SEPTEMBER 15. 1916 



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lionie, and T think I tuny saj- in the office consider for m mdiiiciii wliat one woman can 

 too, than I have ever known before. The do when she has an inspiialion : and she is 

 fly crusade is proving to be a success. Just not a very big woman after aU. 



TEMPERANCE 



MOB LAW AND THE SALOON BUSINESS AT 

 LIMA, OHIO. 



On this first day of September tlie papers 

 are printing big headlines in regard to a 

 mob of about 3000 that stormed the jail at 

 Lima, Ohio, because a big colored man 

 assaulted a young wife, slashing her with a 

 knife, and because the sheriff refused to 

 tell them where to find the culprit whom 

 he had taken prisoner. They put a rope 

 around his neck and threatened to hang 

 him. See the following from the Plain 

 Dealer: 



Lima, Aug. 30. — Sheriff Eley, who escaped the 

 mob, was found hiding in the Elks' home. He was 

 taken to the principal street corner by 1000 blood- 

 crazed men, a rope placed around his neck, and the 

 end thrown over a street-railway pole. The m ib 

 threatens to hang Eley unless he tells where the ne- 

 gro is hidden. Efforts of police to reach Eley were 

 futile. 



The mob cut the trolley rope from an interurban 

 car and knotted it about Eley's neck. Police are 

 powerless. Chief McKinney has called on all citi- 

 zens to join his forces, but no one has responded. 



If I am correct, this good sheriff refused 

 to hand over the prisoner to a crazy mob, 

 even tho his refusal might cost him liis life. 

 Read the following: 



Doris, four years old, daughter of Sheriff Eley, 

 died in the city hospital tonight. The child, seri- 

 ously ill last night, was carried from the sheriff's 

 house when part of the mob went thru the building 

 in search of the sheriff'. She died this evening with 

 her bruised and battered father at her bedside. 



A sister of Mrs. Eley, a nervous wreck as a re 

 suit of the violence, is in the same hospital. 



S.W GRUDGK WAS RE.XSON . 



Lima officials without any equivocation charge the 

 roughest element of the city with making yesterday's 

 assault on Mrs. Vician Baber by a negro giant an 

 excuse to settle a gi-udge it has borne Sheriff Eley 

 for a year. County Prosecutor Ortha O. Barr has 

 a list of nearly fifty of the ringleaders of that drink- 

 inflamed niob that wanted to lynch the negro, and 

 then wreaked its vengeance on the sheriff who foiled 

 its plot. 



Swift retribution is promised the ruffians who 

 broke into the jail and dangled the naked sheriff 

 at the end of a rope because he would not reveal the 

 hiding place of Charles Daniels, the herculean as- 

 sailant of Mrs. Baber. Prosecutor Barr will submit 

 his list of names and full details of the orgy to the 

 grand jury next Tuesday. 



Mayor Bayliss Simpson and Chief of Police Rollie 

 H. McKinney corroborate the assertion of Prosecutor 

 Barr that the attack on the sheriff was the culmina- 

 tion of a year of persecution following Sheriff Eley's 

 appeal to the militia to stop a prize fight in Lima 

 last Labor Day. Both the mayor and the chief of 

 police have assured Prosecutor Barr they will back 

 him to the limit in his determination to punish the 

 ring-leaders. 



There are several things in the above to 

 which I wish to call attention. First, if I 

 am correct this same crazy drunken mob 

 lynched a negro some time ago. Second, it 

 was not their righteous zeal to avenge the 

 wrong suffered by the young womaii so 

 much as it was to vent their spite on this 

 righteous and courageous sheriff. About a 

 year ago he was instrumental in stopping a 

 prizefight that was going to be "pulled off" 

 by this same crowd. The county prosecu- 

 tor tells us there were nearly fifty " drink- 

 inflamed " ringleaders, and things were in 

 such a wretched state of aft'aiis at Lima 

 that a crowd estimated at 3000, full of 

 drink, followed the drunken rabble. I do 

 not know how many saloons are now run- 

 ning in Lima. When the trouble first start- 

 ed, somebody had sense enough to order the 

 saloons all closed. I do not kno\v whether 

 tlie order was really carried out or not. 



Just one thing more. There were two 

 saloons in the city that were run by negroes. 

 If any town or city permits colored men 

 to run a saloon, selling to black or white 

 or anybod}' else, is it anything strange that 

 a colored man, crazy with drink, should 

 assault a defenseless white woman? Noth- 

 ing is said in any of the pai^ers, so far as 

 I can gather, about going to the bottom of 

 the matter, and closing the saloons, for all 

 time to come. The order was given to close 

 the saloons after the drunken mob got un- 

 der wa}^; but it did not seem to occur to 

 anybody that the saloons running day and 

 night, full blast, would, as a matter of 

 course, bear just such fruit as Lima is now 

 gathering. Has not the prohibition wave 

 reached Allen Co.? and is it not about time 

 that she decide, like the rest of the world, 

 that it is the saloon that is the real guilty 

 party — not the negi'oes nor the Indians, 

 nor low-down white men ? May God help 

 us. 



'' AIOB tonic;" SHALL OHIO CONTINUE TO 

 SUPPLY IT? 



After the above was iji print I found the 

 following in the American Issue for Sept. 8. 

 Notice the concluding words: 



T.IMA MOR STARTKl) FROM A SALOON. 



According to press reports, it was a liquor-in- 

 flamed mob which disgraced Lima last week, and 

 which resulted in the sheriff nearly losing his life, 

 and in the death of the little daughter of th(» sheriff 

 from the shock of the mob's attack on the jail to get 

 a prisoner to lynch him. 



