The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-21


 Ie Bisbetica Donata.' The papers | translated this variously as the tam ed screw," and the 'tammed scrsw,"
 for the benefit of English playgoers.
 rnoTwooD's PLAIN TALK.
 John Trotwood Moore in The Horse
 Review.
 The disgusting spectacle of two South Carolina Senators indulging in all the choice billingsgate at hand, while they abuse each other and en- deavor to draw the tircd-out. politi-
 cally-cursed people Of that state into a campaign of abuse, is one of the things that Governor McSweeny has promptly turned down. These gentle men, having a private grudge. propose to resign, conditionally, that they may fight 1t out before the peopie-forget- ting. evidently, that the poor people will be the sufferers in crops neglected, lexcitement created, enmitfes engendered and expenses incurred, to allow these two demagogves to say which Is the
 smarter one. In the name or heaven.
 If there Is anything the south needs lt is a rest, politicallyT-a chance, as one l of its enemies oncd said. for it to
 raise more cotton and corn and less hell" For nearly forty years since
 the war the poor South has been em-
 broiled in every kind of an issue that the deyiltry of politicians could devise. with the negro always in as disturb ing factor, until today, when little prosperity does happen to get into ner, 1t rattles and Hops around ana ,hakes as much noise as pot-liquo m houio | pup Is she never to nave cnanee v .u
 ro to work in earnest, to deVeiop ne.
 noatchless resources to raise horses ana stock erect mills and factories anu iasrn the sweetness and con tentment of unprejudiced nVlng and honest work? Secretly, ana
 ;r ,act the South is tired or no,itics If has learned that IL was
 ;nst such men as Tillman that precip- I itated the war; that 1t has been Jus. s,,ch men as Tillman that nave posseu if is for years and opposed every.nins, | through prejudice, that wouio oenens us: that 1t has been just eucn nieh as Tillman who keep alive sec.lona. imosities. effete system or deeeheta.e
 and nlaved-out political policies cneap
 strutting spectacular attitudes, pull aozines and vaporings. that mas r- sslf at last arraigned against the capi- tai integrity. business sense and soiia advancement of the rest of the world. And the world goes on. not With preIu- Sice. hut pity for the people who can he led by such prophets. Tillman would dond the country with Populism ana debased money; he would repudiate the flag AS he would the national dept; he would shut the South up Tn a muu wall and raise cotton; he would calt csa the natural expansion Of a great coun- try imperialism. because 1t taxes more ships and more soldiers ana, more IbSh HE , kr nj 4f0W. and through and in 1t all. as sine qua, non of his very political existence. he would keep the two sections hating and malirning each other to the end or time. He knows very well if they ever grow to know and understand each other and that the destiny and prop erty of one Is the destiny and property of all. 1t would be the end of his kind In politics. a ny. AS a Southern man and Demo-
 crat, we rise to say to the polit'caLooss
 of the Tillman kind that his day has
 ended and that all through the South
 there Is a strong, conservative busi-
 ness element of the real integrity and
 brains of the South who hold happiness,
 peace and prosperity above demagog-
 uery and party lines. and who aresnotc going to cease in their efforts un3il1 white men in the South have chance
 to vote as they think and have their vote counted. e7 hf .i
 Give us a chance to grow; give us a chance to work and make money; give us a chance to forget the bloody and accursed past, with all its mistakes, North and South. In the name of God, are we to be political hewers of wood and drawers of water to this narrow a4 tu he uses his brains, but the only weap- on the devil himself possesses-the pitchfork?
 The people of Alabama, the most progressive State in the South today, are on the right track. They hay" met in solemn Constitutional Convention, and they are going to disfranchise the negro, redeem their State and make it possible for white men to vote az they think and have that vote counted fair ly. Tillman IS the very blossom and flower of the negro in politics, aroma- lous as 1t may seem. for it Is the des- peration of a noble people under a ne- gro yoke that causes them to couDte- nance him. And let not the Eor.Aern people misunderstood the true position of Alabama in disfrA nchising the negro. It is a question of life and d' 2th. The races are not and cannot have a single interestin common. They do' not think. act. i've or die alike. Their primordial an prlmeval foundations are made of different material. A thought does not go through a negro head the same way as through the Anglo-S Saxon. The negro as a servant is a happy working, quiet and inoffenslve creature. The negro clad with a little authority is a tyrant and a fool of fools. A gorilla with a Winchester in his hand Is not Booker T. Washington no more represents the real negro in the South than Calico did the superstition of the Middle Ages In breeding paTlance he is phenomenal outcross that has inherited the pre- potency of his white sire. Great man that he Is for a negro, and for which he deserves all credit, he stands al- most alone from his race, and If his people Were allowed a free and un- biased vote on him and his fine teach- iEgs, he would not have corporals guard as followers. He would go the way of all prophets.
 Let not the people of the North mis- understand Alabama, because they can- not understand the situation unless they had lived there. It is case of racial difference-the strongest of all differences-and wherever it has oc- cured God Almighty has decreed 1t shall be d fight and a survival of the | Attest. From 1868 to 1878. the negro | had Alabama, The memory of those | years fills me now with an anger that l makes me want 10 fight. The State