The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-08-07
SOME xPl4AIN TALK.
Senator Tillman stirs Up a Wiscon= :
sin Audience by His

I!Hatlsslil IS s .i:s,s Il,,
sin Audience by His
rAIKs ON THE f NEGRO QUESTION.
Didn't hiko What He Said nt First
HIT When lilo ,yas Through
They Thnnght Bcst OF
tho Argument.
Senator B. II. Tillman, Of South
Caroliha,t MATCHED his wit and sar-
casm against the legal mind and wes-
tern hIanncrs OF Senator j. II. Burton,
Of Kansas, Monday night of last week
ina joint debate on the negro ques-
tion at Madison, Wis. The Following
reportof the meeting we take from
The News and Courier: Senator Till
man said The people of the North
were us bad as those Of the South in
thclrT handling OF the negroes who
comnlitted #'.unspeakable crimes
"Whesf q negro up here shows the
outcroppings Of the instincts of his
inferior race said Senator Tillman,
you slnob, string, lynch, burn and
outrage humanity with him. 1t
makcS mighty big difference whose
family is struck, whose home is en-
tered, whose. wife or daughter is the
victim. on mon i'm tho North are
not slpw to act when your women arc
outraged, and I want to Bny you are
men IT, do it.
"IGyou had as many niggcrs as we
have In South Carolina you would
feel as | do, and your people would
not sustain your ant-nlgger senators
as my.peOplc sustain me-" Tie fiery
Southern senator was unpopular at
first With the audience Of 5000 poo
pie, bnt at the close OF tho debate the
impression seemed to prevail that he
had the better Of tic argument.
Senator Tillman said the colored
pe6pfs owed all the progress they lad
made in America to the fact that
they we're once in bondage, and that
the SQhtb had nourishcd them into
whatever industry, virtue and intel
ligcnce they ever attained; that the
Nortk-wont to war to free the Mig
gers" first and to Save the union ar
tcrwaId. The Republican party, he
said, played the friend Of the blacks
In order to get black votes. The
greatest disturbing clement in the
problGm,was the fact that the people
of the North, affecting motives Of
charlN3 Christianity and humanitar-
innislf were attempting to poke their
.'greasS long Yankee nOsesn into the
busintss of the Southern states, that
werefhuals to the problem that would
npGs u in danger OF overwhelming
'theml lyqless sthe ! Northern influence
ibroagS about var of extermina-
tion. = -
Senator Tillman said the negroes
were recognized in the South when
they deserved it, and sometimes when
they old not, mentioning the recipl-
cnts OF the United States executive
appointments. The Southern sena-
tor asked the audience to hold an ar
ter meeting to form Il negro cmigra-- ;
ing society, for the purpose Of bring
ing to Wisconsin 800, 900 negroes, the
proportionatc share of this state Of
the negro population Of the whole
country. The after meeting did not
develop.
Senator Burton agreed that the ne
groes had apparently grown more de-
graded and criminal than they were
before the war, but he said it was the
fault of the South, lack Of schools,
and the 'cuchreing" Of the negroes
out of their constitutional rights by
the Southern whites. It said in
education lay the solution OF tho prob
lem.
Senator Tillman agreed with Scna-
tor Burton In this but said the South
would take up arms rather than allow
the north to force an impossible So
cial or political equality between the
whites and negroes in the, Southern
states.
Senator Tillman said that the
United States barred Chinese from
their gates because OF the inferority
OF the Mongolian race and the impo
Sibility of Chinese ever becoming the
social or political equals OF Amer;-
cans.
THE inferiority is greater and the
impossibility more impossible with
respect to the negroes and particular
ly the Southern negroes" Mr.. Till
man declared.
Senator Burton placed stress on the
great possibilities which, lie said, lay
In the negroes. Their capacity for
developments. he said, had been prov
ed In every Northern state, and not
only In the North, but In the very
heart OF the South. At Tuskcgee,
Ala, Booker II. Washington, black
man, had demonstrated there for sew
cral years that the negro, when given
the advantages Of properly admins
tered education, could outstrip the
whites In the moral and Industrial
world.
Senator's ,ri!!aaa;i and urttorl con
tinued their debate on tho negro 1ucs-
tion at Moline, ILL.,, on Thursday.
The Kansas speaker suggested an
educational standard as Il remedy for
negro ignorance, and Senator Tlllman
delivered Il striking speech. God
made IL negro inferior to Il white
man." said he, as Africa proves. l
Would not put him back In slavery,
but he shall never govern us You
wouldn't let him, and we arc as good
as You arc, and we will see him in hell
before we will permit it. We don't
intend ever to let him get on our