The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-01-07
PULPIT REPLY FOR TlLLMAN.

PULPIT REPLY FOR TlllMAN.
Dr.. Broushton Attacks South Carolina Sens.
tors Views on the Negro.
ATLANTA Constitution, January Al
At the Baptist Tabernacle last night to 1,
an audience Of three thousand people, Dr..
L. G. Broughton took occasion to reply ytoss
the lecture of senatof Tillman, delivered 8
in the city last week. Tillman's lecturss
was on the race question. DR.. Brough-
toms theme was the Sensitive Fool" He
handled the South Carolina senator with
out gloves and used some very forcibls
words in speaking Of the senator's views
on the negro in the South.
Dr.. Broughton said: S.
"Much of this talk Of the race problem
is also the result of morbid sensitiveness.
I heard Senator Tillman Friday night
give his lecture on The Negro tried
to be fair in my estimate Of It. For reck
less frankness it was q model; for sensible
argument it was mess. like franknes6
I like to see q man who believes son1e.
thing and then is not afraid to say Il. In
this respect, and in this respect alone, isS'
Senator Tillman entitled to q place among
those who are trying to shape the desti-
nies of the nation. His whole talk, from.
start to finish, was that Of the cheap poll
tician, playing upon the most subtle
prejudices Of ignorant people Never
once in his solution of this great question:
did he get out Of the realm of the ranke1ts
paganism. The Christian religion waz
never limited at as having anything TO do;
with overcoming bad conditions orupliftS
ing the race. One Of the most promineut
Christian educators in the South said to6
me just as he finished his harangue, Hts
position is nothing short Of the vile1tzs
paganism.' Senator Tillman Is q pagadk
arguing from the standpoint Of psgau
philosophy" Sc
"That there are wrongs with regard tel
the negro that must be righted nobody
doubts. It was great blunderto put the
ballot In their hands when they were
freed. The north sees this. Senator
Tillman's effort to fire southern heaSts
with hate for the north because they
forced this iniquity on us Is unjust s
have travelled north asmuch as he has.
have circulated with a better class 0
people where have gone, and I tell yo1
the best people Of the north are perfectly
willing that we should take the negro ort
Of politics. he ought to be taken out and
we are going to do it, not for our good ];
only, but for his good as well. I said In
Boston to an audience las large as senatot;
Tillman had Friday night. The negro
must be eliminated from politics and s
white folks society," The remark was
cheered, though made in church. Th9S'
negro needs moral and religious eyolutiohs
He needs to find his place and settlA
This he viii do out Of politics; but u &
he is an ignorant tool Of mean politicians
Socially the negro is not problem 70 ~
in this country and never viii be. SEM
ator Tillman's sarcastic comparison OF tho;
love of his old faithful negro servant and
Newfoundland dog, to be cheered byan
Atlanta audience, was, to say the least okS
it, pitiable. ;s3 s
aLet cheap politicians and demagognes
sneer as much as they will at the Chris
tian philanthropy, it is nevertheless the
only hope for the salvation and civilizS.
ton of this world. Paganism, with it1
hell of oppression, is not. the policy Of oux
people. II now and then an exception if
tolerated it is only for the lack Of timefor
the triumph Of the lawl Of Chriaian
equity" S.