The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-04-26
Nashville, Tenn. April 26, '1S
ANOTHER LYNCHING.

own in Henderson County the
other day, an alleged Negro bootlegger
shot and killed the sheriff of the
County while evading arrest The
Negro was captured and the usual
result followed
me Globe has always stood for law
and order, has no words of commenda-
tion for those who violate the laws of
the land The murderer of the sheriff
committed a most heinous crime. and
hout any doubt would have been
adequately punished had the law been
allowed its sway. No sane man be.
otherwise. Those men who
strung the criminal up and afterwards
the body, are guilty of murder
lust as guilty as the Negro who so
wantonly murdered the sheriff. Ten.
nessees best citizenship, is sorry the
affair happened This makes the
fourth Negro to be burned in the
state in a short period of time. Well,
what is going to be done about it?
The Nashville Banner Comments As
Follows:
The lynching of the Negro murder.
er of Sheriff Mcbride at Lexington
lacked some Of the brutal and bar.
, barrie features that have characterize
ed other lynchings in the state with
in the last year nut it none the less
cverthrew the law and was a resor! TO
mob violence that for no reason should
occur in a well ordered common
wealth and among a people claiming
advanced civilization.
The state demeaDs and Injuries it.
self by permitting these frequent ex-
hibitions of outlawry and they do no
good toward checking crime They
increase and acerbate the feeling of
race antipathy; they create a demon
allied sentiment that defies and lowers
regard for law and brings authority
into contempt. 1t furthermore en-
cOurages the lawless spirit that exists
in every community and that with
out the restraint are likely to revert
to primitive conditions, and indulge
the love of man hunt" and savage
cruelty such as existed in barbaric
times, before law was constituted.
Law and the authority constituted
by the law must be supreme to com
mand respect and when there are fire.
quent lynchings law loses public
respect and authority becomes sub
ject to contempt md derision.
The white men make and admins
ter the law in Tennessee and are
jealous of that assumed prerogative.
TO make it secure they should not
themselves throw the law into con.
tempt and go in the face of the authOri
ty they have provided for its enforce
ment. To keep down criticism and
troublesome renewal Of the race ques
ton the white people Of the South
should be especially careful and zeal
Gus in upholding the law in respect
to Negro criminals in order to give
support to the contention for white
supremacy.
The lynching practice makes lsh-
maelites Of Negroes. 1t creates among
them a hatred and resentment towards
the whites that would not otherwise
exist and increases their criminal pro
pensities.
But aside from all this, the state
should not be disgraced and civilized
sentiment outraged by repeated occur
rences of this kind
lynching at Lexington like tina
at Estell Springs and the one neal
Memphis all occurring within a years.
time, could have been prevented by
proper exercise of executive authori
ty. They all had previous advertise
ment. There were at least abundant
indications that mob violence was i'm
minent and there is no record tina
the executive authority in the stat,
made any sort of effort to prevent it
consummation.
This statement is made with regTe