The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-06-24
NEARING HIS END
Politically is What Senator Tillman
Says About the Negro.
DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE


Always ON Dress Parade and
always Will be While
He's President.
In conversation with reporter
the Augusta Herald recently Senate
Tillman said:
Il have not seen the interview
with Congressman Hardwick on his bill
to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments and don't know jus
what it is, but l do know that JUS
such thing is inevitable. The negro
is coming down to his proper status
1t was thus that Senator B. R. Till
man spoke recently while waiting il
Augusta to take train to Louisiana
where he is going to lecture at a cha
tauqua. The senator says he will b'
away on this trip Of lectures for about
ten days. after which he will return tt
his home in South Carolina.
''There is nothing going on in ma
tional politics 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:
"Oh, that's going to keep up just as
long as Roosevelt is President"
Speaking Of the coming convention
and the outlook for Presidential tim
Der in the Democratic party Senator
Tillman said that he had never seen
the country so barren OF material to
work upon as it is at this time. He
spoke of Parker ard German but said
he could not tell which, if either,
would be the man for the place. He
said they would both be mentioned in
the convention and one of them may be
chosen, but he could not say which it
would likely be. He did not know
enough of the standing Of either to
say what their relative strength is,
but thinks that Parker has the adyan-
tage Of having no record behind him
except that Of judge.
Continuing along the line of the
Hardwick bill that is to be presented
at the next session of Congress Sena-
tor Tillman said:
About the only thing that is at
tracing much comment in national
political circles now is that Ohio plat
form, and it has not gone far enough
for us to see whether it is to be a local
or national measure" !"
He explained that this platform is
a measure that seeks to allow the ne
gro to govern where he is in the ma
jority or else to cut down the repre-
sentation Of the white man, and is Of
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.
If this is to be national rather
than local issue it will mean the re-
Of the old ante-bellum
days. I mean if the red shirts make
this what that would mean it will
be then question Of this is a white
mans country and he must rule the
government, majority or no majority.
| don't mean that it will be condl-
tion of affairs like those of the days Of
the sixties. Then it was question
of slavery but now it will be a ques-
tion simply Of the negro or white
man.
Senator Tillman says the matter of
repeating the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments is certainly inevita BILE
and is a question Of only time. He
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 few days sunshine.
I have Just come down from Clemson
and through the upper part OF the
State to Columbia and I must say
that l never saw the crops in such a
bad-eeadition 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 replanted.
'No there is nothing going on 10
politics there now, you know this IS
an off year. The only thing going on
that l know OF is with the Governor.
You know he is shooting a 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
terested in the affairs of the Ameri.
can government, he seems more taEer
up lust at this time with the condi-
tion of farm lands in his wn State.
The fact that he is not himself a man
of gloomy disposition, rather being
inclined to be an opJimist than a pes
simist, when he makes the statement
that the crop conditions of the Pal
metto State are worse than he has
ever seen them before, it would indl-
cate at once that there is time fol
some concern.