The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-08
A lad GOVERNOR.
chand!sr, Of Georgia, Pays His
Warm Respects TO
SOME NORTHERN EDITORS
And Oenounces Reports that Have
Seen Made Regarding Re.
cant Expressions AT.
ertbused to Him.
erlbused to Him.

trbused TO Him.
Gov. Chandler, Of Georgia, is hot u J.
der the collar. Recently 10 an inter
view with the Atlanta Journal Reporter
he gave out for public alton full and
complete reply to the accounts Of his
interview that have been printed
throughout the country regarding the
Ogden. Parkhurst party that recently
cana south on } special tour Of inspec
ton Of the educational advantages Of
thio section. In the interview Cover
nor Chandler was reported as saying that
Dr.. Parkhurst who was member of
the party, was crank and from that
report there grew Q perfect torrent Of
denunciation all credited to the COVER
COT. The statement furnished by Gov.
ernor Chandler Wednesday sets st rest
some Of the expressions that had bsen
charged tohim and goes to show that
he has been the recipient Of letters
from persons who have denounced him
and the entire south. The statement
follows:
Life is too short for public msr to
follow up and correct all the SANDER
Gus statements made about himself,
his actions and his uttersnces. Noun
tains are made out Of mole hills, words
are put in his mouth that he never
thought Of uttering, and false coloriugs
are put on what be does say and his
uttersnces are parsded under lurid aud
mi:leaiing headlines by sensational
paragraphers I have learned to sub
NIT to ali this, but there is point at
which forbea,ance ceases to be virtue,
and have about reached that po:Rt
The report of what l said about the Og-
dci Parkhurst party as printed IN
The Savannah Press, Though someRhat
highly colored, was substantially cor
II Ct, aud was good humored and harm
less, but as it wert further north it ~ar
exaggerated and established by false
hood ill ] would not have recogn I'd
it if my uame hsd not bsen connected
with it. 10 the conversation which l
had with The Press man, which has
been digrifed as al interview / said
nothing that could give effenee to the
most sensitive, unless perhaps ny
joeular reference to Dr.. Psrkhurst as a
| crank could do 30. I CRITICISED" no
body; roasted" nobody; I "denouuc
ed nobody, l said not word about
id yankee money" | impugned no
body's motives. / see Dr.. Psrkhurst
| is reported to have said in his Sundays
sermon had the governor Of Georgia,
as did the governor Of North Carolina,
come into direct contact with the per
soael Of the conference" the criticism
would not have been made.
This seems to be the head and front
Of my offending, that did not dance
attendance on this party at its meeting
in the colored church in this city. l
beg to assure the reverend doctor that
no discourtesy WAS intended. Had it
| occurred to me that this was courtesy
expected Of me I would certainly have
gone, at whatever sacrifice Of other du-
ties, because I do not desire to be dis
courteous. The doctor says "the South
| does not altogether love US, bat no one
there hates u.s." The latter part Of this
statement is unquestionably true.
There is he1e and there in the south a
crank, for We have some cranks here
too, who thinks he hates the northern
people, but this species is rare, much
rarer, 7 fear, than the men Of the north
who hate the people Of the south.
THE amiable doctor may differ with
me in this but he would not if he could
see the hundreds Of denuncistory and
7ilely abusive letters in my possession,
some Of them from his own city, in
which the yilest epithets are applied to
the south and southern men and even
southern women, such IS ''you cannot
raise men in the south, you raise
bruses," your state is disgrace to
the nation" :" ''snuf dipping sluts, "
id daughte Of SIM" etc.
''These vile denunciations and SIAN
ders have not emsnated alone from
ignorant fanatics, but some Of the nor
thern newspapers have been Just as Bit
ter and slanderous. For instance the
Philadelphia Press few days ago, en-
ragged by my innocent failure 10 meet
these tourists when they went through
here inspecting the negro schools,
charged that I have gwen my tacit
conseat to lynching and sat supinely
in my chice while human being was
burned alive by a mob, and that re-
ceiyed from the lynohers piece Of the
cha1red flesh as a souvenir The
father Of lies could not have invented a
ba<er or more malicious fssehood.
There bas been only one negro burned
alive in Georgia, notwithstanding his
was the most diabolical crime in the
annals of crime. did everything pos
sible to prevent the lynohing. The
moment heard Of the srrest Of the
negro ordered the sheriff by wire to
summon sufficient force if it required
every man in his county, to prevent
violence, He replied that be found it
| i'm os,ible to resist the mob and that
the negro had already bsen .lynched
Nothing short Of omnipotence c.uld, in
the brief interval between the moment
ahen I was informed that Hose had
been apprehended and the moment st
which The to;ch was applied, have pre-
vented the lynching
The charge 'hst received piece
Of the charred Assh ss a souvenir ID SO
basejy, m AMY and usterly false that 1t
is humillstiDg to have 10 refer to it No
body out brd.e would Offer or receive
such sreHsome souvenir, and had
| there been nan in Georgia brultish
enough to off<r it to me l would have
kicked him cut Of my Office. And yet
these base charges are made in the edl-
torial columns Of daily newspaper pub.
l;shed in The City Of Brotherl y Love.
And these are only specimens Of the love
some of the northern people and papers
| -bo ,o,, la, re die ,urtesg' have for