of the
), property. Al the same time, the raj