The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-05-28

south Carolinian could stand, i got
up IN my seat and answered them and
the State and the South and
our people and brought out the facts
In regard TO the burning of this city in
lS0 and convicted Sherman out of his
own mouth of having lied on Wade
Hampton about it, the Associated
Press sent broadcast over the land the
statemel that my Democratic col
leagues were very much outraged over
my utterances II retired in disgust
from the Senate chamber. L don't
know whether they retired or not and
don't care. What did you send me
there for--to bootlick around like a
licked hound and whine when L am in
suited2 L can't do it amt built
that way. So 1 told them the truth
and hit them between the eyes.
L pointed out this condition. That
during the dark day of the civil war,
when all the men of the South were
away In hes army and only the young
est boys and feeblest old men were left
at homo when those like Harriet
Beecher Stowe at the North, who had
depicted the cruelty of the white mas
Ter, said that now the slaves would take
the opportunity to revenge themselves
upon their masters-that during this
period there is not one instance on rec
ord OF any negro having mistreated any
white woman-not one crime. LIS that
TO the credit of the negro alone? L
asked'them. Is IL not also to the credit
of the white masters who had upllfted
HIM He loved his master and the tie
was mutual in a general way. But
you-and L pointed my 6sts in the faces
OF my political opponents, the Republi-
cans, across the aisle-you, by your
damnable doctrine of equality, have
taught those poor, ignorant creatures
down South to think that they are as
good as the whites, their former mas
lers, or better, and today you v
pick up a paper but you find recorded
there in all its horrible details the story
of some shocking crime.
L mention this merely as o sample of
the kind of speech L made. Good peo-
| pie here have not understood the stu
alton and q lot of the editors here have
lent themselves to the pitiful whine and
cry of the subsidized Associated Press
and the Republican newspapers at the
North. They have condemned me as
a marplot, and said L had injured the
Democratic chances in This national
light by coming out and boarding those
hypocrites to their teeth. prate
about the fatherhood of God aud the
brotherhood of man and all that sort of
thing" L told them. "You taunt us
with our treatment of the negroes
why you have butchered and robbed
and burned more in three years in the
Philippines than the South has in three
hundred years."
L went on and told them that we
were not responsible for the presence
among us of negroes; that their fathers
went TO Africa and stole them, brought
them to this country and sold them To
us thel went home and prayed to
the Lord to free them. l told them
that the hypocrisy was just oozing out
OF them oil over. Ipointed to the facl
that we did not put the negroes in the
South and can't help it hat they are
here, "but you," L said to them, "went
into the Pacific and bought your ne,
groes to butcher and burn and rob.n
don't know whether l ought to have
said those things or not, but | feel that
1t is time for Southern men to assert
their manhood.
L have been going around over the
North lecturing-I am notorious. YOU
know. (Laughter.) | don't know but
what notoriety will some day grow n
to m IL doesn't matter much.
will soon be gone to the hereafter, and
il my name goes down into history as
the Notorious Tillman it is q mat.
ter of indifference to me. But L have
been lecturing about the negro among
these Northern people and making
them pay to hear me, and if / DOM
tell them the truth and bit them be.
tween the eyes! And they applaud
me to the echo. / show them the ne.
gro is no longer a name to coniure
with; III fact, if il wasn't that he held
the balance OF power in Maryland and
Delaware and Indiana and other Dor.
der States they would throw him over
tomorrow, but they are between the
devil and the deep blue sea and they
have to keep up their cam for political
reasons.
L don't know what the prospect is IN
regard to this coming election. We
nave hopes tnat tne reVelatlOn oil the
infamies perpetrated' by our soldiers in
the Philippines, the burnings and tor
lures and murders and shooting down
of I" all over ten /" will awaken the con-
sciences of the really good people at
the .North-and there are millions of
them. We look upon Yankees-as a
general thlng-as something mean
and despicable, but from personal con-
tact with them in Washington and in
the different places at the North where
l meet them when out lecturing, / find
that the masses Of the Northern people
are just as good and clever and honor
able and Christian and patriotic as we
are-but they do dearly love a dollar!
(Laughter.) And L have hopes thai
this great contingent, involving mil
lions, will be brought TO q realizing
sense of the infamies that are being
perpetrated on those poor creatures IN
the East-and in behalf of what2 We
have spent $500 900 900 in subjugat-
ing the Philippines and we are not yet
through. There is one large island,
Mindanao, as large as South Carolina,
where they only began two weeks ago
to make an effort in asserting authori-