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W«8ai Owtarknu Far Pomiblt Or-iff To Yuit IiatoaIndian spoil*, Ind., July 18. — Fearing an attempt might be made by coal minera at Linton to mob the negro employes of the Wallace Circus, which appeared there today, GoVernor Durbin bad instructions issued yesterday to Captain Dudley, of Terre Haute, to have his militia company ready to go to the scene on shacLfipticE. The fact that this precaution was taken was kept secret. , The Governor warned Mr. Wallace to be onguard.The Governor is bent on subduing the wave of mob violence that seems to have struck Indiana. He anticipated trouble today because the miners hate the negroes so much that last week a mob of 2,000 gathered and com pelled eight negroes to quit serving an Elks’ banquet and leave the town post haste. He could not express his entire contempt of this action.* ‘To my mind it is much worse than the disgracefu) affair at Evansville, said he. “Think of the best citizens of the town trying to give a banquet Vnd having another element rise up and threat* en them if they do not do so andso.”Late this afternoon the Gover nor had a telegram from Mr. Wal* iace saying there had been no trouble at Linton. The negro employes of the circus were left at Switz City during the performance. The Governor remark -ed that be never heard of a circus getting licked, and it is understood he told Wallace to use as much force as necessary to protect his property.Whart Dabs It Right.Eugene V. Dabs should be honored for the bold stand he has taken on the Linton outrages. In an interview with the Terre Haute Gazette he says:“I regard the conduct of the mob at Linton in driving the negro waiters of Alec Sndisoo out of that town as cowardly and brutal beyond tne power of language to express, and they who are responsible for it should themselves be driven to the jungles where they belong, for they are wholly unfit to live in a civil zed community. What had these negroes done to merit such outrageous treatment? They were workingmen and were simply seeking to make an honest living. They went to Linton to do what they were employed to do and to molest or interfere with no one. When the negro is Idle and shiftless society has no patience with him and does not tolerate him. He is denounced and hunted down and lynched. When he seeks to make an honest living he is driven out by the mob. W hen the miners have an other strike, can they blame the negroes.if they take their places? What claim have they on the negro when they refuse to allow him to make a living? In this country the negro has the same rights as the white man and if i^e can be driven from a community by a mob the civil war was fought in vain and our boasted free institutions are a stupendous sham ”
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Bedford Daily Mail
Bedford, Indiana, US
Tue, Jul 14, 1903
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