Below are some excerpts from the last speech by Booker T. Washington.
In case you didn't know it, the KKK (meaning, Democrats) were also lynching White Republicans back in the early 1900's.
EXCERPT:
"Since our last meeting the United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision in an Oklahoma case which is of far-reaching value and importance to our race. The main value of this decision, rendered by a Southern Supreme court Justice and an ex-confederate soldier and ex- slave-holder, consists in the fact that it makes plain the idea, once and for all by the Supreme Court of the land, that neither color nor race can debar a man in this country from full citizenship.
I regret to note that the number of lynchings, during the first six months of the calendar year, has increased as compared with the same period a year ago. While the number of Black people lynched is smaller; the number of White people lynched is larger. The increase in the total number lynched should not discourage but should make us renew our energies and double our determination to blot out the crime of lynching from our civilization, whether the man be a White man or a Black man. And I here repeat that which I said in Louisiana a few weeks ago. We must have in this country, law administered by the court and not by the mob. Along with the blotting out of lynchings should go that other relic of barbarism. I refer to public hangings.
In all these matters I am pleading not in the interest of the Negro or the White man, but in the interest of a more strong and perfect civilization." Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), An Address Before The National Negro Business League
Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
Wednesday Night, August 18, 1915
http://www.btwsociety.org/speeches/index.php?file=19150818-nnbl-boston