The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-05
WHITE MANS GOVERNMENT.
Another Humbug RefOrmer on the Southern
Negro Problem.

COLUMBIA, s. c., Dec. 4-Governor
E. Gilman, who was elected on the reform
ticket. composed of the Farmers Alliance
and other Democrats who wanted change
of government, was inaugurated today In
front of the state house at O'Clock, IN the
presence of large crowd. La IN inaugural
address he referred with p1~Asure to the
national victory of the Democratic party,
and in regard to the election OF his own
state said:
"In our own state of South Carolina the
triumph of Democracy and white supre-
macy over mongreliSm and anarchy-o1
civilization over barbarism-has been most
complete. 1t is gratifying to note the fact
that this was attended by polltlcal
phenomenon which was a surprise TO all OF
us: Our colored fellow citizens absolutely
refused to be led to the polls by their
bosses. When it is clearly shown that
majority of our colored voters are no
longer imbued with Republican ideas, the
vexed negro problem will be solved and
the fear of a return OF negro domination
will haunt us no more.
Cannot / appeal to the magnanimity of
the dominant race? Cannot / plead, in
your behalf, that we white men of South
Carolina stand ready to listen kindly TO
all reasonable complaints? to grant all
just rights? and allow safe privileges to
the colored people? that they shall
have equal protection under the law, ana
"a guarantee of fair treatment at our
hands? With the machinery of the law IN
our hands: with every department OF the
vernment-executive, legislative and
judciary-held by white men; with white
Juries, white solicitors, white sherltfs-lt
is simply infamous that resort should be
had TO lynch law, and that prisoners
should be murdered because the people
have grown weary of the laws delay and
;te 3,o5a .Ar, it,ic n
Negroes have nearly always been the
victims, and the confession is blot on our
civilization Let US see to it that the fin
ger of scorn be no more pointed at our
state by reason of this deplorable condi-
tion of affairs. Let punishment for crime,
by whomever committed, be prompt and
impartial and with the removal of the
cause, the effect will disappear. And, as
last desperate remedy, to be used only
when others fail, grant to the executive
the power of absolute removal OF any sher-
if who fails to prevent any such act of VI
olence in his county after the law has TAX
en- control of prisoner. | have thought
it wise to speak in emphatic terms on this
subject: because every CarOlinian worthy
the name, must long TO see the time when
law shall assert its sway, and when our
people will not be divided into hostile po-
litical camps.
I'VE whites have absolute control of the
state government, and we intend to retain
it, The intelligent exercise of the right of
suffrage at once the highest privilege and
most sacred duty of the citizen. is as yet
beyond the capacity of the vast majority of
colored men. We deny that all men are
created equal 1t is not true now, and
was not true when Jefferson wrote it.
But we cannot deny that it is our duty. as
the governing power in South Carolina, to
insure to every individual, black and
white, the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness -
All the other state officers elect were also
sworn in.
1t is now believed that Senator Hampton
will be defeated by Irby. the Tillman can
didate for the United States senate to sue
coed Hampton.