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Show HORRIBLE OUi RAGE!" Republican journals are just now actively engaged in hunting up and republishing re-publishing reports of Ku Klux outrages out-rages in the South. It is evident the editors of Republican papers do not believe these stories, ahd understand the object they are expected to attain, yet they continue to reprint and comment com-ment on them. Some time ago the Macon Telegraph and Messenger cooked up a horrible tale of Southern outrages tor the benefit of Republican editors, and set it aQoat The bait took. Republican newspapers copied it everywhere, and some of tbem appended ap-pended feeling editorials on the barbarity barbar-ity of the fiendish Southerners, for which this Macon story served as a text. As the narrative reads, one Adam Sekoh, a loyal Republican living liv-ing in Georgia, was taken from his home at night by a band of Ku Klux, who whipped him, skinned him alive, and finally burned him at the stake, all because he was a Republican. Se-koh, Se-koh, backwards, reads "hokes," and Adam is easily made to read "a dam." Place the words together,, and we have "a dam hokes," just what the story is. The Stockton Independent discovered the trick aDd was not caught, but in the same issue in which it exposes the hoax it publishes a column col-umn of equally absurd reports about Southern outrages. If tne Republican Repub-lican party cannot invent better electioneering elec-tioneering dodges than the Ku Klux outrages it will certainly go to the wall. San, Joaquin Republican, |
