The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-06-26
NEARING ! I q ! HIS END
Politically is What Senator Tillnlan
Says About the Negro.
DEMocRAT1c MATERIAL SCARCE

Senator, Tillmnn says Roosevelt i
Always on Dress Parade and
Always viii be While
Hos President.
In conversation with a reporter O.
the Augusta Herald recently Senator
Tillman' said:
Il have not seen the Interview.
with Congressman llardwic1 on his bill
to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments and don't know JUS
what i5.is, butt do know that lust
such agthing is inevitable. The negro
is coming down to his proper status
t was thus that Senator b. II. Till
man spoke recently while waiting ii
Augusta to take Il train to Louisiana
where he is going to lecture ut IL cha.
tauqus The senator says he will bc
away On this trip Of lectures for about
ten days, after which he will return tc
his home in South Carolina,
There is nothing going on i'm ma.
tionalapolitics just now except tic
usual dress parade of Roosevelt he
said and in reply to the question of
how long he thought these dress pa.
rades would last;
Slh, that's going to keep up just rs
long as Roosevelt is President."
Speaking CT tho coming convention
aud the outlook for Presidential tim
her in the Democratic party Senator
'Iiliman said that he had never seen
the country SO barren of material to
work. upon us it is at this time. liz
spoke OF Parker and German but said
hc:colld not tell which, if either,
w0uldsbc the man for the place. lie
Saidshhey would both he mentioned in
the convention and one OF them NAV be
chosen, but he could not say which it
WOULD likely be. lie. did not know
enough or the standing of either tn
say Wllat their relative strength is,
but thinks that Parker has the adyan-
tageSof having no record behind him
except that OF a Judge.
CoG5inuing along the line of the
liardwick bill that is to be presented
at the next session az Congress Scna-
orIHillman said:
about the only thing that Is at
tracting much comment in national
political circles now is that Ohio plat
form,land it has not gone far enough
for us to see whether it is to be a local
or a,hational measure"
Unexplained that this platform is
a NJ 4aSure that seeks to allow the ne
gre, = govern where he is in the ma
iaa ':3faelse to cut down the repre-
sCEsslssio CEs sion OF the white man, and is or
the opinion that il it is made a ma
tional affair it will undoubtedly be
brought up at the convention and met
by the Democratic party.
II this is to be Il national rather
than local issue it will mean the re-
organization OF the old ante-bcllum
days. | mean if the red shirts make
this what that would mean it will
be then question of this is Il white
mans country and he must rule the
government, majority or no majority.
don't mean that it will be 4 condi-
tion of affairs like those Of the days OF
the sixties Then it was question
OF slavery but now it will be a aues-
tion simply of the negro or white
man.
Senator Tillman says the matter of
repeating the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments is certainly incvita bic
and is a 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
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
Speaking of conditions in South
Carolina, the Senator said:
The thing that is most interesting
over there now is 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 !;
bad condition. The grass has taken
everything. Why, the country is
woolly with grass. The lowland crops
have all been washed away and will
have to be rcplantcd.
No there is nothing going on in
politics there now, you know this Is
an of year. The only thing going on
that know OF is with the Governor.
You know he is shooting 4 few tigers
now. Every time he sees one he
shoots him down."
Senator tillman looks the picture of
health, and while his conversation
shows that he is rs much as ever in
tcrcStcd in the affairs Of the Amcri-
can government, he seems more taken
up just at this time with the condi-
tion Of farm lands in his 0 wn State.
The fact that he is not himself a man
OF gloomy disposition, rather being
inclined to be an optimst than pes
Simlst, when lie makes the statement
that The crop conditions Of the Pal
mctto State are worse than he has
ever seen them before, it would indi-
cate at once that there Is time for
some concern.