Show LOVE LAME FOR THE NEGRO gov candler of georgia when I 1 he shall have passed out of the gubernatorial chairs chair out of politics and the arena of action will not b be e mourned as sincerely nor missed as much as many another governor in extenuating the lyn chera chers at palmetto and to give license to others of like proclivities he says thattie that the negroes wearing the blue uniforms uniform those that m marched up san juan hill singing therell there be a hot time in the old town tonight those same that rescued the rough riders and saved the day are am responsible for the lynch ings that take place in the south every ten or fifteen years some new reasons have to be hatched up to excuse the lawless whites for murdering negroes end when one excuse is worn threadbare another must be found thirty years ago or just after the emancipation the whites organized klukluk klans klana all over the south and murdered thousands of innocent negroes on the pretext that the negroes were gogg to have an uprising that they were going to bum up towns and make the country flow with the blood of whites but years passed and no uprising occurred the consciences consciences of the people began to wake and and condemn klukluk klans and they apparently went out of existence the murder of negroes continued and the next excuse brought forth for killing thew then was w that they were raping white women this lasted for several years until lovers of justice law and order began to make investigations to see who it was that was being raped it was found that persons were lynched for any cause or no cause at all and christian civilization began to condemn lynching lunching lyn ching and so it seems now that gov candler is is trying to find another excuse tor for the lyn chers that the lynching lunching lyn ching industry in may not languish in the furtherance of his idea that the soldier uniform is responsible for the lynching lunching lyn ching mama mania and cosm possibly bly for the purpose of disarming the negroes and rendering them less capable c ble and liable of protecting i themselves against a mob in case they should decide to defend themselves se sometimes he the governor has disbanded all the negro soldiers of the state the gentleman whom the governor sent around to inspect the various companies in m the state felt constrained to corn com aliment the negro soldiers on their appearance their soldierly lierly bearing i and their knowledge of military tactics but in spite of this the governor vernor eo co has sheen seen fit t to 0 order the disbandment of nearly all the companies in the state and we suppose it is only a matter of time when we will not have a single company in georgia we bow to the inevitable and to the governors prerogative but there will be another election for governor some day and he will need negro negm votes to elect him we shall not forget the HO herald ald go ga |