The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
TiIman Says Roosevelt FOrgGts Other Side 0f Gase While
 Aiding its Negroes
DECLARES TIE PRESIDENT
 KNOWS NOTHING OF RACE
Pleads With Republicans Not to Cause Such a Status of Affairs That Southerners Will Have to
 Fight for Supremacy.

Washington, February 24.-The Indian ola, Miss, postoffice case occupied the major portion of the time of the senate today. MT. Tillman spoke for three hours in continuation of his remarks begun yes- terday on the race question, and was followed by MT. Carmack of Tennessee.
 During the morning hour several bills and resolutions were passed and con- sideration was given the bill to further provide for the safe keeping of public money on deposit in national banks. The agricultural appropriation bill was also considered. and the committee amendments agreed to, except the state hood rider, which was passed over.
 The senate will meet tomorrow at Il o'clock, which. until Otherwise ordered will be the hour for convening.
 MT. Tlllman. in opening his remarks, begun yesterday in reference to the ln- dianalo, Miss. postoffice case, said the President and the postmaster gem eral in dealing with the In- dlanola people, had transacted their authority and resorted to methods which were both tyrannioal and unconstitu- tional, He wanted to know If in figuring up the purpose of their newborn zeal, this cold-blooded, calculative advisedly-taken action was not prompted by low mo- tive. He charged that S0O,00O negroes are coercing fifty millions of white people in the north to deal with 17OOoooo white men in the south in the fneresl uf fhe s,0oo,- 900 ignorant negroes in that section.
 Cost In Lives and Money.
 He referred to the cost in lives and money on account of the race problem in this country, and addressing the republic can side, called on them to meet him upon the same plane of patriotism Of race pride and of civilization, and not to fall into the pitiful cesspool of partisan politics." He read extracts from the let ter of the President written scme time ago, giving his views with respect to ap- pointments of negroes to office. He want ed to be just to the President, he said, but the views were superficial. How lit tie and small and infinitesimal,' he said, s.is the knowledge behind such view He added that the people of the north have no more use for the negro at close quarters than he had. He cited instances of assaults by negroes on white women and declared that the more the northern people find out the negro, the less use they have for him. The ballot of the ne- gro he maintained, was a menace to good government and the people of the north are coming to realize that the entran- chisement of him bordered on a crima.
 Reverting to the Presidents utterance that he was unwilling to shut the door of hope and opportunity In the case of . worthy and competent colored man, MT. Tillman said at first blush there is -lot 2. man alive who would not agrae with that sentiment, but he inquired if 1t ever oe- cured to any one that in opening that door of hope, 1t might not be shut in the face of the white man.
 Door of Hope.
 The door of hope in South Carolina, said he. at one time had been closed by hayo- nets to the whites for eight years. while rapine murder and misgoyernment raT, rife with an abomination in the sight or man presiding over the state. He declared that he did not hate the negroes, and thar all negroes are not bad. Only a small per centage were bad and these. he Said, arc leading the rest and being patted on the back by politicians
 He regarded it as his duty, he said, to his state to stand forever opposed to any idea of political or social equality of the present negro with the whites. The pur- pose of those who endorse the President g door of hope policy, he declared, Is that In time South Carolina should become a state of mulattos, and in this event he predicted that there would be more blood shed than was ever shed before.
 q beg you for Gods sake" he said, facing the republican side, mot to pro- 1fh ha4 t1ybtp tpf mill bring the two races together with the resolve of the whites to die in order 70 retain their supremacy"
 Mir Tillman said his newspaper friends always took great pains to quote every thing he said that was "hot" leaving out everything that was rational decent and sane in their pursuit of sensation, and in this respect great wrong had been done him. "A lie," he said. never had any particular truth" and he would not att tempt to make even start to run down those that have been told on him.
 Pokes Fun at Hanna.
 MT. Tillman poked fun at MT. Hanna, and read the title of the bill he re- gently introduced to pension ex-slaves. "Oh, my God" said he, did MT. Hanna mean that, or is it a political dodge?"
 The effect of the bill was, he declared, to give opportunity to interruptions ne- groes to bamboozle and deceive their people by securing subscriptions osten- sibly to further the interests of the bill He concluded by saying that Fin propor- ton as you arouse false hope in the minds of these people, you are only sowing the wind. which will flame up Into a whirl- wind later on"
 MT. Tillman spoke for three hours. He was followed by MT. Carmack of Tennes- see, who said the action of the President in the Indianola case was not in accord with reason, justice or the constitution He said that If the closing of the In dianola postoffce Is to be taken as the measure of the strength of the executive and the power of the federal govern