Show LYNCHING OF BAKER ittie killing of a colored postmaster B baker some time ago at city S C is about as black a 4 I 1 08 was ever registered in the ant lof crime it to is extremely as showing allowing the influence over pub ao j morale by the frequent application law without the interfere r of the legal authorities be C with sanguinary revenge for 9 unspeakable outrage it leads the to du to the taking of life for smaller es and ends as in the present with murder without provocation july president mckinley ap 1 mr baker postmaster at lake the white population opposed appointment ip on account of race ice ce and because it was supposed appointment was in payment of a lacal acal debt owing to this feeling ra impossible to secure in the vil fa aal place for the post postoffice office and this J fatally located in a school house abe outskirts on the night of the A of february a crowd of white tone is gathered around bakers e and set it on fire when the attempted to escape from the lee they were fired on baker fell at the first volley his wife was sy wounded and a baby in her i killed two daughters were also hied ed it Is as doubtful whether g all the deeds of savagery at ted ed to the wild aborigines ab origins of this ry there is any that surpasses I 1 in n ty this cold blooded assassination 0 only crime charged against r was that he not having a white had dared to accept the appoint j to a federal office for this he alile entire family including the in adt teabe babe were doomed to die by aalon on of that court in which lynch lite supreme and from which there y appeal unless such proceedings speedily greedily put a stop to they will ply jr in the land until neither life is safe the people of t adouth uth are at present clamoring fo for r y liberation tion of the cubans it seems high time for organized and en tc le effort to free some sections of inbae ine south from the tyranny of a a mob and that in the interest whole country |