Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — BOYCOTT THE POSTMASTER. [ARTICLE]

BOYCOTT THE POSTMASTER.

Hogansville, GA., Citizens Find the Negro Backed by the Law. The recent shooting of the negro postmaster at Hogansville, Ga., threatens to entail no end of Trouble for the people of that tewn. It is stated that two of the most prominent business men in the town will be arrested on a charge of attempting to assassinate the postmaster. The people of the town have never yet patronized the negro postmaster directly, the old postmaster, Hardaway, maintaining his old postofflee and sending for and obtaining in bulk the mail matter for all his white patrons. The ex-postmaster will will be prosecuted for this. When this action was announced a few days ago the citizens conceived the plan of having their mail sent to the next nearest postoffice and sending a carrier for it. They are now told that this would be in violation of the law which pennits only the government to maintain a post route.