New Kuklux In Kentucky.
Night Riders of the "Black Patch," Bound by Awful Oath, Devas
tate Thirty-two Counties of Two States In Ruth
less War Against Tobacco Trust.
The Night Ride-* of Kentucky auJ
Tennessee Is the name of n secret and
desperate and daring clan that has
?truck awe to the hearts of the people
of thirty counties In the fairest por
tion of the fair southland, furnished a
thrilling topic of conversation for
southerners everywhere and drawn the
attention of the nation.
Id open defiance of the commands ofj
governors, the orders of Judges. the,
warnings of newspapers, the admoni
tion of the society to which Its mem
bers are alleged to belong and tbe ad
verse public sentiment In the section
where It flourishes this clan has con
tinued Its depredations and work of
destruction unharmed, undaunted and
practically unmolested. Coming whence
no one knows, doing Its work with
martial precision and dispatch. It
leaves no clew, open or veiled, for the
most vigilant and valorous officers to
And whither It went, when It will
strike again or where.
Not since the days of the reconstruc
tion period has such an organization
existed, rivaling In every feature, of
lug little city of Hopklnsvllle, in Chrlo
tiun county, Ky., captured tie police
department. stopped traffic on two
great railway systems and applied the
torch to three enormous warehouse*
fllled with tobacco, among which was
one belonging to John C. Latham, a
New York banker and owner of the
lnrgeet tobacco warehouse In weetern
Kentucky. The tnvsdors then com
pletely riddled with bulleta the offices
of a newspaper belonging to the mayor
of the town, who through his paper
had condemned their acta of lawless
ness. The loss In the raid was esti
mated At In round numbers $200,000.
State Fire Marshal Ayrcs hurried to
the scene and made one arrest, the ac
cused man having little trouble In es
tablishing ail Indisputable alibi and
being released.
Close on the Hopklnsvllle Invasion
and while the court was still Investi
gating that depredation 300 of the ma
rauders descended on Russellvllle, an
other Kentucky town, about thirty
miles from Hopklnsvllle as the crow
flies. Pursuing their regular methods.
BURNING OF THE Rl'SSELLVlLLE TOBACCO WAREHOUSES.
ten surpassing, the terrible work of
the Kuklux Klau, with Its member
ship a hundredfold more desperate. Au
unexpected, mysterious, mythical fores
?trlkes swiftly under the cover of durk
nees and Is away, leaving only the
presence of a burned and charred rulu
of once proud tol>aeco factories and
warehouses to attest to Its presence.
Human Ufe Is not worth a feathers
weight where reckless persons venture
from their residences during a raid
and refuse to Immediately obey a com
mand of unuueetlonable ta?aa!ag to ra
ta rn.
That a to the death compact exists
between Its members there U every
reason to believe.
For the origin of this terrible organi
sation we must look to the war be
tween the planters of the "black
patch" of Kentucky and Tennessee,
the "dark tobacco district" and the
American Tobacco company, the so
called tobacco trust. The trust had
succeeded In so dominating the dark
tobacco district that It was sble to get
*11 the product at Its own prices.
On Sept 24, In the year 1904, a thou
sand men formed the Dark Tobacco
Planters' Protective association and
pledged themselTes to bold their staple
for living prices. The move was con
tagious, and other similar organisa
tions sprang Into existence until their
total membership controlled 90 per
cent of all the tobacco raised. Fair
prices were demandvd and for awhile
apparently willingly given, bat saeh a
rich plum was not to be snatched by
the action of a "handful of Ignorant
planters" without a stubborn fight.
Prices which otherwise would hsve
been considered enormous were of
fered to Individual farmers who had
pledged themselves to sell as a body
In the endeavor to rend asunder the
?olid and determined phalanx of dis
gusted planters. The offers were at
fljet refused, but later some planters
yielded to the blandishments and the
Dcuey of the trust
It was to prevent eecessloas from the
planters' pool that the Night Rld?r*
Were organized, though the Dark TV>
becea Planters' Protective association
Is not openly charged with responsibil
ity fot the Night Riders' acts. Any
planter who sells his product below
the price set by the planters' pool be
comes an Immediate object of the
Klght Riders' vengeance, and newspa
pers and lndlrlduals who dare to criti
cise Night Riders are not leee severely
dealt with. Recently the Night Riders
have grown bolder and more desperate
than eTer and from attacks on iso
lated tobacco farms have turned to
concerted assaults on large towns
which have Incurred their enmity. Not
long ago a band of (Wad Night Riders
la numbers of betrreea *tro and three
feiaftVd ,w?epad m the
tUe rider* completely surrounded th#
place, located guards at point* or van
tage and proceeded to carry out their
Intention of destroying two large
trust" factories. The electric lights
were turned otf, th? telephone utUccs,
two In number, were seized, the raiders
courteously and politely but firmly tell
ing the young women In charge that
no harm would come to them so long
ns they did not touch the switch
boards. Members ef the fire depart
ment wtm Intercepted on their way to
extinguish the burning warehouse* Ig
nited by riders and turned back. Peo
ple who left their residences to Ascer
tain the cause of the excitement re
wired orders to rMorn. A passenger
tralu uboiit to enter tn# place was flag
ged Just outside the clfy limits and Its
engine drirer commanded to make no
nse of hi* whistle while passing
tf..-r :g> the town and no harm would
cotae to him. his crew or passengers.
No pM'wcs! violence w*s offered the
cltlafi* w"io' respected instructions to
remain in their homes wUUe the work
of dexiructwn was l>etng carried on.
but tbr><? nun who came eat into the
streets were >bot. Three buildings nd
Jacent t?> the warehouses vi>r? uiso
consumed bv lames, the entire li>ss
totaling ?i?iip(Uins over SlOCtOOt in
bulldlnr* and tot-acco.
After tiie work of destruction had
been comp!et?l tli? riders met in one
of the prluciphl stt?sets. counted their
number, tired a parting volley into the
air and, as usual, vsnlshed Into the
folds of the darkness nf ulght.
On the liisrht of Jnn U3 a band 01
! fifty masked Night Riders took posses
sion of the Arcadia hot<5| at Dawson
Springs. Ky? and after terrifying the
guests by "shooting up" tin place took
John Heath, au Independent tobacco
buyer, who wns a guest, to a river
nenr by aud upon threats of a "duck
ing" made him promise not to soil any
more tobacco.
Hv.-tt) f.ualiy found bis way back to
the hotel, and ttts masked raiders dis
appeared.
Governor Augustus K. Wlllsoo, the
? new chief of the commonwealth of
Kentucky, has not only offered large
j rewards for the apprehension of the
riders, but a large bonus for Informa
lly which will lead to the arrest o i
any on* of the elan, promising at the
same time the protection of th* militia
of the stats to the Informant Govern
or Wlllson has sent troops Into the
towns touched hy the ridars' ruthless
hands to prevent a recurrence of the
offense
Goveraor MaJeol* R. Pattarsou of
Tennessee has boss equally active to
prevent these outbreaks within the
Volunteer Btata, and bis efforts have
been In the main successful. Tennes
see has been free from activity on
tbstr part fbr major Mfln Ul Kds
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