The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-22

Virginia that the delegates 10 sucu d Coh-
ve,ltion shall be honest, patriotic. intela-
gent, discreet men who will have ne poll
teal axes to grind and who. with the lear
of God before them. will go about thelF
work With an eye single to the peace,
honor and welfare of the Commonwealth.
WE AGREE WITH TILLNIAN ONCE.
The great speech of Senator George T.
Hoar on the imperahstic tendencies OF
Mr. McKinley's administration and that
part of the Republican party daat en-
dorses him has now appeared in the Con-
gressional Record and we have read 1t
through with the deepest interest and with
great profit 1t is masterful production.
L is great in oratory, it is great IN logic
and reason and it is great as hish
and lofty expression of a noble PATRIOTISM.
We all recollect that within the past few
weeks Senator 1illmat, of South Carolina,
made most frank and startling an
nounccment in the Senate to the eject
that in the South we shoot negroes or
stuff ballot boxes accordingly as Inc one
or the other is necessary for controlling
our elections Only a brief report OF what
Tillman said went out to the country
through the press. But Mr.. Hoar mas
quoted it all from the record. and it Is
as follows:
We took the government away. We
stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. we
are not ashamed of it. The Senator from
Wisconsin would have done the same
thing. l see 1t in his eye right now. lie
would have done il. With that system
force. tissue ballots, etc.-we got tired
ourselves. So we called constitutional
convention, and we eliminated, as l said.
all of the colored people whom we could
under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments.
/ want to call your attention to the re-
markable change that has come over the
spirit of the dream of the Republicans;
to remind you gentlemen from the North
that your slogans of the past-hrother-
hood of man and the fatherhood of God
have gone glmmering down the ages.
The brotherhood Of man exists no longer,
because you shoot negroes in Illinois,
when they come in competition with your
labor as we shoot them in South Caro-
lima when they come in competition with
us in the matter of elections. You dc not
used to pretend that you did. but you no
longer pretend it except to get their
votes.
You deal with the Eilipinos Just as we
deal with the negroes, only you treat
them heap worse.-Congressional Rec
ord, F1fty-siNth Congress, hrst session,
pages e347, 2Si9.
Further on in his speech, deprecating
interruptions by Senator Tillman, Mr..
Hoar said: 81 have alluded TO the Sena-
tor from South Carolina only to show in
addition to quoting his language, that he
was beyond all question hereafter to be
one of the most powerful and conspicuous
leaders of the Democratic party" God
forbid that this should be so if the DEM
ocratic party is ever to be again the
Democratic party Of old, though. If IT Is
to become the party of the Populists, we
see no reason why it should not be So
TilIman has a vigor and energy and
genius in the line of Populism that far
eclipse those qualities in any other OF
those would-be leaders who are bent
upon dra gsing the party down into all
the sloughs of degraded politics and
Democratic party is going to rise from
its ashes and send TO the Populist party
where they belong, all such leaders as
Tfllman. The extract from Tillman's
speech that Mr.. Hloar quoted is brutal,
but it is frank. It is sad that we of the
South should have to admit that it is
true. but ii is true and the leaders OF
the Republican party have only them
selves to thank that they have driven
our maddened people into such courses
However. it was not to comment upon
this phase of the subject that we have
introduced this article thus. 1t was to
lead UP to what Tillnan said on Thurs
day last in the Senate upon the subject
of imperialism. The Serate having
Foraker's joint resolution providing for
temporary Porto Rican ad1rinistra ton
under consideration. Tllman said:
I'VE are to have grand pageant on
MAY 1st. when the new government is TO
be inaugurated. This inauguration is to
take place with the greatest ceremon!
ever seen in amy part OF the. unateo
States imagine that the purpose OF
this display is TO impress the islanders
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United States, as well as to impress the
people of the United States with the new
nol;cy of Imperialism, by which an Amer
lean pro-consul is to take possession OF
the island.
AFTER awhile. of course. we will have
another governor sent TO the Philippines,
and he will DE of so much greater impor-
lance than the Governor of the little
Island Of Porto Rico that suppose he
must have the navy escort him across
the Pacific; and must have umbrellas
held over him, like the Bey of Anglers
and the Sultan of Morocco. We will have
him attended by our subject princess in
the Sulu archipelago with N1ohammedan
body-guards, and all that sort of thing II
| thai is the purpose of keeping these
officers in Porto Rico will interpose no
! obstacle 10 the passage of the resolu-
don.'
We did not suppose that we should
ever be found endorsing public utterances
of IIllman in the United States Senate.
He and ourselves are so far apart upon
All matters, which we have ever known
| him heretofore to discuss. that We did
not suppose there was any point what
| eyer. upon which we would be found to
1 howe coumnn Views hut he has express