New-York tribune., 1902-05-23
MORE TILLMAN FIREWORKS
EXPLOITS HIMSELF AND THINKS NO
TORIETY MAY BLOSSOM INTO FAME.
tBx TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNE.I

Columbia 6 c. May Ex-senator TiIman de-
livered a speech to the State Convention just
before its adjournment. on national affairs. He
explained the defeat of the Democrats in 1900
AS to chances for success two years hence, he
said
The Republicans are drunken with power
They are moving forward remorselessly with
their programme of imperialism by which 1t is
intended that we Americans We former colonists
of Great Britain, who threw off the British yoke
because did not believe colonists ought to
be governed from abTOad-tkese Republicans,
say, are ignoring the principles of the Declara-
ton of Independence and the constitution. and
have set in motion machinery 10 subject the
Filipinos by force after having bought them
like chattes in the market.
We have put into existence in those islands
government far worse than we endured
here in carpetbagger days, because these poor,
helpless people, colored people though they are.
are bound hand and foot without being able to
speak the English language and make known
the wrongs they are enduring.
The speaker declared that The Associated
Press and all but four or five big papers Of the
North. were owned and used by corporate
powers. Continuing. he said:
We SOutherners we former Confederates or
sons of Confederates. occupy a place apart in
this government We are looked upon yet
rebels. We are treated as StepchidTen, with no
rights that those people bound to respect.
They have in the last forty years granted 10
other sections $2500OOo,C00 for the pension grab
of this money has been taken from this
tion-yOu and have been robbed of il.
They treat rs a lemon to be squeezed.
And the other day, when, in answer to tauntS
and insults that no brave South CaTOlinian
could stand | got up in my seat and answered
them, and defended this State and the South
and our people, and brought out the facts in
regard TO the burning of this city in 1850, and
convicted Sherman out of his mouth of
having lied on Wade Hampton about it, The
Associated Press sent broadcast over the land
the statement that my Democratic colleagues
We're very much outraged over my utterances,
and retired in disgust from the Senate Cham
Der. l don't know whether they retired or not.
and don't care. What did you send me there
for? To bootck around like a licked hound
when 1 insulted? 1 can't do 1t. 1 amt
built that way. So l told, them the truth, and
hit them between the eyes.
have been going around over the North lect-
uring. I ntOrious. you know. don't know
but that notOriety will some day grow into fame
1t does not much matter. 1 Will soon be gone to
history the Notorious Tillnan'' IL Is a mat
ter of Indifference to me. But have been lect-
uTing about the negro among these Northern
people, and making them pay TO hear me; and
tell them the truth and hit them between the
eyes, and they applaud me TO the echo.
The convention fixed rules for candidates for
Congress that more stringent than those
now in force. Silver was not mentioned in the
convention 1t is evident that in the State the
issue will he child labor. The convention
recommended the legislature to pass law limit
ing the age of children in the cotton mills TO
twelve years.