The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-21
Tillman Invades MINNEAPOLIS,

Tlllman 1nvades Minneapolis.
In his lecture in Minneapolis last night
Tilman was Tillman, and that is to say
that he was interesting, whatever else
he was. It was so out of the usual for
a man to be SO f1ercely emphatic in ad-
dressing what might be supposed to be
hostile audience, that the audience
spontaneously assumed the attitude Of
man at good entertainm ent, who puts
prejudice aside and goes in for apprecia-
ton. Senator Tillman fercest thrusts
at the northern point of view were re-
ceived in the best Of humor and always
with applause. -*%s=s2-~:* s5szer -
a significant feature of the OCCASION was
the earnest applause every time the speaker
asserted that the white man must rule
in the south, and will not permit the
black man to rule. It seems to us that
this applause reveals that race devotion
and that race prejudice which are to be
found in most men, try as hard as they
may to rid themselves of them; and when
the question is SO put to white men that
they must choose between their own peo-
pie and the negroes there can be no doubt
Of the choice.*s Everybody knows that the
sentiment is now widespread iii the north
that the south should be left to- settle its
own race problem. It is Impossible to inn
agine a state of affairs short of an actual
general armed conflict of the races in the
| south in which the north would think Of
Intervening: There will be no more force
bills. ~ - &
While Senator Tillmans picturesque and
sulphurous language, and his demonstra-
| tions Of volcanic feeling on this terrible
problem tend to make his addresses in
tensely interesting, it should be added
that they do nothing to- allay race feeling.
On the contrary, they stir it up, They
arouse the latent race hatred of the whites
and they, exasperate the negroes by de-
scriptions of the race which they cannot
consider as less than insulting. Yet such
an address, by. such conspicuous SOUTH
erner before northern audience, hasa
pronounced value. It makes the northern
auditor understand, as he could under
stand in no other way, except. by travel
| in the south, the southern white point Of
view and the gloominess of the shadow
this race question forever casts upon the
south. Wnne he does not. perhaps, rep
resent all the southern whites, we have
no doubt that he represents fully SO per
cent of them, though few others speak so
lfearlessly and forcefully for publication
as he does. -z
The trend of Senator Tillnan's argu-
hot ion of tl,o
white race and civilization in the south
depended upon the enforced superiority
of the white man and the enforced infe-
lriority- of the. black man. Political equal
ity was not permissible, he held, because
THAT inevitably meant social equality, since
the elevation Of the negroes to power
would tend to bring about "a mingling OF
the races. The senator was not entirely
} consistent on that point, however, for he
admitted that there was great mngling
Of the races when slavery existed, simply
because of the power the white master
had over the slave women; and that is
one of the reasons why the abolition o.
slavery was good. Since the emancipation
there have been fewer and fewer muat
zlLOS DOTH III lle SOutA. LII plcpOI I'LL a.
the negroes have gained the rights ant
privileges of citizenship the intermingline
} Of blood has diminished. Senator Till
man admits this. What becomes, then
of his argument that race separation is tt
) bc promoted by destroying entirely thu
/ negros political rights? Mr.. Tillman say
J he deals only in facts. What will he d.
with this one?
Mr.. E. R. tombstone announces to-da!
4 his retirement from the editorship of tn
Times. His newspaper friends and hi
many personal friends among the peopl'
!. |of this city as well as the thousands o
readers of the Times who have enjoyed
! his vigorous and incisive way of putting
things, even though they may not alway
have agreed with his views, will sincerel
Z regret the decision which transfers hin
from Minneapolis to New York, where i
. &c, ,,naorsfocds he has ensa To contin1l