The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-08
BURTON AROUSED.
Some Remarks Of Tillman, Of
South Carolina,
Stir the Kansas Senator to
Vigorous Reply.
HE DEFENDS FUNSTON.
Has a Sharp Interchange of
Words With Rawlins.
Hinted That He is Ready to
Fight If Called Upon.

Washington, May 8-Discussion Of
the Philippine bill in the senate took a
sensational turn late Wednesday after
noon. Mr. McCOmas, of Maryland, re-
1erring to the alleged cruelties of Amer
Jean soldiers in the Philipplnes-cruei-
ties which he deeply deplOred-told OF
some of the Cruelties which had Oc-
CURED on both sides during the civil
war Neither side, he held. was to be
held responsible for those regrettabie
occurrences, as neither side approved
them In this connection, he suggested
that senators from South Carolina and
Mississippi, where there is less popular
liberty than in any Others, were shout
ing Ioudest for constitutional liberty in
the Philippines.
These remarks drew a sensat ional re-
ply from Mr. Tfllman, of South Caro-
lima. who declared that it was no
longer possible to sheer away the re-
sp0nsibility for the infamies committed
10y the Americans in the Philippines
He said that if it had been known in
-fle south that the reins of government
were to be given to the negroes, the
civil war would have been prolonged
indefinitely. He insisted that. in order
10 maintain their self-respect, the white
people of the south had been obliged
TO subdue the negro by whatever means
they could. using the shotgun as one Of
the means He frankly described how
the negroes had been defeated at the
polls. admitting that the whites had got
Just such majOrities as We're necessary.
When we get ready to put a niger 5
face in the sand" he shouted, we put
his body there, too" He declared that
the people of the south never would
submit to negro domination, and he
hoped Republican senators would turn
from their game of deviltry in the
Philippines" and assist the south to rid
itself of the threat OF negro DONNA
ton
Throughout the south" said he.
there is a horror hanging over every
household for this awful fear of rapine,
and yet you turn your back upon it
and march to the east, where you MUIR
der and butcher and torture the poor
Filipinos. And you are doing all this
ia the name of Christianity and human
ity and liberty I can see the hypocrisy
oOzing out of you all over.
'Lynchings viii continue as long as
those hends assault our wives and
daughters"
Mr. Burton, of Kansas, declared that
he never had heard a speech like that
OF Mr. Iilman- Every body, he said
judges others by himself. The man
Who, upon this floor can defend slavery
and government by the shotgun can not
be expected to think very well of sena-
tors who are trying to carry good gov
eminent to the Philippines. It is aston
lsnng that a senator in one breath
should make an appeal for unsullied
government in the Philippine and in the
next breath boast of crimes almost un-
paraIleled in history. The senator from
South Carolina may enjoy a monopoly
of such speeches.
Mr. Burton sharply arraigned the mi
nOrlty members for their attitude on the
Philippine situation. declaring that they
We're supporting the Filipino insurgents.
while the majority senators were stand