Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-02-24
True to Their Oath
The Campaign 10 Make America Catholic
and Suppress Free Speech Inchfates Murder

which The Menace is going tc
speak was given to the world on
the morning OF the 4th instant by
the Associated Press in about the
following fashion:
Marshall, Tex, Feb. 8.-Will-
lam Black, travelling lecturer, and
John Rogers, a contractor, are
dead and John Copeland, cashier
of a bank here, is not expected to
live as result Of q shooting af-
fray here early tonight in Black 9
room at a hotel.
This, in fact, was the dispatch
that attracted the attention of the
writer early Thursday morning
aud the dispatch that caused him
to take the first trs in for Marshall !
iii order that the whole truth in
the case might be sscertained.
The press dispatch quoted abov+.
tells the story so far as the Tar,
facts are concerned. You can
tell from this dispatch that twc
men are dead and another NOR
tally wounded. Ycu even know
who the u:.a arc, and what their
oocupatioi : s:,. BAT further than
shat a waiting wo.,d must be left
in darkness.
Practically every daily news
paper in the country carried tnle
dispatch. The managing editor
of every paper that handled the
Dispatch knew the significance of
it, he knew the details, but be
didn't dare give the M to his read.
ars
Why?
Bsos use he is in the same danger
that William Black was in when
he went to Marshall. Not because
he is in a Roman Catholic COM
munity, necessarily, but because
Roman Catholics are there, just
as they we're, and are, in Marshall.
Not many. but a few, enough to
bluff, bullyrag. boycott and init.
midate. A half dozen Knights of
Columbus can make life miserab BILE
for a thousand decent men who
went to obey the law and do the
right thing
William Black went to Mar
shall on the afternoon of Febru.
ary 2ud.
The county court house was 90.
cured, and on Tuesday night be
gave lecture en- Romanism, the
very kind of q lecture that I would
give, or that any other man would
give that knew what he was talk.
ing about.
He advertised that he would
lecture Wednesday night.
He supposed that he would lee
ture Wednesday night.
He presumed that the Constitu
tion of the United States mean
what it says when it employs thi
language: Congress shall MAKE
no law respecting an establish.
msut of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; O.
abridging the freedom of speech
or the press; or the right of tn
people psaceably to assemble, ant
to petition the government for
redress Of grievance"
Aud he had no reason to believ
yhat the people of Marshall. Tex
80, would violate the Constitution
Of the United States.
| And che real people of Marshal
have no desire to do this, for be
understood that with the exoep
tion of the few Roman Catholi
thugs shat inhabit the place it i
a clean town, a good town, one o
che best in the country.
Anyway. on Wednesday even
ing MIR. Black, Mr.. G. F. Hall an
Mis- Sadie Black. adopted daugh
ter of William Black, went on
for a short walk about town.
They returned to the Hote
Marshall, OF the southeast co1ne
of the square, about six O'Clock
five.ffty-five. to be exact, an
took the elevator for their room
on the second floor of the hote]
rooms 1903, 104 and los.
The evidence which has alread
bsen developed in the preliminar
hearing, and which we have
right to print, shows that as the
started down the hall of the hote
to tb ir rooms they observed tw
men talking; that further dow
tho haU thav naaaad two otha