The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-01-01
Victor B. Cheshire
Discusses Fair Play Killings

| women and girls Of the superior race,
there Is bound to be q reckoning
| and q severe one.
To my mind, the patience Of ; the
Southern people up TO date Is q mat
ter OF the most utmost astonishmcnt.
Another thing adding to the serious
ness Of the situation is the action OF
certain class Of alieg(l white men
and women In widely scattered dis
tricts. For some unaccountable rea-
son. Los Angeles, California, seems
coon-crazy. Men and women claiming
to be white, think much more OF d
big buck corn-field niger than they
do OF white man. It must be the
smell. In order to give the readers
OF The Intelligencer some idea OF
conditions in that city, reproduce two
recent dispatches sent out to the news
papers. Here Is the first one, dated
March 8:
Convicted OF robbery for having
stolen kiss from white girl, Chas.
H. Guyton. a young negro, was sem
fenced today to thirty years in Folsom
prison by Judge Willis of the criminal
department OF the superior court. The
charge on which the negro was tried.
alleged that he held up Miss Daisy
Stagwell and relieved her OF q dime
all the money she possessed. Then he
compelled her, under threats OF death,
to Kiss him, after which he gave her
ten cents back. Guyton was alleged
to have subjected six other white girls
to similar treatment. When he pfeafie
ed for probation, today for the sake or
his wife aud children, Judge willis
!! cut him short with the declaration
that such q man was too dangerous to
be allowed at large: -
u That sounds quite patpral, but X 1t
had been in South Carolina or Aader-.
son county. the officers would havo
had to hide their prisoner out, or some
one would have Cleaned his plow',
before he ever got to Jail. But listen!
hold your breath-and also your nose:
! LOS Angeles, March 4.-ProteBts
threats Of recall and denunciation
poured In today upon Judge Willis of
the criminal department OF the super
tOr court because Of his action yes.
+ terday In sentencing to thirty years
imprisonment. Charles H. Guyton, a
young negro convicted of highway
= robbery, though his only loot was q
white girls kiss. Deputations of white
:, women visited the judge today to de-
mand that action be taken to :: save
/. Guyton from such severe punishment:
Telephone messages informed that
petitions were being prepared for fiis
recall Other, white womeh called, IN
J person to, say that steps would be
p taken to. procure. o pardon from the
governor. Judge. willis explained that
t%ae negro had been convicted Of high
I way, robbery, !, He had taken n l., dime
from the white girl, although ,he, gave
1t back after he had kissed her, ,and
"She had subjected six other white garIs
!. to similar treatment, besides criminal,
,l.ly attacking two negro girls. One dee
I putation of white. women visited the
!, district attorney to learn what proce.
duTe.. was, Esees5ary. 70 impeach the
! judge or otherwise remove him; from
Office" - ~, y r. 4. e..ia, :,.,s ~
What kind OF class OF white, women
were they who went In crowls tu
Judge Willis beyeeching and threaten
ing him for giving the limit to this
i miserable lecherous African who went
! over, the city giving foulest Insults
to decent young girts7 It 1t possible
that this black Romeo is, the caly
coon In Los Angeles, and that white
women are hanging round ON the cor
! ners waiting to be insuited by this
i tsweet-scented scion OF Senegamhion
ancestry? Are niggers 30 rare In Los
Angeles that their white !. admirers
cannot afford to lose one to the peni-
tentihry for 30 minutes, much less 80
years II 30. some eflterprtsing South
| Caroifnian ought TO forn& up q cat