The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 23, 1898, Image 1
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GREENWOOD'S =
TROUBLES.
THE PEOPLE PASS {RESO?
LUTIONS.
Jim Tolbert Wants to Come
--"Home But Ell?rbe Advises
Him Against it.
Special to The State.
Greenwood, Nov 15 -The dis
queting conditions of yesterday have
subsided There is no special cause
for alarm here to day The feelings
of .the people have not been greatly
excited by the events in Abbeville
coauty
The negro woman, Eliza Goode,
was living at noon to day, but in not
expected to survive. Little more is'
' known of the shooting st ker bouse.
But the citizens are watchful and the
perpetrators of this fool deed will do
weli for themselves to keep clear of
Greenwood county. There is uo
doubt of tbe determination of the
best people of the county to stop
this tiling, and their hold on the
sit nat io a is evidently firm
With the exception of the shooting
cf Eliza Goode, BO lawless acts of
consequence have been committed in
this county since Friday . The moral
sense of the community is folly
aroused..
Private Stuart Miller's condition is
slightly improved to-day. His rela
tives express some degree of confi?
dence in his recovery.. Millers
condition is the real key to the
situation.
Nobody is surprised at all the
Toiberry congregating in Washington.
It is best for the T?lberts and best
for us.
Elias Tolbert bas gone back to his
home, having been in hiding at- A G.
Stockman's. The fact of his being
in the same house with the wounded
Miller, has been probably the means
of saving him from injury. However,
is reasonably sore of good treat
tent now.
There is little news of Kennedy
&Caslan here - He bas numerous
reatives 1 here He is considered
orrtally wounded by his family.
THE MASS MEETING.
This afternoon the people of the
jonnty assembled in mass meeting.
Senator Waller presided over the
meeting and presented the following
resolutions which were unanimously
adopted :
In pursuance of a call for a public
meeting of the citizens of Greenwood
county to assemble at the court bouse
dnring the recess ot the court, to
rake into consideration the late
unfortunate occurrences which have
suddenly arisen within our county,
we the citizens of said county,
representing every section of the
same, in mass meeting assembled, do
hereby express our earnest regrets
for the conditions which have
prevailed in the neighborhood of
Phoenix, and the occurrences which
led to it. We assert that the
responsibility therefor rests solely
upon John R Tolbert, R Rhett
Tolbert and R L Henderson, whose
incendiary teachings and influences
culminated in the murder of J. I.
Etheridge at Phoenix, on the morning
of the day of the general election,
and the shooting from ambush of the
two white men on the evening of the
same day, returning quietly on their
way home These acts of murder?
ous highway assaults, induced feel?
ings of retaliation, the result of
which, however, are greatly exag?
gerated
Now that the excitement has sub?
sided, and ali armed bands have dis?
persed, we urge all good citizens,
white and colored, to go to their
homes, and we pledge ourselves for
their safety snd protection in the
full enjoyment of their rights, the
discharge of their lawful pursuits.
We assure the colored people they
have nothing to fear if they are order?
ly law abiding citizens
Resolved, that we hereby endorse
the resolutions of the Phoenix mass
meeting as wei! as the assurances
given by the sheriff and other ofiS
cials of the court that the property
of the Tolberts when under reputable
management in their absence will
be protected.
The following was read at the
meeting :
At the meeting of the citizens of
Ninety-Six and commonity at that
place, on the l&h day cf November,
1898, H F. Fuller was elected chair
mau and James Rogers secretary.
It was resolved that we the citizens
aforesaid cooperate with the good
citizens of Greewood county, in their
effort to restore order and put flown
lawlessness in the county. That we
believe that the Tolberts have a right
to send agents into our county for
protection of their property, and that
we as conservative and law abiding
citizens will protect them OR such
mission
(Signed) H. F Fuller, chairman. #
J ames Rogers secretary.
_
Washington, Nov. 16.-The gov?
ernment has decided to investigate
thc circumstances under which James
W. Tolbert, assistant postmaster at
McCormick. S. C , was compelled by
threats of an armed mob to abandon
bis office and home. With that view
the matter has been placed in the
hands of United States Attorney
Lathrop with instructions to look
into the case with a view to the
prosecution of any violations of the
federal statutes in this or any other
cases growing out of the recent race
troubles in that locality. As a pre?
liminary step Mr Tolbert has sent a
telegram to Gov. Eilerbe, at Colum
bia, asking to know whether as
governor of South Carolins, he can '
and wiil afford him protection in
returning to his family and office.
No answer had been received
when Mr. Tolbert was seen by a
representative of the Associated Press
to day.
Concerning claims of interference
with the postal service, it is stated at
the postoffice department that there is
cc evidence that the postal service
has been interferred with, that
officially the department bas no
knowledge of Tolbert, who is only
an assistant postmaster at a fourth
class post-office, and therefore, ap?
pointed and employed by the post
master and not by the department.
The postmaster is the wife of Tolbert
and as she is not interferred with the
department officials say there is
nothing td show that the department
should act in the matter Mr. Tolbert
called on Postmaster Gen Smith
with a view to securing some action
in the premises, but was told of the
conclusion of the department, that
there was nothing of which it could
take cognizance.
TOLBERT'S INGENIOUS TELE
GRAM
To all appearances it looks as if
the federal authorities intend to take
some action in the matter of the
rioting at Phoenix on and after
election day. The grounds for action
will be based on interference with
the United States mails
The following long telegram to
Gov. Eilerbe from Jas. W. Tolbert,
postmaster at McCormick appears to
be the preliminary move. It reads :
'.Washington, D. C , Nov. 15.
"To the Governor of Sooth Carolina:
.'I am a citizen of South Carolina,
where I was born and raised, and
have always resided My home is
McCormick., in the county of Abbe
ville. My wife is postmaster there,
and I am her assistant, and conduct
the business of the office for her, she
being a delicate woman. On Thurs?
day, the 10th instant. I was forced
by an organized and armed mob
of a hundred men to leave my
family and my home under the
threat that if I remained there
I would be killed, I therefore fled
for safety because 1 was unable
to resist this mob. I am a large
landowner in the county of Abb?
ville, and also the owner of valuable
houses and other real estate in the
town of McCormick. My wife is
there with our only child, a girl of
four years old, without my presence
and my protection, on account of the
action of au armed mob, and my
property is without proper care I
have committed no crime agaiust the
laws of my country and have done
nothing to give any offence what?
ever tu any man or set of men, save
that I am a member of tue Republican
party aad believe in the doctrines of
that party I send this to know if
you, as the Governor of South Caro
lina, can afford me protection as one
of its citizens and I send this to
know if you, as the government, that
I may return to ray family, to my
property and my business, and be
safe from mob violence Answer
care St. James hotel, Washington,
D. C.
"James W. Tolbert " -
In reply to this Gov Eilerbe wired:
"Ifyou return home I will give
you all the protection in my power
1 douJt think it prudent for you to
return till the excitement subsides
"W. Ii Elierbe, Governor."
Greenwood, Nov. 16. - George
Logic, oolored, died at tbe houe of
Joe Goode, colored, near town this
morning, from wounds received at
Rehoboth chorea last Wednesday. Be
was one of the eight negroes who were
fired at by a party of white men.
Logan was seen to stumble about the
time a Winchester bail went bia way.
He was shot IQ the arm and in the
back, the latter wound not being located
until yesterday He was a soo of
Tamer Logan, an old time negro
leader. This is tbe sixth negro death
from the Phoenix trouble.
Eliza Goode, the negro woman shot
by no known white men Monday, died
at her home on the Tolbert land, near
Piney Grove ofc.urch last night. It is
the candid opinion of those who have
investigated this matter that Green?
wood county is not responsible for this
shameful deed ; that the drunken
perpetrators are none of our people.
That was an awful deed-shooting an
oid woman io her own cabin, and the
white men who did it had best keep
away.
It really seems that peace is
permanent There is no doubt of the
temper of the people and no one but
dare-devils will tamper with the powder
mine
Great interest is being manifested in
this section cow by the northern news?
papers.
Stuart Miller improves siowly, but
his recovery 5s now considered prob?
able
A prominent negro minister of
Bradley, this county, has offered to a
local paper for publication a communi?
cation renouncing the Toi ber ts and
their teaching and dedaring the
purpose of the negroes about Bradley
to live in peacs with the white people.
Similar sentiment is credited to the
negroes io various seotioas.
The following cards bave been given
your correspondent with a request by
influential citizens to have them pub?
lished. The origin of these statements
is a statement made by a Chronicle
reporter, in which be exaggerated the
statements mide to him. People here
want to do Jobo S. Chipley justice and
bis declaration of innocence of selling
negroes ammunition is taken io good
faith :
"I wish to state that io no case did ?
sell firearms or ammunition to negroes
at Greenwood during the riot at
Phoenix, abd that I am not selling
them now, and that I do not intend to
sell them until matters are quieted.
,4I rented out and sold white men
about 200 firearms 1 loaded shells
with buckshot for whites day and
night.
"In one case I offeree1 to sell a negro
living 15 miles above the scene of the
riots ten ceists worth of shells loaded
with bird shot No 9 This saie was
objected to by Mr. W A. Riley and
the shells did not have the show case
J. J. Chipley.
Greenwood, S C., Nov. 15
I wish tc modify a statement made
by Mr. J. S Chipley in the Augusta
Chronicle and in The State in reference
to the sale of ammunition by myself to
the negroes during the recent unpleas
antness. In the statement referred to
Mr Chipley denied that I had wade
aoy sales whatever of ammunition to
the negroes. This is in part incorrect,
for on one occasion, Thursday morning,
? did sell, or offer for sale, a dime's
worth of No. 9 shot in loaded shells to
a negro in the presence of W. A
Riley, who asked me to cancel the sale
and refund the party his money, which
I did. J. S. Chipley.
Greenwood, S C , Nov. 15.
This is to certify that the shells did
not leave the show case of Mr. J. S.
Chipley*s store. The reporter evident?
ly misunderstood circumstances. I also
bad tbe store guarded, but I have no
knowledge of any ammunition or
firearms goiog out.
W. A. Riley
Greenwood, S. C , Nov. 15.
Tolberts Responsible.
Special to The State
Greenwood, Nov. 16 -The grand
jury's report regarding the recent
trouble hero says : "We are satisfied
beyond question thal the prime cause
of the entire trouble was the incendiary
speeches made by the Tolberts and
their followers, thus inciting thc negroes
to violence and lawlessness " It further
says that the jury finds all quiet and nc
further trouble is probable.
Beats Cotton.
Dr. A P. Laoford has gathered his
potatoes, making at the rate of 250
bushels to toe acre, on land that would
not make a bale of cotton to the acre.
At 10 cent? per bushel an acre would
make bim $525 which would beat cotton
If wc had a starch tao tor v here, to buy
the potatoes, our farmers could have a
m^ney crop without cotton.-Pro?per>ty
? Nws
Huntsville, Ala , Nov 16 -Private
Welsh of battery F, Second artillery,
rode his horse into Morgan Irby's sa
loon to-day and tried to ciean ont the
p'ace. Irby drove him out and warned
him not t? return A few minutes
later Welsh attempted to reenter the
piaoe, but was shot dead Irby is io
jail.
New York N?gres Meet
and Pass Resolutions.
Would Have Southern States
Representation in Congress
Cut Down.
I'. .New York, Nov. 17 -A mass
meeing of colored men and women
to protest against the treatment of
their race in some of the southern
States recently was held to-night in
Cooper Union. As a precautionary
measure the police were out in force,
as in Hell's Kitchen district there
bas been a considerable amount of
anti negro sentiment This precau?
tion, however, was not at all neces?
sary, as the gathering, although
enthusiastic at times, was a very
peaceable one. The hall was crowded
with colored people, with a
sprinkling of whites A number of
prominent white citizens, however,
sent letters commending the object
of the meeting During a tedious
wait for the speakers a white man
with long flowing bair arose in bis
seat in the center aisle and shouted :
"If we only had a William Lloyd
Garrison, a Weudell Phillips, or an
Abraham Lincoln at this time." This
evoked tremendous applause
T T. Fortune appeared on the
stage a few moments later and took
the presiding officer's chair. Mr.
Fortune in a lengthy address told of
the race troubles of the south.
Ebenezer D Bassett, formerly min?
ister to Hayti, also spoke.
The following resolutions were
adopted, with a lengthy preamble :
Resolved, That we, citizens of
Greater New York, protest against
the rioting and revolution which have
disgraced the States of North Caro
Hoa and South Carolina and which
bas been contrary to the letter and
spirit of our institutions and calcu?
lated to subvert the guaranteed rights
of citizens and to damage the good
name, reputation and credit of the
republic, at borne and abroad.
Resolved, That we feel that the
governors of North Carolina and
South Carolina are censurable for
their failure to suppress the said
rioting and revolution within their
States and for their failure to invoke
the aid of the federal authority, if
they were unable or unwilling to
cope with the condition of affairs.
Resolved, That we deplore as an
un American and provocative of end?
less friction and contention the antag?
onism to race and color which alone
appear to have caused the said riot?
ing and revolution in North and
South Carolina and that we insist
upon it that the just rights of all
citizens under the constitution shall
be respected as the oniy safeguard
against lawlessness and as the only
guarantee of orderly government and
that we appeal to the conservative,
law abiding Christians of tb*e republic
to assist in the creation of a public
opinion which shall compel those iu
authority to enforce the law and to
secare to each citizen adequate pro
tection in bis life and property in
the exercise of bis manhood and citi?
zen rights under the constitution
Resolved, That au the States of
Mississippi, South Carolina and
Louisiana have by constitutional en?
actment, disfranchised more than
half of their population, we demand
that the basis of representation of
these States in congress and the
electoral college be reduced, in the
proportion which the number of such
male citizens shall bear to the num?
ber of male citizens 21 years of age,
as made and directed by section 2,
article 14, of the federal constitution.
Resolved, That we recommend
such amendment to the constitution
as will enable the president to use
the federal authority to protect the
life and property of citizens of the
United States from organized or mob
conspiracy whenever the governor of
any State, from fear or collusion, fails
to afford such protection or to call
upon the federal government to
afford it.
Resolved, That we implore the
guidance cf Almighty God in the
shaping of homogeneous citizenship
to the end that it may make for
righteousness, for human progress
and for the interest of out great and
beloved republic against the ele?
ments of rioting and revolution from
within and ?he assaults of the ene?
mies from without.
Among the other speakers were
Lawton N. Fuller, J P. Peaker,
president of the 8tate Sumner league
of Conneticut ; Rev Dr. J. N. i?eott
of Henderson. NC; Rev Benjaman
VV Farris of Boston and Mrs. Eliza?
beth B Grannis.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov 16 -At a
meeting of the colored rrirnsterial as
sociatioij, Alleghany county, resolutions
were adored condemning the "Christ
ie** behavior of the white ministers of
Wilmington, N C ,'; in the recent race
troubles, and serving notice that they
sue for peace, but if robbed of their
rights the white people can expect re?
taliation.
NEGROES IN KASS MEET?
ING.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 16 -The
auditorium of the Bethel African Meth?
odist Episcopal church was crowded to
the doors with colored people last night,
drawo together to express their indig?
nation at the killing of negroes at Wil?
mington, N, C., and in South Caro?
lina and Mississippi, and to take such
action as might be deemed practicable
and advisable. A committee of five
was appointed to draft suitable resolu?
tions and reported a series in which
the disgust was expresged "at tbs out?
rages perpetrated upon colored people
in the south, and that it was time to
ask for the correction of such abuses
and that the president be asked to call
the attention of congress to the widely
increasing evil in order that action be
taken by congress to prevent a recur?
rence of the outrages in the future."
It was also urged that a copy of the
resolutions be forwarded to the Iodiana
senators and representatives in congress
and the newly installed mayor of Wil?
mington, N. C , and to the governor
of that State and also thai a oopy be
sent to Governor Tanner, of Illinois
''through whose neglect of right and
jastioe," the resolutions allege, "negro
miners were shot down by the Illinois
State militia at Virden."
? resolution was also adopted pro?
viding for the selection of five colored j
citizen by the chairman who shall con?
stitute a standing committee bearing
to the colored people of the country
much the same relation as was borne
by the Cuban junta to the patriots.
The Political Polly of the Ne?
gro.
Eminently true are these words
from the Washington Post, an inde?
pendent paper, wholly without Demo*
eratic leanings :
The trouble in the Carolinas is
perhaps over. Peace has been
restored, and order and civilization
have been re enthroned by the only
methods that could possibly have suc?
ceeded. Northern doctrinarles may
burl poilosophical condemnation at
the Southern whites to their heart's
content. They may prate of violence
and babble about barbarism The
objects of their disapproval care less
than nothing obont that The pres?
ervation of social order, the protec?
tion of property, and the purity and
inteilegauce of government are of
more concern than the clamor of mere
theorists and dreamers. Barbarism
is one thing to- the metaphysician.
It is a very different thing to the man
whose material interests, whose
feelings, whose very fireside, are
subjected to its sinister and abhor?
rent touch. The Southam whites
have done just what the Northern
whites would have done under simi?
lar conditions-they have dropped
party po litics in the presence of
great emergency, and have restored
the regime of enlightenment and
Christianity.
We wish, however to call the
attention of our colored friends to
one lesson of the episode which they
will do well to take to heart. We
ask them to consider for a moment
the value of those pretended cham?
pions of theirs who have fattened on
. the offices procured by their votes,
inflamed them by evil counsel, and
deluded them with false incitement.
What became of those champions in
the hour of peril ? Where wa9 that
boasted valor which expressed itself
in insolent bomhastics and offensive
truculence ? What became of these
deceitful white schemers and these
uproarious negro braggarts - the
beneficiaries of the ignorant and
, credulous loyalty of the colored
. masses-when the white men flew to
arms and put them to the test ? The
? employers of North Carolina, upon
! whoee enterprise and capital n?ne
tenths of the colored population of
\ the State subsist ; who pay 95 per
cent of the taxes which maintain
their schools and hospitals and poor
, houses ; who conduct every industry
that furnishes employment for the
poor, and to one or another cf whom
every helpless and a?lcted negro
appeals-never without unquestion
ing response-in the hour of his
extremity-these white men are now
calling in the refugees to peaceful
homes and profitable occupation,
while the former ofBce-s?ekers and
office holders of both races and colors
are hiding in Northern refuges from
the storm which their rapacity and
insolence provoked
j The Carolina negroes have been
I dupes and victims They have been
! deluded into dreaming that they can
i grasp and hold power in communities
j in which they represent practicaliy
i nothing: of the true basis of civilized
? society-neither wealth nor culture,
! neither property nor substance A
! lesson has beeii offered them The
i qustion is whether they will profit
I by it.
Good Sewing Machines from $10.00 up at
Randie's.
War Department Active.
Several Reasons Why Uncle
Sam is Preparing to Meet
Every Emergency.
Washington, Nov 16 -There has
been remarkable activity abont the
war department for several days in
the way of preparing .troops for ser?
vice in lands beyond the United
States An order has been issued
directing at least ten regiments of
the regular army now stationed in
southwestern forts and posts to hold
themselves in readiness for imme?
diate transportation and service in
tropical climates. Most of the regi?
ments were sent to the northern aud
western posts a few weeks ago for
recuperation after their Cuban cam?
paign. While hoiding themselves
ready for service these regiments will
now be recruited to their foll strength.
Nothing is said officially as to what
the present activity means, but there
are several reasons. It is believed
that an early movement to Cuba is
intended somewhat sooner than has
been generally believed before. An?
other belief entertained is that the
United States government desires to
be in a condition that may grow
out of the pending peace negotia?
tions, and to be in readiness if Spain
refuses to accept the terms the
American peace commissioners of?
fer. In this connection an in?
timation has gone out to the effect
that duriag the delay which has oc?
curred Spain has been abie to form
some sort of coalition with Enropean
powers to back np the pretensions
she has been making in the negotia?
tions.
Another reason given for the pro?
posed movement of the regulars to
Coba is that thep are to replace the
regiments which have given some
tro ole and have created some dis?
turbances, the last now being re?
ported from Gen. Wood's command
in Santiago province.
It may be that some of the regular
regiments are destined to replace
volunteers who have been pleading^
to be sent home. M
An interesting feature of the ndjH
ter is the refusal of the United
to order the muster out of th^^ol
Unteer8 who recently returned from
Puerto Rico
The regiments were sent to their
homes and given 60 days furlough,,
but contrary to the plans heretofore
they are not allowed to be mustered
out of the service
As to the regular regiments, every
department in the government has
been direcdd to prepare supplies for
j them and to arrange transportation
as soon as they are ordered to move
To see is to try, to try is to buy the
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All to Have Krag-Jorgensen.
Washington, Nov 15.-Secretary
Alger, after conference to day with
Adjt Gen. Corbin and Maj Shaler
of the ordinance bureau, decided that
the United States armories have pro?
gressed with the manufacture of
Krag Jorgensen rifles to a point
where he could undertake to arm
the entire army with this weapon.
At the outbreak of the war only the
regular soldiers had the small bore
rifle and the volunteers were neces?
sarily armed with the Springfield,
except in a few cases, such as that
of the Rough Riders The armories,
have been running steadily ever since
turning: out the small bore rifle at the
rate of 9,OOO per month until the
stock on hand warrents the unde?>
taking which the secretary has order?
ed as fast as the guns can be packed
and sent forward The Springfields
in the hands of the soldiers will be
retired and turned into the arsenals*
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