The Washington times., 1902-05-08
MR.. TIEEMAN AGAIN
STIRS THE SENATE

slavery twin relics of harbarism. and let
him join us in further effort to stamp out
| polygamy wherever IL still disgraces the
civilization of his own State.
Will Extend Suffrage.
"The Senator from South Carolina and
| the Senator from Mississippi. with tear
ful voices, cry out against the small per-
centage of voters We begin with in the
early elections in the Philippines. We
will extend the suffrage gradually until
we finally develop a governing peo-
pie in the archipelago. After III years un-
der the Constitution, what mockery of
government of the people. by the people.
are the governments in those two States.
In the Presidential election OF 1900 South
/ Carolina cast only 3.s per cent votes out
! of her total population; Mississippi cast
| only 3.S per cent votes out Of her total
! population.
In each of these States their home
| Filipinos have been gradually driven
away from part in governing; the
/ whites grow Indifferent Soon. by this
| steady decrease. a larger percentage OF
the total population will be voting in
! the Philippines than in these two States.
at is safe to predict that most of the
votes for this substitute will come from
| States where consent OF the governed is
| least practiced, where the Constitution is
nullifed more and more. while most of the
votes for the pending bill will come from
States where elections are free and fair
and the Constitution is least violated.
! Never until the past three years was there
such effrontery of hypocrisy. We behold
Senators from the two States where there
is less popular liberty than in any others
shouting loudest for constitutional liberty
on the other side of the globe.
Can such a motley army. until 1t re-
stoi IS constitutional liberty to dark
skinned citizens at home, make a mock
ft usade for liberty half way around the
globe? Let our white people lift up odr
dark skinned citizens at home before we
protect an Asiatic republic. If this hypo
critical solicitude for the rights of S.000,
900 colored men yonder beget real solicit
tude for 10 .0o0. 900 colored citizens at home
1t could better be endured Let Senators
remove this beam in their own eyes. and
then see clearly the notes in the eyes OF
their brothers.
The Democratic Policy.
OF the Democratic policy, be said:
1.-The achievements and progress of cur
civil government is the most striking ad-
vance of liberty the world has yet made
in the tropics. and the civil government
which this Congress will extend to those
inhabitants will carry with 1t the bless
ings of liberty. education. and free insti-
tutions.
''All this the minority On this floor
would abandon. Theirs is a policy of !
scuttle. They would steal away leaving |
the archipelago to anarchism cr impe
rialism. The substitute would have us |
relinquish all claim of sovereignty. How /
could we relinquish sovereignty over the |
islands and still compel them to secure
free trade between cur ports and theirs? I
We would never be justified in throwing |
these people back into anarchy. dictator |
ship. and revolution without hope of /
civil liberty
of General Funston and an attack on !
Senator Carmack and his reference to the |
general as a ''jayhawker" brigadier and |
military hero
He referred sarcastically to the fact I
that Funston had Just had his mouth
closed by an order from the War Depart
ment when Mr.. Carmack spoke. This at
tackng of defenseless man he charac-
terizcd as the Democratic idea OF the at
titude Of hero.
Mr.. McLaurin Defends the South.
Mr.. McLaurin of Mississippi followed
Mr.. Burton with another reply on behalf
of the South to the speech of Mr.. Nc
Comas. He was not as violent as Mr..
but made a gallant defense of
the election laws of Mississippi He read
statutes showing that the number OF
colored people in the public schools Of the
State much outnumbered the whites al- |