Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-11
THE SOUTH DOESN'T LIKE IT
Governors Views on the English Lynching
Investigation
The Committee Of Foreigners Told ia
Look at Their Own Homes
Indignant COmments.

New York World: IAN English committee
has been sent here to investigate and de-
pounce southern lynchings. Will you please
telegraph us what you think of English
meddling with our affairs?"
The governors reply is as follows:
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Gov
ERNOR'S OFFICE,
RICHMOND, Va, September o. 1894.
Things have come to a pretty pass in this
country when We are to have a lot Of Eng
lish moralists sticking their noses into our
internal affairs. 1t Is the quintessence Of
brass and impudence. They had better
sweep in front OF their own doors before
seeking to regulate U.S. We might as well
investigate English affairs in India, her
Whitechapel murderers, her Jack the Rip
pers slashings, the Maybrick trial and her
alleged injustice and cruelty to this woman.
her rapacious colonial policy in Africa and
the degrading effects upon the Chinese re-
sulting from her opium war.
what do they propose to do, in case they
md that the law Is not administered here
according to their ideas? Declare war
against US. or open the walls Of their wrath
upon our heads? What information do they
seek? Do they want to know that the
white people in the south have lynched
negroes whose miserable lusts led them to
the commission Of the black crime OF rape
investigate. for such Is the fact
Do they desire to know that this has been
done by Infatuated communities for the pro-
lection OF their white women, and to save
the victims of these fiends from the humili-
alton OF testifying in courts? If so. this is
the fact.
Do they want to know whether there was
any doubt as to the guilt Of the men
lynched? If so. for the satisfaction of their
yearning souls, they could have ascertained
without encountering the perils of a sea
trip that their guilt was clear in every in
stance.
If they had desired to learn whether these
lynchings were permitted or countenanced
by the civil authorities, they could have
learned through the regular channels Of cor
respondence that in every case the civil
authorities were either without knowledge
or were overpowered. In Virginia, the
authorities in every case have asserted all
and within the last few months have pro-
tected from violence, with military, at heavy
expense to the state, three negroes, who
were charged with outraging white women.
They had fair trials. were convicted and
executed.
While lynch law is to be condemned. and
every effort has been and will be made to
suppress 1t in the south without the advice
Of these would-be philanthropists, who have
taken SO much upon themselves. lynchings
will surely cease when the crime Of rape
ceases. These sympathetic Enslishmen
might find missionary work among the
against the consequences Of the forcibls
qualification Of their devilish lusts.
CHAHLES i. OFERRALtl
Governor Of Virginia
Gov. Northen's Views.
In reply to a similar query in regard to
the English lynching committee, Gov.
Northen wired the following reply:
Say to the English committee who
have come to this country to investigate
and denounce lynchings in the south.' that
I am in q position to know that they have
received their Information from irrespon-
sible sources. and that the English people
have declined and refused to be properly
informed about our laws and the conduct
OF our government. The English papers, to
my knowledge, have declined time and
again to publish statements made to them
in defense Of the south by Englishmea who
are now residents Of the south. Under
these conditions, we do not wan; any fur
Their outside hypocrftical cant apon false
ideas Of our government. The people of
this state are quite able to administer their
own affairs. and they are doing IL in full
justice to the negro. as our Laws and our
conduct will attest.
I'VE have already endured more outside
interference in our local matters than we
will submissivey tolerate in the future.
Let these kindly disposed Englishmen
return to their own country and prevent
by law the inhuman sale of virtuous girls
to lustful men in high places; hang all
such demons as Jack the Ripper; punish
as It deserves the barba rous, , whole
sale slaughter Of negroes in Africa by En-
SnSnmen VINO go tneTe Steaf their XO10,
supply the necessities to prevent bread and
labor riots and strikes. which are wholly
unknown to the people Of the south; feed
and give employment to the poor. as do the
Irishman the rights humanity demands;
and when they shall have pulled the beam
out OF their own eyes, then they may, with
better grace. appoint themselves a COM
mittee to hunt for the mote that may be in
our eyes.
while we have Irregularities at the
south, and negroes are sometimes lynched,
they are never slaughtered by wholesale, as
Englishmen sometimes destroy them.
Il send you by mail the law and record
Of my state on these matters, and / chal-
lenge not only the English committee on
lynchings at the south, but the civilized
an investigation to 'denounce' the south
just prior to cor gressional election, when we
have just had a negro lynched in Kansas
April 2, another in Ohio on the Sabbath,
April Is, and when white Poles and Hun
garians have recently been brutally BUTCH
cred in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and
negroes run out of Franklin Park, N. j.,
in herds. We challenge Investigation by
all persons who have the right to investi-
gate these charges but any attempt upon
the part Of Englishmen, tainted with their
own national crimes, to arraign us for trial
must be considered as a gross impertinence.
Nv. ]. NORTHERN.
Governor of Georgia."
Gov. McCOnnell's Reply.
Gov Mcconnell Of Idaho sent the follow
Ing dispatch in reply to the query regard
ing the English lynching committee:
In reply I beg leave to say that as the
President seems to be In touch with the
English people on the tariff and coinage
questions. apparently taking his cue from
that astute nation, 1t may be possible that
the committee to which you refer Is coming
here on his invitation, or that Of the Sec
rotary Of State. In that case courtesy
would impel me to withhold my opinion.
which might be offensive to che distin-
guished visitors
Gov. Tillman Polite.
Gov. Tillman fas wired the following to
New York paper:
In reply to your telegram of this date,
would say the Englishmen are welcome to
South Carolina, and to learn the truth.
They can't investigate us from New York.
I will afford them every facility to get at
facts. B. r. TILLMAN,
Governor Of South Carolina"
Advised to Go Home.
Governor Fishback of Arkansas sent the
following reply:
THAT England. a foreign country and one
which pays less than one-third as much
morey per capita for the education Of its
people as the states pay, should assume the
role Of missionary to teach US cur duty,
can but excite ridicule as well as resent