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Herald and Advertiser.
NEWNAN, CA., FRIDAY, MAY 5.
JAS. K. SHOWN. KIMtAll T. WHATLEY
BROWN & WHATLEY,
KDITOWH AND H’llMSUKiH.
Official Organ of City and County.
THE “FLOWER OF CHIVALRY,”
ETC.
Ill his first article commenting on
tlie lynching of Ham Holt, which ap
peared in the Griffin News and Sun
of the 25th ult., Editor Glessner ad
verted with considerable show of pride
to the circumstance that “some of
the best citizens of Griffin and flower
of chivalry in this section had char
tered n specinl train' to carry Sam
Holt * * * to place him in tho
custody of the sheriff of that [Cowe
ta] county, inside the jail and out of
the way of Hie mob that had assem
bled,” etc. We inferred, of course,
that ho was mightily tickled over the
achievement of this .gallant contin
gent of the “(lower of chivalry” of
Griffin and vicinity; and yet when wo
sought last week to give credit to
these dashing cavaliers lor a full part
in tlie ceremonies preceding and at
tendant upon the cremation of Ham
Holt, Editor Glessner affected deep
indiggation. In our account of the
lynchlhg, an printed in the last issue
of Tim Herald and Advertiser, it
‘ Will lie recollected that we iri-neronsly
assumed a share ot responsibility lor
the affnir by saying—
“The poople of Newnnn have no
disposition to ‘throw off’ on the Grif-
tln party. On the contrary, they wore
applauded by some of our citizens for
the interest nnd enterprise displayed
iu chartering a special trnln and hur
rying tlie nAgro to tlie Coweta jail;
but it mny not be amiss to let the fact
be known that the lynching and at
tendant barbarities was not exclusive
ly a Newnan affair.”
But this amiably worded paragraph
appears to have fallen short of Its
mission, for some reason or other. In
his Issue of Tuosday last Editor Gless-
ner resents the lutinmtion that the
“flower of chivalry” of Griffin nnd
vicinity were unduly prominent in the
exorcises referred to, and says—
“The Newnnn paper nnd some of
the presumably leading citizens of
Newnnn nre trying to throw tlie blame
of that lynching affair of theirs of a
few days ago upon the citizens of
Griffin, who took tlie victim over
there und lodged him In the hands of
tho authorities of Coweta county,
where tho crimo that caused the
lynching was committed. But thero
ure bravo, honest and truthful men in
Coweta who do not wish to give all
tlie praise or hlnnie that belongs to
tlie burning to thoir fellow-citizens of
a neighboring county or city.”
And so the “flower of chivalry” of
Griffin nnd vicinity do not now ar
rogate to themselves all the luster
and glory of this spectacular perform
ance? Willing to divide honorA, are
they? Good. But what about tlie
reward? Ho far ns wo linve heard,
.tho “flower of chivalry" of Griffin
and vicinity hnvo not yet offered to
divide the prizo money with the
“hrave, honest and trutjiful men” of
J’oweU who assisted in guarding the
prlso.' ,cr tho «nd afterwnrds
followed the pageant headed by the
“flower of nhlvalry” of Griffin and
vicinity from the Jail to tlie stake. It
looks funny to tho public that because
the “flower of chivalry” of Griffin and
vicinity pulled Sam Holt off tho trnln
at their rnilway station, over a hun
dred miles from the scene of the
capture, they should straightway set
up a claim to part of the reward ; —
but, of course, the Jones brothers
may have been persuaded to view
the matter in this light, else tliore
might have been no special train, no
pnrade of the “flower and chivalry”
of Grlfflu and vicinity through the
streets of Newnan, and—no reward!
The obviously gratuitous assertion
of the News nnd Sun that one of the
editors of Thu Herald and Adver
tiser visited Gov. Candler on the
morniug after the lynching and ad
vised against tlie payment of the re
ward offered by the State for tlie
capture of Sam Holt, is absolutely
false. Our opinion as to whether the j
surrender of the prisoner into tho
bauds of the sheriff of Coweta county
by the “flower of chivalry” of Giiffin
nnd vicinity constituted n legal deliv
ery was not solicited, nor did we offer
any suggestion on the subject. We
have not, nt any time, questioned the
right of the Jones brothers to claim
the various rewards outstanding at
the time of the capture. They were
entitled ter the full amount, and wo
presume would have gotten it had not
their prisouer been taken from them
at Griffin.
But why multiply words? Editor
that neither The Herald and Ad
vertiser nor the peopljj of Newnan
have attempted to fix the responsibil
ity for the Holt lynching upon the
Griffin party. The negro tlend would
have had just as short shrift at the
hands of a Coweta mob, without help
or interference from the Griffin crowd
or other outside parties.
He knows, also, that the presence j
of the Griffin party was not necessary j
to protect Hnm Holt from the fury of j
a Newnan “mob.” The “protection”
afforded by the Griffin party would !
have been lnughalily impotent had :
the Newnan “mol)” really desired
possession of the negro. But, assum- 1
ing that none otliors thnn tho real j
captors of Sam Holt were to he the !
beneficiaries, the people of Newnan
wore quite willing, to guarantee the
safe delivery of tlie negro into tlie
hands of the sheriff at the jail, be
cause they thought his captors hud
earned the rewards. Tho statement,
therefore, that tho Griffin party had
to “protect” tlie prisoner from a
Newnnn “mob” is preposterous.
SENSIBLE VIEWS OF LEADING
NEGROES.
While some of the negroes at the
Nortli have been holding indignation
so sickening to us that it clouds our
sensibilities even to condemn it. So
much hns been said about lynching
that it has been made to appear that
! we are negative in our opposition to
1 the greater crime—the assaults on
l women. If the remedy suggested by
Mrs. Felton would put a stop to this
terrible dual barbarism, and if ten
j thousand of such brutes instead of one
could be found, and one general lynch-
j ing would wipe out the crime, I would
i say do it.”
Another negro minister of New
j York, Rev. H. B. Park, secretary of
. the home anfe foreign missionary
board of the same church, writes as
follows:
“I have been thinking of this crime
■ II day. It has completely unnerved
me. An extraordinary effort on the
part of the church ought to be mnde
to suppress the negro practice of as
saulting women. The work should
take the form of an organized effort.
People have a falBe impression that
colored people sympathize with ne
groes who commit such crimes. Mil
lions of negroes will go as far as white
men to defend women. While a ma
jority of those lynched are negroes,
the effect is being felt upon the entire
people.”
Referring to the Cranford tragedy '
Rev. II. M. Turner, bishop of tho A.
M. E. Church of Georgia nnd editor
the ground and twenty pairs of hands
seized the end. Up in the air shot
the negro’s body.
“If he’ll confess,” shouted Kelly 1 ,
“we’ll let him live.”
So he lowered the man, just pass
ing off into unconsciousness. He re
covered and gasped that he was inno
cent.
Now, if a negro had been appre
hended in the South for the more
heinous offense of rape and subjected
to such treatment as Bradley received
at the hands of a New York mob, it
would have been denounced by the
Northern press as a great outrage;—
but as his offending consisted of the
theft of a few dollars, either hanging
or burning was considered necessary
to wipe out the “foul crime!” This
is the sort of justice that the negro
receives at the hands of his Northern
brother.
meetings and making incendiary ! of the VoiL ’ 0 o{ Mi88ionB > «P«« ks
speeches denunciatory of tho Newnan
lynching, it is gratifying to note that
there are a few sensible ones here and
there who hnvo the courage nnd can
dor to dissent from tho views enter
tained nnd expressed by a majority of
negro agitators, South ns well as
North.
On the Sunday morning that Infor
mation wns received of the capture of
Sam Holt, but before that informa
tion hnd reached him, Rev. John
Harmon, pastor of the A. M. E.
Church at Newnan, addressed his
congregation as follows, ns reported
by one who heard him—
“Our people are largely responsible
for thoir condition. We can’t hope
to measure arms with tho white race,
which has had hundreds of years of
freedom and possess all the wenlth
nnd power of the land, and which
has complete control of the commerce
of the country. What are we doing
to benefit the world in a commercial
way? I)o we control any financial or
Industrial enterprises, nnd thus give
employment to our race? No. Take
the class of negroes that are giving us
trouble—who debauch homes—who
outrugo women, and thus heap dis
grace upon our race as a whole—and
you will find, In nine cases out of ten,
that they belong to tlie lazy, indolent,
loafing element; that they never visit
the Hnbbatli-school or church; that
they never have -a decent suit of
clothes, because they will not work.
Crime comes from idleness. Thero is
an old adage that ‘an idle brain is the
devil’s own workshop,’ and it is true.
Cun the uegro hope to officiate in the
administration ot a government in
which hu has so little interest? Can
ho hope to have a hand in making
laws to govern other people’s property
whon he owns or controls so little
himself? Can we ever hope to have
cqunl recognition and equal privileges
when we prove ourselveB so shiftless
and itnmorul, as a race, and have bo
little regard for the rights of others?
—when we hang around public places,
to tlie nunoyuuce of business men,
nnd show by our indolent Habits that
we have no interest in the welfare of
the city, county, State, or nation?
We should remember that tliiH is our
home, for our fathers helped to make
this country what it is—by tilling the
soil, felling the trees,' developing the
mines, and doing the work that has
helped to make this nation great. The
old fathers are swiftly passing away,
leaving behind them a rich legacy of
love, patriotism and friendship, and a
monument of respect and admiration
from our white fellowmen. Let the
young men and women of our race
pursue that course in life which will
gain for them the respect and friend
ship of the whito race. Let us de
nounce wrong, by whomsoever com
mitted; let us shun evil, uphold the
majesty of the law, and become our-
Belves a terror to evil-doerB by help
ing to detect crime, and in every way
prove ourselves worthy citizens.
Then, nnd not till then, ean Vve ever
hope to be respected as a race.”
The New York Journal has been
printing a series of letters from lead
ing negroes of that city, with a view
to getting as general an expression
as possible regarding the Newnan
lynching. The writer of one of these
letters is II. C. C. Atwood, a minister
of the African Methodist Episcopal
I church nud superintendent of the
I missioi^for Cuba, who says:
j “I protest, with millions of law-
: abiding colored people, against the
| awful crime of assaulting women and
I the murder of men and women by
these fiends called negroes, who brand
the whole race with the stigma of
their hellish deeds. So-long as a wo
man is thus treated and there is a
husband, father, son or brother, the
criminal will be lynched. No law can
stop it and no section prevent it. The
I only remedy is to stop the evil. I
will cry aloud and spare not that these
follows:
“The crime of murder and rape in
just a few minutes of each other is so
dreadfully horrible that the very
thought is sickening. We can write
no more, because we are at a loss for
words to express our regret aud hor
ror.”
Tlie Plaindealer, another negro pa
per, (printed at Topeka, Kansas,)
while condemning the lynching,
frankly says:
“Such a crime merits the severest
condemnation, and the question of
color should in no sense be regarded
as a mitigatiug circumstance. * * *
In these later days the negro rapist is
common, and his crime justifies lynch
ing if anything under heaven does.”
Rev. J. J. Griswold, a worthy col
ored Baptist minister of this county,
writing to The Herald and Adver
tiser, expresses himself as follows:
“I cannot condemn too severely
such awful crimes as those for which
Sam Holt was lynched. The negroes
of the Sixth district, so soon as they
heard of the Cranford trfigedy, ex
pressed a willingness to aid in the
capture of the brute, and would have
done so had they been called upon by
their white friends. The white and
colored people in this part of the
county are on friendly terms, and we
regard the act of Sam Holt as a disgrace
to our race. All criminals of this class
should be put out from among us. I
agroe wi‘h the sentiment that our
Southern women must be protected.”
If the negro preachers and teach
ers of the South would all be as frank
aud courageous iu condemning the
outrages that provoke mob violence
as those whom we have quoted have
done, lynchings in the South would
stop.
HOW THEY DO IT IN NEW YORK.
Glessner is evidently soured on New- degrading crimes, the outgrowth of
nan, and as Newnan does uot carry su- j human slavery and the education of
gar-sticks with which to mollify her 1 the penal system iu the South, are the
enemies, it is not likely that the en- bane of our race.
tente cordiale will be soou established
in this case. But Editor Glessner’s
known hostility to Newnan and some
of her citizens does not justify him iu
distorting incidents and circumstances
to cover his more sinister designs.
For instance, he knows full well
I would recom
mend that our bishops and clergymen,
as well as our race leaders, organize
an army of crusaders and invade ev
ery nook of the South, appealing to
the lust of these human brutes to stay
the plague that is worse than leprosy
to the race, so as to wipe out lynch
ing and lawlessness. The thought is
A fow days ago, at Monsey, N. Y.,
a negro was accused of stealing a
pocketbook from a white man, and
the New York World thus describes
the effort of mob of - white citizens of s
that enlightened and cultured com
monwealth to lynch, the offender, bo-
wit:
The entire crowd took up the yell-
nnd surged around the chattering ne
gro. Kelley and his sons were in the
thick of it. Degroat was powerless
to help his son-in-law.
“Yes, lynch him,” roared Kelley j
“get a rope, some one I”
At this Bradley broke and ran for
his life. He made sbraight for the
woods, the whole crowd at his heelsy
yelling like mad. He stumbled, fell,,
and before lie could rise the entice
pack was upon him. It was a lynchr
ing now in earnest.
One man brought a rope, another
tied a noose, and a third slipped it
over Brrdley’s neck. Bradley fought,
hard, but the crowd wanted his life,
and he was helpless against so mauy
of them. Trembling and praying, he
was dragged down the road to a tail
elm that held its branches out like a
gibbet.
“Confess!” cried some one, “be
fore you die!”
But Bradley protested bis innocence
with the noose around bis beck.
“Burn him at the stake!” yelled
some one else.
A yell of approval greeted the sug
gestion. Half a dozen men got wood
and ns many more produced matches,
while Bradley fell on his knees, dumb
with horror.
But wiser counsels, or fear, per |
haps, prevailed, aud the majority I
were for plain lynching. Half the |
countryside had heard the tumult by ;
this time, aud on the edges of the
crowd around the quaking negro were
women aud little children, transfixed
with fear.
Ou his knees was Bradley, his eye)
rolling with fright and blood stream
ing from bis face. A few calmer heads
came back to reason and pleaded to
let tho law take its course. He could
be arrested and sent to prison, they
argued.
“He stole that pocket book,”
yelled a dozen, “and he’s got to die
if he doesu’t tell where it is.”
“He stole my horse!” shouted
another, and “he’s no good to us any
way!” chorused the rest. “Lynch
him!”
Struggling nnd screaming, Bradley
was led uuder the tree. The rope
was thrown over a limb ten feet from
Hon. Clark Howell, editor of the
Atlanta Constitution, has been ap
pointed a trustee of the State Univer
sity, to fill a vacancy on the board
caused by the recent death of Hon.
N. J. Hammond, Mr. Howell is an
alumnus of the State University, has
always been one of its staunchest
supporters, aud well deserves the ap
pointment.
Anti-Cigarette Law.
Florida School Exponent.
The papers of the State are having
a good deal of fun at the expense of
Hon. Frank Clark and his anti-cigar
ette bill; but the Exponent desires to
assure Mr. Clark that the teachers of
the State, who more than any one
else know bow this habit is ruining
our boys — physically, mentally and
morally—&rj not laughing at him.
We are praying and hoping against
hope that he may be successful in se
curing the passage of a law that will
abolish or at least mitigate this grow
ing evil. We know what the cigar
ette is doing. With hearts that ache
in helplessness wo daily watch it at its
work of making physical wrecks,
mental imbeciles and moral perverts
of the best boyhood of the State. All
honor to Mr. Clark, aud may God’s
blessing attend his efforts. In a cause
so righteous he can afford to be
laughed at. But for every ripple of
laughter the auti-cigarette bill has
called up, there are in every city in
the State scores of ruined lives and
broken hearts that the cigarette has
made.
How’s This?
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ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured' by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
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We, the undersigned, have known
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and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transaction's, and finan
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Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
druggists. Testimonials free.
Hall’s Fanirly Pills are tbe best.
—Hon. O. 1?-. Stevens, Commission
er of Agriculture, spent a day or so
of last week visiting the family of
Col. Stephen C. Tate, at Tate. Miss
Vinlta Tate Is a very close friend to-
Mr. Stevens’ family, and, by-the-
way, no one in North Georgia did Mr.
Stevens more real good in his late
cunvass before the- Democratic pri
maries than Mis» Tate, which Mr.
Stevens gratefully acknowledges on
all occasions—and. yet Miss Vinita is
no politician. Mhr.. Stevens spent
Monday in Jasper-shaking hands with
the Pickens county people.—[Chero
kee Advance.
“My husband beito all bis friends
tbut he drew a prist® in tbe matrimo
nial lottery,” she saidi proudly.
“He probably neSers to yonr bank
account,” returned her dearest friend.
At the celebration- of Queen Victo
ria’s birthday at Windsor Castle
next month she will be SO years of
age.
INO USE
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who takes pride in his appear
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stores, and in the homes? Why
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prices?—where you can view
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looking to the wants of young men. A noteworthy attraction
is our Serge Coats and Serge Coats and Vests, Alpacas, Sat-
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Thin Sattine summer Coats $ .50
Alpacas, $ 1 .CO to 2.00
Serge Coats and Vests, $2.25 to 4.00
Serge Coats, $2.00 to 3.75
Crash Suits, (something nobby) 2)75
Our assortment of regular suits invite your inspection.
Our line of Snoes, Oxford, etc., comprises
one of the best-assorted lots to be found in
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Ask to see our Leading Specials at $1.50 to
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We carry and sell as many pairs of Hose
each season as any two houses in Newnan.
You may wonder if this is true, and why it is
so. It is underbuying, and selling a better
value than any one else offers, that makes this
achievement possible. Six hundred and fifty
dozen pairs recently added to our already
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Straw Hats
The season for this popular and comfortable head cover
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Boys’ Hats; 10c. to- 50c.
Men’s Hats, 15c. to 75c.
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