The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-30
!. Victor B. Cheshifg
Discusses Fair Play Killings

amiss to state, j. q very shrewd ne
gro, has sfnrS made the Fair Play
section hjs home ana is said to own
considerable properly. During all
these years Parker has devoted much
time to stirring up trouble between tho
races and ill-advising HIS race. He Is
still living and We are, informed by
honorable white men of that section
that the recent trouble WAS the result
of Parker's teachings. One Of Park
er's ~lieutenants, Green Gibson, who
together with two OF his sons, was
among those put out OF the way in
the recent trouble. Gibson has long
been a terror in the Fair Play section
Is the report Of white men Of that sec
ton. At different times he is said to
have run out OF that section three
white families. It was Green Gibson,
with the assistance Of his two sons,
who interfered with the whipping of
Tom Spight and who later from ann
bush fired on the white men, result
ing in the injury Of four Of them, and
later resulting in their own deaths.
Tim Spights, the negro they were at
tempting to rescue, was a dangerous
negro. He had frequently been In trou-
BILE and only O few months ago at
tempted TO shoot the deputy sheriff OF
Anderson county and would have done
SO but for that officers quickness in
drawing his W pistol. Before going
to Fair Play some months ago, Spight
lived ct Bolton. end we are told by Bel
tons mayor and other honorable citi-
zens OF that town, that Spight was
considered r. dangerous negro. 1t was
for some crime he had committed at
Bolton that he was paid put by Mr..
Woodrow Campbell and carried to Fair
Play and 1t was for attempting to Get
fire to Mr.. Campbell's barn that he was
whipped. This is the kind OF negro
that Lieut." Green Gibson would res
cue and for which he and his sons
forfeited their lives for their trouble.
! So much for the main facts in the
recent race war;, I will 60 back to
the cause: Now that Green Gibson
and two Of his scholars (his sons)
have been put ont of the way, the
white people OF that section should
see to 1t that the other ..leaders'' dis
| continue their practice OF giving bad
advice to their own race, and IL there
are any whites .ho would commune"
with the blacks, advise them that the
farther North they 60, the healthier
the climate. When ] find q white man
that admits that he Is no better than
a negro, I simply take his word for
1t, and feel sorry for the COON.
Throughout oil the south you find
that ths very best white element treats
the negro welt--not as an equal, but
as a negro. The negro In the South
thoroughly understands this and ex-
poets nothing else. But the negro race
us cursed with q large per cent OF
worthless. indeient and vicious mem-
Bers and Il IL this element that produce
ed all the friction between the races.
Eliminate the n~egro-ioying whites and
tho vicious blacks and the race prob
lem would be settled. ] merely mem
ton this proposition as a fact, but at
the same time realize that II will new
er be accomplished. Therefore. pres
emit conditions r going to remain un-
til IL is fint1ly settled-wtich It will be.
by n of the three NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ton. extermination or amalgamation.
The frat is possib1s.
The second. probEibie.
The last. uniEnSsinabie by 8 white
man. unitbs ne Inns fallen far 5oiuT
the level OF the meanest OF. his race.
That the solution OF sthe problem IL
rapidly drawing near. / firmly believe.
AlseaSy In numerous parts OF tie