People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-02
PREACHING VS.. PRACTICE.
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS PREACHERS
OF WHAT THEY DON'T PRACTICE.
Evidence of How Mr.. Watson Is Miss
represented for Political Capital
and Because of Intolerance.

0OOAN
Editor Gonzales, of the city of
Columbia, S. c., charged Tillman
the reform Governor, with being &C.
cessory to the crime of lynching, be
cause, for the purpose of Identified
ton, he allowed a negro charged
with a heinous crime to be carried,
without proper protection, to Den
mark, where he was lynched by a
wild, revengeful and bloodthirsty
mob. The Evening Herald, of Au-
gusta, in editorial comment on this
fierce attack of Governor Tillman by
Editor Gonzales, partially stood by
or took sides with the Governor by
giving expression to the opinion that
the charges were originated and
made for political capital, and be-
cause of political antagonism, hatred
and intolerance on the part of said
editor, and especially because of the
act of-say indiscretion. The popu-
lar voice agreed with the Herald's
condemnation of so unfair and unjust
methods as Gonzales used to politi-
cally cripple Governor Tillman.
And, again, few days, more or
less, after the "some thousands of
years after" the aforesaid deluging of
old mother earth, the Augusta Her
aid published an editorial which
Justly denounced and very severely
criticised the scandal-monger letter
writer's who defame and endeavor to
rob good citizens of their excellent
names and popularity with the peo-
pie. 1t held this class Of quill
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and public censure.
These two editorials, SO oppor-
timely written, were indeed COM
mendable in their sentiment, and
there Is hardly any doubt but that
they caught and pleased the public
ear. But the trouble is, that they
were seemingly written only to please
Judging by the practice that fol-
lows the preaching. These nice lit
tie and dainty morsels of high and
ennobling sentiment, dished out to
the public, SO far as the Herald is
concerned, ended in mere idle talk.
The motto that mockingly swings
above the door OF their entrance into
publicity reads as follows: "Written
to please, but not to be put into
practice"
The Herald cheerfully and almost
eloquently measured out this advice
gratis to their readers, but they have
never taken it home and thoroughly
digested it themselves. The beauti-
full sentiments and advice, while it is
so highly commendable and worthy
of absorption by the public, evidently
magically vanished from the editors
mind before the ink was dry on that
days edition of the paper. Theo-
retically, this paper is certainly pol
ished eloquence when it comes to
preaching, but practically their
preaching is never found to be the
governing rule of their own indl-
vidual conduct,
Why do we make this assertion,
and are we justified in making it?
We will give our reason and let the
thousands of readers of these columns
be the Judge of the right on the
premises.
On last Friday, in Augusta, Henry
Ramsey, the murderer of Marshal
Harris, of Summerville, near Au-
gusta, paid the penalty of his crime
on the gallows, and the Augusta
Herald, after giving lengthy and
very graphic description of the exc
cution, uses the following sentence
in writing up the history of the crime
hat the executed man committed:
GA sensible man would at once have
submitted to the authority of law.
But not so Ramsey. The night be-
fore Tom Watson had delivered one
of his incen diary harangues in the
vicinity, and his remarks had turned
the negro's head. He felt himself
good as a white man" etc.
Your correspondent heard that
harangale of Mr.. Watson's referred
to, dotted down a synopsis of the
sans, and there was nothing of an