The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-26
II see PREJUDIcE Nor SECTIONAL.

| the negro is not confined to the South.
I These papers never take notice OF the evil
| dences of this prejudice which are contin-
ually cropping out in the Northern states.
And they seem to think that lynchings &C
cur only in the South, and that only in the
South are those who take part In lynchings
sure Of immunity from punishment.
In Mondays Philadelphia Press for In
stance. there was an editorial article in
which It was said, in comments made on
the result of the trial of those accused Of
lynching the negro postmaster and his
child az Lake City, S. c., that prejudice
was too strong for an impartial verdict"
but that the mistrial Shows that rift
has been made in the layer of race preiu-
dice which has Heretofore enveloped and
shielded the perpetrators Of every crime
against the colored people Of the South
Further along in the article it was stated
that ut has been demonstrated that there
are men IN the South who will vote ac-
oording to the evidence in a trial for lynch-
ing"
What II would be particularly interest
ing to know is this: Has it ever been dem
onstrated in the North that there are men
in that section who will vote In accordance
with the evidence in a trial for lynching?
If 50 where and when? Untu the Press Is
prepared to answer this question 1t would
be well for it to devote more of It's space
to the education of he people of the
North to the Importance of voting in ac-
cordance with the evidence in trials for
.r+ra Tafa boE in he
South only are there Jurors who disregard
their oaths in such trials.
And we particularly desire to call the
attention of the Press to the fact that
lynchings are not confined to the South.
We admit that there are a few more
lynchings in the South than in the North,
but that is because of the large negro
population in the South population that
furnishes an exceedingly large number Of
offenders who commit the crime for which
criminals are generally Iynched in the
South. But there are lynchings in the
North-a great many of them-and we
would like to have the Press point out
when and where these lynchers are ever
brought TO justice. 1t is unnecessary for
US W utSlBndtt any vi THESE lynC0lTlSS OF
recent date. The Press knows about them
because accounts of them have appeared in
its news columns. Why is it that the
Press doesn't regard 1t as necessary to
say that lynchers cannot be convicted in
the North any more than they can be in
the South?
A point that should not be overlooked is
that the Republican party is, to some ex-
tent responsible for Iynchings In the
South. Judge Brawley. who presided at
the Lake City, trial, said that the fact that
the administration was partly responsible
for the Lake City lynching could not be
ignored because, although 1t was known
that the white people were bitterly op-
posed to having a negro postmaster, a
strange negro was sent there to fill that
office. Gov. Gambler, in commenting on
the Newman tragedy declared it to be his
belief that politics was at the bottom of
the lynchings in the South.
The administration may say that the ne
groes are citizens. and, being Republicans,
are entitled to a share of the offices. why
then is il that negroes are not appointed
to offices of Importance in the North? The
reason is that the white people of that sec
ton would not submit to negro office hold
ers-they would not submit to negro domi-
nation in any degree The Republican
leaders know that, and hence do not risk
| losing any of their following by having ne
gro postmasters and collectors of customs
and internal revenue appointed. But in
| the South, where the Republican party
| has nothing TO lose, and the administration
everything to gain, namely, the delegates
to the national convention, negroes are
| appointed to the most important federal
offices. For the sake of controlling the
delegates to the national convention the
| Southern people are forced to submit to
| having negroes in the chief federal Of
fees. If 1t were not for politics, therefore,
negroes would no more be appointed to Of
fees in the South than in the North. Here
| in Georgia we are to have some negro SUI
pervisors of the census but will a negro
be appointed to any such important office
in the North? We feel safe in answering
in the negative.
No, the administration cannot get rid of
| IT'S snare OF It's responsibility IOr lynchlngS
in the South. The Republican party pur-
sues a policy which keeps alive the race
prejudice, and then its newspapers con-
denim the South when this prejudice man
ifests itself in violence. But they are
careful to keep in the background the fact
that if the same policy were pursued in
the North there would be exhibitions Of
the same kind of race prejudice violence
None know better than the Republican
leaders that the Anglo-Saxon will not en-
dure the domination in any form of an in
ferior race, and yet their party ignores
that knowledge in the administration OF
public affairs in the South.
At Detroit, Mich, a trance medium told
a creduous client, who complained of not