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HITS HARD AT LYNCHING.
(The Chicago Post.)
In the United States District Court
at Montgomery, Ala., Judge Thomas
G. Jones recently set forth in a de
cision a judgment to the effect that
the Federal government has the power
to punish lynchers who are indicted
for conspiracy to injure, threaten, op
press and intimidate prisoners, who
are in the custody of the officers of
the law of any state. The decision
was rendered in the case of Robert
Powell, who was indicted for having
been a party to the lynching of Horace
Maples, a negro who was held by the
Alabama authorities on a charge of
murder. The case and the decision
are of immense interest because of
the bearing that they may have upon
the future of lynching in this coun
try.
THE NEGRO SOUTH.
(The Richmond Times-Dispatch.)
If the negroes did not like the South
they would move away. But they do
like it. They know that there is no
danger of lynching so long as they do
not commit brutal crimes, and as for
the “Jim Crow” laws, if the color line
is to be drawn at all, the negro wants
it to be well marked. In the South
his exact status is fixed and he knows
where he stands. In the North his po
sition is doubtful and equivocal. Nat
urally, he prefers the frankness and
sincerity of the Southern whites.
The case has been taken to the Su
preme Court of the United States on
a writ of error and probably it will be
argued next fall. If the Supreme Court
uphold the Alabama jurist, the path
will be made clear for the Federal
authorities to punish lynchers who in
vade the rights which are guaranteed
to men under the thirteenth and four
teenth amendments to the Constitu
tion of the United States.
A BAIT TO THE SOUTH.
(The New York Tribune.)
Our neighbor, The New York Sun,
a day or two ago presented the Hon.
Charles A. Culberson, of Texas, as an
ideal Southern candidate. Mr. Culber
son has made a creditable record in
the United State Senate. He is intel
ligent, progressive and capable—on
the whole, as admirable a representa
tive of the younger Southern genera
tion as can be found today in public
life. The South would do well to put
aside the tradition that its own lead
ers should renounce all claims on the
presidency in favor of Northern Dem
ocrats. That idea is antiquated. Yet
the sentiment behind it is responsible
more than anything else for the
South’s spiritless acquiescence in Mr.
Bryan’s third candidacy.
THE DRUG TRUST WILTS.
(The Washington Herald.)
Hon. Joseph B. Kealing, United
States district attorney of Indiana, has
about .finished his work in the pro
ceedings against the drug trust. The
trust apparently thinks discretion the
better part of valor, and surrenders
to Uncle Sam, as represented by Mr.
Kealing. In other words, it will go
out of the trust business and stay out.
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TfeDDY WILL NOT SERVE.
President Roosevelt declines to be
come executor of the will of Captain
James H. Hooker, of Irondequoit, N.
Y., in which $250,000 is left to the Uni
ted Stages government. The president
was named as executor, and the money
was tol be used to establish a military
academy at Galesburg, 111. 0
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STATUE OF GENERAL HENRY W. LAWTON, STORM CENTER
OF A MEMORIAL DAY CONTROVERSY.
AVERY unfortunate disagreement involving President Roosevelt, Govern
or Hanly of Indiana, the Indiana Grand Army of the Republic and the
Lawton monument cmnn.Ksion has arisen over the plan to dedicate a bronze
statue of General Henry W. Lawton in Indianapolis. Old soldiers are much
Incensed over the fact that the date for the unveiling of the statue has been
set for Memorial day. which heretofore has been given over exclusively to
the regular Memorial day exercises. General Lawton, who was a civil war
veteran, an Indian lighter and a conspicuous participant in the Spanish war
and the Filipino insurrection, was killed by a Filipino sharpshooter near Ma
nila on Dec. 19, 1899. He.had been a soldier for nearly forty years.
Lawton's Farewell From McKinley
At the time when the presidential re
view. of the First Army Corps, at Ma
con in 1898, had been concluded, Pres
ident McKinley and his entourage re
turned to their private cars. I chanced
to be seated in conversation with Mrs.
McKinley and Mrs. Secretary Alger, in
the president’s car, when General Hen
ry W. Lawton entered to bid adieu
to the party with which he had come
that far.
With President McKinley he ap
proached and spoke a few words of
earnest good wishes for Mrs. McKin
ley and said: *
“Good-by, Madam. I shall hope to
see you again some years hence in
Washington.”
“Why, where are you going, Gen
eral? Why cannot you go on with
us?” asked Mrs. McKinley, as she
looked up into the bronzed features of
the great soldier.
Before ho could answer, President
McKinley said gently:
"My dear, General Lawton must go.
He has been ordered to the Philippines
and goes at once. But, General, our
hearts and prayers go with you, and
we will expect great good news of
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THAW’S TRIAL JUDGE.
James Fitzgerald, judge of’ the Su
preme Court of New York, who pre
sided at the Thaw trial, has been
much in the limelight of late. An in
timate friend says of him: “His key
note is force. There is force in his
straight stare, his firm set jaw and
even in the insistent bristle of his
clipped mustache. And yet his gen
tleness —that certain adjunct of all
true justice—has more than once
moved the admiration of the specta
• tors of the late nerve-wrecking drama
and the women of the trial have had
resaon many times to be thankful for
his native courtesy. Perhaps this trait
springs from his Irish birth, for he
was born in Ireland in 1857.”
THE WIDOW OF TALMAGE.
A leading favorite in the literary
circles of Washington is the widow of
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the cele
brated Brooklyn preacher. Since the
death of her husband Mrs. Talmage
has spent much of her time in the
capital. She writes for magazines and
newspapers, generally verses, but al
ways under a nom de plume.
BRYAN ON THE TARIFF.
Waterville, Me. —“We have been
raising and lowering the tariff for
about 10 Oyears and I think it about
time to tinker it again, - ’ said William
Jennings Bryan, in his most emphatic
way, when near the close of his ad
dress on the “Value of an Ideal,” de
livered to an audience of 1,200 people
in the Waterville City Opera House re
cently.
The remark was greeted with great
applause. It was not until near the
close of his lecture that Mr. Bryan
said anything that savored of politics.
He declared that he believed in the
right of people to have the kind of
government which they wish.
ABOUT OLD VIRGINIA.
With Jamestown so much in evi
dence just now, Little, Brown & Co.
have acted wisely in adding to their
excellent editions of popular fiction a
new and attractive edition of Maud
Wilder Goodwin’s “The Head of a
Hundred.” This novel, it will be re
membered, presents a fascinating pic
ture of the colony of Virginia in the
early seventeenth century and is alto
gether a stirring romance of those pio
neer days.
AFTER OKLAHOMA SENATORS.
Washington.—“We are going to
make a fight to win everything in
sight in the coming election in the
new state of Oklahoma next August,”
said Chairman Griggs, of the Demo- f
cratic Congressional Committee, re
cently. “Our fight will be for the*,
legislative ticket, which will elect
United States Senators, and for Jv’ '
five members of the National >
of Representatives. We are assi'^ : «
of three Democrats in that delega T ) ’
with two in doubt, and we w-t
them all.” r *
your service and a happy return, to
your family and your grateful ooun-,
try! Farewell, my comrade!” ’ v
Tears were in the voice of McKin-'
ley as he finished and real tears .stood
in the eyes of General Lawton Si
lently he took both the extended 1 mds
hands of the president, pressed dieq;
tenderly and left the car. The admir
ing eyes of a score of great me; fol
lowed him with a wordless. “Hou.
speed.” S. W 9 ’’
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