The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-29
ON TIE RACE PROBLEM
Governor Gambler of Georgia
Has Decided Views.
.ENFRAN CHISEMENT A SIN
RoaStS Fools and Fanatics
Would Limit Suffrage.
A SIN

Atlanta, Ca, July Ex-Governor Allen
d. Gambler has, since the cambridge
lynchings occurred, been asked by news
papers in various parts of the country
to give his opinion of the race question in
the south, and in reply to one of them
the governor has fully and freely ex-
pressed his views as to the cause Of the
conflicts and the remedy therefor. The
governor believes that the present day
cause of the uprisings is the informed
ding with the relations Of the whites and
blacks in the south by fools and fanat-
les who know nothing about the situation
but think the whole trouble dates from
the day of the emancipation Governor
Gambler believes a restricted suffrage will
remedy the evils, that the ballot should
be given only to the intelligent negro.
The governor begins his paper by refer
ring to emancipation, contrasting the
treatment of negroes by the white people
Of the south before the war with that
of the carpet baggers Immediately af-
ter" He says: Before the ballot was
thrust into the hands of the negro he was
happy and well contented to occupy that
subordinate place in society to which his
nature and his condition assigned him.
But after his emancipation came his en-
reimbursement, and with his enfranchise-
ment came a horde of carpet-baggers,
penniless adventures, without principle
or patriotism, who took charge OF him
when his former master and protector,
g. Ions
on the most friendly and often even on
affectionate terms, was de-citizenized by
the partisan reconstruction laws
THE carpet-baggers, calling them
selves Republicans, but really only a
band Of marauders, held together by the
cohesive power of public plumber, swarm
ed all over the south like the locusts in
Egypt Of old, and falsely taught the ne
groes that the southern white men were
solely responsible for their enslavement
and were their worst and only enemies
and that therefore 1t was their duty and
their interest to vote against them and
their party and oppose everything they
were in favor of, favor everything they
were opposed to-in a word, to hate
them. They taught them that freedom
INFANT Immunity AIOAu loiit SHdI hOCity
meant license nd that they were the
wards of the nation and wouldbe pro-
teeted by the general government, whose
bayonets glistened in every hamlet,
whether they were right or wrong.
These evil teachings had but little
permanent effect upon the grown-up ne
groes, but upon the children, the genera
ton which has grown to manhood since
that time, that effect has been most
baneful. These were the prime cause Of
the alienation Of the negro.
"A more immediate cause is the perpet-
pal intermeddllng with the relations of
the races in the south by fanatics and
ton. They call meetings and discuss i'm
aginary wrongs of the southern negro
which do not exist, and denoun1e the
southern white people for crimes they
have never committed; they publish in
the newspapers grossly exaggerated ac-
counts of such crimes as are committed
against the negro In the south AMI omit
any notice of the crime against the white
woman which provoked the retaliation;
they write incendiary letters to turbulent
negroes al lover S.e south advising them
to arm themselves with Winchester rifles
and, for every guilty rapist who pays the
penalty. to shoot down the first two white
have been whittier to Georgia in tie last
three months"
Governor Chandler says the informed