Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-12
| SENATOR TILLMAN JUSTIFIES
ABUSES IN SOUTH.
BUT NOT IN. PHILIPPINES
Animated Controversy RACES in Sen
ate over Sensational Uutterances of
South CaroIinian-Arraigns Fellow
Senators for Signing of Treaty Of
Paris.

Washington, May 8.-The discussion
of the Philippines bill in the senate
! took a sensational turn again yester
day. Senator McComas of Maryland,
referring to the alleged crueIties of
American soldiers in the Philippines,
| told of some cruelties which occurred
|: on both sides during the civil war.
! Neither side, he held, was responsible
| for these occurrences, as neither side
| approved of them. War, he said, was
! the senators from South Carolina and
Mississippi, where there is less popu-
lar liberty than in other states" were
| shouting the loudest for constitutional
| liberty in the Philippines.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina,
| replying, declared it was no longer
possible to sheer away responsibility
for infamies committed by Americans
in the Philippines. He said the infa-
| mics had been known in the south,
that the reins of government were to
be given to negroes and the civil war
would be prolonged indefinitely He
7 insited that, in order to maintain their
/ self respect, the white people of the
south were obliged to subdue the negro
! by whatever means they could. using
d, shotguns as one of the means He
! frankly described how the heroes had
been defeated at the polls, admitting
the whites had gotten just such ma
! iOTitieS as was necessary.
He referred to the outrages in the
! Philippines, and then said he had
I heard only of the application of sand
cure" in. the south. When" he de-
clared, 1--WE get ready to put mig
gers face in the sand, we put his body
there too" The south would not sub
nit to negro domination. He insisted
that the republicans contention was
that the negroes of the south were fit
ted to govern in this country, but the
| FilipinOs were not fitted to govern
themselves in the Philippines.
Throughout the SOUTH" said he,
there is a horror hanging over ev-
cry household of this awful fear OF
rapine. Yet turn your back upon il
and march to the east, where you muir
der, butcher and torture poor FilipinOs
And you are doing all this in the name
Of christianity, humanity and liberty
[ can see hypocrisy oozing out OF you
all over" Iaughter). He hoped the
republican senators would turn from
the game of deviltry in the Philip
pines, and assist the south to rid itself
of the threatened negro domination
While Tillman was speaking, many
democratic senators left the chamber
and the audience on the floor was large
ly on the republican side.
Senator Burton of Kansas vigorous
TX. arraigned Senator Tillman for his
I utterances. He asserted that the sen
ator who could defend slavery and
i government by shotgun could not be
expected to think we'll of senators who
are trying to carry good government
Ito the Filipinos. He was astOnished
that a senator in one breath should
make an appeal for unsullied govern
ment in the Philippines and in the next
should boast of crimes almost unparat
leled iH%hist0ry. Senator Burton fol
lowed with. warm defense of the gov
ernment'S policy in the Philippines and
n eulOgy on Gen. Funston as One-of the
great heroes of the army. It was, he
said, the evident purpose of Senator
TiIlman. to give color to the statements
that the republican administration had
| inaugurated policy of brutality I'M
IparaHeled in history. ~
''Tho senator has got my point ex-
actly," interrupted Senator Tillman.
FFThe infamy rests upon the senators
who helped to ratify the treaty of
Paris" he said. He might be called
to order for rejecting upon senators,
|but,he would let the remark stand: :
II suggest interjected Senator
Clapp of Minnesota, that you. with
draw the: reflections as to the senators
and let them stand as the, apply TO
| Bryan alone" Oaughter). -" -;
Senator Burton declared there was
| no authenticated instance of the inten-
tiona1 killing of women or children by
! our troops in the Philippines. Upon
T this question Senator Burton became
| involved in an animated controversy
with Senator Rawlins of Utah. -
/ Senator McLaurin of Mississippi
quoted figures concerning Mississippi