The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-05-08
A MAD GOVERNOR.
Chandler, of Oaorgia. Pays His
Warm Respects to
SOME NORTHERN EDITORS
And Denouncos Reports that Have
ssen Made Regarding Re-
can't Expressions At
trIbuted to Him.

Gov. Chandler, of Georgia, is hot un-
der the oollsI. Recently in an inter.
view with the Atlanta Journal Rsporter
he gave out for public ,tion full and
complete reply to the accounts of his
interview that have been printed
throughout the country regarding the
Ogden Psrkhurst party that recently
cams south on ! special tour of inspec
ton OF the educational advantages OF
this section. In the interview Cover
nor Chandler was reported as ssyipg that
DR.. Parkhurst who was a member OF
the party, was . crank and from that
report there grew . perfect torrent of
deuunciation ell credited to tho COVER
nor. The statemeh. furnished by Gov,
ernor Chandler Wednesday sets at rest
some of the expressions that had been
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
folioss:
Life is too short for public man to
follow up and correct all the slander-
Gus statements made about himself,
his actions and bis utter.nces. Noun.
talns ere made out of mole hills, words
are put In his mouth that he never
thought of uttering, and false coloripgs
are Put on what he does say and his
utterances are par,ded under lurid and
mislea ling headlines by sensation al
paragraphers. / have learned to sub
NIT to all this, but there is q point at
which forbearance ceases to DO a virtue,
and | have about reached that point.
The report of what said about the Og-
den Parkhuret party as printed in
The Savannah Press, though some what
highly colored, was substantially cor.
rect, and Was good humored and harm
less, but IS it went further north it was
exaggerated and embellished by false.
hood till would not have recogniz ed
1t If my name had not been connected
with it. In the conversation which
had with The Press man, which has
been dignified as an interview" said
nothing that could give effense to the
most sensitive, unless perhaps my
jocular reference to DR.. Parkhurst as q
crank could do so. criticised" NO
body; | roasted" nobody; l "denouuo
ed nobody, | said not word about
id yankee money" impug aed no
body's motives. l see DR.. Parkhurst
is reported to have said in his Sunday 5
sermon mad the governor of Georgia,
g. did the governor OF North Carolina,
come into direct contact with the per
sonel of the conference" the critici IN
would not have been made.
This seems to be the head and front
of nv offending, that aid not dauce
attendance on this party at its meetir g
in the colored church in this city. |
beg to assure the reverend doctor ths,
no discourtesy was intended. Had II
occurred to me that this was a courtesy
expected of me | would certainly have
gone, at whatever sacrifice of other du
ties, because L do not desire to be dis
courteous. The doctor says 1.-The 81 u b
does not altogether love US, but n one
there hates u.s." The latter part of this
statement is unquestionably true.
There is heie 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, | 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 denunci atory and
vilely abusive letters in my possession, a,
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 rs "you cannot
raise men in the south, you raise
brutes," your state is q disgrace to
the nation" ''snuff dipping sluts, -
id daughters of sin, etc.
These vile denunciations and Sian
ders have not emsuated alone from
ignorant fanatics, but some of the nor.
thern newspapers have been Just as bit.
ter and slsnderous. For instance the
Philadelphia Press few days sgo, en-.
ragged by my innocent failure TO meet
these tourists when they went through
here inspecting the negro schools,
charged that | have gwen my tacil
oonseat to lynching and sat supinely
in my office while 8 human being was
burned alive by mob, and that re
ceived from the lynohers a piece Of the
charred flesh Ss souvenir The
father Of lies could not have invented g
ba.er or more malicious fasehood.
There has been only one negro burned
alive in Georgia, Notwithstanding his
was the most diAbolical crime in the
annals of crime. did everything pos.
sibie to prevent the lynching. The
moment | heard of the arrest Of the
negro l ordered the sheriff by wire to
summon a sufficient force If it required
every man In his county, to preve nj
violence. He replied that he found it
impossible TO resist the mob and that
the negro had already bsen lynched
Nothing short of omnipotence could, in
the brief interval between the moment
when | was informed that Hose had
been apprehended and the moment at
which the torch was applied, have pre-.
vented the lynching
THE charge that | received 3 piece
Of the oharred flesh as a souvenir is SC
basely, meanly and utterly false that i
is humilisting to have to refer to it, No
body but brute would offer or receive
such q grewsome souvenir, and had
there been man in Georgia bruitist
enough to Offer it to me | would have
kicked him out of my Office. And ye
these base charges are made in the edi
torisl columns of daily newspaper pub
lished in The City of Brotherly Love.
And these are only specimens Of the low,
some of the northern people and paper
who complain of 'discourtesy' have 70
the southern people and southern eff
cials who are doing their utmost to pro
toct all Of their people in life aud liber
ty without regard to race or color.
THE New York Times has been littl
less abusiye. Without stopping to in
quire for facts or truth they either Fab
ricate or assume as true ISLANDERS fabri