The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-03
A RACY SPEECH.
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going to be candidate for Congress in
the Second district, (Which is my pres
ent district, except that two counties
have been cut off, unless my cOnstitu-
entS should think me unworthy to rep
resent them as you do; and if they should
change their minds now it would be
more than they have done in the last
twenty-eight years, for they have given
me every Office have asked them for. l
say, sir, l am going to be candidate
again unless they have changed their
best stump orators, from Mr.. Blaine
dOwn-and / believe you regard him as
the best you have; but no matter who.
A Member-Horr.
Mr.. Tillman-Yes, even the clown
from Michigan; let him come down there.
l will guarantee him the best entertain
ment that can be had.
A Member-And personal safety?
Mr.. Tillman-Yes, and personal safety.
My stars! am astOnished that anybody
should make that remark. Twill guaran-
tee him good eating, and good drinking,
if he drinks; but l expect he is prOhi-
bitiOnist. although he does not look like
it. [LaughteT.] 1 do not mean any
Offense, for it is not in my heart to say
anything unkind to the gentleman if he
would only lay aside his miserable Sec
tiOnalism and paTtyism.
If he will come down there l will take
my carriage and horses and drive him
to every Democratic public meeting in
the district wish to go to, or l will
carry him to every public meeting held
by the Republicl n. Twill no say " ord
except make one speech in reply to him,
and will guarantee to whip him out of
the district so badly that he will come
back home satisfied to let the South
alone, and l will do it simply by Demo-
cratic negro orators. Laughter and ap-
plause.l Not that they are superior to
white men naturally, but they are the
most wonderful initiative creatures in
the world, and have the best memories
and the most humOr. Laughter The
white mans forte is invention and the
negrO's is imitation. And, gentlemen,
you may make a speech of an hours
length, inject into it argument and hu-
NOR and wit, and even clOWnish buff
fOonery that would shame Michigan if
you want to, [laughter,l and guaran-
tee there are dozen cOlOTed orators in
any district who will remember every
word of it after they have heard it once,
or twice at the outside, and will even
improve on it, especially the humOr.
They are not only born orators, mimics,
and humOTists-
AIR. Van VOOrhis--Are those the bar
barians?
Mr.. Tillman-And they will shame the
gentleman from Michigan out of his
boots, as is remarked by the gentleman
near me, Mr.. Robertson, of Louisiana.
Laughter and applause.l
Mr.. HOrr--Are those barbarians?
Mr.. Tillman--Ah! l said their faculty
was imitation. They lack profound
analysis unless crossed with white
blood. [Great laughter and applause
And the orators | will select, except
two, will be pure Africans.
Do you suppose those people, who have
another characteristic in much higher
degree than the white men, that is, they
have a childish affection and kindness
if left to themselves-dO you suppose
those people, who have nobody to go to
but the white folks when they get into
trouble, when they need medicine, when
they need money, above all when they
need legal advice, suTetyship, and pro-
lection, when they have rows or law
suits with one another, do you sup
pose those people have no affection for
the men around them to whom they
look up as naturally as night follows
day?
No, gentlemen; what disturbs your
equanimity, what mOrtities you, is the
solid negro line broken, while the solid
white South remains like adamant, sim
ply because you pin US together with
the bayOnet. Applause on the Demo-
cratic side
You have failed either to make white
men out of negroes or negroes out of
white men, and that is what gals your
self-lOve. When you organized your
reconstruction He'll you looked upon
every negro not only as Republican,
but as a black-white man who could
maintain the Republican party in power
at the South for all time according to
the census returns of the comparative
numbers of the two races. Yes, sir, |
repeat it, what gOads the Republican
party almost to madness is that the solid
negro line is broken.
Mr.. HOrr--If that is true what makes
you put them all into one district?
Mr.. Tillman-What makes you put
those 10000 Democrats in Michigan so
none of them can have hearing here?
Laughter and applause on the Demo-
cratic side.
Nir. Horr--You admit they are Repub-
licans then?
Mr.. Tillman--Admit they are Republi-
Mr.. HOrr-What made you put them
together?
MIR. Tillman-Because we expect to
have a cOlOred Democratic Representa-
tive next time. [Great laughter and ap-
plause.]
Why, gentleman, there is a cOlOred
Democrat named Tom Hamilton, a rice
planter, who resides in that district that
can beat the gentleman from Michigan
on the stump upon any line of argument
he has a mind to adopt. There is an
other such orator there named sSmith,
and still a dozen others. No doubt you
will spend $1,000, $4,000, or even $25,-
600 in some of your Congressional dis
tricts; part of that fund you ought
to be ashamed of levying on the en-
plOyes of the Government. Laughter
and applause.
Now, furnish me $4,000 of that or
any other fund, and l guarantee to have
a cOlOred Democrat on this floor in the
next Congress from the black district of
South Carolina. Applause on the Demo
crat side
1 think, Mr.. Speaker, the Republican
party ought to hang its head in shame
and not go upon the house-tOps and
around the street corners praying with
puTitanical Jesuitism, like the Pharisee
of old, thank God 1 am better than
other men. [Laughter.l 1 say that any
party that TObs the employees of the
Government who are paid out of the