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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY* MARCn 3. 1 DOT. Last Two Days for Easter Clothes-Buying Save time and trouble by coming straight to this store for your Easter Clothes. Greatest stocks to choose from; best styles; best values—and the finest clothing show room in town to see them in. Plenty of careful and competent men to serve you. $15 Hart, Schaffner & Marx' and Rogers, Peet & Co. $40 Could we offer stronger evidence' of the high quality of these clothes than the names of America’s best makers? And these two concerns have even surpassed all their previous efforts in the production of this season’s styles. Our small profit policy is still in force and we’ll save you $5 or more on any suityou buy; besides giving fabrics and styles not to be had in other clothing at any price. We want you to come and see these clothes; want to show you why we are so enthusiastic about them; want you to realize that you’ll make a big mistake if you don’t buy your Easter outfit here. Copyright 1907 by Hart Schaffner (S’ Marx 45-47-49 Peachtree Daniel Brothers Co. Copyright 1907 by Hart Schaffner & Marx EX-GOV. W. J. NORTHEN OUTLINES THE PURPOSES AXD PLANS OF THE CIVIC LEAGUE OVER GEORGIA To the Editor of Tlio Georgian: In r»'f>|Mjii80 to your request, I give you, herewith, somewhat of uu outline of the imrpoMo uud the plan of the* organization of civic longues throughout the state for cognize that, under present strained s between the races, such scenes epeatod In almost any section of ptirjMMo, hut very much more difficult to I am confining roysell mainly to the direct question addressed to the people to whom I speak, asking how we can prevent criminal assaults upon women and how we can prevent murderous mol.s that lynch and burn negroes. These two conditions I always say are the daugei* cuts iu our decaying civilization. of muuicrous mobs, as they occur at the Ixed. It would" really seem that civilized people could introduce some remedy to pre vent and moke entirely Impossible these barbarous practices. Ilnvo we not gone Just as far, with both these horrible cou- •lltlous, as we can afford to go, If we ex- l»*« t to hold prominent place among the civilized nations of the world? I nm fully conscious that so great n problem as con* fronts us In the presence of two mwj, absolutely distinct lu every element of their nature, lias never confronted any nation upon ojirth before It came to us. Khali wo solve It or shall we leave It aioue to bring us to savagery, nuarchy and govern* mental hell? A Young Woman’s Story. In lSss u Iwautiful, sweet young woman told me a most harrowing story that at put me to constant tbluklng. __ Since then I have been asking mysolr, almost • very day, "What can we do to prevent nu ll conditions as come so dangerously iieur leaving her n life of stmino that could never be wli«d nwayr* I say "almost every day* Ut.iiih,.. our papers report these horrible outrages "almost every day.” Having now exhausted nil the resources r.t my command to answer this great and grave question, I Mtn asking the people all over the state, "What can we do to save the fair women of Georgia from outrage shame brought upon them by fictids from hell?" Who eon dare say me nay? "Itli the |M»ople whom I address I lenv n printed elrciihir from which I uow quote 'Vfii SE our boiue "'■‘•'tre against criminal assaults and snv • i;r i-lvtllzntlon from murderous mobs and l.iwjess lynching*'." , , ' N<» good citizen can decline to help riLsuer this grave and momentous question, i.t'iy good, law-abiding uinu will cheer- [''by consent to give his time, his strength, hi* thought, his prayers nnd his conseern- to service nnd sacrifice, if we are to protected against crime and violence ***** [he lawless spilling of human blood." this same question came to me with redoubled force when one of the most dis tinguished lawyers In this city, and eer- tmnly. one of the most prominent men in tie state. In my presence and in the pres- J‘ m ‘ n of one of the most splendid women m Georgia niul in the presence of three tlUuug the most prominent and publle-spir- jtnd 1111*11 of tin* state, made a most alarm- tog revelation. He said: An Alluring Statoment. .‘'Twenty of the most respectable tueu of Ttl " laltorlng classes of this city came Into mr ofric,. „oon after the Atlanta riot and f n,, l t<* me that they came to tell me they h"d nothing to do with the riot that had occurred; tlwv said they kuew noth* ‘"g of It until they saw Ho* report In the '""rtiliig (tapers. They then said they had ’'■m* . further, to tell me If this thing eon-. Utu.-d ami they were to be forced to ueg- i*' 1 , ,h '* ,r business niul sit «t their homes Mtli guns In hand to guard their wives ”t“* daughters from brutul assaults, they Effted me to understand that the riot that V 1 J'tst passed was only the sputtorlng '5 grains of pow.b r dropped around the t'figazlne in comparison with the slangh- <JT they would make when they touched l’ fT tin* magazine that would make blood >'i the streets like water." 1 am sure all the parties present mill {*"11 this alarming statement and the ered° r *bat nppalled us when it was deiiv- * thon nnd there determine*! to take the Mnt*r , IU4 j u || ||u« tH'opic, "What can ^•* do to save our .ivlllzatlon from such • nfui crime and such fearful spilling of Iwlled to know that 1 " — human blood." This Is tho foundation of my mission over the state, nnd I am no- I have now spoken in nearly ninety counties In the state, to conservative, Inw- ahlditig citizens, and I always suggest some few things wo can do and then ask the people to toll me such others as they be lieve will help the ends I nm seeklug. In this way, l nm seeking to bring pence 11 ml security to the people. Just this and nothing more. Iu every community that I have thus far visited I find a very large uumber of strictly law-abiding white men and a very large body of strictly law-abiding negroes. All the people must to know that there are a great many good negroes In Georgia, who deplore as much ns tho whito people, the outrages committed by members of their race. This statement I will never ho able to make some white people believe. Hit Plan of Campaign. 1. I am asking the law-abiding white poo* E le to appoint a committee from their num* er, sufficiently large-to know and classi fy every white man la the county. It hai now- liecome necessary to know, definitely nnd fully, the character of all tho people among whom we live. Tho plan requires n good, large committee In the county town and smaller committees at the other towns In the county, and at least two good men lu every militia district iu the county. 2. This committee, I repeat. Is expected to bo large euough to learn the chnrnctor of every white man In the county and classify them as follows: in) All the white men who are positively law-abiding nnd calm and conservative un der great excitement. This will Include nearly all of the ministers of the county, tuauy, very ninny, good Christian laymen nnd many other most excellent citizens who are not identified with any religions denomination. This class will Include also or we will never settle the problem of the races whatever else we may do. (b) Tho second class of negroes will bs found to l»e quite slmllur to the second class of whito uieu. They do not commit outrages, but they are lu full sympathy with all the devilment the vicious negroes do. These are they who hold secret meet ings nnd plot (,aucf niuu. These are they that swear they will not work for white people, except upon very Limited condi tions. This class will bo found, as among the white people, to contain some preach ers and « good lot of so-called Chrlstlnu laymen and quite a number of newspaper editors. This class, together with the third class stir up hot hate between the races as does the corresponding class among the white folks. Idle and Vicious in This Class. (e) Tho third cluss will Include all the Idle, vicious nnd villainous tiegroes, who commit all kinds of lawlessness and crimes nnd especially the class that make crimi nal assaults. These are the negroea that lounge around dives and dens and clubs durlug the day nnd commit burglaries and assaults at night. To be concise nnd com prehensive, - this class Includes all the tiegroes that are heavily loaded with In famous villainy. It might be well to com- pnro tho corresponding classes of both races. 4. When n civic league Is formed hetweeu the first class of white men and the first class of negroes the white people will bo amazed to know how the first class of ne groes will give Information and help to find a large body of low down, filthy, morally corrupt ntid physically rotten white nieu, who nave negro concubines and these Inw- egroes will enable us to punish, severity of a new law to be en acted, that will enable us to send the Inst one of such white men to the penitentiary for twenty-fire years under the sole (lairge of filth and moral corruption, as the result of the problem of. the races. After these classifications have been lade. It is always suggested that these several committees Ik* asked to recover, as all the editors of the county papers, Judg- far as uiwy Ik* possible, tho lost character ‘ ‘ * * - “ some of the of ' - *-•* - * “ **" __ul some few of the prominent politicians. (b) Tho second class of white peoplo will he rouud to have some few ministers, quite n good niiny so-called Christian laymen, some of the editors of the dally press and a very large uumber of politicians. None of these men ever Join mobs themselves but they will support others who do and TfiMSJft BVUS! r, of very unpleasant things as I nave traveled over the state for nearly four mouths. It seems to me that a minister or n church man who favors tho burning of a human belug takes close bold on to the folks that live lu the pit. <c) The Inst class the committee will form from the white people lire those who •astly snvnge enough to lynch and burn human lieings. Href, lM*c«use of their own murderous inclination, ana, second, be cause of the suggestion mode to them by the class Just referred to above. Aid of Negroes Sought. 3. After this classification of the white people, the committee will s*k the aid and the co-operation of the law-abiding negroes ns to the classification of the uegroes lu the county. I.et me repeat, If we nro to, be a civilized peoplo, the time has come when we must know the character of ev ery man. white nnd black, who Is a mem her of the community In which we live. <s> The first class among the negroes wll Include many hiw-nblding uegro ministers nnd negro laymen. These are fully am heartily ready and anxious to help solv< tin* awful conditions which confront us. as has been already, proven by the nld they have given to the law-abiding white people In suppressing crime, since the--* civic leagues began organization. May I be permitted to sny when I meet a good negro I do not hesitate to salute him as such and tell him I nm his friend nnd will be hlh stanch friend as long in he behaves himself ns a member of tin community? This does not hurt me a part! ole, but It greatly helps the uegro to make h, {n“order“toVlIeve the aupersensltive It may be well to say that I leave with all the committees a printed circular carrying the following statement: "Let It be under stood nil the way through that, in the Mouth, there mn never be fttiy social In termingling of the rneps nnd that the politi cal power of this section, will remain In present hands, but that the negro will be gunrnnteed equal protection of the low and that all the resources of the law will lie exhausted In protecting the Innocent nm! punishing the guilty. There should Ik* no aristocracy of crime. A white fiend I end— For the Restoration of Charaoter. 1. All ministers, white and colored, ex cept those of the second classes of both races, will bo asked to preach to their several congregations, on s fixed day, on law and order. 2. Every three or four weeks thereafter all the white people of all classes and all the negroes or all classes will he usked to conn* together at some convenient poli ty of Colquitt will have such h meeting for the first time on April 4, nnd these peo ple will be spoken to ujr Judge Covington, who, as everybody knowa, will say some- — 1 * The f thing worthy of being delivered, address of this kind to lie dehverou i Taliaferro county will lie mude-, by Jink Holden, the presiding Judge of the iiortl vrn circuit, who Is thoroughly In sympathy with the movement we have tmdcrtnkeu. sun* he will make a speech worthy ... n Murk brute. I nlwiiyn tell tlio prople. tlmt for I hr same crime. Justice demands that wo shall renrrui snunuK u* always strike the white man Just ns beov* many so-called good | llv nnd Just us often ns we strike tb* mgro 4% Interest Compounded, Allowed In Our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT On and After January 1,1907 TH E NEAL BANK E. H. THORNTON, President. W. F. MANRY, H. C. CALDWELL, Vice President. Oarhier. F. M. BERRY, Asi’t Cashier. the attention and the reading of nil the [lie In the state. The committee for county has already held such a * ware delivered by KSES. _ meeting, ami nddres whole The morning of the day I spoke at Wad ley. Mayor Cockrlll himself Imprisoned n negro mid snld to thos* who threatened to nnd*: "1 will stand here at the jail my self nnd kill the last man of you who dares to couie this wuy to defy the law of the state that bus imprisoned this crim inal. This Incident occurred iu the enrly morning. I arrived In the towu nt noon and spoke to the people In the afternoon. When I called for a chairman of the com mittee to Ik* named for the county, one hun dred and fifty to two hundred men prompt ly nominated Mayor l*i»ckr1tl to lend them. This Is the spirit and the action I mn ask- Ing for all over Georgia to suppress mur derous mobs. 3. These speeches to white men nnd no- groes are to Ik* kept up once a month nt least until Meptcmber 22. This day has been selected been tine Inst year September 22 was the day of the Atlanta riot, mid It was made the Devil's day for Atl.-infn, for the Mouth and for the nation ns well. To Observe Anniversary of Riot. September 22 this year will full on Sun day, mid we hope to niHko It GihI'n day for tin* state and for the nation. On that day. all the minister* In all the pulpits of the two races, will l*e asked to pleach Iu the foretimiii on "Law ami Order." lu the nfternoon of that day nil the committees over the state will arrange a mass meeting to Im* held at MHite public place to Ik* addressed by some prominent, law abiding business man In the t-omuninity on "l.nw nnd Order." All this effort will Im* made to prevent lawless ness, outrages mid mobs by converting the {cited and savage |*eop|e of l*oth races nay Is* brought to Ik* clothed and their right mind. To some very sensitive people this.may sound Ilk** agitation, but the devil has been giving its n lot of agitation for tile last forty year* In almost dally doses, as brought to ns in nssnnlts and savage mobs. Why not give the devil some agitation been use of tin* prevention or crime* over which he has gloated nil these years lu loud buzxaH in hell? After this tnneb has been said. I felt the people we must make fnditldunl selee- I tioiis from the worst classes of white { people ami negroes and handle them dts- I erectly and yet completely In such way as I t some newly enacted statute will authorize. I. Of these, I select flm the tramp or s*range negro nnd the tramp or strung** white mui. Tin* white man or negro whom nobody In tb'* community knows. I t#*ll the stwtsb-fu. Gtai vsr crime comes from Idle, loafing nnd indolent people who will not work— 1 white mon and negroes. I give them n thrilling atory from real life about c strange or tramp negro who came dan gcrously nigh waklug an assault, sll of which might have been prevented If there had been a committee In the community to look out for nnd hnudle strange or tramp negroes nnd strange or traiuji white men. After hearing me apeak on tula subject ut Hnwklnsvllle, Pope Drown, who is the chairman of our committee for that county, said to me tho next morning: "Every where you go, preas the danger to come from the struugo or trump negro. I never allow one to stop on my place." Will Be Grateful for Small Fruits. If the committee will now handle prop* erly one trump uegro or trump w-blte muu, uud save from assault oue pure, sweet country girl, I ahull never regret the ef- fort I have made to bring to pass such security. 2. I tell the committee to keep their eyes on the Individual vlllulnous uegro that lives In the community on some man’s farm, and who, everybody knows. Is a fiend Incarnate. He needs to Ik* shipped to sorno other section. If he I* lifted nud put In motion, he will then become a strange negro, ana there will be a committee of conservative people lu every community In which he may appear to handle and deal with, him ns a tramp or a strange uegro. The commit tee will quite well understand how to free themselves from him by keeping him going until he reaches, some one of our sister states to be tamed by the governors who ive no race problem. The committees are urged to look out for the uegro nud the white man wjio do not work, aud either put them to work Slid keep them at It or declare them vagrants, and send them to the work bouse for fif teen years, or as long as may Ik* necessary to get them in the habit of perspiring a little antler moderate exercise. I^»t me sny again, these are the people that glva us trouble. 4. The Individual uegro, that tho commit tee la especially urged to watch nnd care for. Is the returned convict If this Indi vidual negro 1s properly looked after a large uumlH*r of ■ assaults and consequent mobs will he prevented In our state. I aui sure Judge Allen Fort wll! pardon me for telling a story he told tue durlug my administration, lie sentenced a young boy to the cbaingnng for twelve months, during which time he became u well trained villain aud u graduate in crime. After the boy's term expired and ho returned to hi* home, there was one burglary after an other In the town from which he had beau sentenced. It seemed Impossible to catch up with the supposed burglars, os their F inns were so systematically and success- ully arranged and executed. It was sup posed that these burglaries were worked by u gang of thieves who understood and co operated with each other. It was finally discovered that nil these troubles were given by the returned convict boy, who, uow ns a graduated criminal, Just turned out from our colleges of crime, was now equal to si! the possibilities of ini quity. The state made this lw»y a criminal by oue year's service In the chslngnng. For his later lawlessness he was sentenced to the (ftftltentlary for twenty years. What of the Released Convict? What of the criminal who Is sent to the penltoutlnry for five years nnd ut the ex piration of his term Is returned to Id* home nud turned loose upon any commu nity In Heorgln, u demon packed with vil lainy nud crime ami fully ready, under the most approved methods, for hurglnry and murder nnd assaults, with the dsrlug of Jho devil to perpetrate nil his Iniquities? In the midst of all this terror nnd nlnrm, .•restive llk'n the u not ngir r .. —.. villains su« . .... lets, and do nothing to save the purity 1 our state from their outrages nud our civilisation from the bloody scenes which follow. Whilst the committee* their power to prevent a do fully a* much t<. criminal, breaking bis neck by law and not by murderous mobs. I have already glv ans I suggest In t -- jd only the first clr of white |K*ople to pursue nnd capture n bring to trial nnd courlctlou the alleged crliiiit’iil. rge the committee to restore, as far as possible, the relations, broken forty years ago between the race*, nnd bring about ns near ns iHuodhh* the friendly con turb nud trouble light of the day. tell them, forcefully. all through the suu- • iru lucui, iwrfnuu/, that we r settle the problem of the rseei long ns we allow corrupt white men to rulu the homes of negroes and ninke for them n lot of strunqiets and wetu-he* In stead of pure, denii women In their homes. I tell them this gross aud cruel Injustice to the negro cries aloud to God and His vengeance is upon us for our shame. At this point I always say quite a lot of things not clean enough for the public ear. I speak only to men. Indifferent to Northen Opinion. May I be allowed to sav that I cnre very little for the ojdnlou of our friends, the enemy, at the North, but lest they chuckle over this concession. I desire to say of the whole African population In the North At lantic states, ns reported In the renege for 1890. 2J per cent were muhittoen. In the western division 62 |K*r cent were uiulat- toes. In the north central states 31 per cent were niul*tt<jc*. Iu tin* Mouth Atlan tic states 10 |M*r cent were inulattoes and lu tin* south central 13 per cent were mu- hit toe*. May I he allowed to say. In a general ay. and nt tin* same time most affection tely, that our friends at the North will ive quite as lunch to do. If they attend to their »»\vn business nnd let ours alone. To meet ull these conditions, sonic at tended with alarm and others attended with dlNgiist, we will have a law committee com- tmsed of eighteen or twenty of the ls*st lawyer* In «i«*orgfa to suggest to Ho* legis lature suitable untcitdineiiTN to the law* we already hare and the ••unctuo-nt of new laws necessary to boodle properly and as they deserve, the vicious element* of our coiiiiituidfie* Isiib white nud black. This Is only a part of what I have to say to tic* committees. You cannot allow space for more. The pnr|s*ae of my can-, v*** will remnlii fixed mid unalterable. The plan for preventing assn nits a ml the sav- ui.ciy of mob* 1* folly open to atucudiucui will, help to inskt* It better, for — ..... poses for which I shall continue to address the people of the state. If I am not to be allowed to help settle these grave questions, what are our Immi gration friends going to do with the Ger man girls and the Swedish wonieti that they are going to tiring nmong us to chop cnee for thirteen yeurs, but I would be glad to know what Is to bo done with the German girls and the Sw(*dlsli women. If somcliody doesn’t agitate the question that will greatly concern them when they learn their environments on our farms. neotlou. As soon as the nnmes of the committees are reported to me from the several coun ties visited ou tny recent trip, they will be given to the public through the ^ress. Mrs. O. 8. Price. The funeral services of Mrs. O. S. Price, who died at a private sanitarium Tuesday morning, were conducted Thursday morning at 10 o'clock in the chapel of H. M. Patterson & Son. Tho Interment was In Westvlew cemetery. Mrs. Price was the wife of O. 8. Price, of the firm of Price & Thomas. 00i>i>00(><k><i00<h> 0000<KH50<J<100 O 0 0 ROME HEARS ALFONSO O 0 HAS TUBERCULOSIS. O 0 O 0 Paris, March 28.—-A dispatch 0 0 from Rome to The Journal says It 0 0 Is stated that news has arrived at 0 0 the qulrlnal to the effect that O 0 King Alfonso of Spain Is suffer- 0 0 Ing from tuberculosis and that 0 0 the Spanish court Is extremely un- 0 0 easy regarding his condition. 0 00000000000000000000000000 Evelyn Lovinia Camp. Evelyn Lovinia, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Camp, died at the fumlly residence,* 106 Windsor street, Thursday morning. She was the grand daughter of Patrolman Camp of the Atlanta police force. The funeral serv ices will be conducted Thursday after noon at 3:30 o'clock. The Interment will bo in Westvlew cemetery. L0UISIANAN INDICTED ON CHARGE OF PEONAGE. Special to The Georgian. New Orleans, La., March 28.—The Federal grand Jury today Indicted Rob ert Hlenvenue, a prominent planter of Point Coupee parish, on a charge of violating tho peonage laws. Three counts were brought against Hlenvenue, who Is Accused of making Aaron Ba ker work out an indebtedness of $100 after causing his arrest. LIEUTENANT WINSHIP 4 ** WILL RESIDE IN MACON. __ -Lieutenant? Emory Wlnshlp, who recently 'retired from the United 8taies army, where he has made a brilliant record, has return ed to Macon, hie old home, with hla wife and child, and will remain her** resting and visiting his old friends for two months. The appreciation that the city of Macon felt for his gallant con duct during the war with Spain was evinced about eight years ago by tho presentation of a beautiful sword to Lieutenant Wlnshlp. McClure’s Store News Special Week-End Sale at Both Stores Japanese Salted Peanuts for Friday and Satur day, 5c Pound. All Sizes of Flower Pots Now In Stock. Delicious Fig Bar on Sale at Both Stores Saturday, 5c Pound. Velvet Ribbon—best quality and all stylish shapes; N'o. 12; per yard 40c Ladies' Collars in dozens of new nnd pretty styles at, choice 10c Water Pitchers —half-gallon size; regular 50-ccnt values;-in this sale 25c Chambers of best quality plain white stoneware; Friduy anci Saturday 25c Meat Platters of plain whito ware; small sizes; 10-cent val ues 5c Table Tumblers of plain clear' glass; good quality; 2 for.,5c All Easter Postcards to Close at, Choice, lc _ v* ——- Easter Gifts and Novelties Tomorrow and Satur n/ we will close out all Easter Gifts •.nd Novelties at 'reduced, prices, including Eggs, Rabbits. Chicks, Ducklings, Baskets, Hells, etc., etc. Immense lines at both stores to choose from. Atlanta Souvenir Postcards* Big Line to Pick From, lc Berlin Kettles oi near gray en ameled ware; 6-qunrt size; on ly 33c Pie Plates of best tin; 8-inch size; very special at 2 for. .5c Windaw Shades of good opaque on best spring rollers... .25c Household Paints and Enamels; ready for use; all colors; per can 10c Rubber Heels for Men's and Women’s Shoes; new stock; pair 8c Moulding Hooks for hanging pictures, etc.; special, per 5c Specials in Easter Millinery (Whitehall Street Store Only) New Shapes for Ladies' Hats, made of best wrapped wire; special values at 75c and $1.00 Children’s Bailors of .Milan and rough straws; 50c, ?5c aud $1.00 Girls’ Hats of laee and embroidery; new and pretty styles; special at 75e and $.1.03 Infants’ Caps of white lawn and silk; laee trimmed; 25c to $1.00 McClure Ten-Cent Co. 63 Whitehall St. 3840 W. Mitchell St. Corner Forsyth. Corner Hunter.