The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1903-06-24
NEARING HIS END
Politically is What Senator Tillman
Says About the Negro
DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE
senator Tillman Says RooseveIt f.
Always on Dress Parade and
Always VIII he While
He's President
He's President.

Always VIII he While
He's President.
In conversation with reporter OF
The Augusta Herald recently Senator
Tillman said
L have not seen the interviews
with Congressman lIardwick ON his hill
to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments and don't know lust
what it is, but do know that lust
such thing is inevitable. The negro
is coming down to his proper status -
1T was thus that Senator Il. Il. Till.
man spoke recently while waiting in
Augusta To take Il train to Louisiana
where he is going to lecture at a cha
Cauqua. The senator says he will he
away on this trip OF lectures for about
ten days, after which he will ir;urn to
his home i'm South Carolina.
There is nothing going ON i'm ma
ltional politics just now except the
usual dress parade of Roosevelt" he
Said and In reply to the question of
now long he thought these dress pa
rades rould last:
On, that's going to keep up lust as
j long as Roosevelt is President"
Speaking of the coming convention
] and the outlook for Presidential tim
| ber in the Democratic party Senator
Tillman said that he had never seen
i the country SO barren of material to
work upon as it. is at this time. He
spoke OF Parker and German but said
he could not tell which, if either.
would be the man for the place. He
said they would both be mentioned i'm
lhe convention and one of them NAV he
chosen, but he could not say which it
would likely be. He did not know
enough of the standing of either to
say what their relative strength is
| but thinks that Parker has the advan-
tagc of having no record behind him
except that of Judge.
Continuing along the line of the
| iardwick bill that is to be presented
at the next session OF Congress Sena-
| tor Tillman said:
About the only thing that is at
/ IraCIInE muCH CuhIIuCuJ IA uIJ1Uuai
political circles now is that Ohio plat
| form, and it has not gone far enough
for us to see whether il is TO be Il local
or national measure"
! 4 ',lci..---.r ~ -
gro tu govern where he is in the ma
Jorlty or else to cut down the repre-
Seutatlon OF the white man, and is Of
the opinion that II il is made 4 ma
tional affair ii will undoubtedly be
brought up at the convention and met
by the Democratic party.
IF this is to be IA national rather
than local issue it will mean the re-
organization OF the old ante -bellum
days. l mean if the red shirts make
this what that would mean il will
be then question of this is a white
mans country and he must rule the
government, majority or no majority
| don't mean that it will be a condi-
tion OF affairs like those OF the dayS of
the sixties. Then it was Il question
OF slavery but now it will be a ques-
tion simply of the negro or white
man.
Senator Tillman says the matter of
repeating the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments is certainly incvita ble
and is question OF only time. He
thinks that for the Ohio platform be
pushed upon the people of the coun-
try, asking for the guarantee Of the
provisions of these amendments Is
would merely bring the matter to a
crisis sooner.
We are waiting for them TO play
their cards or show their hand. so we
will know what move to make he
said.
-,
Carolina, the Senator said:
The thing that is most interesting
over there now is IA few days sunshine.
| have Just come down from Clemson
and through the upper part of the
state to Columbia and | must say
that | never saw the crops in such a
bad condition. The grass has taken
everything Why, the country is
woolly with grass. The lowland crops
have all hcen washed away and will
have to be replantcd
No there is nothing going on in
politics there now, you know this is
an oil year The only thing going on
that ] know of is with the Governor
You know he is shooting a few tigers
now. Every time he sees one Inc
shoots him down"
Senator tillman looks the picture OF
health, and while his conversation
shows that he is as much as ever in
|. tereSted in the Affairs OF the Ameri
can government, he seems more takel
up just ut this time with the condi
tion of farm lands i'm his wn State
The fact that he is not himself a man
of gloomy disposition, rather being
inclined To be an optimist than pes
SimiSt when he makes the statement
that the crop conditions of the Pal
! mcttO State are worse than he has
1 ever seen Ihcm before it would indi
I cate at once that there is time TO
= some concern.