Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-06-08
DAMNABLE WHITE WHELPS


cSm of the cowardly whelps of the South
who lynch coored women, was too severe
and became SO incensed at what it said
that they ordered their papers discontinued
but if they thought what we said was too
severe. listen to what papers published by
white men and in the South at that. have
to say on the subject:
''The augusta. Ga) Chronicle need
waste no words in expressing it's horror of
of the detestabe and cowardIy attack com
mitted by party of Lowndes County out
laws. who. on Sunday afternoon last, took
from her home wOman-whOse husband
had been lynchcd the night before-hanged
her to a tree and riddled her body with
bullets, because, forsooth, she had made I'M
wise remarks about the unlawful killing of
her husband.
"AlI civilized people must stand aghast
at such a crime, and who does not is at
heart a criminal and a coward. SO much,
then, for this crime against the State of
Georgia, against society. against humanity
and against God.
"'I'he only thing worth discussing, in view
of all the condemnation that similar crimes
and lynching in general have received from
the right-thnking press and people of this
and all other states-in which The Chronicle
has. heretofore. performed it's full duty to
the public, when some others faed-the
only thing worth discussing now, we say, is
what is the State of Georgia going to do
about it?
''Frst of all, what is the governor of
Georgia going to do? For, of all the COVER
nors who have served Georgia since the war
Or since lynching became a more or less,
popular pastime in this State-it will seem
to most people that he is more obligated.
if that be possible, to put down lynching
than any of his predecessors.
''For we cannot forget that Governor
Dorsey was swept into the governors chair
by the lynching sentiment of the State Not
meaning of course, that all the people who
voted for him were lynchers in practice or
sentiment but saying and meaning that
without this sentiment back of him, he
might still be solcitor-general of the Attain
ia circuit.
''We cannot forget, nor can it be Denied
that his elevation to the gOvernOrship was
the direct and immediate result of the Leo
Frank lynching
'NOr can we get away from the fact,
that. following this upheaval of lawless SEN
timent. lynchng followed ]ynching in this
State-until Georgia soon won. and has held
ever since the lynching record of the cOun-
try
''And right here, it may be recalled that
this is not the first time a Negro woman
has been lynched in Georgia: another case
of very recent time being the cruel and
cowardly lynchng of Negro mother at. or
near. Leary, Ga for committing the horrible
crime of trying to protect her son from an
unmerciful beating.
''rhis and scores upon scores of other
lynchings that have occurred in this State
within recent years have gone absolutely
unpublished. A protest from the press, an
expression of disapproval, here and there.
from the public, the perfunctory offering of
rewards for the understand there was an
end to it,
''Not single individual has been made
to pay the penalty for these crimes. Not
serious effort has been made to apprehend
and punish the perpetrators of them.
SIS it any wonder. misunderstanding that
men can be found who are so cowardly and
inhuman to take part in such outrages-
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