Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-03-28
AGAIN ON THE RAMPAGE.

1sOPoOAASthh IUdIldU6Ts
are shrewd. They have succeeded in
having Senator B. R. TILLMAN invited
to make speeches in the North. This
has had the effect of stirring the north.
ern heart and injecting into the can.
vass all of the elements of sectionalism
which will have a tendency to unity
that section against the South.
During a recent speech, after bitter
Negotiating address and a scathine
condemnation of President RoosEv ELI
for his appointment of citizens of colo,
TO office, he called for a vote and was
astounded TO see the audience rise al.
most en-masse in favor of President
ROOSEVELT. He was even Missed be.
fore he left the hall. A repetition OF
this took place in Michigan last Tues.
day night.
The Geographic report is as follows:
detroit, Mich, March "a United
States Senator Benjamin r. Tillman.
OF South Carolina, was greeted with
alternate storms of cheers and misses
when he delivered and impassioned ad-
dress on the race problem tonight at
the Light Guard Armory, the audience
being evidently divided between up
holders of his ideas and strenuous oppo-
nents OF them He said the North de.
manded majority rule and with a sheer
added that there were 29s 600 ..,c-e Nc
groes than white people in South Caro-
lima.
1t will mean that more blood will
How than was shed in the OWL War IL
you persist in trying to subject us to
the domination of the blacks he said
on butchered the Indians and shut
out the Cinnamon. but had it been
known by the soldiers who surrendered
with Lee that it was your devilish in
tentlon to set up the Negro over the
white man, we would have fought you
till now"
All, that's the talk that will make the
Chairman of the National Republican
Committee smile. 1t is an open threat
of a second resort to arms and the reaf-
firmation of the doctrine of secession.
TILLMAN may be able to frighten the
conservative elements at the capital Of
the nation, but when he tries that kind
OF ammunition on ex-Union soldiers in
Michigan, he will find men who will
give him "a Roland for his Oliver"
The report says further:
upon the Senator's reference IN
some of Sherman s army as bummers
chicken thieves and carpet-bageers- his
Northern audience broke out into such
violent Kissing that the speech was in
terrupted and some of the more timid
ones IN the audience feared trouble"
He has reached the breaking point"
at last, thank COP. Will not the con-
sentative white elements at the South
see that it is time that such dangerous
political aeitators, like Senator Till
MAN should be kept at home?
Verify has it been said, 'Fools will
venture, where angels dare not tread"
There is nothing more dangerous to the
political ascendancy of the South than
this action on the part of this irrespon.
sible North Carolina Senator in DEFY
ing and insulting the northern people
at their own homes and at their own
hresldes. Couple this with the PROPOSE
ton to place statue of Gen. ROBERT
E. LEE in Statuary Hall at Washington
and the acme of political folly has been
reached.
With Mr.. BRYAN advocating free sill
yer and MIR. TILLMAN preaching seces-
sion. it seems Ito man up a tree" that
the next presidential election has al
ready been decided