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Show NEGROES PLOTTED AGAINST VHITES CONFESSIONS OBTAINED BY AN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE SHOW MURDER PLANS. Startling Statement is Made by Ar-kansan Ar-kansan Said to Have Been Picked As First Victim of Blacks Led by Negro Farmer. lleli'tia, Ark. A Ht ;i ( r-mcii I Iium hern Hindi: mi tin; recent riots by K. M. Allen, nl' (lie ciiiiinilftee of seven, authorized au-thorized hy lociil offieers nuil (en'er-Imr (en'er-Imr I'.mugli to investigate tlie trouble, charging Hint Hie iilTnlr was mi organized or-ganized negro uprising, fuslereil liy a negro who preyed on t Jit ignorance and superstition of 11 nice of children for monetary gains." Mr. Allen, who was one of tsventy-one tsventy-one ieniling men marked for death, after af-ter hearing confessions, examining circulars cir-culars anil other evidence procured by stale and military officers in connection connec-tion wllh the Work of Ihe committee, Issued a statement: to explain what the coniuiillee had found to lie Ihe situation sit-uation leading to the killing of five while men anil upwards of a score of negroes. The present trouble" with the no-croes no-croes in Phillips county is not ti race riot, nccnnllng to Mr. Allen. It Is a deliberately planned insurrection ol the negroes, against the whites, direct-ed direct-ed by an organization known as the "Progressive Farmers atu! Household Union of America," established for the purpose of bunding negroes together for the killing of while people. This union was started by Hubert L. Hill, a negro twenty-six years old of Winchester, Ark., who saw in it an opportunity of making easy money. He had been n farmer all his life, but lately had been posing as a "private detective doing work in this and all foreign countries." i lie started his first union work in April of this year. He organized the "Ratio Lodge" Tii May of tills year. lie told the darkies that lie was an agent of e government and because the senator mid lscnTa fives Tn Washington Wash-ington were white men and in sympathy sym-pathy with the white men of the south, it was impossible for the negroes ne-groes to get the rights that have been promised them for service in the army and so the government had called into existence this organization which would be supported by the government in defense of the negroes against the white people. He told them it was necessary for all members of the union to firm themselves in preparation for The clay when they should be called upon to attack their white oppressors. Men were charged $1.50 for entrance fees and women 50 cents. The slogan of the organization is " e battle for our rights." The password of all the negroes was "We have just begun." Kvery negro who joined these lodges was given to understand, that ultimate-im ultimate-im would be "called ujn"njj to kill whiTe people. lfliiiTiestWtj.bl, the time for attack had been set, but piano had not been entirely perfected, and Ihe shooting of the officers at Helena brought on the insurrection ahead of schedule. |