The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-21
WANT TO BE LET ALONE.
Atlanta Business Men Think the South
Needs no Special Attention.

Atlanta Business Men Think the South
Needs no Special Attention.
Telegram to the New York Herald.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 13.-Mr. S. M.
Inman, one of the largest cotton buy
ers in the South and a prominent citi-
zen, says in regard to the incoming
administration and the South:-"Put
honest men in office. Whether demo-
Gratis or republicans, let them be honest
men, and as much as possible native to
their surroundings and in sympathy
with the entire people. Let the race
question alone as much as possible, as
we have seen under President Cleve-
lands administration the very rapid
drift toward the friendliest relations
between the whites and negroes. In
any case where fragrant injustice is
done to the negro the sentiment of The
better people of the country will not
stand in the way Of the arrest and
punishment of those who commit such
wrongs. believe that under the pro-
tective idea the industrial growth of the
South will be very great, and that what
we need above all other things is
growth in the direction that will employ
our surplus low priced labor at higher
prices and tend to develop the hidden
resources of this section. 1t is becoming
every day more and more apparent that
our wealth Of resources is simply incal-
culable if a proper economic policy is
pursued to foster and encourage its
developments"
DOING VERY WELL.
Colonel Robert f. Maddox, cotton
buyer and banker, says:-"We are
doing very we'll, and I do not think
they can do anything that will forward
our interest more than to leave US alone.
We will indorse the good and condemn
the bad in the administration"
Colonel George w. Adair, one of the
Oldest business men in the city, says
''Let her go, Gallagher and the South
will take care of herself. The South is
brave, sensible and conservative, and
will stand up to the Union and the
enforcement of the law. The Southern
people and the negroes understand one
another darned sight better than the
Yankees, and we will adjust matters
satisfactorily to ourselves if they will let
us alone"
Mr.. NJ. C. Kiser says:-"This is
government Of the people in which
there should be no legislation for any
particular section"
Mr.. A. H. McAIlister says:-"Con-
gress ought to legislate for the people
and not for party"
Mr.. ?. NJ. Balm, hardware merchant,
says:-Let them attend to their own
business and let US alone and we will
| work out our own salvation"
NO PECULIAR POLICY EXPECTED.
DR.. H. V. NJ. Miller, ex-United
State Senator, says:-"The South
| neither needs, expects nor desires any
peculiar Southern or sectional policy.
What is hoped of the administration is
that it may be conducted in accordance
| with the constitution and the laws, and
! in the interest of the whole people Of
tho United States.n
MI. H. w. Grady says:-"Keep the
hands of Chandler & Co. off and come
and see US. Give US good officials and
a busipcss-like administration"
| Mr. Walker P. Inman, prominent
| business man, says:-"I think they
ought to put the very best men in Office
| and aid the South all they can in de-
| veloping her resources. The South is
rich; she needs only to be let alone and
encouraged. 1 have great faith in Mr..
Harrison's policy. I think he is an ex-
deedingly good man and will President
of the whole country"
Mr.. R. D. Spalding, prominent
wholesale merchant, says;-"kny legis-
lation looking to securing proper
suffrage here would be passed in utter
| ignorance of the situation. The race
| question will settle Itself if left alone.
There is no class of citizens heee that is
denied its right to vote, and any legis-
lation would only have the tendency to
retard the progress of the South, which
is entirely satisfactory to its own people
now"
MI. George Winship, a prominent
manufacturer, says: II think we ought
to have the same showing that every
other section has. If we get this we
will have no cause for complaint"
OPPORTUNITY TO oBLITERATE SEC
TIoNALIsM.
|. CHARLESTON, S. c., February 49,
South Carolina voted against Harrison,
and would do it again, but she will
stand by his administration if he will
stand by South Carolina. If be will
let her alone in the management Of her
domestic affairs she is quite willing
that be shall make all he can out Of
the Presidency. / asked number Of
prominent citizens, politicians and busi-
ness men to-day what the new admin
istration should do for the South. Cap
tain Dawson, member of the National
Democratic Committee, said:-"It
should treat the South as the North
and West are treated. The Southern
States have the same rights and re-
sponsibilities as other States of the
Union, no more and no les. Disregard
their rights and they will neglect or
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