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VOL. X V j j3A N NENG,2S. C., WE DNESDAY. SEPT. NO. TURKISH ASSASSIN Shoots to Death the United States Consul at Beirut. OUR GOVERNMENT DEMANDED Imru edijate lieparatiiiora Fromu 'Turkey t'or the Cuinue and Will Send War Vessels to the .Scti a( Once. The State Department at Washing ton received a cablegram on Thurs day from Minister Leishman at Cou stantinople announcing that William C. Magelssen, United States vice con sul at Beirut, Syria. was assassinate d Sunday while riding in a carriage The American minister immediately brought the crime to the attention of the government and demanded action by Turkey. Actingr Secretary Loonis cabled Minister Leishman instructing him to demand the immediate arrest and punishment of the persons guilty of the murder. No demand for money indemnity for the man's family has yet, been made. but that probably will follow. Minister Leishman's cable gram was dated Thursday and stated that the assassination occurred Sun day, the minister bein.: informed of the crime iy Consul Ravucdal. The consul stated that the murderer was not seen and is not known. NO PARTICULARS YET. The announcement of the sass nation or the American vice consul, following so soon upon the assassina tion of a Russian consul in Turkey. created stron- comment in oticial circles and the sug;:estion was made that sucu frequet aasssinations in dicate the disturbed c ndition of affairs in the Turkish dominations. Minister Leishman gave no particu lars of the assassination and the state department has no information as to the cause of the murder. The Ameri can government will insist that the local authorities be punished if thcy were derelict in their duty and that full measure of punishment be given the actual perpetrators of the outrage. Beirut is a city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean sea and is a place of considerable commercial im portance. PROM1"T AND VIGOROUS ACTION. Prompt and vigorous action is be ing taken by the United States goveru ment to secure the punishment of those persons implicated in the assassination. Minister Lieshman, at Constantinople. who reported the fact to the state department. has been in structed by the state department tu demand a thorough investigation of the affair and the punislmentof those invclved in the crime and the Euro pean squadron, consisting of three warships, has been ordered to proceed immediately to Beirut to support the dem.nds of the United State minister should this be found necessary. The determination to lose no time in getting the squadron to Beirut was also due in part to information receiv ed by acting Secretary Loomis of the state department Thursday night from the president of the American Board of Missions at Boston indicating that an attempt had been made to burn the Euphrates college buildings at Hiarpoot. This dispatch said: "Information just received that an attempt has been made to burn the Euphrates college buildings. Condi tions increasingly alarming. Great anxiety felt for the safety of Ameri can citizens there." sAILED AT ONCE. Acting Secretary Loomis cabled to Minister Leishman at Constantinople to make immediate demands on the porte to take adequate measures for the protection of all Americans at Beirut and to prevent any attack on the col lege buildings. Admiral Cotton, who was directed to hold his squadron in rediness to proceed at a moment's no tice to Beirut cabled the navy depart ment as follows, under date of Nice. France: "Cable just received. Machias at Genoa for coal. Brooklyn has seven days, San Francisco six and a half days coal at ten nots. Cannot exceed that speed with Mlachias. If squad ron going west should coal at Mar seilles. If east at Genoa. (Signed) "Cotton." Admiral Cotton's instructions are to sail at once. It is estimated that the Brooklyn going at full speed can reach Beirut within six days THlE WILEY TUREs. Acting Secretary Loomis received a rather remarkable cablegram from Minister Leishman in which the lat ter states that he had called at the Turkish foreign otlice at Constanti nople to inquire about the assassina tion of the United States vice consul and that the minister of foreign af fairs emphatically denied any know ledge of the report. He also attempted to discredit it. The cablegram gave no other information. Acting under the instructions of the president that Admiral Cotton's squadron be directed to proceed immediately to Beirut, Mr. l)arling cabled the admiral to this effect at Nice, directing him to go to Beirut at once. The president's instructions on this point will be car ried out to the letter. IlE WAs NOT KILLED). A decidedly new turn in the case of the United States vice consul, Win. C. Magelssen, at Beirut Syria. who was reported to have been assassinat ed last Sunday, developed Sunday night when it became known that the report was incorrect and that al though Mr Magelssen had been shot at he had not even been injured. This information came to the state depart ment tonight in a dispatch from United States Minister Leishman at Constantinople, who said the mistake in mnaking the original announcement was due to an err- in the transmis sion of the cipher dispatch from Con sul Ravadal at Bei-at in reportiog the incident to the mnirn.-r. A Cloudburs~t. A cloudburst struck the vicinity of Mayesville. Kas.. on Tuesday, causing the Bir IBlue river to rise lii feet in a few hours, sweeping away many nous es in the lowiands and drawing one pers'n. CALEB FOWERS TO -AG Noriber -. Fin l to I; Day for! H iNecutive. The third trial of ex-Secretarv of State Caleb Powers for complicity C in the murder of ('ov. William G;oeue, in .lanuary. 190o, closed ! shortly before noon Saturday with a verdict. imposing the extreme penalty of har -,og for the distin guished prisolier who had been in the penitentiary for three years on life sentence. The verdict, of the jury: -Guilty and the punishmwent of(1 death." was reported into court at 1 11.20 Saturday. Several hundred peo- - pie crowded the court room when the c verdict was read and the most intense t silence prevailed. The jury was poll- I ed and each man declared the verdict E of guilty to be his finding. Powers t sat unmoved while his attorneys asked 0 for time to muake a motion for a new t trial. t Arthur Goebel, the brother of the a victim and a prominent merchant at Cincinnati. who has spent his time r and fortune for over three years in the prosecution of those accused of being in a conpicy to kill his brother, c broke down from the strain upon hear- t ing the -rdict. Powers has been convicted twice be fore. this being the third trial in v which the jury hrought in a verdict. i, Of guilty against him. o his previ- c o(nis trials ie escaped with a life sen tence, as the evidence was not surli- 5 cently strong against, him to lead the a jury to intllicting the extreme penalty. v Ali three of the trials were held at Georgetown and in each of them he had the assistance of the most able s lawyers who could be procured. b The last trial was distinguished by ti the fact that Powers addressed the c jury in his own behalf and in a long review of the case showed himself to n be a competent attorney, while his 1 eloquence in pleading for his life ai- ,, tonished those who had watched him o carefully in the past trials of the r, case. t Special Judge bbins this Satur- e day afternoon formally overuled a mo- u tion for the granting of a new trial to a Powers. He then passed the sentence of death upon him. After a declara- r, tionof the prisoner, "I am not guilty, judge," the court tixed November 25th r next as the days for the execution. n The attorneys for the defendant se- z cured the granting of an appeal for a the case to the Kentucky court of lz appeals. Powers was immediatuly removed to f, the Scott county jail to be held there il peuding the appeal of his case. N SEVEN LIVES LOST. h As a Result of a Severe New York ii Gale. h During the height of the storm Wednesday a huge derick on the d Central railroad of New Jersey bridge across Newark bay from Bayonne to Elizabeth. was swept from its srp ports into the water, carrying with it a number of workmen. Four of a the men were drowned and several badly injured. At least 60 men weie t work on the bridge at a point half a mile from the Bayonne shore. The, top of the derrick was 180 feet from i1 the water and nine men working at d various points up the huge structure, d Gustave Fisher of Bayonne being on C the very top of it. b Strange to say. he was about the nl only one to escape injury. Eight mien were on the ladder attempting to de- t) scend to a place of safety when the r storm broke. Fisher at the very top t. of the great pole realized that it was v impossibl.e for him to reach the bridge C so he clung to the ringging. The wind P struck the derrick and swept it into I the water. Of the eight men, John 9 J. Conion and Charlie Tingley of Jersey City, John Mclaun of Rayonne e and Otto Ellinson of New York, went n down under the timbers and were l either cushed to death or drowned. a Daniel MIurphy of Olean, N. Y., was p caught in the falling mass, and al- t though taken out alive has little P chance of living. Three others fell d 5 feet, but were able to swim ashore. lE Gustave Fisher. still clinging to the c rigging at the topmost part of the b pole, described a great circle and fell s5 plumb into the center of the channel. 13 When he came to the surface he swam j4 ashore. r Will do Settlement Work. M1iss Rtuth Bryan, daughter of W. J. B~ryan. has been spending several t weeks in Chicago. One or the objects ~ of her trip was a visit to the Hull 0 ouse settlement at Hlalstead and b Polk streets, an institution supported ~ by charities for the benefit of the poorer classes and conducted by MIiss 1 -Jane Addams, the noted sociologist.e iss Bryan will become a member of ~ the Hull House statf soon, Miss Bryan is 19 years of ag~e. She has been a a student at the University of Nebraska -; during the past two years. She is a young woman of unlimited energy and ~ with ambition to accomplish some thing in the way of assisting the class U of children fostered by Mi:;s Addams and others interested in such work. The Hull House was founded in a small way through the efforts of Miss 2 Addamas~ about ten years ago. Miss V Is Bryan and her mother have been deep ly interested in the settlement for a long time and while the position will ~ demand a sacrifice to Niss Bryan, she C feels that she will be engaging in pleasant and meritorious work. A Mystery ot'the Deep. t A launch party arrived at Hlert ford N. C.. early Wednesday morning, bringing with them the body of G. Wallace Rididick, which was found I near Elizabeth City, Edgeiield N. C. Ridick left his home at Hlertford a week ago to join a house party at Nags Hlead, N. C.. and was last seen I a few minutes prior to the departue of I the steamer from E-lizabethi City. His baggage was found aboard the 1 steamer. the next mornir:g btut Rlid-I dick was reported issin5g. When~ he1 left home he ha~d $125 on his person.1 although but 863 were in his pockets when his body was found. The cor oners jur-y rendered a verdict of acci dental dlrowning, but it is thought by many that he was robbed and tharown norbard. N VROES M1 EET ,nd Discuss Lynch Law and Ihe Cause of It. ILY ONE DISCARDANT SPEECH. 'he Negroes Say They Look to the White People to Help Theim to Uplif' The Itace. There met in Columbia on Tuesday f last weelc nearly a hundred negro ien whose purpose is to put them- I lves on record as denouncing the rime which provokes lynchings and > rormulate an appeal to the white cople to put down mob law. These 2en can hardly be called representa ves of their race. for they are of an rder of intelligence which is above de average of the colored people. But aey are the exponents of that race nd the advocates for their people. 'he following account of the proceed igs we clip from The Staite: SHOULD BE NO RACE HATRED. In opening the convention's pro edings, Rev M. G. Johnson said that dese foul crimes of which negroes are been accused are painrul to thie earts of all true cotlored citizens who !ant it understood that they emphat -ally denounce that particular class of rime and most bitterly condemrn the rpetrators. The object of this meet ig is to take steps for the higher ioral elevation of that clas which ould commit such crimes and to ap cal for the suppression of mob vio ne, not only because tie innoclnt )mtimes suffer its punishment, bub cause the habit of lynch law will yet d for its victims persons guilty of imes less revolting. It appears that now there is an en ity between the races which God Imighty never intended. As long as ch sentiments are fostered, the acts a tough element of negroes will be garded as characteristic of that en re race, and the lawlessness of a bad .ement of white people will be looked pon as the expression of the entire hite people. "With the help of God we will cor ect the evil in our own race," be said, and we appeal to the white people to ove those grievances of which we w complain." The true negru.ciLi mn, lie said, longs to see that day hen we will have the protection of ,w in the pursuit of happiness and hen the white people can go away om their homes and leave their fam es secure in the knowledge that they ill not be harmed or molested. The speaker complained rather bit rly bectuse some of the leaders of is raceand some of the race papers ad criticized the spirit of this cou ntion even before the convention Ad met, and be called upon those ho were opposed to the movement to >me anyway and witness what was :ne. Otherwise by their negative in ence they would be responsible to od if in any way they contributed to ie failure of this movement which as good for its object. The meeting was then declared open >r business. AN INF~LA31ITOR~Y SPEECH. "Is lynching ever justifiable, or does ,lessen the crime for which it -is ne." That was the subject of an ad ress by Rev. M. W. Gilbert, a teach Sin Benedict college. He made the road statement that lawlessness is t a cure for lawlessness. Lynching a direct reversion to barbarism, to e time when private vengeance was sorted to as tbe way in which to set e disputes. It is the execution of angeance and is not justice. It is the rpression of race prejudice, and race rejudice is the mother of injustice. 5 is a remedy to cure negroes of crime tile white people go free. He declared lynching to be the oat-, me of race prejudice, but his re iarks at this point were not calcu sted to make the convention think y the more kindly of the white peo le. Lynching, he declared, is unj us fiable because it is not confined to unishment; for a certain crime. He eclared that negroes should help the gally appointed offices in finding riminals. Every criminal, white or lack, is the enemy of society, and iould he turned over to the law. If 'nching should stop, negroes would in hands with the white people in inning criminals down. Lynching is unjustifiable because it a confession that the law is impo ~ntin taking care of society. It is id that tbe womem upon whom the rime is wrought ought not to be rought into the court room. That is o excuse for lynching. The white eople have courts, they have the leg lative halls. Let them pass a law cluding from the court r',om all but e jurors and the judge. Lynching unjustifiable because it is inadequate s punishment. The negro who is mched does not suffer sutliciently, as e would do in jail, at the trial and n the gallows. Trhe trial would give reater publicity and would be more f an example to others. In connection witt. this point he 2ade the significant statement that telligent negroes have never yet dis raced their race wvith this terrible rime, arnd he appealed for more Lhools and a longer school term. Lynching is unjustfiable because, ing criminal in its nature it begets rime, for one crime begets another requently. lie concluded by saying hat lynehing is crime, lynching is Lurder, lynching is anarchy arnd an .rchy is hell. COMMON sENsE sPEtcII. Thei speach which had more comn non sense in it, and yet was delivered n a scholarly style, was from the Rev . T. Dillard, a Presoyterian mission ry. While he spoke loyally and roudly of his own race, there was iothing of unkindness for the other ace in a word that he said. lie tirst old of the necessity of making the iome attractive and of impressing upon he mindls of the children lessons of ruth and honor. There are many such tomes among negroes, but there are no man'; which are vicious. And im Juiding' the home, let the deeds to he prop.erty be in the negroes own ame, for the children will esteem it TO GOVERNOR HEYWARD. In ait ()pen Letter Local Negroes En dirse His Administration. Much interest is being taken by the negroes of Spartanburg in the arti lynching convention which was called by Rev.M.G.Johnson and other colored men to meet in Columbia Wednesday. In connction with thi the .lou-rl hasi received the communication pub lished below. This is in the form of an open letter to Governor leyward and is said to express the sentiments of "ail law abiding citizens (if our race in this section." TO THE GOVERNO|. We the undersigned colored peo ple of Spartanburg County do heartily endorse your adrministration. We know you have offered rewards for those who have taken the law in their own hands contrary to the constitu ion of this state. We feel that you have done all you can to bring the guilty parties to justice But, Gover ner Heyward. we as American citi zens and tax payers know that we cannot get justice under the present condition of attirs. Now. Governor, we know that you are poweiless to en force the law. We as colored people ask you to sign this petition asking the Un1itcd SLates to help us emigrate tV a territory to 4..urselves that we may serve God and not be the cause of keeping either race outof the king d un of Heaven. We believe in abidin)g by the laws of our e.,untry. and are unalterably opposed to lynching, but we do stand ready and willing at times to do all in our power to bring criminals of our race to justice, a.nd are always glad to see punishment meted to them accord ing; to the ennormity of their crime and acecrding to the laws of our com monwealth. The laws of our country are -ntirely in the hands of the white man. and while we ablhor crime, we do think that a better feeling between the two races could be had if more decisive steps were taken to prevent mob violence. (Signed) W. M. Moss, Gilford Adams, Wallace Davis, Reuben Brown. the children are taught to be industri -us and obodient they will not be run in around the streets at nigbts and getting into mistief. The next point he stressed is the fact that the schools should teach such lessons as had been started in the properly regulated home. There are 2,000,000 colored hildren of school age in this country nd yet only one-third of that number is at school. He urged the race o be more cheerful and not be always pre paring to die and organizing burial aid sock:ties. The best way to prepare to die is to prepare to live. THE NEGRO PREACHER. Ile then touched upon a phase of the question which required some tatesmanship to handle-the negro preacher. Fo: years, he said, the ne ro was led blindly by the carpet bag ,ers and the scalawags and socundrels who had come here. Now the great st mnopoly in the world is that of the negro preachers. They eontrol the negroes almost absolutefy and yet it is said that of the 20,000 negro preachers half can read only with the greatest dinliculty. Hie paid a splendid tribute to the honest, educated preacher who has dug out the beauties of the Bible in many languages. But there are hundreds of the negro preachers who are absolutely corrupt "and we preachers must get together, get down to business and put the ras als out," he said. Better homes, bet ter schools and fumigate the ministry was his remedy for the criminal as saults of which the race is accused. OTHER srEAKE1tS. E. J. Sawyer, a negro lawyer of Bennettsville, spoke also. Is theme was an appeal to the intelligent and humane white citizens of this country for a more faithful enforcement of the law against mob violence. He said that it is beyond the power of the ne groes to mete Out just and legal punishment, and they can only appeal for the punis'hment to be just and legal. The lesson is entirely lost when the punishment is conspicuously il legal, and the party who is so dealt with inay be regarded by his neigh bors more as a martyr than as a bruit ish criminal. There were 87 lynch ings in the south alone last year. and it is estimated pated mn those crimes. They are guilty, murderous, riotous, and yet allowed to go free. What will the harvest bey There is a remedy and it can be found by the coopera tion of the law fearing negroes and the crime detesting white people. Hie was followed by Rev. R. E. Wall of Colnombia who was assigned to speak upon the question, "How can more kindly relations be established between the race-s." He advised the negroes to assure the white people that they are satistied with their color and to show them that ..o work is menial. Ask the white people merely to treat them as men, pay thenm their just due and get out of the negro's sunlight and "our hearts best blood shall be theirs." The last speaker was G. W. Murray of Sumter, who once represented the negroes in congress. H~e denied the fact that negroes seek social equality. The convention ended Wednesday morning after having formued a perma nent organization and after having adopted an address to be issued to tihe people of South Carolina- particularly to the white people. In forming a' permanent organization, the purp~ose ishave a stat~e association with 41 vice presients and 41 assistant secretaries who shall be the presidents and secre taries of the respective county asso ciations. These county associations are to get uip picnics and gatherings at which the people of the race will be addressed upon common sense tupics and an effort made to get them to build their own homes and to become more interested in the good things the world around them. Revr. M. G. Johnson was elected president. Rev. ;. T. 1)illard vice president, and Rev. J. A. Brown secretary. Al'out a Girl. Ed Robinson and Samuel Lusk fought about a girl at Mount Vernon; Id., on Monday and Lask was stab bed and killed, the girl being a witness to the tragedy. ISSUES AN ADDRESS. What the Negrces Have to Say to the White People. WANT LYNCHING STOPPED. But Has Very Li:te to Say Abors the Crime that Causes It and Condemns it Mildly. The following is the address issued )y the negro convention to the white people of the State. Perhaps the ad Iress may be disappointing to those wvhite people who might have expect d something different from what was idopted-something which would ickuowledge the crime vrhich has :aused so many lynchings, and which would appeal to the white people to ;top lynchings upon the promise of Jh.e negroes that -they would endeavor 'Do restrain 'the brutish element of ;heir race from crimes of passion. We, the colored citizens of South .arolina in convention assembled, lesire to direct the attention of the aw-abiding white citizens of the State :o the alarming amount of lawless iess that is being practiced in tihe tate which is disturbing the peace ind good order of society, generally, reating much had feeling and anta onism between the raoes and en angering the lives of many citizens y mob violence. It is well known Ihat in the majority of instances where eor any cause a difficulty occurs be weei a white and colored man, the atter L as nothing like an equal show ng beiore courts if at all permitted o come to trial. It cannot be denied hat if a colored man is accused of My serious crime in which the in erests of a white man is involved, specially if the crime results in per ;onal injury to the latter, a lynching s likely to take place. Whenever there has been a sem lance of race riot in South Carolina Ihe principal cause was the attempt >f white men to punish crimes charg d against negroes, instead of invok ng the law. Numerous instrances :ould be cited in proof of this fact and ve venture to challenge the impar ;ial public to cite a single instance to lisprove this. The negro in South Carolina has no ,olce or participation in the enact nent or the enforcement of the law. We therefore, appeal to the white ,eople for the proper enforcement of h law which they themselves have nade, for we bave relied upon the romises <.f protection and equality >efore the law made by the late Gov. Nade liampton and successors and ndo-sed by the law-abiding citizens. We wish to record our unqualified :ondemnation of all criminal acts by iegroes. We do not deny that tbel iegro race furnishes an alarmingly arge per cent. of the criminal class >f South Carolina, and we do not con lone their crimes. We denounce the rime of rape as inhuman and brutal .d those who commit it should be in icted with the serverest punishmentt rovided by law, but hold that the einousness of the, crime should trengthen the demand of a jury tria]. We feel assured that the better class >f white citizens do not believe that he better class of colored citizens( vould harbor or conceal any member >f the race who is accused of crime rom the properly constituted au-1 horities. We denounce lynching as miawful, and therefore unjustifiable mder -any circumstances and we re-( ret that not even a liberal reward by he governor will secure the identifica- ( ,ion and arrest of white lynchers in south Carolina. We do not recall a ~ingle instance where white lynchers ave been convicted in this State, but I is on record that for the one and nly instance where (in the county of Pickens) negroes lynched a white1 apist, the lynchers were tried and' :onvicted. We deplore the unreliable nethods used by the Stath press and y the management of the Associated1 Press dispatch officers in the State to ecure correct reports of crimes alleg-1 d to have been committed by negroes. oo often sensational reports that ex ~ited little or no interest in the locali-1 ~ies where the alleged offenses occurr d are sent out by the press- And ynching parties have probably beenI >rganlzed under excitement resulting ~rom uch reports. We deplore the cruel and inhuman ttacks upon the negro race that are1 cing made by the senior United tates senator from South -Carolina and prayerfully hope that the good white people of the State do not en orse his views. We are surprisedi uat those high- in authority, State or rederal, would make utt~erances cap ble of the inference that the better lass of negroes should be held any ore responsible for the mcrals, pover y or crimes of their race than the etter class of other races composing the republic should be for theirs. The negro proves no less responsive to the ivilizing iniluences in American life than any other race. Further we de :lare that the gross; crimes charged. igainsb the race are not committed by the educated and sell-respecting class.] To our mind this Is a forcible argu ment favorable to the extension of the school terms and the improve ment of our educational facilities. We entertain the hope that the sen timent expressed by the ex-governor in the following. "Is is not necessary to worry about the negro he is getting all the education which is provided now and could get no more under com pulsory attendance," does not prevail. Why is not compulsory education as necessary for the colored children as for any other class of children? Why should we expect an illiterate negro to be a more law-abiding citizen than an indolent white man? We most earnestly appeal to those in authority for a continuance of their eiforbs on bealf of the colored schools, which they declare to be one of the most in dispensable helps in the improvement of the race. We pledge ourselves to earnestly and faithfully advise our people to ab stain from all lawlessness and the habits of shiftlessness and vagrancy. We further pledge ourselves to sup por the negro pulpit and press in de Third-The negroes in the scuth live under the laws that the white man makes for himself; the Filipinc lives under laws that we make fo him and wouid not live under our sel ves. While the brown man of the Orient is faring worse than the blaek man in the south, the Republican leaders are sirring up race antagonism in this country in order to keep the zolored vote solid for the Republican party. Even the president has contributed more than his share to the agitation. When he has appointed a colored man to otiice he has done it with a flourish of trumpets and a brass band accom paniment that the world might know that the "door" was wi.ieopen. When a colored postristress was objected to he refused to allow her to resign and closed the otlice-and did it allay race prejudice? No; it did more to excite race prejudi~e than any ten colored appointments that President McKinley made. The Booker T. Washington dinner at the Wnite house did even more than the India nola postollice incident to excite race 'prejudice. The president surely did not intend to inject the question of social equali ty into politics, for on that issue he could not carry a state in the Uni-on; then why arouse the colored people to expect social equality or agitate the whites with the fear of it? It is a grievous inistake to turn the negro's thoughts from the substantial advan tages of industrial, intellectual and moral progress to the unsubstantial promises of social recognition. The amalgamation of the races is not the solution of the race question, and that would be the logical result of social equality. In their natural right to life, :iberty and the pursuit of happi ness the white man and the black man are equal and these rights should be protected with jealous care. Educa tional advantages should be open-to both races and both should be en couraged to sccure all the ment il dis cipline possible. Whether the more advanced race should fix suffrage qualitications for the less advanced is a question to be determined by the facts in the case, but it is safe to say that on this sub jeet the people of the north would be mueh like the people of the south if they were compelled to meet the same conditions. As to social equality there should be a frank and candid understanding. There is no difference on this subject between the white people of the north and the white people of the south. The color line is drawu by Republi can families as distinctly as it is by Democratic ramilies, as distinctly by northern familes as by southern fami lies. There is more friendlidiess and helpfulness where this is recognized than where it is left in doubt and un certainty. The white race ought to recognize the rights of the black race and lend it every possible assistance. The whites of the south are taxing them selves to educate the children of darker skin, while Republican politi cians in the north are riding into of fice on black votesand, while they ex clude the colored people from their social functions, are constantly trying to array the southern negro against the southern white man. - There is another aspect of the ques tion. The promise of sodia3l equality -false as it is-encourages the edu cated negro to hope to get away from his race and thus the race loses the benefit that the more progressive ne groes might bring to it. Instead of trying to bleach the face or to take the kink out of the hair let the colored man recognize that he is black by na ture and set to work to show what one of his race can accomplish. No upright, intelligent and law-abiding colored man ever gets in~fto trouble himself or involves his people in a race war. After the colored man has established a reputation for virtue, sobriety and good sense, let him de vote himself to the building up of a society that will satisfy his needs. If he has daughters let him make them worthy or the best young men of his race; if he has sons, let him make them examples of industry and good habits. To deserve respect and not enjoy it is better than to enjoy respect without deserving it, but to deserve respect is the best and surest way to secure it. A good character is more valuable and more permanent than a postoffice, and nothing will do more to kill race prejuglice than the building up of character. The white man needs to be reminded, as the president sug gests, that lawlessness is dangerous and torture demoralizing to those who practice it, but the black man must also be cautioned not to judge the white man's life purpose by the pas sions of an hour and be should be warned not t.o allow the vices and lusts Of the most abandoned of his race to provoke hostility between himself and the whites. The race question is here and it will require the intelligence and the patriotism of the people north and south to settle it aright. It has too long been used for political adyvan tage. Turkishb Cruelties. Reports from Monastir, authenti cated by the Russian and Austrian consuls, give details of the massacrei committed in the village of Armen sko. The Turks destroyed 150 hous es, out of a total of 157. and massa credi every man, woman and child. The women were subjected to the most terrible atrocites by the soldiers. Eighty revolutionaries, captured .a Krushevo, and sent in chains in the direction of Monstir, were slaughter ed by the guards. The sanitary con diions of Krusbevo are revolting. The dead are lying in the streets, stripped of every garment. Th4 Turks even took the vestments oil the body of a priest. The Turks mas sacred all the women and childrer in twenty-two villages, and killed a number of prisoners. The streets of Krushevo are strewn with dead. The survivors are afraid to bury the bod ies Worst in Fifteen Years. Advices from Belton. England, say~ the cotton trade is in a worse state than for 15 years in consequence oi the supply of cotton. IHeavy demands are being made On the benefit socie tics owing to the large number of per 5ns who are idle. HE GIVES UP. Sir Thomas Lipton Will Never Chal lenge Again Till He IFINDS A NAT HERRESHOFF. A 'Manly Statement in Which the True Sportsman Confesses His Disappointment and Praises the Americans. Sir Thomas Lipton. the owner of the Yacht, Shamrock III, which is trying to win the cup now held by the New York Yacht Club gives up the tight. The Reliance, the cup defender, has won two races out of the five and would have won the third one last Wednesday bad it not been a calm, which made the race a draw. The Reliance was far in the lead when the race was called off. - Sir Thomas Lipton, aboard the Erin, declared Friday in an interview that he would never challenge again for the American's cup until a man had been found in England who equalled Nat Herreshoff in yacht building. The baronet admitted his disappointmenl at his failure and frankly said that he had no hope of winning even a single race. He said: "American brains and development have us beaten. If the day ever comes when England produces a Her reshoff, tien I will challenge for the cup again. It will not be until then." It is unpleasant to be -compelled to ad mit it, but the brains in boat build ing are on this side of the water. Herreshoff is a wizard. His work is - wenderful; none can have admired Re- -* liance'mqre than I have. She is the, - best boat1y..,all odds and has won 0 strict merit. "I am a most - appoint'ed man - My hopes were high v.en I left home I surely believed I we carry back the cup. "Wednesday's uke only prolonged the agony for me. doufnt want to win on any slips and gretted Reliance's failure to get over the line as much as any one could." Sir Thomas was asked why it- was that Shamrock III was not given . more sail area. He replied that he trusted everything regarding on struction and design to the best of England's talent. He complimented Capt. Barr, and said that he had no fault to find with the way in which Shamrock had been handled. "I hope," be said, "that we will get a 25-knot breeze and a heavy sea--to morrow. Then we will'have had all the chances on the calendar to try ou1 Shamrock's qualities." The baronet praises the hospitality and generosity of Americans and expressed the beliet that many of them wanted to see i un _ take the cup. "They would push Shamrock over the line ahead if they. could I believe." Too Many Wives. The Columbia State says: A shock ing story of the lightness with which martial ties are-regarded has reached Columbia through the arrest of 0. B. Dennard, who is charged with bigamy. -- He has a wife living in Atlanta, and his second wife is in this city. He himself was at onie time a flagman in the employ of the Southern and has a number'of acquaintances among thre railroad people, and they were very mnuth surprised. But the story is told by the Atlanta papers. .The lEven ing News says: "Because he has one more wife than the law allows, 0. E. Dennard, 33 years old, who,~ formerly resided in Atlanta, is held a prisoner at the police barrack. Dennard was. arrested Thursday morning at 151 Luckie street by Patrolman Phillips on complaint of Mrs. Dennard No. 1. Wants Damages. A dispatch to the State says-Mrs. Jane E. Boyesen left Spartanburg Wednesday afternoon for a trip to the mountains of Western North Carolina. She states that she will return in time for the civil action which she expects to bring against those who have humiliated her and degraded her - by suspicioning her as a thief and by searching her trunks. Wednesday her counsel, Mr. Stanyarne Wilson and Carlisle & Carlisle, fowarded to the clerk of the U~nited State court in Charleston the papers of a suit for 50,000, which Mrs. Boyesen will bring for humiliation and degradation and damage to character against the White Stone Lithia company, Jas. T. Harris, J. B. Morgan~ and J. C. - Elliott. To Shut Out Negroes. A philanthropic organization in New York city has announced a plan to colonize 300 families of negroes from the Sontb in each county in In diana and Southern Michigan. In the regions named there are few negroes, and the white population are aroused over the prospect of having the race question brought to their doers. An organization is in process of formation to discourage the negroes, some of whom have already arrived in Porter county, the idea being to adept a pol- - icy of non-intercourse with the blacks. refusing to employ them, sell them supplies, or rent or sell real estate to them. A lighting Judge. Judge Carroll L. Wood of the Arkansas supreme court, who is oppos ing Gov. Davis as a candidate for a third term, knocked Gov. Davis off a speaking stand, four feet, to the ground, during the campaign at Bis marsk Wednesday. Gov. Davis was not hurt and friends prevented further trouble. Judge Wood was immediate ly arrested on acharge of assault and battery. Govx Davis publicly asked Judge Wood questions, and before they could be fully answered interupt e wihmore questions, which so . angeedJudge Wood that he knocked Gov. Davis from the platform. Later the matter was adjusted. Negroes and Bieycles. There are thousands of bicycles be ing sold this season throuigh the .southern states, where t'he bicycle craze has struak the negroes, and the wheel has almost been abandoned. by the whites. A GOOD TALK On the Race Question from Willian Jennings Bryan. SAYS IT IS NATIONAL IN SCOPE. Blanes the President lor Injectin. Social Equality in Politics, and Raisin_ in the Negro Palse H1opem. The following article from the pen A lon. J. Wf. Bryan we take from a recent number of The Commoner. On another page will be found a etter recently written by President oosevelt to Governor Durbin on the subject of lynching. Forgetting for Ihe present the failure of the presi lent to enforce the law against the brust magnates and Governor Durbin's refusal to deliver to Kentucky authori bies a Republican ex-governor charyed with murder, lit us consider the sub ect of mob law as it is related to the ace question. The pAesident is right n protesting against mob law-it cin 20t be deftnded. It is a reflection on ihe people it legal means of puisbment ire adequate and eifecLive, and it is a eflection on the government if the people have reason to distrust its Lbility to enforce the law. All will tgree with the president that punish nent should not only be sure, but ;bould be as swift as a due regard to he rights of the accused will permit. Whatever punishments are sanctioned >y public opinion should be embodied n the law and in the case of crimes tainst women the laws should be ;uch-even though a constitutional tmendment were necessary to secure t-that the victim of the outrage vill be protected from the humiliation )f having to give testimony before a :rowd of curious, but disinterested, )ersons. The president is also to be com nended for having coupled a denuncia ion of rape with a condemnation of ynching. Too many cry out against he lawless punishment without say ng anything against the horrible rime which arouses the anger of the people. If some of the enthusiasm shaL is spent in passing resolution lenouncing mob law was employed in :ondemning the unspeakable beastial ty that provokes summary punish nent there would be fewer instances )f mot law. The fact that 'the presi lent did not specifically mention outhern lynchings shows that the ynchings and burnings in northern tates have convinced him that race >rejudice is as strong in Illiaois, In iana, Delaware, and Kansas as in dississippi, Georgia, A'abama, or [exas. It may be well in this connection to ,onsider race prejudice for a moment a connection with mob law. That here's such a thing must be admitted. [t is written on every page of history Lnd is not likely to disappear soon. It nust be remembered, too, ta't the iegro has as much prejudice against she white man as the white man has gainst the negro, and if the negro ras in a position to rule the white nan there is no reason to doubt that ~he white man would have reason to dcmplain. This was apparent in the ~arpet-bag days and is apparent to ay wheriver it 'can find expression. a. sense of justice, however, restrains ~his prejudice and it is not often that ~ither the white man or the negro ays anything in the presence of the )ther that is calculated to offend. oor is not a matter of choice, neither :an it be changed by will or by law. [t is, therefore, as unkind to taunt a nan with being black as it is un easonable for a black man to be an ~ered by such a taunt. A man is to be ifaised or blamed ccording to the use he makes of his ~alents or opportunities, not by his in erited advantages. The fact that a egro is lynched by a mob because of nf outrage upon a woman ought not o increase the race prejuilice that ~xists. White men are lynched for ~he same crime. Neither must the white man's feelings towards the ne ro be judged by his conduct when ,der great excitement. Man mad is mn entirely different creature from an deliberate. Men in anger have iled fathers, wives, brothers, sons Lad friends-they have broken every Aie of Iove and kinship, Suffrage qualifications cannot be at ~ributed entirely to race prejudice for ~ufrage qualitications are to be found n nearly all countries and have been ~mployed in many of our own states. hey have been employed by white non against members of the white race Ld by people of every color against people of their own color. Woman suffragist complain that women are lisfranchised and such disfranchise ent cannot be explained on the round of race prejudice either, for usband and wife, mother and son, re not only of the same race, but are .inked together by the strongest bonds snown. The suffrage amendments in he south, so much complained of by Republican politicians, are not nearly to severe as the R~epublican colonial policy in the Philippines. First--In every southern state some > the negroes can vote now, and all thers can qualify themselves foi suffrage; in the Philippines the in iabitants are permantly disqualified. Second--fhe negroes in the south, sven when they cannot vote, have the protection of federal and state con titutons; the Filipino has no con stitutional protection whatever. nouncng all criminal acts on the part af our race. We further pledge ourselves to unite w-ith our white~ fellow citizens in al. lawful methods for the apprehensior: an arrest of all persons who may be charged with crime, and pledge out cooperation with the white ministry, press and law-abiding citizens in the creation of a healthy sentiment in thi interest of law and order. Signed by 0. D). Robinson, chair man: W. P. Carolina, Jacob Moorer E. J. Sawyer, R. E. Wall, J. B. Man cebo, Rt. H. Richardson, E. H. Wil son, M. C. Rhodes, S. E. Smith, A G. Townsend, Geo. T. Dillard and J A. Umwn, eretary.