McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 17, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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THEY DO WANT IT
Some folks, those who want to elect ail easy guy for sheriff, tell you they don't want an officer that will enforce the
law. This is true of the law violators, hut how about your boy my fellow citizens? Do you want to raise him under these
environments? Just a few nights ago the officers captured a young boy in one of the leading stores in Idabel. Don't you
believe if the law had been enforced heretofore on that boy it would have been better for him and his parents? The time
has come in your county when your home and your children need a different atmosphere. You need law enforcement
and the sooner you get it the better county, better people and better homes. You may let the lawless element keep getting
a toe hold, and you will find in a few years a court docket filled with more murderers than at present and you will keep
paying high taxes and good folks will keep moving out and making room for the tough element
Don't tell me the good people of McCurtain county want that to exist in our county. Every man who loves his home,
his children and his country wants officers that will protect them. If a thief goes into your lot and steals your mules, vou
want a sheriff that will at once take his trail and get those mules. Don't you? If a law violator slips tovour window and
kills you or some of your family you want a sheriff that will be the first man 011 the ground and catch that assassin. Don't
you? You do. If a man steals your cattle you want a sheriff that wilf get you the cattle and the man who stole them.
Now, I have made no promises but what 1 expect to fulfill. My record will bear me out. Who captured the Millerton
bank robbers? Who captured the Lindsey bank robhers? I spent night after night riding after these robbers and finally
landed them. They are now in the penitentiary.
If you want a sheriff to make a good officer the good people will have to co-operate with him.
You want a sheriff for your protection and for the protection of your home and propertv.
If you don't want that kind of sheriff then you won't vote for me.
Yours respectfully,
L. A. NEESE
A PARIS PASTOR
HURLS DEFIANCE
IN FACE OF MOB
THE REV. R. P. SHULER EXCOR-
IATES MOB WHICH BURNED
NEGROES IN PARIS
The Rev. R. P. Shuler, of Paris, in
a lengthy article, printed in circu*
!r." form, excoriates the mob which
burned two negroes in Paris last
Tuesday night, and especially goes
after the men who dragged the char-j
red torsos of the victims through the
colored quarters in Paris after the1
burning.
He condemns the act and protests:
against mob law in general, and pays
tribute to the good negroes of Paris'
whom he says were law-abiding un-
der the most distressing circum-
stances.
The Rev. Shuler closes . his argu-1
ment against mob law by hurling de-'
fiance at the mob spirit which he
says was ready to murder him be-;
a
-when "delicious and re-
freshing" mean the most.
The Coca-Coca Company
atlanta. ga.
cause of his attitude, with the fol-
lowing:
"And since I have said the above,:
may I say another word to the ne-
groes. Wednesday night the best
citizens of Paris, more than a hun-
dred strong stood at their posts all
over this city guarding your lives and
property with their lives. If the ne-
gro race will show its appreciation by.
living as these good men desire them
to live, much of the terrors of the ]
past will be removed from the path
of their race. We can never save the
negro until he decides to become an
honest, tireless, faithful helper of the
white man who desires to defend him.j
The attitude of many negroes toward
farm labor and other work, their
seeming disposi'ion not to assist the
farmers in earnest fashion and at^
fair enumeration had much to do j
with the spirit of the mob. The lead-1
ers of the negroes shotfld by all j
means teach diligently that the one;
hope of the negro race and any other
race is honest, faithful work.
"The above statement, I make in
the face of the advice that has come
to nie from many friends that such a
policy is and will be at present un-!
safe for me. I am informed that my!
life has been numerously threatened
if I should make such a staiement. I
am told that the mob used my name
repeatedly in such a manner as to
very much concern my friends. I can
truthfully say that the attitude of
this mob toward me does not in the
least concern me. Better men than;
myself have gladly died when far
less was at stake. I am only con-
cerned in doing my God-appointed
duty in this situation. Therefore,
without apology or plea for quarters
I unhesitatingly condemn the burn-1
ing of these negroes in our city as an
act of lawlessness, which if carried
to its legitimate ends would destroy
our government and damn our civil-
ization. And in making this state-
ment I ask for neither the protection
of niy friends nor the mercy of my
enemies."
YOUTHFUL CONVICTS TO
BE TRANSFERRED
McAlester, July 13.—Nine armed
guards under the direction of A. L.
Jedlicka, assistant deputy warden,
will form the escort for 131 convicts
under the ages of 22, who will be
sent from the state penitentiary het-e
to the reformatory at Granite, on a
special train Thursday morning.
These same guards will oversee the
transfer of 150 convicts from Granite
to McAlester.
The transfer will mark the Begin-
There never was a gander yet,
Allowed to ramble loose,
But he was mortal sure to get
I ning of an attempt by- fhe state toI
j reform youthful "first termers" by J
(segregating them from men of «the |
hardened criminal type. Among thej
men who will be transferred to Mc- j Entangled with a goose
Alester it Bill Tidwell, one of Okla
homa's famous bank robbers, who has
served numerous terms in prisons of
i the country..
FATE.
There never was a goose so grey
But some day, soon or late,
An honest gander came that way,
j And claimed her for his mate.
|For every boy who's lonely
There's a girl who's lonely too;
j A little girl who's pining,
And it may be just for you.
jAnd if youll only find her,
I You'll find a sweet reminder,
That for every boy who's lonely
I There's a girl who's lonely too.
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W. A. LOFTIN
"BLACK REDS" KILL
, WOMEN, CHILDREN
AND MANY JAPS
Washington, July 13.—The kill-
I ing of 134 Japanese soldiers and hu'1-
Itireds of women and children at Niko-.
j laievsk by "black reds" under Trap-.
| itsin, during March, April and May. j
j wat reported to the American consul i
at Vladivostok by an American citi- ]
zen named Dyer, who arrived there:
Ion a Japanese transport July 5".
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