The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-05-09
Georgia's Chief Executive Comes
Back At His Critics.
"FAKE" REPORTS DENOUNCED
Explains What He Did Say Re-
garding the Ogden Party
and DR.. Parkhurst.

day furnished the Atlanta newspapers
an interview in reply to the many
critics in other sections of his recent
utterances given out in Savannah with
reference to the Robert c. Ogden party.
In the reports as published in the
northern papers the governor was
made to say many things be did not
say, and in consequence the editorial
references to the interview were, in
some instances, of caustic tenor that
might not have characterized them had
he been correctly quoted.
Governor Gambler at first intended
to have nothing further to say with
reference to the matter, cut SO repeated
and frequent have been the misstate.
ments, that he desires to set himself
right once and for all, ard IN doing 80
he does not hesitate to express him
self clearly and emphatically on the
subject. Speaking of the matter Gov
ernor Gambler said in part:
"Life is too short for public man
to follow up and correct ali the SLAM
derous statements made about himself,
his actions and his utterances. Noun
tains are made out of mole hills, words
are put in mis- mouth that he never
thought of uttering, and false color
ings are put on what he docs say and
his utterances are paraded under lurid
and misleading headlines by sensa-
tlonal paragraphers. I have learned
to submit to all this, but there is
a point at which forbearance ceases to
be a virtue, and I have about reached
that point.
"Tbe report of what I said about
the Ogden Parkhrrst party as printed
in the Savannah Press, though some
what highly colored, was substantially
correct, and was good-humored and
harmless, but as it got farther north it
was exaggerated aud embellished by
falsehood till I would not have rec
ognized it if my name had not
been connected with it. In the
conversation which lhad with the
Press man, which has been dig
nifed as an interview I said
nothing that could give offense to the
most sensitive, unless perhaps my joe
ular reference to DR.. Parkhurst as O
crank could do so. I criticised no.
body; 1 roasted nobody; I de
nounced' nobody; I said not word
about id yankee money; I impugn-
ed nobody's motives. I see DR.. Park
hurst is reported to have said in his
Sundays sermon, Had the governor
of Georgia, as did the governor oil
North Carolina, come into direct con.
tact with the personnel of the confer;
ence,' the criticism would not have
been made.
"This seems to be the bead and
front Of my offending, that I did not
dance attendance on this party at its
meeting in the colored church in this
city. I beg to assure the reverend
doctor that no offense was intended.
Dad it occurred to me that this was a
courtesy expected of me would GER
tainly have gone, at whatever sacrifice
of other duties, because 1 do not de.
sire to be discourteous. The doctor
says: The south does not altogether
love US, but no one there hates Us. u
The latter part of this statement is
unquestionably true. There is here
and there in the south crank (for We
have some cranks here, too,) who
thinks he hates the northern people,
but this species is rare, much rarer, ]
fear, than the men at the north who
hate the people of the south.
The amiaDle doctor may differ with
me in this, but he would not if he
could see the hundreds OF denuncia'
tory and vilely abusive letters in my
possession, some of them from his
own city, in which the vilest epithets
are applied to the south and southern
men, and even southern women, such
as you cannot raise men in the south,
you raise brutes,' your state is a dis
grace to the nation, snuff dipping
sluts, id daughters of SIM etc.
"These vile denunciations and SIAN
ders have not emanated alone from ig'
norant fanatics, but some of the north
ern newspapers have been just as bit
ter and slanderous.
"The southern white people and the
southern negroes understand each
other and do not hate each other when
let alone. These miserable assassins
of character and of the peace commu-
mites are chargeable with all the race
friction that exists. We had none OF
it before they intermeddled. They
have abused the liberty of the press
and have construed it into license to
slander and abuse !hose who, knowing
the situation in the south better than
they do, dare to dissent from their
dogmas born of ignorance and preju'
dice, or to resent their insults and
SANDERS.