The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-06
COT TIRED Shooting
Then Efaced the Colored Vote
by Constitution.
TILLMAN Is PROUD OF IT
Additional Remarks on the
Porto Rican Tariff,
TILLMAN is PROUD OF IT

Especial Correspondence Of the Eagle)
Washington, March Sit would be veil
for every colored man in Kansas who
volts the Democratic and Populist tick
cts to know just what Senator Tillman,
he of the pitchfork, of South Carouna,
said the other day in a fiery speech in
| the. senate. Some of his sayings are cited,
to show the candid manner in which he
admits these things, and the citations are
authentic, being taken from the Con-
gressional Record: 1--WE OF the south
have never made any pretehse of consid-
ering the negroes our equals or as be-
| ing fit for suffrage. We fought to keep
them slaves and protested against their
acknowledgements. Do you realize the Off
ficulties under which the southern people
labor? Do you recognize the fact that
the colored race, even when it mas been
educated to limited degree, is stu unfit
for suffrage, for the simple reason that
the negroes do not possess that moral
character and that moral fiber which are
necessary to good citizenship. Even when
in some degree equal to that of the lower
strata of whites they are still not fit to
vote, for this reason: They are always
led off by their preachers and others;
they are the natural prey Of the dema-
gogues, and they are bribable, whether
they have the franchise by virtue of in
telltgence or of manhood suffrage. We
stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them We
are not ashamed of it. With that system
-ussue-ballot, force, etc.-we got tired
ourselves. So we called a constitutional
convention, and we eliminated, as I said
all the colored people whom We could I'M
der the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments."
Puerto Rican tariff bill has brought out
some strange things. It has shown the
usual inconsistency of the Democrats
and Populists, though in more marked
degree. The Populists and Democrats of
the house have taken stand Just oppo-
site to that taken by them less than two
years ago with Hawaii-a parallel case
with the one Just decided in the house.
When we annexed Hawaii in 1898, June,
Is, Representative Newlands of Nevada
introduced a resolution in the house pro-
viding that the customs laws then exist
ing between Hawaii and the United
States continue in force until such time
as they should be changed by act of
congress. That was the substance of the
resolution. The resolution was adopted
tutional question as the recent measure
u Ut,
age of our customs laws to Puerto Rico,
yet many Democrats and Populists helped
to adopt the resolution. Among these
Democrats and Populists so assisting,
we're: Mr.. Botkin. Mr.. Peters, Mr..
Ridgely, Mr.. Mccormick and Mr.. Simpson
of Kansas, and Mr.. Ridgely announced
that If Mr. Vincent, who was absent,
were present he would vote for the reso-
luton. This is found in the Congressional
Record, volume 81, page 6019, Fifty-fifth
When the vote was taken in.
the senate on June 6, 1898, Mr. Baker an
nounced that if Mr.. Harris We're present,
he would vote for the resolution. OF the
Kansas Populists who voted on the New
lands resolution in 1885, only one is in this
Mr.. Ridgely, and the other day,
and during the debate on the Putro Rican
BILL he was vigorous in his denunciation
of the measure and voted against it, How
quickly times change.
Mr.. Newlands, author Of the resolution
on Hawaii, is a member of the house
committee of ways and means. He signed
the minority report on the Puerto Rican
tariff bill, and spoke and voted against
it. He argued its unconstitutionality, yet
the bill sought TO do exactly what his
resolution did less than two years prior |
This is about as inconsistent as the votes |
Of Mr.. Richardson, Mr. Mcclellan and |
Mr.. Newlands, members OF the minority |
Of the committee of ways and means. |
who signed the minority report on the !
bill and spoke and voted against it, yet |
voted for the appropriation Of $4,000 900 |
to pay Spain the indemnity for the Phil |
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