The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-01-25
MIR. Sanders Talks of the Grand
father Clause.


Dodson, Winn Parish, in its issue oi
recent date queries:
HAS everybody in North Louisi-
ann forgotten Sanders interview with
II reporter of n Chicago paper some
four years ago? His wonderful ex-
cuse given for the frequency of rape
in the South being that the poor
white people were on snch intimate
terms with their negro neighbors
that they chewed tobacco of the
same peice and the women borrowed
meal OF each other, etc, ETC."
As reminder of four years ago is
reproduced the article aud comments
as it wuspublishedi in the Caucasian's
issue Of December 81, 1903:
The following is clipped from the
Times-DenOcrat of December 2, 1903,
for the benefit Of those who wish y,
complete resume of the Sanders cpl
sode, whichincludes MIR. Sanders' own
explanation:
HON. JARED Y. SANDERS ON THE NEGRO
New Orleans. La, Nov. 80, 1908.
Editor Times Democrat:
/ Notice that MIR. Jared Y. Sanders.
candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
il being charged 10y Judge Barksdale,
his opponent, with having stated in
an interview with Chicago paper
that something like socinl equality
prevails in the hill parishes of North
Louisiana between the whites and
blacks. Was not this interview pub
lished in the Times Democrat, and
did not Mr.. Sanders take orcnsion to-
write to. this paper correcting GER.
tain errors in the interview. and was
not his letter of correction published?
is it not to I've presumed that any
corrections he would wish to make
were contained in this letter, and that
what wasthen corrected was APPROX
ed by him?
Gould you not publish the inter-
view and Mr.. Sanders letter, in or
der that it might he seen how far the
interview WIS repudiated?"
ENQUIRER.
The article to which Enquirer al-
ludes was published in the Times
Democrat Of July IA. 1908, and was
taken from the Chicago Tribune of
July IL, purporting to be an inter-
view had with Mr.. Sanders by ''Ray-
mond" Mr.. Raymond Patterson) of
the Tribune. The extract tn which
Judge Barksdale objected was as fol-
lows:
diffusion OF the negro will never
help matters, and Twill tell you why.
You will find that the hill country of
Louisiana, Alabama. Georgia and
the CaroIinas is practically the same.
In none Of these sections does the
negro dominatein point Of plumbers.
The black man is concentrated along
the alluvial bottom lands, and in
those sections he largely outnumbers
the whites. In the bill country,
where the whites largely outnumber
the blacks, much different conditions
prevail from those you will find in
the bottom lands.
'In the cotton country MP in the
hills Tom Brown, the white man, and
Tom Brown, the black man, ha We
farms side 10y side. They do the
same work in the field, borrow aud
loan plows and other implements,
and their women swa p cornInenl over
the fence. Theoretically, there in
neither sOcial nor political equality.
but the white and the black are
thrown tOgetherin way which has
a disastrous effect upon the young
buck negro whose father il perhaps
one oil the better class. The black
young Jones sees the white Miss
Brown doing about the salne work
as his sister aud living on terms of
actual industrial equality. He makes
advances much asa white boy might,
is repulsed in disgust, and reminded
VI tttC 6NSt1t TIC uuH NbT-
gotten. Then his savage blood
fiames up, he takes by force what he
can not have by consent, and graft
fees his lust at the expense Of the
poor, honest, virtuous white girl.
Then the white men gather quickly.
hang the negro, OF perhaps burn him
as the people did in Delaware and II
linois. That is what association on
terms of apparent equality invaribly
does for the negro"
Relative to this Mr.. Sanders, in a
letter to the Times-Demoerat of July
Is, said:
"New Orleans, La, July l 5, 1908.
Editor Times Democrat:
In your issue of Yesterday appears
an interview with me, clipped from
4 l. " a