The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-04-04
SIlRS THEN Up
Senator TiiIrnan Usss His Pitch
fork on Republicans
THEY ARE ALL RYPccRlTES
Eulcgises and Defends the South
in Her Treatment of the
Negro.

Recently Senator Til,man n the
United States Senate bad running de,
bate With Senator Foraker, OF Ohio,
upon tic attitude Of the President AID
the Senator from OHIO in regard 20 free
trade in Porto Rico, quoting the
Chicago Times Herald at length in its
criticism Of the sdmipiStration. He
asked Mr.. Foraker to say whether he
was for free trade or not, and prodded
him With chsngirg his attitude because
the Chicago Tines Herald was sdvocat-
ing free trade in Porto Rico. Senator
Tlllmau alluded to the relations exist
ing between Foraker and hohlsaat, the
editor Of the Times Herald, which have
been anything else than corol@l and
friendly:
Mr Tillman. The edi;oria: which |
have reld here happens 10 sc !roui the
Chicago Times, R,r.l3, and rcr5 BODY
knows the brotherly D4u,on and Pylhia'
Ike rela,ioas Which exist between my
friend from Ohio and Mr. knhlSaat,
and felt cons,r.in, to believe, know
ing the great love that these sen,!, men
have for each other, aud knowing that
they are bo,h loyal to Mr.. Mckinley
aud the Republican party, that the
Senator from Ohio siu,E!y got ont OF The
free-traGe boat b, cause Mr.. hohiSaat
sotinto il; that he could not 1--we ~ 81
atmo>,pkere contaminated by the pres
ence OF that person.
Slr. Foraker. In answer to the Sena-
tor 5 remark, l sill frauk!y coLfe>s, IL
the presence Of the Seaste, that | have
felt siroo learning Of Mr k"hisaats
attitude q, at deal more confidence ID
my p-eScnt position Laughter
M1. TllImau. Mr. Prrsioeut, have
been .;gh, a!orS that read my seit
have il career comc across editorials ID
papers that had fought aud lied oo ne
for years in which my ac,icn was eon
meudsG, ard immediately | set about
to investigate IN order 10 6nd out
when got the approval Of such papers
aud understand why the Senator from
Ohio shouiG desert his own principles
aud his own calmly selected position
because kohl>aat took a position along,
side of him. But at the same time II
does not exElain Why the President,
who was warm friend aud TO whom
Mr. koblsaat is trusted adviser, has
CHANGED front, if he did change front.
Nobody can tell Us whether he did or
uot. want some Gentlemas here to
explain to NE the present attitude OF
the President. l have been trying to
stand by him. | bore testimony the
other day to what said was his patriot
isul anG nobility OF character. do not
hesitate any time to say that think
NuIlam Mckinley IS "ue CT the most
lo7able men We have haa in public life
in America, but the trouble is Mr..
Mckinley will Lot stand up and have
backbone sometimes Republicans
would have been in heap better tx
politically if he had stood by his free
trade proposition aud let you gentlemen
90 on and f. h, 1t out among yourselves
and pass free-,rade measure or not.
But whom the gods would destroy they
first made mad aud confusion Of coun-
sci is the beginning Of madness. That
is my Interpretation OF tie present
situation.
We bad testimony the other day that
Coz Almighty had given US the Philip
pines; that the honored President pro.
tempore of the Ssnate and his cola
borers on the Paris commission bad very
little or nothing to Go with II; that II
had come directly from the Almighty;
tha, He had held Us in the hollow OF
His hand, that the glory Of our future
history was to come from the fact that
We were TO reach out and grab up that
islauo aud this i. i.Iau6; that we were TO
treat the coloreG races OF those lslaDo,,
not like we treat the coorcd people IN
the South, or not like you gentleman
once tried to treat them, but as we OF
the Soulh have felt constrained TO treat
them; that you gentlemen have chaDgco
frout on thai subject aid that We weie
to have yuIlou, future. with so much
murey AID I'm, lumeLtS aud wealth
f"wug lutu our c"tvrs 10 consequence
tf this new policy that we cou rot
descend 50 low as 10 give the credit to
the Senator from Miunesu.a and tie
Senator IRON Name AID their brethren
on he coumlssiou, wh0 had gone over
to Paris aud demaud, q the cessiou OF
these Islands IL lbe PAclhc AID hao
enforced that dcmaud 10 The polut that
We got them, or so: what title opaln
had.
Nobody will tell US, as | said mo
neut ayo whether the President Is Tor
free trade or not | wish | knew.
wanted 10 have the pleasure OF support
;px svue measure that he had scpt
bereauo that could ludorse honestly
IS Americau without regard to telug a
South Caruliaiau or a Democrat, and
now | am robbed of that pleasure. You
gentleman are cruel to US. Why DO
Won not let Us co svmeihlug some tue
2, Amer.caus AID Lot force Us always
hack to the narrow Iut OF democracy;
and Why do yvu not Go something seme
time as Ameiicaps and Lot be sach
narrow, bitter partisanS here!
Mr.. pc1kIas. Of course / am not
au,ko.zca 20 SPEAK for the President;
Int am lncaued TO thiLk that his
yi.ws-i may have lnrltated them lu
that respeet-were Influenced by Tnat
was Ic,circd 10 BY NY irlend, the Sena-
tor from South Carolina, that great
trusts were being formed IN Puerto
R!co for the purpose of cor,10lilng the
s,sar traffic. Tie Republican party Is
onDrosed to trusts and comolnsil0Ds,
ana knows thatth ouly solution OF tina,
Drobem is the establishment OF local
beet sugar factories, such as there are
In Nebraska aud IL Utah and IN Iowa
and in Michigan aud IN Cai!tornla-
ron or twelve indrpen-