The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-26
IN HIS OWN DEFENSE SENATOR PULLMAN SPEAKS IN
 MANNING, s. c.
He Declares That His States Repre- sentation in the United States Senate is Disgraceful.
 Denies Charges.

Manning, s. C., April 25.-Unted States Senator B. R. Tillman today addressed
 a crowd of 15oo people here. The editor of the Clarendon County newspaper,
 Louis A. Appelt, formerly an enthusias-
 tic follower of Tillman, but recently a
 supporter of Senator McLaurin, had for several months made numerous charges against Senator Tillman.
 Senator Tillman acknowledged having accepted a frank from a telegraph com pany, which was about the only one Of
 Editor Appelts charges which was sub stantiated.
 As to his speculation, he admitted that he had lost considerable money in cotton futures.
 Senator Tillman said in part:
 ",rhe Democratic Party in South Caro- lima has occupied peculiar position for
 twenty-five years. The whites are in the
 Minority in this State. After the over
 throw of the carpet bag government in
 1876, we adopted a system of party gov
 ernment, and the white people of the
 State were educated in the employment
 of political methods that obtained hardly anywhere else. Democracy has meant
 white supremacy, and Republicanism
 meant negro equality. The necessity for
 white unity overshadowed the other con alterations. The lamented Hampton
 taught us that An independent was
 worse than radical
 Tt was only after the revolution of 1920 that there was anything like freedom of political utterance and action The convulsion which brought this about also brought with it an attempt on the part
 of those who were in the minority to withstand the popular will: the Haskell movement was based largely on personal
 t@,~ any question in regard to the loyalty of those who supported Judge Haskell to the general principles of Democracy in the nation.
 The new Constitution adopted in 1895 has eliminated for the present the negro majority. But the number eligible to vote are constantly increasing. There have been in the past evidences of Re pliblicanism cropping out in South Caro- lima in vari ous directions and there is no doubt that we shall soon have a white Republican Party appealing to the ne- gro voters.
 The action of one of your United States Senators in advocating Republi- can doctrines and voting with that party on all essential measures. contending all the while that he is d Democrat and that he has the right to define what De. mocracy means. has brought things to a focus. The Democratic party in South Carolina has right to be honestly rep resented in Congress and in fact, I do not believe the Democrats of the State would Intentionally and willingly elect any man to any office whose Democracy was unsound if they knew it. Our pres ent danger is Republicanism in the dis guise of Democracy.
 We must have a revision of the pledge given by candidates. which will make it impossible for any honorable man not a Democrat to secure the nomination if We are to keep the party from being stabbed in the back and not have a repetition of the present disgraceful state of affairs. At this time South Carolina has no voice in shaping public matters in tho Senate. ar if she has a voice. the votes of the two Senators are nearly always on oppo- site sides of any Svcn proposition This Is somN4Aug that does not obtain in any other pNfnocratic State and I know of no way by which we can guard against a re- rurrence of this condition. except to re- quire all candidates for the Senate. State offices. Congressman and other positionsj If honor and trust te pledge faith and loyalty to the doctrines and principlos of the party as announced in State and National Conventions"