[New Orleans States, Thursday, June 26, 1919.] THREE THOUSAND WILL BURN NEGRO-NEGRO JERKY AND SULLEN AS BURNING HOUR NEARS-TO BE TAKEN TO SCENE OF CRIME AND STOOD BEFORE CROWD. ELLISVILLE, Miss., June 26 (Special). As 4 o'clock approaches, John Hartfield, assailant of the Ellisville white girl, is being carefully guarded in the office of Dr. Carter of this city. The wounded Negro has confessed and seems very nervous. Dissention has broken out among the indignant citizens as to what disposition should be made of the prisoner. It is said the Negro will be taken to the scene of his crime, near the Ellisville railroad tracks, where he attacked Miss Meek, and will be stood up where everybody can see him. Some of the angry citizens, it is said, want Hartfield lynched, while others want him burned. ELLISVILLE, Miss., June 26 (Special). Walter Crawley and Will Rogers, two farmers, were members of the posse who shot Hartfield in the shoulder and effected his capture. Three thousand strangers are in Ellisville to-day to witness the disposition of John Hartfield, Negro assailant of Miss Meek. Officers are unable to control the crowds. HATTIESBURG, MISS., June 26. John Hartfield, Negro assailant of an Ellisville young woman, has been brought to Ellisville from Collins and is guarded by officers in the office of Dr. Carter in that city. He is wounded in the shoulder. The officers have agreed to turn him over to the people at 4 o'clock this afternoon when it is expected he will be burned. [From the Jackson, Miss., Daily News, Thursday, June 26, 1919.] JOHN HARTFIELD WILL BE LYNCHED BY ELLISVILLE MOB AT 5 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON-GOVERNOR BILBO SAYS HE IS POWERLESS TO PREVENT IT-THOUSANDS OF OF PEOPLE ARE FLOCKING INTO ELLISVILLE TO ATTEND THE EVENT SHERIFF AND AUTHORITIES ARE POWERLESS TO PREVENT IT. HATTIESBURG, June 26. John Hartfield, the negro alleged to have assaulted an Ellisville young woman, has been taken to Ellisville and is guarded by officers in the office of Dr. Carter in that city. He is wounded in the shoulder but not seriously. The officers have agreed to turn him over to the people of the city at 4 o'clock this afternoon, when it is expected he will be burned. The negro is said to have made a partial confession. GOV. BILBO SAYS HE IS POWERLESS. When Gov. Bilbo was shown the above dispatch and asked what action, if any, he intended to take to prevent the affair, he said: "I am powerelss to prevent it. We have guns for State Militia, but no men. It is impossible to send troops to the scene for the obvious reason that we have no troops. A committee of Ellisville citizens has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the event, and the mob is pledged to act in conformity with these arrangements. Rev. L. G. Gates, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Laurel, left here at 1 o'clock for Ellisville to entreat the mob to use discretion. A thing like that, possible in the daily papers, published in the United States of America! If that is not enough to call for action on the part of the Government, I know of nothing that could possibly move it. And now the 12,000,000 or 15,000,000 Negroes in the United States can not understand this committee or Congress itself quibbling over whether the preponderance of opinion is for or against the constitutionality of a measure such as contemplated here. Mr. YATES. Can you give the date and place of that outrage Mr. DYER. I think Mr. Johnson has the data on this. Mr. TROTTER. I will leave the data to be furnished by the gentlemen. Mr. SPINGARN. It was May 17, 1919, in Banks County, Ga Mr. TROTTER. I like this bill. It says because of race, nationɛ or religion. That is the new order of the day, that is the w order, that is the European order. Why should we be be Europe? That is what they required. They did not require themselves, their allies, but they required it of all those whom could force and, what is more, in saying so, they said that was only proper practice and that all constituted subjects of governí must have it because of race, nationality, or religion. I want to thank you gentlemen for this opportunity to be h and to say that this is our position which is in a petition to the league of nations in these words: The peace of the world has not been made secure unless and until the uni civilized governments declares for identity of public rights and protection o without distinction of race and color. Mr. Chairman, I ask that I be permitted to enter into the rec the anti-lynching petition which was presented to President Wil in Paris while he was over there exercising the powers of "the Pi dent from the other side." The CHAIRMAN. That may be inserted. (The petition referred to is as follows:) Hon. WOODROW WILSON, HEADQUARTERS OF DELEGATE TO PARIS President of the United States of America, Maison Blanche, 11, Place des Etats Unis, Paris. SIR: Lawlessness and mob murder against citizens of color continue to take pl in our common country, the United States of America. This was so while the w peace agreement was being written. Day before yesterday, while the entente al are waiting for the peace treaty to be signed by Germany, a man of color was tal by the mob from the courthouse itself, in the State of Missouri, and lynched in courthouse yard, after the court had decided that life imprisonment was the pi ishment due the victim for killing officers when arrested. Yesterday here in France in your Memorial Day address at the graves of Americ soldiers you declared: "I stand consecrated to the lads sent here to die." Many them were lads of color, gallant and loyal, fighting for France, for civilization, a for world democracy. Will you therefore for their sakes and that they shall not ha died in vain, grant to their kin and race at home protection of rights and of life in t world peace agreement. And will you not at once send a special message to Congre recommending that lynching be made a crime against the Federal Government? This request is made in the name of the National Equal Rights League, who elected delegate to Paris I am. Yours for world democracy, WILLIAM TROTTER, Delegate to Paris and Secretary of Mr. TROTTER. I would also like to ask the privilege of insertin the petition that was presented for an amendment to the league nations in behalf of democracy for the colored Americans, and as i refers to this country, I would feel it was the fair thing for me t to have this in this record that the Congress of the United State. might know what the National Equal Rights League was saying to Mr. YATES. Can you give the date and place of that outrage? Mr. DYER. I think Mr. Johnson has the data on this. Mr. TROTTER. I will leave the data to be furnished by the other gentlemen. Mr. SPINGARN. It was May 17, 1919, in Banks County, Ga Mr. TROTTER. I like this bill. It says because of race, nationality, or religion. That is the new order of the day, that is the world order, that is the European order. Why should we be behind Europe? That is what they required. They did not require it of themselves, their allies, but they required it of all those whom they could force and, what is more, in saying so, they said that was the only proper practice and that all constituted subjects of government must have it because of race, nationality, or religion. I want to thank you gentlemen for this opportunity to be heard and to say that this is our position which is in a petition to the new league of nations in these words: The peace of the world has not been made secure unless and until the union of civilized governments declares for identity of public rights and protection of life without distinction of race and color. Mr. Chairman, I ask that I be permitted to enter into the record the anti-lynching petition which was presented to President Wilson in Paris while he was over there exercising the powers of "the President from the other side." The CHAIRMAN. That may be inserted. (The petition referred to is as follows:) Hon. WOODROW WILSON, HEADQUARTERS OF DELEGATE TO PARIS President of the United States of America, Maison Blanche, 11, Place des Etats Unis, Paris. SIR: Lawlessness and mob murder against citizens of color continue to take place in our common country, the United States of America. This was so while the world peace agreement was being written. Day before yesterday, while the entente allies are waiting for the peace treaty to be signed by Germany, a man of color was taken by the mob from the courthouse itself, in the State of Missouri, and lynched in the courthouse yard, after the court had decided that life imprisonment was the punishment due the victim for killing officers when arrested. Yesterday here in France in your Memorial Day address at the graves of American soldiers you declared: "I stand consecrated to the lads sent here to die.” Many of them were lads of color, gallant and loyal, fighting for France, for civilization, and for world democracy. Will you therefore for their sakes and that they shall not have died in vain, grant to their kin and race at home protection of rights and of life in the world peace agreement. And will you not at once send a special message to Congress recommending that lynching be made a crime against the Federal Government? This request is made in the name of the National Equal Rights League, whose elected delegate to Paris I am. Yours for world democracy, WILLIAM TROTTER, Mr. TROTTER. I would also like to ask the privilege of inserting the petition that was presented for an amendment to the league of nations in behalf of democracy for the colored Americans, and as it refers to this country, I would feel it was the fair thing for me to to have this in this record that the Congress of the United States might know what the National Equal Rights League was saying to the league of nations about the treatment in this country of the negro, if we want to be above board about it. it entered in the record for that reason. The CHAIRMAN. It may be inserted. (The petition referred to is as follows:) I would like to have PETITION FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. [By the delegation of race petitioners of the National Colored World Democracy Congress conducted by the National Equal Rights League of the United States of America, in behalf of 14,000,000 colored Americans of African extraction, 10, Place de la Bourse, Paris, July 3, 1919.] TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND TO THE PREAMBLE. Whereas during the world war against the Teutonic Allies, incarnating the spirit of autocracy, a war of terrible blood and devastation, the most sanguinary and destructive in history, and after the surrender of said forces, the avowed and heralded object of fighting was, on the part of the Entente Allies and associated nations, that of establishing liberty, humanity, and democracy for the world and for all persons therein; (see Annex A,) and Whereas incidentally colored Americans participated (as did the colored nationals of all the Entente Allies and associated nations) in the fighting and in all the various modes of combatting by work and sacrifice the said armies of autocracy, in full proportion to their numbers (see Annex B); and Whereas notoriously and indisputably colored Americans are deprived of and denied, either in law or in fact, or in both, full liberty, democracy and humanity in much of the domain of the United States of America and by such influence to some extent in fact in Canada and Cuba (see Annex C); and Whereas neither in the covenant of the League of Nations, nor in the treaty of peace itself, that with Germany, nor in the treaty with Austria, nor in any of the conventions of the conference of world peace is there any word or clause giving or designed to give full liberty, democracy, or humanity to the colored citizens of the allied or associated nations, or which operates to abolish any of the abridgements or deprivations of liberty, democracy, and humanity notoriously suffered by colored Americans, or to change in any of these respects their pre-World-War condition; and Whereas there has been no action of the conference of world peace to the end of protecting these millions of colored Americans in the assurance in fact of the full privileges of citizenship and against any discrimination against them because of race, of assuring them full protection of life and liberty without distinction of race or the enjoyment by all citizens of the associated American powers of same civil and political rights without distinction as to race or religion; and such absence of action constitutes a failure by default to execute and fulfill the proclaimed purpose of the World War and the solemn promises of the accredited spokesmen of the Entente Allies; and Whereas said above-mentioned nonaction leaves unabated the dissatisfaction and unrest of said colored Americans, in fact, increases their resentment, and by shutting forever the door of hope for the attainment of respect and equality of treatment, turning despair into desperation, creates a condition calculated to disturb the peace of nations, which peace is the chief object of the peace conference; the National Equal Rights League and the National Colored World Democracy Congress, assembled by said league, representing the 14,000,000 colored Americans, more or less, who furnished nearly half a million brave soldiers for the Allies and associated nations, soldiers who never faltered or flinched, who freely offered their lives for democracy for all, herewith petitions the League of Nations to insert in its covenant a clause designed to vouchsafe to this and other like racial minorities among the citizens of the allied and associated nations full democracy. To this end we submit for consideration and adoption either (a) the clause sent by cable to the League of Nations commission in March, 1919, and on record with the secretary of that commission in the following form: "Real democracy for world being avowed aim of nations establishing League of Nations, the high contracting parties agree to grant their citizens, respectively, full liberty, rights of democracy, and protection of life without distinction based on race, color, or previous condition"; or (b), add the following words to section B of article 23 of the covenant of the League of |