New-York tribune., 1903-02-15
Kisses FOR TILLMAN.
ATTACKS NEGRO POLICY.
Declares 1t viii Mean BlOodshed
If Carried On.

| erners said that the education of the black
| man meant the government of the whites by
the negroes and finally declared that IL the
policy of raising the negro into power IN the
| South was carried too far, the result would
| be bloodshed, whose flow would be on the heads
| "of those who have tried to force the Whlte
| population into subjeetion to the black.
| When one of the listeners shouted, What
| about your nephew?' he said he regarded IT
| as inappropriate to refer to family affairs in
| public"
William Jennings Bryan in his speech avoid
| ed all reference to politics.
| Two large American flags flanking the legend
| 1S73-1903 in electric lights, with the sword and
| the pen-embems of the press-fn the centre,
| were the fitting background for the speakers
| table
| At the right of President Joseph Howard, jr.,
| sat Mayor Low, and at his left William ].
| Bryan. The other guests who spoke included
| the Rev. j. M. Savage, Recorder Goff, Murat
| Halstead Senator Tillman and Shzoo Kondo,
| of Japan.
| President Roosevelt sent his regrets, and
| Baron Sternburg sent letter printed else
| where in these columns
The front of the menu card bore a clever
caricature of the retiring president, William
| Cullen Bryant. and the president-elect Joseph
| Howard, jr.
| WAL IiE MA A1OR SA1D
| President Howard introduced Seth Low as
the first speaker of the evening. Mayor Low
| said:
has TO eIts That pi
why the overcrowded conditions of our streetcar
panles = m have not kept pace with the city in their
hs to bs@ rs1 for the growing needs of the city
iions as the city has should not be suffer
York would be helpless to carry out it's great i'm
ton In taxing the real estate of the city
valuation.
ter how great the corporation, nor what its capt
the corporations in check.
SENATOR TILLMAN's OUTBREAK.
Senator Tillman began his speech on the negro
question by saying that President Roosevelt has
raised subject that would not easily down.
1t has brought forth number of comments
from prominent men of the North and has raised
storm in the South" he said. You have had
this subject Roosevelted, Hannaed. Irelanded,
and finally Smooted, and now it seems to me it
is about time that had some one who knows
something about it. say something"
What my qualifications?
Il was nursed by a negro NANNY. Although
1 did not serve in the Confederate army l
tried to join it, and prevented only by an
accident that deprived of eye I have
been on the ground and seen the ravages of
the 1 know something of what this race
question has cost this country. Mr.. Roosevelt
was very wise in saying it will take the best
thought of both sections of this country to solve
the problem"
After impassioned recital of the perils to
the white population of the South threatened
by the increase of the power of the negroes
in the last eight years. he continued:
I'VE were compelled by the exigencies of the
situation to use the shotgun and the tissue bal
lots and used both. Why? Because in the |
State of South Carolina there were $4,000 more !
negro voters than there white voters"
South Carolina had established free schools and
that since there had been more negro chill |
dren in those free schools than white children.
do you thing it was our purpose to raise these |
negro children to a condition of enlightenment |
in order that they may govern us?' he asked
BY the Holy God noe he cried.
Three months ago." he continued the Presi-
dent wrote a letter in which he said that whom |
a negro showed himself qualified to fill public |
office he was unwilling to shut the door of hope |
III his race If the present condition of educa-
ton continues. and the negro is to gain control |
vi the state or South Carolina and the whites |
become subordinate. the deplorable result will I
pe that in hundred years the population will !
De half muatto. L have no practica BILE soIu- !
ton or the problem, unless IL De that the North
take it's share of the blacks if you love them |
we'll" |
His address grew more impassoned as he con-
tinued At first applause greeted his utter |
anoes. but Kisses greeted him later. and finally |
he was interrupted by a voice crying, What |
about your nephew
At the moment he defending lynch law |
for the punishment of negroes guilty of GRIM |
inai assault white women After the excite |
ment caused by the interruption had subsded |
Mr.. Tillman said there much he could say /
and would like to say, but that he regarded it /
as highly inappropriate to refer in public to |
family affairs.
In his address he asserted that if the policy |
Of raising the negro into power in the South
carried too far the result would be blood
she'd and It's flow would be the heads of
those who had tried to force the white popula-
tion into subsection to the black. This was not
threat, he said, but simply a statement of
what he knew. from his acquaintance with the
conditions in the South, would be the inevitable
result.
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
My subject is 1.-The Man Without the Hoe" You
may think mean the man who does not live by
os think Of those who make IL Can h they be- ms
different to those who by their toll make these
great newspapers and the man with the Hoe press
but don't forget the man without the Hoe press,
and his own editing and reporting He is in touch
with his people. We cannot get along without the
the little paper. whose editor is known than in the
as s With hsse seasd editor TaD h mot n sS,1
that no paper however & great s, can make bad
of ny h an the rhe bs
daily has become business enterprise 1t is no
peop!e The editor is hired to write what his owner
tells him am glad to hear your message from