The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-09-25
A F'.IER Y SPEECH
I On the Race Issue BY Senator Till
B. man il. Augusta.
WAS SAPPLAUDED TO THE ECHO
I: He Said Political Equality for the
55 Negro Means Social Equity,
ana Social Equality Means
Mongrelizntion.

NIongrelizntion.
Political equality for the negro
means social equality andsocial equal
4 1ty means mongrelization," said Sena-
4 tor Benjamin R. Tillman, of South
f, Carolina, In an impassioned declara-
tion at the Miller Walker hall We'd
I nesday night, and the audience up
y planded 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
II over and let it continue to tester,
2 ne 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-huying was engaged in, it always
! tended to lower the standard Of the
= whites.
Augusta was aot the only city, he
said, THAT was cenSurable in this re-
7: spec1s In the past, and the scenes in
i former elections In Augusta were re-
fpYrpn n ;11,,c
that temporizing with the negro in
elections Should be discountenanced,
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
,..ces, s,of his received as much applause
as Senator Burton'S, when he told
them these plain truths, and that he
could tell from the glcam of the eye
6 and the nod of the head that his ap-
peal for the supremacy Of the white
+ man in the South met a responsive
chord with people scattered all
I Throughout the audience.
He declared he had found three
! classes Of people In the North con-
Z cerning this race problem. There
q We're the natural South haters, who
.na IL
~ c6uld comeiout OF Dixie, but t.iat
& tLis was very small class numerical
i ly. The second class constituted the
politicians, who had seen the Republi-
s 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 caSs-whu
would listen to reason and who we're
4 not bigoted.
It was to this class that the South
must make its appeal for the repeal Of
y the fifteenth amendment.
a5 TURNING TABLES ON AUGUSTA.
Senator 'fillnan began his address,
which be said Was no, Il lecture, by
telling Of his early association with
Augusta. He was born only thirteen
miles from the city, and lived there a
plain farmer until fourteen years ago.
During all that time he was here
once q week, often two or three times
{ week, and therefore Augusta had
become a household world with him,
In fact, more SO, he said, than any
city Of his native state. lie had Of
ten paid to hear others talk in A Augusla
and now he was glad to make Angus
tans pay to hear him.
After this prelude he branched or
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 in the South"
He took delight in telling the pco.
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, ard lhnn
poked their bayonctts in from 'Gl to
'65, and later thrust themselves in it
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, lie
!, would tell them ITO hell with such
rpt.', '.
TALK ON LYNcHING.
Senator Tillman spoke at some
length upon the lynching phase or