The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-15
EDITOR MAnLEY EXPLAINS
IN DEFENSE OF THE NEGRO
Ths Editor States He Did Not Intend to
Attaok Any Race or Clsss-Doss
Know Whistler He Will Return
70 Wilmington or Not.

New York. Nov. IA dispatch to
the World from Asbury Park, N. j.,
says:
"A. L. Manley. editor Of the Whining
ton. N. c.. Record. whose ONCE was
destroyed by IRE by white citizens
Thursday. In now In Asbury Park with
his brother-in-law, Representative
Giles. He sailed from Wilmington TO
escape probable lynching at the hands
of the mob. which had sworn to take
his life. 1t was an editorial In the
Record hat caused him to cave the
city.
Manley said that while he was per-
fectly willing to tell the story of his
troubles as far as he himself was con-
cerned. there were some features of the
case which he could not make public
at present. az the safety of others
might be affected. Manley said that
h trouble grew out of the fact that
the much talked of editorial in the
Record a been misquoted by the
press Of North Carolina. and only parts
of II had been reprinted with editor
falls tending to infiame the whites OF
the South. This. he said. had been
done to try to scare the white voters
for political effect. He did not seem
20 hin that the editors OF the papers
which started the blaze of riot realized
the harm which would follow the ar
ticles printed in their papers.
The editorial which appeared in the
Record. Manley said. was called forth
by a speech made by Mrs. FELTON, be-
fore the Agricultural society of Tybee
island early in August. During her
speech Mrs. FELTON, said that money
which was collected for foreign mis-
sions could be spent to a better ad-
vantage at home in educating youn
white girls. She said h a owing to
the carelessness of poor white men of
the South. their girls are left victims
of colored men. Then she spoke. ac-
cording to Manley's statement, of the
low moral standing OF the colored race.
He say h advocated lynching as the
only of Graduating this evil.
Manley's editorial in the Record was
a reply to Mrs. Felton's speech. This
editorial infiamed a large portion of
North Carolina. Manley says he did
not intend to attack any class or race.
but simply wrote as he did to defend
the DETAINED colored man. In his edi-
torial Manley said: Poor white men
are careless in the matter of protect
Ing their women, especially on the
farms. They are carless In their con
duct toward them, and our experience
among poo white people in the coun-
try teaches us that women of that race
are not more particular in the matter
of clandestine meetings with colored
men han are the white men with col
ored women. Meetings of this kind go
on for some time until the mans bold
ness brings attention to them and then
the man is lynched."
The very long editorial from which
the above Is taken was published on
Aug. IS. Manley says hat for nearly
a week after Ii was printed nothing
was said to him about 1t by the resi-
dents of wilmington and vicinity. and
usual friendly nature, until the white
press took up the matter nearly a
week later.
From that time until now they have
attacked him and his paper in every
conceivable way until at last he was
compelled to flee for his life.
When asked as to the present situa-
ton In Wilmington. Manley aid hat
as he had been absent for several
days he would rather not be quoted as
expressing an opinion on hat subject.
When asked IL he intended to return
To North Carolina. he declared that he
had not yet decided. He thought il
was better not to say anything as to
his future prospects.
Manley would not tell how much his
loss at the hands of the mob would be.
All he would say was that he had lost
everything he owned in the world. He
carried an insurance on his property,
but said that there was no clause in
the policy which insured against the
fury OF a mob.