The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-02
BOASTS TILLNIAN.
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The South Carolina Blathersl1ite
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Little Rock, Ark, May %, 1900. =
Editor, THE APPEAL:
In recent issue you say that you
cannot find words to comment upon
Senator Tillman's Ann Arbor speech,
SO I'll find some for you. I wish to
deny that this bowling blatherskite is
the representative of Southern senti-
ment that he processes to be, and to
prove my assertion Tllman is the rep
resentative of our roughs, toughs and
bummers, self-confessed ballot-box
stuffer and assassin. He does not rep
resent the great number of Southern
whites who are spending millions of
dollars annually to, educate the Afro
American and who do not go North
and caluminate the South as Tillman
is doing. >:... ~
.Tillman lies like Falstaff when he
says: eve got together and organ
lied every white man from Is years up
ward" s'We' did not and could not
do anything of the kind; for there are
thousands of white men in the South
who would quarantine against Tillman
and his gang of buns just as they
would against the smallpox or .bu-
bonic plague. Tillman himself makes
kick against drawing the color line
too closely for the reason that so
many of the white folks of South
Carolina have slight admixture OF
Negro blood. Negroes of this type are
of course, strong Tillmanites since
| they hate other Negroes as bad as Till
man does. The most laughable thing
| about Tillman's speech is it's pompous
| display of the poor creatures con;
ceit. He says: "You in Michigan
know practically nothing about this
question" So T., Ben Tillman, the
Hamaliel of South Carolina, have come
Tall the way from South Carolina to tell
| you something about it. So he told
them What the U. S. census
| says about the number of white anC
| Afro-American voters in Michigan anC
! South Carolina. He evidently was mo-
aware that copies of the census coulC
be found in the University library
| And he seems equally unaware of the
fact that the students he was address
! ing carue from all over the United
States not excepting South Carolina
| When he was Kissed he brought up the
staple and unanswerable Southern ar.
gument:: I'll ta 49, '.,'@*. h..
/ when those who Kissed will give
their daughters to Negroes I will apol
ogize and not sooner" H
And little later he added this:
Education is bar more than bene
fit to them. When colored men learr
to write they forge some ones name tt
obtain goods and money. Character is
the main essential to life, and we lool
/ to the teaching of a mother to give
the character to our great men,. The
Negro child in the South hasn't one
good mother in one hundred. Sixty tt
| 70 per cent are totally lacking in vir.
tue. The venture of Booker Washing.
ton is a total failure. The object OF
that and similar institutions is tt
graduate high grade mechanics and
| teachers, but when they are graduated
their learning would be futile as the
! white man would not tolerate him in
| a competitive world. The Negro is fiji
| only as a shoeblack, barber and other
mental work, and in the cotton and
rice felds.'' t..Ns:g.s 81
If it be fact as he asserts that &c
per cent of the Negroes daughters are
in South Carolina robbed of their vir-
tue by the Tillmanites, it would seem
that it would be a very profitable oper-
alton for the Negro to agree that he
would not ask the white man to give
him his daughters, provided the latter
would only let the Negros daughters
alone and allow them to develop into
virtuOus mothers.
must close by remarking that no
Northerner has ever given such a hor-