The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20

here &lOtheT accourW % him. AhlS D III
the nature % an aaterview with hem, and
il comes from newspaper. the reliable
ity of which can noe be questioned, |
imagine. for @ is taken froinNthe Hs1s-
ION Post, of Texas of the 24t1 Of De
cember. IoodGI gead as follows:
aang4I Captain McDinald-He Is Per-
fectly Willing to Be Cross-Exam-
intd by Foraker - Story of the
Brownsville Raid and Why Major
Blocksom Formed His Opinion.
Mcdonald Accused Major Penrose
of Being all Accessory After the
Fact to the Brownsville Outrage.
Some Things That Have not Here
tofore Been Published.
Captain of Rangers William J. Nc
Donald spent last night in Houston en-
route to jacksonville, where he has bus
mess that demands his attention. As
usual, the captain is going Squirrel
hunting In other words, the captain S
business is no one else's business. He
doesn't talk much. He simply acts when
the time comes.
Foraker doesn't seem to know much
about the Rangers of Texas, captain,
suggested the Post man last night at the
Rice hotel
What is that fellow jumping on me
for, anyway? I haven't done anything to
him. | could tell him who the Rangers
are and what they are for, though. |
could tell him that the Rangers are the
fellows that bring the scalawags and ras-
Gals that he is trying to defend to jus
tice. When the Rangers get hold of
them, and they generally get hold of
them when they start after then-they
may stand hitched We had those ne
groes down there at Brownsville, and we
were making them stand hitched. They
would have been hitched yet If the mat
ted had not assumed new phase, over
which we had no control. Now, | don't
care to break into the limelight, but if
Foraker is anxious to put questions to
me concerning the Brownsville affair,
will not dodge the issue.
When Major Blocksom suggested that
Captain Mcdonald would charge hell
with one bucket of water there is no
doubt but he meant Just what he said.
Foraker, however, seized upon this and
used it with derision in his address.
Major Blocksom had every reason to be-
lieve that Captain Mcdonald was not
afraid of whole regiment of soldiers.
The captains actions at Fort Brown be-
fore the officers and the soldiers demon
strated that he was able to take care of
himself. even though many loaded guns
were aimed at him.
Now follows the account:
HOW, MCDONALD FOUND
BROWNSVILLE.
The captain was in Dallas filling the
position of sergeant-at-arms for the
Democratic convention when the outrage
was committed at Brownsville. 1t was
ten days after this that he arrived at
Brownsville, and he went to work at
once.
| think that should be two days.
The whole populace was in a state of
uproar. The soldiers on the inside of
the fort were on guard with their fire
arms loaded, and feared lest the people
of the city make an assault upon the
fort, while the people of the city,
wrought up TO the pitch of desperation
and ready to fight, nevertheless were IN
a state of fear-lest the soldiers inside the
fort should make another onslaught upon
the town
When Captain Mcdonald, with his
trusted sergeant, McCauley, arrived they
went quietly to. work gathering evidence.
They did not go directly to the fort, but
finding an ex-soldier who knew some
thing OF. the assault made by the ne
groes, got from him all he knew.
He was one of the twelve men caused
to be arrested by Captain Mcdonald,
who was afterwards acquitted by the
grand jury.
The captain and his sergeant then
went to the fort On the way the clti-
zens met them and warned them that
the would never ret back alive if they
entered the FORT that the negro sol
diers would Kill them.
HOW HE TALKED TO THE NE
GROES.
As they entered about twenty negroes
leveled their guns at them and demand
ed that they halt They did not halt, but
kept moving toward the negro soldiers
and their aimed guns. The captain was
uoiuS SoHlC tdihiliS iilCdliNIuC. TIC ldIk-
ed to them like he would talk to a ne
gro, and told them what kind of stunts
he would have them doing if they didn't
put up their guns, and they put up their
guns.
I'm Captain Mcdonald of the Texas
Rangers. I've come down here 10 inves-
tigate you black scoundrels. If you make
a move with those guns I'll show you
how to make kirky fur fly. Where is
Major Penrose?"
lnvoluntarily the hands of most of the
negroes went to their hats. There was
a ring in the captains voice that they
did not mistake. That ring carried time
backward inGts flight more than forty
years. 1t was not United States soldiers
standing menacino'v over a civilian. 1t
was negroes-the old time plantation ne
groes-in the presence Of a Southern
gentleman.
"Yes, sir, cap'n; yes, sir. Majah PEN
rose he ovah dar in his house"
@One OF you black scoundrels show me
to him."
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