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MAJOR LYNCH INTERVIEWED.

MdJ. L9DCIl ID SldllOUSQ dI hl1dHld,
Ga. He is one of the few paymasterS
appointed during the Spanlsh-Ameri-
can war, who have been retained in
the service. In mastering out officers
In the pay department, the admins
tration has retained those whose work
has been best 1t is therefore, a very
great compliment 10 Maj. Lynch that
his services have won for him reten-
tlon In the army under the new reor-
ganization bill of March 1899.
While in the city Maj. Lynch took
occasion to say some things of interest
TO the representative of the BEE who
called at his office in the Capital Saw
ngs Bank. When the subject of ma
tional administration and its success
in affairs generally was broached,
Maj Lynch said, president McKin-
ley will succeed himself. In fact |
don't think he will have any opposition
for denomination, and his election is
an assured fact. We see every day
evidences of restored confidence and
returned prosperity. We can hardly
pick up a newspaper in which we do
not see that the rates of laborerS
North, East and West are being in
creased Even the South is begin.
ming 10 feel the beneficial effects of
the republican policy; but II is less
maj ked in that section than in others,
for the reason that raw cotton which
is the principal product of the South
will necessarily be one of the last pro-
ducts that will be affected bv [! q
change. The increase of wages n
the cotton factories is an indication
that there is an increased demand for
manufactured cotton goods which
means thai there will be an increased
demand for raw cotton. This condi-
tion will enhance the value of raw
cotton unless the southern planters
make the mistake of increasing the
supply out Of proportion to the natural
growth and demand. ! think it is
safe 10 assume that southern planters
will soon enjoy the same degree of
prosperity that is now being enjoyed
by the western farmers
Maj. Lynch was asked what effect
he thought the war would have on
President Mckinley before the peo-
Pile two years from now and whether
he thought the Presidents southern
tour had done him any harm POLITICAL
ly. "AS war President" said Major
Lynch, ",r Mckinley is pro-
nounced success. The country is sat
isfed that in such an emergency the
right man was i'll the right place His
policy all during the war was and now
is wise, judlCiouS and humane. As it
grows in age it will grow In strength
and popularity.
II he colored people can safely fol-
low where such man leads. He has
always been c. nSlSteNt republican
and an earnest advocate of the rights
OF the colored man 1t is true he is In
favor of blotting out the unpleasant
memories engendered by the war Of
the Rebellion, in other words in favor
of sectional paciication. Why should
any colored man object to this he
difference between President Mckin-
lev and the southern democrat on this
subject is very marked. The southern
democrat wants sectional paCitiCation
with the coIored man left out. PreSl
dent lckinley wants il with the col
ored man left in. This fact was clear
ly demonstrated in his trip through
the South last winter. He made a
visit to Prof. Booker I. WaShingtOn'S
institution at TuSkegee, Ala, and de-
livered an address. He excused him.
self from the reception that was ten
dered hlm by the Governor and other
state officers and legislat rs at Mont
gomery long enough to accept an in
yitation TO deliver an address to the
colored people from the pulpit OF a
colored church. When at Savannah,
Ga, he excused himself from the
great crowd of admiring democrats at
the DE Soto Hotel long enough to
visit Prof. r. K. Wright'S institution,
the Colored State Normal School OF
Georgia, where he delivered magnif-
icent speech in which he eulogized the
her0ism and bravery displayed by the
colored soldiers IN the fight up San
Tuan Hill. These visits were not in
tended merely as compliments to
those who extended the invitations.
They were intended to impress the
country with the fact that it is his de-
termination and the policy OF his
administration that no scheme of
sectional pacIfication will have his
sanction that does not include the col
ored man as political equal"
Mai. Lynch was further questioned
by the representative of the BEE as TO
the suggestion lllduS ISSCnllS lildl IOl-
ored men in the South should vote the
democratic ticket In reply he said,
"Yes have seen that some such Sug
gestion is reported to have eminated
from influential quarters. Ii 1t be
possible, which | very much doubt,
for a colored man to be a democrat
from choice, from principle and con
viction. then it is not only his privilge,
but his duty TO give expression to his
conviction al the ballot box. provided
he is permitted by his party associates
to do SO. But suggestion that COL
ored men vote contrary TO their hon.
est convictions and against. what they
honestly believe to be their own in
terests and the best interest OF their
country, that they kiss the rod that
smites them; that they surrender their
opinion and manhood upon the altar
Of expediency with vain hope that
their oppression will thereby be in
duced TO show them little more
mercy and consideration is too cow