The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-12
Address Delivered at Chdu.
tduqud. N. Y. Conference.
THE MOB SPIRIT
IN THE SOUTH
Mr.. Graves Splendid Grafton Was
Listened to With Closest Attention,
and Little Else Was Talked
About After its Delivery.
Heard the Truth for
the First Time,
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated Press.)
CHAUTAUQUA August 1.-The fea-
t,res Of the days proceedings at the
Chautauoua was the speech OF John Tenn
pie Graves. of Georgia, on the question OF
lynching in the South, and the means
necessary to prevent It. It was a most
remarkable speech-perhaps the most re-
markable which has been delivered on this
question before Northern audience, and
to say that the speaker was listened to
with tense interest and that his words
made a deep impression on his hearers
is well within the truth.
Mr.. Graves Is an orator OF no mean
power. His evident earnestness and full
belief in the truth of what he was say
ing impressed even those who totally dis
agree with him In his conclusions. and they
We're many.
Little else was talked OF at the Chau-
tauqua after tho address except what
Mr.. Graves had said. 1t was generally
agreed that the Georgian had made out
the strongest case possible for those who
defend lynching under extremely aggra-
vated circumstances. But the feeling hero
is that no circumstance will justify mob
law His clear exposition OF the danger
from the great number Of brntalized ne
groes in the South was given close atten-
ton A great many in attendance at the
.Chautauuua heard the truth enumerated
by Mr.. Graves for the first time.
Regardless of the subject matter OF his
speech, Mr.. Graves made distinctly
good Impression, and after he had left
a no thn Can
an eager crowd, who wanted to know
more OF the matter of which he had been
speaking. The Georgian had no hesita-
ton In answering all the questions asked
of him.
MR., GRAVES SPEECH.
The time is propitlous for. tho d'scus-
sion, which the chautauuua has plapneo;
days. The records Of the Spanish -Ameri-
can war have removed from the Northern T
mind the last lingering s.spcion .h Of the the
1Ir. union. The distribution of the negro
through the Northern States has made 2
better acquaintance with the merits ana
CAPACITIES Of the race .rh me tb polns nspro u5
problem has uncovered revolution OF
public sentiment upon that question
throughout the republic: n,,,+
has brought the people together IN spir1t
OF judicial inquiry, and the time has come
when with many illusions dlspelleo. anu,
assemble ourselves together from every
section Of the country to discuss reme-
dies without passion and to seek and to
speak the open trqtm wienput o''eess
The mob has broken the barriers OF
section. and lynchng is at last national
crime, The spirit OF lawlessness Les Is c!ear- th:
mob has made the republic kin. For every
Newman there is a Wilmington. For Pal
metto. In Georgia. Kansas has US
Alex White. The Evamsville riots surpass
in Mississippi is answered by the mop
that Stays in Drnvllle. ~, AKRON. ONO.
martyr President-the best beloved man
who has occupied d. the e,. White. HOUSE an sneS nee
Gainesville thrust their murderous Win
chesers into the black faces Of the work
men who come to delve the mines of lll-
chases negro through the streets. New
York. the metropolis and the cosmopol's
Of our world, has It's central section from from
race riot as fierce and as relentless as r.,
Springfield, Mass, right in New Eng-
lands noble heartlthe police battallobns s.Is, tba
lynchers bihulous citizen who, with
swipe Of broken beer glass had nipped
from Its place another New Engia,na
gentleman's obtrusve nose The question:
has come home to the country at last
WITHOUT CRIMINATlON.
And so in a spirit without recrlmina-
ton We emerge from our separate glass
houses not to throw stones at the dwelling
across the way. but to examine our losses
and to recast our common derenseS TOT
the future of the State
Not in this generation have questions
once sec tional been amplfied into larser
national interest, and II Providence, In
the bosom OF the republic. 1t has In In.
finite wisdom broadened the vision and
llberalized the mind of the people to solve
them
The spirit OF truth Is the spirit OF tho
hour Not turbulence. nor temporlzlng.
nor time serving, nor temper; bat fact
cold. clear. resolute. remorseless fact-ls
what these times and this people now
demand. -
If the spirit of lynching had Its first
expression in the South II is due 70
causes which may be easily understood
The South is not predisposed to lawless-
ness or given to violence. It's temper -
fair. and 1t has enriched the republic
with the names of great jurists, and the
country's statute book with the record
or wise and equitable laws.
SOUTHERN CHlNAI4RY.
I nut In evidence here the fact that
the Southern people have held woman In
peculiar and almost romantic esteem.
am free by the record TO assert that no
with greater tenderness and with more
reverential chlvalry the females OF their
race Next 10 the divinity OF Christ. the
Gentleman OF the old South always wor-
shipped the women of his race. He may
not have loved them always wisely. but