The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-05
SOME PLAIN TALK.
Senator Tillman stirs Up a Wisccn.
sin Audience by His
TALK ON THE NEGRO QUESTION
Didn't like What He Said at First
But When He Was Through
They rhcnSht Best OF
the Argument.

They TnCnTnC bcSL Oh
the Argument.
Senator r. F.. Tillman, Of South
Carolina, matched his wit and sar'
casln against the legal mind and ives,
tern manners Of Senator J. Il. Burton
of Kansas, Nnnday night Of last week
in a Joint debate on the negro ques'
tion at Madison, Wis. The following
report of the meeting we take from
The News and Courier: Senator Till
man said the people Of the North
were as bad as those Of the South in
their handling Of the negroes who
committed ''unspeakable crimes. "
when Il negro up here shows the
outcroppings of the instincts OF his
inferior race" said Senator Tillman,
you mob, string. lynch, burn and
outrage humanity with him. 1t
makes a mighty big difference whose
family is struck, whose home is en-
tered, whose wife or daughter is the
victim. You men in the North are
sot slow to act when your women are
outraged. and l want to say you are
men to do it.
IF you bad as many niggers as we
have in South Carolina you would
feel as I do, and your people would
not sustain your anti-nigger senators
as my people sustain me-" Tue fiery
Southern senator was unpopular at
first with the audience Of 5000 peo-
pie, but at the close Of the debate the
impression seemed to prevail that be
had the better of t:'e argument.
Senator Tillman said the colored
people owed all the progress they had
made in America to the fact that
they were once in bondage, and that
the South had rourished them into
whatever industry, virtue and intel
ligencc they ever attained; that the
North went to war to free the Mig
gers first and to save the union af-
terward. The Republican party, he
SAID, played the friend OF the blacks
In order to get black votes. The
greatest disturbing element in the
problem was the fact that the people
Of the North, afecsing motives OF
charity, Christianity and humanitar-
ianism. were attempting to poke their
great, long Yankee noses" into the
business of the Southern states, that
were equal to the problem that would
not be in danger Of overwhelming
them unless the Northern influence
brought about d war OF eStermina-
ton.
Senator TillmaH said the negroes
we're recognized in the South when
they deserved it, and sometimes when
they old not. mentioning the recipi-
cnts OF the United States executive
appointments. The Southern sena-
tor asked the audience to hold an at
ter meeting to form negro er1igrat-
ing society, for the purpose Of bring
ing to Wisconsin 100000 negroes, the
proportionate share of this state Of
the negro population Of the whole
country. The after meeting did not
develop.
Senator Burton agreed that the ne
gross had apparently grown more de-
graded and criminal than they were
before the war, but he said it was the
fault of the South, lack Of schools,
and the ''euchreing" Of the negroes
out of their constitutional rights by
the Southern whites. He said in
education lay the solution OF the prob
lem.
Senator Tillrnan agreed with Sena-
tor Burton in this but said the South
would take up arms rather than allow
the north to force an impossible So
cial or political equality between the
whites and negroes in the Southern
states.
Senator Tillman said that the
United States barred Chinese from
their gates because of the inferlority
of the Mongolian race and the inpos-
sibility of Chinese ever becoming the
social or political equals of Ameri-
cans.
1.-THE inferiority is greater and the
impossibility more impossible with
respect to the negroes and particular
ly the Southern negroes" Mr.. Till
man declared.
Senator Burton placed stress on the
great possibilities which, he said, lay
in the negroes. Their capacity for
deyelopment, he said, had been prov
ed in every Northern state, and not
only in the North, but in the very
heart Of the South. AT Tuskegee,
Ala, Booker T. Washington, black
man, had demonstrated there for sew
eral years that the negro, when given
the advantages of properly admins
tered education, could outStrip the
whites in the moral and industrial
world.
Senators Tillman and Burton con-
tinued their debate on the negro ques-
zion at Moline, ILL.,, on Thursday.
The Kansas speaker suggested an
educational standard as remedy for
negro ignorance, and Senator Tillman
delivered a striking speech. COD
made negro inferior TO a white
man." said he, as Africa proves. L
Would not put him back in slavery,
but he shall never govern US. You
wouldn't let him. and we are as good
as YOU are, and we willscc him in hell
before we viii permit it. We don't
intend ever to let him get on our
backs to govern US. When you hold
sacred the fifteenth amendment, that
saws the races are equal, you add fuel
to a race war that is bound to conc.
| do not believe in lynching for any
crime bat one. When a negro as
co,,1+c, y,l,;ta woman tho OnlV THING