Orange Daily Tribune. (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 116, Ed. 1 Monday, August 10, 1903 Page: 1 of 5
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His Sentiments on Lynching
Oyster Bay. L. 1., August 9.—-In * let- diate i-fforts of all legislators, Judges.
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Benefit
IK Excursion
The Orange Rifle* are to haw A
The Odd Fellows Bud learned that
Rlflea wafre ta need of monay and
to give aa excursion to the
i to realise mom aad with the gen-
•roaity which mr charactering them
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ered tMr IMíe of tte Liv
or tomorrow night to the hoya
aad they will ran aa excursion
at that time
fi«i;ua« ta Oraage haa the Interest
ot thfii military orgaalsattoa at
la the city ahoojd
tt opon themaelves to personally
the laatiaw la taxed ib bar
Umita oa tomorrow night's n
Tha Odd frsOowe Band will play for
la tha «treat aad at tha
aa «ha boat avsa if tha
tha Rifiae—«ad of
do—take your family down
time you enjoy a
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tha other fallow'* and
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CHICAGO BUICIOE «TORY.
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Her Ufa.
M.—With tha
oí reooverv decided lr uttul
young womaa who attempted
har Ufa la aa apartment at tha
yesterday ateadfaatty re-
to make known har identity.
at aooa ahowed ao te-
la known of har aare tha
ii umiu hlch aha regtatered, Mr*.
Henry Glover. the reglatared from
Moatgornerr. Alabama.
From Information gathered by tha
tha waaum la believed to hare
fwnaorly Hiaa Mart* Oordon. of
aad bar ha
to Aa a realdent of
Tortt, Aagaat 10—Kent
; 0. 8too*, general man-
rchaata Daapateh Tran«-
4 thta city, abot
wtia today, killing bar Inetanily,
' '( blmaalf with probably fatal
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aatlaf action.
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Baaumant Jail la Full.
Beaumoat. Tesaa. August •—Sheriff
Baa Landry aaya that the county Jail
la In a mora congoated condition than
at any t|m« la Ita hlatory. There are
76 prleonera conflaed within the strong
walla of the county's haatlle. of which
Óvar half era negroes. Some of theae
aegroea have bean confined for three
yaara awaiting trial on capital chai -
«a. Many of them bavfc lain in Jail
for over a year. So great haa been
tha preaaure to accommodate them
that the apartments alloted to the
white prtaoaera have been encroached
upon. la the city's department of tha
county Jail there are over sixteen pris-
oners doing small terms, and often
there are two or three times as many.
ter,,the publication of which was au-
thorized today,* President Roosevelt
commends Governor Durbin of Indiana
for the attitude he &i;«umed recently
on the subject of lynching The Pres-
ident also embraces the opportunity
to express his own views In reference
to lynching and ra oh violence general-
ly, pointing out that mob violence Is
merely one form of anairchy, and that
anarchy Is the forerunner of tyrrany.
The President vigorously urges that
the penalty for crimes that induce a
resort to lynching shall 'be applied
iwiftly and surely, but by due process
of the courts, so that It may be demon
strated "that the law la adequate to
deal with crime by freeing it from ev-
every vestige of technicality and de-
lay."
President Roosevelt's latter in full to
Qovernor Durbin follows:
"Oyster Bay, August fl, 1903.—My
dear Governor Durbin: Permit me to
thank -you as an American citizen for
the admirable way In which you have
vindicated the majesty of the law Jby
your recant action In regard to lynch-
ing. I fael, my dear sir, that you have
made all men your debtors who be-
lieve, aa all far-*eelng men must, that
the well being. Indeed the vary exist-
ence of the Republic, depends on that
spirit of orderly liberty under the laup
which la Incompatible with mob vio-
lence as it la with any form of daapot-
and citizens should be addressed in se
curing such reforms in legal proced-
ure as to leave no vestige of excuse
for those misguided men who under-
take to wreak vengeance through vio-
lent method*.
"Men who have been guilty of a
irlme like criminal assault or murder
should be visited with swift and cer-
tain punishment and the Just efforts
made by the court to protect them in
their rights should in no case'be per-
verted into permitting any other tech-
nicality to delay their punishment.
The substantial rights of the prisoner
to a fair trial must, of course, be
guarded, and the law must work,swift-
ly and surely and all the agenta of the
law should realize the wrong they do
when ther permit Justice to be de-
layed or thwarted for insufficient or
technical reasons. We must '-how tlwt
the law Is adequate to deal with crime
by freeing It from every vestige of
technicality Mid delay. But the full-
eat recognition of the horror of the
crime and the most complete lack rf
sympathy with the criminal can not In
the least diminish the horror at the
way in which It has become customary
to avenga theae crimeaand at the.con-
aequencef that are already proceed-
ing therefrom. It Is, of course, inevi-
table that where vengeance Is takan by
a mob that It should frequently light
on innocent people. And the wrong
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ABOUT YOUR PHONE would like to have them
• - and we are going to de-
ORDERS liver them quickly in the future
—and, by the way, we have a
twenty-five cent preparation for cleaning Straw Hats.
Include a box in your next order and surprise your hus-
band, father or brother. Of course, it is at the
GATE CITY DRUG STORE
Originators of Everything Good
and New.
weeping at the conclusion of the little
| scene.
j When the little band started for
their hall, the reporter, prompted by
curiosity, or some deeper, more fntang.
j ible feeling, followed in their wake,
j The ball was comfortably packed
and with the exception of a few gig-
gling girls, whose ignorance seemed
their only distinguishing mark to tell
them from the common herd, the au-
dience was respectfully attentive.
The services opened with a fervent
prayer and then first one and then the
matnlng term of the criminal court
will ra«eU to tha alleviation of tha
crowded and unaanitary condition of
the Jail by thinning out a few of the
prisoners.
On Rlvar and Lake.
Tha steamer Lawrence la acheduled
to laava Beaumont tomorrow at tan
o'clock aad will reach har docks to
thta city at three to tha afternoon. She
now carrlea tha Dicklnaon-Souell string
hand, which will serenade the city
tomorrow afternoon. There will be
aa excuralon tomorrow evening to tee
lake for bathing, aad on Wedneaday
evening the ateamer will take aa In-
vitation party to a ball at Fort Arthur.
There will be dancing oa the boat to-
morrow evening, to the accompaat-
ment of muaic by the noted string
hand.
Shertt Landry la hopeful that the re- Of course, mob violence la simply1 ^ ? cases Is
one form of anarchy, and anarchy Is °®e for which there is no remedy,
now, as It alwaya has been the hand Bnt "> *"> t*>e real criminal is
maid and forerunner of tyrrany. reached, the wrong done by the mob
"I feel that you have not only re- the community itaelf Is well nigh
fleeted honor upon the State which M Especially la this true when
for Its good fortune haa you aa Ita the Imeblng la accompanied by tot
chief executive, bnt upon the whole na ture There are certain hideous alghts
Uon. It la incumbent upon every man whlch> onc® «en, can never b« wholly
throughout this country, not only to from the mental retina. The
bold up your hands In the course you aiere fact of having seen them implies
have been following, but to show his degradation. This Is a thousand fold
realisation that the maUar Is one of "tronger when instead of merely seeing
vital concern to us all. the deed the man has participated In
"AH thoughtful men must feel the Jt- Whoever la any part of our coun-
gr«THt S over the growth of try baa aver taken part In law!e«ly
lynching to this country, and especial- Puttin« to death by dreadful torture
\y over the peculiar hideous forma so ot flr« ®o«t forever have the awful
often taken by mob violence when col- *P®ctacle of hla owe handiwork sear-
ored men are the victims, on which ^ lnto hl* >™*n and soul. He can
occasions the mob eeems to toy the" «*«* Main be tha same man. Thla
moat weight, nril upon the crime. ™ tter of lynching would be a terrible
but upon the color of the criminal. In thln«. even If it stopped with the
n certain proportion of theae cases-the lynching of men guilty of the inhuman
man lynched haa been guilty of a crime of rape, but, as a matter of fact,
crime horrible beyond description, a lawlessnesa of this type never doea
crime ao horrible that, aa far aa he «top. and never can stop In such fasb-
blmself Is concerned, he has forfeited lo°- ***** violent man in the com-
tha right to any kind of sympathy n>n lty la encouraged by every case of
whatever lynching to which the lynchers go un-
"The feeling of all good dtitens that punished, to take the law into hla own
aoch a hideous crime shall not be hid- *««da whenever It suite his conven-
eously punished by mob violence Is In the same way. the use of
due not to the least to sympathy for torture by the mob to certain esses Is
the criminal, but to a very lively aense «"• to apread until it is applied more
of the dreadful consequences which « le8B indiscriminately In other cases,
follow the course taken by the mob in "P'^t of lawlessness grows with
exacting inhuman vengeance for an what it feeds on and when mobs with
Inhuman wrong, to auch caaes, how'- Impunity lynch criminals for one cause
aver. It la wall to remember that the they are certain to begin to lynch real
criminal not merely sins against bu- or alleged criminals for other reasons,
manity in an Inexpiable and unpardon-1 " n the recent cases ot lynching over
able fashion, but slna against hi* cwn, three-fourths were not for criminal
race and doea them a wrong far great-j t all. but for mujrder, attempt-
ar than any white man can possibly do ¡ «nurder, and even leas heinous of-
them. therefore. In such caaes, the col-. w Vi _
ored people throughout the land should ! "Moreover the history of these re
in every possible * y sho* their be- «•« how* the awful toct that
lief that thay more that al oth- ¡ wben the men are habituated to the
era In the community are horrified by' ot torture by lawless bodies to
the" commission of such a crime j *venge crimes ot a peculiarly revolt-
and are peculiarly oonewnoi to taking n* description, other lawless bodies
i
" i
Last night about 7 o'clock a negro
named Nathaatel Griffin and giving hla
reaidence aa Lafayette, La., was picked
up by the aeettoa crew at Diana, a
small atetion on the aouthern Pacific
three miles east of Beaumont in this
oonnty. Sheriff Johnson and «Coroner
Windham were notified and left for
on the west bound Sunset
limited. Arriving there they found
that the negro had been taken on a
handcar to Beaumont, where he waa
put to the hoapttal for treatment
Ftom what tha sheriff could learn the
negro waa beating his way on a freight
by the cuatomary method of riding
the roda. A brakeman climbed down
the aide ladder of the ear on which
the negro waa ridint and ordered him
to Jump off the train. The coon re-
fused and the brakeman took a couple
of shot* at him, frightening htm an
badly that he fall from his place and
to tolling caught one Toot under th«
wheels of the train and having tt am*
puta tad Juat above the ankle, At last
reporta the negro waa alive and will
doubtleaa recovar. if
Since the reeent atabbtog of una
brakeman end aboottng Of another by
negro tramp*, nearly all the trato
crews of this division carry arms aad
they show no mercy to the blaek ho
who undertake to Jeit their
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Salvation
Army Work
In Orange
Newspaper men, surgeons and
butchers are supposed to be without
feeling and It is about as hard to move
them, from the standpoint of sympa-
thetic feeling, as it was for Mabomot I ®tJ,eJ of !be ""le bftn,d f°8e and t^
,, , titled as to their convictions,
to prevail on the mountain to come 0ne glr] who wag ral8ed ,n Orang0
his way, If common rumor Is to be and has Joined the Army since lte or-
belleved. ganlzatlon here, told how she had
Occasionally, however, even a news-; been met by a former girl friend and
paper reporter sees things which cause openly shamed for going into a saloon
his emotional nature to, for a brief pe-
riod, at least, gain the ascendency
Such a scene was witnessed on the
streeta of Orange Saturday night when
CAptain Ragsdale, of the Salvation
Army, waa given a welcome meeting
by the little band of devotees who have
held up the banner of salvation dur-
ing the three months of his absence in
foreign lands.
Captain Ragsdale has Just returned
from a trip to South Africa in search
of health and Saturday night's street
meeting was his first appearance with
the army for over three months. Dur-
ing all that time his devoted, but frail
and delicate, little wife has. tried to
fill hla place to the local corps, and
has put aaide her own persoml trou-
bles in order that sbe might give all
her time and strength to the work of
the Army.
The reporter was walking rapidly
down Fifth street and on turning into
Front he waa confronted with a crowd
of people listening to a sweetly worded
hymn sung to the rollicking tune of
a popular song by a'woman whose
very eyes bespeak her Celtic origin.
The voice had that rich brogue pecul-
iar to the Irish of the better class abd
to sell the War Cry. Sbe triumphantly
Informed her hearers that the Army*a
hinds were twenty cents ahead by her
going into that saloon and she expect"
ed to go into all of them in the future.
There must be something to the
faith of these people which can make
a young and delicately nurtured girl
so far forget her natural shrinking
from vice and debauchery aa to Be
able to enter a saloon full of half or
wholly drunken men and solicit them
to buy the paper publiabed by the Ar-
my. and what ia more peculiar still,
the hardest tough In the town will re-
spectfully take off his bat and, if he
doesn't buy a paper, will at least de-
cline to do ao In a manner far more
courtly than is bis wont.
A rousing welcome meeting waa
held by the Army and the Irish Lieu-
tenant sang several solos to the tunea
of various popular airs. After she had
sung a particularly touching song to
the air of "Down in Poverty Row,"
she looked quizzically at her audience
and said1:
"Guess you think we have got all
the popular tunes, don't you? Well, we
have. The 8alva(A>n Army has all
tbe tunes but one, and it don't want
every possible measure to prevent Us
recurrence and to lirins tbe criminals
to ta.-nedlate Justice Th^ altgltest
lack of vigor, either in denunciation
of the crime or to bringing the crim-
inal to Juattce ta to itaelf unpardon-
able under the tow to expedita the
prooeedtnga of Justice in the case of
auch aa awful crime. But tt can not
he neceaajiry to order to accomplish
thta to deprive any cjtteen of those
fundamental right* to be heard to hi*
own defenae which are ao dear to ua
all and which are at the root of our
liberty. It certainly ought to be po*.
■Ible by the proper administration of
the law to secure swift vengaaoe upon
the criminal: and the best and imme-
■■■■ ffifywiilP
Mi
h touch
will use torture to order to punish
crime* of an ordinary type.
"Surely no patriot can fail to see
the fearful brutallzation and debase-
ment which the indulgence of such a
spirit and auch practices Inevitably
portend. Surely all public men, all
writers for the daily press, all clergy-
men, all teachers, all who anyway have
a right to addreas the public, should
with every energy unite to denounce
such crime* and to support those en
gaged to putting them down. As a
people we claim the right to speak
with peculiar emphasis for freedom
and for fair treatment of all men with-
out regard to'difference* of race, for-
tune, cre<U or «color. We forfeit the
right so to apeak when we commit or
co'ndone such crime* as these of which
1 speak.
"The nation, like the individual, can
not commit a crime with impunity. If
we are guilty of lawlessnesa and bru-
tal violence, whether our gutlt con-
alst* in active participation therein or
In mere connivance and encourage-
ment, we shall aasuredly suffer/ later
on account of what we have done. The
cornaí «tone of this Republic, as of aU
free government*, if respect lor aad
obedience to the law. WW we per-
law to be defied or evaded,
r by rich man or
3
t&x
mmi'w
by
of
rang with the religious fervor peculiar 'that one. It's the spittoon."
to the volatile sons and daughters of! The meeting resulted In u e oonver-
the Emerald Isle when they allow them-' sion of one young man whose Ufe
selves to become religiously enthused, thus far has never benefited himself
The singer was Lieutenant Winters, jor any one else. And if it never doea
of San Antonio, who has been here a any further good in Orange this one
couple of weeks assisting in the Ar-
my's noble work of saving souls.
conversion — if it sticks—repays the
young man's friends for all they or the
At the conclusion of her song she community have ever contributed to
stepped quickly to the side of the the support of tbe Salvation Army in
ring formed by the members of the i Orange.
corps and taking hold of the arm of
a frail little woman led her out into
tbe center of tbe ring and said:
"Friends, this is the Captain'B wife.
You all know her, and what she has
gone through with in tbe past few
months. She will tell you her own
story far better than could I."
Mrs. Ragsdale told of the many
trials she bad gone through with in
Orange. Tbe loss of their beloved
child was "bared between her and her to Tho ^ibune
devoted husband, but when he was
Decided
Batson
Must Hang
stricken down and seemed already on
his Journey home, she was loft to
bear the burden alone. She told how
her truat in a higher power had sus-
tained her through. the weeks of hlB
enforced absence from her side and
of how her faith had sustained her
even when it was Impossible to hear
from him and she knew not whether
he tiras alive or dead. And when she
told of his safe return, better, strong-
er and healthier than ever, ready te
take up the good fight with renewed
energy and recuperated strength. She
pointed á moral for her bearers by
asking them if such faith and such a
reward were not far better than none
at all.
Then her rosy cheeked daughter, a
tot of eight or ten. came forward and
In her sweet, childish treble voico,
asked the crowd if they did not want
to secure such faith and love and trust
a* her tether and mother had. A*
the little one ceased speaking the big
tether, robust and strong in hi* re-
covered health, stepped quickly for*
ward and gathering hla little wife in
hi* arms to a perfectly human manner,
her aad said: "Thto 1* my wife,
~ we will continue to the
'MH *e paat to
LAKE CHARLES, LA., AUGUST 10.
—GOVERNOR HEARD HAS AN-
NOUNCED THAT BATSON'S SEN-
TENCE OF DEATH MU8T BE EX-
ECUTED.
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Negro Hurt by a Train,
Beaumont, Texas. August Í .—An un-
known negro bad his right leg cut off
and sustained other injuries that will
doubtless cause his death from falling
between the trucks of an east bound
freight, train at 8:30 o'clock this even-
ing. The negro was stealing a ride on
the freight when a brakeman ordered
him to get off and, It is said, opened
fire on htm and the negro leaped from
thb train but waa drawn under by the
suction and the wheel* passed over
him severing the right leg. The af-
fair happened Just across
bridge on the Orange county
the river. The negro wa* *
a hand car to the Southern 1
pi tal and later removed to
Dtea, where hla condtUon I*
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Rein, Charles M. Orange Daily Tribune. (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 116, Ed. 1 Monday, August 10, 1903, newspaper, August 10, 1903; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth182891/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.