The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-09-20

| North Undertook to Settle Thirty
Years Ago, They Have Re-opened
in the Philippines-The Doctrine
of White Supremacy Emphatically
Declared.
In his speech at Providence, R. l.,
to the Bimetallic League, which was
briefly reported in The Evening
Post, Senator Tillman said some
warm things. He said the Philippine
war was a disgrace to the United
States. He severely condemned i'm
perialism. He also criticised New
England capitalists. BE charged
them with being party to slave
conditions in the Hawaiian Islands
sugar plantations.
In describing the speech the CORE
spondent to the Boston Post said:
In language emphatic and sarcasm
most biting, with his index finger
pointed at the audience, he handled
the topics of the day in a fashion
new in the experience of New Eng
land audiences, and for a time the
people looked amazed. The audi
ence soon became accustomed to his
manner Of presenting his argument,
so that when he had finished they
cried for "More, more. Go on"
and applauded so long that the Sena-
tor was obliged to bow his acknowl-
edgements several times. Lynching
in the South he upheld; the right of
the negro to the ballot without the
educational qualification he condemn
ed, and he regarded the treatment of
the negro in the North as shypocritical.
Senator Tillman said among other
things: THE warmth of your vel
come leads me to remark that it has
not been so long ago that a man
from the South and from South Caro-
lima who would have come to New
England to discuss national issues
would have met with very different
treatment. daughter and applause }
I take it, my friends, as augury OF
better days for the republic; that the
Spanish war, if it has done nothing
else, is worth all that it cost in the
fact that it has proved that the
South will fight for the Stars and
Stripes as readily as you will. Loud
applause)
eve have been in existence as
nation not quite l25 years, and We
have been in the habit of boasting
that We have the greatest nation on
the globe, the freest nation, the land
of the free and the home of the
brave the asylum for the oppressed.
But, my friends, I tell you that as
far as can see We are approaching
a crisis when We will have to change
the policies of this government or we
will witness the destruction of the
republic and the substitution for it
of a government of the few rich peo-
pie controlling and expressing and
robbing the masses. Loud ap-
plause.)
You New Epglanders have some
characteristics which, to my mind,
are most admirable. You have some
institutions among you that are not
equaled elsewhere in the United
States, and at heart you are as clean
and honorable and high toned and
patriotic population as I have ever
met. But, my countrymep, I want
to haveyou to recollect this one thing
that south of the Potomac and west
of the Mississippi there are more
people than there are in New EGG
land and in all the country outside of
those limits. (Applause.) The peo'
pie south of the Ohio and Potomac
and west Of the Mississippi can elect
President without Your help and
in spite of you. (Applause and cries
of "Hear, hear
There fore it's we'll for you to
have it recalled to your minds that
this is great country, and that it
has more interests than cente,
around New England or New York
or the Middle States, that these in
terests are now being neglected; thai
one-half of the people Of this country
are being oppressed, and that it i:
being done by your consent and
through your votes. (Applause.)
You have seen nothing in youl
newspapers except sophistries anc
falsehoods, therefore how could yoc