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RIOT REFUGEES.
"nec;uoi;s who fled to the !
TliouuusJ of Ianlc Stricken Women
and iWIJrin Suffered Two Night In
Hie Woods-Some of the Refugee Are
Hiding out One Jlore Victim of
the Itlut Tlie Itac e t oufllc t i Orer.
ltetIon Will be ilveu to White
aud Itlack
The situation in "Wilmington yester
day and ast night was one of abso
; lute quiet u There was no further dis--J
turbance reported from any quarter.
The boa xd of aldermen yesterday au
thorized . the mayor and chief of police
to swe? x in a provisional force of 100
police for duty thirty days, and under
this a uthority a good police force is
being organized. About thirty of the
new men went on duty last night.
Th i civil authorities are still being
assif jted in patrolling the city by the
mili tary embracing about 190 men.
Col' 3nel Walker Taylor, of the Second
reg 4ment, North Carolina State Guard,
is in command and his headquarters
ar e at the armory of the Wilmington
L ight Infantry. The companies in ser
v ice are the Wilmington Light In-
antry, Captain T. C. James; Wil
mington Division Naval Reserves,
Lieutenant II. II. Mcllhenny; Kinston
Division Naval Reserves, Lieutenant
,W. I. Pollock; the Maxton Guards,
Captain G. li. Patterson, and Samp
son Light Infantry, Captain II. W.
Jlines. The armories of the Wilming
ton Light Infantry and Wilmington
X1! vision Naval Reserves are used as
headquarters. Some of the visiting
military sleep in the annex of the First
Uaptist cl-.urch, and some of the Kin
ston reserves are quartered at the res
idence of Commander Geo. L. Morton,
jn North Fourth street, in Brooklyn.
Business in the city went on as usual
yesterday and a stranger m the city
"would not be aware from appearances
that the city had witnessed the riot,
"bloodshed, turbulence and excitement
of Thursday and Thursday night.
There are, of course, unpleasant re
jninders of the terrible experiences of
that eventful day. About noon yes
terday Sam Macfarlane, colored, died
at the city hospital from four terri
ble wounds. lie was the man who
was shot on Harnett street near the
crossing of the Seaboard Air Line and
who was thought to be dead. He was
employed by Messrs. Belden & Howie
nt was on his way home to dinner
Avhen he was shot. He was among a lot
of hands who it was thought were
going to Brooklyn to take a hand in
the riot and who persisted in going on
when warned to go back. He resided
,at 1014 North Second street, and leaves
a widow.
Doctors in their visits about the city
continue to find and treat wounded ne
groes. The seriously wounded are sent
to the city hospital for treatment.
Yesterday John Brown, colored, was
. -admitted to the hospital. He has three
"bullet wounds in his left leg and one
in his right leg.
PANIC STRICKEN NEGROES.
The most distressful circumstance
in connection with the riot, so far as
the negroes are concerned, resulted
from the panic among these people.
Women and children and men tied to
the woods by the thousands on Thurs
day and Friday. The roads were lined
with them, some carrying their bed
ding on their heads and whatever ef
fects could be carried. It was pitiable
to see the children hurrying in fright
after their parents. People who come
into the city from the country reports
that these terror-stricken negroes slept
in the woods Thursday and Friday
nights. They huddled around without
.any protection overhead and many had
nothing but the ground to sleep upon.
Many lied without taking a quilt or
blanket, so that most of them had no
covering, although the weather is yet
nTriu. ltvLs sufficiently cool, however,
to cause suft.ring, and this added to
the fact that tney had, little or noth
ing to eat made their condition pitta
ble. In their hunger and distress, the
people in the country assisted them
as much as they could. They tried to
induce the refugees to come back to
the city, but they would not hear to
it. The most alarming reports went
out to them about the slaughter of ne
groes in the city, and in fact, the tel
egraph carried out the most wildly ex
aggerated messages. Some of the ne
groes are coming back to the city and
-report their experience as awful. They
fay that if they had known tiie whites
would have protected them with their
vKuns they woulG have not taken to the
woods. The fact is all negro men, wo
men and children who came into the
-centre of the city were given protec
tion. The whites armed to protect
their homes and maintain order and
not to shoot unoffending negroes. A
great many negroes are still in the
country and crowds are biviouced
;along the railroads, so we are inform
ed by railroad men
Assistant Chif of Police M. F. H.
Gouverneur took a squad of police into
the woods yesterday and found larre
numbers of negroes who were afraid to
return to their homes. He assured
Hhem that as long as they behaved
Tthemselves and obeyed the laws, they
fjvould ie protected. He told them to
go to their homes and they did so.
THE INQUEST.
The jury summoned by Coroner
Jacobs to inquire into the death of the
negroes who were killed in the riot
last Thursday met yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock at the court house. The
jury was as follows: Colonel John Wil
der Atkinson, foreman, W. M. Cum
ming, E. P. Bailey, J. B. Huggins, Eli
jah Lane, colored, ajid J. W. Yar
fcorough, colored.
Dr. W. D. McMillan, superintendent
of health, testified that the deceased
came to their death from gunshot
wounds.
Dr. Bernice C. Moore. Policeman
Aaron Lockamy, S. HilJ Terry, and
Dr. John Sconwald, eye:dtnesses of
the first shooting, testified to the facts
as contained in The Messenger's ac
count of the riot.
Dr. K E, Zachary testified that Dan
Wright, colored, was. brought to the
city hospital with eleven gunshot
wounds.
Mildren Clinton, sister of Josh Hal
sey, one of the victims, testified that
the body she saw on the day of the
riot was that of her brother, but she
didn't know how he came to his death.
Dr. C. D. Bell testified that he found
that the deceased had been shot, but
by persons to him unknown.
The jury found for its verdict that
Josh Halsey, Daniel Wright, Wm.
Monzon. John L. Gregory. John L.
Townsend and Charles Lindsay came
to their death by gunshot wounds in
flicted by some person or persons to
the jury unknown.
H AMMIIM. ICEI'l'IILICANS
Why Certain Peron were lade to
Leave the City The Planner of their
Kxpulwion.
A good deal is being said in the
northern papers about driving some of
the white and colored republicans out
of Wilmington. Telegrams have been
received here inquiring upon what
grounds the parties were expelled
from the city.
During the riot and the succeeding
twenty-four hours self-constituted
committees orverhauled a number of
objectionable negroes and some of the
white republican leaders and gave
them the choice of leaving the city or
taking the consequences. In several
instances summary violence was only
prevented by cooler citizens. About a
dozen negroes who incited the negroes
to violence or had evil influence were
"banished," a term used by the
"Rough Riders," as the regulators
style themselves.
Several prominent republicans were
given their walking papers, their ex
pulsion being put on the ground that
for years they have kept the negroes
organized and are responsible for
keeping them arrayed against the
whites. Some of these men are un
scrupulous and corrupt and have had
a bad influence on the negroes. The
public, after years of patient tolerance,
has grown tired of these leaders as a
factor of agitation and disturbance,
and the more extreme citizens have
taken this opportunity to get rid of
them. The few white leaders are held
responsible for creating the conditions
which make the negroes insolent and
aggressive in their bearing - towards
the whites, resulting in just such con
flicts as was experienced in Wilming
ton on Thursday.
A race riot has been regarded by
the most conservative citizens of Wil
mington as inevitable a' id they pre
pared for it. Holding the leaders as
indirectly responsible for the riot, a
large element of the community de
termined to rid the city of the dis
turbing element as embodied in the
republican bosses. More or less of them
are also corrupt and are objectionable
as to morals, hence the desire to shift
them off on some other community.
The more prominent republicans who
have been banished are G, Z. French,
acting sheriff, and Dr. S. P. Wright,
who has been mayor of the city for
about two years up to the day of the
riot, and others.
Upon being notified to leave, all but
one of these men appealed for protec
tion till they could reach the tmins
and when the military would escort
them through the streets they were
followed up by crowds of men and
boys who hooted and yelled in glee at
witnessing such a "push."
This method of banishing these peo
ple has not been participated in by the
citizens generally, but they look on
with more or less approval. Many of
the leading citizens condemn the pro
ceeding, others don't care a straw, and
others are both amused and glad.
NOT WANTED IN NEW BEItN
Action of the Citizens to Prevent Those
yietx .lSanilcd from Wilmington
f Stopping There '
i New Bern, N. C, November 11.
The Messenger:
j Dear Sirs: At a meeting of our cit
izens tonight to take measures to pre
vent an influx here of the disorderly
element from your city, or of the mis
j creants who in your righteous indigna-
tion. you have banished from your
i midst, I was directed to correspond
; with you and to request that you pub-
; lish a short notice that such characters
will not be allowed to come here, and
any such who by any means get here
will be promptly and summarily shipp-
; ed or otherwise dealt with. They
will consult their safety and general
well being by remaining away from
here. The city authorities are in per
fect accord and will co-operate with
1 us in this matter.
You will, o? course, understand that
we are not in any way reflecting upon
the action of your people in sending
such creatures away. Far from it. We
approve of it fully, sympathize with
you warmly, and stand ready to aid
you in every way in your good work
so well done, but they must under
stand that they can't stop here, or it
will be worse for them. We gave
three of them short shift tonight and
helped them on their way very
promptly-.
This note will give you the data for
the necessary notice a short one
and we hope you will oblige ue.
With best wishes for you all from
our citizen,
Yours very truly,
GRAHAM DAVES.
If you have been sick you jvill find
Hood's Sarsaparilla the best medicine
you can take to give you appetite and
strength. . . .
THE RACK CONFLICT
CiLIET KESTOKEil
TON
IN WIL.7IING-
The Lit of the Killed Footed I p Only
Six One Jlore Itioter will Probably
Die-Thelan Who Shot ?ir. JIayo
Died Yesterday Morulug-The Vic
tim Hurled Vterday The Inquest
Today
(From The Messenger. Nov. 131th.)
The riot has seemingly come to a
sudden end. The city was very quie:
late last night. About S:4a p. m. there
was some excitement in the riot dis
turbed district. Several shots were
fired from Belcher's Row, a negro
quarter, at Messrs. Tom Brown and
Tony Swann, two white guards, who
were passing, xne guards fired down
the row and that ended the incident.
At 9:45 p. m. three shots were fired
from an alley on Fourth street, near
Harnett, a half block from the corner
where the riot broke out on Thursday.
It is thought the shots were intended
for a passing street car, but it was not
struck. The guards made search, but
did not discover the person who fired.
Everything then became quiet.
Mayor Waddell on yesterday dis
missed the citizens who were sworn in
as special policemen. Last night 150
members of the military companies
were aiding the civil authorties in po
licing the city. The new municipal
government will today organize its po
lice force and the military will no
doubt be withdrawn in a few days.
Mayor Waddell was seen by a Mes
senger representative last night and
was asked for an interview on the sit
uation. He said he was not prepared
to discuss the matter now, but stated
that he had visited the riot quarter
since night and that he could say that
this is the quietest city of 25,000 inhab
itants in the United States. He issues
in this morning's Messenger another
notice that the comparatively few per
sons in this city who seem disposed to
abuse the opportunity of carrying arms
which recent events afforded and who
are doing some very foolish talking
and acting are notified that no further
turbulence or disorderlycjiduct will
be tolerated. They are notified that a
regular police force will preserve or
der and every peaceable citizen, black
and white, will be protected in his per
son and property. No armed patrol
will be allowed to appear on the streets
except those authorized by the chief of
police
Yesterday three more wounded ne
groes, William Lindsey, Sam Macfar
land and Alfred White were admitted
to the city hospital. All the wounded
men, whites and blacks are getting
along very well, except J. R. Davis, a
negro, who is wounded in the kidneys,
having been shot in the back.
Dan Wright, the negro who shot Mr.
W. H. Mayo and who was riddled with
thirteen bullets, died at the hospital
early yesterday morning. We are glad
to report that Mr. Mayo is doing well.
The dead victims of the riot, all ne
groes, were buried yesterday. There
were six of them, as follows:
John Townsend, Charles, Lindsey
and William Mouzon, who were killed
at Fourth arid Harnett streets.
John L. Gregory, who was killed on
Third street, between Harnett and
Swann.
Josh Halsey, who was killed on Bla
den street, near Seventh.
Dan Wright, who was riddled with
bullets for shooting Mr. Mayo.
Messrs. W. H. Mayo and Geo. Piner
are still in the city hospital. In addi
tion to the four wounded negroes ieft
in jail, viz.: George Henry Davis, J. R.
Davis, George Miller and John Daw,
three more were admitted yesterday.
Their names were Alfred White, Wil
liam Lindsey and Sam Macfarland.
They were wounded at Fourth and
Harnett streets.
THE INQUEST.
Coroner Jacobs, pursuant to the sum
mons, was to have held an inquest
yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock over
the dead bodies of the victims of
Thursday's riot, but it was adjourned
till 9 o'clock this morning at the court
house. The jury is composed of Colo
nel John Wilder Atkinson, E. P. Bai
ley, J, B. Huggins, W. M. Cumming,
Elijah Lane and J. W. Tarborough.
HELP OFFERED ON ALL SIDES.
Yesterday's issue of The Messenger
was rushed out under such difficulties
it was absolutely impossible to give
many important matters any atten
tion whatever. Among the mass of
material concerning the riot, the tele
graphic offers of assistance from va
rious points were necessarily laid
aside, but we give them today to show
our readers how easily help could be
secured if it had been required.
The following tenders of assistance
were made through The Messenger:
Lumber Bridge, N. C, November 10.
Captain A. D. Black will bring down
fifty men with Winchesters if needed.
R. F. DEVANE.
Goldsboro, N. C. November 10.
Please wire me briefly at once riot sit
uation; we are ready to come.
JOS. E. ROBINSON.
Dunn. N. C, November 10. Dunn
will furnish two hundred men to help
Wilmington if neces.arv.
COUNTY UNION.
Sumter, S. C. November 10. If Wil
mington needs any assistance tonight
say so. Sumter stands readv to re
spond. H. G. OSTEEN,
Editor The Daily Item.
Washington, D. C, November 10.
Can brine: fifty Tar Heels and Win
chesters; if needed, wire.
S. S. CRITTENDEN.
Atlanta, Ga., November 10. Please
wire situation and who is killed. Give
them hell. Kad I better come.
T. C. DeROSSET.
Mr. W. F. Robertson received the
following offer:
Gibston Station. N. C. November 10.
If you need help, fifty men here will
come. JAS. F. GLENN.
Hon. John D. Bellamy was in receipt
of telegrams offering assistance as follows:
Duglas, Ga., November 11. If you
need help wire us.
HAMMOND & DAVIS.
Rockingham, N. C. November 10.
Hold your ground. Will carry hun
dred Winchesters if needed. Answer.
W. H. McLAURIN.
Oxford, N. C, November 10. Gran
villf will send you 500 men if you need
therh. Answer quick.
W. A. GRAHAM.
Monroe, N. C, November 10. Union
is ready to assist you if necessary. An
swer. GEO. W. MERIDITH.
Oxford, N. C, November 10. The
members of the Granville Grays do
hereby offer their assistance. We re
main subject to orders.
WADE H. BRITT, Capt.
Wilmington, N. C, November 11.
Editors Messenger:
It gives me pleasure to state that
early yesterday afternoon I received a
dispatch from friends in Raleigh ask
ing me to let them know at once if we
needed assistance, and it would be
sent. I referred the telegram to the
commanding officer here, who instruct
ed me to reply that it was not needed
at present and to decline with thanks,
which I did. E. S. MARTIN.
We are permitted to publish the fol
lowing: McColl, S. C, November 10.
Hall & Pearsall, Wilmington, N. C:
Hear you are having a riot. Wire me
particulars. Can send a hundred men
if needed. T. B. GIBSON.
Wilmington, N. C, Nov .10, 7 p. m.
To T. B. Gibson, McColl, S. C:
Whites destroyed Record office at 9
o'clock. Hour later negroes opened
fire, probably killing one and wounding
two white men. Whites returned fire,
killing eight. New city government in
stalled at 5 o'clock. Waddell mayor.
City well guarded and quiet now.
HALL & PEARSALL.
Messrs. J. H. Render & Co., received
the following telegrams during the
riot on Thursday last:
Wire me promptly full particulars.
If need help command us.
M. F. Jones, Yorkville, S. C.
If you want any help wire me at my
expense how many.
P. B. Beard, Salisbury, N. C.
The Next Federal Senate
(Washington Post.)
The control of the United States sen
ate will be determined very largely by
the result of the elections tomorrow,
when twenty-three states elect legis
latures, which will in turn elect sena
tors. The present party strength in
the senate is as follows: Republicans,
43 f democrats, 34; populists, 6; silver
republicans, 6. This gives a majority
to no one party, and it has proved a
fruitful source of doubt in legislation
influenced by party lines.
t The term of thirty of the present
senators are about to expire, and in
most of these cases the legislatures
chosen next Tuesday will elect succes
sors. In seven cases, however, legis
latures already have been chosen and
senators elected, viz: Aldrich of Rhode
Island, Daniel, of Virginia, McComas
to succeed Gorman in Maryland, Han
na of Ohio, Money of Mississippi, Proc
tor of Vermont, and the legislature of
Maine, which has been elected but has
not yet chosen a senator. In Oregon,
also, Simon has been elected to fill a
vacancy. These changes, already
made, give a net gain of two in the
republican vote: McComas of Mary
land and Simon of Oregon.
The remaining twenty-three senators
are yet to be chosen. Those who are
about to retire are: Allen, populist, of
Nebraska; Bate, democrat, of Tennes
see; Burrows, republican, of Michi
gan; Cannon, silver republican, of
Utah; Clark, republican, of Wyoming;
Cockrell, democrat, of Missouri; Davis,
republican, of Minnesota; Faulkner,
democrat, of West Virginia; Gray,
democrat, of Delaware; Hawley, repub
lican, of Connecticut; Lodge, republi
can, of Massachusetts; Mantle, silver
republican, of Montana; Mills, demo
crat, of Texas; Mitchell, democrat, of
Wisconsin; Murphy, democrat, of New
York; Pasco, democrat, of Florida;
Quay, republican, of Pennsylvania;
Roach, democrat, of North Dakota;
Smith, democrat, of New Jersey; Stew
art, silver republican, of Nevada; Tur
pie, democrat, of Indiana; White, dem
ocrat, of California, and Wilson, re
publican, of Washington.
In several of these cases the election
of the present incumbents is expected,
but in quite a large number of them
much doubt exists. The republican
managers are placing reliance on the
fact that they neerl only a few votes to
assure them a clear majority, while
the democrats, populists, and silver re
publicans would have to carry most
all of the doubtful legislatures in or
der to prevent a republican majority.
The states considered most in doubt
are West Virginia. New York, Penn
sylvania, North Dakota, New Jersey,
Indiana. California, Washington, and
Nebraska, conflicting claims being
made in each case. Among the senate
officials the opinion prevails that the
anomalous condition now prevailing
of a senate without a majority will
end with the coming election, and that
the legislatures then chosen will give
assurance of majority rule in the up
per branch of congress after March 4,
next.
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VIEWS ON TIIE ICIOT.
HevC T Hlackwell Call Atteuilou to
Several llemarkable Prature l the
Attalr IMflerius iu Maur llrpet
From Ordinary lllots.
In speaking yesterday with ;h- Rev.
C. S. Ulackwell, Ph. D.. pastor or First
Baptist church, about the race conflict
in Wilmington on Thursday, a Mvs.n
ger representative said:
"Dr. Blackwell, you have had some
observation of riots in different cities,
have you not?"
"Yes, I was pastor in St. Louis dur
ing the labor strikes and railroad and
street car riots in the early 'SO's, and
also in Chicago at the time of the Hay
market bomb throwing and anarchistic
riots and hangings."
"What are your impressions of our dis
turbances in the past few days as com
pared with such things in the west
aid north?"
"They differ in every particular ex
cept in one point, viz: A few people
are killed in both. But the spirit actu
ating both sides, and the methods of
doing it are totally different. There,
the moving motive is primarily mon
ey; hence there is a furious madnt-ss,
inflamed in every instance by liquor.
Here, the ruling motive is the outraged
dignity of a proud dominant race calm
ly determined to assert its innate right
to rule, to protect its person and prop
erty in the midst of an inferior and mis
guided race was secondary. There,
the point of contact is always property,
hence the city, railroads, mine owners
and factory proprietors simply call on
the police to double the force, or on th
government to send the soldiers, or,
perhaps, personally hire Pinkerton
men to stand up and shoot down the
howling and half drunken mobs. There,
the whole thing is a conflict of brawn
and bullion. Hence it was brutal, cold
blooded and hard hearted as the gold
dollars for which each was lighting.
Here the point of contest is person
ality. Here the element of paternalism
entered. Here, no man expected to
make a dollar out of this conflict. All
knew they were loosing money. There
was something deeper and higher than
dollars the dignity of a race, the hon
or of home and family now and for
the future were at stake. Also the re
sponsibilty of teaching a misguided
race was present in every reflecting
mind. Hence the people could not and
did not want to hire police, soldiers,
or foreign detectives to shoot down, or
put back to their birth place the ne
groes. Such a performance would not
have been effective here. In the north,
to quell a labor riot by machines would
be just as effective as by personal su
periority and sacrifice, this being our
lofty motive, our methods had to be in
keeping hence our citizens, all of our
citizens, armed themselves, organized
themselves, drilled themselves for
weeks, met together in our public mass
meetings deliberate with judicious
ness, gave their ultimatum as a master
should, calmly to the other side. It
was not complied with. The white
people, the very best- and practically
all of our citizenship preceded to put
its last word into execution by remov
ing tlje objectionable materials of men.
That a few negroes were shot wa.s a
mere incident. 'You can't make an ome
let without breaking a few eggs.' The
primary punose was not to kill but to
educate."
"You say there was a sort of pater
nalism about our proceedings?"
"Yes, and by that I mean that our
white people do not hate or harbor
malice in their hearts towards the ne
gro. The day following our conflict, the
whites and the negroes were working
right along together in the best of fe,-i-ing.
It was just as if a wise and right
ful ruler of a ward should find that
ward growing insolent from had asso
ciations and took the chiid in hand to
chastise it. After the chastisement the
man does not hate th child and hold
malice in his heart. The white people
here do not hate the negro as such.
We feel that we have these people here
and in a sense are responsible for them.
That we know them as no other peo
ple, not reared with them, can know
them, and that we know they are utter
ly incapable of either ruling themselves
or any body else, and that whenever
they get out of their place they have
to be put back to their place by the
rough hand of material and masterful
force. That is the only kind of reason
ing that finally convinces the negro
race. Capital and labor conflicts are
heartless, ours is heartful. The few
capitalists really fear the many labor
ers. We Anglo-Saxons have no real
fear in our breasts as to the negro.
They kill to save their nuggets. We
kill to save the negro from himself.
"In all this there is not the slightest
disposition to humiliat the n"cr-.
The white people hold the negroes Jn
the highest respect, so long as they ob
serve their place and position. The
white people would and did during th
riot, protect such negroes with their
lives. During the hottest excitement
our best citizens were en on the
streets Conducting nepro men and wo
men to their home?. le?t ome excited
and irresponsible person should insult
or injure them. This is what I mean
by the paternal elementthal enters in
to ctur race conflicts."
"What is your idea as to th future
good ?"
"There will be a lasting and v.hol
some mental respect between th- races
based on a risrht understanding. A
change of manners on t h- stre.-ts for
the better is already observable. It
will lr-ave a lasting ir'd on the minds
of the neyro children. Fr fife-n
years at least, then has gro n up
gradually among the negro children a
spirit of disobedience to their own pa
rent?, and insolence towards white peo
ple in ceneral. and white children in
particular. They had never f-een in all
their liven any strong hand, holding a
rod of chastisement that they had the
least fear of. or respect for. until
Thursday and Friday they looked upon
the rapid-fire guns and Winchesters in
the hands of determined, masterful
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OVM. MKIMO POWOf CO , f TOu
white men, whom they hav- n - t ev
ery day on the streets and uh.m thc
will mett in the future to rep t. it
struck terror to their luarts. It put
new thoughts into th ir wooly in ,hl.
It took out of their minis a quantity
of that false teaching they ha v.- re
ceived from The Record and .th r
sources, and from the f.w white men
who have used thtlr i..r-n:s to secure
olllce. Thene children liae f.v-ii, arul
in a sense felt th" rod. hl,h when
spared too long, is as apt to yjo; k
childish race, as an individual .hi!-: f
any race or family."
"What about the temper of the peo
ple?" "The soberness of the j..,.p,. wu.
characteristic of the hinh and hfiy
work they were performing. Then
was not the l.-ast fear among the hite
people that Heeded to be spurred on t
desperate de-ds by Initio?-, as in the
strike riots. 1 mingled iu the tnids-t of
the hottest of it all day and I JHr
saw an intoxicate, 1 Ht7 n of Wilming
ton. They went about a s.-nous. ami
ar they felt, a religion. duty, fe.-ling
the right of personal responsibility. The
patience of our people with the false
position the negroes wej-e PM t.i as
sume for years was marvellous ami
when they actually took th- e il into
hand to orrect it their spirit of for
bearance was superb."
"Personally, I feel thankful that t
was here at this time I f.- 1 that I
know Wilmington as well as if I ha.I
been reared here. You know you may
live in a community with another m.m
for half a life time and not really know
him. Co in the army with him a wi If,
and see him under the test of tug and
war. and you will know him. After this'
week 1 fell that I really know Wilming
ton, and love it."
Colonel Witildrll
Charlotte Observer.)
Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell. the
leader in the Wilmington crusade for
white supremacy, and the newly elect
ed mayor of that city. Is a man to
whose courage the people of this dis
trict once before appealed puccchs
fully. It was In ISTu, when Klrk'R
gang terrorized the state and when,
the judiciary being exhausted, drum
head court-martials were the order of
the day, that the cry f the people for
a leader was answered from Wilming
ton by the voice of Widd 11. Oliver II.
Dockery was then the jiitting liicmU r
of congress, and was a candidate for
re-election. Those were the days of
reconstruction and in the demoralized
condition of the country It seeme.i ;4
reckless undertaking for a democrat
to enter the field against Io kery. yet
with the magnificent courage of hi
nature Waddell met Iokery on the
stump met him and routed him. ami
defeated him at the polls. ''lori 1 Wad
dell was re-elcte.l to congress in 1S72.
174, and 1 70, and his entire record
there is a splendid one. A a mlnortly
member of the Ku Klux committee, he
rendered the people of his Mate a bril
liant and heroic service.
Colonel Waddell served In the war
as lieutenant -colonel of the Forty-fir M
North Carolina regiment Thifd cav
alry) and does not know what
fear Is. His character is the personifi
cation of bravery, truth and honor. !!
Is an elegant gentleman of the old
school, a well-rounded s h 1 ir and an
eloquent orator. He could have (.on
elected mayor of Wilmington tirm- ami
time again, and w kicw enough of
him to voice the aesurati' e that in ac
cepting H)'' P"-et to whi'h the j,e,,j,!c of
Wilmington yesterday ejected him. bo
was animated by no personal ambition
or private aims, but solely to safe
guard the cty and to protect his f 1
low citize ns, their wlv s. child; en arid
their property. As the j,e.,;,:.. of thK
sec tion tfWded a bader in 17'. so hart
Wilmington needed one Jn the past few
clays, and than Waddell an abler could
riot have been raised.
Foot Hall
Princeton, N. J., November 11'. The
Princeton Tigers defeated the Sons of
KM on IJrokaw field this afternoon by
a More of f to 0. While it was ono
of the most bitterly contested games,
ever witnessed on a football field, it
was at the same time one of the mot
unsatisfactory, not alone to the Yalo
team and their supporters but alno to
the wearers of the orange and black
and those who cheered them on to vic
tory. The solitary touchdown was
made on a miserable fumble by rUht
half back Benjamin when the ball was
within fifteen yards of the Princeton's
goal.
Harvard, IT; Brown l.
Pennsylvania 35; Carlisle Z.
Chicago 6; Wisconsin 0.
University of Michigan 12; Univer
sity of Illinois? 5.
University of Cir.cinniti Zl; Ohio
Wesley an 0.
Cornell 47; Iafayette 0.
Franklin and Marshall 11; BucknelL
11.
New Pern Journal: Word was receiv
ed here yesterday of the sudden death
of Mr. Festu3 Miller, clerk of the su
preme ccurt of Pamlicv county.
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