Arizona republican., 1899-03-03
Senator Tillnan Says South is
 Carrying 1t.
CHARACTERIZATION OF NEGRO
Says They are HappY-GO-LuCkY, immoral, Uffrufhfui, Unreliable Race Unfit for inc BaIIot-Onc Industrious White Man Worth Three Ot Them - pr. Bradford Denies His Statement.

Montclair. N J.. March 2.-United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina and Rev. Dr. A. H. Bradford of the First Congregational church of this place, talked before the Outlook club here Cn The Race Question in the/South'' Senator Tillman after drawing picture of the ruin and desolation caused in the land by the civil conflict, said:
 ''The white man is superior to the colored man, and, GCd helping us, we will maintain that superiority. Your great soldier, Grant, sent to my coun- try in 1876 a regiment of ten c0mp7n- ies to maintain carpet-bag govern ment. These troops had orders to compel a free vote and a fair count. They did their duty as they saw it. They maintained law and order, aI- though there were 5,20O blacks to $500 whites. What do you reckon our ma jority was? Three thousand nine hun dred. Can Tammany beat that? Can Philadelphia beat it? We beat these people by outvoting and outcounting them, and we admit it. We can't re- peal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments except by force and fraud. l told the senators this in Washington and then I said: What are you going to do about it?' In the north it is a question of white rascaIs against white rascals In the south 1t is a contest between the Anglo-Saxon superiority and civilization, and de- graded, corrupt and corruptibIe peo- pie.
 we called a constitutional conven- tion and created a constitution under which every man must be able to read or write or pay taxes on s300 Under that constitution 90 per cent Of the whites and 10 per cent of the blacks vote. The cOlored people are a happy go-lucky, immoral, untruthful, u1re- liable race. There are exceptions and bright ones, but I speak of the great mass. They were unfit for the ballot and are now, because they are lacking in that moral fiber which gives them sound Judgment, and they can be led away by any shrewd and sharp rascal. l simply recognize my superiority to the black man and am willing to con sent to his life, liberty and happiness so long as he does not step on my fest Naughter.) Take a pilgrimage to the south. Settle in any part you please, and if you don't como north convinced that my view is the right 0ne-why, then, I'll stand treat. 1 have q negro on my plantation 27 years old. would trust him with my wife and child and he would die protecting them, but he ain't fit to vote. You cant alter what God has made, and though this or that negro may be a decent man or an honest man, yet the tiger is Ioosened in white mans bosom without re- gard to consequences when the two races come in contact
 Speaking of the negro from the in dustrial standpoint Senator Tillman said: He is by nature and by every instinct of his soul a loafer His one purpose in life is to get something to eat for today, with no thought for the future. In consequence the southern states lag behind the north because Of the lack of thrift in it's laboring class. But don't think that the negro does all the work. The south produced 1,000,- 000 bales of cotton last year and one half of it was raised by white men. If any commonwealth will give US one good industrious white man for three niggers, we'll swop as long as they'll keep up the exchange. We've got the white mans burden down there"
 In closing the speaker said: We are educating them, but even if they can learn, we don't propose to have them govern us. We'll use the shotgun if necessary
 Dr. Bradford, in reply, denied that we "can't alter what God has made he said; That's what we are doing all the time" He read statistics and letters from leading institutions Of learning in the north showing that the negro was capable of taking a high in tellectual stand