The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-06-26
NEARING HIS L1yu
Politically is What Senator Tillman
Says About the Negro.
DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE

DEMOCRAT1C MATERIAL SCARCE.
Senator Tillman says ROOSEVELT is
Always on Dress Parade ana
always VIII be Whiio
Hos President.
In conversation with reporter Of
the Augusta Herald recently Senator
Tillman said:
have not seen the interviews
with Clng llardwick on his bill
to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments and don't know Just
what it's, butI do know that Just
such a;thing is inevitable The negro
is coming down to his proper status.'' %
1t was thus that Senator B. r. Till
man j5sRokc recently while waiting in
Augusta to take a train to Louisiana,
where he is going to lecture ut u cha
tanqu;E The senator says lie will be
away On this trip Of lectures for about
ten days, after which he will return to
his home In South Carolina,
There is nothing going on in ma
tionalapOlitics just now except the
usual dress parade Of Roosevelt" he
said and in reply to the question Of
how long he thought these dress pa
rades would last.
on, that's going to keep up just as
long, aS Roosevelt is President"
Speaking Of tho coming convention
aud the outlook for Presidential tim
her in,the Democratic party Senator
TlllmIl said that he had never seen
the country SO barren Of material to
worlS,npon as it is at this time. He
spoke OF Parker and German but said
he, ,coltld not tell which, if either,
wouldifbe the man for the place. lie
sa;Isahey would both be mentioned in
the convention and one Of them may be
chosen, but he could not say which it
would likely be. lie. did not know
enough of the standing of either to
say Shat their relative strength is,
but. thinks that Parker has the advan-
tagesof having no record behind him
except that OF 4 Judge.
Continuing along the line OF the
HardWick bill that is to be presented
at the next session OF Congress Scna-
tor .pillman said:
About the only thing that Is at
tracing much comment In national
political circles now is that Ohio plat
form ,land it has not gone far enough
for ,ussto see whether tits to be a local
or a5natlonal measure"
Haexplained that this platform is
a measure that seeks to allow the ne
gre :ni!goyern where he is in the ma
iio3 ,;3r3elSe: to cut down the repre-
sCElEnslon OF the white man, and is or
the opinion that if it is made a ma
tional affair it will undoubtedly be
brought up at the convention and met
by the Democratic party.
II this is to be Il national rather
than a local issue it will mean the re-
organization OF the old antc-bcllum
days. | mean if the red shirts make
this what that would mean it will
be then Il question of this is IL white
mans country and he must rule the
government, majority OF no majority.
L don't mean that it will be condi-
tion Of affairs like those Of the days Of
the sixties. Then it was Il question
of slavery but now it will be a 1ucs-
tion simply Of the negro or white
man.
Senator Tillman says the matter of
repeating the fourteenth and fifteen tn
amendments is certainly inevita bic
and is Il question Of only a time. Hc
thinks that for the Ohio platform be
pushed upon the people of the coun-
try, asking for the guarantee of the
provisions Of these amendments
would merely bring the matter to a
crisis sooner
we are waiting for them TO play
their cards or show their hand. so we
will know what move to Make he
said
Speaking Of conditions in South
Carolina, the Senator said:
The thing that is most interesting
over there now is a few days sunshine.
| have just come down from Clemson
and through the upper part Of the
State to Columbia and l must say
that never SAW the crops in such /;
bad condition. The grass has taken
everything. Why, the country is
woolly with grass. The lowland crops
have all been washed away and will
have to be rcplanted
mo there is nothing going on in
politics there now, you know this Is
an of year. The only thing going on
that | know OF is with the Governor
You know he is shooting few tigers
now Every time he sees one he
shoots him down."
Senator tillman looks the picture of
health, and while his conversation
shows that he is as much as ever in
tcrcstcd in the affairs of the Amcri-
can government, lie seems more taken
up just ut this time with the condi-
tion Of farm lands in his 0 wn State.
The fact that he is not himself Il man
OF gloomy disposition, rather being
inclined to be an optimist than Il pes
Simlst, when he makes the statement
that the crop conditions of the Pal
InettO State are worse than lie has
ever seen them before, it would indi-
cate at once that there Is time fC.
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