The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-03
(The State.)

At the time that the newspaper
magazine mob of the North was as
sailing the cor~ts of Georgia, which
had been sustained by the courts of
the United States with a success tina.
later melted group of Georgia ruff
fans to rescue and murder a prison
er that the first mob had rescued
from the courts, a South Carolina
sheriff and his posse having custody
of a negro guilty of the "nameless
crime" were attacked by four or five
members of the family of the negro's
victim: After the prisoner, the sher-
iff, debuty and one of the assail-
ants had been mortally wounded, the
sheriff bore the wounded negro in
his arms up the court house steps
and laid him before the bar of JUS
tice. That might the sheriff died,
Next moring, two or three leading
newspapers of South Carolina pro-
posed that a monument to sheriff
Hood be erected.
AT the same moment, Northern
newspapers that were printing four
or five columns a day about the At
lanta case had not an inch to give
to the Winnsboro case.
The Tribune, of Chicago, con-
the far-flung assault on the Georgia
courts whereby respect for law in
Georgia was inevitably undermined.
lecturing the South.
what the South needs is tongue.
iashing and a continued tongue-lash-
ing of the most violent kind. 1t
needs to be isolated from the respect
of the nation which is compromised
by the acts it defends. We do not
say that the North is free from the
for every one exhibited in the South.
We know it is not true. The North
is able to show an act of violence
for evry one exhibited in the South.
but the North does not condone tneuI
nor defend them and it does endeayor
to get at the causes that produce
them"
What Southern newspapers defends
or condones lynchinc? What South
ern newspaper neglects to condemn
it?
II The Tribune point to certain
mouthing Southern politicians, dare
1T proclaim that no Chicago politi-
clan ever raised himself to power bv
partnership with vice-by financing
ms campaigns out of the profits of
the Whlte Slave traffic?
Who is the more dangerous. the
blatant, vulgar defender of lynchine
or the SNUG, silent, fat-necked Con-
gresham or Governor ruling a great
Northern State throuh great
Northern city with the money of
shame? u
Yes, the South is cursed by poll
tlcans who defend violence and thew
are as representative as thug noli-
tlcans (Whose methods are less noisy
and more efficiently are representative
of Chicago.
The Southern press and the great
majority of Southern public men
nave struggle and striven for wears
and decades to strengthen RESPECT
FOX LAW in the South. Lack of it
Is the great affliction-of the South
and of the United dStates. Then. when
the Georgia courts condemned a
whlte man to death on the testimony
OF negro, it was the enlightened. the
cultured. the wealthy North that
turned against us and BETRAYED us
That struck down the courts and
armed the lynchers with defensive
argument. So this newspaper warned
long ago. foreseeing the daner.
The same tremendous efforts for
CHARLES Becker, outside of New York
would probably have saved him from
the chair; newspaper defense of his
crime would have been easier than
the Atlanta case.
The "Thou also" argument is usu-
ally futile but sometimes the provo
cation compels it. In South Carolina