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Brownsville
daily
herald.
VOL. XV. NO, 162
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907.
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS
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So Are We
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ITY TIN SHOP
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Patreasfej Kesf&tislj SHiqiUi U
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lhe tollowing contribution to
the growing mass of literature rel
ative to the Brownsville outrage.
taken from a recent special tele
gram to the Baltimore Sun from
Washington, is of great interest
to local readers of The Herald
because it gives the view of our re
presentative in congress, Hon.
John N. Garner, who visited
Brownsville shortly after the event
and personally posted himself in
the matter:
Washington, D. C, Represen
tative J. N. Garner, of Texas, in
whose district Brownsville is locat
ed, takes the position that, regard
less of the criticism that President
Roosevelt exceeded his authority
in his method of discharging three
companies of negro troops, it must
be recognized that drastic measures
were demanded in dealing with the
culprits involved in the Browns
ville outrage.
"There may be some question,''
he said today, "as to the Presid
ent's authority to discharge the
battalion, but as to the guilt of
some of the unidentified members
of that battalion there can be no
disagreement among men whose
minds are not warped by sectional
prejudice or political considera-
. : t - i ,t
nuub. iNeuner can mere oe a
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resonaoie aouDt tnat mere is a
conspiracy among- members of that
battalion to shield the murderers
When the order was issued
that sent these troops to Fort
Brown I made a formal protest to
the War Department, I knew that
i.1 AtA , r. i t- r .
ine lweniy-nun iniantry naa a
record of lawlessness. Members
of it had committed murder in
Texas and other States, as official
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uocuments snow. Jtsesides, we
had had negro soldiers before and
Knew uy experience tnat tneir m-
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science ana overDeanng ways
were a constant menace to the
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peace oi ine community, uut my
protest did no good. I was told
at the War Department that it was
Texas' time to take care of them.
That seems of indicate that even at
the War Department their presence
was regarded as an infliction which
various communities must suffer
in turn.
A Preposterous Theory.
The theory that the negroes
did not do the shooting at Browns
ville is almost too preposterous
for serious consideration. No one
suggested it at the time the invest
igaiion was Demgmaae. it was
not heard of until the Constitu
tion League began to busy itself
with the matter. It was an after
thought purely, and since that
time there has been a wonderful
distortion of facts to give some
plausibility to the fantastic theory
that the citizens of Brownsville
shot at one another promiscuously
as a means of 'getting rid of the
negroes-'
"Some tell- us that the.beginr.ing
of the trouble had a political
motive or animus. They con
veniently forget that the men with
whom the two negroes had their
fights are Federal officeholders and
Republicans". 'Otljers. have sug
gested two theories', both absurd.
One is that adivekpeper of the
tjiwn become incensed i'"Because one
of the soldiers' rlnanced'an opposi
tion 'joint, and that a number of
citizens came to hrir .las armed
volunteers to avenge his'grievance
other is that.the
The
Brownsville
resolved
citizensjjfof
to murder
s -arm enmrnM i
the lives of scbresmerely toTnake-'
some of themselves -and
acase against the negroes. That
implies a rare degree of vjcarious
sacrifice. But it is hard to believe
that men who, after having gone
to the extent of murder to put
some stigma oa the negroes that
would occasion ' their removal,
would not spin and weave enough
evidence against them to enable
the grand jury to indict some of
them. Yet the fact is, that al
though the district judge and the
grand jury expressed moral cer
tainty that some of the negroes
had committed the crime, they
refused to indict any one of them
because the evidence did not show
conclusively what individuals had
done the shooting.
Grand Jury's Action.
We are asked to believe that
public sentiment against the
negroes was so savage that it did
not hesitate at murder, but we
know as a fact that a grand jury
that was a fair part of- that public
sentiment refusedT for the lack of
sufficient evidence, to try to fasten
the crime on any single member of
the battalion.
If we are to ignore all the
direct evidence, such as the broken
gunrack and the finding of the
shells, and judge the case only by,
considering the motives, there is
overwhelmingly more reason to
convict the negroes than there is to
suspect the whites. As for race
prejudice, the antipathy of the
whites for negro soldiers is no
greater than is that of the negro
soldiers for the white. They went
there sullen and insolent, most of
them with chips on their shoulders
and eager for someone to knock
them off. Instead, a Federal of
ficeholder knocked one of them
down, which is not surprising
when we consider that one in
search of trouble usually finds it.
Nearly every member of the battal
ion made that negro's wound his
grievance, and it was aggravated
by the fact that the whites refused
to give the negroes equal service
in restaurants, saloons and other
public places. The desire for re
venge followed inevitably, and it
resulted in a sedulously planned
conspiracy to commit murder
wholesale, for it is due to good
fortune rather than to the mercy
of the negroes that more than one
was not killed. All the circum
stances' betray the clumsy cunning
of the negroes to cover their tracks
Since then there has been a con
spiracy of silence, and men who
will conspire to harbor murderers
are unfit to wear the uniform of
our army.
i ne people oi urownsvilie are
indignant that efforts have been
made to impute this crime to them,
and hundreds of letters and tele
grams that I have received show
that they bo:h desire and demand
tiie tiniest investigation that it is
possible to make.
PLOT TO KILL
ARMY OFFICERS
Developed at Examination of
MacKIin's Assailant.
All Officers at Fort Reno Go Heavily Arm
ed and Are Protected at Night.
Several Olber- Negro- Soldiers'
Are Arrested.
Delicate Ground.
evening, wnere,
the village band,
A Western politician tells of an
Arkansas man who a week after
the death of his wife, promptly
provided himself with another
helpmeet.
As soon as the newly wedded
pair had returned from their honey
moon a delegation of friends
gathered about the house in the
with the aid of
they proceeded
to make things hum.
The serenade had not proceeded
far before the groom himself ap
peared on the veranda, evincing
every sign of indignation.
'You're a fine lot;, aren't you?"
he angrily demanded of His friend-.
Get away from here: this instant!'
You ought to be ashamed of your
seives, mating sucn a disturoance1
af. a house where 'there's lately
been a funeral!"
Tt is expected thatlwithin three
years Southwest Texas;will be fill
ed with Japaneseraost of whom'
RrevskilIea.Claboris,. V ; !J i
El Reno, Okla., Jan. 8. It is
is the belief of the officers at Fort
Reno that a conspiracy existed to
murder all the white officers at
Fort Reno, beginning with Capt.
Edgar A. Macklin, against whom
nearly every negro soldier at the
post entertains a personal grudge
on account of the affray at Browns
ville and the discharge of the negro
troops, and then, proceeding down
the list of officers, killing allv It
became known today as a result of
the preliminary hearing in the
case of Edward L. Knowles, Cor
poral of Company A, Twenty-fifth
Infantry, who was held on a charge
of assault with intent to kill Cap
tain Macklin of Company C.
Twenty-fifth Infantry.on the night
of Dec. 21.
Knowles was bound over to
await the action of the grand jury
at the opening term of court-
All of the officers go heavily arm-
med and are protected throughout
the night. Every effort has been
made by the officers at the post to
keep the alleged conspiracy a
secret, but it is learned that "an in
vestigation is now being conduct
ed at several army posts and oth
er places throughout the country,
and within a short time several ar
rests of members of the troop re
cently discharged in disgrace are
expected to follow.
Information was received here
tonight that the arrest of a negro
has been made at La Junta, Colo.,
today. Suspicion also rests upon
several negro soldiers in Nebraska.
The arrests of these men had been
postponed until the hearing in the
cast of Knowles was concluded,
when it was supposed some inform
ation would be secured tending to
incriminate other persons in this
alleged conspiracv.
Following the hearing of Know
es, United States Marshal Madison
secured a warrant for the arrest of
one of the witnesses for the de
fense, charging perjury. The man
was apprehended, but his name
could not be learned.
Twenty witnesses, testifying for
the most part for the defense, were
examined at length. None of their
stories coincided.
COMING TO BROWNSVILLE
Prominent Colonization Agent Who
Considers This the Los - Angeles
of Texas
A letter has been received from
S. K. Hallam, president of the
Hallam Colonization company,
which has one of its main offices
at Denton, Texas, requesting that
the address of Mr. Hallam 's copy
of The Herald, which has been
going to Denton, be changed to El
Cavnpo, Texas, where his wife is
risking at present. Mr. Hallam
himself expects to be in Browns
ville in a few days, so the letter
says, and will " engage activeiyvOitr:
the work of ins fim'itfWc,
which has increaseel so rapidly as
to need the attention of both him
self and his son, L. K- Hallam,
the latter gentleman having. been
solelv in charge of the Brownsviller
office of the firm heretofore; "In:
fact." the letter adds, "I have
decided to become a permanent
resident of the valley,, and. possibly
of your city, which I believe is to
be the Los Angeles of the new
Texas-Califoruih.'-'1'
' Mr;-Hdila5r and hi family will
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and it is-incerely'iibrjisa Ihey may
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