The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-08-05
SENATOR FROM
GEORGIA MAKES
NEW DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, u. (, July 10
"There is more lawlessness i'll the cit
OF New York in one week than Their
is in the state Of Georgia in year,
declared Senator Harris, Democrat
Georgia, his afternoon when the mat
ter eff lynchings came up in the Sen
ete. He cited a few instances but die
not go into details.
The trouble started when Calder
Republican, New York, inserted in thu
record a newspaper account Of the re-
cent lynching in Wayne County, Ga.
of two negroes under sentence Of
death who had been respited by Gov
Hardwick. Senators Harris of Geor-
gia, Dial of South Caroline and
Shields of Tennessee, resented the ac-
ton of the New York senator.
Senator Harris said insertion OF such
a story was an attempt to exaggerate
1awlessness in the South. Reading
IRON a New York newspaper OF today,
Harris recited a few OF the crimes
committed in that city within the past
few hours, including the murders OF d
12-year-old child, an Italian, a Jew
This was but partial list, he said.
and the daily list OF crime in New
York, including murders and holdups
was too long for the record.
Let South Solve Question
"The south should be left alone TO
settle its negro question. 1t IS doing
the very best it can and interference
from outside will not help. The good
people OF the South and Georgia de
piore lynchings, Just as the good peo-
pie OF other states deplore them.
Many negroes have gone north and
received treatment different from what
they have expected. Some OF them
have returned and said they suffered
more in the north than in the south
and have been glad to come back home
where they are well treated. Negroes
who come north expecting preferential
treatment and employment have been
disappointed"
Harris was resentful because Soma
tor Calder had inserted the newspaper
story in the Record while both Scna-
tors Harris and Watson of Georgia
were absent from the chamber.
This story said Governor Hardwick
had offered a high reward for the
lynchers and was determined to break
up lynching.
mo Room to Talk
Every Georgia governor that
have ever known. including the pres
ent one,p said Senator Harris. has de-
preciated lynching. But with the rec
ord he "a Il.
tor from New York ought not to raise
a sectional issue here. So long as /
am IN the Senate l will never raise a
sectional issue, arraigning north
against south or east against west for
this is one country and we all fought
together to make it the greatest in the
world"
Senator Shields interjected with the
statement that Senator Calder had no.
mentioned lawlessness in the north.
He did not say anything about the
recent terrible massacre OF miners At
Herrin, ILL.,, almost in the shadow OF
the city hall of Chicago" exclaimed
Senator Shields. I'VE do not know
how many were killed. It runs any
where from Is to 40, according to ac-
count but we know that 10 unidenti-
hed miners were buried after the mas
sacre
Herrin an Awful Massacre
These men who were lvnched had
committed no crime. They were
lynched after they had surrendered
and raised the white flag. It was a
horrible massacre. Even a crippled
foreman, who could mt run, was club
bed and beaten. And that was out
near Chicago and the local authorities
have done nothing about it and are
not trying TO punish the 1ynchers. Il
is to the credit of the attorney general
of Illinois that in the past day or so
he has started an investigation. The
city council and sheriff at Herrin have
ignored this awful affair and refused
TO act against this mob, which IS re-
ported to have represented 5000 per-
sons
Senator Dali of South Carolina said
Senator Calder had put into the record
story about a Georgia lynching, when
neither OF the senators from that state
was present to reply immediately.
Senator Harris took the floor as soon
as be heard Of it.
viii Object to All Such Matter
u started to object myself" said
Senator Dial. but the article having
no reference to South Carolina, I did
not.
II do not approve Of 1ynching either
north or south, but no section OF the
country has any advantage over an
other section when we come to CON
slider lawless acts in the United States.
There is too much 1awlessness every
where.
q serve notice I am going to object
from now on to much of this matter
such as the senator from New Yorl;
inserted in the Record. We are about
70 make a yellow journal out Of it.
7 am going to object here TO such
matter and have here an official pub
LEGATION representing the best senti-
ment Of the Senate and not have in
the Record what any muckraker may
say of some particular section of this
country"
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