The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-09-12
TILLMAN IN NEW ENGLAND.
Says He Represents the Man with the Hoe

In his speech at Providence, X ] g.,
20 the b metallic League list week
SenstOr Tillman, &C. South Carolina.
rather opened the eyes Of his audi
ence He said the Philippine war
was q disg,aco to the Uaited States
he severely condemned imperlall m
He also criticised New f gland cap
italists He charged them with being
party to slave conditions in the
Hawaiian Islands sugar plantations
la describing the speech the core
spondent Of the Boston Post said
In language emphatic and sarcasm
most biting, with his index finger
pointed at the audience, be handled
the topics of the day in fashion new
to the experience of New E1gland
audiences, and for time the people
looked amazed. The audience soon
became accustomed to his manner OF
presenting his argument, so that
when be had finished they cried for
More, more Go on and applaud
ed so long that the Senator was
obliged to bow his acknowledgements
several times. Lynching 10 the South
be upheld the right OF the negro to
the bsllot without the educational
qualification he condemned, and be
It garded the treatment of the regro
in the North as hyp)crtical
Senator Tlllman said among other
things "The warmth of your wei
come leads me to remark that II has
not been so loug ago that man from
the South aud from South Carolina
who would have come to New Eng
land to discuss national issues would
have met with a very different treat
ment. Laughter and applause /
take it, my friends, as an augury Of
b,tter days for the Republic that the
Spanish war, if 1t has done nothing
else, is worth all that it cost in The
fact that 1t has proved that the
South will fight for the Stars and
Stripes as readily as you will. Loud
applause.
We have been in existence as q
nation not quite l25 years, aud VT
have been in the habit of boastlng
that we have the greatest nation on
the globe, the freest nation, the land
of the free and the home of the
brave the syslum for the oppressed.
But, my friends, 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 1t
of a government Of the few rich peo-
pie CONTROL ng and expressing and
robbng the masses. Loud applause
You New Englanders 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, ard st heart you are as clean
and honorable and bigh-toDed and
patriotic a population as | have ever
met. But, my countrymen, | waut
to have you to recolleet this one
thing-that south of the Potomac
and west of the Mississippi there are
more people than there are in New
England and all the country outside
of those limits. Applause The
people south of the Ohio and Potomac
and west of the Mississippi can elect
a President without your help and ID
spite of you. Applause and cries OF
Hear, hear"
" Therefore it is we'll for you to
have it recalled to your minds that
this is great country, and that 1t
has more interests than centre
around New England or New York
or the Middle States, and that these
interests are now being neglected ;
that one-half Of the people Of this
country are being oppressed, and
that it is being done by your consent
and through your votes. Applause
"You have seen nothing in your
newspapers expect sophistries and
falsehoods, therefore how could you
understand the subject 7 How could
you be made to know that all this rot
and twaddle that you have read was
being bought by the capitalists who
sought 10 throw dust in your eyes to
enable the m to get your votes in their
schemes to oppress the rest of the
country and oppress you along with
us3 Loud applause.
"Now you have had eloquent al
lusion to the poem of Edward NJ Ark
ham, The Man With the Hoe and
to Millsis great painting. | repre-
sent the man with the hoe. am
known as Farmer TIllman in the
United States Senate (aughteD, and
there are 10000, 900 of them in this
country, and therefore, as am the
only farmer, you cannot blame me if
present to you the aspects of public
questions as they appear to the
farmers and as they affect them.
"You people in New England no
longer have the agriculture. You
are segregated in towns and villages
engaged in manufacturing. and there
fore YOU know nothing about cohdi-
tions which exist elsewhere, where
men have to toll and sweat from
morning until tight in pursuit of those
ayocations of the farmer where they
dig out of the soil the support OF
themselves and their families-the
Man With Hoe who takes TO-
O0O, 900 bales of cotton from the
ground, who raises the wheat, who
raises the eorn, the oats. the beef, the
pork, the breadstnffs, the cheese, the
butter, and all the other a ayricultural
products, which constitute $3.50, 600,
900 Of your exports. Oyer three