Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-08-02

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plain. humble people, the I,sople
whom Lincoln loved, and <a;rnesr
and justice TO these demand. and
the Constitution requires thoU they
should be protected.
Mr.. TlLLMAN. That is, yo' pro-
pose To take the power from Il peo-
Pile and put it in the hands one
man, a Judge who ought mex to
have power TO exercise cont over
an election.
Mr.. McCOMAS. cannot Ia to
the gentleman for "a speech. Yield
ed to him for "a question.
Mr.. TILLMAN. l ask .nsle-
man to give me a momeh y in
order that 1 may say to TIA mtle-
men, who are about TO n rate
this most revolutionary IN. e.
Mr. MCCOMAS. can yield
longer to the gentleman fro outh
Carolina.
MIR. TILLMAN. / tell tb ntle-
man to lay no such flattef unc-
ton TO his soul as that the sent
local agitation among Dem rs in
South Carolina will affect TIA esult
there so as to permanently injure the
Democratic party, especially as long
as the Republican party shall ass.
or attempt to pass such bin As
this.
MIR. McCOMAS. have not ne
go yield further to the gentle IA
from South CstrOiina MOI ~. -
tae strong nand OF a@~-,.ar " =
er will overcome tile abuse not
permitting the honest peoI )f a
State to have their voice ex. ssed.
/ have not laid such flatteri unc-
ton TO my soul at any time, hat
the farmers of South Carroll AN
unhorse that oligarchy.
Mr.. TILLMAN. Nearly eve e.
cent white man i'm South ca. lima
is Democrat, and will SO relnnin
till you Cease trying TO put white
men under Negroes. IApplaust On
the Democratic sile.
Mr.. McCOMAS. II he were not
you would drive him out. l lave
not further time to yield.
l will not weary you by recoun ing
the other old slave States which
have taken home rule away fro " the /
people to secure n pure white saan's
government and exclude the BIZ -.
While the National Government as
been sitting idly by, all over 2
South has occurred "a reaction y
movement toward the medieval
strictions of slavery. By e
South" | mean every State VIII, 4
until the war slavery poisoned Ii
situations and generations
living grew up within it's prous
tact.
Fourteen years of white supr
cy i'm these States with the v
mans party in full control
passed, and these State governm
are as far from pure government
when they began.
This exclusion OF the blacks ma
trenched corruption everyw
when in power. And one of
ways by which this peoples n
ment will be overcome in the :
and will have To give way to i
and corruption there is, they will
"You must endure all these ilIi
10, there may come a black y
supremacy, and ali these effort
tile white 10 ,Jnsatiosi ~ -Sfl,,s
to ali tailoring mt'n, " ne br bl.
When free government was scrl-
feed to get pure government byNt&le /
whites the policy of repression of the |
black man led TO OF preston nl all |
laboring men, white and black, to a
or, p lien system for landholdersand
merchants, the "anaconda Inortgasr-
es" on the toll OF tenant farmers, to
the convict lease system, at var
with healthy labor,
Within IN short period the tleasu-
ries of the States of the South have
been plundered by defaulting Snte
treasurers: by Vincent of Alabama,
by Polk of Tennessee; by Tate of Ken
lucky; by Burke of Louisiana; nv
Nolan of Missouri; by Hemmingvay
of Mississippi, just convicted; andby
Archer of Maryland.
Mr.. McMILLIN. Why do you rot
include Howgate?
MIR. MCCOMAS. Was he a State
treasurer
MIR. McMILLlN. No; but he was a
Government official
A MEMBER. And Silcott. -l
MIR. McCOMAS The gentleman
had forgotten Silcott He was no. a
State treasurer, but our Democratic
treasurer in this House.
You may compare the corruption
OF the carpet-bag governments.
when the blacks were in the thik
gloom of ignorant citizenship. when
the reck lessness and adventure which
follows in the track of war bred cor
ruption; when the intelligence of the
South bitterly fought AZ govern
ments and helped none-you may
compare those feverish governments
built on the hot emhePs of recon
struotion, with the appalling defalca-
tions OF the treas, ries of so many
States unfolding the government 81
the white mans party unobstructaf3
during fourteen OF the best Of as.:l !
Of peace and good ~'li
Which OF them 10 .uo1e
heartening failure? Surely the fan