The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-21

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/, shouted from
1t embarras Sed
man.
some boiSterousn s.
he said, but it amt
npared to our meetings in
rolina, this is but i gent lie
zephyr"
invited their Interruptions. He
ed them TO down him, and their
Lestions only served to elicit his Bit
ing epigrams.
I've got SO much deyilment in me
tonight, L want tC throw out some
heelltire In your dirccton,n he said,
and that started things:
why should the laborfng man vote
| or Parker?' shouted Mrs. Lillian
Forberg, one OF the most inSistent of
the Socialists present.
Why" thundered Senltcr Till.
man, because if you we're in he'll
wouldn't you like to get into purga-
tory while"
Again, when the Socialists were
harassing him on all sides, he yelled.
Amy Socialist who votes for Debs in
preference to Parker is splitting in his
| own lace ana is donkey.
He was proclaiming the principles
Of Bryant was much more Bryan
than Parker meeting throughout
when some one asked him why Bryan
hadn't been elected.
Because you people didn't vote the
way you whoop. When man talks
one way and votes another, God have
mercy on his soul, because the devil
has bill Of sale on him."
| Picking up the pink card, upon
which the Socialists had printed list
of questions for him to answer, Sena
tor Tillman exclamed:
Socialism, social equality on the
one side, yes, and amalgamation of
races, and hell and damnation on the
other"
His choicest invectives, however,
were saved for President Roosevelt,
whose policy towards the blacks in
the South he bitterly asSailed.
If niger is good enough for the
President to eat with, he ought TO be
good enough for him to sleep with" !"
he said.
"NIgger," explained the Senator,
means black man, and is the phrase
used colloquially when spoken. Negro
is the term you use when You write
and want to be polite"
Are you going to trust this coun-
try again to a man who wants to be
the whole shootin' match?" was
another of his phrases to describe the
President.
A man, evidently leader OF the So
ialists pres .nt, hayin & r, questt that
cnator Tillman be allowed to have
his say before he was interrupted with
questions, the Se ator was left com
paratively unmolestcd during the
OPT ming of his speech. lie was well
aware that there were many Socialists
present and he commenced with the
remark.
There is an old adage which says
that fellow feeling makes US wcnd-
rous kind. Now, l have been dubbed
a crank, an Anarchist, a wild mau
from Borneo, and am sure that no
one here will tie any wilder than l
am. come from part OF the cOun-
try where we have problem which
dwarfS all other problems, and it Is
that which keeps the white men in
the South in solid line in the Demo
cratic party. You can't tell any thing
about 1T unless you live there.
The Republican leaders Of to-day
are Subservient Sycophants, bowling
and scraping at the White House, and
beilding themselves up to Cne man
who directed and controlled them in
the National Convention. Every last
one Of them falls down whipped cur
before this man in the White House.
l have heard Republican leaders. talk
ing among themselves, say that they
had no personal liking for Roosevelt,
no not one OF them, but they bow TO
him because he has the whip hand and
can distribute the patronage.
II know you fellows want to vote
for Debs. lie is my friend We have
had many little confabulation to-
gether, and think that he is 4 little
rattle patcd, and maybe am, but
believe still have some sense. | want
ed to elect Bryan, but you fellows
wouldn't vote as you whooped. | have
been in Chicago before, right out in
this district, too, and | heard you fell
fows whoop for Bryan, and | said to
myself, there is nothing TO TINS, l
have carried the town. But when e!ec-
tion day came | found that you didn't
vote the way you were yelling"
do you stand for the equality OF
the races?" he thundered
I'VE stand for their equality as far
as wages CO." came the answer.
You can't stand upon one platform
and not on the other" thundercd Till
man. The record OF the ages shows
that wherever the white and black
races have conilcted the whites have
been the masters. You can't tell his
tory that 1t lies"
Has Parker declared himself upon
the negro question:" came from the !
hall.
My friend, we OF the South are
willing to trust to Parker, certainly
you ought to be-"