The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-10-01

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! ognize any difference in the races on ac-
count of previous conditions of servitude
! and the carpet-beggar came and joined
! with the negroes and stole everything
they had and mortgaged posterity for
! the balance. He said they were compell-
! ed to take the government from them
/ and he admitted that the white people of
I the south did il with the shotgun and
/ stuffed ballot boxes. He said they out
/ voted them, and the people here in Kan
sas would have done the same thing un-
/ der the same conditions. He wanted
Senator Burton to pick that statement to
pieces. He said that statement had re-
ceived rather scant applause and he want
ed every one present who thought the
negro was the equal to the white race to
hold up his hand. One man held up his
hand, and the crowd laughed
Wherever and whenever the white race
and the black race have been thrown
together the white man has been boss
and he will be as long as grass grows.
water runs and wind blows" declared
the man from the south. He said this
country was confronted with another race
question a few years ago when the Chi
nese began TO come 10 this country in
great numbers, and the people had shut
the door against them. He declared that
it was all right to free the negro, but all
wrong to give him the ballot to govern
white men. He wanted the people here
10 tell him what they thought would
happen in the south when the blacks could
out-vote the whites. In his judgment
there would then be a race war and if the
white race was likely to get the worst of
it some of the people here would come
down and help them. He thought the
time was coming when more blood would
be shed in the south over this race ques-
ton than was shed in the civil war II
would not be a war against the United
States government. He said the black
man was not fit to govern, and he wanted
somebody to show him a thing that a
black man had ever done to help on self
government or civilization. no colored
people on earth cut any figure in the af-
fairs of the world
lie said if South Carolina could trade
off half her negroes for an equal num-
ber of the meanest people in Kansas, the
value of their lands would double in value
Putting the index finger Of his right hand
on his breast he said Il am a Hamburg
riOter.' Then he went on TO explain that
eight thousand negroes were armed in his
state to hold up that inverted pyramid
Of carpet-bag government ''They had an
army of blacks in Hamburg and about
seventy of us white men went in and
drove them out. and there was a great
riot" He explained that there was a good
deal Of politics in the south and down
there Republicanism meant the negro and
Democracy meant the white man He
said the United States had once sent an
army to South Carolina TO see that a fair
election was held. At that time there
were in his district thirty-fivc thousand
white men and fifty thousand colored
men entitled 10 vote and the whites out
voted the blacks only three thousand
nine hundred votes. He said they could
have made their majority larger if it
had been necessary, They just simply
wanted 20 show them how white men
could vote when they were protected by
Yankee soldiers. lie admitted they used
the shotgun and had stuffed a few ballot
boxes. but the white race in the south
were going TO govern.
Senator Tillman wound up his speech
by stating that the negro when brought
% this country was savage of the
lowest type. and in two hundred years OF
slavery they had made more Christian
men and women in the south than was
ever found in Africa. He said when
southern men from sixteen to sixty years
of age went with Beauregard. Lee and
Johnson. they left these negroes TO take
care Of their families and property Now
he wanted them TO look at the negro after
making him q voter and attending Re
publican conventions where he got the
iaea that he was running the country
The negro could noJ be trusted now be-
cause hc was not hossed by white men
When Senator Burton arose TO reply to
Senator Tillman ne was given a great
ovation, lie commenced MS speech by
the declaration that the negro was
brought 10 this country in $3.50 against his (
viii His landing in this country was
contemporaneous with that OF The pilgrim
fathers. lie had been here lonCer than
Senator Tumau and himself When he /
came here he was a pagan and had no T.
language. and yet had left his language .
IN the south. He said that the negro knew 4
better than the old soldiers thore present
that the war was 10 keep him in slavery
or - make him free lie was the first
and only race that ever looked the white
race in the face and lived. In order u
show what the south wanted he read
from q speech made by senator TIL
mans brother in The oonsti tutionaI con
rontion in 1885. In this speech Mr. Tai-
nan said they We're not free and had
lot been free since the var He said Il
hey were free they woui6 have slavery
md Instead Of having 20 pay pension
,ounties they would DC receiving them
oday II the confederacy had been sue
,esSfui.
Senator Burton criticised the boast Of
senator Tillnan that they had overthrown
'opular suffrage IN the south He read
rom q speech u President Harrison in
which he said that OR greatest danger
vas from the overthrow % popular SUI
rage He showed that the ballot wss the
ock on which this free government rested
nd he did not like to hear people cheer