The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1903-09-23
A FIERY SPEECH
On the Race Issue by Senator Till
man in Augusta.
WAS APPLAUDED TO THE ECHO
He Said Political Equality for the
Negro Means Social Equ.ity,
and Social Equality Mems
MOngrelizatlOn.

Political equality for the negro
means social equality and social equal
ity means mongrelization, said Sena-
tor Benjamin r.. Tillman, of South
Carolina, in an impasSioned declara-
tion at the Miller Walker hall We'd
nesday night, and the audience ap.
plauded the utterance to the echo.
A very large and enthusiastic au-
dience greeted the first lecture appear
ance Of the South Carolina senator in
Augusta.
Senator Tillman also touched up
the bartering OF negro votes in
Augusta in the past, and said that
Augusta was a byword Of Scorn on
this account in the North.
Like the surgeon who would put
the knife to the sore, rather than gloss
1t over and let it continue to tester,
he would talk to them plainly about
these things.
Augusta could not afford for her
own self respect to coddle the negro
In vote-buying. The Anglo-Saxon is
an imperiouS race, and whenever this
vote-buying was engaged in, it always
tended to lower the standard Of the
whites.
Augusta was not the only city, he
said, that was cenSurable i'm this re-
spect in the past, and the scenes i'm
former elections in Augusta were re-
ferred to as an illustration of the fact
that temporiZing with the negro in
elections should be discountenanceG,
and that the only remedy for the evils
threatening in the race problem was
to repeal the fifteenth amendment.
HOPE IN MIDDLE CLASS.
In the discussion OF this question
with Senator Burton of Kansas, in the
Northwest, he said these plain utter
ances of his received as much applause
as Senator Burton's, when he told
them these plain truths, and that he
could tell from the CLEAN of the eye
and the nod OF the head that his ap-
peal for the supremacy of the white
man in the South met responsive
chord with people scattered all
throughout the audience.
He declared he had found three
classes of people in the North con-
corning this race problem. There
were the natural South haterS, who
never could believe that anything
good could come out Of Dixie, but that
this was very small class numerical
ly. The second class constituted the
politicians, who had seen the Republi-
can party flourish and fatten on the
wave OF the bloody shirt, and the
third class was the great body of the
people-the great middle class who
would listen to reason and who were
not bigoted.
1t was to this class that the South
must make is appeal for the repeal of
the fifteenth amendment.
TURNING TABLES ON AUGUSTA.
Senator TIllman began his address.
which be said was no, lecture, by
telling Of his early association with
Augusta. He was born only thirteen
miles from the city, and lived there a
plain farmer uutil fourteen years ago.
During all that time he was here
once week, often two or three times
week, and therefore Augusta had
become household world with him,
In fact, more SO, he said, than any
city OF his native state. He had Of
ten paid TO hear others talk i'm Augusta
and now he was glad to make Angus
tans pay to hear him.
After this prelude he branched off
In off-hand style in his subject.
He first began discussing the race
problem in the North five years ago
when the students OF the Michigan
university invited him to discuss the
Race Problem i'm the South"
He took delight in telling the peo.
pie at the North that this race prob
lem seemed TO be of their own making
They poked their hands in this prob
lem along in 1858 and prior, and then
poked their bayOnettS in from 81 to
80, and later thrust themselves in il
again in the reconstruction period,
and we of the South never had a
race problem until it was made by you
longnoSed Yankees" ="
When they talked to him about
educating the negro to uplift him, he
would tell them ITO hell with such
rot"
TALK ON LYNCHING.
Senator Tillman spoke at some
length upon the lynching phase OF
the question, and said that he was
not willing TO stop lynchings on the
idea that assaults would decrease, and
wanted to know who did
He had said when he was governor
that he would help lynch any man for
that crime, if occasion required it,
and he had never taken it back.
fan innocent, sweet girl OF sixteen
was going along country road Skirted
on either side by thick wood and
there should be lurking on the one side
wild tiger escaped from some me-
nagerie, and on the other brutal ne
gro with tiendiSh intent, and it was
her fate To be delivered up to the one
or the other he had rather a thousand
times that his daughter should be-
come food fnr tho tiUpr Tho paurn