Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1903 — EX-MAYOR NcGINLEY ON RACE RIOTS. [ARTICLE]

EX-MAYOR McGINLEY ON RACE RIOTS.

In the Drake murder case at Covington the jury failed to agree and a new trial will be necessary. During the first half of 1903 there has been 45 lynchings in the United States, and of this number 39 were negroes. John F. Judy has sold his newspaper the Warren Review, to Senator Goodwine of Warren county, who will steer its editorial helm for the present. "The lowa idea” on the tariff was designed to satisfy those republicans who demand reform, but it has produced no consternation among the "captains of industry” so far as observed. Delphi will have no street carnival this year. The business men did not take kindly to the project again and the promotors have abandonded it. Street carnivals are fast becoming a thing of the past in Indiana. It is proclaimed, as usual, that Kansas farmers are offering $2.50 a day and board for harvest hands. The harvest will be over, long before the formal opening of the fall political campaign. For almost eleven months in the year Kansas farmers do all their own work. —Ex.

The Obicago Tribane each year tabulates the cost of Fourth of July celebrations in deaths, injur* iea, fires, eto. The number of casualties this year exceeded those of any previous year, there beiDg 52 deaths, recorded up to Monday, 3,665 injuries, and $400,625 fire loss. Of the causes of injuries, fireworks are responsiblejfor 1,170; sky rockets, 206; cannon, 319; firearms, 562; toy pistols, 559; gunpowder, 768, and runaways, 81.

Senator Allison was relied on to write a tariff resolution for the lowa Republican Convention that would keep the “regulars” and the Cumminsitee from getting into each other’s hair. It wasn’t such a hard task, although. All the Senator had to do was to acknowledge the plain proposition that the tariff ought be revised; that duties which were too low should be raised and duties which were too high should be reduoed; and then leave out every thing about the date of revision. A good many people can be fooled by such an easy shuffle, but not all of them all the time. Mr. Linooln left some plain but telling phraseology behind him.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Down at Evansville where the race riot occurred last week, the republican politicians have catered to the colored and whiskey vote and have imported colored people by the score from the southern states in order to continue the republican party in power. The negro and the whiskey vote has been a potent factor in politics in that city and county for years, and the decent people of all parties are becoming tired of this domination. Evansville has 900 saloons, several of the more notorious being run by negroes; the license fee in the city is but $75, and such a thing as closing the doors of drinking places on Bunday or any

other time when they are required by statute to keep closed, has not been thought of. No attempt to enforce the laws against the saloon-keeper has been made* for years. With such a state of affairs it is not to be wondered that a class of people have grown up there who have no respect for anything and the laws of the state in particular. In fact, it would be more surprising if the conditions were otherwise. Why, the republican judge of the county, Judge Rasch, is a confessed bribe-taker in selling appointments under him, and it is not surprising that Evansville and Vanderburgh county has come in for the worst raking from the press of tbe whole country that was ever given a community in Indiana.

Dispatches received from Ellisworth county, Kan., state that the carload of harvest hands sent there from New York city and a number of the leading colleges of the East find the work before them anything but a pleasant summer outting. Thirty-one of the forty are college students with untanned skin and tender hands. The others have been clerking in stores all their lives. When the new arrivals were told that the eighthour day did not apply to the harvest fields and that the farmers were not looking for social lions, their hearts grew heavy and sad. They will have to work,, however, for they are without money. Tbe college boys were told the farmers’ day begins at 4 a. m., and ends when it is no longer possible to drive the big machine, about 8 in the evening. There is an hour for dinner, another for supper and lunch,- and fourteen hours of the hardest kipd of tQil, under a blazing sun. The harvesters must get up at 3:30 in the morning. He cannot get to bed before 9 o’clock in the evening. He gets five meals a day, breakfast at 3:45, lunch at 9, dinner at 12, supper at 5, and another lunch before he goes to bed. Some of the students telegraphed their friends in East that the business of harvesting wheat in Kansas is anything but a picnic.

Indianapolis Sentinel: Ex-Mayor F. E. D, McGinley of Lafayette was seven times Mayor of that city and who is known to fame as the originator of the first Sunday newspaper published in the United States, was at the governor’s office yesterday. Mr. McGinley was associated with Horace Greeley in New York journalism in his early days. He said concerning the negro situation: “I regard myself as a friend of the negro, but I must say 1 have to admit that the negro is bringing much of his present trouble on himself. We have no race war outbreaks as yet in Lafayette, but I can’t predict how long a peaceful condition will exist. I don’t want to take a gloomy view of things, but I must say frankly that the arrogance of the negro of the present day is bound to lead to trouble, no matter what steps are taken to ward it off. The troublesome negroes in the cities and towns of this state will cause great suffering and wrong to the inoffensive people of their own blood. I was glad to see in The Sentinel that some of the better class of negroes here are about to take steps to drive out or suppress the disorderly element. The sooner they do this the better, if they desire to avert outbreaks similar to that at Evansville. Unscrupulous white men here and elsewhere who cater to the worst element of the negroes for political purposes are in my opinion as guilty as the “negro rowdies who commit crimes.”