The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-29
THE RACE PROBLEM
Governor Gambler of Georgia Discusses
Question and States Remedies.
PERPETUAL INTERMEDD[ING
BY Fools and Fanatics Who Know
Nothing of the Situation
THE DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE CAUSE
he Believes q Restricted Suffrage will
Remedy the Evil.
LET ONLY THE INTELLIGENT NEGRO VOTE
Give the Blacks Not Only n Literary
Education, but Teach Them
Morality as Wen.
LET ONLY THE INTELLIGENT NEGRO VOTE
Give the Blacks Not Only n Literary
Education, but Teach Them
Morality as Well.

Atlanta. Ga, July Ex-Governor Cand-
4 Ter has since the Bainbridge series OF
iynchings occurred, been asked by news
papers in various parts of the country to
give his opinion on the race question OF
the South and In reply to them the gov
ernor has fully and freely expressed his
views as to the cause of the conflicts and
the remedy therefor. The governor be-
lieves the present day cause of the I'M
rislngs is the intermedding with the re-
lations of the whites and blacks in the
South by fools and fanatics who know
nothing about the situation, but think the
whole trouble dates from the day of
emancipation
Governor Gambler believes a restricted
suffrage will remedy the evil; that the
ballot be given only to the Intelligent
negro. AS to the disposition to be made
of the large percentage of illterate me-
groes the governor makes no suggestion
The governor begins his paper by referring
to the emancipation, contrasting the treat
ment Of negroes by the white people OF the
South before the war to that of the car
petbaggers' Immediately after.
He says; Before the ballot was thrust
into the hands of the negro unprepared
for it and utterly ignorant of its sanctity
and of the responsibility of citizenship.
notwithstanding ne was a slave. he was
happy and well contented to occupy that
subordinate place in society to which his
nature and condition assigned him.
But after his emancipation came his
acknowledgements ana with his enfranchse-
ment came hoard of carpetbaggers, PEN
niless Adventures, without principles or
patriotism who took charge of him when
mis- former master and protector. with
whom he had lived for generations on the
most friendly and often even on Affection
ate terms, was decltlzenlzed by the par
tsan reconstruction laws,
These carpetbaggers, calling themselves
republicans, but really only a band Of
maIauders, held together by the cohesive
the South like the locusts in Egypt OF old
and falsely taught the negroes that the
Southern white men were solely RESPONSE
BILE for their enslayemenJ and were theii
worst and only enemies, and that there
fore it was their duty and their interest to
vote against them and their party and
oppose everything they were in favor OF
and favor everything they were opposed
TON a word, TO hate them.
They taught them that freedom meant
immunity from toll. that liberty meant
license and that they were the wards OF
the Nation and would be protected by the
general government whose bayonets glist-
ened in every hamlet, whether they were
right or wrong,
These evil teachings had but little per-
manent effect on the grown-up negroes
but upon the children. the generation
which has grown to manhood since tirat
time, the offec' has been most baleful
These were the prime causes Of the altepa-
ton of the negro.
"A more Immediate cause is the per-
petual intermedGllng with the relations
of the races in the South by fanatics ana
fools who know nothing about the Stu
alton.
They call meetings and discuss imag
mary woes of the Southern negro which
do not exist, and depounce the Southern
white people for crimes they have not
committed; they publish in the newspapers
grossly exaggerated accounts OF such
crimes as are committed against the negro
in the South and omit to publish the
crimes committed against the women.
they write incendiary letters to turbulent
negroes all over the South, advising them
10 arm themselves with Winchesters, and
for every guilty rapist who pays the PEN
atty to shoot down the first two white men
be meets.
Thousands of such letters have been
written 10 Georgia in the last three
months
Governor Gambler says the Intermediates
Of the North do not represent a respecta
Die minority, and that the lawless ana
criminal negroes of the South constitute
ess.
He continues: "A few abandoned. reck-