The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-03
A RACY SPEECH.
General Tillman on the Stealing
of Congressman.
His Scoring of Horr Of Michigan and the
Radicals Generally, Makes Very
Interesting Reading.

elected by over o,OOO ulaJOLlVS, ohu 70 -
made to give way to Smalls, a negro
nonvict hardened out of the Peniten
tiarv nv Gov. Hampton. The RepubIl-
can Committee in deciding the case,
threw aside the election returns, and
seated Smalls on the gTonnd that tne
cansns showed more negroes than Wnlte
man i'm the district, aud therefore e
Smalls. Notwithstanding his tanned
character, must have been elected; we
annex the material part OF General III
mans sDeech as printed III the Eonsle les'
siOnal Record of Saturday last.
This doctrine was very distinctly an
nonnced but in rather a jocular man
nor nv a Republican member of the SUB
committee TMr. Ritchie of OhiOl which
heard the argument in my case. he
sold If every colOred man did not vote
the Republican ticket he ought 10 uo IT,
and it ought to be counted thaI way any any
how. For if ne failed TO vote II, Ine
nrasDmptiOn is he was either deITaGueu
pr ~ bniidozed ont of his vote, and the re-
SnoneibiIitv of proof to the contrary
oHgb+ +o rest with the man who claims
fbe contrary. and that, therefore, Where
fbe canans shows that Congressional
die+rict has a majority of cOlOred voters,
fbe seat ought to be given to the KepuD-
Iicau. no matter who has the certlncaie'
T cannot, for lack of time, go into the
details of the evidence in regarq 10 par
ticuIar precincts nor in regard 10 nun
erons Wholesale allegations OF lllega!i-
tv frand and intimidation, as 10 DOtn
c0nntips and precincts. But Will say
fbis mnch in a general sort OF way, tnat
while mnch of the testimony does seem
to make strongly against me, on accouns
of the hOrrid tales Tecited by many OF
contestants witnesses, VINO are nearly
Ali colored. vet most of this testimony
is wholly false OF grossly exaggeIatte,u. leu
The average agricultural negro al the
South is not only a constitutional cow
ard and therefore prone to let his fears
exaogprate even the slightest eXclte-
mant or disturbance into rlot, Dut ne
is a moral bankrupt also, especially as
to such small virtues as truth, honesty
The sanctity of an oath is a thing he
cannot comprehend, and ne Will CON-
init perjury with such taelliSy lnat at fUa fUa
five dollars each | can easily get uVe
hundred affidavits or dispositions IN my
district from colOred men to prove con-
ciusivelv that the honorable chairman
NJ tha subcommittee who has this case
in charge TMr. Watt stole morse ana
rohbed a hen-rOOst in Aiken county,
Carolina. last wear.
I wish. Mr.. Speaker, to recur TO the
idea of the census furnishing the proper
tha SOuth. Tt has been cOntended, as
have said. that every negro must neces-
sariIv vote the Republican ticket:
think the gentleman from Illinois Mr..
MOultOn1 made some very strong sugges-
fions 10 an impartial mind why great
many negroes should vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. - e.,
IL, Ia I,5 o,ynars of nv State
moor as they are. to-day pay higher tax
for public school purposes, to when
their own children go. than any Whlte
mon of any State on this continent, ana
tba hulk of the tax fund so raised Is
used to educate the negro.
In the days of the carpet-bag ana Al
rican barbarian rule the School tunus
were stolen, or nearly so, and the negroes
.of the prpsent day in my State are CRATE
fuI for the change in that regard whlch
has hepn wrought by the Democrats;
And inst here l cannot help but re-
mark that when the gentleman fTOm
Connecticut the honorable chairman OF
tba subcommittee to which my case
was referred TMr Wait bOasted yesteT-
dav that the Republicans would ehucate
and stand by and hold up In MS rights
and manhood the African couid not
helm but remember that the Republican
il
Seventeen cents out of the national
Treasury toward educating the millions
of Africans in the South who were freed
aayenteen wears ago. But you nave lett
ne with all our poverty to bear the sole
burden of educating them, and yet you
expect them to continue vote TOT your
party, and that, too, when you plainly
show that you only love the negro at
election times, OF when ne cOnteSIS d
n N
MANY Of the negroes in my state, un-
der the honest and economical Demo-
cratic Government. are acquiring lanus
and other property. The thrifty ones
among them have learned that meaning
of taxation. and they vote the Demo
cratic ticket on that account. Then,
too, the superior intelligence, superior
tact, above all the imperial manhOod OF
the white race, asserts itself there just
AZ the intelIipence and virtue of the con-
trolling classes at the North assert their
rule over what you might call the lower
orders of society, especially in most or
the New England States. You RepuDn-
cans of the North can safely preach
Your high-sOunding doctrine OF the uni
Yersal brotherhood of man as applied 10
the negroes of the South and the Chl-
nese of the Pacific. IL costs you hotnlHg,
as the practical application Is too far
from YOUR doors, but the white men
most concerned utterly repudlate your
dogma and still maintain that the eau
casian is as much the lord of the earth
today as when the Puritans decreed
that the land of the Indians belonged 10
the Saints, and that they were the Saints.
But / will not repeat the argument that
was so we'll put by the gentleman from
Illinois Mr.. MoultOnl as to why the col
Ored people ought to support the Demo
cratic ticket at the South. L will simply
saw, however, that in one county OF my
Congressional district, to-wit, Barnwell,
the home of the present admirable Gov.
ernor of the State, who Justly has great
popularity with the colored people, there
were 1900 colored men in the last can
vass whose names were enrolled IN Dem
ocratie clubs, who wore red shirts, VINO
turned out at public meetings and pro-
eessions and voted the Democratic ticket.
In Colleton county even still more did
ro
Mr.. Speaker, unfortunately for my
lately down-trodden State, which in
some counties has Just gotten on its
feet, and in Others on its knees, from
the ravages and prostration of the war
land the tyranny that followed the war
i say unfortunately we have aeeumu-