Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
TILLMAN'S WORK IN THE WEST.
Tho Senator Says tho Outlook is Bright for
Bryan-He Discusses tho Race Question.

Tho Chicago Record of September 2ith
published tho following:
"Sonator Benjamin II. Tillman said
yesterday that tho Supreme Court would
declare the disfranchsemont acts of
South (NorthP) Carolina and Louisiana
unconstitutional. IIo said that tho un-
constitutional provisions of tho two acts
lay in tho clause that allowed to vote
without having to submit to any educa-
tional or property tost those whose direct
ancestors voted in 1868. Undor this pro-
vision, according to tho South Carolina
Senator, ignorant whites will be allowed
to vote, whilo ignorant blacks will DO
disfranchised by tho educational test.
llo said this was painly a discrimination
on account OF color in controvorsion to
the fourteenth amendment to tho Ma
tional Constitution.
Senator Tillman, further discussing
the negro question, said:
The Republicans do not care how
many negroes are DISTINGUISHED. They
then will try to reduce tho representa-
tion in Congress from tho Southern
States. When President Mckinley made
his Southern trip short timo ago and
visited Booker Washngton's school he
did not say n word about disfranchise-
mcnt, nor did he mention it in his mes
sage. The negroes are beginning to SEQ
this, too, and that explains who so many
of them arc coming over to tho Demo
cratic party If tho Republicans should
loso tho negro vote they would loso Hi
nois, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey and Il
lot of other States. If President Nc
Kinlcy is reelected it will be by tho
negro vote.
SIN discussing the opposition in tho
South to the retention Of tho Philippines,
the South Carolinian said:
The South is opposed to keeping
these islands largely on account of tho
race question, although we object, too,
to subjugation. In a sense wo have been
subjugatcd ourselves. We are carrying
the white mans burden now, and we
know what it will DO in the Philippines
to have carpet baggng and government
by force. 1t may seem strange, coming
from Southcrncr, but the war of 1860
was an example of as great hcroism, dc.
votion to ideals and love of liberty as
ever inspired man, but if the Northern
people had known the negro as well then
as they do now that war would not have
been fought"
"Scnator 1ilman has been campaign
ing a week in Wisconsin and spent yes
tcrday in this city before going to fulfil
speaking engagements in Indiana. Later
he will be in Missouri and Illinois. The
Senator says he has been talking impe-
rialism principally, punching other issues
trusts, income tax, etc. together. u
do not talk on the silver question: he
explained, because hat is not an issue,
though the Republicans are trying to use
it as shield to ward of our bullets
Gin regard to the situation in Wiscon-
sin, Senator Tillman said:
we can carry Wisconsin if the pco-
Hlc up there get a move OH themselves.
llct with big crowds wherever spoke,
and found the sentiment to be ove.
whclmingly Democratic. LaFollottc is
personally unpopular and is being OPP
posed by factions Of his own party
Senator Tillman, when asked what
he thought of Col. Roosevelt and his
methods of campaigning, replied:
Col. Roosevelt is a mountcbank. lie
amuscS me. Ills methods are suggestive
Of Buffalo Bill and his spectacular wild
West show. He is so thoroughly satu-
rated with cgotism that hc has dcvcl-
oped into a public poser. Political popu-
larity has made him ridiculously cogni-
zant Of his own Importance. Personally
however, | admire Col Roosevelt very
much'"