Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-28
PLEADS FOR WHITE RAGE.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
Closes His Speech in the Senate
on the Race Question.
6IVES SOUTHERN VIEW OF PROBLEM.
Declares the ConstltutiOn Must Be
Upheld, But Negroes Should Not
Have the Franchise Before 1t Is
Earned-Says the Races Are Now
Becoming Bitterly AntasonlstLc.

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Till
man late Tuesday afternoon concluded
his remarkable speech on the race
question. He made profound impress
sion upon the senate. Contrary to all
his oratorical traditions Senator Till
man spoke with extreme temperate
ness. Though he was discussing the
race question and discussing it from
the southern standpoint, he APP
preached the subject with absolute
caution and Invested it of all passion
and sectional prejudice.
The northern senators readily recog-
nized so remarkable an episode. It is
probable that the negro question was
never discussed so exhaustively and so
judicially by any prominent southern
statesman before. Senator Tillman
appealed to the sober sense of his
northern friends in the senate.
Must Respect Constitution.
He did not denounce the colored peo-
pie, nor did he apparently misjudge
northern sentiment. He said frankly
that New England friendship for the
negro was born not of hatred for the
southern whites but of absolute ig-
norance of the existing conditions. He
declared without hesitation that the
sovereignty of the national govern
ment must be respected, that the slaves
were properly freed and that the sole
mistake lay in granting suffrage be-
fore the black people were ready to as
sumo the burdens of citizenship.
Warns His Friends.
The keynote of Senator Tillman's
analysis of the northern sentiment was
that their love for the negro varied as
1.-THE square of the distance" He al
luded in passing to the terrors of the
carpetbag period, and he warned his
friends as one who had had experience
and knew whereof he spoke that they
could not open wide the door of hope
to the negro in the south without shut
ting it in the face of the white man.
Self-Preservation.
Senator Tillman justified the action
of the southern states in depriving the
colored people of suffrage by declaring
that it was matter Of self-preserva-
ton. The whites could not submit to
the domination of an ignorant black
race. He asserted that the colored
people to-day, as a whole, were not
so we'll disposed toward the whites as
they were during the days of slavery.
AS man who had been brought up on
a slave plantation he declared that the
black and white races Of the sout h
We're becoming bitterly antagonistic
now, whereas they had been extremely
friendly during the days of slavery.
Dispassionate Statement.
Although the 1n(ianola post office
was the text for the speech. it was
hardly referred to after the opening
sentences. The address was a dispas.
sionate statement Of the race problem
from the standpoint of the southern
whites. The fairness with which this
was stated and the entire freedom from
sectiona1ism made Til]man's plea for
the southern whites a remarka bic one
Heavily in Debt.
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 26.-Home1
McGraw, one of the directors of the
wrecked City savings bank. of this
city, has filed a petition of bank
ruptcy in the United States court
His liabilities total 100000 and his
assets. besides real estate, the value
of which is not given in the petition,
are $C.92S.
Race Horses Cremated.
Cambridge City. Ind, Feb. Pa
large barn belonging to John S. Dackey
was destroyed by fire and IA race