Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-25

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New York. February "A. Senator TIL
man, cf South Carolina, spoke tonight.
Club. He said In part:
T., cannot understand why j should
have been the only representative of the
auRuat body of which am member.
NOW have no message which have
! come to deliver TO YOU In nv expert
ence have found that the better ac-
! come with me the better shey ike me.
But ask no fayors of you. Icome from
q state where the peoIie do. their own
4 thinking and their own voting.
81 think this is an occasion on which I
ought to get oven with the press. You
have 1886 days In the year In which to
make and nnmalSe public men, but you
don't make aud unmake them ip the
State of South Caroiiaa.n
referring to the negro question, he
said that President Roosevelt had raised
subject that will not easily down. II
had broughtforth number of comments
from prominent men of the North and
had raised storm in the South. After
mentioning number of the comments
and the men who said them he said
You have had this subject Roose-
velted, Hannaed, Irelanded and finally
Smooted, and now it seemed to me il is
about time that we had some one who
Knows something about It, say some-
thing. What are my qualifications p''
| HIS PERSONAL HISTORY.
First, he said, he had been nursed by
negro NANNY. Then, although he had
not served In the Confederate army, he
had tried to join it, and had been pre-
vented only by an accident that de-
prived him OF his eye. Lastly he had
been upon the ground and seen the
ravageS of the war,
II know something Of what this race
question has cost this country. Many
of you who write so fippantly about Ii,
know nothing about it," he continued,
land If you write about so grave "a sub
ject when You know nothing of 1t, you
| are no less than criminals.
MIR, Roosevelt was very wise in say
ing it will take the best thought of both
problem"
After an impassioned recital of the
perils TO the white population of the
power or the negroes in the past few
years, he said:
"We were compelled by the exigencies
of the situation to use the shotgun and
the tissue ballots, and we used both.
WhyP Because in the State of South
Carolina there were 10000 more negro
| voters than there were white yoters.'i
He said that they in South Carolina
had established their free schools and
that ever since there have been more
| negro children in those free schools than
white children.
"Do you think 1t was our purpose to
raise these negro children to condition
OF enlightenmentin order that they may
govern us?" he asked.
"By the Holy God nop' he cried.
Three months ago." he continued, "the
President wrote a letter in which he
said that when negro showed himself
qualified to fill public Office he was sun-
willing to shut the door of hope in his
| face"
Commenting on this Senator Tillman
said that IL the present condition of edu-
cation continued and the negro is to gain
control of the State of South Carolina
and the white becomes subordinate, the
deplorable result would be that in a hun
dred years, the population would be half
mulatto. He had no practical solution
Of the problom, he said, unless it be that
the North take its share of the blacks,
"if you love them SO WE'LL"
GROWS IMPAssIoNED.
His address grew more impassioned as
he continued. AT first only applause
greeted his utterances, but toward the
end an occasional hiss was heard, and
finally he was interrupted by a voice ory-
ing, "What about your nephewP"
Senator Tillmau was at the moment
defending the summary measure adopted
in the South for the punishment of ne
groes guilty of crime, especially against
women. After the excitement caused by
the interruption had subsidized Mr.. Till
man said there was much more he could
say and would like to say, but that he
regarded it as highly Inappropriate to
refer in public to family affairs.
Before concluding his address he took
occasion to assert that If the policy of
raising the negro into power in the South
is carried too far, the result will be
bloodshed and its flow will be upon the
heads of those who have tried to force
the white population in to subsection to
the black.
This was not threat, he said, but
simply statement of what he knew
from his acquaintance with the condi-
tions in the South would be the inevita-
BILE result.