The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-09-25
A FIER Z SPEECH.
4. On the Race Issue by Senator Till
man in Augusta.
WAS 8APPLAUDED TO THE ECHO.
!; He Said Political Equality for the
Negro Means Social Equlity.
and Social Equality Means
hIongrelization.

Political equality for the negro
means social equality and social equal
ity means mongrelization, said Sena-
tor Benjamin r. Tillman, of South
Carolina, In an impassioned declara-
tion at the Miller Walker hall We'd
nesday night, and the audience ap-
plauded the utterance to the echo.
a very large and enthusiastic au-
dlence greeted the first lecture appear
ance of the. South Carolina senator in
3 Augusta
Senator Tillman also touched up
\ the bartering OF negro votes ii
Augusta In the past, and said that
Augusta was byword Of scorn on
this account In the North.
Like the surgeon who would put
the knife to the sore rather than gloss
! 1t over and let it continue to tester,
15 he would talk to them plainly about
these things.
Augusta could not afford for her
own self respect to coddle the negro
In vOte-buying. The Anglo-Saxon is
Z an fmperiouS race, and whenever this
vote buying was engaged in, it always
tended to lower the standard Of the
\ whites.
Augusta was not the only city he
SAID, that was censurabe in this re-
spect IN the past, and the scenes in
\ former elections in Augusta were re-
ferred to as an Illustration Of the fact
that temporizing with the negro in
! elections should be discountenanced
and that the only remedy for the evils
F threatening ir the race problem was
to repeal the fifteenth amendment.
HOPE IN MIDDLE CLASS.
In the discussion of this question
{ with Senator. Burton Of Kansas, in the
: Northwest, he said these plain utter
les. Of bis received rs much applause
: as Senator Burton'S, wien he told
them these plain truths, and that he
could tell from the CLEAN Of the eye
and the nod Of the head that his ap-
peal for the supremacy Of the white
man in the South meta responsive
/ chord with people scattered all
throughout the audience.
~ He declared he had found three
classes OF people in the North con-
4 corning this race problem. There
were the natural South. haters, who
,ie6II5fc6mss in,,t 4 niSie Hal h,t, :
I. ti.is was a very small class numerical
ly. The second class constituted the
3 politicians, who had seen the Republi-
II can party flourish and fatten on the
wave of the bloody shirt, and the
third class was the great body Of the
people the great middle class who
would listen to reason and who were
not bigoted.
t was to this class that the South
must make It's appeal for the repeal Of
the fifteenth amendment.
TURNING TABLES ON AUGUSTA.
Senator frill,nan began his address,
which be said Was no, a lecture, by
telling of his early association with
Augusta lie was born only thirteen
miles from the city, and lived there a
plain farmer Until fourteen years ago.
During all that time he was here
once a week, often two or three times
week, and therefore Augusta had
become household world with him,
in fact, more SO, he said, than any
city Of his native state. He had Of
ten paid to hear others talk in Augusta
tans pay to hear him.
After this prelude ne branched Off
In Olf-hand style in his subject.
He first began discussing the race
problem in the North five years ago
when the students Of the Michigan
university invited him to discuss the
Race Problem in the South"
He took delight in telling the peo.
pie at the North that his race prob
lem seemed to be Of their own making.
They poked their hands in this prob
lem along In 1858 and prior, and then
poked their bayonctts in from 'Gl to
'65, an1 later thrust themselves in it
again iii The reconstruction period,
and I'VE OF the South never had a
race problem until it was made by you
{ longnoscd Yankces.'
When they talked to him about
educating the negro to uplifJ him, he
would tell them ''ro hell with such
rot"
TALK ON LYNcIINa.
Senator Tillman spoke at some
length upon the lynching phase or
the question, and said that he was
not willing to stop lynchingS on the
idea that assaults would decrease, and
wanted to know who did.
He had said when he was governor
that he would help lynch any man for
that crime, if occasion required it,
and he had never taken it back.
lfan innocent, sweet girl Of sixteen
was going along a country road skirtcd
on either side by a thick wood, and
there should he lurking on the one side
wild tiger escaped from some me-
nagerie, and on the other brutal ne
gro with fiendish INTENT and it was
her fate to be delivered up to the one
or the other he had rather thousand
times that his daughter should be.
come food for the tiger The negro
brute guilty Of these crimes, he said,
manifested an unnatural desire un-
I known to any other brute creation.
That the audience was enthused with
the speaker there was no gainsaying,
as the enthusiastic applause, long con-
tinued at times, fully attcstcd.
CRIES 40 OF ON.
When Senator Tillman ncarcd the
close, and suggested that the audience
might be tired, there we're cries Of
Go on! Go on!" from all parts OF the
Il h0uSe THE senator nlocod -, a H,,