The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-11
CHAMBERLAIN TO BRYCE.

It has been a long while since Prof. on the contact between advanced and backward races. It was not too long ago, however. to fail Hon. D. H. Cham
 berlain, of Massachusetts. as a peg on which to hang one of the most manly and enlightened utterances on the race question in this country, we have seen in many a day. Governor Chamber
 lain was once a South Carolina carpet bagger and was AttorneyGeneral and subsequently, Governor. of that State, when the negroes were in control. In spite of his malodorous associations, he won the esteem of the South Caro- linians, for he convinced them he was honestly endeavoring to better condi- tions there and not to feather his own nest. He was a man of ability and character. When the corrupt crowd that surrounded him. a crowd he had restrained in a measure. but had ut terly failed to control. had been over thrown. Governor Chamberlain returned North and took up the practice of the law in New York, and later removed to Massachusetts. He has ever since his experience in South Carolina taken most tolerant and forbearing view of Southern conditions when the whites in any quarter of the South were en- gagged, under fire from the North. in changing, correcting and trying to bet ter the relations between the races without sacrificing white paramountcy.
 In this last public utterance he goes still further; in fact. alligns himself so squarely with the South on the ne- gro problem and so emphatically criti- cizes and condemns President Roose . welt. that the document assumes the character of a Democratic campaign manifesto. It will unquestionably do much good among the sober minded and conservative voters of the North. Governor Chamberlain ayers strong ly that the whole scheme to lift the negro to political equality with the white man has proved flat failure and must be recognized and treated as such Hence he heartily approves of all the restrictive suffrage laws of re cent years aimed at the negro. He goes further even than Southerners m saying lynching for assault" Is wholly warranted and denounces the friends, | teachers and preachers of the black race for doing nothing to abate the ire | quency of the original offense. As tu President Roosevelt. he criticizes him for having been, wantOnly or not, guilty | of a foolish and dangerous bit of con duct, when he wounded the pride of every Southern white by having Booker | Washington sit with him at dinner. .. With as much warmth. he denounces the appointment of Crum and the per slstent effort to thrust him upon the | people of Charleston. He knows Crum personally. he says, and vouches his incompetence for the post of Collector of Customs The Indianola incident he regards as one of the most high handed and autocratic violations of law that any ruler was ever guilty of. and can find only in Russia its counterpart He | speaks of it as showing an unwarrant-
 ed. cruel and wanton disregard of right and duty.
 He does not believe this country will ever seriously attempt to enforce the penalty of the Fourteenth Amendment in it's suffrage clause. In my iudg
 ment. that way lie danger and disaster.
 as they have lain in the past. Th,.
 beacons of warning stand thickly alor g 1ur history since lS65."
 The administration must be hard up