The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-05-10
IA M AID COVER NOR
Chandler, Of Georgia, Pays His
Warm Respects to
soME NORTHERN EDITORS
And Denounces Reports thai Have
seen Made Regarding Re-
c,nt Expressions Al
tribused to Him.

tribu.ed to Him.
Gov. Chandler, Of Georgia, is hot uu.
der tho collal. Recontly ia an intor.
Wow with tho Atlanta Journal Reporttr
he gavo out for public alton full and
complete reply to the accounts Of his
interview that have boon printed
throughout tho country regarding the
Ogden Parkhurst party that recently
camo south on special tour Of inspeo
ti0a of the educational advantages of
this scott on. In tho intoryiow Qover.
nor Ohandlor was reported 40 assaying that
DR.. Parkhurst who was momber of
the party, was crank and from that
report thore grew perfect torrent of
denunciation all credited to the goyor-
nor. The statement furnished by Gov
ernor Z handler Wednesday sots at rest
aomo Of the expressions that had been
charged tohim and goes to show that
no has been the recipient Of lettors
from persons who have denounced him
and tho entire south. The statement
follows:
Life is too short for public man to
follow up and correct all tho slander-
Gus statements made about himself,
his actions and his uttorancos. Noun
tains are made out Of molo hills, words
are put in his mouth that ho never
thought of uttering, and false colorings
are put on what ho doos say and his
uttoranoos are paraded under lurid aud
misleading headlines by sensational
paragraphers. have learned to sub
nit to all this, but thore is q point at
which forbeaianoe ceases to be virtue,
and have about reached that point.
The report of what / said about tho Og-
den Parkhurst party as printed in
| The Savannah Press, though some hat
highly colored, was substantially cor.
rect, and was good humored and harm
less, but as it went further north it was
exaggerated and embellished by false.
hood till would not havo recognized
it If my name had not been connected
with 1t. In the conversation which /
had with The Press man, which has
been dignified as an interview = said
nothing that could give offenae to the
most sensitive, unless perhaps my
jocular roferenoe to Dr.. Parkhurst as q
crank could do so. Is'oritioiaed" no.
body; roast cd" nobodv;I / "donouno-
cd nobody, 1 said not word about
I'D yankee money! / impqgnod no.;
/ body moi lives. see DR.. 8 Park hurat
/ lia reporte to have said in his Sundays
i aegfaon he'd tho nor oe aeoggiaj.
iss tate q me-,
come into direct oontao aot With the per. S,ii.l
aonei Of the conference" the oritioism
would not have been made. 4 ;, b n
This aeems to be tho head and front
OF my offending, that ! did not dance
attendance on this party at it's meeting
IN the colored church in this oity.
beg to assure the reverend doctor that
no discourtesy was intonded. Had it
occurred to me that this was courtesy
expected Of mo Iwould certainly have
gone, at whatever sacrifice OF other du
ties, because do not desire to be dis-
courteous. The doctor says "the Sou til
does not altogether love us, bat no ono
there hates u.s." The latter part of this
statement is unquestionably true
There is heio and there in the south a
crank, for we have some oranks here
too, who thinks he hates tho northorn
people, put this speoios Is rare, much
rarer, ! fear, than tho men Of the north
VINO hate the people of tho south.
.Fhe amiable doctor may differ with
mo IN this but he would not If he could
see the hundreds of denunoi atory and
vilely abusive letters in my possession.
some of them from his own oity. in
which the yilest opithets are applied to
the south and southern men and even
southern women, suoh as you cannot
raise mon in the south, you raiso
btutes," your state is q disgrace to
the nation" ''snuff dipping eluts.n
id daughters Of sin, otc.
These vile denunoiations and SLAM
ders have not emanatod alono from
Ignorant fanatics, but some of the nor.
thern newspapers have been lust as Bit
tor and slanderous. For instance the
Philadelphia Press few days ago. on.
ragged by my innocent failure 10 moet
these tourists when they won't through
here inspecting tho negro schools,
charged that | have given my taoit
conseat to lynching and sat supinoly
IN my office while a human being was
burned alive by o mob, and that I re.
ceived from the lynchors q pjeoe Of tho
charred flesh as q souvenir The
father Of lies could not have invented q
bsser or more malicious flasohood.
There has been only one negro burned
alive in Georgia, andnotwithBtandin his
was the most disbolical osime in the
annals Of crime.I / did everything pos.
siblo to prevent tho lynohing. The |
moment heard of tho arrest Of the |
negro | ordered the sheriff by wiro to !
summon a sufficient force If it required |
every man in his county, to prevent |
violence. He replied that be 70 and il
impossible to resist the mob and that |
the negro had already bsen lynohed. |
Nothing short Of omnipotence could in
the brief interval betweon tho moment
whom l was informed that Hoao had /
been apprehondod and the moment at
which tho torch was applied, have pre-.
vonted tho lynohing. 3a9
The ohargo that rooeiyad piaoo
of tho oharred fesh as souvenir is 40
basely, lneanly and utterly false chat il
10 humiliating to have to refor to it, No.
body but q brute would offer or receive
'uoh g growsome souvenir, and had
here beer, . man In Georgia bruitish
enough to Offer 1t to me I would hayo !
sickod him out of my ofioe. And vet
'heso bsgo charges are made IN the odi. |
orial columns Of a daily newsparer pub.
ishad in The City Of Brot love. I,
And those arc only yspecinlens Of tho love
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