Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-17
DORSEY HOTLY
SCORED FROM
BAPTIST PULPIT
Dr.. Ridley, Of Atlanta,
Calls Pamphlet Polit-
ical Bunco


celebrated pamphlet on alleged ne
livered from the pulpit Of the Cen
trail Baptist Church here Sunday
night by DR.. Caleb A. Ridley, it's
pastor. Mr.. Ridley is one of the most
prominent ministers in Georgia and
his church one of the largest and
most influential in Atlanta. Ills at
tack, preceding his sermon, came as
a surprise, which is still being gen
orally discussed. At the conclusion
of his remarks he called for those Of
his congregation endorsing his state
ments to stand and nearly the entire
audience arose. He applauded the
answers of JUDGE Searcy, Judge
Shirley, Sam Olive and Governor
elect Hardwiek to the governor. His
remarks, given out here yesterday
in manuscript prepared by himself to
avoid the danger of being misquoted,
he said, follow:
........- Text of Pastors Attack .....
$50 far as Governor Dorsey is
concerned, the pamphlet is pure po-
litical bunco. Like a former govern
or, he may be anxious to open a
New York office, and in order to
feather his own nest up there, he is
willing to slander the people and the
state that made him governor.
In Governor Dorsey's campaign
for the office he now holds, he was
bitter in his denunciation of the very
conduct and principles he now advO-
Gates and practices. 1t is evident to
sensible men everywhere that there
is a 'nigger in the wOOdpile.
"The governor will not live long
enough to undo the devilment he has
done and remove disgrace he has
heaped upon as good people as ever
lived on this continent.
"T am glad that Tom HardWick
rings clear on the subject, and that
rs governor he will answer the
Mhargee and insinuations now being
%Nirculated with the authority of the
state house behind them. And when
sets himself to the holy task, | hope
he will paw his respects to the cotere
of misguided men who are RESPONSE
bic for the governors pamphlet. and
who seem to feel called of Almighty
God to rake and scrape heaven and
earth. combing them with fine
tooth comb. in order to find some
thing with which to boost the criml-
nal NEGRO at the expense of every de-
cent white man in Georgia.
Encourage Insolence.
"Thev have gone out Of thni"
vrav to hobrob withFthe negro-fill
hie mind with imnossibln dreams
nut into his mouth inflammatory
messages-encoura" him in inSo-
Ience and Law the foundation for his
uttnr undoing.
"This is p white mans cOuntrv-
forever: and these eloquent divines
and philanthronists are doin" moro
harm with their nropaganda then oil
The lynchings and peonage OF the
ye9rs.
ronaI Church. in his sermon yester-
dav. took occasion to slap secret or
pani7ations that bar the negro from
moooborehip ond congratulate him
self and his church on maintaining a
peculiar relationship to this neglect
cd race. I hope he enjoys the glory
Of it.
"The secret orders to which he re-
fers have done far more for the pro
lection and uplift Of the negro than
the good bishop and his church can
ever do by preaching equallty pro
paganda. This truth will dawn upon
the bishop, the inter-racial commit
tee, and even upon the governor
some day.
"Bv the time this aggregation of
seIf-anpointed benefactOrs get
through with Sam Olive, Judge Scar
cv. JUDGE Shirley and Tom Hard
wick, they will find that they have
overstepped all bounds of justice and
truth in order to accomplish pipe
dream as thin as common air.
An Atlanta Example.
'ETbe people of Georgia resent
with hearty hatred the circulation of
Dorsev's SANDERS and published crit
icisms of certain members OF Dor
sey's committee.
at is known fact-easiIv estab-
lished-that right in the very heart
of Atlanta there is a church IN which
the whites and the blacks mix and
mingle together, both in work and
Mn worship. The building is a three
s. ory affair, and up to while ago
and | presume is yet-used IN the
following fashion: The first floor as
a church the second floor as school
for negroes. taught by white women.
and the third floor as a dance hall,
where the inmates go for recreation;
'These negroes are taught, social
equality, both by preeept and yam
pie. No wonder that negro men sa,p-
bearing some months ago before the
board of education spoke of Atlan-
Ia as sleeping over a smolderlng VOL
cano and no wonder these same ne
gro men tell your school board that
they are not asking favors, but de
marding their rights. .,n.
80 sure as the sun shines, if this
race.loving committee and our be-
loved governor keen mn their pamph-
let writing, card publishing ana nop- sop,
nobbing propaganda-and a lie"