The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-25
Still Speaking on the Indian
ola Affair.
IT DEEPENS RACE HATRED
RoOseveIt's Policy is Daily Widening the Cuff
He Digs Between Whites and Blacks
Carmack Declares Roosevelt Uh-
reasonable and Unjust.
reasonable and Unjust.



Washington, D. c.. Feb. 24.-The In
dianola, Miss. postoffice case occupied the
major portion of the time of the Senate
| today Mr.. Tillman spoke for three
hours in continuation of his remarks
begun yesterday ON the race question,
and was followed by Mr., Carmack, of
| Tennessee.
During the morning hour several bills
and resolutions were passed and consid-
| Grafton was given the bill to further pro-
vide for the safe-keeping of public money
| on deposit in national banks. The Agri-
cultural Appropriation bill also was con-
| sidered and the committee amendments
| agreed TO except the Statehood rider,
which was passed over. The Senate ad-
| journed to meet tomorrow at II o'clock,
which, until otherwise ordered, will be
the hour for converting hereafter.
Mr.. Tillman, in his speech, said, in
dealing with the Indiapola postoffice, the
| President and Postmaster General trans
canded their authority and resorted to
methods which were both tyrannical and
unconstitutional. He wanted to know
| if in figuring up the purpose of their
new born zeal this cold -blooded calcu-
| lative, ddvisedly taken action, was not
prompted by low motive. He charged
| that 100000 negroes are coercing fifty
millions of white people in the North
| to deal with seventeen million white men
in the South in the interest Of the eight
million ignorant negroes in that section.
He referred to the loss in lives and
money on account Of the race problem
4 1,;v1 Do
publican side, called on them to meet
him upon the same plane of patriotism
OF race pride and Of civilization and not
TO fall into the pitiful cesspool of par
| ties and politics.
He read extracts from the letter of
the President written some time since
giving his views with respect to appoint
ments of negroes to Offices He wanted
to be just to the President, he said, but
the views were superficial. How little
and small and infnitesimal' he said, is
the knowledge behind such a view" He
added that the people of the North have
no more use for the negro at close quar-
ters than he had He cited instances
OF assaults by negroes on white women
and declared that the more the Northern
people find about the negro, the less use
they have for him The ballot of the
negro, he maintained, was a menace to
good government, and the people of the
North are coming to realize that the en-
franchisement of him bordered on
crime.
Reverting to the Presidents utteranee
that he was unwilling to shut the door
of hope and opportunity in the case OF
worthy and competent colored man,
Mr.. Tillman said at first blush there is
not man alive who would not agree
with that sentiment but he inquired II
i. ever occurred to any one that in open
ing that door of hope it might not be
shut in the face of the white man. The
door of hone in South Carolina, he said,
at one time had been closed by bayo-
nets to the whites for eight years while
rapine murder and Tlisgovernment ran
riot. with an abomination in the sight
Of man presiding over the State
He declared that he did not hate the
negro and that all negroes are not Dad.
ONLY a small percentage were bad ana
these. he said, arc leading the rest ana
being patted on the back by politicians.
He regarded it as his duty, he said, 10
his State to stand forever opposed TO any
idea of political or social equality on the
part of the negro with the whites. Con-
tinuing he referred to the adoption OF /
the fifteenth amendment to the Constitu-
tion.
when you remorselessly stand by
that" said he. "and say it is sacred, you
force US to face the alternative OF a
conict Of races
The purpose of those who endorse the
Presidents doors of hope policy, he We
hemently declared, is that in time South
Carolina should become a State of
mulattoes, and in this event he predict
ed that there would be more blood shed
than was ever shed before.
81 beg you for Gods sake he said |
facing the Republican side, mot to pro-
duce an acute stage of hatred which will |
bring the two races together with the
resolves of the whites to die in order to /,
retain their supremacy"
Mr.. Tillman said his newspaper friends !
always took great pains to quote every
thing he said that was hot" leaving out |
everything that was rational, decent and /
sane in their pursuit of sensations, and |
in this respect a great wrong had been |
done him. )"
Mr. Tillman said he did not want TO |
see the African driven to the wall and |
he did not want to shut the door of hope
IN his face, but he could not consent 10 (
the dominance of that people over the
whites. He then poIed fun at Mr..
Hanna and read the title of the bill he
recently introduced to pension exslaves.
"Oh, My Cod said he did Mr.. Hanna
mean that or is ia political dodge
The effect of the bill was he declared.
was to give opportunity to unscrupulous
negroes to .mboozle and deceive the