The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-27
GAMBLER ON FANATICS"
GEORGIA's GOVERNOR SCORES THE
LEADERS OF REPUBLICANIsM.
Takes Advantage of Memorial Day to
Deliver a Philippe Against Re-
publican Men and Policies.

ATLANTA, Ga, April 26.-The annual OBJ
servance of Memorial day. a time wnen the
graves of the Confederate dead buried in
the cemeteries in every city and town Of
the State are decorated. took place in Geor-
gia to-day. The usual order of exercises
an Grafton, appropriate music, a military
parade, including the local organizations
of Confederate veterans, and the decora-
ton Of the soldiers g~raves-was carried
out in almost every instance. In this city
observance was made notable by a speech
dlivered by the Governor of Georgia, in
which he scored Republican fanatics"
The speech was made at the presentation
Of crosses Of honor to the veterans, and
was loudly cheered. Governor Gambler said
in part:
You fought not to promote the ambi-
ton of a crowned head, not for conquest,
not to force your government upon an un-
willing people. but for the God-given right
of local self-government. You rebelled
against the domination of a sectional po-
litical party led by fanatics, who did not
and do not believe in this cardinal doc
trine, and who were the sworn enemies of
you and your interests and your institu-
tons.
Blinded by fanaticism, the leaders of
this party either could not or would not do
you and your section justice. You were
maligned, and abused, and reviled, and
slandered. 1t has been q singular fact,
justly said by a distinguished senator a
few years ago, that the Northern con-
science was never quickened to a full real
ization of the enormity of slavery until
their own slaves had been converted into
gold and until the gold had found a safe
lodgment deep down In their pockets.
II do not mean to disparage nor impugn
the motives of the gallant men who con-
fronted us on a hundred battlefields, nor
of the great masses of the people of the
nonseceding States / am denouncing the
fanatics who presided at the birth of the
Republican party and nursed the bantling
into vigorous manhood and taught IL the
doctrine of a higher law and to disregard
the limitations of the Constitution, reverse
the precedents of a hundred years, and
who, disregarding the golden rule,
preached the same unholy gospel.
They still dominate the party of Lincoln
and Seward and Chase, which denied to
you in 1860 the blood-bough right of local
self-government, and which is to-day wag-
ing a war OF conquest against an unof-
Tending people ten thousand miles away,
n denying to them the right for which
Washington, n Marion. and Sumter, and
the Lees fought on the fields of Camden,
n Yorktown, and Cowpens, and Kings
Mountain, and for which you fought. as nc
men have tough in two thousand years
at Manassas and Shiloh, Gettysburg and
Chickamauga- The same party. drunk
with it's excuses Of usurpation, is, in VIC
lation of the spirit of the Constitution
holding a million of people in the island OF
Porto Rico in a state of vassalage and tax
ing them without Representatives, they
held you and taxed you in the days of re.
| construction"
At Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Columbus
Marietta and other places in Georgia Me
mortal day was fittingly observed. In
Texas the graves of both Confederate and
Union soldiers were decorated.