The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-08-26
BEN r1LLmAN OR BILL CHANDLER9
Great New England Newspaper Thinks
the New Hampshire Politician Bet
ter Example of the Lordly and
Contemptuous Tyrsnt than
the South Carolina
Senator
(Springfeld Republican. :

Ex-senator Chandler comes out of
his New Hampshire seclusion long
enough to say, in letter to the New
York Sun, that a negro-lynching,
vote suppressing South should not
be allowed any longer to menace the
nation with unfairly won Democratic
victories. He evidently thinks the
South should be deprived OF that rep.
resentation in Congress and the Elec-
toral College which is based on the
negro population of the South. He
notes an increase in the number and
ferocity of lynchings. 'Untll within
few years the mob executions have
been carried on by hanging or shoot
ing. Now burning at the stake is
common, coal oil is poured over the
victim, and the community gather to
witness the torture and murder OF
their untried fellow citizen" And
he says:
Ought there to be in 1902 and
1904 Democratic victories thus OBJ
tained, by reason of which the tariff
system is 10 be destroyed on the pre-
tence of suppressing trusts, and me
United States troops are to be with
drawn from the Philippines and the
islands left to anarchy, civil war, cru
elites and bloodshed unlimited, and
to conquest by the nations of Europe,
or ought it to be Enthusiastically un-
derstood by the whole world that as
long as the Democratic party seeks
national power through solid South
made solid by the lynchings of COL
ored people and the suppression OF
their votes by the open, defiant and
unexcused and inexcusable disregard
| of the fifteenth amendment, the Re-
publican party will be kept in na-
tional power in the United Ststes!
It seems to me that the moral de-
formity' and the bloody and brutal
gospel of the lynchers OF the colored
men of America ought to receive
some notice from Mr.. Bryan and
also from the Hon. George S. Bout
we'll, of Massachusetts"
No defence or palliation of South
ern lynchings or vote suppressions
will now or ever appear in these COL
umns. But it may be remarked that
g. man in Chandler's position requires
q lot of mental or moral obfuscation
to say anything very savage about
the Southern attitude toward the ne
gro in the light OF his own attitude
toward another colored people. he
speaks of leaving the Philippine
Islands to "anarchy,:' "war," "cru-
elties'' and "bloodshed unlimited"
Does he think that the Filipino gov
eminent, which was established with
the connivance of Dewey, and whose
success in commanding the contented
loyalty of the native population was
reported on at length by men serving
under Dewey-does he think that
government could have possibly done
more than our own to produce an
archv, war, cruelties and bloodshed
unlimited? Would the black record
of killings, by tens of thousands tor
lures, burnings, outrages, and so on
that now stains the annals of the
American nation, have probably been
SURPASSED? It takes nerve to stand
ND and talk of what dreadful things
might have happened through other
AGENCIES than our own, in the face of
what actually has happened through
our own agency.
Let the retired New Hampshire
statesman prove himself equal to 1t
a. much as he will. But is it possl