The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-12
EATS 'EM ALIVE.
Senator Burton from Kansas No
Match for Senator Tllman
SAYS TIE CHICAGO CHRONICLE

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Carolina Senator this Pre-
JUDGED Newspaper Pays
q Tribute.
Senator Ben Cillman has impressed
them out west as a strong one, sure.
They have pitted against him in
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 Tillman has done to his
opponent from Kansas, as interpreted
by the Chicago Chronicle:
Whatever we may think Of the
ideas and sentiments entertained by
Benjamin Il. Tillman, we cannot but
concede the force and virility OF hi,
character. He has been called a bar
barian, but if he has the barbarian'S
Savagery he has likewise the barbar-
ian's strength He is not the sort of
man against whom weaklingS may be
sent. The people who are managing
the hippodromins 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 q show Of a contest.
They owe it to the country at large
to pit against the man from South
Carolina some one who is capable OF
confuting him-some one who can
expose the fallacieS which Mr.. Till
man deals out with the air OF IN
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 Tilinan, assuming
it is, sets up a man of straw which
Burton accepts and seeks to defend,
and which the South Carolinian
demolisheS in spite of the Kansas at
tempt to protect it. There is no
more social equality between blacks
and whites in Chicago than in Char
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 a stout and worthy champion
against the gentleman from South
Carolina. Such a champion will not
utter feeble and prefunctory conveu-
tionalismS 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 net be particular about
the exact language he employs in CO.
ing so. He will keep Benjamin R.
Tillman to the facts and he will
make it perfectly clear that while the
north is no more 'negrophile' than
the south it is determined that the
south shall not disfranchise the negro
and still continue to count him as a
basis Of representation. There plenty
of such men available. II the rhetori-
cal circus is to continue their ranks
should be drawn upon. Mr.. Burton
has neithci 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 weakllng.
The Chronicle has merely made the
mistake Of judging the man by the
size and strength Of the views be IS
airing on the race question. The pa
per's estimate, from which the above
is taken, deals too harShly with the
Kansan for failing to accomplish what
all others from that section and other
sections have failed TO accomplish
namely, to answer Tillman's argu-
meptS.
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. Oa
that occasion he cordially invited any
gentleman within his hearing to arise
and reply to his statements II they
dared. None dared-or at least none
replied. No newspaper called them
weakling then, because such men as
G. +. Hoar, Henry G. Lodge, Mar
Gus A. Hanna, John c. Spooner,
Chauncey NJ. Depew and Nelson W.
Aldrich were thereto say nothing OF
Platt and Quay.
The Chronicle goes on to say that
Tiilman's ''fallacies" are his beliefs
that the north recognized the negro as
social equals and that the north want
ed the fourth to submit to negro DO
mination. It wants some man strong
enough to show these beliefs up as
fallacies, a man who can prove, to
quote it's own-words, that there is no
more social equality between blacks
and whites in Chicago than there is
in Charleston. There is 40 more
notion of amalgamating the races by
marriages in New York than there is
in New Orleans.
He would be strong man indeed
who could prove this in the face OF
the Booker Washington dinner given
by New York President; the ap-
pointmen1 of negroes over white peo-
pie by New York president: the IN
yitation given negroes to attend a
white house sociable by Il New York
president; the expenditure OF Chicago
money on educating the negro so that
the laws which require an educational
qualification Of voters shall not dis
franchise him in districts where ne
outnumDerS the whites.
IF such a man can be found we