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August 21, 1988 - Image 5

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Michigan Citizen, 1988-08-21

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,Dukakis
and the legislative package
By W
o of the'
thenegotia'
Jesse L JaCl:SOIl
Dukakis at t e recent
Democr tic Cooven' • rarely
mentioDed by the ess, w. the
legis live .
Dub' reportedly agreed
to upport several pi as .of
. tioo . are aurentiy
before the Coop'CIS. The pack-
age' des:
- The Du
Bill impos-
ing new anctio on South
" A&'ca;
- The Coa)us bill for same­
day, 0 - ite WIer registration;
- The ABC ailld Care bill
Statet.ood for the District of
Co ma, d
- A lDOJutoIr1II&
nee
In the COIme.
opportunity to
pact both are
controlled by Democrats. Thus,
tunity to be more specific about
what be uId do president
The party Platform' not the
only (and some would argee,
not the niost important) arena
re a preSidential candidate
can ma� importa t romDlit-I,
ments LU •
But Dukakis missed op-
. portamities t both the NAACPi
d tIie ational Urbu League
aDD ua I conferences to really
"tumoe" . audienceswi hs
lana: r ther than rhetoric.,To
Thi eek - n their credit, both udiences I
hi- responded politely - but .
ory: 000 . •
August 21 - Now' outtbat the Del-
·e ,. . orcbestr lu bill proposing tough new .
born 1904. san&tio . t. SOuth Africa
August 22 - Be Ja i. . in daDger of DOt being passed
L dy, colonization' t and in this . n of Congress. The
abolition' died 1839.' So th Africa biD does no have
August 23 - O.E. a greater ct upon Black
patented horseshoe, 1.892. America thaD the . d care or
Augusl24 :- . voter rep� �w:es,. but I
named first" Black alternate the S IIDpad IS uapor­
delegate to United N tions, tant for . y reas�. If the
1950. . Demoa leadershIp allows
At' bill to die, this action will
d organized Brotherbood cast a PUSt baelow of doubt OIl
of Slee' Car Porters, 1925. aU �f . other upposed teo
Aug st 26 - V itments made by Dub ..
�I.I""'" _ ct, composer, ADdifth' ignar sent, the�-
inger and producer, born 1946. rent coo toward Du�
A 1:1- amo g many African I
scholar, a hor and � Americans oould tur into elec-
AACP, died 1963. toral rp mortis.
immedia te assistance by
DUkakis, the ti ular leader of the
party by virtue of his winning the
nominattion, is au cia I to the
passage of these' es right
no . . /
In addition, because the
Democratic Party Platform
frames issues so geoct and
Dub . , policy 'pre ip!ions
are ". 'larly , h'" support
for this leg' lalive, package
prOy'de him ith an oppor-
April 28, 1899
Sam
,
Sam Holt, the negro is thought to have murdered
Alfred Cranford and . d Cranford's wife, was.
bumed the ¥He ODe • and a quarter from e -.
mam, Ga, SUDday afternoon, July 23rd, t 2:30 o'clock.
Fully 2,(XX) people SUJTOUDded the small sapling to which
he fasteaed and c:bed the flames eat y his
flesh, sa 1m body mutilated by knives and witnessed the
coatorti of' body' . extreme ooy. .
Two counties, Camphe and Coweta, directly inter- '
ested in the aimes of the negro, and the entire 51 e have
waited with impatieac:e for the moment when the negro
would pay the penalty for fiendish deeds. Such suffer­
ing has seldom been witnessed, aad thl it all the
negro uttered hardly a cry. Those who witDessed the af­
fair sa the negro meet h· death and saw him tortured
before flames . unfe· " satisfaction. .
For sicke . harroWing de . and blood-
currdling incidca the � 0( Ho . UDSurpassed
by any occarrenee of a like kind ever heard of in the his­
tory of Georgia. A mouIdering scattered
bout the p ee, a b ckcned stake, are aU that was left to
teU the story. Not eYeD the bones Qf the negro were left
in peace, butwere Iy tched by aowd of people
dr WD &om all directiODs, who almost fought over the
burning body of the man, . it ·th their knWes d
seeking souvenirs of the occurrence ..
Holt went to e wi much courage as any
one could possi>ly have po6SCSSed 0 such an occasion,
and the only murmur that i ued from his lips when
angry knives plunged into . flesh and hi life's Iood siz­
zled in the fire before hi eyes.
Tb be aied, -OIl, my God! Oh, Jesus"
The crowd burned Ho believed it had made DO
mistake ofhi . guilt 0 ideDtity. After the farst flames lick­
ed at his feet, be temporaily removed &om the p-
Iing at ich time be' said 0 have adm' led h' guil.

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