Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-08
Democratic Senators Withdraw
in a Body When Tillman
Speaks.
Deft~ntly Admits That Southern
Whites Steal Elections With
Shotguns.
Speech Will Be Used as Republic
can Campaign Document.
Democrats Scared.

nary friendship l appeal to you to know
how much the republicans have paic
that old fool from South Carolina fol
making this speech? 2" was the question
tive democratic senators to a republic.
an colleague after a sensational speech
by Mr.. Tillman late yesterday, in which
the South Carolinian upheld the south's
policy in fighting the negroes.
Don't you like the speech?" was the
Yankee way of answering 1he question
You go straight, plum to hades,'
was the astonishing remark Of the dis
tinguished and aged southern senator
and this was about as near as any one
Of the democrats came to expressing a
coherent opinion on Tillman's speech.
The speech by Mr.. Tillman was one
Of the most remarkable ever delivered
%southerner said that had it been known
the negroes would be given the reins
of government the civil war would have
been prolonged indefinitely.
The senator was candid in expressing
the democratic attitude toward the ne
groes. He insisted that, in order tc
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
gotten just such majorities as were
necessary. LII
When we get ready to put a nigger's
face In the sand" he shouted, I'VE put
his body there, too"
He declared that the people of the
south never would submit to negro
domination, and he hoped republican
senator's would turn from their game
OF deviltry in the Philippines" and as
of negro domination. 5
To show their disapproval of their
colleagues remarks every democrat in
the senate arose while Mr.. Tillman vas
talking and left the chamber. returning
after the speech was ended.
The democrats fully realize that TILL
mans speech is the best possible am
paign material the republicans have
discovered at this session of congress.
II was 50 defiant and so clearly ex-
presses the ultra-democratic view of
the race question that the republicans
have already concluded to circulate 1t
as a campaign document and it is said
the first order will be for 5000. 900
copies to be distributed thruout the
northern states.
While the democratic senators were
c~ongregated in the cloakroom n of
the well-known republican senators
mingled with the crowd and was sur
prised to find hat the democrats actu-
ally believed the republicans had inten-
tlonally stirred up Tillman to make an
incendiary speech so they could make
| political capital out of 1t.
Over on the house side there was
great indignation and many of the
democrats expressed the theory hat If
the republicans circulated Tillman's
speech freely in the north that one doc
ument would enable them to retain
control of the house Of representatives.
in spite of the generally expressed
! opinion that the democrats would havs
a majority in the next house.
The Tillman speech was al incident
Of the debate on the Philippine bill, the
South Carolinian being aroused by a
remark by Senator McComas, of Mary
land.
Mr.. McComas, referring to the al
legged %cruelties Of American soldiers in
the Philippines-cruelties which he
deeply deplored-told Of some of the
-.--, It'll l-a so l~$L
sides during the civil war. Neither
side, he said, was to be held responsible
FOR those regrettable occurrences, as
neither side approved Of them. In this
connection he suggested that senators
from South Carolina and Mississippi,
"where there is less popular liberty
than in any Others" We're shouting
loudest for constitutional liberty in the
Philippines.
Mr.. Tillman, securing the floor to re-
ply to the Maryland senator, charged
that Mr.. McComas had passed over
with complacency the "outrages ana
iniquities and barbarities' which had
been, he said, committed by American
soldiers. He declared that when the
light had ben turned on in full upon the
Philippine situation the American peo-
pie would see to it next November that
the majority In n branch of congress-
would not be Committed to this In
famous policy" He continues:
IF I can have my way you shall not
pass this bill until full light has been
turned on the Philippine situation"
He discussed the situation in the.
south and declared that If it had been
known prior to the conclusion of the
war that in the south the reins of gov
eminent we're to be turned over to the
negroes there would have been inaugu-
rated a guerrilla warfare in the swamps
of the south that would have been kept
up indefinitely.
In his own state there were 200, 900
more negroes thar whites, and in Mis-
sissipi 100000 more colored than white
people. In order to maintain their self
respect the whites, he declared. were
obliged to take the reins Of govern
ment in the south by whatever means
they could-using the shotgun as one
Of the means.
Referring to the reinauguration Of
white supremacy in South Carolina, he
said the whites had secured a majority
of 5000. 1t might Just as easily have
been, he said, $4,000 or 81 5000. they
simply got such q majority as was nee
essary.
He referred to the outrages IN the
Philippines, and then said he had
heard only Of the application of the
sand cure" in the south. He thought
the sand cure. as described, was mild.
H;s rema rk on burying the w,ho,a IF