The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-29

Highest Bidder-Franchise Should
BE Given to None Save Those Ca
DabIe of Voting InteIIigentIy.
ATLANTA, Ga, July 28-Gov. Allen D.
Gambler has, since the Bainbridge series
OF lynchings occurred, been asked by
newspaper men 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 expressed his views as to the
cause of the conflicts and the remedy
therefor
: The governor believes the present day
cause of uprisings is the intermeddling
with the relations of the whites and
blacks in the South by fools and ia
nattcs who know nothing about the sit
uation, but thinks the whole trouble
dates from the day of emancipation.
Gov. Gambler believes equal suffrage will
remedy the evils, and that the ballot
should be given only the intelligent ne
gro. AS to the disposition to be made
Of the large percentage of iliiterate ne
groes the governor makes no sugges-
ton.
The governor begins his paper by re-
ferring to emancipation. Contrasting
the treatment of negroes by the white
people of the South before the war and
of the carpetbaggers Immediately after
he says.
Before the ballot was thrust into the
hands of the negro, unprepared for it
and utterly ignorant of its sanctity, or
the responsibility of citizenship, notwith-
standing he was a slave, he was happy
and well contented, although he was
subordinate in society, to which his ma
ture and his kind assigned him.
But, after his emancipation, out came
his enfranchisement, and with his en-
franchisement came horde of carpet
beggers, penniless adventurers without
principles or patriotism, who took him
from his former master and protector
with whom he had lived for generations
on the most friendly, and often affec-
tionate terms.
WORK OF CARPETBAGGERS.
1.-The carpetbaggers calling themselves
Republicans, but really a band of ma
rauders, held together by coercive power
of public plunder, and who falsely taught
the negroes that the Southern white men
were solely responsible for their
only enemies, and, therefore, it vas their
duty and their interest to vote against
them and their party, and oppose every
thing they were in favor of-favor every
thing they were opposed to-in 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 bayo-
nets glistened in every hamlet, whether
they were right or wrong.
THE evil teachings had but little per-
manent effect upon the grown-up ne
eroes, but upon the children, the genera
ton which has grown to manhood since
that time; that effect has been most
baleful These were the prime causes OF
the alienation of the negro.
"A more Immediate cause is the per-
petuaI intermeddling with the relations
of the races in the South by fanatics and
fools who know nothing about the stu
alton They discuss imaginery wrongs
of the Southern negro which do not ex'
ist. and denounce the Southern white
people for crimes they nave not COM
mitted They publish in the newspaper
grossly exaggerated accounts of such
% crimes as are committed against the ne
gro in the South, and omit any notice
of the crime against the white woman
which provoked the relation. They write
all over the 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
men he meets.
Thousands of such letters have been
written 70 Georgia in the last three
months"
BOTH IN MINORITY
Gov Gambler says the intermeddlers
of the North do not present a respectable
majority, and that the lawless and GRIM
Inal negroes of the South constitute less.
He continues:
"a few abandoned reckless, criminal
negroes are responsible for all the rapes
and lynchings that have occurred, and
their inf=ence on those around them is
deplorabIy bad.
''StiH it is true that rape, the crime
which nine cases out of ten is the cause
of immediate or remote lynching, is as
much deplored by the better class of ne
groes as by the better class of white
men. But as because some negroes
commit rape the whole suffers, so be-
cause some white men lynch ravishers
all the whites of the South abused.
at is y singular fact, too, that the
pharisaical fanatics who have most tc
say about 'Apaches, Southern barba-
rians. etc, always stretch the atrocity
to the lynching but I have never yet
heard of one of them saying or doing
ANYTHING to discourage the crime which
provoked II. 1uO6Suy III SOIl6 cases, III
stead of denouncing his crime they have
assailed the character of the victim of
the brutes lust This not only encourages
had negroes but eXasperateS the friends
of Southern womanhood
Another thing which contributes to
friction is corrupt. politics AS is admitted
bv all candid men the ballot was put in
the hand of the Southern negro when he
was utterly unprepared for it. He re-
garded it as only an article Of merchan-
disc. to be bartered away to the man who
would pay him the most for 1t, whether
a drink Of whisky or dollar or two. In
many places his vote is a balance of
power. Unscrupulous men of all parties
contend for this vote and hug the negro
y around the polls and drink whisky with
him. He is forgotten after election, and,
like a spoiled child, becomes resentful and
vindictive This brings clashes with the
whites
THE REMEDY.
In speaking of the remedy, Gov. Cand-
Ter says:
I'm Georgia, for q generation, there