The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-08-14
EATS 'EM ALIVE. /.
Senator Burton from Kansas NJ
Match for Senator Tillman
SAYS THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE
To the Great Force of tho soutl,
Carolina senator this Pre-
..iudiced Newspaper Pays
n Tribute.

Tribute.
Senator Ben 'Tillman has impressed
them out west as strong one, sure.
They have pittcd against him in a
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 Till,nan has done to his
opponent from Kansas, us interpreted
by the Chicago Chronicle:
Whatever we may think OF the
ideas and sentiments entertained by
Benjamin II. Tilman, we cannot but
c0ncedc the force and virility Of hi.
character. lie has been called bar
barian, hut II lie has the barbarian's
savagery he has likewise tho barbar-
ian's strength. lie is not the sort of
man against whom wcaklingS may be
sent. The people who are managing
+ The hippodroming debate between
Senator Tillman and Senator burton
owe 1t TO their patrons the people
who pay money at the box Office : to
maintain'at least Il show Of IL contest.
b. They owe it to the country 81 rye
TO pit against the man from South
Carolina some one who is capable Of
confuting him-Somc one who can
3 expose the fallacicS which Mr.. Till
man deals out with the air OF an
oracle.
These he bard facts, and, bearing
as they do upon the friend and adj
wiser OF The president, they are worthy
to challenge the attention of Mr..
Roosevelt as we'll as the country at
large. Having said SO much or Till
man, the Chicago Chronicle takes
occasion to declare the North is no
moro prii-negru than the South, and
adds that Senator Tillman, assuming
4, it is, sets UP a man Of straw which
Burton accepts and seeks to defend
}. and which the South Carolinian
demollshcs 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
Z Orleans.
s The managers OF the oratorical soft
4 glove contest owe it to the north to
send d stout and worthy champion
against the gentleman from South
= carolina: Such champion will not
IS utter feeble and prefunctory convcn-
ttonalismS about educa ting the negro.
He will not use the language of The
tea party or church sociablc He will
tell the truth and unmask humbug,
and he will not be particular about
the exact language he employs in do
Ing so. lie will keep Benjamin r.
Tillman to the facts and he will
make 1T perfectly clear that while the
north is no more negrophile' than
the South 1t Is determined that tile
south shall not diSfranchisc the negro
and still continue to count him as a
basis OF representa- ton. There plenty
of such men available. l f the rhctori-
cal circus is to continue their ranks
should be drawn upon. Mr.. Burton
mas neither 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 wcaklng.
The Chronicle has merely made the
mistake Of judging the man by the
Size and strength Of the views he 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-
mentS.
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 On
that OCCASION he cordially invited any
gentleman within his hearing to arise
and reply to his statements il they
dared. None darcd--or ut least none
replied. No newspaper called them
weakling then, because such men as
G. 4. Hoar, Henry q. Lodge, Mar
Gus A. Hanna, John G.. Spooncr,
Chauncey NJ. Dcpcw and Nelson w.
Aldrich were thereto say nothing OF
Platt and Quay.
The Chronicle goes on. to say that
Tillman'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
minatl0n. 1t 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
I'm Charleston. There is no more
notion OF amalgamating the races by
marriages in New York than there is
in New Orleans"
lie would be strong man indeed
who could prove this in the face Of
the Booker Washington dinner given
by Il New York PRESIDENT; the ap-
pointment OF negroes over white pco-
pie by New York president: the in
vitation given negroes TO attend a
white house sociablc by 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 he
OutnumbcrS the whites.
If such Il man can be found we
should be glad to pay the price de-
mandcd at the gate to hear him. lie
IN not in the United States senate,
for Tillman gave everyone there an
opportunity to prove these "falacics"