The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-18
TlLLMAN'S WARNING
We Should Not Go OF HAN
Cooked About Anarchists.
A DANGEROUS THINo
To Tampsr With the Principles
Of Mogna cnarta Race
QUESTION Most Serious
One for Us.

A special dispstca from Augusta 70
The News and Courier says IN an IN
tel7iev there Thursday night Senator
Tillman paid high tribute to MI. @e.
Kinley IS a man. He was, he said, a
man Of ability, a good husband ana an ~
excellent citizen. Certainly ne ase a:
achieved the greatest diplomatic tli;
umrhs Of suy man who hsd Occupied
the White House since the var.
One Of the group Of gentlemen 20
whom he was taking expressed Sne
hope that he would use his !nnuence W
the fullest extent in securing the eA-
pulsion from this country OF all An
archists. lis
Now, that's where you 60 Of halt
cooked" said the Senator. "HoV are g
you going to tell who are Ansschlstss
Ii you take merely those who aeknoW-
ledge that they are Anarchists ana are
down as such on the roster OF tne w os-
CARNATIONS, you get but small peg
cent. and who is to say that such sno
such are Anarchists and must % "a. sAt
PEELED? The great difficulty IS seas y
wheD you place any such power N sn0
hand Of any man OF any dezsn msn,
though they be the very best men tnaS
could be selected, at the same lIe .
you put weapon in the hand OF sae
tyrant Of the future. Whenever you
break down the barriers By which the
people protect their liberties you open
the way 10 the abuse Of power.
he vent on to say that it was danssts
Gus to trias with the principles OF
the charter Wrested from KlDg
John at Runnymede. The haoeas
corpus could not be suspended Win
safety for any great length Of time. ne
would be very careful, he said, heW ne
voted for sny legislation expelllng the
Anarchistsfrom this country.
Continuing, the Senator said that the
race problem was the grsvest question
which confronted the people es the
South. he did not hesitate to tell the
people of the North that they we're re-
spoDsible for the conditions whioh pre-
vail in the South. We Of the South,
he told them, felt a certain sense Of
gratitude to the negro because Of the
fact that a.l during the civil war, when
the men Of the South were away, fight.
ing as the negroes knew, for the con-
tiruation Of their bondage, With the
women Of the South absolutely unpro-
tected, nobody ever heard Of single
instance where the negroes had offered
these women an indignity. It was for
this reason that the people Of the South
were more indulgsnt towards the
negroes than were the people Of the
North. Nov, if under slavery the
negroes were 80 much better than they
are nov, and if the act Of the people Of
the North was productive Of yell known
increase in crime among the negroes,
where should the blame for present
condition rest2 he always told his
Northern hearers that they did not be.
lie7e the negro wss their equal. They
thought he was on social equality with
US, but their love for him was in pro.
portion to the square Of the distance,
and they were simply hypocrities when
they talked about his social and politi-
cal equality.
It IS along this line that he will talk
in q large m easure during his forthcom-
ing lecture tour of the West.