The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-15

TO be told. Beside this Jeffries on the
DehcH sat an old man. whose head was
~ VINO nad fought on the field of bat
We Tor states rights, who had been
speaker OF the House of Representatives
u south Carolina, and in whose hand
Wrlung part Of your registration laws
exist N our archives; there he sat. wear
lns alike the judicial ermine hearing his
STATE DETAINED, his comrades in arms de-
no1nced as rebels, and his own handi-
MoIh auJuuged crime. If the law was
crime, was he not the criminal2 Should
ms mead have not been bent and his eyes
MOST with tears Of humiliation Alas.
they were not.
With Mephistophelean grin On his
Wfinkied face. he nodded assent 20 the
sost infamous document ever emanatiug
rom a court in equity, while the black
audience exclaimed: "A Daniel has come
70 judgment. yea, a Daniel"
The ex-senator who has been holding
caucuses in Columbia at private houses,
having the ear of the court and holding
the foot of the chancellor" return ed 20
MS home. feeling that his movements had
not been detected; but the responsibility
shall rest where it belongs Let the peo-
pie not blame the poor. lean and hungry
counsel, who are barking merely for a
bone, but visit the sin upon the heads of
the arch conspirators.
A crisis confronts us. an issue has been
thrust upon us without our will or consent
at a time when peace was lowering over
the state South Carolina is enjoying an
era of industrial Improvement, factories
are being built in greater number than
tlStM mere III llle SOuAH. 4 ne circuit "a AAte
state ranks higher than ever in It's his
tory. our bonds not being purchasable at
a premium of less than 10 per cent. The
m1rch of progress is about to be stopped;
the black pail sf negro domination
hovers over us; we must meet
the issue like South Carolinians. There
are only two flags, the white ana The the
black, under which will you enlist: The
one the white peaceful flag of Anglo
Saxon civilization and progress; or the
other, the black flag of the debased and
ferF1r Afrfnnn vfrfth u
who are seeking to marshal the negroes,
in order to regain political power? 1t Is
fortunate that the issue comes at this
time when constitution is to be made
guaranteeing white supremacy once ana
forever. The constitutional convention
must be controlled by white men, not
white men with black hearts, nor negroes
The world must be shown that we are
capable of governing ourselves and that
constitution or no constitution, law or no
law, court or no court the intelligent
white men of South Carolina intend to
govern her. Let the man who undertakes
to lead the ignorant blacks against you
suffer as he did in 1876 and remember that
eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
/ will not call the legislature together.
They could do nothing. An appeal will
be taken to the supreme court of the
United States, but under the red tape and
tecbnicalities surrounding it, a decision
cannot be had in time to affect the election
of delegates. 1t must be free open
fight. | appeal to the sovereign people o-
South Carolina, the wisest and safest ana
pureSt tribunal, to protect their homes
and liberties. They have never failed to
respond to duty. The government of the
people must and shall be perpetuated ana
we are ready to lead the fight under the
white mans flag. Your Obedient servant,
John Gary Evans, Governor.
The State, a democratic newspaper will
say tomorrow, discussing the manifesto
of Gov. Evans, that il bears intrinsic evil
dence- of the Workmanship Of Senator Till
man, his patron and prompter. and al
though intended to serve unworthy pur-
poses, it viii prove of value in revealing to
the people of the country the true char
acter of the men against whom the advo-
Gates of honest elections are cOntendng.
Judge Goff's decision, according to the in
formation received by the State, has been
creasing number Of South CarOhnians who
have set their faces against fraud and
propose to make an honest ballot the chief
issue in the constitutional convention cleo
tion. As illustrating the gross misrepre-
sentations of the manifesto. the State
answers the declaration that the Tillman-
Evans movement had nothing to do with
the election or registration laws by recall
ing the fact that the latest disfranchising
registration law was passed last December
by the influence of these men against the
protests of the conservatives, who made
vain efforts to have it amended into fair
ness.
There is no race issue in South Carolina
the negroes Offering to concede a white
majority in the convention and to vote for
democrats but the Tillmanite administra-
tion wishes to force one in order that 1t
may practice frauds in the name of white
supremacy and thus continue itself in
power.