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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1903
Page
8
A collage of political quips and editorials mentions Tom Johnson, the Georgia assembly, Postmaster General Payne, and Macedonian issues. It critiques civil service reform, reformers, and presidential prospects while lampooning graft, lynchings, and party leaders.
The joint committee reports no wrongdoing by the Georgia General Assembly after a thorough inquiry into lobbying claims. It criticizes the process as biased yet exonerates the legislature, notes Mills’s inconsistent testimony, and urges enforcement of floor rules to curb visiting-guest practices while stressing the body’s integrity and future good legislation.
Hon John Temple Graves spoke at the Chautauqua antilynching conference on lynching and its remedy. He argued mob law is national, detailing how lynching targets both races and highlights separation of white and black races as central, while urging crime focus over mob denunciation. He also critiques party positions on the negro question and constitutional trial before the Supreme Court.
The discussion targets grandfather clauses and compares them to southern suffrage restrictions. It argues these provisions may be removed without injustice, and questions why the national grandfather clause should remain. It notes President Roosevelt’s ancestry as a beneficiary and cautions Democrats against reigniting northern race tensions. It urges focus on state rights and avoids propagating a national race issue.
James McWhirter was injured by a street car and left Grady Hospital after about an hour and a half without receiving medical care. Attorney Hamilton Douglas visited the patient, who was later taken to a physician. Hospital superintendent Dr Brewster said McWhirter was admitted, rushed to the operating room, and then left before doctors could locate Dr Hart or Fleher, provoking anger among friends.
Macon Georgia August 12 Special Alonzo Hambrich was shot by Policeman. The Medical Board of Grady Hospital met last night but no action was taken due to absence of official communication. The initial board of trustees had claimed the medical board is a closed corporation.
A collage of Georgia dialect poems and humorous notes from small town papers. It mixes verse on light, morning, and love with quips about local societies, a court caution, and light satire on subscriptions and the flag. Strong local figures and settings anchor the items.
Bob Nawls, a Black man struck by Ball J. F. Wood in Darktown Saturday night, died at Grady hospital. The coroner held an inquest and returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Weed, held in the Tower since the night of the assault, remained in custody as the case proceeded.
At a summer conference in Chautauqua John Temple Graves, editor of The Atlanta Evening News, urged separation of the races as a remedy to rape and lynching. He argued lynching is provoked by crime and must end by removing the crime, proposing state enclosures for Black Americans and emigration as a gradual solution. He warned reformers against other approaches and cited the mob as a force requiring a legal system to counteract it.
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