Phoenix tribune., 1919-08-09
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL
ENDORSES ANTI
LYNCH|NG MEASURE
Especial to the Tribune)

NEW YORK, Aug. demand for
an investigation by Congress. of mob
violence and lynching in the United
States is made in Jan address to the
nation signed by $50 citizens through
out the country, including ex-Presi-
dent Taft, Attorney General A. Mitch
eli Palmer, DR.. Henry Van Dyke, the
governors of seven states, including
Governor A. H. Roberts of Tennessee,
every living ex-attorney general of the
United States, the heads of California,
Illinois, Princeton, Western Reserve.
Fisk and Vanderbilt universities,
Charles w. Eliot, Elihu Root, Charles
Evans Hughes, J. R. Bingham Of Mis-.
sissippi. and Senator Arthur Capper
of Kansas.
The address to the nation is an out
come of the National Conference on
Lynching which was held in New York
city May and last. -
"The people of the United States
suffer justly under the grievous
charge that they continue to tolerate
mob murder" says the address. in
the year 1918 no less than 67 persons
were done to death without trial or
any process of law, having been de-
MED the right to day in court ac-
corded by the federal and state con.
stitutions to all citizens.
1T is we'll known that the innocent
with the guilty suffer the cruel in.
flictions of mob violence. Mobs have
even invaded court rooms and prisons
to seize and murder prisoners whose
punishment had already been fixed.
Early in 1919, hospital was invaded
by mob, and the attack resulted in
death from shock of a patient that day
operated upon.
Patriotic citizens throughout the
country feel the shame which lynch
ings cast upon the nation, but they
have assumed partial responsibility
for this shame by their silence and
their acquiescence. The time has now
come when citizens of the United
States can no longer contemplate
without protest the setting at nought
of the fundamental principles upon
which their citizenship is based.
THE undersigned, therefore, as citi-
zens of the United States, without Sec
tional or party bias, with the interest
only of the Republic at heart, urge all
public-spirited men and women to OPP
pose with all their power the recur-
| renee of the crime and the shame Of
mob murder. they urge the governors
OF the several states to do all that is
possible to prevent and punish lynch
ing; they pledge their support to the
officers of the law who. in the face of
mob excitement, discharge their du.
ties; and they urge upon the Congress
of the United States nationwide in
vestigation of lynching and mob mur.
der to the end that means may be
found to end this scourge"
Among the southern signers of the
address are Charles j. Bonaparte of
Maryland, former attorney general of
the United States; George M. Bailey.
editor of the Houston Post; William
M. Hunley of Lexington. Va, secre-
, tary Southern Race Commission; Will
lam S. Sutton. dean of department of
education of the University of Texas.
Among the signers from New York
are the editors of the Evening Post,
the Independent, the Public, the New
York Age, the New Republic, the Ma,
ton. the Survey. the Crisis, the pub.
Usher of the New York Times, and
the presidents of the Bar and Mer-
chants associations
Thomas E. Campbell, governor. of
Arizona, is one of the western signers
Of the address.