The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-12
EATS 'EM ALIVE.
Senator Burton from Kansas No
Match for Senator Tillman
SAYS THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE
To the Great Force of the Sout'
judiced Newspaper Pays
IA Tribute

them out west as strong one, sure.
They have pitted against him in a
joint debate on the race question
Senator Burton, OF Kansas, who has
held some sway as a scholar and an
orator of ability, Read herein below
what Senator Tiilman has done TO his
opponent from Kansas, as interpreted
10y the Chicago Chronicle:
Whatever we may think Of the
ideas and sentiments entertained by
Benjamin II. Tillman. we cannot but
concede the force and virility of hi,
character. lie has been called Il bar
barian, but il he has the barbariau'S
savagery he has likewise the barbar-
ian'S strength. lie is not the sort of
man against whom weaklingS may he
sent. The people who are managing
the hippodruming debate between
Senator Tillman and Senator burton
owe it to their patrons the people
who pay money at the box office to
maintain at least a show Of contest.
They owe it to the country at large
to pit against the man from South
Siioilud SoIIlt NilC Nllp IL bI
confuting him-Some one who can
expose the fallacicS which Mr. Till
man deals out with the air of an
oracle.
These be hard facts, and, bearing
as they do upon the friend and ad-
wiser of the president, they are worthy
to challenge the attention OF Mr..
Roosevelt as well as the country at
large. Having said SO much of Till
man, the Chicago Chronicle takes
occasion to declare the North is no
more pro-negro than the South, and
adds that Senator Tillman, assuming
1T is, sets up a man of straw which
. Burton accepts and seeks to defend,
aYid~Whlch the South Carolinian
demolishes fp spite Of the Kansas at
tempt to protect it,. There is no
more social;eqaalitY between blacks
and whites In Chicago than n Sf1Tr-
lesion. There is no more motion of
amalgamating the races by marriage
in New York than there is in New
Orleans.
The managers Of the oratorical soft
glove contest owe it to the north to
send stout and worthy champion
against the gentleman from South
Carolina. Such a champion will not
utter feeble and prefunctory conven-
tiopalismS about educating the negro.
He will not use the language of the
tea party or church Sociable. He will
tell the truth and unmask humbug
and he will not be particular about
the exact language he employs in do
ing so. lie will keep Benjamin IL.
Tillman to the facts and he will
make it perfectly clear that while the
north is no more 'negrOphilc' than
the south it is determined that the
south shall not diSfranchiSe the negro
and still continue to count him as Il
basis of representation. There plenty
OF such men available. If the rhetori-
cal circus is TO continue their ranks
should be drawn upon. Mr. Burton
has neither the vocabulary nor the
personal standing for the task that he
has assumed"
In commenting on the above the
Atlanta Journal says:
Senator Burton is no wcakling.
The Chronicle has merely made the
mistake OF Judging the man by the
size and strength of the views he is
sairilE 40 The race question. The pa
Iper;S estimate, from which the above
us taken, deals loo harShly with the
lkanSan for failing tOaccompliSh what
all others from that section and other
sections have failed TO accomplish
namely, TO answer pillmanS argu-
mentS.
We recall an occasion in the United
States senate wherein the stern faced
old warrior from South Carolina stated
his creed on very much the same lines
as he has stated them out west ON
that occasion he cordially invited any
gentleman within his hearing to arise
and reply To his statements if they
dared. None dared or at least none
replied. No newspaper called them
weakling then, because such men as
@. r. Hoar, Henry G. Lodge, Mar
Gus a. Hanna, John c. Spooner,
Chauncey Nj. Dcpew and Nelson w.
Aldrich were there to say nothing Ui
Platt and Quay
The Chronicle goes ON to say that
Tillman'S fallacies" are his beliefs
that the north recognized the negro aS
social equals aud that the north want
ed the fourth to submit to negro do
mination. 1t wants some man strong
enough TO show these beliefs up as
fallacieS, Il man who can prove, tu
quote its own words, that there is nc
more social equality between blacks
and whites in Chicago than there is
in Charleston. There is no more
notion OF amalgamating the races by
marriages in New York than there is
in New Orleans
lie would be n strong man indeed
who could prove this i'm the face OF
the Booker Washington dinner given
by New York President; the APP
pOintment Of negroes over white pcO.
pile by New York presidents the I'm.
vltation given negroes TO attend 4
white house Sociable by il New York
president; the expenditure of Chicago
money on educating the negro so that
the laws which require an educationa
qualification OF voters shall not dis