The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-01
SENATORS DEBATE
WAS INTERESTING
Continued from Fifth Page.)


the statement of Senator Tfllman that
they had carried the elections in the south
by the use of means that defrauded the
legal voter He said some people claimed
that the Declaration of Independence did
not mean what ii said. because when
Thomas Jefferson penned the words all
men are created equal he was slave
holder. He thought the author of that
document did not mean the black man
because at that time he was a chattle,
bur when we made him a citizen and a
voter we had acknowledged that he was
man and that brought him within the
meaning of the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
The Kansas senator said he did not
claim that men were equal morally. phys
ically or mentally and there was no
social equality in the world. What he
meant by equality was that all men are
equal before God and the laws of this
country He spoke of Senator Tillman's
assertion that blood would flow in the
south. In his opinion there would not
be very much flowing of blood because
men like Booker T. Washington will help
to solve the race question in the south.
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he will stay here. In that he said he
and Senator Tillman were agreed. but
they differed as TO the proper status Of
the colored citizen He spoke Of Senator
Tillman in one of his speeches admitting
that the colored man must be allowed
to own property but he asked if the
negro could get justice in courts where
the judges and sheriffs were elected only
~ hi 10 Ofrcvbr no hqll
was necessary to protect the negro and
his property.
Senator Burton said he wanted this
question settled and wanted it settled
right His argument in favor Of the same
standard for white and black men in
voting was one of the finest bits of ora
tory ever heard in this city. The great
crowd gave the closest attention TO every
word. He would not consent to the pO-
sition taken by Senator Tillman that the
people of Kansas did not care what was
done in South Carolina and that it was
immaterial to the people Of South Caro-
lima what was done in Kansas. He said
in this great country what would affect
South Carolina would be felt in Kansas.
Z and what would harm Florida would be
! against the best interests of Washington
and Oregon.
! Senator Burton declared there was an
effort being made in the south 70 have
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
repealed and the eloqent Tillman was
/ sent north to prepare tho people for it.
He said those amendments had nothing
whatever to do with the voting in the
states Each state was at liberty TO
make its own standard But ne would
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superior race and then refuse to be meas
ured by the same standard. He thought
the superior race did not require that
the inferior race he held down to- keep
It from getting ahead Of the superior
race He did not believe that God ever
made one race better than another. He
thought they made themselves better or
worse He would take the best speci-
mems Of any race To prove the capsbili-
ties OF that race. That same thing was
true of animal and vegetable life. We
: have ears Of corn out here in Kansas
: foot and a half long. but there were
! some nubbins and the nubbins did not
/ show what was in the seed. They had
( horses that could trot mile in two
I minutes. but some Of them could not
/ trot that fast He showed that the col
! and scientists and these people showed
4 that there was something IN the race.
( He said the first man To fall In the rev.
! olutionary war was a colored man. and
: he spoke Of their bravery in the war
/ with Spain. lie asked the question
whether il was our duty 10 raise the
cnlored man or TO pull him down
When Senator Burton closed ne was
+ given an ovation and people rushed onto
the stand tn shake the hands Of both
( speakers The best Of feeling prevailed
1 and when it was al over the general
remark was that Senator Burton got the
Z best Of the argument. but many admitted
that their preiudices leaned toward the
( South Carolina senator.
/ Thousands OF people witnessed the pa
rade Of the Anti-Horse Thief association
Yesterday morning at II O'Clock Fully