The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-07-29
IDA WhLLS' REPLY.
She Denies Gov. Northen'f Charge or Work
inc In the Interest Of tho West.

The New York sun Of yesterday printed
a column and "a haIf statement from Ida
3. Wells. the mulatto woman who has
inst returned to this country from Eng
land and Scotland where she spent
months denouncing the people Of the
South for lynching negro men.
The suns account says.
Miss ida +. Wells. who recently returned
from her lecturing tour in England Where
she endeayored 10 arouse pubic sentiment
against the lyuching OF negroes III lhe
sputhern states of this country, teft TINS
CITY Yesterday for Anacosua, -. g. WheIe
she viii be the guest OF fredtIch lure
lass She will confer with Mt. douglass
i'm regard 10 continuing in TINS count
the agitation OF the question 10 "Hl,l
she intends 10 devote herself. fItNiOu7
10 ner departure she gave tne ioll'Wl"s
answer 10 the letter of JOnn Iaul BOtoch
Ina Yesterdays sun. Mr.. BOcOc< asked
that Miss Wells should explain TINS STATE
ueut which was printed ib tht inter
view with her in the sun Of THURSDAY
81 wanted the moral support OF ina
wise CHRISTIAN nation 't.ns'dHW
should demand in this country that the
negro shall have fair triaI WhcI
charged with crime, ana not De Iliue l"e
scapegoat Of q white man CRIME OF "
white WOman's falsehoOd. .u. .t.
What { meant" said Miss Nehs. is
thai / desire England 20 demand for the
colored people the justice winch mas bcch
deule. us when we have made the de-
mand for ourselves. ] repeal mat nesi 'c9
should not be- made the scdpesoat Oh d
white mans crime or "a Whlte "v"'"I .
falsehOOd. by that ] mean 10 say lu'
negroes have been known 20 be the scape-
goats for white men crimes. .
Continuing. Ida Wells says. Up u
Nay /. 1874, Their" have been Hlty lEH'.'
irps this year Eight u the nifty put y
dn3th were ACCUSED Of Grin i0h a. dhll.
Two were women. one. VINO was cHdlk
with the murder Of a white chhd, was Ply
into barrel. through the sices ol W lt,.t
nails had been driven. ana was oIi' u
down Il hill she vas then dra8sed OUT
and hanged to tree. Bullets were li'i
into the body. TWO We're huthe4 dHF'
\ negro iu am Arkansas town WIS SUI
On down with smallpox. He was quaraH-
tined in hut. and q physician was SUN
mOucd Ou his arrival he found sinoid'i
ing logs about a mass ~ chaIIeu poI.,a.
Railroad haf Is were charged WIN t"T
crime and some confessed 10 nave bdl
ricaded the door and SCI fire 90 the hni.
Not only have lynchingn increased III
number. hut Il wider area Of territory j.
embraced Now York had one IN l%Z. ana
Illinois two last year ONO mas Add TWO
since January LIST and Pennsylvania one
Jess than two months ago. The grand
Jury in each case refused 20 indict the
offenders. because members OF the JuI .,
were either participants or witnesses u
1T is impossible to get u Jury to con
wet the lynchtrs Of "a negro, no matter
with what crime De was charged. SoH'h
ern papers have pointed out recently INA
lyncheis of negroes in the North 30 un-
punished as well ass those IN the SOuth.
Governor Northen, Of Georgia, say
YOU are. working in the interest OF
western band boom" said the reporter
Gle is far from the truth. The London
DaHy News OF June 15th. commenting on
the laying alive of negro, hrst POM ga
Out that the South WAS making an eloi
to obtain foreign emigration ana foreign
cauital but as long as such OutIdSeS CON
tinued without the lynchcrs being nun
Ishrd such appeals would be I'm vain. Thai
is The FIRST / heard Of that phase of the
'"rhe English people made their owl
deductions and passed sympathetic reso'
tutinns saw how IT would auect tht
South in a way her people would need
we have no hope that the appeal 10 3D.,
humanity Of southern pcopl" would Do
effcctive We thought AS appeal 20 tn
pOcketbOCk would be OF greater avail
Hence the labor unions, without any ~us-
| gestions from capitalists, passed resolu-
| tons promising 20 avoid those parts of
| the United States whore laWlessne~s was
| encouraged Governor NOrthcu wrote d
| letter 10 the Chronicle. IN which Ee char.
/ acterized my statements as false. HE dit
not dare 20 say lynchlugs We're not preVa.
lent in Georgia. For me 20 be- in Great
/ Britain meant as much of 4 hearing for
me AS for him. Nearly one hundred ne
grocs have been lynched In Georgia since
/ ne was elected. Tie has taken no step,
/ to punish the lyucners / pointed uu'
! that the Georgia Legislature has ptssed
resolutions condemning iyncting. ON,
! would have thought De- would defend tho
good name OF his State Toy pointing /,
these resolutions. but that would be an
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of the fact that GeJrgia
has lynchings. which he denied.