The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-27
Who Forced War Upon the Country
and Took No Part in 1t.
PHILIPPINE WAR DENOUNCED.
The Breed Which Denied the South
the Blood-Bought Right of Local
Sclf-Govornment is Denying
the Filipinos Rights for
Which Washington and
the Lees Fought.

ATLANTA. GA, April 26.-The obserV-
ancc of Memorial Day. in Atlanta was
made notable by a speech delivered by
the Governor of Georgia, in WHICH ne
scored Republican fanatics and crltI-
cised the war in the Philippines. The
speech was made at the presenta ton of
crosses of honor to the veterans, and was
loudly cheered
Governor Gambler said in part:
You fought not to promote the am
bition of a crowned head, not for con-
quest, not to force your government upon
an unwilling people, but for the God
given right of local self-government
you rebelled against the domination
of a. sectional political party, led by Ia
natics, who did not and do not pelleVe IN
this cardinal doctrine. and who were me
sworn enemies of you and your interests
and your institutions.
MALTGNE1D AND REVILBD.
"R1jnGed bv fanaticism, the leaders of
this party either could not or would not
do YOU and your section justice. You
were unaligned and abused and revlled
and slandered.
ut is a singular fact, as was justly
said by distinguished Republican SEN
ator few years ago, that the NoItheiii
conscience was never quickened to iuii
realization OF the ehornlity OF slavery
until their own slaves had been con-
yerted into gold and the gold had found
a safe Judgement deep down in their
pockets.
.rThe Southern people We're soaded into
secession in spite of their love Tor the
Constitution and the Union.
perhaps both sides sinned as :he con.
T of
where the legend on the beautiful badge
YOU wear places it. God judge between
u.s. I do not mean to disparage the Sai-
liant men who confronted us on a hundred
battlefields. nor of the great mass OF the
people of the non-seceding states
Il am denouncing the fanatics who pre-
sided at the birth of the Republican
party and nursed the bantling into Wig
orous manhood and taught it the doc
trine of a higher law and to disregard
the limitations of the Constitution, re-
verse the precedents of a hundred years,
and, who. disresardirs the golden RUE.
preached from the pulpit the doctrine Of
hate instead of peace on earth and good
will to men.
PHILIPPINE WAR DENOUNCED.
..This breed of fanatics has not run
out. None of them were ever killed
in battle for they did not go: they are
still in Congress and pulpit preaching
mate the party of Lincoln and Seward
and Chase, which denied to YOU in 1850
the blood-hought right OF local self
! government, and which is to-day wasing
| a war of conquest against unoffending
! people ten thousand miles away, and de-
| nying to them the rights for which
Washington and Marion and Sumter and
| the Lees fought on the field Of Camden
! and Yorktown and Cowpens and King
| Mountain, and for which You fought as
| no men fought in two thousand years
at Manassas and Shiloh, Gettysburg and
| Chickamaugua The same party. drunk
with its excess of usurption are, in viola
! ton of the spirit of the Constitution,
| holding a million people on the Island of
| Porto Rico in a state of vassalage and
| taxing them without representation, as
| they held you AID taxed you in the days
! of reconstruction. 1t is healthy sign,
| however, that some of the abest and
| most patriotic men of this party are
| protesting against this inscription of power
| and this abandonment of the teachings
! of the fathers and the traditions Of the
| republic"