The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-01-16

AND NIGGER VOTES.
Plsin Talk From Two South.
ern congressman.

The New York Journals Washing
ton correspondent gives under date
of the 9Th inst the following graphic
report of two speeches delivered iu
the house against the Almstead and
Crumpacker respportionment bills:
There were two notable pbilippics
delivered in the house this af!ernoos
from the Democratic side anens the
race problem The days when sec
tional hatred marked the differences
between the two sides of the house
wese vividly recalled
Mr. Otey of Virginia gave sensa.
tional warning as to the condition Of
affairs that might be expected il
northern Republicans persist in their
efforts to revive the old feeling with
resolutions intended to curtail the
power of the whites to rule in the
south.
Champ Clark of Missouri stirred
up the trouble with q proposition to
change the District of Columbia into
q territory and allow it delegate in
congress and local government OF
It's own making In reply 70 the
argument that Washington is the
best governed city in America, be
declared
eff 3 uigger is good enough to
vote against me in the Ninth district
of Missouri" be declared, "he ls
good enough to vote for his own
representative here, and if l stay in
congress long enough I propose to
put the party in power on record as
declariog nigger is not worthy OF
voting anywhere, for 1t is because OF
the bigger that you don't want the
people of Washington to have self.
government y
OTEY's REMARKBLE SPEECH.
This speech caused sensation,
but it was mild compared to that
caused by Mr. otey. His denuncia
ton of carpetbagging to the new
American possessions was most
severe. Regarding the curtailment
of representation from the south, be
said in part
.The logical end Of all such agita
tions is negro domination in the
south, which is 5ell on earth to the
white men on the one hand or a race
war on the other. 1t means the
reiretallatioa of the carpetbagger.
1, leans the reinstsllation of the
demon of darkness and corruption.
"It means the coming of buzzsrd
glu,toned with car.ion-the descend
ants Of those who. 35 years ago,
fastened their taiops in the PROSTATE
body of the south, like those pitiless
birds who fed upon the vitals of
Prometbeus when his helpless form
was chained to his rock.
Yes. it means the return OF those
buzzards gluttoned with carrion that
are todsy following the calling Of
their diabo!icsl daddies in Cuba. the
Philippine Islands spd in Porto Rico,
who exude such an odor that q
mosquito shune them Yes, they are
so mean that the yellow fever germe
die in their presesce They are 80
Ioathsome shat the smallpox microbes
fIy from them, and If snake bites
one of chem it kills the snake
PICTURE He WOULD AVOID
"This is the picture that | would
avoid This ia the picture that the
Olmsted resolution would draw.
Their financial acumen consists in
Ratbbonizing ffeedmen's funds with
out detection, in Neelyfying negroes
wages without being caught
Gas for the Shattuc resolution, 1t
seems that neither that nor the
Olmeted resolution will pass They
Will not pass uutH tho no" w n'
swallows the whale not until the
snail outruns the hare /; not until
Dutcbmen stop drinking beer. and
no, unit! the billy goat butts from the
rear
There was prolonged applause on
the Democratic side later in the day
when Mr. Crumpacker moved to
recommit the reapportioument bill to
the census committee, with instruc
tions to ascertain what proportion OF
the citizens of certain states are
deuied the right of suffrage and
reduce the representation according.
", and was defeated by vote of "a
20 1876
The Republicans in the main favor
ed the motion on rising vote, but
were afraid to 60 on the record With
roll Call
HANNA'S HAUL.