The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-01
CANDLER'S REPLY
xoRTHERN NEWSPAPERS ANGER
THE GOVERNOR.
NOT ATTACKING PARKHURsT.
nFyOUNCEs SANDERS AGAINST
THE SOUTH.

His OGense That He Did Not Dance
Party. He Says--He Tells of Vile
Dcnunciations of Northern Cranks
and scores the Philadelphia Press.
us Statement a Malicious Lie, He
says.
Atlanta, April SO-Gov. Allen D. Can
der gave out to-day a red-hot reply to
his Northern critics who have had so
many uncomplimentary things TO say
about his recent interview concerning the
ogden party, sent out from Savannah.
GOV. Gambler said in part:
II see DR.. Parkhurst is reported 10 have
said in his Sundays sermon, Had the
Governor of Georgia. as did the Governor
of North Carolina, come into direct con-
tact with the personnel of the conference
the criticism would not have been made
This seems to be the head and front of
my offending, that l did not dance at
tendance on this party at it's meeting in
the coored church in this city. 1 beg
to assure the reverend doctor that no dis
courtesy was intended. Had it occurred
Of me l would certainly have gone at
whatever sacrifice of other duties be-
cause I do not desire to be discourteous.
The doctor says: The South does not
altogether love us, but no one there hates
us The latter part of his statement is
unquestionably true. There is here and
there in The South a crank for we have
some cranks here too, who thinks he
hates the Northern people, but this spe-
I
men of the North who hate the people
Of The South.
THE amiabie doctor may differ with
me 10 this, but he would not if he could
see the hundreds of denunciatory and
viiely abusive letters in my possession,
some Of them from his own city in which
the viest epithets are applied to the
South and Southern men, and even South
em women, such as, you cannot raise
men in the South you raise brutes'
"Your state is a disgrace to the nation;'
"snuff dipping sluts;" id daughters of
sin, etc"
The Newspaper SANDERS.
"The vile denunciations and ISLANDERS
have not emanated alone from ignorant
fanatics, but some of the Northern news
papers have been just as bitter and SIAN
derous. For instance the Philadelphia
Press a few days ago enraged by my
innocent failure to meet these tourists
when they went through here inspecting
the negro schools, charged that I have
given my tacit consent to lynching and
sat supinely in my office while a human
being was burned alive by a mob, and
that received from the lynchers a piece
of the charred flesh as a souvenir. The
father of lies could not have invented a
baser or more malicious falsehood. There
has been only one negro burned alive in
Georgia and Notwithstanding his was the
most diabolical crime in the annais of
crime; ! did everything possible to pre-
Vent the lynchng. The moment I heard |
Of the arrest of the negro l ordered the |
sheriff by wire to summon sufficien. |
force, if it required every man in his !
county, to prevent violence He replied /
that he found il impossible to resist the |
mob and that the negro had already been
lynched- Nothing short of omnipoteuce |
could, in the brief interval between the |
moment when 4 was Informed that Hose
had been unprecedented. and the moment
al which the torch was applied, have |
prevented the lynehing.
The Roast Flesh Lie.
The charge that I received a piece of |
the charred flesh as a souvenir is so |
baseiy, meanly and utterly false that it |
is humiliating to have to refer 10 it,
Nobody but brute would offer or receive |
such a grewsome souvenir and had |
there been man in Georgia british
enough to offer it to me, l would have
kicked him out of my Office. And yet |
these base charges are made in the edi-
toHal columns of daily newspaper pub !
hs1ed in The City of Brotherly Love-
These miserable assassins of character |
and of the peace of communities are
charseabe with all race friction that ex-
lists. We had none of it before they inter
nodded They have abused the liberty
OF the press and have construed it into
license, to SANDER and abuse those who,
knowing the situation in the South better
than they do dare to dissent from their
doSmas, born of ignorance and prejudice, /
or TO resent their insults and ISLANDERS.
j have not and do not intend a word |
mat have said for the amable doctor
whose intentions I believe are good, nor
Tor mis- party, only two of whom, Wash
mgton and Curry, are known 10 me per-
Sohally. These two are good men and are,
as l have on every occasion. said, doing
good 1t is intended solely for such crea-
lures as the mendacious one who penned
we vile SANDER in the Philadelphia Press
referred to above. Wretches who, hav-
ing no manners nor morals of their own,
constitute themselves the censors of the
manners and morals of others"