The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-02-27
FOOLS PLAYING WITH FIRE.
Senator Tillmau Warns Republicans OF
Their FOlly.-An Eloquent and
Powerful Appeal.

VI oho hoohoVo W uh)' ceuStOI LII
man spoke for three hours, in con
tinuation of his remarks begun yes
terday on the race question, and was
followed by Senator Carmack, OF
Tennessee.
Senator Tillman, in his speech,
said that in dealing with the Indian
ola postoffice the President and
Postmaster General transcended their
authority and resorted to methods
which we're both tyrannical and I'M
constitutional. He wanted to know
if in|fguring up the purpose of their
new born zeal "this cold -blooded,
calculative, advisedly taken action"
was not prompted by low motive
He charged that 100000 negroes are
coercing fifty millions of white peo
pie in the North to deal with seven
teen million white men in the South
in the interest of the eight million
ignorant negroes in that section.
He referred to the cost in lives
and money on account Of the race
problem in this country, and, address
ing the Republican side, called on
them to meet him upon the same
plane of patriotism, Of race pride
and of civilization, and not to fall in
to the pitiful cesspool of partisan
politics." He read extracts from the
letter of the President written some
time since covering his views with
respect to appointments Of negroes
to Office. He said, but the views
we're superficial.
"How little and small and infnites-
imal," he said, "is the knowledge be-
hind such view.'
He added that the people of the
North have no more use for the
negro at close qarrters than he had.
He cited instances of assaults by
negroes on white men, and declared
that the more the Northern people
find out about the negro the less use
they have for him The ballot of the
Dsgro, he maintained, wae menace
to good government and the people
of the North are coming to realize
that the Acknowledgement of him
bordered on crime.
Reverting to the Presidents asser
tion that he was unwilling to shut
the door of hope and opportunity in
the taco Of r. worthy and competent
colored man, Senator Tillman said
that Mt the first blush there is not
man alive who would not agree with
that sentiment, but he Inquired if 1t
occurred to anynH" thai ~ n!'tning
that door Of hope it might 40; ".
shut in the face Of the whi,o man.
The door of hope in South Carolina,
he said, at one time had b, en- closed
10y bayonets to the Writes for elght
years, while rapine, murder and mis-.
government rnn riot, with nn ahom
ination in the sigh of man fssiding
over the State.
He declared that II" did not hate
the negro, and that all nsgroes ar"
not bad. Only small percentage
hrA bad, and th"s", b" laid, "r" lead
ing the rest aud being ph,teh or the
back by politicians.
He regarded it AZ his duty, he
said, to his State to stand forward
opposed to any manner Of political
Or social equality on the part Of the
negro with the whites. Continuing,
he referred to tho adoption of the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitu
ton. "When you remorselessly
stand by that" SAID he, land say it
is sacred, you force us to face the
alternative of a confl,t Of races"
The purpose Of those who endorse
the Presidents door of hope policy,
he declared, is that in South Carroll
ma should become a State of mulat-
toes, and in this event he predicted
there would he more blood shed than
was ever shed before.
81 beg you, for Gods sake" he
said, facing the Republican side,
"not 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 Tillmau said his newspa-