The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-25
PLEA FOR WHITES
TILLMAN BEGS CONSIDERATION OF
REPUBLICANS.
ROOSEVELT WAS TYRANNICAL
IN THE METHODS FOLLOWED IN
THE INDIANOLA CASE.

| South Carolina Senator Continued
His Speech on the Negro Question.
white People of the North Driven
to Their Policy by "a Comparative
iy Few Negroes Arraigned the
President Upon the Evidence of
His Letter on the Negro Cues
ton.
Washington, Feb. 24.-The Indianola.
Miss, postoffice case occupied the
major portion of the time of the Senate
to-day. Senator TilIman spoke for
three hours in continuation of his
| speech, begun yesterday, on the race
question, and was followed by Senator
! Carmack of Tennessee.
| Senator Tillman in his speech said
| that in dealing with the Indianola
postoftice the President and Postmas-
ter General transcribed their au-
thority and resorted to methods which
were both tyrannical and unconstitu-
| tionaL He wanted to know if in figur-
| ing up the purpose of their newborn
zeal, this cold-blooded, calculative, adj
visedly taken action was not prompted
| groes are coercing $4,000, 900 of white
people in the North to deal with H.
100000 white men in the South in the
interest of the 100000 ignorant ne
| groes in that section.
Senator Tillman referred to the cost
in lives and money on account of the
race problem in this country, and, ad-
| ha ~
| them to meet him upon the same plane
of patriotism of race pride and of
! civilization, and not to fall in the pitt
full cesspool of partisan politics.
Presidents Knowledge Small.
He read extracts from the letter
of the President, written some time
since, expressing his views with re-
spect to appointments of negroes to
| Office. He wanted to be just to the
| President. he said, but the views were
| superficial
"How little and small and infinitesi-
| NAL" Senator TilIman said, "is the
! knowledge behind such a view"
He added that the people of the North
have no more use for the negro at close
| quarters than he had He cited in
| stances of assaults by negroes on white
|
ern people find out about the negro the
less use they have for him.
| The ballot of the engro, he said, was
| a menace to good government, and
| the people of the North are coming to
| realize that the enfranchisement of him
| bordered on a crime.
| Reverting to the Presidents utter
| ance that he was unwilling to shut the
| door of hope and opportunity in the
case of worthy and competent negro"
Senator Tillman said that at first blush
| there is not a man alive who would
| not agree with that sentiment, but he
| inquired if it ever occurred to any one
| that in opening that door of hope it
| might not be shut in the face of the
| white man. The door of hope in South
| Carolina at one time had been closed by
| bayonets to the whites for eight years,
while rapine, murder and misgovern-
| ment ran riot, with an abomination in
the sight of man presiding over the
| state.
Not All Negroes Bad.
Senator Tillman said he did not hate
] the negro, and all negroes are not bad
| Only a small percentage are bad, and
these are 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
| ty on the part of the negro with the
| whites.
Continuing Senator Tillman referred
to the adoption of the fifteenth amend
| ment of the constitution.
when you remorsely stand by that"
| he said, land say it is sacred, you force
us to face the alternative of a conflict
of races"
The purpose of those who indorse the
Presidents door of hope policy, he said
is that in time South Carolina should
become a state of mulattoes, and in
this event he predicted that there
would be more blood shed than ever
shed before.
II beg you, for Gods sake he said
facing the Republican side, mot to
produce an acute stage of hatred which
will bring the two races together with
the resolve of the whites to die in
| order to retain their supremacy"
Senator Tillman said his newspaper
friends always took great pains to
quote everything he had said that was
hot" leaving out everything that was
rational, decent and sane in their pur-
suit of sensations, and in this respect
a great wrong had been done him.
"A lie," he said, never had any par
ticular truth" and he would not at
tempt to make even a start to run
those that have been told on him.
The Door of Hope.
Senator Tillman said he did not want
to see the African driven to the wall.
and he did not want to shut the door
of hope in his face, but he could not
consent to the dominance of that peo- |
pie over the whites. He then poked
fun at Mr.. Hanna and read the title |
of the bill he recently introduced to
pension ex-Slaves.
"Oh my God" he said, Ibid Mr..
Hanna mean that, or is it a political |
dodge?"
The effect of the bill was to give op- |
portunity to INSCRIPTIONS negroes to |
bamboozle and deceive their people by |
securing subscriptions ostensibly to |
further the interests of the bill.
Senator Tillman concluded by say
ing:
I'm proportion as you arouse false |
hopes in the minds of these people YOU |
are only sowing the wind which will |
fame into a whirlwind later on"
Senator Tillman spoke for three |
hours. He was followed by Senator |
Carmack of Tennessee, who said the |
action of the President in the Indian |
ola case was not in accordance with |
reason, justice or the constitution. II |
the closing Of the Indiano'a postoffice |
Is to be taken as the measure Of the |
strength Of the executive and tie |
power Of the federal government, the |
government al Washington deseryes 20 |
be deEpised for It's weakness and imbe- |